Sentences with phrase «biased against officers»
«Pig» has long been a derisive term for police officers — and police union leaders have seized on the remark, made in an interview with the Daily News, as evidence that the chairman is biased against officers.
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It would be helpful for the petitioners, if they exist, to show what action was taken and should have been taken against district electoral officers performing key functions and showing party biases as they allege.
The new head of the Civilian Complaint Review Board wants the police - oversight agency to stop considering complainants» arrest records when weighing rulings — but critics argue the plan reeks of «bias against police officers.»
Bloomberg accused Manhattan Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin of being biased against the city from the start, adding that she gave helpful advice to the plaintiffs and exhibited «disturbing disregard for the good intentions of our police officers.»
«The question in these difficult cases is not whether a local prosecutor, including one with understandably close ties to his or her fellow local law enforcement officers, is capable of setting aside any personal biases in deciding whether to, or how vigorously, to pursue the case,» Schneiderman wrote, adding, «the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury.»
Bratton said the woman who called the New York Times «quite obviously has a bias against police officers.»
The GRE scores» correlation with students» background doesn't mean that the exam is biased against certain groups, but that it reflects differences in environment and access to opportunities, says David Payne, vice president and chief operating officer of global education at ETS.
A review officer will try to avoid sending your proposals to someone who has an unreasonable prejudice against your work, or who might have a competitive bias.
Nevertheless, I am not prepared to assume that college - admissions officers will be biased against applicants with disabilities.
Against this backdrop, some parents fear that implicit bias may impact the ways in which armed teachers and police officers interact with students.
The court also determined that the hearing officer's bias in favor of animal control and against the dog, violated due process.
«InfiLaw officers have information and belief that some ABA officials are biased against InfiLaw - owned law schools because of their propriety status.
Prosecutors were able to establish a juror's bias against police officers by referencing the juror's Facebook post following a prior car accident exclaiming «cops in Florida are idiots.»
(correct test for Barrister appeals; whether outside the ex improviso rule, prosecutor may call evidence after prosecution and defence case closed; use of debarring orders against prosecutor; whether tribunal may «enter the arena» and strongly request the attendance of a prosecution witness; whether BSB has power to summons witnesses; whether prosecutor may communicate with disciplinary judge behind the back of the defence; whether such communication redolent of actual bias of judge where judge wishes prosecutor good luck on appeal; whether apparent bias doctrine can be engaged by post-trial conduct of judge; legal effect of serving BSB prosecutions department officer being 1 of 4 appointing members of the COIC «Tribunals Appointments Body» (TAB); whether TAB ultra vires the Bar's Constitutions; whether open - ended power of removal of member of COIC pool without cause, unlawful given position of BSB Chair and senior staff on COIC; whether ECHR Article 6 guarantees against pressure on disciplinary judges to conform with a prosecutorial mentality; whether disciplinary judges Art. 6 «independent» within Findlay v United Kingdom given key role of BSB prosecutions department in appointing disciplinary judges; serious non-disclosure by BSB of notes of secret meeting between BSB and disciplinary judge until day before appeal and despite requests and application for disclosure by defence)
I have no bias against law enforcement at all — in fact police officers are endangered by prohibition as well.