Sentences with phrase «on police corruption»

«A former Hartford police detective who claimed that he was fired because he helped blow the whistle on police corruption in Hartford won nearly $ 600,000 in punitive and compensatory damages Wednesday from a federal jury in Bridgeport...»

In 1972, the Knapp Commission issued a report on police corruption that identified two types of dirty cops: the «meat - eaters» and the «grass - eaters.»

Not exact matches

According to Turkish dissidents, social media and external sources such as VICE are even more important than they would be elsewhere because local media outlets are unwilling to report on corruption or the behavior of Turkish police and armed forces.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Explaining the new rules and underscoring golf's negative image, the party's corruption watchdog said on Thursday that golf was a game enjoyed by a former police chief who engaged in «massive» bribery.

I used the only tools in the toolbox to essentially be a private prosecutor against civil rights violations and corruption and brutality on the part of police.

London police said a 43 - year - old man was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of corruption and «conspiring to intercept communications.»

We're tackling corruption head on, improving public financial management, promoting transparency, and funding anti-corruption units within the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police.

The commitment as home secretary to the Anti-Money Laundering Action Plan, and confidence to confront the police about their own corruption problems, are an encouraging foundation on which other anti-corruption measures, such as Unexplained Wealth Orders in the new criminal finances bill, can build.

Earlier this year shocking revelations from the Hillsborough independent panel confirmed supporters» suspicions that incompetence, corruption and evasiveness on the part of police officers and safety arrangements at the ground were actually responsible.

He replaced 16 - year incumbent Thomas Spota, who stepped down last month after he and his top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, were indicted on federal charges that they were involved in a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

Rebekah Brooks, who is now on bail after being arrested on charges of phone hacking and corruption, was lent the horse by the Met police in 2008.

According to its findings on the police and army atrocities, «it was a terrible tale of sadistic torture, ruthless killings, fake encounters, calculated ill - treatment of women and children, and corruption and graft on a large scale.»

Protests were called against «Torture, Corruption, Poverty, and Unemployment» on Police Day, and the chant «Bread, Freedom, Human Dignity,» popularised.

The charges against Mubarak are gruesome: it is alleged that he ordered tortures and authorised the brutalities of the secret police, that he sent out snipers to shoot and kill innocent and unarmed protestors during the January - February revolution, and that he conducted corruption on a grand scale, taking millions from the state coffers through a dodgy deal to supply gas.

The Independent Corruption Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Thursday, re-arraigned former Inspector - General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, and former Commissioner of Police,...

He represented Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who was convicted on federal corruption charges; Jerome Valcke, the former FIFA secretary general who was fired over allegations of misconduct; and Michael Steinberg, a Wall Street hedge fund manager who appealed his 2013 conviction for insider trading and was vindicated when the charges were dropped in October 2015.

On Wednesday, Spota and Christopher McPartland, head of the district attorney's political corruption unit, were indicted on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 201On Wednesday, Spota and Christopher McPartland, head of the district attorney's political corruption unit, were indicted on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 201on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton revealed for the first time Thursday that arrests of NYPD cops would be the likely outcome of a corruption scandal that includes allegations of sex with prostitutes on a private jet.

A New York City Police Department detective says he has 300 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Dean Skelos» name from a Rockville Centre sports complex and park after the former State Senate Republican leader was convicted of public corruption.

The Senate ad hoc committee investigating allegations of corruption and misconduct by Senator Isa Misau against the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, will sit on Tuesday.

The recent overturning of Sheldon Silver's 2015 corruption conviction raises key questions for both the real estate industry and those who police it: Do landlords and developers have clearer guidelines on what counts as corruption, or will heightened scrutiny and a likely retrial only bring more of them into the witness box?

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

If it is fighting against corruption, the questions are: Has the Nigeria Police Force stopped collecting of «tips» on the street?

Theresa May continued her war against the boys in blue this week, as she announced wide - ranging legislation designed to crack down on corruption and open up the Police Federation to scrutiny.

Even if the state was to carry out raids on the homes of judges in pursuit of legitimate corruption allegations, I am persuaded (and I've not seen any provision to the contrary in spite of the best efforts of many pro-DSS persons) that such should have been carried out by the Police or EFCC, and certainly not the DSS.

«The Nato summit will be an opportunity to exchange views, and, I hope, find agreement on a common way forward, taking into account the new US effort including more support for Pakistan, a greater effort to strengthen the Afghan police, more coordinated aid and visible steps by Kabul to fight corruption,» he wrote.

We write in our capacity as citizens of the Republic of Ghana invoking the powers of this Commission under Article 218 (a) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and section 7 (1)(i) of the CHRAJ Act 1993 (Act 456), as amended, which states «to investigate complaints of violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, injustice, corruption, abuse of power and unfair treatment of any person by a public officer in the exercise of his official duties», to investigate a case of professional misconduct bothering on official corruption and corruption - related activities involving ACP Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, the current acting Director - General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.

Speaking on the Gold Power Drive with Nana Darkwa Gyasi, Christopher Selorm Ankou said the reluctance of the Ghana police service and the state to prosecute the police officer who clearly was engaged in an act of corruption and the neglect of Stephen for the past 6 years was in breach of his Human Right.

Katko also won convictions against Schenectady police officers on corruption charges.

At a Democratic candidates forum hosted by the Village Independent Democrats (VID), a Democratic club, on Tuesday night, Scott Caplan, police misconduct and corruption officer for the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, asked Nixon to state in her own words whether she thinks de Blasio and the NYPD can do better in the areas of mass incarceration, marijuana, police accountability and police discipline.

Despite his conviction on 16 counts of corruption, Ganim had support from Bridgeport's police union, and one of the FBI agents who helped convict him.

Former NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks wanted a crooked Mayor Bill de Blasio donor and cop briber to serve on de Blasio's committee to combat police corruption so the...

This results in a conflicted approach to public integrity measures, explaining why Cuomo is poised to sign off on a new budget that only superficially beefs up powers to police public corruption or install public financing of elections — while agreeing to dismantle the Moreland Commission he ostensibly created to overcome legislative resistance to cleaning up Albany.

Cuomo's three previous uses of the Moreland Act were initiated by executive orders: His 2011 investiture of then - Inspector General Ellen Biben to investigate Nassau County Police Department's Forensic Evidence; his 2012 creation of a panel to assess how utilities on Long Island responded to three powerful storms that hammered the region; and his 2013 decision to create the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which was shut down by Cuomo midway through its planned 18 - month lifespan.

The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris has called on Nigerians to support President Muhammadu Buhari's fight against corruption to put the country...

The Israeli police have recommended he face charges on two counts of corruption.

His claims were another black eye for the NYPD in the ongoing corruption probe focusing on high - ranking police officials and Brooklyn businessmen Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who prosecutors say provided gifts in exchange for favors.

The police lieutenant who shot himself in the stomach Friday was recently visited by the feds in the NYPD corruption investigation — making him the second cop in five months to turn his weapon on himself after being drawn into the probe.

Anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, has suggested the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) probes the corruption allegations by Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, against two presidential staffers, saying that will be considered more credible than that of the police.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton recently told a meeting of his top NYPD brass that he was committed to rooting out «bad apples» engaged in brutality and corruption who are tarnishing the successful work the police have done on driving crime to record - low lPolice Commissioner Bill Bratton recently told a meeting of his top NYPD brass that he was committed to rooting out «bad apples» engaged in brutality and corruption who are tarnishing the successful work the police have done on driving crime to record - low lpolice have done on driving crime to record - low levels.

On numerous occasions, the media practitioners have had their tools of work smashed on the ground by police operatives who felt that the press was trying to record them whilst they commit crime of bribery and corruptioOn numerous occasions, the media practitioners have had their tools of work smashed on the ground by police operatives who felt that the press was trying to record them whilst they commit crime of bribery and corruptioon the ground by police operatives who felt that the press was trying to record them whilst they commit crime of bribery and corruption.

Also commenting on the issue, co-chair of the Citizens Movement Against Corruption, Edem Senanu said the NPP should have done the right thing by, first, addressing their concerns to the police and not rush to the media, adding that the NDC, however, can not just rubbish the NPP's allegations since they are serious.

«Mr. Donovan has rejected multiple debates on Wall Street issues,» said Schneiderman spokesman James Freedland, «including one scheduled earlier this month in Syracuse, because he knows it must be hard to defend his hands - off approach to policing corporate corruption when New Yorkers are losing their homes and life savings due to white collar crimes.»

A 63 - year - old was arrested at an address in Surrey as former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was released on police bail after being quizzed for nine hours over allegations of corruption and the phone - hacking scandal that forced the closure of the 168 - year - old newspaper.

Nero is a loose - cannon police inspector on the trail of a crime outfit smuggling heroin into Rome who begins to uncover corruption at the highest echelons of power.

Set in South Philadelphia, A Rose on Ninth Street, deals with police corruption, crime, loyalty, drugs, romance, love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Language: Other Genre: Action / Crime MPAA rating: R Director: Gareth Evans Actors: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Raiden Integra Plot: Taking place immediately following the events of The Raid: Rama finds himself having to go undercover with a dangerous Jakarta gang in order to take on the syndicate and rampant corruption in his own police force.

In a sense, the film is the anti-Departed, quietly insisting on an authenticity of location that is far more crucial here than in Martin Scorsese's New Yorker's love - letter to Boston, where Beantown provides only a convenient situs of crime and police corruption appropriate toa transplanted Hong Kong action film.