Sentences with phrase «police abuse power»
«And once police abuse power when it comes to stop - and - frisk then they can do it in terms of falsely arresting people.
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Police abuse their powers and force confessions.
Not exact matches
Obviously, the police have been feeling a lot of heat lately with a series of nationwide (even global) protests about abuse of power, racial profiling and lack of accountability.
Police must be careful not to overuse stop and search powers because any abuse was «bound to damage community relations», Lord Carlile has warned.
His district, which combines parts of Queens and Brooklyn, is overwhelmingly minority, and he has spoken out with particular force and frequency about police misconduct and abuses of power.
Only the politically naive would believe the police wouldn't abuse this power.
Let's see, a Governor who solicits prostitutes and uses the state police to do his political bidding... corruption isn't just about bribes — it's about the abuse of power.
«You've got misusing the state police and abuse of power,» said Henry Sheinkopf, a New York Democratic strategist.
Another called the «Broken Windows» theory of policing an «abuse of power.»
As a Green Party activist, I share the deep concern at this apparent abuse of police powers.
Once the matter was at most a matter of fraud, it was handled by the wrong unit, it is beginning to smell like abuse of police power.
«For an elected official to utilize a police agency to threaten peaceful protesters merely because they represent a political inconvenience is an egregious abuse of power,» Valle wrote.
Pramilla Malick, leader of an Orange County citizens group that has fought the power plant, called the FERC official's decision «an unprecedented abuse of process and law,» and urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Basil Seggos, the state's environmental conservation commissioner, «to use the police powers of the state to protect our water and prevent any construction activity.»
Today home secretary John Reid said it would give police the powers they needed to tackle the threat posed by terrorism, insisting: «We must defend our traditions and values against those who seek to abuse or undermine our way of life.»
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.
Earlier, Madaki, in his motion, had sought the intervention of the House to halt a potential breakdown of law and order in Kano State due to the alleged abuse of power by the police.
They would wish a grand abuse of federal power, with the same Police, DSS and Army, that aided the PDP Rivers impunity back then, at their own beck and call too — and certainly, they would be thrilled to see Wike shrill and complain as Amaechi did, under the ancien regime.
Hi Stuart, totally agree you obviously saw much of the same abuse of power as I. I was lucky enough to get out of there but not before seeing one unprovoked assault by a police officer on a photographer and a peaceful good natured protest transformed by the police into one of resentment and panic.
«There has been a dark cloud hovering over government for several years now as a result of federal investigations into abuse of power and corruption,» said the county executive, in an indirect reference to the corruption convictions of former Suffolk police Chief James Burke and former Suffolk Conservative Party chairman Edward Walsh.
The real issue posed however is whether we are indeed watching the abuse of powers either by the Senate or the Nigerian Police Force.
The statement comes as police are under scrutiny for other alleged abuses of power — police surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers, unwarranted marijuana arrests, and the pepper spraying of Wall Street demonstrators last weekend.
Widely criticized for their depictions of police violence against residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, Brazilian director Jose Padilha's wildly successful Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within represented a fascinating diptych, an attempt to tick the boxes of the police procedural while probing rampant corruption and abuse of power.
«Survivors are already being arrested when they report abuse, and giving the police more power will increase this.
It's not an act of activism, either, although the film's outrage about the abuse of power of the local police and the intentionally blind eyes of the state police, as well as the armed forces, is palpable.
It's an ambitious look at race, police power, the responsibilities of a given individual, and systemic abuse.
The film's focus on first Willoughby's absolution for not solving Angela's case, then Jason's for repeatedly abusing his power as a police officer, increasingly pull attention away from the victim, so that a teenage girl's rape and murder eventually becomes the springboard for a pair of bad cops» redemption.
I genuinely acknowledge the legitimate outrage that people feel around police repression and abuse of power.
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Jodi Picoult's new novel is as current as today's sordid headlines: rape, incest, Satanism, hazing, abuse of power and corrupt police departments.
A considerable body of research — much produced on behalf of the Home Office — suggests that stop and search powers are sometimes used in a discriminatory and disproportionate manner by police officers who are uncertain as to their scope and illinformed as to the safeguards which exist to prevent their abuse.
In an egregious and unprecedented abuse of judicial power, respondent committed 46 defendants into police custody in a bizarre, unsuccessful effort to discover the owner of a ringing cell phone in the courtroom.
The abuse of police powers has received significant media attention in recent months particularly with the accusations of disproportionately targeting visible minorities during street «carding» checks.
Based on these criteria, it could be argued that the Toronto police appear to be abusing their power and that the action of throwing a jersey on the ice can not be punished by the state.
As the jersey throwing was clearly a sign of displeasure with the team, we might question whether this can be reasonably regarded as a form of abuse of power by the Toronto Police.
In the digital era, as more & more of our information is handed over to corporations in order to participate in the necessities of life, I worry that these corporations, and not judges, will serve as the check on abuse of police power.
When a police officer abuses his or her powers, or the state acts without proper lawful authority, you may be entitled to compensation for harm done to you as a result.
Human rights violations are always most likely to occur when no one is watching over the police, soldiers and guards who have the power and potential to commit abuses.
Regardless of whether Avery and Dassey are guilty, it is undeniable that police and prosecutors abused their powers.
Not because they have something to hide, but out of fear of abuse of this new police power.
The firm has a special interest in cases involving abuses of police powers, as well as extradition and Official Secrets Act cases.
A community group from Toronto has reached out to youth with its video «Know Your Rights» which provides information about their rights when dealing with police, an understanding of powers of arrest, detention, and search, strategies to deal with situations relating to police contact, and an understanding of what recourse is available when someone experiences an abuse of police power.
CSIS was created in 1984 as a civilian agency (with oversight and review) to address abuses of power that occurred when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) handled both intelligence and law enforcement.
However, if it is still thought to have a useful role to play in the context of police abuse of power, it is necessary for juries to be able to make an award of exemplary damages against the chief constable when a claim is made against him alone under s 88 of the Police Act 1996.&police abuse of power, it is necessary for juries to be able to make an award of exemplary damages against the chief constable when a claim is made against him alone under s 88 of the Police Act 1996.&Police Act 1996.»
A police officer was charged with misconduct and abuse of power arising out of a fracas involving the officer and members of the public.
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Chapter ten, Addressing racism, shines a light on themes that need to be discussed openly and honestly: institutional racism, power and privilege, human rights abuses, historical contributors to current inequities, and concerns over discriminatory practices in policing and law.