Sentences with phrase «police corruption in»

In May, Bhatt secured a success in the unsolved case of private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was murdered in a London car park in 1987, when home secretary Theresa May agreed to order a review of the role of police corruption in the case.

«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...»

Bad news: police corruption in Cancun still exists and it's likely that you'll get pulled over by corrupted police officers.

But whereas a documentary like Making a Murderer revealed police corruption in a small Wisconsin town, The Keepers ripped open a huge chasm in the entire Catholic church.

Harrelson reunites with The Messenger writer - director Moverman for this grim drama about police corruption in...

And yet Costa - Gravas had the presence of mind to turn the tepid story of thinly - veiled police corruption in 1963 Greece into Z, and somehow the world bought into it.

And it's also a change of direction for writer - director David Ayer, who has explored the dark side of police corruption in...

This sprawling indictment of police corruption in the West Yorkshire county of England is a massive, dense, and wholly fulfilling five - hour experience.

Harrelson reunites with The Messenger writer - director Moverman for this grim drama about police corruption in late - 1990s Los Angeles.

Undercover FBI agent Frank «Ponch» Poncherello works with rookie motorcycle cop Jon Baker to investigate police corruption in California.

Sean Coffey, a lawyer best known for recovering millions for the victims of the WorldCom debacle and a Democratic hopeful for attorney general, said he thinks the legislature must grant the attorney general powers equivalent to the Martin Act to police corruption in Albany.

Not exact matches

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.

Not in Mexico, where neighbouring state Michoacan has become a battleground, with armed vigilantes battling the Knights Templar drug cartel and a federal investigation into the possible corruption of more than 1,200 local police officers.

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.

Closer to home, we can observe more familiar forms of raider corruption when our police officers and public officials traffic in what should not be for sale.

I think for the most part it works, I am only guessing but I would be surprised if more than 5.0 % of our entire police force is involved in corruption.

Just look at the corruption of police and mlitary in «democratic» countries.

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.

He claims there is «endemic corruption» in the police force.

«As parliamentarians who often speak to whistle - blowers — from campaigners whose groups have been infiltrated by the police to those exposing corruption in government departments — this judgement is deeply worrying,» Baroness Jones added

Former NYC Comptroller Liz Holtzman, who is thisclose to making a decision about joining the already crowded Democratic field seeking to replace AG Andrew Cuomo, this morning refused to rule out accepting contributions from Wall Street, even as she panned it as rife with «dysfunction» and «corruption» and in need of policing.

Ex-NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks is among a slew of current and former ex-cops named by the feds as «unindicted co-conspirators» in a pending police corruption case.

Three retired police officers and a former Brooklyn prosecutor were charged yesterday in a widening federal corruption investigation into the New York Police Department and its gun - licensing divpolice officers and a former Brooklyn prosecutor were charged yesterday in a widening federal corruption investigation into the New York Police Department and its gun - licensing divPolice Department and its gun - licensing division.

Protests in Ukraine began late last year with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians taking to the streets to rally against corruption and police violence in the country.

In addition to the search for police corruption, federal investigators are also combing through de Blasio's political fundraising activities for violations of election law.

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.

That was just three weeks before McAllister — who pulls down $ 19,000 more annually than Big Apple Police Commissioner James O'Neill — was named an unindicted co-conspirator by the feds in an NYPD corruption scandal that will soon head to court.

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.

Borisov, once the top official in charge of the country's police, pledged to eradicate organized crime and grapple with Bulgaria «s corruption.

Schaffer and Bellone traded barbs about the issue of public corruption following Bellone's State of the County address in March and the conviction of former Suffolk Police Chief of Department James Burke.

If Andy Coulson had failed to notice any of this consistently illegal activity in his newsroom involving Rees, Whittamore, Boyall and Mulcaire; if none of the reporters who worked with these investigators and / or hacked the voicemail of their targets ever mentioned anything to him; if nobody told him there was police activity around his assistant editor, Greg Miskiw; if he failed to ask why the editorial budget had poured hundreds of thousands of pounds into these investigators; if he failed to read any of the news reports which linked his newspaper to Jonathan Rees» corruption or to Whittamore and Boyall's network of blaggers: finally, in the late summer of 2006, the reality caught his eye.

A spokesman for Mangano, who has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges and hasn't said whether he will run against Martins in a primary, referred a request for comment to Nassau County police.

He was as statesmanlike as in his recent Commons statement about police corruption at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy.

Newsday reported in January that Spota's top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, is under federal investigation for possible obstruction of justice involving the case of James Burke, the former Suffolk police chief and district attorney's chief investigator who pleaded guilty in February to beating up a suspect and then arranging a cover - up.

I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.

In An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (Harper Press # 20) Richard Davenport - Hines shows the public hypocrisy of the establishment, the near criminal activity of some of the press, corruption amongst the police and high moral cant from the judiciarIn An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (Harper Press # 20) Richard Davenport - Hines shows the public hypocrisy of the establishment, the near criminal activity of some of the press, corruption amongst the police and high moral cant from the judiciarin the Age of Profumo (Harper Press # 20) Richard Davenport - Hines shows the public hypocrisy of the establishment, the near criminal activity of some of the press, corruption amongst the police and high moral cant from the judiciary.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday that his department will «cooperate fully» with the FBI in its corruption probe into the NYPD, as new details emerged about the scandal — ...

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.

The Ghana Police Service has often ranked top of corruption perception lists in the country, with many Ghanaians often expressing their belief that police officers are coPolice Service has often ranked top of corruption perception lists in the country, with many Ghanaians often expressing their belief that police officers are copolice officers are corrupt.

A former head of the Narcotics Control Board [NACOB], K.B Quantson, has said that society is partly responsible for the high level of corruption in the Ghana Police Service.

After a rocky summer, de Blasio's poll numbers had begun to rise, though he now faces questions about federal investigations into police corruption, his fundraising practices, and elevated lead levels in the blood of NYCHA residents.

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 2012.

Kelly said Tuesday that with five district attorneys, two U.S. attorneys, the Committee to Combat Police Corruption and the Civilian Compliant Review Board, the NYPD is already the most monitored department in the country.

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.

A federal grand jury is investigating Christopher McPartland, the top corruption prosecutor in the Suffolk County district attorney's office, for possible obstruction of justice charges as an outgrowth of the case against former Suffolk police chief James Burke, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Bratton's impending departure comes after he repeatedly helped push crime to its lowest levels in recent history — but amid an unfolding police corruption scandal that he's called the worst since the Knapp Commission revelations of the early 1970s.

In Brooklyn, Mr. de Blasio said his administration is cooperating with a federal probe into alleged corruption at the New York Police Department that involves two former members of his inaugural committee.

Topics included Kerik and how Dietl reconciles his criticism of Mayor de Blasio's «corruption», Kerik's comment that children should be specifically taught how to safely interact with police, the continuing possibility of Dietl running in the Republican primary and possible union support, the «raise the age» initiative and mayoral control of schools.

The probe includes investigations into those behind a push to ban horse drawn carriages in the city, as well as corruption within the New York City Police Department.