Sentences with phrase «police union leaders who»

Emery has previously been criticized by police union leaders who long bristled at the role played by the CCRB, which investigates and sometimes prosecutes cases of alleged police misconduct.

One police union leader who has been outwardly critical of Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will ask Governor Andrew Cuomo to intervene and help resolve the dispute.

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.

At Saturday's protests in a freezing Warsaw, opposition leaders served hot tea to the police and some of the 5,000 demonstrators who held banners saying «Free media» and carried Polish and European Union flags.

Such a case occurred on Long Island in 2008, when leaders of the Suffolk County Conservative Party sniffed out that members of the local police union were switching their party enrollments in an attempt to bring about the defeat of a county sheriff who was seen as cooperating in an effort to downsize the department.

Police union leaders, who have been outspoken in their defense of the officers involved, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

De Blasio has been criticized by police union leaders for using the word «alleged» when discussing the attack on a police officer by protestors in a recent confrontation as well as speaking about the concern he has for his son Dante, who is biracial, in dealing with law enforcement.

Just as police union leaders and their backers view Mr. de Blasio's desire to address the grievances of minorities who feel unfairly targeted by police as a thinly - disguised pretext to undermine law enforcement, they blamed Mr. Dinkins for undercutting police in an environment plagued with far more crime and unrest.

In the wake of the killings of Ramos and Officer Wenjian Liu by Brinsley, who later committed suicide, in Bed - Stuy on Saturday, police union leaders said de Blasio has «blood on his hands.»

Leaders of the city's police unions, who have accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of siding with protesters, say his leniency toward them laid the groundwork for Brinsley's rampage.

Police union leaders — who have been at odds with City Hall for weeks — cautiously praised the mayor.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton — who met with Mayor Bill de Blasio and the leaders of law enforcement unions this afternoon — did not attend the news conference, though he was initially scheduled to host it.

Portraying those jockeying for position in a post-Stalin Soviet Union are: Steve Buscemi («Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer») as former Moscow Party Chairman Nikita Khrushchev; Simon Russell Beale («The Legend of Tarzan») as Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's stern Chief of Police; Michael Palin («Fierce Creatures») as Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov; Jason Isaacs («The Infiltrator») as Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and Jeffrey Tambor («The Accountant») who tackles the role of Stalin's neurotic deputy leader, Georgy Malenkov (in case you're wondering, The Death of Stalin was made before the allegations of sexual misconduct arose for Tambor).