Sentences with phrase «stop police abuse»
The Paris attacks have underscored the extent to which NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio relies on the NYPD, an unlikely position for a liberal Democrat elected with promises to stop police abuses, but who has worked to shed a perception that he is antipolice.
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If the police are quick enough to bring any suspects of racism to justice very quickly, hopefully it will stop other hooligans from thinking they are free to abuse opposition players at Arsenal Football Ground, and get it stamped out as quickly as possible.
Police must be careful not to overuse stop and search powers because any abuse was «bound to damage community relations», Lord Carlile has warned.
«And once police abuse power when it comes to stop - and - frisk then they can do it in terms of falsely arresting people.
«The reason why I joined this case is because for many of us, including myself, feel like stop - and - frisk is police abuse,» said Lalit Clarkson, 31, a teacher at the Grand Concourse Academy Charter School in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break in 2006.
Angela Eagle has stopped holding public surgeries for constituents following police advice after she received abuse and threats in the wake of her decision to challenge for the Labour party leadership.
«Neither training nor announcements about neighborhood policing will stop an officer who feels comfortable abusing or brutalizing a civilian from continuing to do so,» said Priscilla Gonzalez of Communities United for Police Reform.
This IMA broadens training among our local police to enable them to be better equipped to identify cases of elder abuse and intervene to stop it and protect our elderly seniors,» said Astorino.
Picente, McNamara, and Maciol were joined by several other county officials and organizations today including Commissioner of Social Services Lucielle Soldato & her staff from Child Protective Services, Executive Director of the YWCA of the Mohawk Valley — Dianne Stancato & her staff, and representatives from the New York State Police, the Utica Police Department, the Rome Police Department, and the Whitesboro Police Department to kick off a campaign to make everyone aware of how child abuse & neglect affects those in our community and what we can do to stop it.
She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.
yeah, if only «they» were a monolith, they might have official bodies capable of issuing position statements on behalf of their scientist members, they might have some sort of (I don't know) Royal Society even... they might, in short, be capable of at least a rudimentary form of self - policing, perhaps even enough to render themselves culpable en masse for the abuses they collectively turned a blind eye to, despite having the collective ability to stop them.
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.
If you experienced police brutality during a traffic stop or other type of arrest in Chicago or the surrounding area, the criminal lawyer Michael O'Meara can provide skilled defense for your charge and fight to ensure that the officer responsible for violating your rights is held accountable for the abuse.