Sentences with phrase «town police corruption»

Not exact matches

Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.

This was the legacy of Los Angeles, a wide - open, corrupt town; when William Parker took over as police chief, he got rid of a lot of the corruption, save for the bigotry and such.

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.

BBC News (2/15/13) reports: «Police have arrested five people in eastern Sicily suspected of involvement in Mafia corruption over contracts to build wind farms, Italian media report... The mayor and a councillor in the small town of Fondachelli Fantina, in Messina province, were among those detained... The five face charges including extortion, fraud and Mafia association... The investigation, which began in 2009, is linked to sub-contracts awarded to build energy farms near Agrigento, Palermo and Trapani.»