Sentences with phrase «unfolding police corruption»

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.

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Last week, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told The Post that the unfolding corruption scandal was the worst he had seen since the rampant, top - to - bottom bribery exposed by the Knapp Commission in the early 1970s.

In many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequities.