At 10 a.m., NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton will appear live on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC radio to discuss an upcoming conference
with police leaders.
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.
Our entrepreneurs and businesses need to lead and
police each other, and while the profit motive should and will always align
with rules, we need
leaders to prioritize social goods to the same degree.
So it should come as no surprise that business
leaders overwhelmingly support the federal government's attempts to
police corporate wrongdoing, and to ensure that Ottawa only does business
with ethical suppliers.
Dr Billings, who was deputy
leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the
police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated
with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.
Consistent
with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign
leaders; trained death squads and secret
police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated
with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs,
with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted
with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.
Where the situation becomes sinister is when one group attempts to
police the activities of another, or where one Christian organization or
leader uses their personal power or share of the market to prevent others,
with whom they are not formally connected, from speaking freely and asking the hard questions.
With an income in the billions of dollars, drug
leaders are able to buy generals, judges and
police.
During a press conference at the
police in Shahdara district on Tuesday evening, Muslim and Christian church
leaders urged families to return to the city and to live in peace
with Muslim neighbours.
But
with no identifiable headquarters, candidates for board slots who win elections
with only two write - in votes and a shadowy
police force that included a
leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang, deciphering the Park District's past operations won't be easy.
«The Inspector General of
Police has also directed the Commissioner of
Police of Kano State to sustain the community engagement actions which he is currently initiating
with all strategic security stakeholders and community
leaders in the State
with a view to dousing the tension being generated by the condemnable incident.
After interacting
with residents and opinion
leaders there, he moved to Alavanyo on Saturday where he witnessed over 30 minutes exchanges of gunfire mainly between the soldiers and
police deployed there and some assailants hiding in the mountain.
Immigrant rights
leader Ravi Ragbir was detained at a routine check - in meeting
with ICE officials in Manhattan, flipping a peaceful vigil outside the Javits Federal Building into a massive protest marked by clashes
with police.
Two Troy
Police Department
leaders were promoted at a ceremony
with local elected officials, as well as family and friends, on Wednesday afternoon at Franklin Terrace in Troy.
King added it is important for the mayor to sit down
with NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and union
leaders like Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, to make it clear — «not just as a matter of etiquette» — that he stands
with the
police officers.
He also said the «
police methods are working very well,» and that the real changes should come not from the
police community, but should start
with attitudes of
leaders of the African - American and minority communities.
Westminster City Council
leader Nickie Aiken described the installation on its bridge as a «sensible and proportionate» measure and said the council is working closely
with the Metropolitan
Police and security services.
«We encourage all local people and community
leaders to work
with the
police to ensure community relations are not undermined by public disorder.»
The measure is opposed by Republican Senate Majority
Leader John Flanagan, who said the measure, which limits state and local
police coordination
with federal immigration enforcement, is potentially unconstitutional and illegal.
PRO of the Eastern Regional
Police Command, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh said the police hierarchy has met with the Chiefs and opinion leaders of the affected community to reassure them of their s
Police Command, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh said the
police hierarchy has met with the Chiefs and opinion leaders of the affected community to reassure them of their s
police hierarchy has met
with the Chiefs and opinion
leaders of the affected community to reassure them of their safety.
On NBC's «Meet the Press,» Bratton said he was hoping to sit down
with police union
leaders this week, but conceded that tensions between cops and de Blasio weren't likely to ease soon.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority
Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses
with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools,
police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
The activists who take part are slowly undergoing a journey a bit like that of the dissident - turned - conformist Winston Smith in 1984,
with Nick Clegg playing the role of O'Brien, as the menacing thought
police leader who explains to Orwell's hero what needs to be done to serve the party objective, namely, power.
Her stance aligns her
with city
leaders, including
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, against a controversial proposal by President Obama that would adversely affect the ability of the city — the nation's top terror target since 9/11 — to protect itself.
Labour
leader Ed Miliband has promised a Welsh parliament
with sweeping new powers over ports, energy and a «greater say» over
policing, at the Welsh Labour Conference in Swansea.
Labour
leader Ed Miliband has promised a Welsh parliament
with sweeping new powers over ports, energy and a greater say over
policing.
«For now, the
police commander is engaging
with the party
leaders and the DCE to see what has happened because the commander believes that the youth that went to the place did not inform him of their intention to demonstrate against the DCE.»
COLLEGE POINT — A two - hour meeting Tuesday between Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and
leaders of the five
police unions, which have been sparring
with City Hall about the administration's treatment of
police officers, ended without a resolution, according to Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch.
The mayor today described him as the «architect» of his «neighborhood
policing» program, in which cops meet and conference
with community residents and
leaders.
Source said the mayor was «professional» at the summit at the new
police headquarters in College Point, during which union
leaders voiced their frustrations about the department's relationship
with City Hall and de Blasio took aim at the media again for poisoning the well.
Assembly Minority
Leader Brian Kolb is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to add an Assembly representative to the search committee tasked
with recommending a candidate to succeed New York State
Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico.
He talked to black community
leaders, who complained about
police bias and brutality, and he later had an awkward private meeting
with the Chief constable Kenneth Oxford about the matter.
«When you're
with a group of people and one of them is doing something bad, it could be slashing a tire, breaking a window or possession of some contraband, you have to teach your kids to be a
leader so that they tell the ones in their group not to do what it is that is wrong because when the
police arrest somebody, they are arresting everybody in their group,» Elmore said.
Legislators protested — Assemblyman Jack McEneny led some fellow Democrats in a sit - in at Paterson's office, tricking State
Police to let him in on the pretext he was giving a tour — but Paterson just smirked at them, and told them to take it up
with their
leaders.
On Monday, the mayor received praise for adding $ 7.3 million to buy thousands of bulletproof vests for
police officers, a longtime demand of
police union
leaders,
with whom the mayor has clashed in incendiary fashion in recent weeks.
«The real estate
leaders of Manhattan have always been supportive and reactive to the
police and security services as we deal
with these issues and they need to be commended or that.»
«The Hausa Fulani soldiers and
Police Nigerian uniforms came to kill our
leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his compound at Afaraukwu Umuahia and started shooting sporadically and killed five people and up to thirty people
with bullets wounds, after attacking our people they went off, they came
with 5 hilux vans,» he said.
New York City's largest
police union is planning to launch an independent political campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2017 re-election bid, and its
leader has already begun meeting
with potential challengers.
Moshood said, «Working on actionable intelligence, the Kogi State
Police Command personnel and operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad trailed and arrested two suspects — Kabiru Saidu a.k.a Osama, 31, From Dekina local government area of Kogi State but based in Anyagba (Leader of the gang) and Nuhu Salisu a.k.a Small, 25, (a member of the gang), after a gun battle with the police team that lasted for some hours on the 19th January, 2018 at Ogojueje in Dekin
Police Command personnel and operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad trailed and arrested two suspects — Kabiru Saidu a.k.a Osama, 31, From Dekina local government area of Kogi State but based in Anyagba (
Leader of the gang) and Nuhu Salisu a.k.a Small, 25, (a member of the gang), after a gun battle
with the
police team that lasted for some hours on the 19th January, 2018 at Ogojueje in Dekin
police team that lasted for some hours on the 19th January, 2018 at Ogojueje in Dekina LGA.
Those claims didn't sit too well
with NYC Minority
Leader Jimmy Oddo, who released a letter he sent to the mayor after receiving the mailer, in which he asked if «protecting vital services like
police and fire» means the mayor's own budget plans to close 20 fire companies is now off the table.
Senate Republicans starting this month will hold a series of hearings on the issue,
with Majority
Leader Dean Skelos pledging to review whether elected officials helped create a negative atmosphere that ultimately played a role in the recent shooting deaths of two New York City
police officers.
And the Rev. Al Sharpton doesn't fare well, either,
with a whopping 57 percent of poll respondents saying the outspoken civil rights
leader and TV personality is having a negative impact on community -
police relations.
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.
The development has not gone down well
with President Mahama who blames the episode on the failure of the
police to anticipate that a clash could occur between NDC supporters who were on a health walk in Akufo - Addo's neighbourhood and the supporters of the NPP
leader.
I recall vividly that after what turned out to be a consistent pattern of exclusive stories from interviews
with Adams and his next moves, the Lagos State
Police Command had found it necessary to ask our newspaper then to supply the command information on how to arrest the militant
leader who had remained elusive for months.
«In fact, the Commissioner of
police had a meeting
with the Obi community
leader yesterday in respect of the incident,» he added.
In the heady days of Oodua Peoples Congress when its
leader, Gani Adams had been declared wanted by the
police authorities in Lagos State, my newspaper had its strategic, guerilla ways of linking up
with Adams in order to scoop stories and serve our readers the most impressive editorial accounts of the time.
Addressing newsmen in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital,
leader of BIM in Ebonyi state, Nwifuru John who gave the list of the items
with the
police to include, ID cards, 6 pairs of boots, uniforms, 48 plastic chairs and N250, 000 cash.
For some, the mayor went too far in inviting Rev. Al Sharpton to a roundtable, where the controversial
leader sat along
with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, and went even further when he spoke of his son's relationship with p
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, and went even further when he spoke of his son's relationship
with policepolice.
CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio's meeting
with police union
leaders on Tuesday was «productive» but ended
with «no resolve» after two and half hours, city and labor officials said.