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I stopped this movie after the police paid a visit.
But with a small cast, some decent camera skills, and a few friends in the police dept, these guys made a film that's funnier than a lot of big budget comedies coming out of Hollywood.
Solid supporting turns by Claude Akins as a famous country singer/songwriter, Gene Evans as a gruff police lieutenant, Lucille Benson as a stern, but friendly whorehouse madam, and Grace Zabriskie as a wax museum worker are likewise delightful.
Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto are police officers with quite different agendas and their relationship is one of mutual dislike.
The murder of five policemen there occurred during a demonstration – one of many held across the country – to protest the recent deaths of two black men shot to death by police after they were detained for minor infractions.
Police violence against African Americans has been commonplace; but widespread use of smartphones, with their ability to record high-quality video, has suddenly made such episodes a frequent feature of the news cycle.
As it happens, Dallas has a model police force, reformed after being one of the most out-of-control in the country, and the murders of the policemen, carried out by a lone former serviceman with apparent mental problems, took place as officers mingled easily with the demonstrators.
Indeed, following the arrest in 2009 of Henry Louis Gates Jr., a well-known Harvard professor, as he was trying to enter his own house, Obama’s criticism of the police backfired.
Just a year later, the Soviet Union’s secret police began arresting and killing our parents and grandparents.
The police cracked down on young people and took hundreds into custody.
Together with the EU, the US can help ensure a credible investigation of the post-election violence and complaints against the police.
In the long run, the US and EU should support civil society organizations in pressing Moldova’s government to guarantee more equitable distribution of television time, to stop police harassment of opposition political leaders and workers as well as journalists, to reform the police and end the ruling party’s abuse of state institutions, and to allow all political parties more opportunity to inspect election rolls and monitor polling stations.
Indeed, there is no realistic chance that the Iraqi army and police will be able to take over combat responsibilities and effective policing any time soon.
By the end of the war, however, Britain was too exhausted to police the world.
Sharon's timing may have been determined by his problems with police investigations into alleged corruption.
Yandex’s ads are gone, but those signs are, unfortunately, still there – not just in the metro, but in many other places where public servants do not want to talk to the public – police stations, ticket offices, and public buildings of many kinds.
It was supposed to allow us not only to shop, stay in touch with former classmates, and find a new sushi restaurant; it was also supposed to empower us politically by allowing the disenfranchised to make their voices heard, help activists mobilize supporters, and enable ordinary citizens to publicize evidence of official corruption or police brutality.
Because of these threats, we requested armed police protection on the day of the book’s launch in 2009.
Consider Ahmed El-Darawy, a former police officer and a popular pro-democracy activist who ran in Egypt’s first free and fair parliamentary election in 2012.
Lee must not only calculate how tough to be with North Korea in response to the death of the Cheonan sailors, but also find a way to keep working with Kim Jong-il’s police state.
When we decided later to have a common foreign policy, and to cooperate in judicial and police matters, we invented the Union.
But when the bank ran the numbers, they discovered that although about half of the people applying for low-end, high-interest-rate credit had a police record, this did not seem to reflect on payment outcomes.
I suspect the reason was that the people with no police record were the middle 50%.
At the bottom were 25% who had a police record for some kind of bad behavior.
At the top were 25% who had a police record for exceptionally good behavior, like refusing to pay bribes or to overlook corruption.
Ironically for cyber-utopians, the electronic trails created by social networks like Twitter and Facebook sometimes make the job of the secret police easier.
The targets range from police stations and liquor stores in the Caucasus to mainstream Muslim clerics in Tatarstan to ordinary people elsewhere in Russia.
With Putin’s personal standing at stake, the top priority of Russia’s police and security services is to ensure that the games proceed without incident.
Until the tanning industry chooses to police itself, customers should eschew the bulbs and pursue the spray: wear an artificial tan.
The priority in fighting terrorism should be police and intelligence service cooperation, which produces much faster results and limits the capacity of extremists to mobilize.
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