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The recent fighting in Macedonia, which left eight police officers and 14 Albanian militants dead, raises the specter of renewed violence.
Moreover, the police and security forces were to be reorganized so that they were seen to represent the whole community, not primarily its Protestant majority.
Interestingly, the issue of police reform was the only one that the political parties could not resolve by themselves.
Second, the violence has strengthened the political process, with one-time IRA leaders standing shoulder to shoulder with the police to condemn the murders.
Third, the reformed police service itself has been widely seen as the protector of the whole community, and young Catholics have been encouraged to join it by their priests and bishops.
Countering narco-gang violence includes working with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim to develop tools that allow ordinary citizens to report violence anonymously by text message and enable police to map the results.
French police have since tracked down and killed the attacker in a shootout, and an old law of politics holds that the French will now rally behind President Emmanuel Macron – at least for the time being.
A Palestinian legislature and cabinet have opened, as well as Palestinian police and security services.
Acts of Islamist terror in Western countries can be prevented only through good intelligence and police work, particularly in Muslim communities.
He remains a nationalist, but the main theme of his electoral campaign was the struggle against organized crime and his promise to purge the police of dishonest high-ranking officers.
Soon after, a hit man murdered Edgar Milan Gomez, Mexico’s highest-ranking Federal police official.
The then 64-year-old artist was head-butted, but escaped serious injury thanks to heavy police protection.
Americans primarily interact with government at the state and local level, through schools and roads, police and hospitals.
Since declaring itself a “sanctuary city” in 1989, San Francisco has prohibited its police force from cooperating fully with federal immigration agents.
Trump’s opponents argue that illegal immigrants themselves are often victims of – or witnesses to – serious crimes, but are reluctant to go to the police because they fear deportation.
When university students protested, the police moved in, killing one.
In an attempt to recapture his former popularity, Putin implemented salary increases for teachers, doctors, and police officers, putting regional budgets under strain in the process.
But if he takes this route, the market will still police the Fed’s actions.
In October, tens of thousands of villagers protesting inadequate resettlement compensation held a local official captive for several hours before ten thousand People’s Armed Police officers rescued him.
When the girl’s murdered body was found six months later, the family and the police thought she might still be alive, because The News of the World’s operatives were deleting messages when her phone’s mailbox became full.
(According to Scotland Yard, Murdoch hacks reportedly bribed mid-level police officers to supply information as well.)
In Britain, News Corporation has been creating a sort of state unto itself by corrupting the police, assuming police powers of surveillance, and intimidating politicians into looking the other way.
Now, digging into corruption by local police is equivalent to inciting hatred against that “social group,” and “expert” linguists have also found journalists to be “inciting hatred” against employees of regional administrations, judges, and other authorities.
Instead, they prefer to fall back on military-dominated plans for strengthening the capacity of the Afghan army and police, while heeding domestic pressure to demonstrate that Afghanistan will not be an endless conflict.
The incident caused an uproar that compelled the authorities to arrest, interrogate, and try the Egyptian police officers in charge.
In a recent survey by the anti-corruption watchdog group Transparency International, 54% of Indian respondents said that they had paid bribes in the last two years, in interactions with police, bureaucrats, and even educational institutions.
There is no political will to create a body that could genuinely police international standards and prevent countries from engaging in competitive deregulation – and prevent banks from engaging in regulatory arbitrage.
Similar warnings have been repeated over and over by oppressive rulers in the Middle East, not least by Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak: either the secular police state or the Islamists; either Mubarak or the Muslim Brotherhood.
The US has supported police states in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Central Asia, because the alternative is thought to be worse.
The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.
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