police
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Jurgen de Landsheer is aware that police alone will not solve this crisis.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nepal's police announced a new death toll of at least 547 people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Dozens of calls and complaints were made to L.A. city departments and police, he said, but went unaddressed — with officials telling him they couldn’t go inside the private property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Our police department has uncovered stolen cars, tracked criminals, and kept our city even safer with the help of Flock Cameras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Two police officers are helping someone get out of the back of the car.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Some critics saw this is a way of avoiding serious scrutiny of polices in favour of softball questions from non-specialists.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
A Spotify spokeswoman said the company polices spam aggressively and has been removing content related to this attack for more than a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Right now is the moment to do a lot of the movement work, a lot of the policymaking, because those polices are going to last far beyond Trump,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
“Not all term polices have conversion features,” Harrison said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Dear Sir—The death of our client, and your uncle, John Glenning, on the 14th inst., reveals the fact that one of his life insurance polices was executed with you as beneficiary.
From The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey
It was the era of “Urban Cowboy” and purity was being policed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Zoë Billingham, a former independent police inspector who pushed for reforms on how violence against women in girls is policed, said that "too often in cases like this the dots aren't being joined up".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“It is great to see…the fans being policed according to their behavior, not an outdated reputation,” said chief constable Mark Roberts, head of the UKFPU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
At first, the Supreme Court policed these discriminatory plans under the 14th and 15th amendments.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
“Before...before camp, my parents thought the PSFs were investigating them, which, you know, they were. They sent me up to my grandparents’ cabin to hide, and—you remember what I said about the Internet being policed?
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Legislators advanced bills, backed by California’s powerful trial lawyer trade group, aimed at policing the state’s legal industry, which has been bruised by ‘a wave of inappropriate attorney conduct’ highlighted by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
A former RUC officer, who gave his name as Joe, described policing the standoff at Drumcree as "horrendous".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
How does bias enter algorithms used in policing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
"The policing family is deeply scarred by this incident," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The policing trend was put in reverse, with wide-scale hiring in cities across the country.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
