police
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He helped rescue people trapped in the Baldwin Hills dam collapse and helped police track fleeing criminals — just the way present-day news pilots do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Conservative Matthew Taylor, who stood against Sutton in the police and crime commissioner election in July, said it had been "a sorry saga".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
New York City claims the earliest aerial traffic report, in the summer of 1935, by a police commander who monitored the weekend flow of Fords from a Goodyear blimp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A body has been found in the search for missing three-year-old boy Noah Woods, police have confirmed.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Before I knew what was going on, there were FBI agents there and police and airport officials and airlines officials and all sorts of other officials I couldn’t even identify,” Angela said.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
“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
It polices remedies and the finality of convictions, not the enforceability of unconstitutional laws going forward.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026
The society now protects and polices about one hundred of these refuges, which, of course, are worthless unless thus protected.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt
Compliance would be policed for 10 years by an independent auditor chosen jointly by Meta and the states, and paid for by the company.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was the era of “Urban Cowboy” and purity was being policed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
And as the pit-lane speed limit is policed by the time taken to pass through a series of timing loops over a specific distance, that meant the drivers were wrongly penalised.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
In response to our reporting, a spokeswoman for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said prediction markets should be brought onshore, where they can be more effectively policed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Residents of El Campesino El Mirador, a railside hamlet nestled at the foot of a mountain, tell this story: El Campesino El Mirador was policed by officers from nearby Nogales.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Shehla Wynne, an attorney in the Washington, D.C., area, said she doesn’t advocate total restriction or policing others’ choices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"As a former police detective, it depresses me to see the state of crime and policing in our capital," Newman said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
She had not long met her partner and dreamed of a career in policing, but suddenly the future was looking bleak.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The incident was covered extensively by San Diego media and resulted in increased policing near the bluffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
It may be more comforting to believe what the newspapers say, that the drop in crime was due to brilliant policing and clever gun control and a surging economy.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
