Sentence examples for attributed the police from inspiring English sources

Uniformed and plainclothes police officers were out in force on Wangfujing Street, a shopping district where the demonstration was scheduled to take place, but several shopkeepers attributed the police presence to the Chinese Parliament session that opens this week.

Speaking to French daily Le Monde, Kinshasa police spokesman Israël Mutombo attributed the tough police crackdown to "public order disturbances," and denied that police had used real bullets to disperse protesters.

Police Chief John Welter attributed the uptick in police violence to gang activity.

The police attributed the shooting to a random, psychotic act of violence.

The police attributed the deaths to murder-suicide or a suicide pact.

The police attributed the loud bangs and flashes to protesters with heavy firecrackers.

The police attributed the crime to a dispute with two farmhands over pay.

The police attributed the blast to the Real I.R.A., a breakaway group from the Irish Republican Army that opposes the Northern Ireland peace settlement.

No less than other right-wing populists in Europe, he is trying to appeal to voters who are tired of rising violence and street crime, which in the case of the Netherlands are attributed by the police to gangs of immigrants from Morocco, Turkey and the Caribbean.

A simultaneous spike in graffiti in local neighbourhoods was attributed by the police to the exhibition, and the Brooklyn Museum canceled its planned showing for 2012.

"The vast majority of human rights abuses reportedly carried out by government agents were attributed to the police," the department said of the situation in Iraq in a report that is part of its annual global human rights review.