Of those, the total arrests directly attributed to police officers assigned to provide assistance to homeless people jumped to 172 from 142, a 21.1percentt increase.
"Particularly startling in the study was the finding that not a single suicide in 2008 (or 2009) was ever attributed to police work," the site notes.
While this statement was attributed to police, in journalism, it's important to double-check any statements of fact, even if attributed or in the form of a direct quote.
The moment reflected a rising awareness among public defenders that they may harbor the same hidden biases about race and ethnicity that are frequently attributed to police and prosecutors.
Policing experts say there is no existing evidence to support the notion that violent crime is increasing across the county or that any such increase could be attributed to de-policing.
On background, or not for attribution: These both mean the same thing: information that can be attributed to "a police department official" or "a player on the team" who is not named.
Correction: This article incorrectly attributed to D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier information about the emergency response.
This falsehood, attributed to anonymous police sources, led to de Menezes's body being exhumed, against the wishes of his family, to obtain a DNA sample.
It can often, however, feel to social workers that those failings are attributed to specific police officers or doctors and not seen as wider problems within those agencies.
