Indeed, Banks' pronouncements, coming from the department's highest uniformed officer who is black, may lower the temperature of the increasingly contentious stop and frisk trial.
After a contentious stop in Carroll, their visit to Marshalltown, another small town, met no opposition, and a supportive crowd of near 25.
His failure to stop Boko Haram amid enormous bloodshed has become the most contentious point in the election, even more than his inability to expand electricity, diversify the economy, or account for missing oil funds.
His senior year of journalism school, Nick Berardini set out to make a movie about a young man, Stanley Harlan, who died after being Tased for 31 seconds during a contentious traffic stop in Moberly, Missouri.
Other contentious issues like stop-and-frisk, racial profiling, and an out-of-touch police force though not Brooklyn-specific only deepen this narrative.
Department meetings were so contentious that two professors stopped speaking to each other.
But he declined to discuss Mr. Carrión's positions on other contentious issues, like the stop-and-frisk tactics by the police and income inequality.
The Defense Department said Wednesday that it would begin paying retroactive compensation to troops who were prevented from leaving the military under the contentious policy known as stop-loss.
Two federal agencies are stopping a contentious California project from fracturing bedrock miles underground and extracting its geothermal energy until a scientific review determines whether the project could produce dangerous earthquakes, spokeswomen for the Energy and Interior Departments said on Monday.
The official said the contentious issue didn't stop the two sides from trying to resolve other differences still under negotiation two weeks before a self-imposed deadline.
