Sentence examples for crime-fighting tactic from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images 7.24pm GMT Demonstrators hold signs protesting the New York Police Department's "stop and frisk" crime-fighting tactic outside of Manhattan Federal Court in New York.

An element of the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk practice was deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge on Tuesday, a ruling that may have broad implications for the city's widespread use of police stops as a crime-fighting tactic.

Attorney General Schneiderman's report adds to the body of evidence showing that Mayor Bloomberg is simply wrong in asserting that stop and frisk is an effective crime-fighting tactic.

Its crime-fighting tactics continue to be heralded.

He credits new crime-fighting tactics of the police.

And some of her previous crime-fighting tactics, such as erecting roadblocks in high-crime areas, came under fire.

The Galleon affair may be about insider dealing but the government has adopted heavy-duty crime-fighting tactics including wiretapping and raids.

The idea of transferring Mr. Giuliani's crime-fighting tactics to the school system -- his aides have called it Learnstat -- is gaining momentum.

That famous 1982 volume sees Gotham's defender come into conflict with Superman over the former's increasingly hardline crime-fighting tactics.

The city is just turning its focus to the sunset of a mayoral administration whose hallmark has been its crime-fighting tactics.

The city has employed other crime-fighting tactics — surveillance cameras, better lighting, curfews for children — but the number of murders has risen again: at 48 so far this year, it is on pace to break the record, 58.