If someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, police officers will generally err on the side of caution and use section 136, explains PC Crisp.
Adding to the sense of crisis, police warned that a "go-slow" fuel protest on the M6 motorway today could bring yet more disruption.
Amid a growing sense of crisis, police closed several major highways leading in and out of Jerusalem and swamped the city with security forces, with groups of armed officers visible on major junctions and entrances to Palestinian neighbourhoods.
Facing a budget crisis, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said yesterday that he planned to significantly reduce the additional patrols that for two years have been financed by a $172 million overtime program in which officers worked on their days off.
I was determined to speak about Darryl Adams, a fellow student who had died of AIDS - and connect that period's crisis with our era's crisis: police brutality.
Coleman Young II, whose promises include a $15 city minimum wage, a new Africa Town commercial district, potential lawsuits against the state to ease the car insurance crisis, police residency requirements, and a halt to school closings, conveys a different urgency.
While harm reduction measures like the ones PITIRRE offer face the pinch of Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis, police enforcement of suspected drug pushers has been relentless in recent months.
In Lehigh Acres, a Florida exurb among the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, police arrested Don Zilen in 2011 after he admitted to illegally dumping more than 10,000 pounds of trash that he pulled out of two homes into the backyard of a vacant house near where he lived.
The risk now is that with the crisis of policing in Rio de Janeiro, even the incremental gains could be lost.
The Peach case was a seminal moment and, like the deaths decades later of Stephen Lawrence and Jean Charles de Menezes, triggered a crisis in policing.
