Sentence examples for democratic police from inspiring English sources

Without coherent popular movements, which are required to prevent opposition parties from falling into the clutches of millionaires and corporate lobbyists, almost any government would be tempted to engineer a nominally democratic police state.

By the end of the day, British voters (some of them, at least) will have picked new MPs for Manchester Central, Cardiff South and Corby, the country's first democratic Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), and Bristol's first directly elected mayor.The by-elections and PCC votes have enjoyed the most coverage.

Something very big is transforming us into the first democratic police state in human history.

In the months leading up to the riots of Thanksgiving week, the plea from Ferguson was not for less policing but for more professional — indeed, more democratic — policing.

He said human rights were at the heart of his thinking: "Britain is the birthplace of democratic policing.

"Public confidence in the police is fundamental to democratic policing and must not be undermined by any suggestion that the rule of law does not apply equally to all citizens including those in uniform".

It might be argued that the deployment of so many detectives in the investigation of thousands of crimes committed so many years ago appears to be a discrediting of discretionary policing – often seen as the mark of democratic policing.

On this, their complete disregard of the facts makes federal district court judge Shira Scheindlin's ruling against the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices in Floyd v City of New York essential to democratic policing in New York and the US.

'In my day, a star chief was committed to local, democratic policing, but now things look a little different.'.

The models adopted by the military police throughout the past century are antithetical to the most basic precepts of today´s democratic policing models.

"In my day, a star chief was committed to local, democratic policing, but now things look a little different," Couper said.