Sentence examples for diminished police from inspiring English sources

But residents, clergy members and neighborhood leaders say the past six weeks have made another reality clear: that as much as some officers regularly humiliated and infuriated many who live here, angering gang members and solid citizens alike, the solution has to be better policing, not a diminished police presence.

But this seemed an impossible distinction to make, especially for a beleaguered and diminished police force.

We will soon see crumbling bridges, pothole-filled roads and diminished police and fire service.

"I think with every day, every hour and every minute that goes by, that hope diminishes," Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik said during an interview on "The Early Show" on CBS.

"The government has been left with the only forces still at its service: a diminishing police force, and paramilitary".

Maryam senses a tangibly diminished morality police "presence".

Furthermore, the actions necessary to remove the squatters would take up an inordinate amount of ever-diminishing police resources and impose further demands on a criminal courts system already stretched to breaking point – particularly if, as reported in the article, "the government's estimate of 20,000 squatters in the UK is likely to be a significant underestimate".

Most police forces are unionized, and I don't see anyone claiming that this diminishes the police's ability to fight terrorism.

Mr. Talib, an African-American, said his respect for law enforcement officials was greatly diminished when the police and the F.B.I. were discovered to have spied on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders during the civil rights era.

"Its reputation as a crime-ridden area has diminished because the police are doing a good job," he said.

The fear that gripped Delhi over the monkey-man, a creature that many believed was half man, half monkey, has diminished as the police and the Delhi Medical Association have insistently characterized reports of sightings as mass hysteria.