Such fears were fanned last week, when a top police official threatened to invoke a dictatorship-era law in order to move forward with its task force, even if it has no such authority from the Brazilian legislature.
The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, an Obama-era council that made transparency one of its six "pillars" of modern policing, encouraged departments to submit data to the Police Data Initiative.
"Chiluba called himself the political engineer and he believed Mwanawasa would be his puppet," said Mark Chona, who was appointed by Mr. Mwanawasa to lead a task force to investigate abuses of the Chiluba era.
"I'm inside," said Maxwell Nkole, who leads a task force set up to investigate the Chiluba-era abuses.
He gained national fame as a member of the task force that captured the "Green River Killer," one of the era's deadliest mass murderers.
"Unless your task force addresses the matter of fundamental grid reliability, especially in this era of deregulation, this report will lack credibility and force many into making worst-case assumptions," Mr. Margevicius said.
De-escalation training is the go-to reform when things go wrong; virtually every task force on law enforcement calls for more of it in this era of increased police scrutiny.
— The German task force charged with investigating ownership of works in the Nazi-era art hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt has come under fire from the international community for its slow progress and lack of transparency.
The association's task force was created specifically to address claims from the World War II era and did not look at other questions of provenance raised about the antiquities trade.
Between February and May 2004 (pre-vaccination era), the present large-scale study was conducted in Greece, through a multi-center initiative task force, in order to provide for the first time a nation-wide representative depiction of carriage of pneumococcal strains isolated from the nasopharynx of healthy preschool children, attending daycare centers and kindergartens.
During the same era, the fad for leather bomber jackets became so intense that the Newark Police Department formed a special task force to deal with the shootings and muggings related to it.
