For that reason, perhaps, the city has been spared some of the worst excesses of police brutality, exacerbated by racial misunderstanding.
The Occupy movement has become a worldwide phenomenon, but it began in New York, and is deeply rooted here; and, sadly, the ham-fisted practice of responding to it with excesses of police force are now also identified with New York.
They were triggered by state violence, represented by the unrestrained excesses of police officers.
There was no evidence of an excess risk of police involvement for Asian groups (OR = 0.84, 0.55 1.29).
"In excess of 300 police officers have been referred to the Directorate of Professional Standards [DPS] by my staff and 46 of these have become formal investigations overseen by the Independent Police Complaints Commission," he wrote.
To me this means not having an excess of toy police cars in our home.
The combination of holding clients for long periods, while concealing their whereabouts and denying access to a lawyer, struck legal experts as a throwback to the worst excesses of Chicago police abuse, with a post-9/11 feel to it.
The spectacle of the first secretary of the Communist Party exposing the wrongful executions of the Great Purge of the 1930s and the excesses of Soviet police repression, after years of fearful silence, had far-reaching effects that Khrushchev himself could barely have foreseen.
The Black Lives Matter campaign continues to highlight the brutal excesses of certain police officers.
Ten pounds of heroin would have a street value in excess of $1 million, the police said.
