Sentence examples for excessive tactics from inspiring English sources

The footage protesters shot have challenged arrests and helped identify officers using excessive tactics, like pepper spray.

The judge found that the New York City police had used excessive tactics to control political demonstrations in the past.

The PAD's excessive tactics, and its calls for the replacement of democracy with a mostly unelected parliament, have lost it much support among the urban middle-classes.

Their piracy data only seems to carry them through the end of 2009 anyway, which means it's not current with their excessive tactics.

Judge Lynch decided not to issue any restraining order, saying the unions had not convinced him that the city had used excessive control tactics so far.

And he or she must command respect not only from New York's 40,000-member police force but also from a diverse citizenry that wants to feel safe both from crime and from the fear of excessive police tactics.

After settling a major lawsuit with the ACLU over excessive police tactics, that city's police department adopted a new strategy for policing.

In October 1999 the organization issued a report "Summary of Amnesty International's concerns on police abuse in Chicago" which expressed concerns including improper interrogation tactics, excessive force, shootings of unarmed suspects, and the detention and interrogation of children.

After an eight month investigation by attorneys from Harvard, Stanford and Rutgers, as part of the Protest and Assembly Rights Project, the group determined that the NYPD used unnecessarily aggressive tactics, excessive force, and illegally suppressed press freedoms during Occupy demonstrations.

Among all New Yorkers, 48 percent said the tactic was "acceptable to make New York City safer," while almost as many — 45 percent — deemed the tactic "excessive".

After the department began training officers in de-escalation tactics, excessive-force complaints plummeted from 147 in 2009 to 53 in 2014.