There are some unwatchably violent scenes in this powerful if flawed police corruption thriller.
The Justice Department has also targeted flawed police departments, initiating roughly 20 investigations of local police agencies – including Ferguson – in the past five years.
Prosecutors working for the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, recently found that flawed police work by the detective, Louis Scarcella, and a partner led to the conviction of a man in the 1990 killing of a Brooklyn rabbi.
Prosecutors determined that Mr. Ranta's conviction resulted in large part from flawed police work by Mr. Scarcella and a partner, including failing to pursue a more logical suspect.
Although it was a showcase of deeply flawed police practices, the Simpson case was only "a minor disaster" for the LAPD, said Berkeley's Zimring, noting that the police beating of Rodney King two years earlier was far worse.
The force has been shaken by the scandal over phone hacking; its top two officials have resigned and its longtime spokesman was placed on extended leave as investigations continued into earlier flawed police inquiries into the hacking and accusations of police bribery.
6 9 10 22 29 A clear example is the case of the detrimentally flawed police investigation of the serial murder of the missing women in Vancouver, Canada; where criminalisation and historic discrimination by police were found to be key factors in putting police in an adversarial relationship with sex workers.
Hosko said the apparent conclusions suggested "flawed, failing police work that infects the relationship between law enforcement and the community".
Eyewitness identification is often flawed, and the police said the Friday arrest of the man was voided.
Mr. Wen spoke at an extraordinary hourlong news conference streamed live on the Web site of Xinhua, the official news agency, in what appeared to be part of an urgent public relations effort by China's leadership to show that it was aggressively policing flaws in a new rail system that lies at the heart of the country's breakneck effort to modernize.
