Sentence examples for holds precinct from inspiring English sources
Mr. Romney is campaigning in Missouri because the state holds precinct caucuses on Saturday to begin choosing its 52 delegates to the Republican National Convention.
His police director, Garry F. McCarthy, is aggressively employing a quality-of-life crackdown to rein in low-level disorder and stepping up the use of Compstat, the computer-assisted system that identifies hot spots and holds precinct commanders accountable for unmitigated crime.
They began a new emphasis on the rigorous collection of crime statistics and holding precinct commanders accountable for addressing them.
It is based on the scrupulous tracking of crime complaints and a mix of mapping crime trends, identifying trouble spots and holding precinct commanders directly responsible for attacking those problems.
Asked why he believed Mr. de Blasio would make New York City less safe, Mr. Lhota never quite answered the question, but he did assert that he himself had played a role in 1994 in the creation of CompStat, the Police Department's vaunted database system for responding quickly to crime and holding precinct commanders accountable for the results.
Iowa Republicans do hold precinct meetings but they "tend to be tame affairs," according to Bradley Dyke, a political science professor at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny.
The NYPD should also be using CompStat -- its data-driven accountability model credited with contributing to steep declines in crime -- to hold precinct commanders accountable for high numbers of suspicion-less stops, as I first suggested last year.
To combat the problem, the Rochester Police Department has been using some of New York City's techniques, including holding individual precincts accountable for high crime rates.
An AP analysis of uncounted votes from absentee and other ballots shows state Sen. Bill Brady won't be able to overcome the just more than 19,400-vote lead Quinn holds with 100percentt of precincts reporting Thursday.
Meetings are held at police precinct buildings, and uniformed officers help run the program.
But these men will feel the slap of handcuffs and stand in stinking precinct holding cells, even as their white peers smoke more but rarely get arrested.
