In 2007, 1,330 citizens reportedly died in the course of police action.
"While some of such killings have reportedly occurred in the context of clashes between or within gangs, it is alleged that many of the reported incidents involved extrajudicial killings in the course of police anti-drug operations," ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement.
A federal judge gave the green light to the most controversial part of the notorious SB 1070 law – the clause dubbed the "show me your papers" provision – that instructs police to investigate the immigration status of anyone they deem suspicious of being undocumented who they come across in the course of other policing matters.
She showed me pictures she had taken of a house smashed up and robbed in the course of a police search.
He said the paper's publisher News Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, had failed to hand over any material, including reporters' notebooks, in the course of the police investigation.
Even more ominous than the tale of Elliott's own torture are the hapless Indian victims he meets in the course of his police nightmare: the unknown prone individual being beaten on the street; and a boy he describes as 17-years-old whom he sees at the station and who screams in agony as he has the soles of his feet beaten.
In Britain a lot of information has emerged about access to journalists' phone records in the course of reports by police and other oversight bodies, with revelations that police obtained the phone records of senior staff at the Sun.
In the course of the trials, police disclosed that semen found on the jogger had not been linked to any of the defendants.
In the course of the morning, police arrived at the homes of at least 14 other organizers and conducted similar searches, removing electronics and money where they found them.
Critics argue that by covertly collecting DNA contained in the minute amounts of saliva, sweat and skin that everyone sheds in the course of daily life, police officers are exploiting an unforeseen loophole in the requirement to show "probable cause" that a suspect has committed a crime before conducting a search.
