Funding for local authority language advisers was also cut.
He seems furious at even the slightest hint of authority in my body language.
Each category of complaints - Force, Abuse of Authority, Discourtesy and Offensive Language, known as FADO - are down.
The 13-member civilian review board investigates accusations of excessive force, abuse of authority, discourtesy and offensive language.
The 13-member Civilian Complaint Review Board is empowered under the City Charter to investigate civilian complaints of excessive force, abuse of authority, discourtesy and offensive language.
The 13-member review board investigates accusations of excessive force, abuse of authority, discourtesy and offensive language brought to it by members of the public, but does not generally handle offenses that rise to the level of criminal wrongdoing.
The board investigates public complaints of excessive force, abuse of authority, discourtesy and offensive language, in most cases stemming from actions that do not rise to the level of a crime.
Building on a tradition of surreal British satire that goes back to film-makers such as Lindsay Anderson or screenwriter Dennis Potter, Thomas draws attention to the tacit systems that shape daily life, whether the body language of authority figures or the empty rhetoric of institutions.
Anderson's singing voice has improved over the years, but speech still predominates - both her natural voice, sometimes processed with harmoniser or vocoder, and her "man's voice", which enables her to question the language of authority, and our attitudes towards things we thought "had gone forever: hanging, beheading, people in cages, torture".
Internal persuasive discourse that is "half-ours and half someone else's" (Bakhtin, 1981) is contrasted with authoritative discourse, which is the more alien and static language of authority, and helps the teacher tone down the force of his comments and controls frustration.
Force becomes the language of authority, and authority is sustained by force.
