Sentence examples for oppressive police from inspiring English sources

Crime has abated but a heavy and oppressive police presence has not, residents told me.

Where an oppressive police apparatus remains in power, that apparatus continues to beget crime, even though police violence is no longer initiated by the government.

We, too, failed to realize that the impressive structure in view was home to the oppressive police structures of our host country.

There isn't an oppressive police or military presence, and not much of a religious presence, either: few mullahs wander about (except in Qom, the religious center, and a few other holy sites).

Surprisingly there are no references to any political events of the sort that have become customary in French autobiographical movies, where the bright heroes and heroines revolt against their bourgeois families, discuss Sartre and Baudrillard, throw stones at the oppressive police and generally become part of the cultural warp and weft of the times.

I must be a Libertarian Democrat because I oppose oppressive police, elective wars and puppet dictators.

Undercover officers behaved violently among the peaceful throng so as to justify an oppressive policing response.

Their journey is to begin, fittingly, in the desert in Arizona, national capital of anti-immigrant laws and oppressive policing.

We are deeply concerned that the right to protest is being eroded and undermined, with legitimate protest criminalised by oppressive policing in an attempt to silence dissent.

He went on to imply that the events in Hackney were in direct response to oppressive policing, government cuts and social exclusion.

A poor community response was not due to any support for this death, but the predictable result of years of racist and oppressive policing.