Sentence examples for pacifying police from inspiring English sources

The UPPs (pacifying police unit) are expelling traffickers from the slums but they are taking refuge in other slums.

First, special forces evict gang leaders from favelas; then "Pacifying Police Units" (UPPs) are set up, manned by officers trained in community policing.

And in the specific case of murder due to police intervention, the results are evident, especially in the areas where they were installed Pacifying Police Units.

Bachelet cited the example of what is known as pacifying police units, a law enforcement and social services programme pioneered in Brazil in 2008.

Once the military police had established control, pacifying police units (UPPs) moved in, supposedly to pave the way for social programmes – the Brazilian government apparently aware that any attempt to deal with the drug gangs would have to have a positive component, offering the residents at least some of the many basics the state has thus far failed to provide.

Measures at one point, like Resolution 013 in 2007 allowed pacifying police units (UPP) to ban "cultural events" in the favelas.

Pepsi pulled their 2017 ad in which Kendall Jenner used a can of Pepsi to pacify police and protesters at a pseudo-Black Lives Matter demonstration.

In part three of this five-part series, VICE News goes to one of the largest favelas in Rio that was pacified by police two years ago and whose residents are now living under constant police surveillance.

Almost everyone here is from Alemão, a favela complex that has started to move upmarket since it was "pacified" by police in 2010.

It is supposed to have been "pacified" by police in recent years, but the gangs remain a powerful influence and – as in other favelas – neither the drugs nor the violence, nor the government neglect have ever completely gone away.

After rewriting your screenplay as it sees fit, it may issue a filming permit that might pacify the police who will be monitoring your activities, but offers no protection from the further round of cuts and censorship that are the finished film's only hope of ever making it to an Iranian audience at all.