Sentence examples for pattern of excessive from inspiring English sources

A federal investigation found a pattern of excessive force.

The Albuquerque police department last year ordered a change in shooting guidelines involving moving vehicles after a Justice Department report found a pattern of excessive force.

I think it was a natural reaction to what Republicans believe to be a pattern of excessive use of force and abrogation of freedom by this administration".

And if they show a pattern of excessive or unjustified rate increases in the next few years, they can be excluded from participation in the exchanges.

While the exchange cannot explicitly control prices, it can exclude health plans that show a pattern of "excessive or unjustified premium increases".

Federal authorities also determined that the department had engaged in a pattern of excessive force, false arrests and unreasonable searches, especially of members of minorities, because of poor training and insufficient protocols.

"The areas will include whether officers of the Newark Police Department have engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force against civilians, whether they have engaged in a pattern of unlawful stops, frisks, searches or arrests, and whether there has been discriminatory policing," he said.

"These investigations will objectively, impartially and thoroughly examine whether the Kern County sheriff's office or the Bakersfield police department engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force or other civil rights violations".

Last December, after a 21-month investigation sparked by the case, the then US attorney general Eric Holder released a report that found Cleveland police had engaged in a pattern and practice of excessive force, including unnecessary deadly force.

Under the new federal law, insurers that show "a pattern or practice of excessive or unjustified premium increases" can be excluded from the centralized insurance market, or exchange, to be set up in each state by 2014.

In the waning days of the Clinton Administration, the acting head of Justice's civil-rights division, Bill Lann Lee, threatened to sue Los Angeles to prove a "pattern or practice" of excessive force and rights abuses unless the city consented to federal oversight.