Sentence examples for police contention from inspiring English sources

A9 Beliefs A13 NEW YORK/REGION B1-5 Police Say Fatal Bullet Was Fired at Close Range Malcolm Ferguson, an unarmed drug suspect killed in the Bronx while fleeing the police Wednesday night, was shot at close range, law enforcement officials said, citing evidence that they said supported the police contention that the plainclothes officer's gun discharged during a struggle.

Still, the word has cast a shadow over his year, which began with journalist Michael Crick on Channel 4's Dispatches offering apparently convincing evidence that he didn't speak it, and suggesting the police contention that he did was at best a mishearing and at worst a politically motivated conspiracy.

Much legal argument revolves around the police's contention that they have the legal power to authorise their spies to start sexual relationships with people they were sent to spy on.

The release of the videos seemed to back the police's contention that it was the marchers' choice that led to the police arresting about 800 people.

A second video, brought to my attention from the page of Robert Wright, a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, seems to confirm that Fadi did not physically engage the Israeli border police, a contention Wright appears to agree with.

He said he was unfairly cast in a Philadelphia newspaper as having a "lengthy criminal history," and the police confirmed his contention.

Mr. Giuliani's contention that police officers here are more restrained than in most other cities -- a statistically provable argument -- is dismissed, an apparent victim of weakened mayoral credibility.

Fallen's main problem is his contention that police had no basis for arresting him.

While this point is a well-known issue of contention between police departments and many of the communities they work in, it has been very difficult to actually study due to a lack of data.

Darius Charney, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the suit against the city, said the judge's ruling included factual findings in favor of its contention that police department policy -- not the actions of a few rogue officers -- had led to widespread illegal searches.

That contention, that policing will improve, is ultimately how the whole idea will be judged in the long term.