The Yemeni Army and national police exert significant day-to-day control over most of the country, and almost everywhere else on an ad hoc basis.
Just peruse the tales of paramilitary police forces exerting their will on minorities in places like Ferguson, Missouri while rich bankers routinely escape from punishment for their white-collar crimes.
Erdoğan has repeatedly accused Gülen of having established a "parallel structure" within the state by placing his followers in institutions such as the judiciary and the police, and of exerting strong influence through his media empire.
Erdoğan has accused his foe of establishing a "parallel structure" within the state by placing his followers in institutions such as the judiciary and the police, and of exerting strong influence through his media empire.
Our findings indicate that evidence planting by police is indeed another way in which abuse of power by police may be exerted in Thailand, perhaps for the purpose of maximizing rates of arrests for drug possession or for the simple purposes of extortion.
Whether the I.M.F. is up to the task of policing its members and exerting influence on the most powerful ones remains far from clear.
Dismissing the investigation into the sleaze allegations as a foreign plot to topple his government, he has moved to purge senior police ranks and exert greater control over the judiciary.
For us, it was a way of exerting pressure [on them]," one told police.
Autopsies are performed by county medical examiners and even with competent and professional medical examiners, police and prosecutors may exert undue influence on their findings by sharing theories of a crime or information about a suspect, which may lead pathologists to tailor their conclusions to fit the theory of law enforcement officials rather than the facts of a case.
But could there be any truth in the rumour that the embassy went further than that, exerting influence, perhaps through a liaison officer, on the behaviour of our own police?
