Sentence examples for police thinking from inspiring English sources

The monsignor did not report the phone call to the police, thinking it was a prank call.

"The most offensive thing was certainly our police thinking it was lawful to stop up my mouth.

What on earth were officers from Sussex police thinking when they detained an 11-year-old girl with a neurological disability similar to autism, put her in leg restraints and placed a spit hood over head?

When I started my mom journey, I was unprepared for a lot of things and there were plenty of times when I wished that there was a Xanax in the house, especially when our three-year-old screamed with night terrors and I was afraid someone would hear her and call the police, thinking that only a child who was being beaten could make noises like that.

Evan Harris, associate director of Hacked Off and a former Liberal Democrat MP, tweeted: "The real questions out of Mazher Mahmood story are 1) what on earth were the police thinking, 2) why has [Rupert] Murdoch always protected him".

But while it's important to be critical of the police, especially in the midst of a national policing crisis, we cannot escape or even comprehend our policing crisis without knowing what the police are thinking.

"I don't think anybody goes to the police academy thinking their mission in life is going to be to hassle homeless people," he said.

Police officers and NATO and Afghan soldiers cordoned off the area after the initial attack, but they allowed the ambulance to enter the center, which also houses the administrative offices of the city police department, thinking it had arrived to pick up casualties, said Khan Mohammed Mujahid, the Kandahar provincial police chief.

It's difficult not to wonder what the police are thinking when they follow the sort of orders they've been receiving over the past few days.

Tobin left the schoolgirl's purse near Edinburgh's main railway and bus stations to fool police into thinking she had run away from home.

But at 11, his takeaway was that his dad wanted him to "see how the police are thinking, [so] I know not to get dreads" to better coming avoid suspicion.