Sentence examples for policing set from inspiring English sources

As the recent U.S. Justice Department report on Ferguson has shown, the shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent riots did not occur in a vacuum: systemic racism and revenue-oriented policing set the stage.

The details of how the system will work is to be set out next Spring by the independent commission on the future of policing set up by Labour and chaired by the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, Lord Stevens.

Last evening police officers and residents marked the beginning of a long hoped for dialogue in the same place where the pilgrims heard of the School to Prison Pipeline, mass incarceration, the shape of policing set in slavery and carried forward not for the polis but for the protection of the powerful.

Set in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Seyðisfjörður, there's something a little bit Fargo about the parochial policing set-up – here are a group of well-meaning coppers who never have their Thermos flasks far from hand; who pass incoming calls to colleagues if they're too invested in a game of computer chess.

The police set up checkpoints outside the valley.

Palestinian police set up roadblocks around Hebron and searched cars.

No one suggests the police set fire to it.

In one case, police set a dog on the occupants of a car they had stopped.

This time, police set off the bombs, and fired rubber bullets to subdue the thugs.

The state police set about turning inbound lanes into outbound ones, but that took hours.

In an earlier raid on the camp, on Thursday, the police set fire to some tents.