Sentence examples for prosecute cop from inspiring English sources

Police groups are blaming President Obama and the Justice Department for failing to prosecute "cop killers".

"I didn't come to this office to prosecute cops," he said.

The South Carolina video appears in a different context, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests that have followed the unjust decisions by state and federal prosecutors in case after case across the country not to prosecute cops who've killed unarmed black men.

I don't like prosecuting cops but that doesn't stop me from doing it.

Will district attorneys across the nation now use these techniques to avoid prosecuting cops?

I was the police expert in the Plaintiffs' case in Calvo (SWAT shot two Labs) and DOJ's expert in prosecuting cops in N.O.

The few times that the Justice Department has prosecuted cops or racist vigilantes on civil rights charges after they've been acquitted in state courts, or no charged at all, it came after massive and sustained protests.

The few times that the Justice Department has prosecuted cops or racist vigilantes on civil rights charges after they've been acquitted in state courts, it came after either massive and sustained protests or, in the case of the cops who beat King, massive civil unrest following their acquittal in state courts.

Despite the perception that Justice Department officials are cracking down on police violence by brokering consent decrees, making tough recommendations and guidelines for training, and more rigorous monitoring of use of force incidences, the scorecard still shows that the Department has prosecuted cops in only a tiny fraction of the police abuse cases that the FBI investigates.

There are many groups who want reform packages or justice in the form of prosecuted cops, but there is broad understanding that police brutality and racism is a deep-seated structural problem that will not be solved with a few symbolic court cases and policy tweaks.

This dynamic may explain why Queens District Attorney Richard Brown declined to prosecute a cop who was accused of hitting a state judge in 2012.