But he said he saw no likelihood of street protests because opponents of the government had been cowed into silence by widespread killings and arrests.
Among white voters, half said the code of silence was widespread, while 38percentt called it an isolated problem.
His meteoric rise, as well as the systemic torture itself, was made possible by a code of silence so widespread that it not only has kept scores of detectives silent to this day, but has also extended to several successive police superintendents and former Mayor Richard M. Daley himself.
A strong majority of Chicagoans don't think the city's cops treat all citizens fairly and believe a cover-up "code of silence" is widespread in the Police Department, helping drive a record-low approval rating for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's handling of crime, a Chicago Tribune poll has found.
Several other large banks have not responded to The Agenda's request for information, and that seems to be in keeping with a widespread silence on the topic.
This silence, coupled with widespread lack of awareness among law enforcement agencies, has, the CSJ warned, "led to an appalling reality whereby children who have been enslaved are then being imprisoned".
David Durk, a New York police detective who with Officer Frank Serpico shattered the infamous blue wall of silence to expose widespread corruption in the city's Police Department in the 1960s and '70s, died on Tuesday at his home in Putnam County, N.Y.
Overall, 64percentt of voters said the code of silence is a widespread problem, while 26percentt said they believe it's limited to a handful of bad cops.
(Pen/45, OBGYN, female) This could be due to the widespread silence and denial surrounding IPV among the community.
Nicholson has always said gagging orders are "unacceptable", yet he appears to have overseen the widespread silencing of whistleblowers.
RNA silencing processes are widespread in almost all eukaryotic organisms.
