Trying to suppress crime, hey?
As to whether officers intentionally sought to misclassify or suppress crime reports, Mr. Kelley said, "the answer is, from time to time yes".
Police officials, for their part, vigorously praise the stop-and-frisk policy as a cornerstone of their efforts to suppress crime.
Many of them were working to try to suppress crime in the favelas, where residents found themselves under "a state of semi-siege", with soldiers stationed at the ends of the streets and helicopters hovering overhead.
The four precincts with the highest use of force — the 32nd in Upper Manhattan, the 44th and 46th in the Bronx and the 115th in Jackson Heights, Queens — all include or have included what the police call "impact zones," violent pockets that the police routinely flood with officers, often in their first assignment out of the academy, in an effort to suppress crime.
But the school said the film is "wrong in unsupported and inaccurate assertions that the university sought to suppress crime statistics and shield athletes from investigators".
Moving forward, Duterte's grandiose plans to suppress crime and proliferation of drugs, ameliorate Metro Manila's suffocating traffic and end the conflict in Mindanao will constantly run against the grain of political reality.
While he has occasionally distanced himself them, he's never wavered from his core election promise to "suppress" crime across the country within three to six months of his election.
Instead, however, the government continues to rely on brute force to suppress crime, disappointing civil society groups that helped develop the plan, said Angelika Albaladejo of the Washington-based Latin America Working Group, who recently traveled to El Salvador to research the security situation.
"Interviews with more than two dozen sources including current and former students, current and former employees as well as parents confirm that Notre Dame has a history of mishandling sexual assault cases, discouraging survivors from reporting and shielding athletes from investigators, all of which suppress crime statistics," Dick said.
