Even for systemic, department-based efforts, sustainability can be an issue.
Sessions' position echoed the view he expressed throughout his nomination, when he indicated he subscribed to the "bad apples" view of policing, which holds that police abuse is not systemic in certain departments but the fault of individual rogue actors.
Mr. Wilcox said the department had systemic problems of brutality and cover-ups.
Creating a Medicaid inspector general won't necessarily bring systemic change to a department that lacks accountability.
The previous mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin, repeatedly denied that the department had systemic problems and insisted that the city could clean things up on its own.
The incident sparked protests in Cleveland and nationwide, and prompted a Department of Justice investigation that found sweeping systemic deficiencies within the department.
The Justice Department began an investigation into the Police Department, the police superintendent was fired and a task force last month issued a scathing report denouncing systemic racism at the department.
Bland told the Guardian that the request for federal oversight is not only about what happened to Hammond, but potentially about systemic problems with the department, its officers and its chief.
Even as the police had to contend with second-guessing on the streets, a team of city lawyers was briefing the City Council in private session on recommendations for how to avert a threatened federal civil rights lawsuit by the Justice Department, which has accused the police department of systemic misconduct.
To assess serum NGAL could be a biomarker of systemic inflammation in emergency department.
As we marched to the main stage, there was a clear divide between those who believed all that was needed was a tweaking of officer protocol, and those who connected past killings by the NYPD to a systemic critique of the department.
