Critics have faulted her reluctance to condemn the systematic mistreatment of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority.
Sadly, the decision not to prosecute is unsurprising, both in the context of woefully poor conviction rates for deaths in custody and of the systematic mistreatment received by asylum seekers in the UK.
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice issued a report cataloguing the Chicago Police Department's excessive use of force and systematic mistreatment of the city's minority community.
Subsequent investigations found no evidence of any systematic mistreatment of taxpayers, but by then Congress had enacted several changes, including creating a small office to look at the tax system from the point of view of taxpayers and how to make the system easier and fairer.
With its deliberately overexposed film stock and driving electronic score, Ms. Maccarone's film occasionally suffers from a self-conscious artiness, but at its center is an extraordinary performance by Ms. Tabatabai as Fariba, a young woman whose expectations have been lowered by a lifetime of systematic mistreatment but who still holds out hope for the possibility of both justice and love.
This was not the rational anger one encounters in response to a specific wrong, nor even the righteous anger that comes from an articulate reaction to years of systematic mistreatment.
Contributing to the reports A Culture of Cruelty and Crossing the Line, both published at NoMoreDeaths.org, Boyce has found the Department of Homeland Security typically ignores claims of both individual and systematic mistreatment, citing lack of trust in their sampling methods, or that cases of abuse are against policy.
Bullying is 'the systematic mistreatment of a subordinate, a colleague, or a superior, which if continued and long-lasting, may cause severe social, psychological and psychosomatic problems in the target' (Einarsen et al., 2011: 4).
This systematic process is dispassionate, stepped and doable.
Despite extensive documentation of state-led human rights abuses, only five low-level personnel have been imprisoned, taking the rap for what the BICI called "systematic … mistreatment which … amounted to torture".
