Sentence examples for which precinct from inspiring English sources

He acknowledged in an interview this week that the phone lines on which precinct workers were supposed to check a voter's status were frequently busy.

She does not know which precinct or district she voted in; she had gone to the polling station the Democrats had shown her.

Eighteen years after the start of the much-vaunted CompStat system of data-driven crime fighting, the Police Department — where I served from 1983 to 2004 — has become a top-down, micromanaged bureaucracy in which precinct commanders are pitted against one another and officers are challenged to match or exceed what they did the previous year, month and week.

As the coordinator of the department's crime-fighting strategy known as Compstat -- a series of regular meetings in which precinct commanders are held accountable for all of the crimes reported in their neighborhoods and documented in a central database -- he is the only candidate with a senior perspective on the city's idiosyncratic brand of police operations.

That's where you learn things like where the good crack corners are, which precinct's desk officer is the biggest dick (in NYC it's the guy with the mohawk at the 88th), and that "Wick-a-Dyk" is a funny thing to call some guy in the Bronx.

It's still handy to have it, because it will tell you which precinct you are to vote in, and this will allow you to go to the right polling place on election day.

The party in power in the state is the one that would decide in which precincts to do the manual count, and it would rig that count, according to demographics, to serve the party needs.

For a quarter century now, he and his partner, Alan Fox, have been honing the list, adding details like who signed a petition to get Ralph Nader on the ballot, who has died and who has moved, and which precincts supported which candidates.

When I asked him about the 21-vote discrepancy, Mr. Santorum told me that he was not aware of which specific precinct it had occurred in.

How do three campaign officials come to be discovered locked in a courthouse — one in which primary precinct returns are also locked — in the middle of the night?

Crime began falling during the David Dinkins years and plunged under Mayor Giuliani, when William Bratton, as Police Commissioner, introduced a series of innovations, like Comstat, which required precinct commanders to measure and take responsibility for crime in their districts.