Since Trump's definition of the domestic threat has centered on what he has called "radical Islamic terror", US Muslim communities, already the target of widespread law-enforcement suspicion since 9/11, would probably find themselves subject to a separate system of wartime justice in which they would enjoy fewer rights.
Several factors appear to have overcome historical resistance to transparency, including widespread laws requiring disclosure to patients and confidentiality protections for internal discussions of error.
The coalition website calls for action in light of a "national crisis of widespread police violence, law enforcement impunity and systemic lack of accountability for police misconduct".
Lack of effective rule of law, and widespread police and judicial corruption in Brazil, Honduras, and Mexico, make it easy for those determined to turn a profit at any cost to order and carry out killings — and to get away with it.
"It is an open secret long shared by prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges that perjury is widespread among law enforcement officers … police lie to avoid letting someone they think is guilty, or they know is guilty, go free".
In 2008, a New York State investigation of the industry found widespread labor law violations.
In the US, where the use of lie detectors, or polygraphs, is widespread among law enforcement agencies, that debate has already raged for many years.
Once Christianity became more widespread, natural law could be understood in terms of God's directives in the Bible.
It's a feeling that's widespread among law enforcement nationwide at the moment, the union chief said.
