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the explicit hostility of large segments of the population. Police work has become harder. As the degree of race and class conflict intensifies, the police assume a more demanding role both in repressing strikes and demonstrations and in attempting to contain the escalating level of crime. They are attacked, on the one hand, by progressive groups demanding the curtailment of their coercive power and, on the other hand, by reactionary elements calling for law and order and increased police efficiency. I
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camped out in the legislative building, the
Associated Press reported. The government told the BBC that about one third of Bahia's 30,000 state police officers are involved in the strike. Police in the state of Bahia declared a strike last Tuesday to demand higher wages and better working conditions, CNN International reported. Since then, 93 people have been killed, double the number in the same period last year, according to CNN. There have also been multiple reports of looting, according to the AP.
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enthusiastic co-operation during the
Occupation, they had rounded up French Jews even the Nazis were prepared to leave alone Participation in the police strike starting 15 August was good insurance for their future. The strike, coupled with news that day of more Allied landings off St Tropez, ignited the resentments and hopes of Parisians and, urged on by the communists, an uprising was borne.
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The causes of the sudden upsurge of police militancy in the last two decades lie in the changing conditions of policing. In large measure, today's police are moved to collective action by the realization that the declining legitimacy of the state subjects them to
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He said when the strike was declared that statements by Nabors about the shootings of the two officers early
Wednesday were 'the straw that broke the camel's back' and prompted the wildcat strike. In a television interview Wednesday night, Nabors said the shooting of the two officers might have been
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The strike by police officers continues as the government refused on
Thursday to confirm an agreement with the Police Trade Union, which it initialled on Wednesday and which takes into account the majority of the union's demands. The demands included salaries of police officers to increase compared
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One cause for police strikes has been increases in the difficulty of policing itself. The wave of
American police strikes in the late 1960s and 1970s accompanied other forms of social unrest—which themselves put pressure on police forces. Also, police wages, which had historically been exceptional,
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Brazilian police, who have been on strike outside the assembly in the state capital of Salvador since last week, BBC News reported. The soldiers surrounded the building and fired rubber bullets and charged the crowd of about 4,000 police and their families, who are
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The mayor of this eastern U.S. city—one of three hit by municipal strikes yesterday—called striking policeman 'hoodlums' yesterday and pleaded for
National Guard protection. The wildcat strike by 2,000 Cleveland police officers and supervisory personnel left only a handful of high-ranking police
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National Force and the Army, the State had another violent day: one shot hit a bus, there was a shootout in the neighborhood of Santa Rita and, in Serra, a condominium was invaded. Since Friday, relatives of police officers have been demonstrating in front of Military
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Tear-gas was used to disperse a procession of about 100 policemen on a hunger strike in Old Delhi to-day. Eighty-six policemen were arrested after
British troops, with fixed bayonets, had cordoned off the procession. They have been charged with inciting other policemen to mutiny. The striking
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Parisians, sensing freedom for the first time in four years, began to harass the Germans in any way they could. Communist resistance workers seized the opportunity to openly oppose the Germans. They infiltrated the Paris police force, many of whom were frightened by their record of
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Virtually all stores of the International Settlement were closed early today in fear of robberies as 3000 Chinese policemen struck for higher wages and larger rice allowances. Except for a small body of foreign soldiers, volunteer police, and 250 White Russians, the Settlement was without
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officials to guard the city of 800,000. Other city workers, with the exception of firemen, honored police picket lines, crippling city services. The strike had no immediate effect on the city, except for flocks of prostitutes who openly flaunted their wares in the muggy summer weather...
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188:. Police strike/coup partly in relation to planned benefit reductions. After a state of emergency and the near assassination of the president, the government steps away from planned cuts to police and military benefits. Police and military pay is then also increased.
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A temporary truce in the six-day 'sick call' strike by police was in effect today after policeman agreed to return to work and the city promised it would lift the suspensions of more than 190 officers.
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879:"Ecuador thrown into chaos as police and troops take over airport; President Rafael Correa in showdown with protesters angry at new law that protestors had perceived as cuts to their benefits"
286:. The Police Federation of England and Wales balloted members in 2013 for the right to strike but failed to gain enough signatures to petition the government to amend the legislation.
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The Slovenian police officers will continue to strike in the night of Monday to Tuesday. The next strike will last 48 hours, thus ending on Wednesday at midnight.
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549:"Frisco Mayor Offers Proposition In Attempt to Settle Police Strike"
939:"Brazilian soldiers clash with police on strike in Salvador"
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are currently banned from taking strike action under the
460:"Police Strike Continues as Govt Pulls Out of Agreement"
786:"Violence escalates in Brazil in wake of police strike"
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Ray, Gerda (Spring–Summer 1977). "Police Militancy".
1184:Travis, Alan; editor, home affairs (4 March 2013).
667:"Toledo Police, Firemen, Sanitation Workers Strike"
579:"Cleveland police strike: mayor pleads for troops"
430:"Police strike forces Dutch soccer postponements"
555:. Associated Press. 20 August 1975. p. 2
205:2017 Military Police of EspĂrito Santo strike
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519:"Effort Intensified to Settle Police Strike"
110:Lake County Sheriffs Police, Illinois (1970)
1162:. The Telegraph. 1 February 2002. p. 1
673:. Associated Press. 2 July 1979. p. 24
405:"Protesting GardaĂ Go Sick in Pay Dispute"
1186:"Police fail to vote for right to strike"
914:(in Spanish). Página/12. 6 October 2010.
638:"Birmingham Police Strike; Ala. Steps In"
609:"Police Strike is Off, Mardis Gras is on"
95:Cicero Police Department, Illinois (1969)
347:"The 1944 liberation of Paris revisited"
211:Ceará State, Brazil (2020) Police strike
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877:Carroll, Rory (30 September 2010).
525:. Associated Press. 18 January 1971
101:Des Plaines Police, Illinois (1969)
1127:"Police Strike and Riots in Egypt"
849:"Brazilian police strike over pay"
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762:. AP. 19 November 1983. p. 1
732:. 24 December 1981. pp. 1, 6
937:Ralph, Talia (6 February 2012).
195:2013 police revolts in Argentina
116:Wheeling Police, Illinois (1970)
1103:. AAP. 23 March 1946. p. 1
1016:Cowie, Sam (21 February 2020).
819:"New police strike hits Brazil"
615:. 10 February 1917. p. 3-A
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792:. 13 July 2001. Archived from
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585:. UPI. 15 July 1978. p. 7
345:Costelloe, Jayne (July 1994).
113:Skokie Police, Illinois (1970)
98:Berwyn Police, Illinois (1969)
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1156:"Nigeria police begin strike"
703:. 8 January 1980. p. 10A
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490:"Police Strike Truce Called"
228:1923 Victorian Police strike
76:1919 Winnipeg General Strike
1067:"Police Strike in Shanghai"
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162:Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1981)
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46:Great Britain (1918, 1919)
756:"Police Strike, Hide Out"
122:Maywood Police Department
107:Waukegan, Illinois (1970)
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1097:"Police Strike in Delhi"
671:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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179:Alagoas, Brazil (2001)
35:List of police strikes
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143:San Francisco (1975),
191:Bahia, Brazil (2012)
176:Bahia, Brazil (2001)
158:Santa Barbara (1980)
81:Boston Police Strike
16:Labor dispute tactic
186:2010 Ecuador crisis
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970:"Law and disorder"
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436:. 15 December 2007
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993:. 8 February 2017
466:. 28 October 2010
382:. 11 October 1993
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