Word: arresters
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...night of May 10,1975, 360 people were arrested in Bilbao and since the jails were full, the prisoners were locked in the city's bullring. Censorship has been increased and freedom of speech and press have been severely curtailed even in educational institutions. It has become a great deal more difficult to purchase reading materials in the Basque language and to speak Basque in public without fear of arrest. The Basque language has not been taught in the schools for the past five years; thus some young children have not learned to speak the language of their parents...
...Government reation to assassination has established a precedent of carte blanche policy,; when a soldier, policeman or official is killed, law is suspended and all citizens must open their homes to investigative patrols. If a search turns up someone who is a likely suspect in the eyes of the arresting officer, there is no opportunity to dispute guilt. Charges need not be made and trials are not required before sentence is handed down. Imprisonment is always imminent following arrest and execution is a very real possibility. Executions, like those of two Basque separatists two months ago, are merely the most...
Under an unwritten but perceived policy, Harvard cops have in the past given trespassers a number of warnings before making arrests. Several police officers on the Harvard force have never made an arrest, Gorski says...
Changing the arrest policy so substantively is actually a major step toward changing the nature of the Harvard police force, as Gorski recognizes. To make the transition easier, the new police chief is planning a training period during which cops will be schooled in criminal law, in "stop and frisk" procedures, and in arrest tactics...
Those procedures include labelling a patient "DNR," for "Do Not Resuscitate." DNR refers specifically to the prospect of cardiac or pulmonary arrest in a dying patient, and when a patient is designated DNR, it means that he is not to be resuscitated if he suffers an arrest...