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Patrolman


Definition:

  • (n.) One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (2) Nor is the officer who pulled the gun, Eric Casebolt, a “bad apple”: he was named 2008 Patrolman of the Year .
  • (3) The victim, Boston patrolman Walter Schroeder , was ambushed by extreme anti-war activists and shot in the back, while responding to a bank hold-up.
  • (4) When he was 20, he was stopped by Patrolman Benjamin Wright for a traffic violation.
  • (5) The most obvious thing about it is that Cox was making the most of much-reduced budgets; like all his films since, the expansive horizons of Highway Patrolman and Walker are nowhere to be found.
  • (6) Multivariate analysis revealed that the average patrolman appeared brighter, more reserved, dominant, and tough-minded (p less than .001) than the average male.
  • (7) Arthur Woodley, a black long-range patrolman interviewed by Terry, explained: "No matter what his ethnic background is, or his ideals, you start to depend on that person to cover your ass."
  • (8) Highway Patrolman is a beautifully observed, morally intelligent film about what Cox calls "the impossibility of imposing good on people", and Cox found a great lead actor in Roberto Sosa - though he looks a bit different now .
  • (9) But it also doesn’t condone what the young man did.” Police at the scene declined to comment but one highway patrolman was heard telling a customer that the officer involved in the shooting appeared to have been a good man and that Brown’s death was a tragedy.
  • (10) He was promoted to corporal last year and named McKinney’s patrolman of the year in 2008.
  • (11) The second case raised by prosecutors at the criminal trial came in November 2008, when Harwood allegedly twisted handcuffs placed on an AA patrolman whose vehicle he had stopped.
  • (12) For his second central American film, Cox went to the source, actually shooting in Spanish with a Mexican cast for his 1991 film El Patrullero (Highway Patrolman).
  • (13) In his first public remarks since turning over cellphone recording that led to Slager being charged with Scott’s murder, Feidin Santana said Slager, 33, who may face the death penalty, “made a bad decision, and you pay for your decisions in this life.” Michael Slager fired from South Carolina police force after killing of Walter Scott Read more Santana said that as his video indicated, Scott was trying to escape a stun gun that Slager had fired into him when the North Charleston patrolman shot him repeatedly in the back.
  • (14) L Chris Stewart said the man, who has not yet been named, has retained a lawyer and is assisting the state investigators who are conducting an inquiry into the alleged murder of Scott by patrolman Michael Slager of North Charleston police.
  • (15) Meanwhile, nobody is learning the rudiments of police work that might make a patrolman into a good detective.
  • (16) The following year, Casebolt, who joined the department in 2005, was named McKinney patrolman of the year.
  • (17) Zimmerman was a volunteer neighbourhood watch patrolman in Sanford, Florida, in 2012 when he encountered Martin, walking through a residential gated community and shot him dead.

Patrolmen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Patrolman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We can only hope the Rice family and their attorneys will use a portion of this settlement to help educate the youth of Cleveland in the dangers associated with the mishandling of both real and facsimile firearms,” Stephen Loomis, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said in a statement.
  • (2) Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association in New York, first mooted the boycott on Monday and has since also received backing from the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
  • (3) But the moment she crossed the Willis Avenue bridge in her Chevrolet Corvair, Placente was surrounded by a dozen patrolmen.
  • (4) At the hospital to which the officers’ bodies were taken Patrick Lynch, the head of the city’s main police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, said there was blood “on the steps of city hall, in the office of the mayor”.
  • (5) Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said on Saturday drugs placed the user’s life in jeopardy – not police.
  • (6) Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said the officers were not told the caller thought the gun might be fake.
  • (7) Maybe I’m not going to see his movies’.” The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white Read more Tarantino also angered New York police with his appearance and comments, with Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch calling for a boycott of the Pulp Fiction director’s films .
  • (8) The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies – they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem,” said Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
  • (9) The president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association has said the officers were not told the caller thought the gun might be fake.
  • (10) The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire was administered to 461 Los Angeles patrolmen to abtain a normative police profile.
  • (11) The police union, the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, overwhelmingly endorsed Trump but on a low turnout.
  • (12) The vast majority were police – especially the roughly 40,000 members of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA), the rank-and-file street cops who were scheduled to suffer nearly 11,000 layoffs.
  • (13) There was, of course, one loud voice of dissent: the head of Cleveland’s patrolmen’s union, Stephen Loomis, gave an interview in which he complained that the provisions, when implemented, were “going to get somebody killed”.
  • (14) Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union, called Pantaleo's reassignment "completely unwarranted".
  • (15) If it was being dealt with, then these murdering cops would be in jail or at least be facing charges.” In response, Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, said in a statement: “The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big screen fantasies – they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trailer for The Hateful Eight.
  • (16) The killings sparked an angry outburst from the leader of the city’s main police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
  • (17) New York City police officers, every day, go out and carry themselves like superheroes on the street,” said Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.

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