How to Use anti-police in a Sentence

anti-police

adjective

• Myron Heard does not want to be seen as being anti-police.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2023
• Macklemore kicks off with a salute to N.W.A and the group’s explicit 1988 anti-police anthem.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 7 May 2024
• As workers clashed with police forces, bakers gave cheeky, anti-police and anti-church names to some of the pastries that are still enjoyed in Argentina to this day.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• As protests continued nightly, anti-police sentiment seemed to spread across all quarters of the city.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Jeffery showed video and still images of a squad car on fire and others with windows broken and covered with anti-police graffiti.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Related As a statement, the mural was mostly just anti-police.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
• He’s also been a staunch supporter of school police — departing strongly from the anti-police position of the teachers union.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• But its street population was growing, especially after the anti-police protests that had spread around the country that summer.
  — Jordan Gale Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Moore's group, which has accepted large donations from groups connected to George Soros, has spearheaded anti-police activism in Austin for the past several years.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 12 July 2023
• Police chiefs blame the lack of applicants on the anti-police sentiment in recent years, and the calls to defund the police that followed high-profile police brutality cases around the country.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• An Illinois school board cited inappropriate language as a reason to ban the book in 2022; other challenges cited violence and an anti-police message.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• In another incident, officers chased an audience member who wrote anti-police graffiti on the walls outside the chamber and throughout City Hall.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
• Environmentalists say the 85-acre complex will destroy the South River Forest, while anti-police activists say the complex would promote the militarization of the police department.
  — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
• What started as a local Atlanta controversy in mid-2021 has boiled over into a focal point of national anti-police and environmental activism.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• For example, discussion of Black social justice movements in the 2000s, including the anti-police brutality Black Lives Matter movement, have been removed from classroom materials.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 July 2023
• Two other officers who assisted in the arrest were also found guilty at the court in Bobigny, a suburb northeast of Paris, in a decision that was, however, unlikely to fully satisfy either police unions or anti-police brutality activists.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Davids has been eyed by Republicans as vulnerable, particularly because of her past anti-police remarks and voting record of standing against policies meant to prevent repeat offenses and allow police to better enforce laws.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
• Police departments nationwide have sought ways to improve officer retention and recruitment after many have reported staffing shortfalls amid anti-police sentiment over the past several years.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Union leaders said officers are experiencing low morale caused by rising anti-police sentiment, insufficient pay and difficult working conditions created by staffing shortages.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024