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nounbad or unethical behavior

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POST, as it’s more commonly known, would be allowed to investigate an officer’s fitness and to strip anyone who’d engaged in “serious misconduct.”

SACRAMENTO REPORT: JONES, COVID-19 AND THE IRONY OF REMOTE VOTINGSARA LIBBY AND JESSE MARXAUGUST 28, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

In the past, members of a president’s party might be willing to criticize isolated instances of misconduct by the president or his staff.

THE RNC WEAPONIZED EXHAUSTIONZACK BEAUCHAMPAUGUST 28, 2020VOX

Voters in November will probably have a chance to overhaul a city commission tasked with overseeing police misconduct, after the City Council committed Tuesday to sending a measure that’s been in the works for years to the ballot.

MORNING REPORT: LILAC HILLS IS BACK (AGAIN)VOICE OF SAN DIEGOJUNE 24, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

A measure to overhaul police misconduct oversight is headed to the ballot, with support from the mayor and district attorney.

DESPITE RECENT BUDGET VOTE, REFORMERS SEE SDPD CUTS AS INEVITABLEANDREW KEATTSJUNE 23, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

It is often the same officers engaging in the same kinds of misconduct and abuse across multiple cases.

POLICE OFFICERS ACCUSED OF BRUTAL VIOLENCE OFTEN HAVE A HISTORY OF COMPLAINTS BY CITIZENSLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 1, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS

The assistant unless thus shielded must answer for his own misconduct.

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Again, a husband who drives his wife away from him by his misconduct deserts her as clearly as if he had left her.

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If you take away from the sovereigns the fear of an invisible power, what restraint will you oppose to their misconduct?

SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER

For, but for the grandfather's misconduct, he would have had a good proportion of what is now Lady Myrtle's.'

ROBIN REDBREASTMARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH

First, the righteous man, who repents his misconduct as soon as he becomes aware of his sin.

HEBRAIC LITERATURE; TRANSLATIONS FROM THE TALMUD, MIDRASHIM AND KABBALAVARIOUS

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