Below you will find example sentences with "police accountability". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Police Accountability in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: accountability
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.3 words

Words in this phrase

police accountability

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • police can mean: A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the... Very common word
  • accountability can mean: The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible o... Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and national police accountability experts say 1× board for police accountability to be 1× call for police accountability 1× calls for police accountability and fully 1× comment about police accountability before being 1× concerns about police accountability have in 1× creating the police accountability report we 1× director of police accountability would operate 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

any move to 1× balarabe noted that 1× civil rights lawyer 1× clevelanders and national 1× demonstrators gathered in 1× disquiet surrounding police 1×

Common sentence endings:

accountability demands explanation 1× accountability is key 1× accountability on saturday 1× across the country 1× and police accountability 1× berkeley professors said 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

city 3× council 3× board 3× national 3× shooting 3× continued 3× paved 2× way 2× michael 2× officers 2× civilian 2× office 2×

Related phrases

metropolitan police delhi police police officers police department police station houston police police custody capitol police chicago police police spokesperson

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around accountability:

government accountability 12× accountability office 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

polar bears polar bear points respectively points rebounds points five points behind

Just after it in the phrase index:

police arrived police chase police chief police chiefs police commissioner police custody

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

police officers police department police station police custody police spokesperson police chief

Same ending:

government accountability

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "police accountability" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 24.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and national police accountability experts say, board for police accountability to be, city, council and board stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with metropolitan police, delhi police, police officers, government accountability and accountability office, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with police accountability

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Any move to defund police accountability demands explanation. (8 words)

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating the shooting. (10 words)

During the Davis vigil for Tyre Nichols, several call for police accountability. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

The 2014 shooting death of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted angry protests and trained a national spotlight on a perceived lack of police accountability for violent encounters with the public. (38 words)

Portland City Council paved the way for the new Community Board for Police Accountability to be implemented, but the bumpy path to get there underscores a lingering rift between police accountability advocates and the current council. (36 words)

Tara Evans, a lifelong San Rafael resident and member of the Marin Justice League, told me in an interview that the group will continue fighting for true police accountability in San Rafael and throughout the county. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

Portland City Council paved the way for the new Community Board for Police Accountability to be implemented, but the bumpy path to get there underscores a lingering rift between police accountability advocates and the current council.

Civil rights lawyer Michael Avery, a founder of the National Police Accountability Project, said police and elected officials can have a stake in downplaying officers' misconduct.

The commission also fills Police Board vacancies and has the power to select and remove the top official in the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, with City Council approval.

According to the amendment, the police board and director of police accountability would operate independently of the city manager.

Clevelanders and national police accountability experts say Biden could make federal police-reform efforts more effective by learning lessons from Obama-era enforcement.

The 2014 shooting death of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted angry protests and trained a national spotlight on a perceived lack of police accountability for violent encounters with the public.

The Kentucky grand jury’s Wednesday decision against indicting police officers for the shooting of Breonna Taylor highlights issues surrounding police accountability, some UC Berkeley professors said.

It was belatedly withdrawn under public pressure, but by then violent clashes between police and protesters had become the norm and the movement had snowballed into wider calls for police accountability and fully free elections.

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Over two years ago, I called for a consent decree to reform the Chicago Police Department and paved the way with the Police Accountability Task Force report.

Any move to defund police accountability demands explanation.

Disquiet surrounding police accountability has also continued to simmer in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman in 2020 and similar tragedies in Memphis and Louisville.

During the Davis vigil for Tyre Nichols, several call for police accountability.

Tara Evans, a lifelong San Rafael resident and member of the Marin Justice League, told me in an interview that the group will continue fighting for true police accountability in San Rafael and throughout the county.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating the shooting.

Unphased, she continued to give a comment about police accountability before being interrupted again as another item was thrown and the man continued to taunt her.

While at NBC10, Freeman worked as an Investigative Reporter focused on campaign finance, environmental issues, and police accountability.

When we were creating the Police Accountability Report, we had to turn everything on its head and say, “Look, we can’t approach this.

Balarabe noted that serious concerns about police accountability have in the last two weeks been expressed with unmistakable clarity across the country.

Demonstrators gathered in Vancouver and three other B.C. cities to call for greater police accountability on Saturday.

Everyone ABC7 Eyewitness News spoke to in Englewood condemned the looting downtown, but said that police accountability is key.

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