#Hasten crossword series

Of the 127 agencies it reviewed, only 14% had specific policies for releasing body camera footage of critical incidents. Half of the studies reviewed by the group showed officers with cameras tend to use force less often, but the rest of the studies showed no difference.įriday’s report, an advance copy of which was provided exclusively to The Associated Press, also said departments should have clear policies on releasing video footage to the public.

Still, research on whether body cameras reduce police use of force overall has been mixed. The technology has been key in cases like the death of Tyre Nichols, where body camera footage showed how he was brutally beaten by Memphis, Tennessee, police who are now facing criminal charges. “Having a body camera in your department is now expected,” said Chuck Wexler, the group’s executive director. They’re in use in all cities of more than 1 million people, and Portland, Oregon, became the latest major city to adopt them in November. Now 79% of the country’s local police work in departments that use them. The Independent, of course – and check those perimeters.įind a collection of explainers, interviews and other helpful bits and bobs at technology has swept the country’s police since. … and the answer is, audaciously, AMNESIA. If you’re still here – even if you’re merely curious – the shenanigans are Serpent’s…ġ9d Incontinent men receiving treatment for inability to retain things (7)

Unless you actively enjoy anarchic shenanigans, look away and I’ll see you next time. Please leave entries for the current competition – as well as your non-print finds and picks from the broadsheet cryptics – in the comments. The winner is the result of some thinking that I can’t imagine having ever thought: “Connery’s silly without the ‘y’: Conner”. The runners-up are GappyTooth’s (now tweaked) “Tip of hook driven into window ledge for plant” and Dunnart’s splendid “Plant in small mound of earth”. (Which reminds me, though I hasten to add not because I think of Ben Stokes as anything other than honourable: I recall Eccles using the nifty “S”=“Stokes” offered in, for example, Chambers, but can he be the only one? Surely not.) We seem to have encountered overlapping senses of the word for what it’s worth, my experience means that I’ve spent years primed to set some wordplay with “S” as “shilling” and a surface involving remuneration for athletes – but it hasn’t yet happened. Thanks for your clues for SHILL: I’m glad it led to a conversation about Bill Hicks and I’m grateful to be reminded of this paper’s ruling on the difference between a shill and a stooge. Immediate satisfaction with “forêt” and “forest”’ fine after a moment with “tempête” and “storm” pleasing to think of “pâté” (which this paper calls “paté”) as merely an accented term for the kind of thing made by Mattessons. … for HOTEL brought back memories from my schooldays of guessing what some French word containing “ô” or “â” might mean by bunging in an S and hoping the new word looked familiar.

#Hasten crossword series

In the quiptic, the Guardian’s series “for beginners and those in a hurry”, Chandler’s clue …ĤdSweltering Celt taking off jacket in tourist accommodation (5) Meanwhile, a Telegraph setter depicts another part of where we are …Ģ1d Nurses stress badly about strikes at heart (7) … in a puzzle which includes a mini-theme and other topical treats. So long as KEVIN MCCARTHY remains pitifully in post (but perhaps not afterwards), he’s eligible as an answer in a crossword, which is how we end up with the fair definition in this clue from Knut …Ĩd Sack my thick, craven, unwanted Speaker (5,8) This lumbering incumbent administration’s appointment – as deputy chair – of a Harry Enfield character put me in mind of the Republicans in the USappointing a Sacha Baron Cohen character as speaker of the House of Representatives, but only doing so after other Republicans had complained that he insufficiently resembles a Sacha Baron Cohen character. It’s a prize puzzle, so I’ll add only that it’s also entry-level for a Listener and that the setter is Twin, who created the mind-boggling Two Grids With One Stone, as mentioned back in October. I can’t realistically expect to ever enjoy a crossword any more than I did I Want You, the most recent Listener.