"The code of silence is strictly enforced," the detective said.
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"The code of silence is still there," said García Martínez.
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Have the strength and courage to break the code of silence.
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By Mr. Davis's description, the code of silence can be subtle.
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But the SEALs' code of silence made that hard to confirm.
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That perception had broadened the already extensive SEAL code of silence.
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Cycling's longstanding code of silence would have sustained yet another smarting blow.
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She and Bulger have stuck stubbornly to the underworld's code of silence.
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Mattis did note that his code of silence has an expiration date.
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What's worse, the code of silence around the matter any exacerbates the problem.
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If there's a code of silence between Trump and Flynn, it's holding strong.
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Sometimes, the moral outrage over a child victim overwhelms the code of silence.
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Sports agents generally obey a code of silence when asked about coach pay.
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Breaking silence about an experience can break the chains of the code of silence.
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"The code of silence works a lot like a family situation," Mr. Davis said.
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"The fact of the matter is that a code of silence exists," he said.
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"We cannot ask citizens in crime-ravaged neighborhoods to break the code of silence if we continue to let a code of silence exist in our own Police Department," the mayor said in a speech two weeks after the McDonald video went viral.
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" Protesting alongside him, Maurizio, 24, said: "We're sick of Italy's indifference and code of silence.
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The speaker that breaks the cultural code of silence is often tainted and quickly censored.
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Badiraguato, Mexico (CNN)It's the kind of place where everybody abides by a code of silence.
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In the process, you're having to shatter a code of silence that governs this entire family.
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As she understands it, that includes a code of silence on allegations of sexual harassment or assault.
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The president has made it clear he believes in "omertà" — the old criminal organizations' code of silence.
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Several SEALs broke the group's code of silence and testified against Chief Gallagher in a military trial.
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Imgur recently began allowing video ads, but they stuck out, seeming to violate the app's code of silence.
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Also, the close ties between the military and contractors has led a code of silence about housing problems.
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Their cases are seen as a crucial test of a so-called code of silence in police departments.
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Even if the client dismisses the lawyer or the lawyer voluntarily resigns, a code of silence must prevail.
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The code of silence was also criticized in a 2017 Department of Justice report on the Chicago Police Department.
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But employers aren't necessarily waiting for accusations to surface before requiring employees to abide by a code of silence.
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"The code of silence goes far higher than that, and goes far higher in this case," Mr. Futterman said.
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Ms. Obrycka asserted in her lawsuit that a broad code of silence in Chicago had emboldened Mr. Abbate's behavior.
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The interviews broke an unwritten code of silence among members of one of the nation's most elite commando forces.
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But the city asked that the judge throw out the jury's ruling that a "code of silence" protected the officer.
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In El Chapo's birthplace, code of silence reigns CNN's Marilia Brocchetto, Catherine E. Shoichet and Brian Todd contributed to this report.
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The 2018 police conspiracy trial is not the first time that the code of silence has been subjected to legal scrutiny.
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The substance of the company's work, and even the identities of its clients, lie concealed under an institutional code of silence.
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The case illuminated longstanding problems at Rikers — the culture of violence and a code of silence among correction officers and staff.
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Their reluctance to name Berganza is illustrative of the code of silence that exists around harassment in the male-dominated comics industry.
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Prosecutors say their actions are emblematic of the alleged "code of silence" within the police department that shields fellow officers from justice.
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"They've maintained the code of silence and brotherhood," she tells me, saying that she's been subjected to police raids and wrongful arrests.
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Mr. Emanuel, who resisted calls to quit but recently decided not to seek another term, acknowledged a "code of silence" among officers.
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Many police officers will often see other police officers break the law yet remain silent due to the blue code of silence.
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It is as if a code of silence blankets the land, much like subfreezing temperatures do for many months of the year.
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The suit also alleges that a "code of silence" within the Chicago Police Department allowed Watts to run an extortion ring with impunity.
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On trial along with the officers is the "code of silence" that police officers across the country have been accused of operating under.
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She studied literature at Oxford in the early 1950s, living in a convent and observing its strict code of silence for four years.
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In his interview last year with The Hollywood Reporter, he discussed "omerta," the Mafia code of silence, and the value of keeping secrets.
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Others were small-timers like Billy Maharg, the man who broke the gamblers' code of silence in September 1920 by revealing the Fix.
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In every mafia, from Naples to Sinaloa, omertà, the code of silence, has been essential to keeping the organization's business and structure intact.
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But other experts argued that the case perfectly highlighted what has been referred to as a code of silence in the Chicago Police Department.
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A third-party hotline will be created for cops to report misconduct by fellow officers and to break the force's perceived code of silence.
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Johan Leman, an anthropologist who works in Molenbeek, said the atmosphere resembled the culture of omertà, the code of silence followed by the Mafia.
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So many young women journalists find themselves subscribing to a code of silence so they do not jeopardize their careers in an entire industry.
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Fearing for their lives and for those of their families, hundreds of mobsters broke their code of silence, or omerta, and cooperated with investigators.
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By breaking the normal "code of silence," several of Gallagher's platoon members put the integrity of the armed forces above their own self-interest.
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While some of the boys have tried to make amends, the school district and local businesses have enacted a code of silence about the incident.
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We therefore take up our pen to say that, this time, it's too much, the omertà and the code of silence are no longer possible.
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"The fact of the matter is that a code of silence exists," Terry Ekl, a lawyer for Obrycka, told the New York Times in December.
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Activists and members of Van Dyke's family were disappointed with the decision, arguing that it preserves a "code of silence" in the Chicago Police Department.
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The case had come to represent a referendum on Chicago police officers' so-called "code of silence," and their alleged willingness to protect each other.
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The platoon fired at civilians after being told to kill anything that moved, former solders told investigators, but team leaders enforced a code of silence.
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"How the special prosecutor can construe a 'code of silence' theory defies belief," Mr. Graham said after the charges against the three officers were announced.
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For a minute, I was encouraged when it looked like San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick could break the code of silence around politics in the NFL.
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Zelda Perkins, one of Weinstein's former assistants, broke her 19-year NDA with the disgraced media mogul to reveal how they enforced a code of silence.
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Their cases are seen as a rare and crucial test of a so-called code of silence that is often said to fester within police departments.
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This makes management difficult for DHS, as a "code-of-silence" engulfs the entire CI industry in fear of public abandonment wherein business survivability becomes jeopardized.
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A nine-month investigation for this short documentary, "Code of Silence," has found that female officers around the country regularly face sexual harassment by colleagues and superiors.
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"The blue code of silence is not just with the Chicago Police Department," William Calloway, a Chicago activist and alderman candidate in Chicago's 5th ward, told reporters.
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Many who had hoped the officers' convictions would help break a code-of-silence culture among Chicago police officers were disappointed in the decision, the AP noted.
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The tweets praising Roger Stone have provoked much commentary on Twitter, because the president's words made him sound like a gangster laying out the code of silence.
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He reportedly enforced a company-wide "code of silence," according to the Times, regarding his problematic behavior; this code has been described as essentially an open secret.
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They reluctantly followed the code of silence that permeates the world of professional cheerleading where many women fear ostracism or dismissal if they publicly criticize the team.
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He establishes a code of silence around their conversations, which he calls "dead man's talk" (this includes a confession that he took out a hit on someone).
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The report describes a deeply flawed investigative process in cases of officer misconduct, and a "code of silence" that discourages cops from speaking out against their peers.
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Colbert says compelled testimony is the sole option for breaking the police code of silence given the already "extraordinary" fact that the officers have been charged at all.
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But it's not just tolerance; at times the police department appears to engage in an active cover-up — particularly through "a code of silence" and by hiding evidence.
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It hasn't affected politics here that much, because we have not allowed the issue to become peripheral, there is not a code of silence within the political parties.
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Investigations into police misconduct were often thwarted by "a code of silence among Chicago police officers ... extending to lying and affirmative efforts to conceal evidence," the report said.
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A better contract won't undo a "code of silence" on its own, but it's time the FOP accept reforms that allow the public to hold bad actors accountable.
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You have to be willing to break the code of silence that most families enforce, the ways in which we seek to avoid speaking painful and disruptive truths.
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An unspoken code of silence, a lack of outside scrutiny and contemporary Ireland's reluctance to face its recent past kept the truth of the homes hidden for decades.
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Mr. Spear's death and the cover-up that followed illustrated the culture of violence and a code of silence among correction officers that has long existed at Rikers.
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Smaller technology companies have largely upheld a code of silence about the power of the larger technology companies on which they often depend for market share and sales.
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Critics have long accused the Chicago Police Department of not doing enough to deal with a "code of silence" within its ranks that allows abuse to go widely unpunished.
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"Woah, looks like the code of omerta in Bollywood is finally cracking," film writer Radha Rajadhyaksha said on Facebook, using the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence.
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The Vietnam War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's latest historical opus, opens with Karl Marlantes discussing the code of silence many Americans upheld when it came to the war.
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But her efforts put her in a terrible dilemma: betray the code of silence that keeps her clan proudly on the wrong side of the law or face destitution.
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Oprah Winfrey loved gabbing with us about her super fab yacht vacay, but took a code of silence when it came to saying 2 names ... Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Those stories spawned the global #MeToo movement, and since then, the ground has shifted beneath men who for years benefited from a code of silence around their predatory behavior.
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Background reading: Why Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher was investigated for war crimes, and why his fellow SEAL members broke the group's code of silence to testify against him.
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These statistics give real credibility to the widespread perception that there is a deeply entrenched code of silence supported not just by individual officers, but by the very institution itself.
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The code of silence, followed by the lawyers and agents who worked for Mr. Mueller, has been an unusual feat in Washington, where leaks are as ubiquitous as partisan bickering.
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"Code broken by rats" is OMERTA, because that is allegedly the code of silence among members of the alleged mafia, not that we're suggesting that there is such a thing.
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Those stories spawned the global #MeToo movement, and since then, the ground has shifted beneath men who for years had benefited from a code of silence around their predatory behavior.
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While all police officers still encounter an internal code of silence that prevents them from speaking out more forcefully against abusers, this is especially true for black cops, Monroe said.
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"As trauma therapists, we're confronted a lot with threats and punishments, with the scene's power and dependency relations, in which breaking the [code of] silence is tantamount to treason," she explains.
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The monitor needed to be independent, since officers were often reluctant to discipline each other thanks to a code of silence—sometimes called the the "Blue Wall"—and resistant police unions.
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Along with the officers, the broad concept of a police code of silence was on trial in Chicago, where officers have been accused for decades of covering up their colleagues' misconduct.
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It is hard to see how the powerful of Malta will be able to maintain a code of silence any longer, either on her murder or the corruption she was reporting.
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"It will continue to grow as students are empowered to break the code of silence and share information that will lead to intervening or curtailing violence at their school," Pacheco said.
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He also decried the pervasive code of silence within the game that made fact-finding so challenging, and urged owners to join him in rooting out the dual problems inside their organizations.
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Why did another U.S.A. Gymnastics official send Mr. Penny an email speaking about "a code of silence" in 2014, a year before Dr. Nassar was removed from his role as team doctor?
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"The indictment makes clear that these defendants did more than merely obey an unofficial 'code of silence,'" said Patrick Brown Holmes, an attorney who is serving as special prosecutor in the investigation.
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The shooting has turned a spotlight on longstanding concerns about a code of silence in the Chicago Police Department, in which officers stay quiet about or even cover up possible misconduct by colleagues.
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Guessing Fiers' motivation is speculative, of course, but by going on the record with his accusations, he broke a code of silence among players — and when that happens, it usually leads to change.
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They reaffirmed Trump's commitment to omertà, the code of silence whereby those who report wrongdoing are castigated and those who commit it—whether on his behalf or in ways he supports—are protected.
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Such "code of silence" cover-ups of misconduct, critics said, had rarely been made so plain as in the discrepancy between the officers' accounts of the killing and what the video later showed.
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"Every police officer has seen the code of silence in action," said Lorenzo Davis, a former Chicago officer who rose through the ranks to commander over a career of more than two decades.
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Police reform advocates had watched the case closely and viewed it as a test of the "code of silence" culture in police departments, in which officers decline to report one another's misconduct or crimes.
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In France, where prevalent sexism has regularly triggered calls to end a code of silence, journalist Sandra Muller, sparked a similar outpouring of sharing under the hashtags #balancetonporc and the phrase's English equivalent, #squealonyourpig.
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The publication of No Easy Day in September 2012, just a few months after Bissonnette was honorably discharged from the Navy, broke the unwritten code of silence among members of the special operations community.
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The shooting and alleged cover-up put a spotlight on an informal but universal law enforcement rule known as the "code of silence," where officers decline to report on one another's crimes or misconduct.
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The verdict was a blow to those who saw an opportunity to exact accountability in a city where the police have been accused for decades of a maintaining a "code of silence" regarding misconduct.
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In France, where prevalent sexism has regularly triggered calls to end a code of silence, journalist Sandra Muller, sparked a similar outpouring of sharing under the hashtags #balancetonporc and the phrase's English equivalent, #squealonyourpig.
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Not only did they have to relive wrenching events and describe grisly scenes, they had to break a powerful unwritten code of silence in the SEALs, one of the nation's most elite commando forces.
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But another reason Dutta's candor and courage have suddenly found new popularity in her home country is that the Indian film industry, like Hollywood in the past, practices its own omertà, or code of silence.
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Breaking the code of silence that retired commanders in chief normally maintain about their successors, both George W. Bush and Barack Obama delivered clear jabs at the current occupant of the Oval Office on Thursday.
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The cultural code of silence in the heavily immigrant district, as well as widespread distrust of already weak government authorities, has provided what amounts to a fifth column or forward base for the Islamic State.
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Three Chicago cops charged with covering up the fatal police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald went to trial Tuesday, in a case that takes the "code of silence" culture in police departments to task.
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In 2016, two Chicago police officers sought to compel testimony from Mayor Rahm Emanuel after Mr. Emanuel spoke about his Police Department's so-called code of silence in a speech to the Chicago City Council.
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Harvey Weinstein ultimately wasn't the one enforcing the code of silence around his predations: It was all the agents and managers and friends and colleagues who warned actresses that he was too powerful to accuse.
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And in 2017, the Department of Justice issued a scathing report on the Chicago police that found, in part, that a code of silence was getting in the way of holding officers accountable for misconduct.
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It also prompted a broad investigation by the Justice Department into the Chicago Police Department, its treatment of black residents and what some in Chicago have long described as a "code of silence" between officers.
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Signed by 500 politicians, mostly women but many men too, the petition condemned what it called an Omerta, or a Mafia-like code of silence on unwelcome sexual advances, from harassment to acts of outright aggression.
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That report said police "have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics with the use of force and a longstanding code of silence.
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Among its findings: Many officers had "no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and alienated blacks and Hispanics with the use of force through a longstanding code of silence.
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They provide rare insight into the elite force with a code of silence -- and into the men of Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7 who have never spoken publicly about the case against their former platoon leader.
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"And the only way you can make those cases is to get people to cooperate, even when the oath of Omerta (a Mafia code of silence and non-cooperation with authorities) was strong and in full play."
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"The indictment makes clear that these defendants did more than merely obey an unofficial 'code of silence,' rather it alleges that they lied about what occurred to prevent independent criminal investigators from learning the truth," Holmes said.
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" "We do hope that this has been a crack in the wall of the code of silence, and that others will think twice about engaging in conduct that might land them in an investigation such as this.
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To keep managers from shuffling problem workers from one agency to another, the order also bars "code of silence" agreements, whereby managers promise to say nothing about an employee's poor or illegal behavior in exchange for a resignation.
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"I think one of the most disturbing elements of this whole circumstance is it seems to have uncovered, at least in these cases, a code of silence — that people who were aware of these things weren't coming forward."
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The avalanche of accusations spurred women around the world to come forward with accounts of being sexually harassed and assaulted by their managers and other powerful men, shattering a code of silence that long shrouded such predatory behavior.
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Well, I really like two elements: the acting, particularly Frances McDormand's performance, and how the movie recreates the sheer terror of the Ku Klux Klan -- the distinct code of silence that allowed the group to operate with impunity.
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Every juror who won't cast a verdict, every judge who won't heed proper sentencing, and every police officer who lives behind that blue code of silence is complicit in the powder keg that this inaction creates in America.
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"The indictment makes clear that these defendants did more than merely obey an unofficial 'code of silence,'" said Patrick Brown Holmes, an attorney who is serving as special prosecutor in the investigation, when the charges were announced last year.
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Mr. Emanuel's remarks joined a series of disclosures, court findings and report conclusions in recent years that have drawn attention to a code of silence in Chicago, and, some say, have set off a gradual process of dismantling it.
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Riina was arrested in Palermo six months after Borsellino's murder, but he never broke his code of silence, leaving a shroud of mystery over suspected negotiations between Cosa Nostra and Rome said to have taken place after Falcone's assassination.
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For breaking the code of silence, Mr. Zulu and another party official are now in grave danger, according to a 22013-page report released in August by the Office of the Public Protector, a government authority that investigates corruption.
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Members of both units are expected to honor a code of silence about their missions, and many current and former SEAL Team 6 members fume that two of their own spoke out about their role in the Qaeda leader's death.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The crew of a hard-hitting film about initiation rituals at U.S. college fraternities said they hoped the movie would break the code of silence that has kept such violent hazing practices veiled in secrecy for too long.
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World Premiere Burning Sands / U.S.A. (Director: Gerard McMurray, Screenwriters: Christine Berg, Gerard McMurray) — Deep into a fraternity's Hell Week, a favored pledge is torn between honoring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
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" Prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes told a news conference: "I can't think of one thing we could have or should have done differently ... We do hope that this has opened a tiny crack in the wall of the code of silence.
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It also includes a brief but powerful scene where protestors directly engage a black female officer, asking her if she's tired of upholding the "blue code of silence" in the wake of another injustice at the hands of law enforcement.
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His father, Tommaso Buscetta, had been a soldier in the Sicilian Mafia, the first high-ranking Mafioso to break the code of silence in the 1980s at a time when the Sicilians took omerta far more seriously than their American brethren.
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He would go on to originate the lead role of Mark in the landmark queer-positive musical Rent, and told BuzzFeed that the contrast between his choice to live as openly gay and Spacey's code of silence increased his distress.
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The police say that even when they have a suspect, they can be hampered by a code of silence that is not unique to Baltimore but has sometimes been traced back to a "Stop Snitching" DVD that circulated here in 2004.
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The Valachi hearings, led by Senator John McClellan of Arkansas, opened the country's eyes for the first time to the Mafia, as the witness broke "omertà" — the code of silence — to speak in public about "this thing of ours," Cosa Nostra.
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Mr. Weinstein enforced a code of silence; employees of the Weinstein Company have contracts saying they will not criticize it or its leaders in a way that could harm its "business reputation" or "any employee's personal reputation," a recent document shows.
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"The indictment makes clear that these defendants did more than merely obey an unofficial 'code of silence,' rather it alleges that they lied about what occurred to prevent independent criminal investigators from learning the truth," Holmes said in a statement.
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The woman was taken into custody and is under investigation for weapons possession, according to AP. Authorities also said that Fazzalari was able to elude capture for 20 years thanks to an entrenched "code of silence" and the complicity of local citizens.
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In his memoir, Patrick spoke of his father Ted's grief following the assassinations of JFK and RFK, his mother Joan's alcoholism and the "code of silence" that bound him to secrecy, a fate, he said, he does not want for his own children.
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A report from the U.S. Department of Justice released last Friday found widespread misconduct within the police department, including excessive use of force and investigations into officer actions were often thwarted by a code of silence among officers or improperly carried out.
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Investigators may also have to interview witnesses and other officers, which pose even more delays because of the so-called "code of silence," a widespread culture in police departments where officers withhold information or even lie to cover up their colleagues' misconduct.
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Over 30 years later, he's leading a support group for other survivors with "extra-dimensional anxiety" that bears some resemblance to the Guilty Remnant in "The Leftovers," minus the cult signifiers of white clothes, chain smoking and an eerie code of silence.
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And on Thursday, three Chicago officers charged with conspiring to cover up the circumstances of Laquan's death were acquitted in a separate trial, leading some activists to lament a police "code of silence" that even Mr. Emanuel has acknowledged to be pervasive.
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Why it matters: The interviews, given by members of the platoon members that served under Gallagher, break the SEALs' unwritten code of silence and describe their leader as violent, "evil" and "toxic" — in contrast with Trump's portrayal of him as a hero.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Five years after the sex scandal that forced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to resign, hundreds of female French politicians on Tuesday denounced sexual harassment in the corridors of power and a Mafia-style code of silence that lets it go unpunished.
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Despite a code of silence among the commission members about revealing the names of responsible parties until prosecutions are announced at a later date, Del Ponte told VICE News that Syrian President Bashar Assad is the number-one perpetrator of war crimes in the conflict.
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" What's more, everyone seems to be well aware of the problem: "The City, police officers, and leadership within CPD and its police officer union acknowledge that a code of silence among Chicago police officers exists, extending to lying and affirmative efforts to conceal evidence.
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I understand the fear and the code of silence in the police department, I understand it in the street, it's the reality, but fear is either going to polarize us and consume ... or it's going to motivate us to say let's do something about it.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police routinely violated the civil rights of people in one of America's largest cities, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report released on Friday, citing excessive force, racially discriminatory conduct and a "code of silence" to thwart investigations into police misconduct.
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The book seems muffled by a protective code of silence that keeps Gerson from fully examining the agonizing issue of responsibility at the heart of the book and writing about what it means to have caused the death of a child he loved so much.
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In his homily during a Mass from the steps of the first church, he used the word "omerta", which refers to the code of silence organized crime groups impose on their members and the fear they use as a tool to keep others from talking to police.
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Experts and activists argue that police reports supporting Van Dyke's account of the shooting are a key example of the police department's so-called code of silence, an opaque system in which officers work to shield one another from scrutiny, and allow officer misconduct to go unaddressed.
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But for Chicago residents, the sentencing, and the anger it is likely to cause, is only one part of larger demands for political change in the city and an end to what experts and activists call a "code of silence" that shields Chicago officers from punishment.
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Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, NYT: Mr. Weinstein enforced a code of silence; employees of the Weinstein Company have contracts saying they will not criticize it or its leaders in a way that could harm its "business reputation" or "any employee's personal reputation," a recent document shows.
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The report also said that the city had failed to investigate a majority of the police misconduct cases it was required by law to examine, sometimes because of provisions in the union contract that reinforced a pervasive code of silence that has long existed among officers.
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And even with Mr. Van Dyke's conviction and sentence, there remained an unsettled question in Chicago of whether anything in the police department — and what many see as a decades-old "code of silence" in which officers conceal and conspire to protect their own — had really changed.
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But due to Riina's savagery, hundreds of mobsters broke their code of silence in the 19923s and 1990s and testified against him, allowing magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino to uncover the long-hidden secrets of Cosa Nostra and prosecute its leaders for the crimes of its soldiers.
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The reforms sought in the lawsuit include using police force only when necessary, ending the "code of silence" that has long meant that officers keep quiet about wrongdoing, improving training and supervision, ensuring that police are accountable to the community, and eliminating severe racial disparities in how police operate.
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The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez and who is also known as 6ix9ine, broke an unspoken code of silence among gang members and described what he called "robberies, assaults, drugs, stuff of that nature" in testimony against two men who prosecutors said were prominent within Nine Trey.
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During the trial, experts and activists argued that the police reports supporting Van Dyke's account of the shooting were a key example of the police department's so-called code of silence, an opaque system in which officers work to shield one another from scrutiny, and allow officer misconduct to go unaddressed.
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During and after the trial, experts and activists claimed the officers' actions exemplified the "code of silence" among police, which Vox's P.R. Lockhart laid out: In recent years, a number of police shootings and excessive force cases against black residents in the city have drawn attention to the systemic problem.
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Hundreds of female French politicians on Tuesday denounced sexual harassment in the corridors of power and what they called a Mafia-style code of silence that lets it go unpunished, a day after lawmaker Denis Baupin quit his post as vice-president of France's National Assembly after being accused of harassment.
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CHICAGO — Three Chicago police officers were acquitted on Thursday of charges that they had conspired and lied to protect a white police officer who fired 16 deadly shots into a black teenager, a contentious verdict in a case over what many viewed as a "code of silence" in the Police Department.
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"We cannot improve the safety of our communities if our police force is not held accountable for its actions and the very real culture of the code of silence goes unpunished," Toni Preckwinkle, a leading candidate in a large field of mayoral hopefuls, said in a statement after Thursday's verdicts.
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" The code of silence extends to cases in which police officers are accused of domestic assault and rape, including one case in which an officer had a 19-year history of physically abusing his wife and another in which an officer described a victim who accused him of rape as "an easy lay.
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READ MORE: How the cop who shot Laquan McDonald 16 times is trying to avoid life in prison for murder Three Chicago cops charged with covering up the fatal police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald went to trial Tuesday, in a case that takes the "code of silence" culture in police departments to task.
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One video makes the connection between police brutality and operating system failures explicitly, combining discussions of the so-called "blue screen of death," a type of Windows error message, and the "blue code of silence," the corrupt police officer's version of omertà, with photographs of black women and girls who have died in police custody.
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And as the oath of omerta — the code of silence — went out the window, the men left on the street stopped taking care of the families of those behind bars, which pushed angry members to make deals with the government, said Thomas Foley, a former Massachusetts State Police colonel who wrote a book on the pursuit of Bulger.
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State's attorney in Laquan McDonald killing asks for special prosecutor Years of mistrust In April, a report from the newly formed Police Accountability Task Force said police "have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics with the use of force and a longstanding code of silence.
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Van Dyke's sentencing came a day after a Cook County judge found three other Chicago police officers not guilty of falsifying police reports to protect Van Dyke, in a case that had come to be seen as a referendum on Chicago police officers' so-called "code of silence," and their alleged willingness to protect each other from criminal investigations.
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The turmoil on the streets came on the eve of a momentous day for the besieged police force: - In a blistering report, a mayoral task force said police "have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics with the use of force and a longstanding code of silence.
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In fact, no one who worked or works with Weinstein said anything on the record to the New York Times, almost certainly due to this crucial detail about how Weinstein conducts business: Mr. Weinstein enforced a code of silence; employees of the Weinstein Company have contracts saying they will not criticize it or its leaders in a way that could harm its "business reputation" or "any employee's personal reputation," a recent document shows.
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That's why, when it happened again, when I was on the phone with both of them and heard it drop, heard him say, "What if I pulled your hair back?" and her scream for my help, I wondered like so many times before if I should break the code of silence that surrounds celebrities and invite the police into the situation, and in a split second decided that, yes, I was going to.
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