How to Use anti-police in a Sentence

anti-police

adjective
  • Meanwhile, anti-police activists clashed with cops trying to enforce the curfew and close the park.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
  • The new mayor must reverse the anti-police sentiment that has emanated from the fifth floor.
    — Juan Rangel, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The latter was met with anti-police protesters, who criticized police spending by the city.
    — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Related As a statement, the mural was mostly just anti-police.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Trump said, when asked about a recent spasm of anti-police violence in Boston’s South End.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Mamdani has hired others who harbor anti-police sentiments.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Last summer, a protester in Seattle made an anti-police sign with an unusual message.
    — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Four years after the upheavals of 2020, the national crime wave has largely subsided, and so have the anti-police slogans.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Under police and police support, the flyer states that Conchas is anti-police and notes his 2019 arrest.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
  • Waves of anti-police protests swept the country, exacerbating the already poor state of officers' mental health and bringing the issue onto a broader public radar.
    — Katja Ridderbusch, NPR, 26 May 2025
  • On Dropout, the consensus around law enforcement has been so historically negative that its store sells an anti-police mug, currently sold out.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Newsom’s aggressive deployment of officers has enraged some anti-police advocates who say that over-policing the region is not a solution.
    — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Accountability is not anti-police.
    — Dave Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Some members of the committee called it anti-police, and questioned why the University of Minnesota would give the organization an award.
    — Peter Cox, Twin Cities, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Investigators previously said Grube had suicidal ideations, harbored anti-police sentiments and was pulled from the truck covered in gasoline.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • But on Tuesday, Cuomo struck a different tone, arguing the anti-police sentiment that took root in 2020 was dangerous.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 29 July 2025
  • The police officers involved in this incident deserve a fair investigation based on the facts and the law, not demonization by activists who are exploiting this tragedy to advance a broader anti-police agenda.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
  • Police quickly contained the situation as around 150 mostly young demonstrators chanted anti-police slogans in a largely calm atmosphere.
    — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The investigation was prompted in part by the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, which sparked racial justice and anti-police brutality protests nationwide.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Former mayor Eric Adams also commented on the snowball attack, directly blaming Mamadani’s anti-police rhetoric.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 24 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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