Our pattern or practice investigation of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) marked the first time ever that the Justice Department found reasonable cause to believe that a police department had engaged in a pattern or practice of gender-biased policing.

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"There is a regular pattern and practice of not producing memos, minutes, reports, and e-mails, " Biller said.

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"They failed to show a single constitutional violation much less a widespread pattern or practice, " Ms. Grossman said.

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Importantly, Judge Wright ruled that evidence of any pattern or practice of comparable conduct by the president was not important to the case.

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The lawsuit charges that the sheriff's office "unlawfully instituted a pattern and practice of targeting Latino drivers and passengers in Maricopa County during traffic stops, " the ACLU said in a statement.

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In one of its most sensitive police "pattern or practice" investigations to date, the Justice Department is now working to get Los Angeles city officials to sign a consent decree authorizing a third party to monitor the city's Police Department and imposing other safeguards.

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"We had to change a practice pattern that had been going on for years, " says Marc Boyd, the hospital's obstetrics unit director.

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