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- The Murder of Sawantaeny, the Law of Feud, Haudeno...
- Is There a Dictator Trap? How about a Democracy Trap?
- Religion, Sexual Abuse, and Politics in Poland
- Rockwell Kent
- And Another Note on Aging Alone
- Aging Alone
- The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion
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- Neal Stephenson, "Fall" (2019)
- Links 24 November 2022
- Rumi, "Like This"
- Meanwhile in Cambridge
- Fatal Police Shootings Still Declining in the US
- Back Pain and the Mind-Body Problem
- "Ancient Apocalypse" and the Question of Truth
- Franz Kafka, Aphorisms
- Today's Place to Daydream about: Siena
- Sex Abuse in the Baltimore Diocese; Or, What Secre...
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- Trump as Bonnie Prince Charlie
- The Biggest Upset of 2022
- Charlottesville Shooting
- Russia Withdraws from Kherson
- Links 11 November 2022
- 37 Years of Archaeology
- Ekow Nimako's Lego Afrofuturism
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- Ancient Stories on Modern Media
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- David Brooks on What Has Changed in America
- Links 4 November 2022
- The Vermand Treasure and the Culture of Early Medi...
- A Powerful Salvo in the Fairy Circle Wars
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- Japanese Monsters: the Bakemono Zukushi Scroll
- Contemplating the Collapse of US-China Relations
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
1 comment:
The decline appears to line up with the ascendancy of body cameras - would be interesting to compare data.
That said, there's still a lot of room for improvement.
One problem is that our police are some of the least / worst trained among developed nations - and that's not even accounting for the fact that our police carry firearms as standard, when many comparable police forces do not issue firearms to patrol officers at all, and only their specialized elite teams which are called in on a case-by-case basis are given guns.
Another problem is that even though numbers of fatalities are declining, the rate at which police avoid any negative consequences for such killings is not similarly declining. Other countries do a far better job of holding their police accountable for their actions. We are not doing enough to serve justice, and as a result many of the police are currently above the law.
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