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Police officers don't need 'Qualified Immunity' to do their jobs | Opinion
Qualified Immunity (QI) says that if a government official, including a police officer, violates your legal rights, the official cannot be sued civilly (for money) unless there has already been a successful identical precedent in your jurisdiction. It’s a catch-22! How could you ever get a first case to set the precedent? Opponents to the removal of QI say this would overburden the courts and make police hesitate, endangering their lives. That is not true.
How I learned about Clara Luper and another OKC hero | Opinion
I got to know Clara Luper and learn of Oklahoma City's racist past in 1966, as a newly minted doctor from Ohio. I moved to Oklahoma City for higher training. On TV was a dignified Black lady with an umbrella for shade leading Black garbage workers in a circle. They were striking for better wages. The announcer said she was a schoolteacher named Clara Luper. I had never seen anything like her in Ohio.
Deliberative panels as a source of public knowledge: A large-sample test of the Citizens’ Initiative Review
PLOS ONE, Jul 2023 Evolving US media and political systems, coupled with escalating misinformation campaigns, have left the public divided over objective facts featured in policy debates. The public also has lost much of its confidence in the institutions designed to adjudicate those epistemic debates. To counter this threat, civic entrepreneurs have devised institutional reforms to revitalize democratic policymaking.
Curator’s Corner: Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis
Image: Terrence, when you founded the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, one of your first major shows was about artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Can you tell me more about that show? Terrence Dempsey:Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS was MOCRA’s third exhibition. It opened in the fall of 1994, only about eighteen months after the museum’s grand opening. It came together quickly and really, in a graced way, out of a tragic moment.
Forest Service seeking Northern Goshawk data
The U.S. Forest Service is asking for the public’s help in tracking the Northern Goshawk. The U.S. Forest Service is asking for the public’s help in tracking the Northern Goshawk. Photo by David Brinker WARREN — The USDA Forest Service – Allegheny National Forest’s wildlife biology staff are seeking data on the Northern Goshawk. The Northern Goshawk population is declining in Pennsylvania and the Allegheny National Forest.
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