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Protesters across the country are raging against a system they say fails to hold violent and abusive police accountable for their actions, especially when that behavior victimizes African Americans. Criminology scholar Jill McCorkel says that anger reflects a violent reality: Decades of research on police shootings reveal that officers with a history of shooting civilians are much more likely to do so in the future compared to other officers. A similar pattern holds for misconduct complaints. And the officers involved in both the deaths of African Americans George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville share a history of complaints
by citizens of brutality or misconduct.
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Naomi Schalit
Senior Editor, Politics + Society
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Police work to keep demonstrators back during a protest in Lafayette Square Park on May 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C.
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Jill McCorkel, Villanova University
Many law enforcement agencies fail to adequately investigate misconduct allegations and rarely sustain citizen complaints. Disciplinary sanctions are few and reserved for the most egregious cases.
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Environment + Energy
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Lindsey Schneider, Colorado State University; Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University; Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Native American tribes are reporting high COVID-19 infection rates. State and federal agencies are impeding tribes' efforts to handle the pandemic themselves.
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Science + Technology
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Dimiter Stanchev Dimitrov, University of Pittsburgh
Antibodies that recognize and block SARS-CoV-2 infection have the potential to be powerful weapons. An infectious disease expert explains what antibodies are and how they could be used as a therapy.
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Lisa S. Scott, University of Florida
With caregivers' faces covered, infants and young children will miss out on all the visual cues they'd normally get during stages of rapid developmental growth.
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Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis
A new biotech regulation allows companies to self-police and decide which crops should be regulated. The new rule is likely to amplify greater distrust of GM crops.
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Rakaia Kenney, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Kayla Lemons, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Weihong Lin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mmmmmmm. That smells delicious. Wait, how do you know that?
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Rayvon Fouché, Purdue University
Computerized systems that automatically determine whether a pitch is a ball or strike promise to make umpiring more accurate, but at what price?
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Economy + Business
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Michele Gilman, University of Baltimore
For economically strapped Americans, the financial fallout from the epidemic may be permanently embedded in their digital profiles, making it harder for them to regain their economic footing.
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Health + Medicine
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Stephanie Meyers, Boston University
A nutritionist shares five habits becoming more common during the pandemic that she hopes will continue. Eating family meals together is just the start.
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Shervin Assari, University of Michigan
Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men's life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.
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Education
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Mahala Dyer Stewart, Hamilton College
When white parents decide to home-school, usually it's to provide individualized education to their child. Research shows black parents home-school for an entirely different reason.
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Ethics + Religion
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David A. Schuck, Jewish Theological Seminary; Gina Hens-Piazza, Santa Clara University; Rodney Sadler, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Religious scholars and faith leaders reflect on the death rites cultures have developed to honor the deceased, comfort the living and share the burden of mourning.
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Eugene Wu, University of Richmond
An antigen test was given emergency use authorization by the FDA in early May. A biochemist explains how COVID-19 antigen tests work.
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Jeremy Howard, University of San Francisco
Recommendations around mask usage are confusing. The science isn't. Evidence shows that masks are extremely effective to slow the coronavirus and may be the best tool available right now to fight it.
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Danielle K. Kilgo, Indiana University
Opinions about demonstrations are formed in large part by what people read or see in the media. This gives journalists a lot of power when it comes to driving the narrative.
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