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Misconduct is supposed to be reported to the Missouri Department of Public Safety, but sometimes it takes years for that to happen — if it’s ever done. Police department officials aren’t required to report misconduct within a certain amount of time and face no consequences for failing to do so. Missouri isn’t a state that automatically revokes a police license when an officer is convicted of a serious crime.
Unlike public campuses, private higher education institutions are largely exempt from disclosing arrest records, incident reports and other documents even as they employ officers who have the authority to detain students, as well as, in some cases, use force. This lack of transparency has long raised objections from watchdog groups and open government advocates who say such records are critical to holding law enforcement accountable.
Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025
Representatives of Making Space, Lancashire County Council, and Halo Housing at Inspiring Minds East in Burnley.
Emmanuel Macron’s governments keep failing because of their unpopular austerity plans. The one move they’ve refused to consider: imposing a wealth tax on the superrich who’ve benefited most from Macron’s agenda.
After revealing more than 800 deaths linked with long A&E waits occurred in the last year, RCEM brought NHS staff together with politicians and policymakers in Edinburgh to hear solutions. RCEM Scotland Vice President Dr Fiona Hunter (above) told the conference the shortfall in NHS staff is most acutely felt by both those working and the patients waiting to be seen in A&Es across the country.
A newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Once passed, the law could be used to facilitate intensifying ideological controls, target ethnic and religious minorities including by erasing minority language rights, and foster control beyond China’s borders. Above: High school students attend a Chinese language class at a public boarding school for students from northern Tibet, in Lhasa in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, 2021.
