#accountability

#accountability

Some experiences in life simply can't be prepared for. You can imagine how you might feel and what you might do, but you can never actually know how you will respond in a situation until it happens. Falling in love, becoming a parent, and facing one's mortality all fit into this category. In the workplace, your first interview, first day on the job, and the first time you're given the responsibility of managing others fall into this category.

As Syria turns the page after Bashar al-Assad's fall, the transitional government promises justice, truth, and rule of law.

The expose of vile police discrimination at Charing Cross police station comes just three years after the last expose at the same station (Met plunged into crisis amid fresh claims of misogyny and racism, 1 October). This experience confirms that unless there is full accountability for police discrimination, the behaviour will simply carry on. The failure to have accountability is part of the institutional discrimination highlighted in the Casey review.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- For the second time in four weeks, the winless New York Jets released a player who made a critical mistake on special teams. Isaiah Williams, who lost a fumble on the second-half kickoff in Monday night's 27-21 loss to the Miami Dolphins, was waived on Saturday, a source told ESPN. It was another loud statement by first-year coach Aaron Glenn, who is trying to create a sense of accountability. After a Week 1 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Jets cut kickoff returner Xavier Gipson, whose late fumble proved costly in the two-point loss.

Serving Met Officers called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims in footage captured by a Panorama undercover reporter. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood described the footage, which also shows officers making sexualised comments to colleagues and sharing racist views about immigrants and Muslims, as "disturbing" and "sickening". Sir Mark Rowley, head of the Met Police, has apologised for the "reprehensible and completely unacceptable" behaviour.

"Climate tech" isn't a thing. It has shifted in recent years from a category to define clean energy companies to an umbrella phrase that loses meaning the more we use it. Granted, the term is everywhere: inserted into VC pitch decks, plastered on billboards along highways from San Francisco to Austin to Boston, wedged into government policy papers, and featured prominently on conference agendas. Media properties from CNBC to GreenBiz rely on it as a traffic-driving category.

U.S. lawmakers are demanding that Israel be held accountable for the violence perpetrated against Palestinian Americans by Israeli soldiers and settlers. "The grief and outrage of the families of American citizens killed and detained by Israeli forces was palpable," Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pennsylvania) posted on social media on Wednesday. "I am so grateful for their courage and advocacy driven by the hope that more families do not have to experience the pain they do." Since 2022, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 10 American citizens in the West Bank and Gaza, according to Lee's office. No one has been prosecuted in connection with any of the deaths, reports.

When faced with failure, do you tend to react with anger or hurt? Do you get defensive, deny a role in what happened, or perhaps deny that failure even occurred? Do you slant information to avoid looking guilty, or come up with a laundry list of reasons for the failure that were outside of your control? Perhaps you try being nice with the hopes that others will overlook the failure or point their fingers elsewhere.

The film tells the true story of Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli forces last year, as she and her family tried to evacuate Gaza City. It uses real audio from Rajab's hours-long call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, in which rescuers tried to reassure her as she lay trapped in a bullet-ridden car with the bodies of her aunt, uncle and three cousins, who had all been killed by Israeli fire.

Ozden Bennett's first reaction after learning of her younger sister's killing was disbelief. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi had traveled to the occupied West Bank just three days earlier to volunteer with Palestinian communities facing violence at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers. But the shock and grief quickly gave way to dread that nothing would come of it, that she would have just died under that olive tree and that was it, Bennett said this week, before the anniversary of Eygi's death.

Shame is an inhibitory emotion on the Change Triangle, the tool that teaches us about emotions. Shame is an emotion designed to keep us from acting in ways that get us banished from the people and groups we need, like our family, peer groups, religious groups, and communities. But when we grew up in environments that harshly punished us for our mistakes, shame tells us to keep our mistakes hidden, lest we "pay the price." That's how shame blocks accountability.

Since George Floyd's murder, calls have grown louder for accountability-essential but incomplete. Yes, we absolutely need to hold officers accountable and ensure that officers are punished for wrongdoing. But accountability is reactive-it comes only after a tragedy. Rarely does it drive prevention of the next tragedy. In fact, the threat of being sanctioned often creates perverse incentives-driving employees to cover up misconduct that helps explain why punishment alone fails to prevent the excessive use of force.

Denominator neglect happens when someone focuses on the big picture (the total number of events) while ignoring the actual harm caused by a specific one. In math terms, it's like a fraction: the numerator (top number) is the painful event that affected you, and the denominator (bottom number) is the total number of times something happened. Denominator neglect is used to downplay serious issues by minimizing their impact, shifting blame onto you, or refusing accountability.

With the exception of a client's building burning down, any rush job means that someone, somewhere, didn't do his or her job. So if an account executive wound up having a rush job, he or she wasn't allowed to blithely make the request and then go home for the night. Instead, if the creative team was staying late, the account executive had to stay late too. Amazing how that cut down on rush jobs.

California has been here before. Decades ago, leaders from both political parties shut down the state's mental hospitals. They solemnly promised community-based programs to provide care for the mentally ill. It never happened.

Hakeem Jeffries stated that Secretary Kristi Noem will face accountability for the Trump administration's migrant policies after the 2026 elections, emphasizing aggressive oversight.

In general, accountability is something we hold other people to, while ignoring our own lack of it. We're all at least a little hypocritical in that regard.

Bernard Doyle, at 73 years old, was astounded to discover in 2020 that there were insufficient funds in his pension account after following investment advice.

"Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned what it called a targeted assassination of its journalists. The Palestinian mission to the United Nations accused Israel of deliberately assassinating al-Sharif and Qreiqeh, describing them as among the last remaining journalists in Gaza."

The Police Records Access Project encompasses 12,000 cases over about 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law enforcement agencies, created to improve transparency and accountability.

Henry attributes the Patriots' previous struggles to a lack of accountability and compares the laid-back style of Jerod Mayo with the tough approach of Bill Belichick.

The legislation addresses a critical gap in Federal transit safety regulations by establishing clear executive authority within public transit agencies for rider and operator safety.

For autistic adults, whose lives are already marked by significant challenges in social communication and interpretation, this cultural phenomenon can be especially dangerous.

Trauma can explain behavior, but it does not excuse harm or remove the need for accountability. Healing requires both empathy for the past and responsibility for present actions.

Rodriguez criticized the Yankees, saying, "Where's the accountability? If any one of us made [that] mistake, we would be sitting our butt right on the bench. I see mistake after mistake, and there's no consequences."

Just making this program - and when I say program, like the meetings, the walkthroughs, the lifts, the practice schedule - making it tough on you, and giving you a lot to handle. And for me that's important for accountability, because it's saying, "Are you ready? Are you going to be prepared? Are you going to come to work every single day?" If not, you're going to be exposed, obviously.

If you harmed and abused children, minors, young women, then you need to be held accountable for your crimes, and the oversight committee is ready to do just that.

State, county, and local officials have called for better accountability and transparency regarding the replacement of tracks linked to the PATH derailment in Hoboken on July 12.