#accountability

#accountability

"Requests coming in through 311 were often assigned through long text chains and phone calls," Tisch said at the annual State of the NYPD address earlier this week. "Supervisors tracked jobs by hand, and officers didn't always have a clear picture of what was assigned, what was still open, or who was responsible for follow-up. ... That might work when volume is low. It doesn't work in a city of eight million people."

You don't tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer. Not even a lawyer.

You've hired smart people, and you've invested in tools. You've also restructured more than once. Given all these, on paper, everything should work. But the reality is different. Decisions take longer than they should, and ownership gets blurred. Teams move, then stall, then circle back. You step in more than you want to, not because you enjoy it, but because progress depends on you doing so.

It wasn't about the person. It was about me. It was so scary. I didn't know then how to go, 'Hey, can I talk to you privately?' Now, I would want to believe that I could have taken this person aside," she argued. "A lot of people say that we've become too woke, but I think, no, it's great. The pendulum needs to swing to the other side so that we can find a balance in between.

One came in the form of an open letter from more than 60 Minnesota-based CEOs, released by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. The letter exemplifies a now-familiar pattern of corporate timidity and reticence: it takes no position, names no facts, and identifies no responsible actor. Instead, it relies on generic language about "de-escalation" and "finding real solutions," urging officials at all levels of government to work together in response to what it vaguely describes as "yesterday's tragic news."

No government agency, none, has the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner. Extrajudicial killings violate the Constitution, they violate human rights, and violate the most basic standards of democracy," Coletta Zapata said. "Boston has a responsibility to say that out loud. And it is a declaration that Boston will not be silent when federal power is abused.

Businesses are acting fast to adopt agentic AI- artificial intelligence systems that work without human guidance-but have been much slower to put governance in place to oversee them, a new survey shows. That mismatch is a major source of risk in AI adoption. In my view, it's also a business opportunity. I'm a professor of management information systems at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business,

"I want to start by saying a bold and uncomfortable truth: Accreditation today is no longer a reliable indicator of the gold standard of education," Kent said.

After federal agents killed Alex Pretti, Trump-administration figures including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller described the victim as a terrorist, indicating their desire to ignore or intimidate all opposition. But other Republican sources signaled their discomfort, and some called for an investigation-a routine step for a normal presidency, but a daring breach of partisan discipline in an administration that shields itself from accountability and tries to put itself above the law.

Mr. Secretary, do you think that there's any responsibility among the ICE officers, though, to be able to deal with these things in a way that does not end in tragic death? Sorkin began. I mean, I do think that, you know, you blamed Tim Walz, you blamed Biden, you blamed lots of people that have not shot people! You go back and look at what's happened in Minnesota over the years Hold on a second, Duffy interrupted.

"The Biden Administration's regulation was over broad as it required all private institutional owners, including at faith-based colleges, to sign program participation agreements,"

Officers will be expected to arrive at crime scenes within 15 minutes in urban areas and 20 minutes in the countryside while attending serious crimes, the Home Office said. The new time limits will apply if there is a danger to life, an immediate threat of violence or the possibility of a serious injury or damage to property, or if a crime is in progress. Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, is preparing to announce a full package of changes that the Home Office claims to be the biggest overhaul in two centuries.

Accountability. It's the word that's defined Mike Brown's early tenure as head coach with the Knicks, one of several differentiating factors that separate him from former head coach Tom Thibodeau, who the Knicks fired after their Eastern Conference Finals run ended in six games last season. It's not the word, however, Golden State Warriors guard Moses Moody was expecting.

Only 37% of legal leaders trust the use of generative artificial intelligence in high-stakes decisions, showing limited confidence in its ability to interpret complex issues, according to a new study of 500 legal and business leaders. The study by Paragon Legal, a legal services company that advises businesses and corporate legal departments, also reveals that: * 39% say their organizations are adopting AI too quickly. * 36% have used AI-generated insights that they do not fully trust. * 37% have restricted or disabled AI tools because of concerns over compliance.

It feels cruel to insist someone keep attempting something they "can't" do-or to hold them to a standard they claim they cannot meet. Weaponized incompetence exploits that reluctance. It misattributes strategic failure as a skill deficit or honest mistake, allowing the offending party to avoid responsibility, discourage future requests, or exert control. In this dynamic, the offending party is framed as the victim, while their frustrated partner is recast as unreasonable, demanding, or a "nag."

When it comes to accountability, it's not enough to chant the slogan around the office and hope people get it. Asserting that you're the type of boss who holds people accountable isn't enough to do the trick. Your team must trust and believe that there is a fair and accurate process for keeping track of their actions and tying their behavior to real consequences.

When Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good last Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, the 37-year-old mother became one of at least 25 people killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shooting since 2015. In the days after Ross fired at Good multiple times from the front and side of Good's car, visual investigations from outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post have reconstructed the event, which unfolded in a matter of seconds.

When unmarked, masked federal agents grabbed an international student and forced her into an SUV on a public street in the spring of 2025, the United States entered into a new era of federal policing. At first, it was alarming - a move more commonly associated with authoritarian dictatorships than a democratically elected government with checks and balances. Now that this tactic, and others like it, have become routine, it is no longer enough to react in alarm.

We need to win games that we should win, instead of finding ways to lose games that we should win. But we change every offseason.

On 25 May 2020, America witnessed a stunning act of police brutality when a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd. The killer, Derek Chauvin, apparently confident that he would be immune to accountability, did his deed in the open, with other officers standing by and in front of a crowd of onlookers. The video of Floyd's murder shocked the nation.

The real transformation happens when you open a fresh page, choose a handful of habits that matter to you, and commit to noticing them day after day. I recently did this with two friends over coffee, and what unfolded felt less like a productivity exercise and more like a gentle act of intention-setting. If you'd like to build your own version of that ritual, here's where to start.

It's not quite a new year resolution, and it's certainly not a prediction. Think of it instead as a hope or even a plea for the next 12 months. May the coming year see those leaders who have done so much damage to their own countries, and far beyond, at last be called to account. Let 2026 be a year of reckoning.