All police departments should seek mechanisms of accountability and transparency. Accountability through academic studies and reports is beneficial, but there is no real substitute for local democratic accountability in a public and transparent forum.

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Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethi... by Andrew Ferguson

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

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I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

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Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

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It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

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If they embrace this idea of accountability and transparency, they can actually showcase the good, deal with the bad and move things forward in a really constructive way.

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