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2595 - Black and Blue Bloods: Protecting Police Officer Families from Domestic Violence
Officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV) is a national problem, with police officer families having higher rates of domestic violence than non–police officer families. OIDV is also an underresearched problem with few studies or proposed solutions. Many victims of OIDV do not report their abuse precisely because their abuser is a police officer, whom they fear is in a unique position to protect him/herself from any legal consequences. Often, OIDV complaints are not investigated properly in a...
4060 - Megan Lynch (she/her): "🧵 2nd time in a week I've ask…" - disabled.social
2nd time in a week I've asked an abled person (no disabled licence or placard) to move from a disabled parking space and been faced with belligerence instead. Guy was sitting in the driver's seat playing on his phone. His first response was, "If a disabled person comes, I'll move". I had just parked in another spot because he was there, but I didn't want to say that because, as I told him, "That's not how the law works". He sat there silently daring me to do anything.
4559 - newmediajournalism: "🚨 Data is the new gold! But wh…" - disabled.social
🚨 Data is the new gold! But who’s mining it? 🤔 As tech giants tighten their grip on AI, the digital divide grows. With over 700M in India online and 2.9B still unconnected globally, we must fight for a future where everyone gets a seat at the table.
9579 - What if I didn't speak English well or didn't have financial resources to pay for therapy? What if my family and friends weren't supportive of therapy? What if I was having harmful thoughts? PC...
9959 - It's worth pointing out that Indigenous people, Black people, and racialized immigrants of all kind have been shouting this from the rooftops for centuries right here in these lands we call the USA...
10441 - Jean Lud Cadet, M.D. en LinkedIn: Offended Conservative White Men are Dangerous
https://lnkd.in/dfPkVNEN This essay is purported to be about conservative 'white' men. But I would say that liberal/progressive/conservative 'white' men...
10519 - Just Invisible
If you are homebound/bedridden and you live in the community, then the healthcare system treats you as if you do not exist. People who are homebound and/or bedridden have extensive and systemic...
10940 - Deaths in custody in Australia | Australian Institute of Criminology
The National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP) has monitored the extent and nature of deaths occurring in prison, police custody and youth detention since 1980. The NDICP was established at the Australian Institute of Criminology in 1992 in response to recommendation 41 by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The NDICP is supported by a steering group.
There have been 598 Indigenous deaths in custody since the Royal Commission.
11001 - “Inclusion” without disability is still exclusion. The Ableism Iceberg.
A graphic on a tan background that shows an iceberg in the middle. The title says the ableism iceberg and above the water is six statements: everyone is included, we don’t discriminate, disability imagery, ADA compliant, disability ERG, inclusion matters. Below the water it says what’s missing: no disabled bleeders, systemic in accessibility, ableist policies, ablest hiring process, invisible disability bias, neurodivergent erasure, no accommodations budget.
