Commentaries by Peter A. Hanink and Anjuli Verma and Geoff K. Ward

Can We Trust the Police to Intervene in Fellow Officer Misconduct?

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Can We Trust the Police to Intervene in Fellow Officer Misconduct?

Peter A. Hanink and Anjuli Verma and Geoff K. Ward

June 20, 2020 10:00:30 am

The outrage much of the nation and world has expressed at the police killing of George Floyd has been accompanied by demands for greater punishment of all of the officers involved. These demands call attention to an often-overlooked element of the problem of police violence: those subjected to unlawful police practices largely depend on other [...]

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

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