The tide of reckoning on systemic racism

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GoodTaste

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Does reckoning here mean judgement?

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The tide of reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality that has been sweeping through institutions — including scientific ones — has reached universities’ normally reclusive mathematics departments. A group of mathematicians in the United States has written a letter calling for their colleagues to stop collaborating with police because of the widely documented disparities in how US law-enforcement agencies treat people of different races and ethnicities. They concentrate their criticism on predictive policing, a maths-based technique aimed at stopping crime before it occurs.

Source: Nature 19 JUNE 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01874-9
 

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Yes, it means judgement/accountability.
I thought Nature was a scientific publication. It appears to have become political.
 

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Everything is political nowadays.
 

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