Legal Challenge To Special Order 40; New L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll On Americans' View Of The Housing Market And Economy; How Doctors Think; Hope And Fear In The America Of 1919
Legal Challenge To Special Order 40
A group of Los Angeles residents are filing a lawsuit challenging the LAPD's landmark Special Order 40, which prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration status of suspects. The lawsuit uses a section of the State's Health and Safety Code, written in 1972, that allows law enforcement agencies to notify the federal authorities when a suspected non-citizen is charged with a drug possession or trafficking violation. Larry talks about the challenge with proponents of the lawsuit and listener callers.
New L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll On Americans' View Of The Housing Market And Economy
Larry Mantle talks with Chris Thornberg, Principal of Beacon Economics, and takes listener calls about the recent L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll that shows Americans faith in the Real Estate market remains strong despite the fact they believe a recession is coming.
How Doctors Think
A doctor's diagnosis is crucial in providing a procedural map for a patient's treatment and recovery. There are many safeguards in place to protect against a misdiagnosis, yet doctors can misinterpret symptoms and signs, tests, and results, based on "errors in thinking." Larry talks with Dr. Jerome Groopman about his new book How Doctors Think, which investigates the mental circumstances that can lead physicians to misread a patient's illness.
Hope And Fear In The America Of 1919
Fearing terrorism, fighting a flu pandemic, and emerging from a war, the United States in 1919 strikes an uncanny resemblance to America in our own time. Larry talks with Ann Hagedorn about her new historical narrative, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America: 1919. In it, Hagedorn looks at the nascent civil-rights movement in the African-American community, the general populace's fear of immigrants, and the federal domestic spy network designed to fight the spread of Bolshevism. Hagedorn explores how the mood and outlook of today's U.S. is similar to that of American society in 1919.