Proposed LAPD Rule to Limit Firing at Moving Cars; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Scientists Pressured to Alter Findings; Death of Arthur Miller; FilmWeek
Proposed LAPD Rule to Limit Firing at Moving Cars
The Los Angeles Police Department is changing its shooting policy, after an officer shot and killed a 13 year-old driving a stolen car on Sunday. The new policy would prohibit officers from firing at moving vehicles, unless suspects have weapons or have threatened police or bystanders. The policy change will be presented to the Police Commission Tuesday. David S. Cunningham, III, Los Angeles Police Commission President, joins guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss the proposed new rule.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Scientists Pressured to Alter Findings
The Union of Concerned Scientists and the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility just released a survey of scientists employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in which they asked if political pressure had ever been applied to alter their findings. Twenty percent of the scientists who responded to the survey reported that they had been “directed to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information” to the benefit of commercial interests—timber, grazing and energy companies. Lexy Schultz, Washington representative for the Restoring Scientific Integrity Campaign at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Sally Stefferud, a biologist who worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service for 20 years, and Craig Manson, Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, US Department of the Interior, join guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss the story.
Death of Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller, one of America's greatest playwrights, died last night at the age of 89. He was best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning play “Death of a Salesman,” which he wrote when he was only 33 years old. He also won a Tony award for his well-known play about the Salem witch trials, “The Crucible. Norman Corwin, former CBS radio writer and a friend of Miller’s, joins Patt to talk about the playwright. Also joining the conversation is Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director of the Center Theater Group.
FilmWeek
Larry Mantle and critics Jean Oppenheimer of New Times, Andy Klein, film editor and chief critic of both CityBeat and ValleyBeat, and Charles Solomon, animation critic for amazon.com discuss the new film releases for this week including Hitch, Pooh's Heffalump Movie, Bride & Prejudice, Inside Deep Throat, Masculine Feminine, Nobody Knows, Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, You I Love, and Uncle Nino.