LAPD Changes Its Policy on Police Shooting at Moving Vehicles; California's Teacher Spending Gap; Journalists Lose Appeal to Protect Sources in CIA Leak Case; Science of the Tsunami
LAPD Changes Its Policy on Police Shooting at Moving Vehicles
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 presented today to the Police Commission would prohibit officers from firing at moving vehicles unless suspects have weapons or have threatened police or bystanders. Larry Mantle discusses the policy changes and how they will be implemented with Frank Stoltze, KPCC Reporter, who is at the Police Commission hearing, Los Angeles Times staff reporter, Solomon Moore, and David Klinger, a former LAPD officer and Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St.Louis. He’s the author of Into the Kill Zone: A Cop’s Eye View of Deadly Force.
California's Teacher Spending Gap
The Education Trust-West will release a report on Tuesday morning identifying per-pupil spending gaps in California public schools which is reportedly masked by the state’s accounting methods. The report titled “California’s Hidden Teacher Spending Gap: How State and District Budgeting Practices Shortchange Poor and Minority Students and Their Schools,” finds the amount of money spent on teacher salaries in California varies widely from school to school within districts, with significantly less spent on teacher salaries in the highest-poverty and highest-minority schools. Larry talks with Russlynn Ali, Executive Director of the Education Trust-West and others, about the problems identified in the report and how some California school districts are bucking the trend. He also speaks with Dr. John Deasy, Superintendent of Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, and with Ms. Ronni Ephraim, Chief Instructional Officer for the LA Unified School District.
Journalists Lose Appeal to Protect Sources in CIA Leak Case
Two journalists who refuse to reveal their sources in the CIA leak case may go to jail, after a federal appeals court ruled against them yesterday. The reporters, Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper and The New York Times Judith Miller, obtained the name of a undercover CIA operative while researching a story. The reporters argued that the First Amendment gives them protection from revealing their sources. Prosecutors argued that the reporters are obligated to reveal them, in order to allow the federal investigators to determine whether or not a federal crime had been committed. Joining Larry is Jonathan Taplin, Professor of Communication at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication, and Terry Francke, general counsel at Californians Aware, the center for public forum rights.
Science of the Tsunami
Caltech Geologist Kerry Sieh traveled to Indonesia just days after the tsunami devastated the region. His blog from the ground tells of the devastation he and his team witnessed, and explains the science behind the earthquake and tsunami. Kerry Sieh joins Larry to share his experience.