Supreme Court Ruling: Allowing Mexican Trucks And Buses Into The U.S; Iran's Nuclear Program; LAUSD Reorganization; A Cop's Eye View Of Deadly Force
Supreme Court Ruling: Allowing Mexican Trucks And Buses Into The U.S
Larry Mantle discusses the Supreme Court ruling that would allow Mexican trucks and buses into the United States to deliver goods and passengers. Environmentalists and California trucking companies are concerned, while those in favor of free-market business and NAFTA support the ruling. Larry is joined by Brian Doherty, Senior Editor at Reason Magazine, Stephanie Williams, Senior Vice President of the California Trucking Association, and Julie Masters, Senior Project Attorney, NRDC.
Iran's Nuclear Program
The International Atomic Energy Agency will discuss its latest report on Iran's nuclear program at a meeting on June 14th. A confidential report seen by IAEA board members, and leaked to the press, discloses the agency's dissatisfaction with Iran's procurement of centrifuges and weapons-grade nuclear contamination on that equipment. As a good-faith gesture, Iran signed the Additional Protocols to the Non-Proliferation Treaty last December, but critics insist that Iran is hiding something. How should the Bush Administration proceed in its diplomacy with Iran? Should Iran be engaged or confronted? And why shouldn't Iran feel threatened, given that the US has thousands of troops on its doorstep in Iraq? Experts join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the latest in Iran's nuclear program, as well as US diplomatic strategy in dealing with Tehran. Larry's guest include Michael Donovan, analyst at the Center for Defense Information for the Persian Gulf and Middle Eastern Security Affairs, and Najmedin Meshkahti, Professor of Engineering and USC.
LAUSD Reorganization
The Los Angeles Unified School District board decided yesterday to reduce the number of sub-districts from 11 to 8 in order to save money for the cash strapped district. The United Teachers of Los Angeles wanted the board to do away with its 11 mini-district system entirely, claiming that too much money is being wasted in bureaucracy that should be going into the classroom but in a late night vote, a compromise proposed by the district superintendent was accepted by the board to keep 8 sub-districts. Larry Mantle talks about the decision with Roy Romer, LAUSD Superintendent, John Perez, UTLA President, and Marlene Cantor, Vice President of the Board of Education of the LAUSD and board member.
A Cop's Eye View Of Deadly Force
Author David Klinger, who himself shot and killed a suspect during his first year as an officer with the LAPD, answers many questions about what it's like to live and work in the place where police officers have to make split-second decisions about life and death: The Kill Zone. In Into the Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force, Klinger now an Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, writes about what happens when police officers find themselves face-to-face with dangerous criminals, the excruciating decisions they have to make to shoot or to hold their fire and how they deal with the consequences of their choices.