Does the reduction of CA's incarceration levels come at the expense of higher crime rates? High profile conflicts in schools have again raised the question of whether police should be on campus; and TGI Filmweek with special guest Illeana Douglas.
New numbers show Prop 47 offenders low recidivism rate, skeptics disagree
A new study out of Stanford Law School’s Justice Advocacy Project finds the voter-approved release of 13,000 lower level offenders from California’s state and local custody has saved the state significant money.
But the question is whether that comes at the expense of higher crime rates.
Guest:
Michael Romano, director and co-founder of the Stanford Justice Advocacy Project (formerly Three Strikes Project)
Mark Zahner, CEO, California District Attorneys Association
High profile conflicts in schools again raise the question of whether police should be on campus
A couple of recent videotaped incidents of physical confrontations at high schools have again raised the question of whether police should be on campus.
About 43-percent of U.S. high schools have cops on campus. More than 75-percent have armed security staff.
In one prominent incident, a school officer was called to deal with a South Carolina student who refused her teacher's and school administrator's demands she stop texting in class. The officer physically took the girl down in her chair and dragged her several feet. The officer was fired.
The other often watched incident showed a Sacramento student body-slamming a high school principal trying to break up a melee in the cafeteria. The principal gets back up and helps physically restrain the fighters. It was impressive. But should that be part of his job?
What, if any, role should police have on campus? #CopsOnCampus
Guests:
Dean Elder, President of the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association, the teachers union for Anaheim Union High School District; he’s also taught at Anaheim High School for 31 years
Abre’ Conner, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California
Curt Lavarello, executive director of the School Safety Advocacy Council. He also spent 18 years as a school resource officer
FilmWeek: ‘Burnt,’ ‘Our Brand is Crisis,’ ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ and more
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan and Wade Major review this week’s new releases including “Burnt” starring Bradley Cooper, “Our Brand is Crisis” with Sandra Bullock as a political operative, the comic horror “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” and more.
Plus we remember the late star of Hollywood classics, Maureen O’Hara.
Guests:
Wade Major, film critic for KPCC and host for IGN’s DigiGods.com
Henry Sheehan, film critic for KPCC and CriticsAGoGo.com
Showbiz everywoman Illeana Douglas on her life in Hollywood
Actress Illeana Douglas recounts her weird, dazzling, and authentic Hollywood life in a new memoir, "I Blame it on Dennis Hopper."
The striking performer - best known for "Cape Fear," "Goodfellas," and "Ghost World" - has been on movie sets since she was a little girl tagging along with her Academy Award-winning grandfather Melvin Douglas.
Her father chose more of a life-imitating-art route after seeing "Easy Rider" and trying a commune lifestyle for the family. (Douglas herself would later work with "Easy Rider" star Dennis Hopper.) It has all added up to an inspired career and a large reverence for making movies and television.
Guest:
Illeana Douglas, Author, “I Blame it on Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies” (Flatiron Books, Nov. 3, 2015) Actress, Writer, Producer, Director known for “Cape Fear,” “Goodfellas,” and more