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ACLU of Southern California
Staff attorney and Director of Police Practices with the ACLU of Southern California
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Peter Bibring
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FROM Peter Bibring
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Measure C: A debate on changing how police are disciplined A measure on next Tuesday’s ballot in Los Angeles would make a big change in how police officers are disciplined. Measure C would allow an officer to choose to have an all-civilian panel hear their case, instead of the current system.
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No Charges for LAPD Who Shot Newspaper Delivery Women The LA District Attorney announced today that eight officers of the LAPD will not be charged in a case of mistaken identity. Two years ago, former cop Christopher Dorner was on a rampage, threatening murder, and the manhunt was on. In Torrance, Margie Carranza and her mother, Emma Hernandez were delivering newspapers from a pickup truck.
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Chief Beck Calls for Charges in Shooting of Homeless Man For the first time in the case of a fatal, on-duty shooting, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has called for criminal charges against one of his officers. Clifford Proctor, shot and killed an unarmed, black civilian named Brendon Glenn last May in Venice. Beck's recommendation has gone to District Attorney Jackie Lacey.
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Will Police Body Cams Make the LAPD User Friendly? When police departments around the country have mandated body cameras, both uses of force by officers and public complaints have often dropped dramatically. Starting Monday, the LAPD will issue 860 body cams — the first of a planned 7000. But, even though the Police Commission, the police department and the police union agree they’re a good idea, many questions remain.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
LAPD Considers Body Camera Rules In Baltimore, schools are closed today. Police and National Guard troops are patrolling the streets, and residents are assessing the damage from last night’s rioting and looting. President Obama today said there was no excuse for it.
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The Secret Cell Phone Surveillance that Casts a Wide Net Local police and sheriff's departments are using the Stingray — a mobile device that can track all our cell phone calls. They don't need a warrant. But the cops can't talk about how they use Stingray because they signed non-disclosure agreements.
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Will Different Pictures Tell the Same Story? Protesters marched from Skid Row to police headquarters today in downtown Los Angeles. The immediate issue was Sunday's police killing of a homeless, black man identified today as Charley Robinet, a 39-year-old French national. He reportedly was released from a federal prison in May after serving 15 years for a bank robbery in Thousand Oaks.
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LA Law Enforcement to Collect Biometric Data Without any public notice at all, Los Angeles County is taking bids for compiling America’s biggest repository of personal data outside what’s kept by the FBI. And it’s not just personal records, it’s personal characteristics—not only fingerprints, but palm prints, pictures and scans of the iris in your eye. Voice recordings could be next.
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LAPD Refuses to Name Officer Who Killed Ezell Ford Police in Ferguson, Missouri, were reluctant to release the name of the officer who killed Michael Brown, but they did, despite concern for his safety. In Los Angeles, the LAPD has refused to reveal who killed Ezell Ford, whose parents say he was mentally ill. What’s the public reaction here?
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First Case of Racial Profiling Confirmed at LAPD Today's LA Times reports that Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has signed off on a recommendation that one of his officers be found guilty of racial profiling. Long-time civil rights advocate, Police Commissioner John Mack says, "We've come a very long way." Charges of racial profiling by the LAPD are familiar.
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DNA: Can a Family Member's Genetic Code Help Catch a Killer? The serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" eluded police in Los Angeles for some twenty-five years. But last week the LAPD arrested Lonnie David Franklin, Jr. after making a breakthrough using DNA obtained from the suspect's son, a convicted felon.
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DNA: Can a Family Member's Genetic Code Help Catch a Killer? The serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" eluded police in Los Angeles for some twenty-five years. But last week the LAPD arrested Lonnie David Franklin, Jr. after making a breakthrough using DNA obtained from the suspect's son, a convicted felon.
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Big Brother Technology in Squad Cars? It's not the City of London yet, but Los Angeles is expanding the use of video scanners by the LAPD. Automated recognition systems mounted in patrol cars can process 1500 license plates every minute. A cop with a computer can handle about 100 in a ten-hour shift.
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KCRW Features
What are charter schools? LAUSD teachers were picket lines for a second day Tuesday. And this morning the teachers union organized a march to the California Charter Schools Association office downtown, to draw attention to their criticisms of local charter schools. But what are charter schools anyway?
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Best of KCRW Podcasts: Forces of Nature This is a special holiday episode highlighting the best KCRW podcasts of 2018. After a year of fires and mudslides, who doesn’t think about how to reckon with the forces of nature? In a story from the newest podcast in the KCRW fold, Nocturne , we learn how animals deal with the most destructive force of nature: humans. Then, KCRW’s podcast The Organist tries to convince us that plants have secret lives, and to embrace the overlap of science and art.