General Counsel to the Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence and private lawyer; former member of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners; former federal prosecutor
Contact: Website
Richard Drooyan on KCRW
More from KCRW
Lake Tahoe and Lake Elsinore: rare success stories in helping unhoused residents
CaliforniaBillions of dollars and good intentions have not been enough to solve California’s homelessness crisis. But some communities are faring better than others.
After a year on the sidelines, young athletes can trickle back to the playing fields
CoronavirusEven as in-person school instruction remains on hold, high school and other youth sports have the green light to resume in much of the state.
Packaging for online orders: How to make it more sustainable?
WastedOnline sales have skyrocketed during the pandemic, and so have the mountains of packaging that protect those orders in transit.
When to reopen classrooms? Debate continues among school staff, parents, lawmakers
EducationGovernor Gavin Newsom today signed a bill that sets aside nearly $7 billion for schools that reopen for in-person instruction by the end of March.
Ethics of COVID vaccine shopping
CoronavirusJohnson & Johnson says it will ship out nearly 4 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this week — after the FDA authorized it for emergency use on Saturday.
This Week in Weed: Cannabis workers now outnumber pilots and engineers
Cannabis“There's now more cannabis workers than there are aircraft pilots and engineers, dentists, painters or EMTs and electrical engineers,” says David Downs, Senior Editor at Leafly.com.
A third vaccine
NationalJosh Barro and LRC panelists David Dayen and Tim Carney discuss third covid vaccine that will be available in the US, Trump’s resurfacing at CPAC, minimum wage and fallout from Texas…
Why museums are still closed while other businesses have reopened in California
ArtsIndoor museums are still closed — while malls, tattoo shops, hair and nail salons have been open since Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted parts of the state’s stay-at-home order last month.
LA plans to redirect some police funds and launch universal basic income in certain areas
PoliticsThis week, the Los Angeles City Council voted to override a veto by Mayor Eric Garcetti and approve a new proposal for how millions of dollars taken from the LA Police Department will…