WEDNESDAYS JUNE 10,17,24 KFAI Radio: COP CULTURE

Andy Driscoll <andy@driscollgroup.com>
Subject: Cop army/KFAI 6.10 11am

TruthToTell:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 - 17 - 24 - 11:00AM
SPECIAL REPORT: The Cop Culture: Fear and Loathing in the Streets
1st in a Series- Weds 11AM KFAI 90.3FM Mpls 106.f fm St. Paul
LIVE STREAMING and archived for 2 weeks after bvoradcaSt on TRUTH TO TELL page at: http://www.kfai.org

TruthToTell examines the dark and isolated world of local police culture and the nature of law enforcement in general.
 Why has this paramilitary subset of civil society grown so insular, more secretive and more rageful and violent?
 How can we address the increasing federal conscription of local law
enforcement agencies to violently put down legitimate political dissent - while stoking the deepening paranoia over those who disagree with increasingly rightwing and racist policing?
 Why are we seeing more and more deception in police reports, shredding of documents, disappearing evidence and confiscated money?
 Why can't we convict renegade cops and redress their abuses?
 Is there or has there ever been a bright line between some officers and the alleged offenders they arrest and charge?
 Where is accountability in law enforcement?
 Is it recoverable? Cops don't live in the places they patrol anymore.
What role has that played in the dissociation between police and the
people they "protect?"

TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with current and former
local and federal law enforcement, defense community, critics,
policymakers, residents and reporters about what we can do to change
these occupying armies back to community policing. Join us for this
three-part series.

JUNE 10 GUESTS:
 *MICHAEL QUINN, retired Minneapolis Police Officer; Author, Walking with the Devil (Inside the Code of Silence)
 *COLEEN ROWLEY, former FBI agent; 9/11 whistleblower; Peace and Justice advocate
* JILL CLARK, Criminal Defense Attorney; Plaintiff's Advocate; former
judicial candidate
 *BENJAMIN MYERS, Attorney

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On three successive Wednesdays in June - 10, 17, 24 - Truth to Tell will air a series discussing the power and culture in the Minneapolis- St. Paul police cultures. The unfettered power to stop citizens and non-citizens continues to expand with this latest ruling [see below], and anyone experiencing the behavior of rogue cops in the streets can only wonder when society will rein in this power and stop undermining the 4th Amendment against unreasonable seizures and failure to leave charged people free of coercion when being questioned. People are not guilty because they've been arrested. Period.

The Minneapolis and St. Paul police departments could not manifest
more divergent histories in terms of their treatment of people they're
in business to protect, but the police culture as a whole has been
given extraordinary legal leeway to intimidate regular citizens and
non-citizens as they go about their daily lives - most especially
residents of color.

The greatest disappointment here is that this ruling came at the
urging of the Obama - not the Bush - Administration. Barack Obama's
mixed politics are beginning to wear thin on progressives expecting
the man and his government to defer to the Constitution before he
defers to government and police.
-Andy Driscoll co-host of TRUTH TO TELL