Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009

JUNE 24: CopCulture#2

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JUNE 24: SPECIAL REPORT #2: The Cop Culture: Police and Political Dissent

NOTE: This program, originally schedule for June 17, was delayed one week because of illness.

TruthToTell examines the dark and isolated world of local police culture and the nature of law enforcement in general. Our questions: • 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 24 - Tools vs Political Dissent GUESTS: • MICHAEL QUINN, retired Minneapolis Police Officer; Author, Walking with the Devil (Inside the Code of Silence) • COLEEN ROWLEY – former Minneapolis FBI legal counsel and special agent; 9/11 whistleblower and critic; Peace and Justice advocate • NATHANIEL KHALIQ, President, St. Paul Chapter, NAACP; Legal Redress Chair, MN State Conference of the NAACP • TERESA NELSON - Attorney, Minnesota ACLU • WILLIAM COX - California-based Writer and Public Interest attorney, retired supervising prosecutor for the State Bar of California; former police officer; author, You’re Not Stupid! Get the Truth: A Brief on the Bush Presidency

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Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009

JUNE 17: ENCORE-Howard ZINNVoices

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JUNE 17: REPEAT - HOWARD ZINN and "Voices of A People's History"

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Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009

JUNE 10 CopCulture#1

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Cop Culture: Fear and Loathing in the Streets

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 - The Culture

GUESTS: • MICHAEL QUINN, retired Minneapolis Police Officer; Author, Walking with the Devil (Inside the Code of Silence) • COLEEN ROWLEY – former Minneapolis FBI legal counsel and special agent; 9/11 whistleblower and critic; Peace and Justice advocate • JILL CLARK, Criminal Defense Attorney; Plaintiff's Advocate; former candidate, Minnesota Supreme Court

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Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009

JUNE 3: Freedom of Information

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June 3: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Dilemma Over Public vs. Private We have in the last couple decades confronted an unprecedented time and volume of government secrecy even as our technological developments have enabled an unconscionable level of identity and data mining. Governments - federal, state and local - stamp "SECRET” or "TOP SECRET” or "CONFIDENTIAL” over millions of documents and files containing what should be public information. Minnesota's Government Data Practices Act is riddled with rules designed to provide or withhold all kinds of information relating to the state's business. Experts disagree on which should be available and which should not. Insidious in a democracy, the shutting down of information citizens must know to properly govern themselves has become an obsession of elected and appointed officials throughout the systems designed to serve us. Yes, we have the FOI - the Freedom of Information Act – but that has neither stopped nor abated the attempts to keep from the public the more critical record of their governing institutions. And yet...and yet. We seem to be losing the battle to ensure and control our privacy, not to mention our bank accounts and personal belongings – our very identities. We think nothing of going online and ordering goods and services, giving up to an electronic data compiler the very information we hold dear. Why can't we stop the illegal mining of our data while we have to pry open government files? When, if ever, is government information legitimately kept from us? And how can we protect our personal lives from predators? Transparency in Government is the theme of the 2009 Summit of the National Freedom of Information Coalition -summit at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6th. TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with scheduled speakers and others – a journalist/scholar, a heralded advocate, an ethicist and a librarian in search of the proper access and limits we should seek for governing ourselves and protecting privacy. GUESTS: • HELEN BURKE – Senior Librarian, Hennepin Co. Library Government Documents; President, MN Coalition on Government Information (MN-COGI). • JANE KIRTLEY – Professor, School of Journalism, and Director, Silha Center for Media Law and Ethics - University of MN • RICH NEUMEISTER l – Citizen Lobbyist, FOI Advocate, Winner, 2009 John R. Finnegan Award • REP. MARY LIZ HOLBERG, (R-36A-Lakeville) - Member, House Civil Justice Committee; Legislative advocate for Data Practices and enforcement. CAN'T GET US OVER THE AIR? STREAM TTT LIVEhttp://www.kfai.org/ _and_ LATER

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