Author: scott prell

America’s War on Cops with Heather Mac Donald – The Charlie Kirk Show – Omny.fm

Essayist, author, and attorney, Heather Mac Donald, is a Thomas W. Smith Fellow of the Manhattan Institute and an American treasure. She joins the show to discuss the current explosion of violence and rioting in Minnesota and around the country after the police involved shooting death of Daunte Wright, who resisted arrest during the altercation. Heather cuts through the noise and the emotional arguments filling the mainstream media’s nightly news coverage to bring the facts. Are police racist? Are they targeting black people? Are we headed toward another era of urban blight? This is a must listen to interview with one of America’s most knowledgeable experts on police violence. 
— Read on omny.fm/shows/the-charlie-kirk-show/americas-war-on-cops-with-heather-mac-donald

Task Force on Policing

The independent Task Force on Policing was launched in November 2020 by the Council on Criminal Justice. Its mission is to identify the policies and practices most likely to reduce violent encounters between officers and the public and improve the fairness and effectiveness of American policing. The Task Force is evaluating more than two dozen proposed policing reforms, including those focused on preventing excessive use of force, reducing racial biases, increasing accountability, and improving the relationship between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve.

The Task Force on Policing is staffed by the Council, with research support from the Crime Lab at University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.


Make sure to check out the several different Policy Assessments that they offer on it’s website.

HERE are a few notable ones that can be downloaded from the website:

Body-Worn Cameras (BWC) – HERE

Civilian Oversight – HERE

Governmental Oversight and Reform Measures – HERE

The Pandemic Prompted Marilyn Mosby to Stop Prosecuting Low-Level Crimes. Will Other D.A.s Follow? – The Appeal

Or is the pandemic an excuse?

Prosecutors across the country have begun declining low-level cases in an effort to reduce racial inequity and to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
— Read on theappeal.org/the-pandemic-prompted-marilyn-mosby-to-stop-prosecuting-low-level-crimes-will-other-d-a-s-follow/

Favorite Online Radio Stations

This is not exactly a Policing post……yet it is. When we would transport a unruly prisoner at times we would turn on classical music because “Music calms the savage beast”

Here are some of my favorite online radio stations that listen to. I like WNED because it was the first classical radio station that I listened to. WBFO on the weekends plays the Blues which gave 9 hours of great Blues music. This was before Sirius FM and Amazon Music etc…

WQXR had a quality and sophistication to the music it played. It was different from WNED. Now I like its ALL Streams options. New Standards was the Jonathan Channel which was fabulous playing Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. I like WCPE at night it is truly the Classical Station. WCRB always plays easy and enjoyable classical music. I love to listen to it especially when I’m trying to read or study. It always seems to have on great music. Lastly I like the west coast time difference and the different vibe that comes from KUSC and CPR.

Feel free to comment on your favorite station.

Classical

WNED (Under the Radio Tab: Classical / WBFO – News talk format / Jazz works)
Local Classical radio station which turned me on to Classical Radio. On the Weekend
https://www.wned.org/

WQXR – New York’s Classical Music Radio Station
A GREAT feature is the ALL STREAMS tab that has “New Standards – Awesome JAZZ!, and Holiday Standards – Awesome Christmas Music!)
https://www.wqxr.org/

WCPE – The Classical Station
https://theclassicalstation.org/

WCRB Classical 99.5 | Classical Radio Boston
https://www.classicalwcrb.org/

KUSC University of Southern California
https://www.kusc.org/

CPR – Colorado Public Radio
https://www.cpr.org/

Jazz

Toronto Jazz FM – Canada’s Jazz Station
Dinner Jazz M-F 6 to 9 pm some of the BEST jazz music is played! They used to play Holiday Standards at Christmas time as an online channel (Awesome!)
https://jazz.fm/

Polish

Polka Jammer Network – Some of the best polka music online. They even play music from Polka Bands from the Buffalo, NY area.
https://polkajammernetwork.org/

Is Police Reform Over – Podcast #134

This podcast is another anti-police view for reform. There were some comments that police Reform hasn’t work so maybe its time to stop trying to reform police. Policing is in constant change and reform. Over the past 30 years there has been changes in technology, use of force, response to domestic violence, police pursuits, changes in law, implicit bias, de-escalation, etc. When change is difficult is because police offices think the reforms are illegitimate. They are agenda driven and spearheaded by a small amount of people.

A second thing that the participants discuss are several thinks that are not part of policing like homelessness, unemployment, housing, access to school yet they discuss law enforcement’s role with these issues. These are not law enforcement issues. You call for the abolition of the police yet you connect police to issues that it is not part of. WHY? Because you know that it is the police that will be called to lend assistance because there are NO OTHER agencies that are available 27/7/365.

Unfortunately through the whole podcast I don’t hear anything positive about the police. It is difficult to think that you are legitimately trying to improve policing when discussed about policing is negative. When anyone who is part of policing knows that it just isn’t so.

The podcast can be accessed here….podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal-in-justice/id1094352910