Patt Morrison for Wednesday, 1/26/2011

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:00 – 1:40

OPEN

 

1:40 – 2:00

State budget deficit strikes at CSUs, forcing deep cuts, smaller enrollment

Governor Brown proposes to cut half a billion dollars from the CSU budget, a move meant to help close the state’s $25 billion budget gap, and CSU is looking for ways to alleviate the fiscal pain. On Tuesday the finance committee of the CSU board voted to increase fees for its Doctor of Education degree programs by 10%, and will likely not be able to admit as many students in the fall as previously planned. With increasing costs and fewer dollars to support education, what will an education from our state run institutions look like in the future? 

 

Guest:

NOT CONFIRMED – DO NOT PROMOTE THIS GUEST

Charles Reed, Chancellor, The California State University

 

 

2:00 – 2:20

Why is Los Angeles still the “homeless capital of America?”—Part One: the Safer City Initiative

With over 40,000 homeless living on its streets, Los Angeles is the homeless capital of the country. The biggest cluster of those homeless men and women— nearly four thousand—lives in Skid Row, just in the shadow of City Hall, where city and county government make policy decisions about the issue. Nearly five years after Mayor Villaraigosa's ambitious Skid Row Safer City Initiative—the policing strategy that placed 50 additional officers in the fifty block area of downtown's Skid Row—we look back at whether the initiative accomplished what it set out to and what is left to be done to address homeless issues downtown and throughout the county. We begin this two-part series on homelessness by tracing the SCI from its inception as an idea on the pages of 1982 Atlantic magazine, to the streets of Los Angeles. Did SCI deliver both the policing and social service components it promised, and was it the best use of resources? Is policing a necessary but insufficient part of the solution or just a way of criminalizing homelessness? You’ll hear from the people affected by it—police, policymakers, and the homeless themselves.

 

Guests:

James Q. Wilson, senior fellow at the Clough Center, and distinguished scholar in Boston College’s Department of Political Science; he and social scientist George Kelling wrote the1982 “Broken Windows” article in The Atlantic magazine, which introduced the broken windows theory of policing, which would become Safer Cities.

 

Deon Joseph, Senior Lead Officer, Los Angeles Police Department, Central Division

 

General Dogan, Skid Row resident and activist with the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN)

 

Griselda Tapia, officer, Los Angeles Police Department, Central Division

 

Clinton Popham, officer, Los Angeles Police Department, Central Division

 

Gary Blasi, Professor of Law at the University of California—Los Angeles UCLA

 

 

2:20 – 2:40

Why is Los Angeles still the “homeless capital of America?”—Part One: the Safer City Initiative (Cont’d.)

 

Guests:

Jan Perry, Councilwoman for the 9th District of Los Angeles, which includes the fifty blocks of Skid Row

 

Estela Lopez, Executive Director, Central City East Association (CCEA), which represents the businesses in the area; the CCEA’s “initial mission was to protect the area from becoming the central location for the region’s homeless services.”

 

Deon Joseph, Senior Lead Officer, Los Angeles Police Department, Central Division

 

Steve Cooley, District Attorney, Los Angeles

 

Carmen Trutanich, City Attorney, Los Angeles

 

 

2:40 – 3:00

Why is Los Angeles still the “homeless capital of America?”—Part One: the Safer City Initiative (Cont’d.)

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Deon Joseph, Senior Lead Officer, Los Angeles Police Department, Central Division

 

Gary Boatwright, homeless man

 

Jerry Neuman (NEW-man), Home for Good task force co-chair representing the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce