Shaker Heights native and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Wesley Lowery spent more than a year covering the aftermath of police shootings in Ferguson, Cleveland and other U.S. cities. On The Sound of Ideas, Lowery joins us to discuss his new book, "They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new Era in America's Racial Justice Movement." Then, an update on how the past year of local efforts to reform police practices have been going. And, 75 years after Pearl Harbor, we'll learn more about the attack's highest ranking casualty, Admiral Isaac Kidd. He's a Cleveland native.
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Opportunities for community input on new police policies:
1. The Cleveland Community Police Commission (CPC) needs community input on the DRAFT Equipment & Resource Plan by the end of this week, Friday, Dec. 9. Visit www.clecpc.org to review and send feedback to: rwilliams@clecpc.org and mclopton@clecpc.org
2. The Cleveland Community Police Commission (CPC) has posted a call for applications for a staff position: Community Engagement Coordinator. Access postings by visiting - www.clecpc.org
3. Mental Health Resource Advisory Committee Forums on new Crisis Intervention Team policies
You can view the proposed policies and provide feedback by visiting: http://www.clevelandpolicemonitor.net/crisis-intervention
Two public meetings have been scheduled to discuss the proposed policies. Both meetings will be held on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, at separate locations and times:
1:00 p.m., Murtis Taylor Human Services System, 13422 Kinsman Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44120.
6:00 p.m., Urban Community School, 4909 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44102.
-Wesley Lowery, Author, They Can’t Kill Us All, and Washington Post Reporter
-Dr. Rhonda Williams, Co-Chair, Cleveland Community Police Commission
-Mario Clopton-Zymler, Co-Chair, Cleveland Community Police Commission
-Jim Dubelko, Researcher, Cleveland State University’s Center for Public History + Digital Humanities
