Incarceration and overpolicing please welcome kelly stimson, senior legal fellow and Deputy Director in the heritage foundations meese center for legal and judicial studies. Well, welcome to the heritage foundation. For those of you online here in person, then those whove joined us on c, were delighted to have and im really delighted and honored to welcome to heritage two friends and really giant in the criminal Justice Policy world. Dr. Barry latzer on my far left and Rafael Mangual barry is professor Professor Emeritus at the John Jay College criminal justice and at the city college of new york. He has a law degree and a ph. D. And is the author of countless articles, papers and influential books the rise and fall of Violent Crime in america. And his latest book, published last year called the myth of our punishment a defense, the american Justice System and a proposal to reduce incarceration while protecting the public Rafael Mangual is the Nick Odonnell fellow head of research for
We are funded by these Television Companies and more including buckeye broadband. Buckeye broadband supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Welcome back to washington journal. Join now by charles stimson, Deputy Director of the center for legal and judicial studies at the Heritage Foundations, also coauthor of the book called rogue prosecutors. Welcome to the program. Thanks have any. Talk about your role at heritage. Are you affiliated at all with the Trump Campaign and with project 20. 5 . Not affiliate all with any Campaign Including trump. I do havean a very small role in project 125 and us because of my time at dod in the Bush Administration so im helping with the w Regulatory Reform sie of dod, if another person comes into office in the fall. So im helping with whole bunch of other people. Just look at dod directives, the unity and structures and see whether they should be reformed if at all. Host bef
Netanyahu and the hamass leader in gaza. We are getting your reaction. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. Include your first name and city, state. We are on social media, facebook. Com cspan and x cspanwj. We are glad you are with us. We will start with an article from the Associated Press headlined were crimes prosecutors seek arrests of israeli and hamas leaders including netanyahu. While netanyahu and his defense minister do not face imminent arrest the announcement by the icc chief prosecutor was a symbolic low that deepened israels isolation over the war in gaza. Accusing netanyahu, gallant, and three hamas leaders of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the gaza strip. Lets look at the prosecutor for the icc speaking about this from the hague yesterday. [video clip] i have reasonable grounds to believe that the three Senior Leaders of hamas bear criminal responsibility for the following Internat
Well. Up next, we will take you live to a Senate Hearing that has already gotten underway. They are looking at the safety of Law Enforcement officers, including the impact of assault weapons. This is just getting underway. A line of mourners, thousands deep, wrapped around she described her connectedness both the community she served in the people she worked with. Two Young Police Officers both in their 20s shot in the london duty wellers funding to a domestic to the. A Police Officer shot and killed in the line of duty. A Police Officer has been shot. Shot during a traffic stop with lifethreatening injuries. You never know. You could kiss your family goodbye, go to work, and it could be over in a heartbeat. Im porting on double shootings, triple shootings. It is way too easy for people to get these kinds of weapons in their hands. I want to protect my Police Officers. My son was a Police Officer and i think we could see both objectives without infringing on anyones rights. We need to
The Committee Also heard testimony about the dangers of antiPolice Rhetoric and civilian access to assault weapons the committee will come to order starting a couple minutes early because we have a vote scheduled early and to try to accommodate the members the story of a young lady a hero to me and many from the Chicago Police department. The embodiment of selflessness she loved people, she loved her family, she loved animals particularly stray dogs. She was known for picking them up and her squad car and getting them off to safety. With the communities that they served. Last year sadly she made the ultimate sacrifice in her line of duty. She was shot and killed while making a traffic stop with her partners. She was 29yearsold. The gun that was used to kill her and seriously injure was purchased and indiana. I would like to share a brief video to help tell her story and the threats that Law Enforcement officers save. Let me show the video. The night of july 1st there was a mass shootin