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Community policing has been the official police philosophy in Oakland since 1996. Rather than police simply responding to crime after it happens, c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
In every police department, there’s a special division just for policing the cops. Its responsible for investigating all officer misconduct, includ...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 10:45
On the eve of a vote in Uruguay's House of Representatives on the legalisation of Marijuana, Ben Weisz reports from Montevideo on a country yet to ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 06:51
The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:28
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
Five times as many people get a brain injury than are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury can be devastatin...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
Since last October, realignment, known legally as AB109, has shifted the responsibility for low-level offenders from state prison to county jails. ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 08:10
A big part of life in the Bay Area is how we get around. We drive and complain about parking; take MUNI and complain about delays; bike and risk ca...
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 06:29
Finding an apartment in San Francisco these days is an uphill battle on any kind of budget. Among those who find it most difficult are chronically ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 09:53
The surprising history of the earth and life's impact on it. Also, a new perspective on the future of the planet: earth will likely be in constant ...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, XRAY.fm, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 14:32
- Purchases: 4
This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, two things shaped the Oakland Police Department. The city had one of the highest crime rates in Cal...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 10:07
A string of incidents that have pushed the Oakland Police Department closer and closer to a federal takeover. But to understand how the OPD got to ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 08:12
While news stories about youth and guns usually involve death or injury, some Hoosiers believe that when young people learn to use firearms safely...
- Added: Aug 28, 2012
- Length: 03:09
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 16:57
- Purchases: 1
Modern science has given us a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. But we don't use it.
Bought by WABE and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 2
The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 16:26
If you’ve lived in San Francisco long enough, you might have noticed that there are fewer yellow school buses crisscrossing the city. State budget ...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 05:25
This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 39:25
Thanks to George Carlin, Pacifica Radio and the Supreme Court we all know the 7 words you CAN'T say on television. (The case is currently back in t...
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 54:59
Dr. Julian Ford has a program and a grant targeted to help veterans deal with post traumatic stress syndrome. Dr. Ford's research, clinical work, a...
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 49:40
The outgoing FDIC commissioner gives her final speech at the National Press Club. She discusses the financial crisis that occured during her time a...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 53:57
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 04:36
Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists. John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 36:34
