If you haven't heard already, things are going pretty well for the media team of Ed and Adam. Alongside all of our relatively successful blogs (nevermind the ones that weren't), we've now been tapped to co-write a column in The Undercurrent.
And as of 10 minutes ago, pending scheduling, we'll be hosting Fresno mayoral candidate Henry T. Perea on the podcast. Boo. Yah. If you want to be a featured guest on the podcast, now is the time because pretty soon we'll only be accepting Presidential candidates and heads of state.
Ed, get Matt Damon on the phone, he'd be a great guest.
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Thats awesome, well done boys!
wow!!!!
you boyz are big time!
well, he's agreed to do it, but we don't have him scheduled yet. i'm still hoping we can do it this week for our next podcast.
Dude. Score. Too bad I was already going to vote for him anyway, or you might have changed my mind.
If you ever run out of interesting people, you can have me as a guest.
Thanks for noting The Undercurrent, as well. I didn't know that site existed.
Oh, wait. I just found out that Perea opposes an independent police auditor. What's up with that?
Maybe you could ask him.
This is the short answer he gave when the Bee mailed a questionaire out in March. Do you support or oppose an independent police auditor? Why?
"I am opposed to an IPA (Independent Police Auditor). I believe that there are enough checks and balances in our system to protect the interests of the public."
He doesn't clarify any more than that.
Of course, Swearingen made it a point to not answer the question at all.
"I support the implementation of a plan to safeguard the community’s trust in law enforcement.... The proposed independent police auditor is one model that we will examine, but I would like to explore other models to accomplish the same objective. Ultimately, we must come up with a solution that succeeds in safeguarding the community’s trust in law enforcement and that will be supported by the City Council."
Oops, here's the source on that info.
Yeah, that's the same information I already found.
I also found somebody (not Perea, if I recall correctly) stating that the $200,000 salary for such an auditor is not justified.
While that is certainly a solid, not-irrational reason, the lack of other detail, and the clear reticence of the candidates to address the issue more clearly and more thoroughly makes me suspicious.
If the "checks and balances" already in place are sufficient, I would like to know much more information about what exactly those checks and balances are and exactly how they work and some evidence as to their real, actual, practical effect. For instance, do they actually deter police misconduct? do they punish it after the fact? and if so, what are the punishments? how much of the "check and balance" system involves deference to the Police Department's own spin on an given incident?
If you want to grill Perea on something like that, I'd totally dig it. If he can convince me that we really should not have an independent police auditor, I'm down with it. But I'm not convinced yet.
Yeah, we haven't talked too much about it yet so I'm not sure what format we're going to be going for on this show.
if you go to the bee's website and find their political podcast, you can listen to perea & swearengen talk about a whole lot, including the police auditor.
i've forgotten all the details why, but i know that as a councilman he opposed it as it had been proposed, and so he's basically got a position of not supporting it unless it was different than before.
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