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The exterior of Club Kalua where Sean Bell had his bachelor party before being shot and killed a block away (Getty Images)Police Practices
The NYPD has hired the RAND Corporation to look at the phenomenon of “contagious shooting”. in light of the death of Sean Bell. We’ll look at the phenomenon and how it may have contributed to his death. Also: Monday morning politics with NY Times guest columnist, Thomas Edsall.
More coverage of the Sean Bell case from the Brian Lehrer Show
Monday Morning Politics
Tom Edsall, full-time professor at the Columbia School of Journalism following 25 years at The Washington Post; correspondent for The New Republic and The National Journal, recent guest op-ed columnist at the New York Times and author,
Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent Power (Basic
Books, 2006)
- looks at the week's news as the clock is about to start on the first 100 hours of the 110th Congress
Mayoral Press Conference
We cut to Mayor Bloomberg talking about the possible natural gas leak in Manhattan
Contagious Behavior
Edward Mamet, president, ECJM Consultants Inc., and retired police officer
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Bernard Rostker, Rand Senior Fellow
- talks about police practices and the problem of contagious shooting
In The Black
Keith Alexander, reporter for The Washington Post
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Michael Woodard, president of Woodard and Associates, a Human Resource consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.
and
Antwayne Ford, President of Enlightenment, Inc., a technology consulting company based in Washington, D.C.
- on the experience of being a black entrepreneur, as depicted in the Washington Post series, "Being a Black Man".
Brute Market Force
Douglas Rushkoff documentarian, teacher, blogger and author,
Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out (Collins Business, 2005)
- question his gentrified Brooklyn living situation after getting mugged while taking out the trash
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