KPFA - UpFront

Two years of covid lockdown; ICE detention visitation; and a focus on SFPD


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[caption id="attachment_377705" align="alignnone" width="657"] New data from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice show SFPD costs/capita (in constant 2021 dollars) over the last 30 years, along with declining crime clearance rates | CJCJ [1][/caption]
0:08 - Two years to the day after the Bay Area went into covid lockdown, we spend a full hour discussing the ongoing and long term effects of the virus as things begin to reopen. Speaking with us today are Dr Rupa Marya (@DrRupaMarya [2]), Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition. She is co-author, with Raj Patel, of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice [3]. We are also joined by JD Davids (@thecrankyqueer [4]), a health justice and communications strategist working with national networks of disabled and chronically ill people. He is founder of the National Network for Long Covid Justice [5] and a longtime HIV/AIDS activist. JD's national network launched a pledge last week: Pandemics Are Chronic: A Statement of Commitment to Long COVID Justice [6].
MENTIONED DURING THIS SEGMENT: 
Body Politic [7] Long COVID support group
People's CDC [8]
Resources [9] on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
1:09 - March 14th marked two years since visitation to ICE facilities was halted under the Trump administration. Laura Duarte Bateman, Communications Manager for the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice [10], alongside Antonio, who is currently in ICE detention and fighting his case for release.
1:23 - The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice [11] released a report on the San Francisco Police Department's budget, which over the past 10 years has gone up 7 percent while arrests per reported crime has gone down 60%, on top of further stunning racial disparities. Researcher Mike Males joins us to discuss the report.
1:35 - John Hamasaki (@HamasakiLaw [12]), San Francisco criminal defense attorney, joins us to discuss his decision to step down from the city's police commission.
[1] http://www.cjcj.org/news/13268
[2] https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Inflamed-Deep-Medicine-Anatomy-Injustice/dp/0374602514
[4] https://www.instagram.com/thecrankyqueer/?hl=en
[5] https://springboardhealthlab.org/long-covid-justice/
[6] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1062ERIbI1A-VMaNRysYPPxSVsavQU1oGyfmRlWLv3JQ/edit
[7] https://www.wearebodypolitic.com/covid-19
[8] https://peoplescdc.org/
[9] https://www.meaction.net/stoprestpace/
[10] https://ccijustice.org/
[11] http://www.cjcj.org/index.html
[12] https://twitter.com/HamasakiLaw
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