Thursday April 19, 2001
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Cincinnati, Ohio is still reeling in the wake of riots that broke out last week after a black man was fatally shot by a white police officer. It was the fifteenth such fatality since 1995. Diane and her guests talk about the deep-seated, persistent problems in interactions between police and black Americans.
James Fyfe, professor of criminal justice at Temple University, and former lieutenant with the New York City Police Department
Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington legislative office
Novelist Pat Barker is best known for her Regeneration trilogy, one volume of which won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. She joins Diane to discuss her latest novel.
Pat Barker, Author