Wallach on Law, Fire & Gasoline, Part II --When The Mentally Ill Meet Police – The Need For CIT Training. Featuring Ret. Maj. C. Samuel Cochran, Dameion Perkins, Nathanial Hamilton, and Maria Hamilton

Wallach on Law, Fire & Gasoline, Part II -- When The Mentally Ill Meet Police – The Need For CIT Training. Featuring Ret. Maj. C. Samuel Cochran, Dameion Perkins, Nathanial Hamilton, and Maria Hamilton. In the wake of the shootings of Ezell Ford and Dontre Hamilton, we look for answers as to how to train officers to identify and respond to the needs of those challenged by Mental Illness. We speak with Ret. Maj. C. Samuel Cochran of the University of Memphis Crisis Intervention Team program about how officers can be trained to respond to a crisis involving one afflicted with mental illness and what those programs do. And to discuss why we need to implement changes, we speak with the family of Dontre Hamilton, who was killed by an officer in Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee, and learn about him, and the Milwaukee Police Department’s response to his killing.  “Wallach On Law” airs on Saturdays at 1:00 pm Eastern Time on AM radio stations throughout the US and the episode  is available on iTunes and YouTube and can be also heard here:   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wallachlaw/2014/09/11/wallach-on-law-fire-gasoline-part-ii--when-the-mentally-ill-meet-police

Wallach on Law, Fire & Gasoline --When the Mentally Ill Meet Police. Featuring Ron Honberg of NAMI (the National Alliance For Mental Illness).

Sat. Sept. 6, 2014.  Officer-Involved Fatalities & Shootings on the mentally ill are becoming commonplace.  In August, Ezell Ford was killed by two Los Angeles County Police Department officers, who stopped him because he was acting strange, and when a struggle ensued, killed him when they believed he was reaching for their weapons.  Three months earlier, in Detroit, Dontre Hamilton was lawfully sleeping in a public park and had just been questioned by two officers and deemed a non-threat.  A third officer later woke him with a baton, and when a struggle ensued, the officer shot Mr. Hamilton 14 times killing him.  Neither victim was engaged in illegal conduct, and both suffered from mental illness.  None of these officers received “Crisis Intervention Training”—which teaches law enforcement officers how to identify and respond to those afflicted with mental illness.  Ron Honberg of NAMI joins us to talk about what is needed and why.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wallachlaw/2014/09/04/wallach-on-law-fire-gasoline--when-the-mentally-ill-meet-police

Wallach on Law. Gun Legislation & Officer Training, With California Assembly Member Das Williams, And Gun Rights Activist Sheriff Richard Mack (“Sheriff Mack”)

Gun regulation is potentially the most partisan and divisive issue in the U.S.  Some believe that any form of gun regulation in unlawful.  Others don’t believe the Second Amendment provides a right to possess a gun free from regulation.  And others are more concerned with the present – determining that, in the wake of multiple tragedies – the need to better regulate gun access is essential.  This week, Sheriff Mack joins us to explain why he believes gun regulations are illegal, and that our focus should be ending the drug war and improving officer training.  And in the wake of the Isla Vista tragedy, Cal. Assembly Person Das Williams has co-authored a bill that provides a mechanism to keep those who may be unstable temporarily away from weaponry.  He joins us (from the Assembly floor) to discuss his bill as it moves through the California Legislature. 

Wallach on Law airs on AM stations throughout the US on Saturdays at 1:00pm Eastern Time, and can also be heard on iTunes, iHeart Radio and can also be heard here:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wallachlaw/2014/08/28/wallach-on-law-with-das-williams-sheriff-mack

Wallach on Law – The Road Back -- Featuring Karen Wolff, Social Worker with the Innocence Project and Harold Hall, who was released after 14 years when the 9th Circuit reversed his conviction

We discuss the problems facing those released from jail after prolonged periods – whether incarcerated justly or unjustly.  We speak with Karen Wolff, a social worker with the Innocence Project, about the work of Innocence Projects worldwide, and the tools that are needed to help those who have been in custody assimilate into society.  And we speak with Harold Hall, who was wrongly incarcerated for fourteen years until his conviction was ultimately overturned by a federal circuit court.  He will discuss the process of a coerced confession, the use of “jailhouse snitch” techniques to effectuate a conviction, and the hardships one faces as they attempt to rejoin society.  Wallach on Law is available on ITunes, IHeart Radio, and on blogtalkradio.com here -- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wallachlaw/2014/08/22/the-road-from-innocence.  The show also airs Saturday, 1:00 pm central time on KKRP Lazer 1610 and other am stations. 

Wallach on Law Featuring Jane Velez Mitchell and Dale Baich – Life and/or Death in Arizona – the Jody Arias Trial and the Process of Lethal Injection

This week Ian Wallach welcomes Jane Velez Mitchell, the host of the Jane Velez Mitchell show airing daily on HLN.  She is a frequent contributor to CNN, an award-winning journalist, and author of the New York Times bestseller, “Exposed, The Secret Life of Jody Arias.” 

And to better understand the implementation of the death penalty in Arizona, we welcome Dale Baich, a Capital Habeas Attorney with the Federal Public Defender’s office in Arizona.  Mr. Baich represented Joseph Wood, and witnessed what is considered the fourth botched execution of 2014.  He will explain the legal and chemical processes of taking a life, and the risks that the current state of lethal injection poses to the convict, the witnesses, and the society in whose name a life is taken.

Wallach on Law airs on Saturdays at 1:00pm on am radio stations throughout the U.S., and is available in IHeart Radio and Itunes and on blogtalkradio here --

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wallachlaw/2014/08/15/wallach-on-law-featuring-jane-velez-mitchell-and-dale-baich

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