Lecture: "Preventing violence: Critiques of the criminal justice system"

Preventing Violence: Critiques of the Criminal Justice System

Dr. James Gilligan, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Social Policy

Wednesday,
March 11, 2009
Lecture & Dinner
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Founders Room,
McConnell Center, Pitzer College

To RSVP and for more information, contact CCCSI at 909.607.8183 or DeborahL@pitzer.edu.

This lecture is part of the Changemakers Spring 2009 Speaker Series. Changemakers is a CCCSI program to promote social responsibility and community engagement through scholarship, action and advocacy.

Dr. James Gilligan is a visiting professor of psychiatry and social policy at the University of Pennsylvania, teaching on the causes and prevention of violence. Gilligan explores the causes and prevention of the human propensity to engage in violent behavior, from individual (homicide and suicide) to collective (war, terrorism and genocide). Gilligan's unique approach reframes violence not as a moral and legal problem but as a bio-psycho-social problem in public health and preventive medicine. Violence, from this perspective is seen as a form of lethal and life-threatening pathology that threatens the survival of the human species. Gilligan is president of the Center for the Study of Violence and a distinguished visiting scholar and adjunct professor at New York University, faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, England. He is the author of Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic and Preventing Violence: An Agenda for the Coming Century.

Presentation: "Child Safety"

As I mentioned in an earlier post, last week Sonia presented information to the Garfield Park Neighborhood Watch group about child safety. The slides from the presentation appear below.

Thank you to Sonia for the presentation (and the permission to post)! Thank you to Calwatch for teaching me how to post slides!

Child Safety

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Web Watch: Stolen Laptop Computers

From Web Watch alert dated March 2, 2009:

The Pomona Police Department is seeking information on stolen laptop computers. During the past year, Pomona Unified School District has experienced a high degree of theft of laptop computers from various middle schools within the City of Pomona. The Pomona Police Department, Detective Bureau Burglary Unit, has been working to investigate these thefts and apprehend those responsible for these burglaries.

The Pomona Unified School District etches an identifier on the bottom of each piece of equipment with the following ID Tag "PUSD 91766". Also please note that individuals may have attempted to scratch the ID Tag to make it unrecognizable.

If you have information regarding property of this kind or have seen property that is being sold with this type of identifier please notify the Pomona Police Department Burglary Unit at 909-620-2287 or 909-620-2356. Persons wishing to remain anonymous may also call WE-TIP at 1-800-78-CRIME.

Det. Anderson/Det. Weidner

Lecture: "Collective Efficacy in Rich, Poor, and Middle Class Neighborhoods in Los Angeles"

THIS Thursday...

"Collective Efficacy in Rich, Poor, and Middle Class

Neighborhoods in Los Angeles"

Thursday, March 5
11:00 a.m.
Hahn 108
Pomona College (see campus map here)

Anne R. Pebley
Fred H. Bixby Chair of Community Health Sciences
UCLA

Professor Pebley's research focuses on fertility and marriage patterns, children's health and welfare, and family organization in the United States and other countries. She is past-President of the Population Association of America, and has collaborated with researchers and institutions in Central America, West, Central and East Africa, and Bangladesh and India. Currently she is serving as co-Director of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS), a longitudinal study of families in Los Angeles County and the neighborhoods where they live.

Peddling Wares in Parking Lots

Is it just me, or is business hopping in the parking lot of the "99 cent only store" on Holt and Paloma? I was in the parking lot twice this past week. Both times young men were approaching people getting into and out of cars, attempting to sell bootlegged DVDs and CDs.

Sure, I'm guessing the guy who camps out in front of Cardenas selling the little stuffed toys probably doesn't hold a city permit to sell or anything like that, but at least he is pretty up front about what he is doing and he isn't approaching vehicles. Moreover, there's at least a chance he's selling legally obtained wares.

The DVD and CD guys are definitely not selling legally obtained materials. Yesterday, the kid (maybe age 14 or 15) dropped his big black duffel bag in front of my car and then walked across the parking lot. He returned about a minute later. I casually asked what he had in the bag; he said DVDs. Ever concerned about his best interests (ha ha), I let him know the cops were in the lot a couple days ago busting people. This may or may not be true; I know I called dispatch to report the shady dealings a couple days ago, but I didn't stick around to see if the cops were able to stop by.

Last call

Last call! If there are specific issues -- however narrow or broad -- you would like to see addressed at the March 10 community-wide Neighborhood Watch meeting, post them here by day's end March 3. We'll send the issues to the Crime Prevention Office. Officers will investigate the issues and report out to the community during the March 10 meeting. In turn, I will post my oh-so-sassy minutes on this oh-so-nifty page.

More numbers worth knowing

During Saturday's Neighborhood Watch meeting, Sonia and Brenda shared a couple phone number worth knowing; these all deal with traffic-related issues.

To report damaged street signs: 620-3665

To submit a request for a new street sign (e.g., street sign needed): 620-2263

To request the trailer with the speed monitor and sign: 620-2081