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Holding nonviolent suspects in jail threatens public safety | Los Angeles Times
(Commentary by UCLA’s Terence Keel) I have studied and measured the dangers of unsafe jails and the threats they pose to public safety. My lab at UCLA analyzed a sample of 180 deaths in 10 city and county detention centers in Maryland between 2008 and 2019. We discovered that 80% of these deaths happened while the individual was awaiting trial and had not been convicted of any crime.
Explaining ICE sweeps | LAist
Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA–Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, recommends parents talk to their children, especially if the family is at risk of separation or if they are citizens worried about being wrongly detained.
California needs to take a bolder stand for universities | CalMatters
(Commentary by UCLA’s Blake Emerson) This is a moment to stand up and fight. The University of California Regents must challenge the Trump administration in federal court. At the same time, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature must provide the UC system with the financial support it needs to stand for the rule of law and academic freedom.
The history of Halloween | NBC’s “Today”
“Scholars, especially folklorists, for the last hundred years or so, have been associating it with ancient Celtic times, saying that there was some festival of the return of the dead on October 31, but that turns out to be bogus,” Henry Ansgar Kelly, research professor specializing in medieval and Renaissance studies at UCLA, tells TODAY.com.
