Criminals, Cops and Assault Weapons
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2007
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Local cops claim they're increasingly out-gunned by criminals with high-caliber automatic weapons. So they're beefing up their own armaments. The federal Assault Weapons ban expired three years ago. Has that produced an arms race in American cities? Was the ban really all that effective? Plus, Democrats plan to increase pressure on President Bush over his plan for increased troops in Iraq and, on Reporter's Notebook, the mainstream media are taking heat for over-covering Anna Nicole Smith. Did they have any choice?
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.1 | Criminals, cops, and heavy weapons. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.4 | A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.6 | The International Association of Police Chiefs reports that high-calibre point from Public Radio International. A daily look at the issues. Americans can about most. |
| 0:26.4 | The International Association of Police Chiefs reports that high-calibre automatic weapons are increasingly common on the streets of American cities. Local police departments are fighting |
| 0:31.2 | back with military-style armament of their own. But there's dispute about whether the arms |
| 0:36.7 | race started when the federal assault |
| 0:38.9 | weapons ban expired three years ago. On to the point, was the assault weapons ban really all |
| 0:45.1 | that effective? Are there other reasons both cops and criminals are more heavily armed? |
| 0:50.7 | A reporter's notebook later on Anna Nicole Smith and classic melodrama. |
| 0:56.9 | First, here's the news. |
| 1:00.4 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio |
| 1:06.2 | International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:13.1 | Hello again. Mormon-Aulney, back with To the Point. Local cops claim they're increasingly outgunned by |
| 1:18.1 | criminals with high-calibre automatic weapons. So the cops are beefing up their own armaments. |
| 1:23.4 | On To the Point, the Federal Assault Weapons ban expired three years ago, as that produced an arms race in American cities, was the ban really all that effective? |
| 1:32.4 | On reporter's notebook, the mainstream media are taking heat for overcovering Anna Nicole Smith. |
| 1:38.1 | Did they have any choice? |
| 1:39.6 | First, this news update. When Congress returns next Tuesday, Democrats in both houses will be keeping up the pressure on President Bush and his plan for increasing troops in Iraq. In the Senate, there's talk of revising the authorization to use force passed in 2002. John Donnelly reports for congressional quarterly. John, always good to have you with us. |
| 1:58.1 | Likewise. Thanks. The question of terminology here, |
| 2:01.5 | would it be a revision or would it in fact be a repeal of the authorization to use for us? |
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