Barry Krisberg Opines on Attorney General Candidates’ Debate

KCRW FM, Which Way, L.A.?, October 6, 2010 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww101006the_state_budget_and

I was struck with, and, I guess, disappointed with District Attorney Cooley’s focus on the death penalty. This is sort of old-school California politics that cycles again and again. Quite frankly, the hundred and twenty-five thousand prisoners who are being released every year to our communities with obscenely high rates of recidivism is more important to the safety of Californians than whether or not we end up putting one or two people to death every five years.