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Los Angeles County youth, advocates recount policing and juvenile-detention experiences and urge mental-health and reentry investments
Summary
On the Talk to Me podcast, Los Angeles County youth commissioners and community members described stops, juvenile-hall experiences and incarceration, and called for shifting resources from policing to community-based mental-health, reentry and educational supports.
Los Angeles County Youth Commissioner Evelyn Karina Rodriguez, fellow Youth Commissioner Chris and writer and mentor Walter Finney described personal encounters with policing, juvenile detention and incarceration during a Talk to Me podcast episode hosted by Sherry Bradford, and urged county and community leaders to invest in mental-health and reentry services rather than expanding policing.
The guests said experiences ranged from routine traffic stops and intrusive searches to arrests, juvenile-hall confinement and prison. “You will be literally stripped down in your underwear with a group of men and told to squat and cough,” Walter Finney said describing processing in jail and how carceral environments can strip people of identity. Rodriguez recounted being arrested at 16 and placed…
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