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Media Roundtable: Gun violence drops in the Bay Area, migrant deaths & ICE raids

Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group
March For Our Lives rally in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, March 24, 2018.

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we’ll discuss a recent report from The Guardian that found gun homicides nationwide have barely dropped, but in the Bay Area, a region scarred by inequality and gentrification, they’re down by 30 percent.

Later in the show, we'll get the latest on the reported ICE raids that are expected to begin this Sunday in 10 major cities, including San Francisco, and we'll talk about migrant deaths. In the last year, six children have died in custody.

Guests:

Lois Beckett, senior reporter at The Guardian covering gun policy, criminal justice and the far right in the United States

Cindy Carcamo, immigration reporter at the Los Angeles Times

Web Resources:

The Guardian: Gun violence has sharply declined in California's Bay Area. What happened?

Medium: Since Oscar Grant, 242 people shot and killed by police in Bay Area

NY Times: U.S. Prepares to Arrest Thousands of Immigrant Family Members

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.