Episode Details

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, August the 16th, 2022  is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to what is really going on with the Department of Justice now investigating the Souther Baptist Convention, and what the continued abuse story in America's largest evangelical denomination means, and how some are already politicizing it. Iran has made a statement regarding the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie, and it is just about what you'd think it would be for a regime that has called for the author's death for decades. Our guest today is Finesse Moreno-Rivera, an accomplished criminologist, research analyst, policy advisor, criminal justice data expert. Finesse is breaking down how the war on drugs sees the most casualties among the black and other minorities, destroys communities, and creats an irresistable business model for law enforcement. Finesse walks use through the history of the War on Drugs from Nixon and the cocain and heroin of the 70s to Biden and his schedule I fentanyl policy extensions of today. Finesse has several solutions that should be taken up by both communities and government, talks about how hard it is to get folks to even discuss issues of addiction and drug abuse, how the War on Drugs relates to the opioid crisis, and how a public health crisis must have a public health solution, not just a punative one. Plus, there's more trouble in Mexico as AMLO extends control of Mexico's national guard, and a wonderful story of a college student who is pursing a very unusual adoption. All that and more on this Tuesday edition of Heard Tell.

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