Brian Lehrer Weekend: Alvin Bragg; Why Some Young People Carry Guns; Record Heat and the Power Grid
The Brian Lehrer Show
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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney, on the recent arrest of a suspect involved in the Gilgo Beach slayings and how New Yorkers are feeling about crime in relation to actual crime numbers (First) | The authors of a new report by the Center for Justice Innovation on why 100 teens and young men in Crown Heights say they carry guns (Starts at 37:30) | The reliability of the power grid as a record heat wave engulfs much of the Southwest and Texas (Starts at 1:04:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. |
| 0:36.4 | Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is my first guest today. We'll talk about crime trends in the city in |
| 0:41.8 | most major categories substantially down this year so far, but public perception is not keeping up. |
| 0:48.4 | The shell game that policy plays with unhoused, mentally ill or drug addicted New Yorkers and |
| 0:54.3 | some money from white collar crime that Bragg is sinking into addressing it. The difficult |
| 0:59.1 | decisions that DA sometimes have to make over prosecuting people who might be in the act of |
| 1:04.0 | defending themselves or at least think they are. People like Subway Choker Daniel Penny and |
| 1:09.0 | also others more recently in the news. There's the Manhattan Trump indictment for the alleged |
| 1:14.8 | Stormy Daniel's hush money cover up falsifying business records. Remember that? What happens to |
| 1:19.9 | that trial date with the classified documents and now possibly January 6th and big lie indictments |
| 1:26.5 | coming to. And I'll ask the DA for comments on the Manhattan aspects of the Gilgo Beach |
| 1:32.0 | serial killer investigation and maybe even more than that. There's so much we could talk about. |
| 1:36.7 | We'll see what time allows. DA Bragg always good to have you on. Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:42.2 | Thanks so much. Great to be on. Hope you're having a great summer. |
| 1:46.0 | And same to you. Can I start with Gilgo Beach? The alleged killer Rex Hoyerman lives on Long |
| 1:51.3 | Island obviously but worked in Manhattan and the investigation included things like DNA taken |
| 1:57.3 | from near his office and documenting cell phone pings from around there too on the disposable |
| 2:03.2 | phones he allegedly used. Are the Manhattan parts of the investigation things your office would |
| 2:08.5 | have been aware of or participated in? So first I want to applaud I mean I think that you hit |
| 2:14.8 | upon sort of the key investigatory steps. So I want to applaud you know my counterpart and Suffolk |
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