It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen from the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom.

And now we turn to Brooklyn, where the district attorney's office is working on overturning wrongful convictions.

The unit founded in 2014 has now recommended the exoneration of the 40th person since it began.

And in related news, public safety in the borough has increased as the number of shootings have

gone down. We'll talk about all of this and more with Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

DA Gonzalez, welcome back to WNYC.

Good morning, Bridget.

And listeners, we can take some phone calls for Brooklyn DA, Eric Gonzalez, especially, but not exclusively.

If you live in Brooklyn, the number 212-433 W-N-YC.

That's 212-433-9692. You can also text at that number.

D.A., Brooklyn's Conviction Review Unit is the first standalone bureau of its kind in the nation.

It's also the largest.

Can you introduce listeners to the work this unit does?

The work of Brooklyn's Conviction Review Unit is so fundamental to the concept of justice.

We are looking at past mistakes in our criminal legal system to see whether or not people

who are incarcerated or have been incarcerated had received a fair trial and whether or not

there are people who are in jail who are actually innocent. And as we know, there are over 2 million people in prison.

We believe that there are, you know, thousands of people that have been wrongfully convicted.

And so in Brooklyn, we're working around the clock, looking at cases where people have evidence that we can review to see whether

or not they were actually wrongfully convicted.

It's an ongoing process and today, yesterday we announced the 40th vacator, which quite frankly

is tremendous work because it's more than all the other

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