Brian Laird on W.N. Y.C. on yesterday yesterday show we had NYPD Chief of Patrol John Shell to talk about subway safety, the killing of Officer Jonathan Diller last month, the killing by police last month of a man named Wynne Rosario

who had called 911 seeking help in a mental health crisis and more. Chief Shell had been most in the news recently for aggressive social media posts

against daily news columnist Harry Siegel, posting snarky barbs like,

the problem is that besides your flawed reporting is the fact that now we are calling you and your latte friends out on their garbage.

That was a quote and the NYPD Twitter feed labeled the columnist deceitful Siegel.

That came in response to a column by Harry two weeks ago called subway cop

bosses talk themselves into cuffs. Now Harry says the police are trying naked

intimidation, his words against him and other journalists with their fiery

social media campaign. We'll talk now with Harry Siegel and like yesterday

mostly about subway and other public safety issues themselves but also some

about their war of words. Harry Siegel is a daily news columnist, co-host of the podcast,

FAQ, NYC, and an editor at the news organization, The City.

Hi Harry, welcome back to WNYC.

Hi Brian, always good to be with you.

Let's go back to the beginning of this cycle.

Your article, Subway Cup bosses talk themselves into cuffs.

That was about people who appear seriously mentally ill in the subway

system and what the police do or don't do about it, about them? Yes and people

were behaving very erratically.

And the transit chief had just done a television appearance

where he said there's nothing to be done about that,

remarkably, and the deputy commissioner for operations and I wrote that that seemed

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