Jumaane Williams on Ending Solitary Confinement & Recording Police Stops
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Leraisho on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.0 | We're going to start on kind of a two-part discussion |
| 0:17.2 | of New York City news this morning. |
| 0:19.3 | We have the public advocate, Jumani Williams, |
| 0:21.6 | who's going to join us in just a minute and then |
| 0:23.8 | later in the hour we're going to play clips of Mayor Adams news conference |
| 0:28.3 | from yesterday. Some of you know now he does this every Tuesday. It's the only time all week that he takes questions |
| 0:34.6 | from reporters on topics of the reporters choosing. |
| 0:38.7 | And the mayor is going to respond |
| 0:41.8 | in some of those clips to two of the bills that City Council is voting on today |
| 0:48.0 | that the public advocate, Jumani Williams, is very much in favor of. |
| 0:53.6 | So we're going to do this in two parts. |
| 0:56.0 | It'll become clear as we go. |
| 0:58.1 | Today is set to be a big day in the New York City Council |
| 1:01.5 | as members prepare to vote on two bills concerning |
| 1:04.4 | policing, public safety, and prisons. One of the bills, the one that's getting much |
| 1:08.8 | more press, is called the How Many Stops Act, |
| 1:12.8 | and it seeks to retrieve more data from NYPD officers |
| 1:17.2 | regarding their level one and level two stops, |
| 1:20.5 | as they're called. |
| 1:21.2 | Those are the relatively minor encounters |
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