I'm a total hot weather person.

Give me heat and I'm a happy camper.

Maybe because as a kid, I was literally a happy camper.

School was out, camp was in, and it was the best time of the year.

But not everyone has it that easy, right?

Another time without the resources for things like summer camp, or even air conditioning,

or if you have to work out there on construction sites or whatever work keeps you outside,

heat brings health challenges for some people, spikes in crime and political unrest.

And as the new addition of the policy journal Vital City reminds us when temperatures get

hot, so do temperatures.

So do tempers.

They quote this line from the classic song The Message by Millie Mel.

Don't push me because I'm close to the edge by Millie Mel in the classic song The Message.

The journal addition is called summertime, how life changes when things get hot.

It's got the good in the bad, reflections on summertime's past by Dwight Gooden, Lin-Man

Well Miranda and others, and we will invite yours in just a minute.

With us now Elizabeth Glazer, the founder of Vital City.

Most recently she served as the director of the New York City mayor's office of criminal

justice, former Bill de Blasio, where she led the strategy to produce a dramatic reduction

in the jail population and to create community-led safety strategies.

She previously oversaw the criminal justice agencies in New York State as the governor's

deputy secretary for public safety.

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