Reporters Ask the Mayor: From the National Guard to Pickpocket Crews
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event, plus other city news from the week.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laraishow on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.0 | When you're on the subway and you see a police officer, |
| 0:16.8 | or now a member of the National Guard, |
| 0:19.2 | how does it make you feel safer and more at ease or more threatened in some way. |
| 0:24.3 | Maybe it depends who you are and what you or your community's life experience has been, |
| 0:28.9 | right? |
| 0:29.9 | At Mayor Adams Weekly News Conference yesterday, he made the case for the National Guard |
| 0:35.3 | making people feel safer. |
| 0:37.0 | Now the Governor Hockel has deployed about 750 National Guard members to the subways supporting what the mayor called law |
| 0:44.3 | enforcement omnipresence. We were clear that there was a lot of concerns and |
| 0:51.7 | fear and that omnipresence was important. |
| 0:55.0 | And so the omnipresence right now of having that National Guard. |
| 0:58.5 | If you on the subway, and all of a sudden you come upstairs and you see that state trooper, that police officer, that |
| 1:05.9 | National Guard, you have a feeling the safety. |
| 1:09.0 | And that uniform means a lot to people. |
| 1:12.4 | Mayor Adams yesterday. We'll hear more clips from yesterday's news conference and discuss |
| 1:17.1 | them to start the show today. |
| 1:19.3 | As our lead Eric Adams reporter Elizabeth Kim joins us as she does most Wednesdays after the Mayor's |
| 1:24.2 | Tuesday news conferences Hyla is good morning good morning and listeners we're |
| 1:28.7 | going to open the phones right away too this morning for your reactions to that clip. How does police |
| 1:34.0 | omnipresence or police presence generally make you feel in the subway |
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