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The Brian Lehrer Show

Responding to Fear on the Subways

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Harry Siegel, editor at The City, "FAQ NYC" podcast co-host, and Daily News columnist, and Dean Meminger, reporter and anchor for Spectrum News/NY1 covering criminal justice, talk about the city and state responses to crime and mental illness on the subways.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larrow's show on WNYC. Good morning everyone.

0:15.0

Chef Jose Andres coming up later this hour on his world central kitchen's

0:20.0

massive relief efforts in Gaza and Ukraine and also his new book and TV specials which both come

0:26.5

out today. Also today as every Tuesday are Climate Story of the Week, this time on a big new wind farm that despite opposition has actually

0:35.4

opened off Long Island, and later a call-in for women with ties to South Korea in a women's

0:41.9

history month segment about the so-called 4B movement there

0:45.7

to limit marriage and childbirth and even heterosexual dating in that country with a very patriarchal

0:52.2

society but that already has one of the lowest birth rates. in that the country with a very patriarchal society,

0:53.0

but that already has one of the lowest birth rates in the world.

0:56.0

Chef Jose Andres, wind power on Long Island,

0:59.0

and making women's history in South Korea,

1:01.0

all coming up, all with your your calls and we start here.

1:05.2

The news from New York City's subway system continues to be intense, right?

1:11.2

New random bag checks, super scary incidents of violence that make the news like

1:15.9

the shooting on the A train at Hoyts-Gimahurn last week that got everyone talking and

1:20.9

looking over their shoulders, but statistics that show major crime in the subway is extremely rare. And yet that was the ninth subway shooting this year, according to the stats that I read, compared to just one by this date last year.

1:36.8

And Mayor Adams says the A-Train shooting personifies what needs to be done with respect to

1:41.7

people with severe mental illnesses.

1:44.2

Adams and Governor Hokal have a new plan that they hope will address that need.

1:48.1

We'll talk about it in a minute.

1:49.8

But as Daily News columnist Harry Siegel points out, that plan is getting less attention

1:55.1

than Hoko subway deployment of the National Guard.

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