Tuesday Morning Politics; Heat Wave Danger; NYPD Complaint Database; Quarantining With Parents

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 28, 2020

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Ayesha Rascoe, NPR White House reporter, talks about the latest political headlines.

  • Sonal Jessel, WE ACT for Environmental Justice’s policy & advocacy coordinator focusing on extreme heat issues in New York City, talks about how low-income and Black New Yorkers are more likely to die in heat waves than their white neighbors. Plus, she talks about how donors and foundations don't allocate nearly as much money to environmental justice groups as they do to mainstream environmental groups like the Sierra Club, and how race plays into that dynamic.

  • Last month, New York State repealed 50a, the law that shielded police disciplinary records from public view for decades, and journalists were able to access thousands of complaints against police officers. WNYC/Gothamist reporter George Joseph, Christopher Robbins, reporter and editor for Gothamist, and Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor for ProPublica, who also talks about the searchable database that ProPublica published.talk about what they found when they reviewed the data, and what it says about the culture at the NYPD.
  • With many grown children staying at their parents’ house to quarantine, or help out, old issues of independence, privacy and housekeeping resurface. Joshua Coleman, co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, psychologist with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of many books on family relationships including, When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along, tackles some of your 'quarantining with my parents' questions, and talks about how to keep boundaries and stay sane.

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