COVID in NYC; Is Mass Transit Safe?; 30 Issues: Police Reform; Amy Coney Barrett's SCOTUS Hearing - a podcast by WNYC

Coming up on today's show: 

Gothamist senior editor Elizabeth Kim and Jacob Kornbluh, national politics reporter at Jewish Insider, talk about the protests in Borough Park over COVID-19 restrictions, and case numbers citywide. 
Sam Schwartz, aka Gridlock Sam at the Daily News, former NYC Traffic Commissioner, president and CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering, a transportation planning and engineering firm, and author of No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future (Public Affairs, 2018), talks about the American Public Transportation Association report he authored, which concluded that mass transit is not a major spreader of COVID-19 and Stephen Morse, virologist and epidemiologist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, weighs in on the data.
Paul Butler, professor at Georgetown Law and the author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men (The New Press, 2017), and Jami Floyd, senior editor for race and justice at WNYC, talk about how the candidates are addressing movements to defund, reform or support the police - and where their policies fall along that spectrum.
Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, recaps the second morning of the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

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