Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: Brutality Against Homeless New Yorkers in the Name of Law & Order
Description: The latest front in Mayor Eric Adams crusade for public safety: New York City’s vast subway system. On Friday, Mayor Adams announced that the city would now be taking a zero tolerance approach to unhoused people in the subway system. Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of “The End of Policing" talks about the Mayor’s new strategy for policing the homeless and his broader approach to public safety.
We also speak with speak with Peter Malvan, who spent 32 years living as a homeless New Yorker. During that time, he lived in the subway...