Four dogs play tug-of-war with a stick in Prospect Park.

Sen. Gillibrand; State Sen. Biaggi; Police Reform from Inside; Pandemic Pet Training

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 23, 2021

On today's show:

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about the COVID-19 relief bill and other issues facing New Yorkers.
State Senator Alessandra Biaggi (D, 34th) talks about the details of her bill, which would repeal Governor Cuomo's expanded emergency powers, which he was granted last spring at the start of the pandemic.
Rosa Brooks, law professor at Georgetown University and founder of Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program and the author of Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City (Penguin Press, 2021), talks about what she learned after joining the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department as a reserve officer to learn about police reform from inside the profession.
Pet adoptions have boomed since the start of the pandemic, and dog trainers and pet behavior specialists are booked for weeks in advance. Robert Haussmann, certified trainer and behavior specialist and co-founder of Dogboy NYC, takes your calls if you've acquired a pet in recent months and have questions about training, bonding and other behavioral issues brought up by pandemic life.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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