Harry Siegel and Alex Brook Lynn talk with state Senator Jessica Ramos about sex work and the new push to decriminalize it in New York, and much more.
Plus, Emma Whitford runs down her reporting on loitering laws, massage raids, and why the NYPD says we can’t arrest our way out of this problem.
And Georgetown Law Prof. Peter B. Edelman—who advised Sen. Bobby Kennedy and famously quit the Clinton administration to protest the 1996 Welfare bill—visited New York for an event co-hosted by the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research on the criminalization of poverty in America, where he sat down with Harry to discuss how that plays out in New York.
Finally, Alex and Victoria Bekiempis go inside the courts, Ron Carter’s bass solo of the Godfather theme shows what music can be, and Harry sings off key to show what not-music sounds like.
