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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter interview. · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a tale of two cities as you schlepped up
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  Speaker 2: from the streets to the suites. And, Natalie, the tale
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  Speaker 2: of two cities is, if you listen to the mayor
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  Speaker 2: and police commissioner, we've never been safer. But if you
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  Speaker 2: talk to people on the subways and streets, they're concerned
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  Speaker 2: about income. being pushed into subway tracks in front of
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  Speaker 2: an oncoming train or being slashed or stabbed like, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: the woman from New Jersey who's dead in Times Square.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the NYPD, right, saying it's the safest
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  Speaker 1: summer on record in New York City. The report that
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  Speaker 1: made headlines came out after a spate of violence this week.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest story, a 49-year-old woman who stabbed two people
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  Speaker 1: in Times Square yesterday. killing a 32-year-old mother who was
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  Speaker 1: just getting back to work after maternity leave.
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  Speaker 3: So, are people really feeling secure?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's frightening. Absolutely frightening. I'm scared to go down
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  Speaker 4: to 42nd Street, and I'm a native New Yorker.
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  Speaker 3: It's a city, so no, I'm not surprised or shocked.
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  Speaker 3: I am hurt that there are so many people with
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  Speaker 3: mental health issues that are not getting the support that
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  Speaker 3: they need. Again, there's how many millions of people? That
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  Speaker 3: was two people. I just, I don't feel unsafe.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we have a mayor that cares about
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  Speaker 5: its people. I think he had a great marketing campaign.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think he's doing enough for the city.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there were only 195 shootings from June 1st to
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  Speaker 1: August 31st, 32 fewer than the same stretch of time
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  Speaker 1: last year. There were 66 murders. And Governor Hochul says
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  Speaker 1: New York has marked an eight-month stretch of record low
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  Speaker 1: gun violence. But Curtis, as you pointed out just this week,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these crimes are really being done with knives.
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  Speaker 1: We saw the woman with the two kitchen knives in
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  Speaker 1: Times Square. We saw, as we know, your nephew stabbed.
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  Speaker 2: Or cut up. Box cutter.
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  Speaker 1: Box cutter by St. Patrick's Cathedral. These are knife attacks happening. Now,
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  Speaker 1: despite a drop in overall crime, That New York City
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  Speaker 1: or New York State says the city has reported a
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  Speaker 1: rise in hate crimes.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, hate crimes have been at an all time
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  Speaker 5: high for Jewish people, for all kinds of people in
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  Speaker 5: the city. And I'm not OK with it. I was
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  Speaker 5: just in Italy, felt safe walking home at 11 o'clock
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  Speaker 5: at night here. I take a cab. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: our mayor. should change what he's doing to make it
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  Speaker 5: safer here and to not waste time on things that
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  Speaker 5: are not relevant. And I really think that that's something
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  Speaker 5: to be changed. And I think that the police should
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  Speaker 5: be respected here.
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  Speaker 4: We need more cops, okay? We cannot get rid of
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  Speaker 4: the cops. We have to have more policemen. And that's
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  Speaker 4: how I really feel. And I think they're stupid to
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  Speaker 4: say we don't need the cops.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, earlier this summer, Mayor Mamdani backed down from increasing
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  Speaker 1: the NYPD's headcount because of a $ 70 million price tag
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  Speaker 1: that came with it. So, okay, no bump in the ranks,
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  Speaker 1: but are we doing enough as a city for mental
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  Speaker 1: health patients or people experiencing mental health crises like the
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  Speaker 1: woman who was running around Times Square with a pair
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  Speaker 1: of knives?
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you asked that because, no, I think they
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  Speaker 3: need to help the families and caretakers of people with
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  Speaker 3: mental health issues because that's the thing. If they're over 18,
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  Speaker 3: you can't do anything. Well, this is the result. This
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  Speaker 3: is what happens. Can you imagine? She was probably soaked.
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  Speaker 3: All those police officers I saw on TV, all those
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  Speaker 3: police officers surrounding her, all those people. If her family
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  Speaker 3: could have done things differently, I am sure they would have.
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  Speaker 3: Could you imagine what they may have been experiencing at home?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are crying out for help. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, they don't know how to expound.
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  Speaker 5: They don't know how to explain their situation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will say the mental health issue is rampant
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  Speaker 1: here in New York City in a sense of that.
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  Speaker 1: Just when I was doing Man on the Street, I
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  Speaker 1: have to say in that time frame, maybe three or
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  Speaker 1: four people screaming on the street. It makes you look
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  Speaker 1: over your shoulder, you know, to make sure nobody's truly
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  Speaker 1: coming at you. So There are these things that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: stats show different numbers, but when you're on the street,
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  Speaker 1: you're walking around, it's a little bit of a different feeling.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely. I feel like it's mental health pinball sometimes. When
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  Speaker 6: you're walking, you just want to keep avoiding things. People
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  Speaker 6: that are talking to themselves or are crazy or yelling out.
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  Speaker 6: It's constantly because you don't know when they're going to
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  Speaker 6: go off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And they constantly go off. You have a couple of
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  Speaker 6: examples that you just talked about in your piece. No,
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  Speaker 6: it doesn't feel that way on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I'll give you an update on my nephew.
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  Speaker 2: He was slashed and stabbed on that same day as
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  Speaker 2: the woman was killed in Times Square a few hours
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  Speaker 2: later in front of St. Pat's and across some sacs.
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  Speaker 2: They caught the individual up in Summers, New York, the
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  Speaker 2: New York State troopers. They brought him back for arraignment
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  Speaker 2: in Manhattan. He was charged with felony assault, a bail
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  Speaker 2: of $ 100, 000, right? Yeah. And he made it. So now
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  Speaker 2: it goes to a grand jury. But my nephew is home.
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  Speaker 2: He's recovering. It'll be a long recovering. But again, it's slashings.
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  Speaker 2: It's stabbings. In this case, I don't think it's an
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  Speaker 2: emotionally disturbed person. I don't. But- To be continued. Let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you, next week, Natalie will be back at
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  Speaker 2: 7.50 with a special series on stories about September 11th,
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  Speaker 2: 25 years later. So we do appreciate all the hard
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  Speaker 2: work you're putting into this, Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.