First hour: Greece Police Officer Tiffani Gatson on diversity in local police forces
Second hour: Discussing how changes to the Endangered Species Act will affect different species
We sit down with Officer Tiffani Gatson, the first African American woman to join the Greece Police Department. Officer Gatson graduated from the police academy earlier this month. She told the Democrat and Chronicle that her appointment creates a positive image, and it feels surreal to be making history. She joins us in studio along with Greece Police Chief Patrick Phelan to talk about diversifying the police force and the implications a more diverse staff can have on police-community relations. In studio:
- Officer Tiffani Gatson, Greece Police Department
- Chief Patrick Phelan, Greece Police Department
Then in our second hour, the Trump administration is making changes to the Endangered Species Act, and critics say those changes will have a negative effect on the protection of certain species. We discuss the changes, which animals could be impacted, and how. In studio:
- Matt Kelly, independent journalist, and creator and editor of The Bee Report
- Jim Howe, director of the Nature Conservancy in Central and Western New York
- Christopher Norment, professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Ecology at the College at Brockport, and author of “Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World”
- Tierra Curry, senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity
