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The Markbelling Podcast is a 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:24.720 production of iHeartRadio Podcasts. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:27.280 I want to. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.200 Open today's podcast, the last of twenty twenty five, the 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.920 last of the twenty twenty five season, the last of 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:37.400 the first season of the Mark Belling Podcast with one 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.919 of those stories I talk all the time going back 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.960 through my radio career and doing the podcast. The topics 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:46.680 that I think are the best ones to do are 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.360 the ones that in and of themselves are interesting. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.640 But they explain all sorts of other. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:58.880 Things beyond the specific topic itself. We now have the 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.680 ability to do a side by side comparison of what 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.040 happens when you ban cell phones and schools. First of all, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.640 some schools do and some schools don't, so you can 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:14.080 compare that. But secondly, many of the schools that have 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.240 banned cell phones had not banned them prior to this. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:24.920 You can compare that against that. Almost everyone will know 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.759 what the result was before I even tell you everything 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.800 has improved in the schools that ban cell phones in 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:33.520 the classroom. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.400 Now that begs a question and we're going to dive. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.720 Into that as we dive into today's podcast. Have you 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.480 ever been offered an add on option for premium or 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.240 white glove service? 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We 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.000 always hesitate to link those pieces up because sometimes they 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.800 end up behind a paywall. Every now and then they'll 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.640 give you free stories out there for free. But if 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.120 you want to find it, it is on the Wall 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.760 Street Journal, online, WSJ, dot comm or and the prededition. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.800 I don't want to share some paragraphs from the story 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:49.600 written by Julie Jargon. A large urban district in Florida 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.680 saw an increase in student test scores. A smaller school 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.880 district in rural California experienced a dramatic decline in student 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:03.600 behavioral problems. The reason for both the absence of smartphones 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.480 in the classroom. Early data on the effects of school 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.280 of phone bands confirm what teachers and administrators have long 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.359 suspected that phones in the classrooms were the primary culprit 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.359 behind bad behavior and low engagement. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:19.320 Quote. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.880 When you have two hundred and sixty seven incidents of 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.600 threats and physical injury in the first ten weeks of 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:29.000 a school year, that's a problem, said April Moore, superintendent 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.840 of the Sierra Sans Unified School District near California's Mojave Desert, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.280 of last year's disciplinary problems, students were using their phones 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:42.800 to plan bathroom vaping meetups, gossip sessions, and fights. When 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:47.920 behaviors escalate in the invisible space, we can't prevent them 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.480 or react as fast, said More, who presides over a 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.120 district of about five thousand students. Since district wide ban 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.480 on cell phone use during instructional class time went into 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.320 effect this fall, student behavior as time around, and they 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.880 go into some of the numbers, and the story goes 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.119 on and lays out all sorts of other anecdotes did. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.680 As I say, as somebody who's not involved in running 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.320 a school, it's just the most obvious thing, the idea 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.600 of the kids right sitting there during school with their 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.280 cellph instance, says, well, some of them can't use them 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.960 during class. Okay, you can say that they're using them 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.640 during class. To once again quote Francis McDorman from Fargo, well, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.280 how do you know these kids are pretty good at 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.680 concealing the fact that they're using them. Secondly, even if 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.080 they're only using them during the breaks they can cause all, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.600 there's just zero upside for it. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.360 Furthermore, we also know that there's no need for. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:47.320 It, given the fact that just about every student in 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.080 the history of students until about fifteen to twenty years 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.560 ago didn't have a Snell phone with them in the 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:58.800 classroom because they didn't exhaust. The point though in bringing 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.159 this up is I think every school in America knows 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.120 that banning them is a good idea, and now some 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.440 have done so to one extent or another. As I say, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.680 some you're required to turn the phone in at the 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.039 beginning of the day and you don't get it to 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.920 the end of the day. Others the kids can only 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.239 use them during lunch, and so on their varying degrees 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:20.640 of the kinds of bands. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:20.680 That you have. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.480 I think everybody knows the bands are a good idea, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:32.280 but the fact that not all schools ban them indicates 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:37.200 just how much we've lost any type of common sense 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:41.120 in anything the government runs at all. If banning cell 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.360 phones is a good idea, why haven't we banned them everywhere? 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.640 And the answer is because sometimes parents object, sometimes students 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.960 raise a ruckus about it. And the third one of 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.239 the story addresses this. One of the downsides of banning 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.560 them is if you find a student is violating the ban, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.479 they're terrified of what to do with them. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.599 List. Man, you've got a kid who just he's got 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:04.160 he's gonna go. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.719 He has his phone and he's just gonna bring it 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.719 in every day despite them, What are you gonna expel 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:08.240 him for that? 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.280 Well, they don't have. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:10.960 The willingness to do it, so they would just assume 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:18.800 look the other way and not address it. The whole 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.320 area of cell phones, I just think as smartphones is 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:26.479 really the better term. And I think that this is 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:33.240 in direct proportion to your age people have become. It's 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.279 almost like they're mortified if they don't have them. You 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.000 watch some of the YouTube videos of police arresting people, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.200 the thing that they freak out that most about is 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.080 losing their cell phone. No, maybe maybe they're sometimes concerned 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.880 that there's damning information on there. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:51.200 They're terrified if they can't have it. They can't. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.080 Paul said, if his wife forgets it, it's like the 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.960 end of the world. My own My own end of 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.760 the world is only if I think I've lost it. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.960 Now that actually is the end of the world. But say, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.640 knowing that you've forgotten it, I actually needed here at 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.400 work because we can't log into our computer system without 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.640 having the authenticator in place, so I would need it 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.440 to do that. But another reason that I bring it. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.880 But I think it has a greater impact on kids 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.520 because having the phone with them twenty four to seven 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:23.640 is the only life that they know. But if they 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.160 have them, they're going to use them. So to me, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.080 the takeaway from this is and it's it's like everything else, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.680 you can't argue anymore that they don't There isn't a 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.240 benefit in banning the phones. Yet there are some districts 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:41.200 that still don't do it. In some cases, the parents. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:41.360 Are the problem. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.360 They want to text their kids all day in school. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.600 There are others that say that, well, I want to 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:52.680 keep track of what's going on. It's all crap. Your 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:57.960 daughters are pushing thirty now, almost, aren't they. So, I mean, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.160 the smartphones were around when they were in school, but 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.440 the smartphones just weren't as smart. But like, texting came 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.520 in before browsing access and all of that. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:07.680 But were they. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.640 Allowed when they were still in school to have the 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.360 So I mean it kind of was your banned and 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.760 then they became ubiquitous and they were allowed and now 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:17.680 it's a. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:18.960 Mish mash all over the place. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.160 As the story discusses, I want to move now to 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.800 another story. In fact, I have companion stories that I'm 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.760 going to put together and make a point both in 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.600 and of themselves are interested. This story is reported on 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.320 Fox six. It has to do with a seventeen year 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:39.480 old who she was at a bar in a parking lot. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:46.360 It's unclear if she was ever in the bar. A 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.320 security guard attempted to stop her from driving because she 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.640 was drunk. She gets in the car and drives, and 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.600 what do you think she does? She hits the security 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.559 guard you just talk about somebody doing the right thing 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.120 and getting burned for it instead of looking the other 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:03.840 way and letting her go off and do whatever it 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:04.280 is that she is. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:05.880 She gets hit, Let me coo. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.000 From the Fox six story, a seventeen year old Milwaukee 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.520 girl is facing multiple felony charges. Prosecutors say she drove 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.840 intoxic kid, struck a security guard, and fled the scene 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.160 outside a Northwest Side bar. What we know, here's what 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.320 we know. The accused is Juliette Perez. She's in charge 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.679 of the following injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.440 causing great bodily harm, knowingly operating a motor vehicle without 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.640 valid license, causing great bodily harm, hit and run, resolving 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.400 a great bodily arm. The incident oft happened he on 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.960 one fifty am Saturday, December twenty seventh, So this would 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.400 have been this past Friday night turning into Saturday morning 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.360 at the Prime Social Lounge. It's seventy sixth in Good Hope, 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.440 where Milwaukee Police were conducting tavern patrol. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:46.439 Now that's key. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.000 The police were on the seat. Now, I don't know 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.560 anything about this club, but chances are draws a very 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.559 large crowd and maybe a crowd that's bordering on underage, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.400 and they're at the scene of this bar closing, and 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.400 one fifty is approaching closing times throughout the the scene 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.680 of the bar doing that. So there's all the kinds 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.760 of things that would happen. You have people dispersing from 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.480 a large crowd and police are already on the scene. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.600 According to the complaint, officers say they saw a security 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.840 guard and by the way, sometimes there's video of these things. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.120 In this case, cops actually saw it. Saw a security 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.080 guard speaking with the driver of a blue sedan when 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.240 a commotion broke out. Two security guards were then seen 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.439 lying on the ground in the parking lot as the 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.880 vehicle drove away. Police stopped the car a short distance 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.040 away and found three occupants inside, none of whom were 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.559 in the driver's seat. Say, this tells me that they're 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:41.320 street wise. Amazing none of them are in the driver's seat. Now, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.480 if this was one of musk cars, maybe you could 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.320 claim that it was autonomous. By the way, you know 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.480 that that's what's gonna happen is these people are gonna 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.240 when people do hit and runs, they're gonna claim the 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.160 car did the hitting and the car just kept on 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.360 with They were claiming it all anyway, none of we're in 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.199 the driver set, which means whoever the driver was scurried 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:00.760 and got in the back seat. They were able to 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.840 identify that Perez was identified as one of the rear 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.880 seat passengers. Officers say she was unbuckled, sitting on a 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.640 child's car seat. I would probably indicate that she scrambled 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.559 for the first place that she could fight, and she's 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.960 sitting out a car seat, had slurred speech, was unable 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.800 to maintain balance without assistance. She initially refused to identify 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.520 herself and later attempted to leave the traffic stop before 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.840 being detained purd the complaint. Investigators say one of the 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.960 security guards to Whole police he was struck by the 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.760 st anne while trying to stop the driver from leaving 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:40.240 because she appeared too intoxicated to drive. Surveillance video from 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.040 the bar allegedly shows Perez entering the driver's seat of 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.400 the sedan before it drives off. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.520 All right, so you have. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.600 A by the way the story goes on, They found 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:53.679 numerous empty bottles and cans and so on inside the vehicle. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.640 One of the things that happens at a lot of 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.880 these clubs that attract a younger crowd is the people 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.280 who can't come in will hang around in the parking 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:08.520 lot and drink in the cars. There also, one of 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.240 the problems that you see with regard to a lot 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.600 of these bars, where they have heavy security presents and 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.239 metal detectors and so on, doesn't do anything about the guns. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.160 That are in the cars. I don't know if there were. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.160 Guns in this car, but there's a problem that the 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.400 bars simply can't control what's happening in the vehicle that 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.360 is outside the bar. And again I don't know if 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.559 she ever got inside the bar or not. And she's 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.040 way under the age. She's seventeen years old. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.360 Now update on. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.040 The story, and this is where I wan to tie it. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.920 End of the second story. She's facing, as I said, 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:46.840 three felonies. She doesn't have a driver's license, she was drunk, 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.480 way under age. Then she ran into him badly injured 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.440 a security guard who was trying to stop her from 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:58.800 driving away. Two thousand dollars cash bond, Milwaukee County, the 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:04.280 Commissioner's Burry Phillips, two grand I don't know anything about 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.040 her family situation, boyfriends and so on. Two grand is 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:16.000 usually something that most people can dredge up. She gets out, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.080 what are the chances that she's not right back drinking 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:19.960 and driving again? 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.320 Two grand? She could have killed him. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:30.440 Now this story it's some Wakershaw County. A few days ago, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:36.200 the Wakershaw County Courthouse received a telephone threat that the 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.760 courthouse was going to be shot up. Now, as I've 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:44.000 explained any number of times with cases like this, almost 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.720 never are these threats real. When somebody does go into 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.080 a public building and shoot it up, which sadly happens 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.280 now all the time, they don't usually announce in advance 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.280 that they're going to do it. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:57.960 Why would you do that. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.560 If you intend to go to a building and shoot 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:00.800 it up, you're going to try to get into the 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.640 building before anybody knows that you're there so you can 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.360 shoot it up. So there's every reason to believe that 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:11.320 the guy was bluffing. However, given that so many people 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.800 are now so many cases that we have of public 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.200 shootings like this, they can't take it as cavalierly as 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.440 I would take it in the past. I mean, even 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.400 when I was a kid, you'd have bomb threats and 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.200 you know, just you're yawn because there's never a bomb. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:34.560 You can't yawn anymore. Let me quote from the report. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.960 It's again a five to six report. A seventeen year 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.160 old Milwaukee team is charged with allegedly calling in shooting 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.600 threats to the Walkershaw County Courthouse, prompting a lockout. He 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.600 did have a pending case in Walkershaw County, not surprisingly 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.960 in the court. A seventeen year old Milwaukee is facing 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.480 felony charges after authority say he called in shooting threats 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.120 to the Walkershaw County Courthouse, prompting a large scale law 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.520 enforcement response and a lockdown of the county comm According 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.160 to the Wakashaw County Sheriff's Department, just after six thirty 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.040 pm Friday, again another story from last Friday, the Wakershaw 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.800 Kuntie Communication Center received a call from a person claiming 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.080 he was outside the courthouse with a gun. The County 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:18.240 Justice Center was immediately placed on lockdown. Now, fortunately, six 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.960 thirty pm, My guess is that all the courts and 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.080 the offices were shut down for the day. Plus it's 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.680 the day after Christmas. Thankfully, this wasn't like two o'clock 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.600 on a weekday afternoon when zillions of people in there. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:34.040 Continuing investigators say the caller allowed them to hear what 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.360 sounded like gunfire in the background. So the guy's making 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.320 the threats now it starts to shoot off the gun, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.320 so it sounds like there's a shooting there. In other words, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.800 the threat is going to be taken even more seriously 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:54.920 because now you're actually hearing somewhere there's gunfire. Well, the 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.120 gunshots later turned out not to be real. He apparently 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.320 had an audio track. The response was nine on one. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.840 Calls were released Tuesday, December thirtieth. That's yesterday, and I'll 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.720 clean it up a little bit, but these are among 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.600 the things that he said. I'll shove that great draco 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.520 down your effing mouth and blow your head off. Don't 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.440 mike my ass come in there and shoot y'all. I'm 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.400 outside the courthouse. Pull up to my crib. See what's 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:27.840 going to happen. I'm gonna shoot you all. Investigators were 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.560 able to identify the caller as Cameron, Gats and Staples 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.760 in the nearly twenty minute nine to eleven recording. Five 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.120 six has obtained the recording. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:37.640 You could find it. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.800 Another side authority said The Milwaukee address was Gaston Staples's 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.640 group home, a location police had responded to before. Milwaukee 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.200 County prosecutors say the teenager got into an argument with 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:53.680 a caretaker there in September. Police say Gaston Staples became 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.600 aggressive and hit a security guard in the eye at 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:01.440 an officer in the face. The story goes on, So 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.640 now in this case, well, the guy caused the ruckus. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.960 There are separate charges in Milwaukee County for that because 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.199 the group home was there. I'm dealing now only with 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:15.400 the Wakashaw County charge. He didn't actually do anything, as 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.240 opposed to the case of the seventeen year old. By 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.199 the way, they're both seventeen. The seventeen year old who 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.680 while drunk ran over a security guard who was trying 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.600 to stop her from driving because he was concerned that 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.560 she was too drunk. That seventeen year old only got 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.919 a two thousand dollars bond. This guy in Waukeshaw County 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:39.720 Circuit Court has a five thousand dollars cash bond. I 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.679 am often very critical of the Waukashaw County Court commissioners. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.480 In this case, I want to praise the court commissioner 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.600 who are coming up with a proper bond. Daniel Week, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.879 I think of the two, certainly, the Milwaukee County case 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.040 is the more serious. Both are serious, they're both felties 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.480 with The Milwaukee County case is more serious. A security 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.520 guard who's all banged up, beaten, badly hurt as a 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.520 result of being hit by a drunk drive ever fleeing 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.000 the sea and who shouldn't have been drawnk to have 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.639 been driving, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, as opposed 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:10.320 to the other, I've got another set of candem stories. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:15.439 They have one thing in common, the controversy over what 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:16.680 stuff goes where. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:18.720 The first. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.119 This is a proposal in New Berlin. Many of you 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:28.600 have heard of the Milwaukee Rescue Mission. It's a homeless 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:34.120 shelter and more. It's faith based and they have very 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.960 strict rules. It's located at nineteenth and Wells. Back in 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.560 the early dages, the days of WYS and we were 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.760 at the WIS and TV building. It was kitty cornered 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.919 from us. The Rescue Mission is a large facility and 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.800 is highly respected in Milwaukee. They run that place as 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.320 well as it could possibly. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:51.800 Be run run. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.760 They have numerous rules no booze, no this, no that curfew. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.480 You got to be in by a certain time, you 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:02.040 don't come in. They don't tolerate any craft segregation on 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.879 the basis of your gender, to avoid any kind of 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:10.520 it's a class operation, and they provide services obviously for 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.119 people who a are homeless or have just gotten so 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.200 screwed up that because of drugs or alcohol or whatever 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.080 that they got nowhere to go. What they can't do 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:26.359 Harvard is use while they're there. The Rescue Mission wants 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.040 to open kind of a satellite complex in New Berlin. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.160 It would not be the same as the Rescue Mission 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.440 in Milwaukee. What it would be is long term housing 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:45.840 for people that are essentially in recovery. The location is 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:47.320 for those of you who don't know the area, I'll 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.520 do my best to describe it, but Moorland Road is 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.320 just a main thoroughfare on Wakashaw County and it runs 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.560 north and south all the way to Brookfield. This is 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.119 in the area well south on Moreland Road, where it 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:58.840 is near Interstate forty three. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:04.119 It's a huge interchange. Even you know that interchange. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.680 I think if you're to have a facility like this anywhere, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.280 it's ideal because it's a mostly commercial area. I'm not 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.600 saying there's no residential nearby, but there's like lots of 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:21.160 big box stores, fast food restaurants and so on. That's 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:26.000 where the Rescue Mission wants to build this satellite facility, which, 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.960 as I say, is residential. It's not a lockdown facility, 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.520 just like the Rescue Mission in Milwaukee is not lockdown. 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.520 They lock you out, you can't come in after a 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.639 certain point, but you can come and go at the 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.200 Rescue Mission. Well, this would be a residential, but it's 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.800 for people that are in recovery, and they would probably 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.679 offer the same kinds of services that they offer in Milwaukee. 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:46.720 Help you get off of booze and help you get 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:48.800 off of drugs and so on. That's what it is. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.040 Preliminary approval has been given to this in New Berlin, 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.879 but a number of residents believe that this thing is 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:01.040 being rammed through and they don't like the notion of 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:07.760 a large residential complex coming in to this area. I've 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:11.000 seen the artist renderings. It looks exactly like all any 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.640 of these other kind of generic treatment centers or even 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.040 medical buildings that have housing and so on, and it 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:17.359 would seem to me that if you're going to put 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.600 it anywhere in the suburbs, it's about a perfect location 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.359 because it's in it's not stuck in the middle of 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:24.680 a residential area. It's not a group woman, it's big, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:27.880 but it's in an area where there's just a lot 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:34.440 of people. In general, some of the residents are expressing concern. Now, 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:36.520 the residents have a right to offer the input to 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.560 their community. I want to offer some context on this. 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:43.480 I do believe. 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:50.000 That it is not correct, not just Milwaukee, but throughout 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:57.159 all of urban America that every shelter, halfway house, and 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:04.280 so on be stuck in central of cities. If for 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:08.159 no other reason, then a huge portion of the population 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.600 didn't emerge from those neighborhoods. The people who get screwed 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.760 up on alcohol and some one are as likely to 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.439 come from downtown Milwaukee as they are from Muskego or 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:25.159 Brookfield alreadywhere else. In addition to that, if you have 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:27.959 people that are in a legitimate recovery facility that are 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:33.320 trying to provide proper services here, why do they all 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.600