WEBVTT - 12-31-25 Ken Broo in for Willie 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.400 All right, the average American in for the great American 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.640 on this New Year's Eve Day, twenty twenty five. And 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:17.840 wherever you are, Happy New Year to you. People walk 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.960 around they say Happy New Year all the time, Happy 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.000 New Year. What was it to mean? Well for me 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.239 when I say that, and I just don't say it 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.120 just throwing it out everybody. I don't run into everybody 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.360 and say Happy New Year. It means happy and healthy 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.600 and safe. Because if you don't have your safety and 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.960 you don't have your health, it doesn't matter a bit 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.400 what else you have. You can have all the money 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.640 in the world, but if you're not happy, and you're 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:45.320 not healthy, and you're not safe, well then it doesn't 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.400 really matter, doesn't So that's when I say Happy New Year. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:49.880 If I see you out on the street today or 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.520 out someplace tonight, That's what I mean when I say 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.760 Happy New Year, because I think those are the three 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.880 things I think that we would wish anybody in life, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:03.120 and one of those three things is safety. Now, in 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:07.360 the end, we are all responsible for our safety. We 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.720 all should have our antenna up. It is just the 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.119 time that we live in. Some things we need help 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.760 in achieving safety. I mean we can't certainly be attuned 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.880 to everything that's going on around us, let alone around 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.000 the world. And that's where the authorities come in, whether 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.679 they be local or state, or federal or whatever it 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.480 may be, that's their job to charge their charge with 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.080 keeping us safe. And so tonight would be one of 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.600 those nights when if you're out reveling, or if you're 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.880 out anywhere tomorrow reveling, it would be wise for you 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.039 to walk around with the old antenna up. We know 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.960 what happened in New Orleans last New Year's Eve, New 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:50.720 Year's morning, when fourteen people were murdered as a driver 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:59.400 who was compromised in his political beliefs by let's just say, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.040 some some far left thinking that occurs around the world, 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.120 drove his pickup truck through the streets of New Orleans 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.880 in the quarter, killing fourteen people, taking a gun out, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.040 and finishing off those who were not run over by 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.600 his truck. Those things, unfortunately happened, They happen in our country, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.080 they happen all over. But as we look around the world, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.720 we find that there are some cities that are just saying, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.400 you know what, We're just not going to hold New 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:31.200 Year's Eve celebrations anymore, And to me, that's sad. It's 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.400 sad on a number of different levels. It's sad for 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.640 those that can't revel. But it's also said that that's 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.520 what we've become as a society. But here we are. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.160 And so as cities prepare for New Year's Eve events tonight, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:49.000 fear of terror attacks run high. How fearful should we be? 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.840 What should we do to keep our saves as safe 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.239 as possible? Standing by to join me is a guy 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.920 who's been a good guest of my program good guests 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.079 here on seven hundred WLW for many many years. Doctor 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.280 Alex Dale Carmen is a criminologist. He taught criminology at 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.320 the collegiate level, consulting with over twenty five years of 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:16.280 experience working with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.440 And it's great he can spend some time with us 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.960 now here on seven hundred WLWE. Doctor, how are you 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:23.760 on this glorious New Year's Eve day? 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.440 I'm doing great because I'm talking with you, ken. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.000 Ah, God bless you for saying that. And I meant it. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.080 When I say Happy New Year, I meant all three 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.600 of those things. And to you in particular. Look, you 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.560 can't stop everything bad that may happen. The bad guys 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.560 only have to be right once. The good guys have 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.120 got to be right one hundred percent of the time. Again, 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.240 we saw that last year in New Orleans. But at 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.720 what level do you think you, me, and anyone else 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.840 that might be out there tonight or tomorrow, at what 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.080 level do you think we have to be on alert 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:57.839 on this particular New Year's Eve? 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.640 Well, I mean, I think that we always need to 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.920 be on alert, right, whether there's New Year's Eve or 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.960 you know, just regular day, you know, in twenty twenty six. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.040 But at the same time, I think that are there 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.760 any specific threats No, are there specific areas that we 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.599 are concerned about. No, But at the same time, given 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.440 what happened last year, as you know that in New Orleans, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.839 given that you know, sometimes these individuals that want to 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.960 cause harm on good people are people that have an imagination, unfortunately, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.920 and they try to circumvent the efforts that are made 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.160 by law enforcement. I think we always need to be 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.240 on alert, especially if you're going to be out tonight 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.760 in a large crowd, you know, a condensed space. Always 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.000 be situationally aware, always know where your exits, where your 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.200 points of entry are, and have a plan. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.000 Yeah, And I think that's true of anything, if not 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.520 terror fear. Certainly you need to know how to get 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.479 the hell out of a place where a case fire 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.680 breaks out or a brawl breaks out, where's the exit 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.000 do or how do I get out? We saw already 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.400 this year that the FEDS had had foiled a New 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.279 Year's Eve plot, a bombing plot that was in Los 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.280 Angeles about ten days ago. I sense, and I don't. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.040 I don't mean this from anything other than just a 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.800 since that this particular group at the FBI that's been 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.119 in place for the last six seven months, I since 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.680 they've got their eye on the proverbial ball more than 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.240 what the group that was in there before them. Do 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.120 Do you sense that as well? 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:32.440 Well? 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.480 You know, Ken, I think that the FBI has been 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.839 rerouted back to its original premise, right that he was 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.840 fighting terrorism, and certainly after ninety eleven, you know, that 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.840 was that was the mandate that the bureau you know, got, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.880 and and they have deviated from that in the past, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.160 as you know, and gone into other areas. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.040 And I think that what's happened. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.840 In the past six to eight months, is that they've. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.360 Just sort of you know, begin went back to what 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.400 they were originally, you know, purpose for back, you know, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.120 after ninety of it. And so I'm not used to 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:05.279 fight terrorism, and I think that there's a more significant 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.200 focus of resources and as well as people that are 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.279 devoted now to ensure that we're safe and ensure that 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.040 these terrorist don't get away with a killing in US 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:15.840 in Americans. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.320 As I sit, the FBI field office here in cincinnati's 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.000 right next door to us, and it's a massive structure. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.640 It employees a lot of people. There are a lot 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.279 of great people that work inside that building, not just 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.520 the agents that work inside there, but other people that 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:34.160 work inside there. What do you think cash Betel's message 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:39.400 was or is maybe to these various field offices around 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.240 the country on this particular night. Do you think that 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.159 he needed to give these people to pev talk or 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.840 tell them exactly what could or may not happen and 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.520 where they need to be. I'm just just wondering how 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.559 that works at the FBI level. 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:53.960 Now. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.520 Well, I can tell you that the bureau, you know, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.719 it's obviously hierarchical organization where the top rolls down the 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.520 mission and it goes all the way to the last 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.640 agent or civilian working at the Bureau. And you know, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.880 one of the things that I'm certain that's happened is 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.240 that that back, you know, six months ago, is you 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.520 know that you know, these these marching orders were given 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.680 and they were given with absolutely no subject to interpretation, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.720 meaning that they're basically told you need to fight thereor 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.760 do whatever you can to ensure that Americans are safe 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.880 and to ensure that we are going to protect the homeland. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.240 And so what that means for tonight is that there 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.800 is a strong likelihood that the Bureau has been working 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.080 twenty four seven, and especially in places like New York, LA, Miami, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.920 Dallas at all, they have been working to make sure 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.880 that they're behind the scenes, but that they're watching, that 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.040 they're carefully monitoring, that they're sweeping social media resources just 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.720 to make sure that people are going to be safe tonight. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.280 So you know, I would suggest to. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.000 You that there is a likelihood that many agents are. 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.160 Not going to go to sleep tonight, or are not 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.680 going to be celebrating New Years with their families. Instead 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.120 are going to be monitoring something to make sure that 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:10.840 people go back home safely tonight. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.840 It is. It is great, and it is in a 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.880 lot of sense, in a lot, in a large sense, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.920 thankless work because you know, when you're protected from anything, doctor, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.320 you just kind of say, okay, good. When things don't 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.600 go right, that's when everybody gets up in arms. But 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.320 when when when things go right, these agents that are 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.760 out there, I don't think at the respect or the 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.679 admiration that they deserve. Do you find that too? I 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.559 mean that's true in a lot of police work. Right 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.120 when things go well, nobody walks up to a police 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.480 officer and says, hey, things are going well tonight. Thanks, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.160 But if all hill breaks loose, you're yelling and screaming 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.720 at the cop to come over here and do this. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.319 I think admiration for police work has greatly disintegrated here 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:53.480 in the last several years. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.080 Yeah, there's no question. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.480 As I often tell police officers, as you know, hundred 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.000 thousand of them for the past twenty eight years. I've 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:06.160 worked at the FBI Academy and Quantico Service and instructor there, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:07.240 you know, for three years. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.680 And I can tell you, as I often tell them. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.800 You know, triumph has many fathers, and defeat is an orphan. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:15.280 And what I mean by that. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.240 Is that many people just don't you know, these folks 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.360 are working twenty four seven and they're successful. When nothing happens, right, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.560 and as you know, you know, people are just popasetic 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.120 about it. The next day, they're going back to their business. Oh, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.040 nothing happened last night, and they don't even think about 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.120 the thousands of hours and the sleepless nights that many 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.400 of these young men and women in various entities in 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.599 law enforcement have devoted in order to make sure that 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.160 people go home that night safely. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.560 Yeah, you know, doctor del Carmen, not that native born 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.800 Americans aren't capable of carrying out heinous crimes, But I 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.960 do worry about what's transpired here with regards to the 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.240 invasion our country suffered under the last administration from the 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.920 southern border on a number of differ levels. We just 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.160 open the floodgates and let everybody in. And we let 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.000 people in. We have absolutely no idea what their intentions are. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.760 Maybe they're good intentions, who knows, but maybe it's maybe 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:16.000 it's ten percent of the up to eighteen to twenty 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.360 million I've seen the estimates of people that have been 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.280 let in here. Up to ten percent could be in 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.320 here doing nothing but nefarious things. And even if it 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.199 is that ten percent, that's a large number of people 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.120 that are in this country illegally that may have come 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.040 here to do some sort of harm. That's what I 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.080 worry about more than anything else. I know the current 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.360 administration is trying to get its arms around as many 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.360 of these people as possible and get them the hell 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.800 out of our country, but I think it will not 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.720 be accomplished inside of the current admission administration's tenure, which 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.160 is now another three years, and whether remnants of that 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.160 administration those that follow in the footsteps of Donald Trump 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.160 believe the same thing. Who knows. We don't know right here, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.880 But that's what worries me the most. We let so 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.559 many people out of this country. We have no idea 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.200 what the hell they're doing here, what they're up to. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.120 That's what bothers me the most here on this New 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.040 Year's Eve twenty twenty five. Am I wrong in feeling 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.880 that way? 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:14.240 Well? 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.800 You know, I worry as a criminologist about many things, right, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.600 And one of the things that I'm concerned about, I 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.000 think certainly no democracy can survive by simply opening the 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.760 doors and letting people in without having an organized migration 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.720 component into our country. And so I agree with you 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.920 and sins that you know, we need to we need 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.720 to get our act together. We need to make sure 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.840 that we know who's coming in and who's getting out, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.000 and we understand the nature of what that person is doing. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.760 So I don't disagree with that, but I do worry 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.800 about many many things in addition to the individuals that 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.320 are here illegally right. And one of the things that 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.400 I worry about is the fact that many of these 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.800 attacks are done by individuals that are long wolfers. They're 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.160 people that have been radicalized, you know, at home, They're 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.920 you know, reading stuff from the Internet. They're making deals 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:02.800 with who they think. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.359 Is ISIS or sympathizers with ISIS. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.960 And they turn around and they go inflict pain and 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.000 harm on the American public. And so for me, as 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.760 a criminologist, I go where the crime is because I 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.920 want to make sure it doesn't happen, regardless of who's 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:16.280 doing it. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:17.440 But what I am. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.760 Telling you is is that among many things that I 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.920 worry about is that we have these sort of cells, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.400 individual cells across our country that we really don't know 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.920 who they are, and law enforcement doesn't have the capability 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.880 right now of being able to identify these bad actors 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.960 before they show their ugly face and go out there 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.080 and commit harm against Ennis and Americans. That's what I'm 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.480 concerned about, for our children and for our children's children. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.600 Doctor Alex Stalekhmon criminologists are guest. Yes, the lone Wolf. Yeah, 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.480 I suppose if you're going to narrow it down to 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.120 one thing, it's the lone wolf. Somebody that's sitting at home, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.480 maybe on the dark Web, maybe, as you say, conversing 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.200 with someone they think is isis, or someone that's going 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.440 to change them from some ideological standpoint and make their 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.040 world better. Maybe they're gamers. They're sitting on the computer 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.120 as well, and they're playing games where people can get 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.800 shot indiscriminately, and so, in a sense, reality and fantasy 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.680 really don't have a line separating them, and all of 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.599 a sudden, you've got somebody that decides I'm going to 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.240 go out there and do exactly what I'm being told 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.520 to do from a number of different things that are 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.800 coming into my mind. I don't simply don't know how 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.720 you stop the lone wolf. I get how the FBI 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.600 foiled that plot about ten days ago, because you simply 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.080 had a lot of people involved in it. And the 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:42.120 more people you have involved with something, chances are somebody 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.120 is going to say something that will help you foil 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.280 that plot. But I don't know how you stop the 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.880 lone wolf. I don't know how an FBI agent. I 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.360 don't know how a cop in any town where you know, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.800 in Cincinnati, doctor, we're not a big city where a 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.640 city made up of individual communities in towns, each with 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.880 their own police force. I simply don't know how anyone 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.920 can stop a lone wolf. It has to be in 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.679 my mind, it's got to be a lot of sheer 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.920 luck that something or some sort of information falls into 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.720 that particular police officer's lap, because lone wolves are the 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.520 things that, at least for me, scare me the most. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.360 In addition to what we talked about from what occurred 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.720 in the Southern Border, how do you stop a lone wolf? 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.880 Well, I think that artificially intelligence is going to really 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.400 help us, believe it or not. And I know if 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.360 people see it as kind of like the evil, you know, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:39.920 creeping up behind the scenes, but artificial intelligence has has definitely, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.520 it definitely has a role in being able to identify 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.160 individuals that have an ideological presence online. And what I 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.480 mean by that is just imagine the human hours that 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.680 you and I would have to spend in going over 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.960 websites and various narratives that are written by people to 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.640 see if certain words, if certain people are trying to 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.400 say that, hey, this is my manifesto, I'm about to 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.560 go out there and cause some harm on someone. But 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.040 then imagine a computer that's able to do that in 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.080 milliseconds and in a matter of say, ten minutes, would 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.440 give you a read out as to what individuals online 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.960 are close to making threats or making threats by using 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.040 certain words, or have a certain profile based on IP addresses. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.040 Law enforcement will have those tools very soon. I mean 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.120 they already do it in some ways, but they're actually 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.360 going to have an institutionalized very soon to be able 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.120 to identify those patterns in a matter of seconds. And 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.880 so I do think that there is help coming in. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.440 Like you, I worry about what happens between now and then. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.400 And what I'm also concerned about is that, as you 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.880 will know, some of these actors are overseas and where 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.440 we have very limited jurisdiction and in some cases we 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.600 have no jurisdiction at all, because you know, these are 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:59.480 countries that harbor terrorism. And I'm concerned about what's going 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.480 to happen, right, But one fight at a time, as 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.560 we say in my field, and you know, we need 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.240 to wait to see what AI is going to do 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:08.680 in the coming years. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.440 Well, doctor del Carmen, I knew you from your days 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:16.440 as an instructor, educating fertile young minds about how to 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.600 solve some of the crimes that are committed inside this 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.880 country and the best police work for it. Where are 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.480 you now? What are you up to now, doctor del Carmen. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.720 Well, I'm actually retiring from the academic world, but I'm 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.880 doing consulting work for the next ten to fifteen years. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.520 I'm going to devote the rest of my life to 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.040 work with law enforcement and try to make our community 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.400 safer and better. And so I am between Dallas and 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.640 Connecticut and fartments in Connecticut. So I'm closer to my 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.320 growing up children now and enjoying life. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.040 It's funny how that works, Doc. When I say Happy 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.080 New Year, I hope you heard the intro. It means 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.440 not just happiness, which is very important, but great health 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.600 and good safety, and that's what I wish for you 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.560 on this New Year's eeve. Thank you so much for 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.640 your time. We appreciate it. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.000 Likewise, Ken, thank you. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:08.600 Combye so God that knows his business inside out, all right, 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.879 it is coming up on twelve twenty six. It's the 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.840 average American and for the great American News Radio seven 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:18.879 hundred wl W, we welcome back, well love back. Three years, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.399 one year, twenty five. We have made it through yet 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.800 another trip around the sun, or just about it. I 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.679 don't want to get ahead of the curve here because 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.080 we still have for a few hours to go less 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.000 than twelve. But nevertheless we have arrived through yet another 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.520 year and on into twenty twenty six. There are a 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.560 lot of people out there making predictions about twenty twenty six, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.600 how good it's going to be economically, and how the 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.840 country is going to turn around, and how Main Street 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:52.240 may eventually catch up to Wall Street. And like most predictions, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.119 you got to let them play out. I mean, you 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.920 can't just sit there and pontificate about what ifs. Yeah, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.600 the indicators are to be better for all of us, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.639 certainly some of us, but I think all of us 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.000 in twenty twenty six. And you have to think that way, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:08.600 don't you, Because if you a don't, and what's the 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.320 point of pressing on? You got to feel that it's 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.000 going to be better for you financially, that it's not 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.280 going to cost so much to buy a house if 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.639 you're a first time homeowner, it's not going to cost 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.040 so much to go to the grocery store. Prices are 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.000 falling despite what the mainstream media, what have you believe? 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.399 For them, it's a lot of Trump hate, and energy 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.720 prices are down for you, for me at the pump, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:36.840 and in terms of diesel fuel, which powers interstate trucking, 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:42.479 interstate trucking becomes cheaper, Prices for goods and services become cheaper. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:47.040 It's the standard of economics internationally, though that's a different deal. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.920 The hotspots are all over the world, one of which 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.679 has just popped up in recent months, and that is Venezuela. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.440 And President Trump has been blown up drug boats from 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.200 Venezuela for about the last two or three months, a 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:04.160 blockade of Venezuela. He wants the oil that's in Venezuela. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.439 And I think that's the whole thing. I think the 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.840 drug boats are just a precursor to what he really wants, 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.280 and that he wants that stuff that's under the turf 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.600 in Venezuela that once belonged to United States oil companies. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.480 I think it's a little bit of that and a 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.840 little bit of the Monroe doctrine. President James Monroe eighteen 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.520 twenty three issues the Monroe doctrine, basically telling Europe, look, 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.520 you mess with our hemisphere and we're coming after you. 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.480 The Western hemisphere, he said, was closed to European colonization. Well, 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.200 that's because he didn't want Latin American nations being taken 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.359 over by Europe. Though it's a little bit of that 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.800 as well. But there's a deeper story here, and for 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.119 that we turned to a guy who's been studying things 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.600 in Venezuela for a very long time. In fact, Joshua 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.360 Phillips is one of those who's uniquely qualified to talk 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.760 about what's happening there and the consequences that are involved. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.359 He's an award winning journalist, senior investigative reporter at the 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.520 Epic time hosts his own show Crossroads that he's here 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.159 now to talk about Venezuela. Joshua Philip, how are you 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:07.360 on this glorious. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.680 Day doing well. An interesting step to watch. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.960 I can say that absolutely more than interesting. What do 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.400 you think Trump is up to in Venezuela. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.080 So I predicted it and then it came out the 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.199 new National Security Plan and Secretary of warpetegs that have 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.720 set it publicly. Now this is about the re establishment 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.600 of the Monroe doctrine, and I think we saw the 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.600 examples of this because you know it started off their 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.760 blowing up the drug cartel boats. There's more context to 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:41.119 that actually that actually ties into Venezuela having been on 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.280 the cusp of invading Guyana just literally a couple months 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.600 before they started bombing those boats. The latest one, though, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.000 is the intercept of this Iranian oil tanker that was 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.639 violating sanctions and trading in oil and so I think 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.480