1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Crime is up all over the state. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 2: The homelessness and the city is out of control. The 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 2: economy is sick, axes are high, housing as expensive, and businesses. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 3: Are leaving from skid Row to the Tenderloine to every 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 3: of them back down. California needs fixing and John Phillips 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 3: is just the man to lead the charge. It's the 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 3: Fix California Hour with John Phillips and Randy. 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: Way and we continue at one oh five in the 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: afternoon on the John Phillips Show Mister Randy Wings in 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: Culver City. 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 4: John Today is the dress rehearsal starting tomorrow from noon 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 4: to three. You'll be able to watch us do this 13 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 4: show every single day, react to the videos that we 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 4: play on the show, and comment and chat in the room. 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 4: Some of those comments might even make it on the screen. 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 4: It's going to be on YouTube, on Facebook, and on Twitter, 17 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 4: and I'll tell you exactly where. At the bottom of 18 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 4: the hour. 19 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: We have some breaking news who coming from the state 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: Capitol where Chairman Scott Wiener who got harassed over the 21 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: weekend at a trans Pride event, and the Senate Elections 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: Committee just killed a bill that would have prevented people 23 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: registered as sex offenders from running for office. 24 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 4: That does sound like a very very very Scott Wiener bill. 25 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: What is the argument for wanting registered sex offenders in 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: elected office? 27 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 4: Well, we did have that one in Fresno, that guy 28 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 4: who tried to run for the Fresno City Council that 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 4: was a registered sex offender and he didn't even get 30 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 4: enough signatures to make the ballot. 31 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 1: I think that's what this is about. 32 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 4: So we want to make sure there's protections for sex 33 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 4: offenders to run for political office. 34 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about. 35 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 4: It, there are plenty of people in political office who 36 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 4: are sex offenders. 37 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: They just never got caught. Here's looking at you, Eric 38 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: Swallwell eight hundred two two two five two two two. 39 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: He is a telephone number one eight hundred two two 40 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: two five two two two. It is our pleasure to 41 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: welcome our next guest to the program. He is the 42 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: author of the book The Coming of Neo Feudalism, Awarding 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: to the Global Middle Class, is now available in paperback 44 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: and can be purchased at Amazon dot com. You can 45 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: get him online at Joelcotkin dot com and follow him 46 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: on x at Joel Cotkin. Joel Kotkin Welcome. 47 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 5: I nice to be here. 48 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much for stopping by. We always appreciate 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: having you on. Let's well, let's start out with the 50 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,679 Speaker 1: LA mayors race, because right now we're looking at a 51 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: choice between a Democratic Socialist candidate Nthea Rahman and the 52 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: incumbent candidate Karen Bass, who cut her teeth in politics 53 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: by traveling to Cuba because she was so enamored with 54 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: Fidel Castro. And you look at these two options and 55 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: you go, what has become of the city of Los Angeles. 56 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: But as you have written about for many, many years, 57 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: demographics is destiny. And I guess with the current makeup 58 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, this is what we produce. 59 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think the most surprising element, and by 60 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 5: the ways, similar in New York is a lot of 61 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 5: this is not being driven by poor people, not being. 62 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: Driven by the minorities. 63 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 5: It's really being driven by this growing population of what 64 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 5: you might want to call the underpaid and over educated crowd, 65 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 5: who are now actually the most left wing section in 66 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 5: the American polity and tend to concentrate in parts of 67 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 5: LA US as they also concentrate obviously in parts of 68 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 5: New York, So you know, California and La is developing, 69 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 5: you know, its own little commy belt, and they go up, 70 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 5: they come out to vote, They they register that, they 71 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 5: they harvest ballots, they're all over it. I mean, how 72 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 5: did someone like Rahman win or we'll get into the 73 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 5: into the runoff by essentially motivating this group of people. 74 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 5: So we're even seeing sort of a generational battle even 75 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 5: within the left. And it's these young people who are 76 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 5: moving us from sort of more or less traditional welfare 77 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 5: state than you know, public employee union democracy to something 78 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 5: maybe a little bit more rightening. 79 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: How much of this also is that people, when they're 80 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: upset with government, they vote with their feet before they 81 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: vote at the ballot box. And a lot of the 82 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: people who could have been part of the solution, who 83 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: certainly had they still lived there and voted there, voted 84 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: for someone like Spencer Pratt instead of getting involved in 85 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: the process, decided, Okay, life is short. I'm not going 86 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: to stay here and try to fix this city. I 87 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: want to raise my family in peace. I'm going to Nevada. 88 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: I'm going to Arizona. I'm going to Texas. Or for 89 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: even those who don't leave the state, they go to 90 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: a different part of California. They go to Orange County, 91 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: they go to the Inland Empire, they go to the 92 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: Central Valley. And I know a lot of people even 93 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: within Los Angeles County and Los Angeles City who have 94 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: decided that because things have gotten so bad in downtown LA, 95 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: or it's gotten so bad in mid city or their 96 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: portion of the San Fernando Valley, they're going to move 97 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: even farther out to the outskirts of the city limits 98 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: or to a different independent municipality in Los Angeles County. 99 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: And instead of being part of the solution, they're just 100 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: living and voting somewhere else. 101 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 5: Well, I plead guilty. I lived in Los Angeles for 102 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 5: forty years, and we about ten years ago fay with 103 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 5: a sixth grader who we would have had to keep 104 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 5: in private school and many other things, but that was 105 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 5: the major thing. We just said, we're going to move 106 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 5: to Orange County, and I have to say I was 107 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 5: dubious about it at first, but it's the best move 108 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 5: we ever made. And I'm used to having a police 109 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 5: force that responds if something happens. I'm used to having 110 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 5: roads that are actually repaired. I'm used to street lights 111 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 5: that actually turn on. And I very rarely have to 112 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 5: deal with, you know, some lunatic screaming at me at 113 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 5: the top of their lungs for no apparent reason. So 114 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 5: you know, and you know, I'm not a conservative at all, 115 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 5: but I like the fact that in Orange County you 116 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 5: have a party system, so you can't be that crazy. 117 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 5: In la we used to have a two party system. 118 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 5: Now it's a one party system, and actually it's a 119 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 5: one party system in which the only battle left is 120 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 5: between the relatively same but failing mainstream difference and the 121 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 5: sort of Marxist lenin this fringe, which we're seeing already 122 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 5: in power in New York and may very well be 123 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 5: in power here not too distant future. 124 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: Do you think that's a trend that's going to accelerate 125 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: or slow down? And I say that because you mentioned 126 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: New York City, but it's not really just New York City. 127 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: It happened in Chicago, it happened in Seattle, It could 128 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: very well happen in Los Angeles. This November, we just 129 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: saw congressional elections in New York State where the socialist 130 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: candidates did quite well. There was one congressional election in 131 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: Maine where the same thing happened. I would see the 132 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: same result happened in Colorado, as incumbent Democrats are right 133 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: now on the ropes in that state. Do you see 134 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: the DSA gaining steam. 135 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, the DSA is gaining esteem, but it's overwhelmingly by 136 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 5: taking on liberal Democrats in usually urban districts, sometimes college towns. 137 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 5: I mean Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Chigo, as you mentioned, Washington, 138 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 5: d C. Just recently. And the terrible thing is that 139 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 5: this is going to make the plight of our cities 140 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 5: much worse because unless we have a socialist commonwealth in 141 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 5: the United States, which I think is certainly not in 142 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 5: the near future, these areas are going to have to 143 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 5: compete against other areas that are more business friendly. Even 144 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 5: within this city. For instance, if you go from from 145 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 5: lax to Elsagon, though El Segundo is like La used 146 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,559 Speaker 5: to be. It's filled of all sorts of entrepreneurial companies, 147 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 5: led mostly by young people doing really interesting new technologies, 148 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 5: and the city looks like a La of nineteen sixty 149 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 5: five or nineteen sixty and so you know what's going 150 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 5: to happen is businesses and people are going to move 151 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 5: to places where they feel secure and they feel that 152 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,599 Speaker 5: they're not part of some great, you know, people's democracy, 153 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 5: which has one historian said democracy usually turns out to 154 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 5: be no democracy. 155 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: I've always told people that when it comes to local government, 156 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: the number one thing that you should look for as 157 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: a voter is competence, because there's just not really a 158 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: lot of ideological aspects of making sure the trash gets 159 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: picked up, or making sure that the sewage system works, 160 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: or making sure that there's enough parking, those sorts of things. 161 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: And right now, when you look at these campaigns for 162 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: local government, whether it be in New York, California, wherever, 163 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: it seems like the Democrats are all running against Donald Trump, 164 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: and they act as if every office, whether it's a 165 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: city office, accounty office, of state office, has the ability 166 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: to do things like disband ice and impeach the president 167 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: and those sorts of things. And the DSA is running 168 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: on Israel, on Gaza, on hating the Jews in general. 169 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: And I say to myself, Okay, if these are your 170 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: hobby horses, you have no interest in the power of 171 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: this office. You have no interest in running a local government. 172 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: Your interests are all federal or international. And I don't 173 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: know why anyone voting in a mayoral election would be 174 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: impressed with any of your hot takes on those subjects. 175 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: But that's what they're running on, and it seems to be. 176 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 5: Well, it's for them, and remember there is a payoff 177 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 5: for them and their constituencies. The the NGOs which Mayor 178 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 5: LORII in San Francisco is now taking on, have become 179 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 5: an almost an extra branch of government. That's where many 180 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 5: of them work, that's where the money comes in. And frankly, 181 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 5: a lot of the blame, frankly goes to the business 182 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 5: community and the ultra rich who have financed many of 183 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 5: these NGOs. You know, I've noticed that after about twenty twenty, 184 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 5: could not have a almost anything that was not PC 185 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 5: for the big foundations in this state. You just couldn't. 186 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 5: So I think that there's really there's a payoff for 187 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 5: these people. And look, you know, fundamentally it means that 188 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 5: the city will continue to decline. People who can go 189 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 5: somewhere else, people don't come. You know, I came to 190 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 5: Los Angeles in nineteen seventy five and it was rare 191 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 5: to meet somebody who was from LA. Now you don't 192 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 5: see a lot of people moving in because it's too 193 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 5: expensive and in many cases too politically extreme, and would 194 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 5: I want to subject my children to the tender mercies 195 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 5: of the ut LA. I don't think so. 196 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: You mentioned the NGOs. If there was a legit accounting 197 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: of where that money was going, and we did it 198 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: in the state of California at the state level, the 199 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: county level, the local level, how many people do you 200 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: think would end up in prison? 201 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm not a lawyer, and I never 202 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 5: liked talking those type of terms, but I think there'd 203 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 5: be many people whose income stream would be greatly reduced. 204 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 5: I mean, we see this with the housing issues that 205 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,239 Speaker 5: are that are that are you know, with the homelessness. 206 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 5: We see it all over And probably the scariest part 207 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 5: is that how much of this money is even coming 208 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 5: from the most likely China or from Qatar to actually 209 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 5: sort of rig our own political system. I mean, there's 210 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 5: there's a huge amount of of of material that can 211 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 5: be that can be covered here. The problem is, and 212 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 5: this is a bigger problem, is much of the mainstream 213 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 5: media won't cover these things even if they happen, even 214 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 5: if they're out in the middle of the street. I mean, look, 215 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 5: if you have a media that doesn't cover the the 216 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 5: the groomer gangs in the UK, Why would they why 217 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 5: would they cover similar things here? They're you know, the 218 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 5: the you know, I I'm you know, I guess I 219 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 5: could say I'm an old journalist. I think our job 220 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 5: is to go out and find out what's really going on. 221 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 5: And I don't think that that's the mission that many 222 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 5: reporters have today. I think they're there, you know, to 223 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 5: essentially work for radical changes, and that their professors toward 224 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 5: them in college in. 225 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: Terms of finding a pathway out of this death spiral? 226 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: What is it that we do? And I asked that 227 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: question earlier in the week to Barbara Stone, the political 228 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: scientist at cal State Fullerton, and she essentially said that 229 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: you need a two party system where you need healthy elections, 230 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: where you have different points of view out there, and 231 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: you need people willing to cross party lines if the 232 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: party that they belong to is not performing. And she 233 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: thinks that it's just not going to be possible to 234 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: get Democrats to cross party lines and vote Republican until 235 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is gone. And she said maybe when he 236 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: turns out office, there's an opportunity for change and to 237 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: better these cities. But she doesn't think it's possible right now. 238 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: She thinks the partisanship is just too high. 239 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 5: Well, of course, on the city level, county level, most 240 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 5: of the elections are nonpartisans, so there's some hope there. 241 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 5: But I think she's very much right. I mean, Donald 242 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 5: Trump has done many bad things, and one of the 243 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 5: things he's done is so drive the Democratic Party into 244 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 5: a corner of insanity and at the same time not 245 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 5: built up a majority coalition in the country. And so 246 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 5: I think that I think she's completely right there as 247 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 5: long as Trump is around, and frankly, I don't think 248 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 5: JD Vance will be much better. I think, you know, 249 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 5: maybe if someone like Marco Rubio was the Republican candidate, 250 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 5: we might see some some changes. But as long as 251 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 5: the Trump Vans sort of sort of ugliness, if you 252 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 5: want to put it that way, is is forward, we 253 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 5: won't really understand even more profound ugliness of the DSA. 254 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 5: And of course the Democrats so hysterical in their opposition 255 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 5: to Trump that they miss out on anybody else's problems. 256 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 5: You know, they're just the Democrats have been driven insane. 257 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 5: You know, it's like that old Greek saying, you know 258 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 5: who the gods wish to destroy these first drive men. 259 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: It's so weird to me because at first I thought, Okay, 260 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: maybe they're not aware of the problems that exist in 261 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: this state. Maybe they're just not aware that retail theft 262 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: is a thing, or that homeless people are living everywhere, 263 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: or that you really don't shouldn't have to buy socks 264 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: through bulletproof glass over at Target. And I was wrong. 265 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: They are aware of it. They just seem to have 266 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: a very high tolerance for things like that. I don't 267 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: have a high tolerance for things like that. They seem 268 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: to have unlimited tolerance for things like that, and I 269 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: just can't wrap my head around it. Well, there are 270 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: two things. 271 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 5: One, there is this sort of lunatic fringe that's been 272 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 5: educated from high school on, you know, to be social 273 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 5: justice warriors, and you know, you know, I think that 274 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 5: they would watch their their mother being attacked if if 275 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 5: they were of a certain ethnic group, they'd probably say, oh, well, 276 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 5: I can't say anything about it. But at the same time, 277 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 5: at the very top, there are people in leadership positions, 278 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 5: particularly in the in the business in the entertainment world, 279 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 5: who live in parts of Los Angeles or the southern 280 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 5: California area that are insulated from all these things, and 281 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 5: so they go there and so that they're not they're 282 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 5: not affected by it on a day to day basis. 283 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 5: Like a friend of my wife's, she goes, she's in 284 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 5: the San Feranza Valley, she goes to the local routes 285 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 5: and there are homeless people eating food in the aisles. 286 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 5: You know, I don't think that's probably going to happen 287 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 5: in Brentwood. 288 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: No, no, it's not. 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Time for the California 335 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 2: Crime Blodder and Randy. 336 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 1: The first edition today has a bit of a let's say, 337 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: a holiday flare. 338 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 4: Because there was a big old fireworks Boston, East LA. 339 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 4: For more on this, we go to a report from 340 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 4: CBS in Los Angeles. 341 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 6: Major fireworks Boston Pasadena leads to another discovery. We're talking 342 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 6: about a large amount of drugs and firearms. 343 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 4: CBSL boy, they got everything that you could possibly want 344 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 4: for a big old weekend party. 345 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: All right, put the kids in the van. We're going 346 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 1: down for a Fourth of July celebration. They have all 347 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: the fireworks you could possibly want to see blown up, 348 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 1: plus they're loaded with drugs. 349 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 6: Lais Amanda Starantino is live in Pasadena, where authorities just 350 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 6: revealed some new details for you. Amanda. 351 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 7: Yes, good morning. This is a pretty big deal. And 352 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 7: actually what makes it so significant is not only just 353 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 7: how much of the fireworks that they were able to recover, 354 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 7: but everything that was behind it. So this is a 355 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 7: multi city effort. Here, take a look at this is 356 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 7: actually found in a warehouse over and Wittier. Here you 357 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 7: can see by this image here how many fireworks. We're 358 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 7: talking ten thousand pounds of fireworks that we're seeing. 359 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 4: That's enough to level a neighborhood. 360 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: Good it happened. 361 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 4: And these fireworks have been illegal in California forever and 362 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 4: ever and ever, but of course dumbasses got a dumbass 363 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 4: and people got to make things go boom. So even 364 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 4: though it is illegal, people find ways to buy this stuff. 365 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 4: And there is so much money to be made on 366 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 4: illegal fireworks that people are importing from Mexico or Arizona. 367 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: And Randy, you live in the San Fernando Valley. It's 368 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 1: not even really just the fourth of July. It's more 369 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: like Fourth of July season. 370 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 4: It's pretty much the entire summer on select nights in 371 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 4: between Memorial Day and Labor Day. And I kind of 372 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 4: made it a point for the last few years to 373 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 4: never be in town during the Fourth of July. But 374 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 4: that's not happening this summer because my wife's working in Canada, 375 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 4: so I'm going to be home alone with the dogs 376 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 4: as my neighborhood sounds like a war zone. 377 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: You have fun with that. 378 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 7: Eased in this that happened on June nineteenth, and they 379 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 7: believe that these fireworks were going to be distributed in 380 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 7: this Pasadena area and this was actually the largest seizure 381 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 7: of fireworks for this area that they've ever had. Take 382 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 7: a look at this video here to get an idea. 383 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 4: And these warehouses that are storing this stuff, it can 384 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 4: be incredibly dangerous. In Yolo County, the Esparto warehouse that 385 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 4: was known about by the county that the county did 386 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 4: not do anything about, exploded and killed seven people. 387 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: Please tell me it's not right next to a gas station. 388 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 7: Of what exactly was going on here. So this was 389 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 7: all illegal explosive fireworks, including homemade explosive devices, and it 390 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 7: was during a raid on a storefront in the city 391 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 7: of La and Whittier. Investigators say what appeared to be 392 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 7: a marijuana dispensary on Whittier or Boulevard was actually being 393 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 7: used to store and distribute dangerous fireworks throughout La in 394 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 7: the San Gabriel Valley along with thousands of us. 395 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 4: So the pod store that's supposed to just be selling 396 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 4: pot is also selling guns and fireworks and drugs. 397 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: It's like and things where they have one particular product 398 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: that they specialize in, but the things really cast a 399 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: wide net. 400 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 4: It's like those corner stores in the Tenderloin in San 401 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 4: Francisco that claim they're not selling meth, they're just selling 402 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 4: out or all. 403 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: Well. And then here's the thing too to understand about 404 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: these fireworks is it's not your father's fireworks. It's not 405 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 1: the little sparklers that you just see on the street 406 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: and it's fine and it's cute and everyone collapse and 407 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Some of these fireworks are like 408 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: bombs because you have to keep upping the ante and 409 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: upping the ante and upping the ante, and you finally 410 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 1: get to a point to where it more resembles Hiroshima 411 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: than it does the fireworks show that you see on 412 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: Friday nights after the baseball game. 413 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 7: Now, the fireworks authorities also seized an unregistered firearm with 414 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 7: the high capacity magazine, marijuana products and documents they say 415 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 7: detail illegal fireworks sales. Because investigators discovered home at explosive devices, 416 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 7: the LA County's bomb squad was called in to safely 417 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 7: remove the. 418 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 4: Materials and hopefully they've learned the lesson from LAPD in 419 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 4: South LA a couple of years ago and didn't try 420 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 4: to dispose of the fireworks inside the neighborhood because that's 421 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,640 Speaker 4: when the neighborhood went boom. 422 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 7: You heard from the mayor today about this. 423 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 8: So this was a very coordinated effort and importantly a 424 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 8: very successful effort in the that it removed lots of 425 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 8: fireworks that potentially could be harmful not just to individuals, 426 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 8: but to entire communities. Given the fire season and given 427 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 8: the experience we've had in the very recent past with fires. 428 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 4: It's a great thing that this seizure happened, but it's 429 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 4: not going to make a dent. And even though we 430 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 4: have massive risk when it comes to wildfires, even though 431 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 4: this stuff is illegal, the vast majority of the its 432 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 4: that live around me in the San Fernando Valley are 433 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 4: gonna shoot rockets in the air because they want to 434 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 4: see things go boom. 435 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: How many people working at that warehouse do you think 436 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: we're missing? Digits? 437 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 7: Obviously, these legal fireworks haven even greater public safety concern here. 438 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 5: Now. 439 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 7: The police Chief Jean here says this investigation of all 440 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 7: Pasadena Street Crimes Unit working alongside Pasadena Fire, arson investigators 441 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 7: and multiple law enforcement agencies for people have been arrested, 442 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 7: but actually detectives believe there are more people involved in 443 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 7: this and more groups, so there could be more arrests 444 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 7: made in the coming weeks when it comes to this investigation. 445 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 7: This is a good reminder. Fireworks are illegal in the 446 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 7: city of Pasadena and from many cities across California. 447 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 4: Yes, there are a few places where some of them 448 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 4: are legal, like fillmore in Buena Park, but for the 449 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 4: most part, those are just the stupid little sparklers in 450 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 4: the snakes, which I don't understand the appeal of that. 451 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 4: Can't we just move to the drone shows? I know 452 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 4: I sound like a crank at the right old age 453 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 4: of forty, but I really, really really can't stand the fireworks. 454 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: It's so funny that fireworks are illegal virtually all over California. 455 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: Have you ever flown on the fourth of July? I 456 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: have okay understanding that it's illegal almost everywhere here is 457 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: hilarious because all you see are illegal fireworks going off 458 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: everywhere as you fly over California. 459 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 4: Now, there are some legitimate fireworks shows that cities and 460 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 4: counties put on. Notably, the one in Long Beach isn't 461 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 4: gonna happen this year because of a permitting issue. But 462 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 4: you're right, it looks like a war zone of spectacular colors. 463 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 7: It canna be anywhere from one thousand dollars to even 464 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 7: higher charges as well, So it's just better to be safe. 465 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 7: Check online to see what the rules are for your 466 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,479 Speaker 7: city and area you are living in. But obviously something 467 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 7: like this very significant for this area, which is why 468 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 7: the City of Pasadena wanted to highlight it today. But 469 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 7: ten pounds of fireworks sees you, guys, that's. 470 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 6: The whole neighborhood in danger. All right, thanks so much, Amanda. 471 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 4: And this is happening in a whole bunch of different 472 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 4: neighborhoods up and down the state of California. It is 473 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 4: happening everywhere, and we have public officials say they're going 474 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 4: to take it seriously. The law enforcement tries to do 475 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 4: what they can do to crack down on it. The 476 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 4: only thing that seems to be a little bit effective 477 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 4: is the implementation of drones on nights like the fourth 478 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 4: of July, because now they've got video footage of who 479 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 4: shut out the illegal fireworks and maybe maybe maybe the 480 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 4: threat of an arrest won't do anything to you. But 481 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 4: how about a three thousand dollars bill, because that's what 482 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 4: they're doing down in Anaheim. 483 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: Well that may be the only way to do it. 484 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: Because there's so much of it going on. You don't 485 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: have the personnel to go and shut each and every 486 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: one of these things down. But if you have a 487 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: bunch of people sitting at desks the next few weeks, 488 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: look at it video fo from the fourth of July, 489 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: you can figure out just exactly who's going to get 490 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: a ticket mailed to their house. And my guess is 491 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: frequently the people who are lighting the fireworks off aren't 492 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: the homeowner. It's their jackass kids. So the jackass kids 493 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: are going to participate in behavior that's gonna get mom 494 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: and dad fined, and Mom and Dad aren't gonna like that. 495 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 4: Be real careful out there this holiday weekend. And if 496 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 4: you're going to launch a bunch of stupid bombs into 497 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 4: the air, well, actually, I have nothing to say to you. 498 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 4: You're probably not listening to this show because you're not 499 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 4: that bright. 500 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotters to 501 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: catch it's dummy. 502 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: We can make this stuff up if we tried. 503 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: I said, hell, no, very boy, let me get up 504 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: one out of here. 505 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 2: It's the California crime blow there. 506 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: And on the subject if jackass team, this edition of 507 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: The Blotterer involves e bikes. A team on. 508 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 4: An e bike thought it would be really, really really 509 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 4: funny to run away from an Orange County police officer, 510 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 4: specifically in the city of Orange, and didn't go great 511 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 4: for him. For more, here is ABC seven Eyewitness News 512 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. Mom and Dad. 513 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 2: Police in the city of Orange. 514 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 4: You can't understand because of course intercoms still sound like 515 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 4: the nineteen fifties. Is the officer saying, I can't wait 516 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 4: for your mom and dad to see the video of this. 517 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 4: The cop chasing the kid on the e bike, And 518 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 4: how is the cop able to chase a kid on 519 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 4: an ee bike. Well, because we thought it would be 520 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 4: a good idea to give teenagers under sixteen a vehicle 521 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 4: that can go up to fifty miles an hour if 522 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 4: you hack into it correctly. 523 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: If chick Hern were around, he'd say, that's not a 524 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: Phi Beta Kappa decision. 525 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 4: You're cracking down on an illegal e bike and e 526 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 4: motorcycle riding. 527 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 9: They shared this new video of a recent pursuit Orange 528 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 9: Catter reporter of bian Cabono shows. 529 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: Us what happened. 530 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 6: They are overrunning the park. 531 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 10: Lisa Jepson frequent Squarehalva Park in the city of Orange 532 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 10: where she lives, and says the illegal and unsafe e 533 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 10: bike and e motorcycle activity has become out of control. 534 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 6: They disregard people around them. 535 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 10: Her husband has seen it too. 536 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 2: They'll discom racing down this field and john they have. 537 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 4: It's so prevalent in Orange County because you have to 538 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 4: have a little bit of money to get these things, 539 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 4: and a lot of parents bought these for their kids 540 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,239 Speaker 4: because it's the new thing, and apparently it turns them 541 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 4: into little demons. 542 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: It turns a kid named Trevor, who lives in the 543 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 1: suburbs into a Hell's angel. 544 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 2: No respect for anybody else. They're not alone. 545 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 10: The Orange Police Department says they've been flooded with calls, 546 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,959 Speaker 10: which is why they're increasing patrols at the park. Sharing 547 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 10: just one example of their recent crackdown. 548 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 4: Really last week, this is what happens when you give small, 549 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 4: you give children. These are children vehicles like this, the 550 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 4: cop chasing him on a motorcycle, saying I would stop 551 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 4: if I were you. This is a bad idea. 552 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: I love that the cop is letting him have it. 553 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 10: This is what happened when a motor officer tried stopping 554 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 10: a thirteen year old riding an illegal motorcycle. 555 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 2: I know you here. 556 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: This is now turning into taunting. Just imagine an episode 557 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: of Chips where this is what they had to track down. 558 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 10: The rider refusing to stop, so the officer chased him 559 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 10: through the park. Eventually that team was caught. 560 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 4: Okay, now, obviously this officer shows a lot of restraint, 561 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 4: But how badly do you think he wanted to just 562 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 4: ram him? 563 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: Oh if there was no body cam on that cop, 564 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: let me tell you, Trevor would be real, real, real, real, real, 565 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: familiar with the asphalt. 566 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 4: Like you know, most people are not violent by nature. 567 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 4: Most people are peaceful, and it's a live and let live. 568 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 4: But I bet you there are plenty of people in 569 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 4: Orange County, in Los Angeles County that if they're on 570 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 4: a walk in their neighborhood and you've got the e 571 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 4: biking monsters coming up on their tail harassing everybody, they 572 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 4: just think about it. They don't do it, but they 573 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 4: think about taking a stick and sticking it in those spokes. 574 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,760 Speaker 10: E sited for nine separate violations. 575 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 11: He was trying to explain to him, you need to 576 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 11: be safe while you're out there writing. That's the most 577 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 11: important thing that you need to do. Plus we want 578 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,800 Speaker 11: to make sure that the people in the park are safe. 579 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 2: I think you learned. 580 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 10: As the video goes viral on social media, police hope 581 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 10: it sends a message to writers and the concerned community. 582 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 11: The whole idea about posting that was to make awareness 583 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 11: for our community that we are addressing the ish that 584 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 11: they have called us about. 585 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 4: As well as do you get to imagine in a 586 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 4: city like Orange the vast majority of calls they get 587 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 4: are about the e biking teams. 588 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that's why the police department is putting 589 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: this out there because I'm sure people call and scream 590 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: at them, You guys never do anything about this, and 591 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaker 1: so they want this video out there proving that they 592 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 1: do at least sometimes. 593 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 4: And there might be a lot of people wondering why 594 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 4: the state of California and why these cities can't crack 595 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 4: down further on even allowing teenagers to get on vehicles 596 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 4: like this. It is state law that the earliest you 597 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 4: can ban a child from riding one of these things 598 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 4: is twelve. Twelve and under is all you can do. 599 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,280 Speaker 4: For some reason, it's totally fine between twelve and fifteen 600 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 4: and sixteen to ride these things, even though they are 601 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,719 Speaker 4: pretty much motorcycles and you have no training that you 602 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 4: would be required to have if you were on a 603 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:59,319 Speaker 4: regular motorcycle or a moped or a car to a. 604 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 11: Razor wareness that these e bikes can be dangerous and 605 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 11: the lesson. 606 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: Learn here, will you know? 607 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 4: I just realized, between the e bike story and the 608 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 4: fireworks story, I have really turned into a crank. I 609 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 4: am getting real close at the ripe old age of 610 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 4: forty to starting off these segments with these damn kids. 611 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,320 Speaker 1: You've become mister Wilson from Dennis. 612 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 10: The menace likely be an expensive one, police tell us, 613 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 10: depending on what violations stick when this team goes to court, 614 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 10: the total cost will probably be in the thousands. In Orange, 615 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,280 Speaker 10: Bianco Bono ABC seven I Witness News. 616 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: So there you go. 617 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:42,280 Speaker 4: The Orange County motorcycle officer has to chase eighteen, who's 618 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:47,879 Speaker 4: ignoring his calls to get pull over, to get off 619 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,879 Speaker 4: the road. It's not happening because he thought he could 620 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 4: outrun the cop, and because he's a teenager, he thought 621 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 4: there's no consequences for me. I can't wait for mommy 622 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,439 Speaker 4: and daddy to get that bill. 623 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,720 Speaker 1: That kid should not be able to get his driver's 624 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,720 Speaker 1: license at sixteen. He should have to wait until eighteen. 625 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillip Show. It's the John Phillip Show. 626 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 627 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 1: the telephone number? 628 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 2: What? 629 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two And Randy, 630 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: we have time for one more installment to the California 631 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: Crime Bladder. 632 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 2: It's happened yet again. 633 00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:42,279 Speaker 1: This wow, Wow, what's up here? 634 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 3: Dun Dun Dun dunk, Dunn, dundun dunk reads the California 635 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,440 Speaker 3: Crime Bladder with John Ray. 636 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: And this edition takes us to Rockland where a whole 637 00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: bunch of catalytic converters to get installing. If you're we 638 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 1: had a story last week in Rockland where a whole 639 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: bunch of tires were getting stolen. So I'm guessing the 640 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:11,319 Speaker 1: car thieves are little by little building their own. For 641 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,399 Speaker 1: more on this, we got a Fox forty in Sacramento 642 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 1: just last week. 643 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 9: Fox forty Sierra Krug spoke with the department about an 644 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,479 Speaker 9: ongoing rise entire thefts happening in that community. She joins 645 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 9: us now live in Rockland with what authorities have to 646 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 9: say about the recent increase in car related crime Sierra. 647 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,839 Speaker 12: Eric Nikki that is right for both of these car 648 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 12: related crimes. Officials tell me prevention is key, making yourself 649 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 12: a difficult target. But I also had the chance to 650 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 12: speak with the owner of a muffler shop earlier today 651 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 12: who was able to break down why some vehicles are 652 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 12: more at risk than others. 653 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 13: It's sad, you know, I've seen little ladies coming to 654 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 13: my shop and they're taking them. You know, I do 655 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 13: what I can for them, but sometimes you can't do 656 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 13: anything for him. 657 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,359 Speaker 12: Mark Price, owner of all muffler services in Rockland helps 658 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 12: customers at his shop all day long. He's an expert 659 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 12: in the auto industry. 660 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 13: Actually, it's part of the process for making sure that 661 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 13: visit appropriate part for the vehicle. 662 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,360 Speaker 12: But these past few months, he says he's noticed a 663 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,840 Speaker 12: trend stolen catalytic converters. 664 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 4: That crime is so twenty twenty two, but I guess 665 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 4: it's back. 666 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,720 Speaker 1: Well, they always say that you need to learn history 667 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 1: because it seems to repeat itself. 668 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,719 Speaker 7: You know, let's criminalize kind of list of converters. 669 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,439 Speaker 1: Let's criminalized Copper. 670 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 4: Do you remember now, mayoral candidate. But then La City 671 00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:39,360 Speaker 4: councilwoman Nitya Ramen going after Toyota for making their catalytic 672 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 4: converters too easy to steal. 673 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 1: Didn't Rob Bonta do the same thing with Kia and Hondai. 674 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 1: He might have had a point with that one, bought Bonta. 675 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,800 Speaker 4: If you can hack into a Kia or a Hyundai 676 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 4: with a USB drive, that says more about Kia and 677 00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 4: Hyundai than it does about the idiot teens that do it. 678 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,799 Speaker 13: I've noticed it because of the work coming through the door. 679 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 13: I mean, basically, I'm getting some insurance claims, but other 680 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 13: things that are happening. Vehicles that are like the RVs 681 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 13: have been getting. There's eight RVs that have come through 682 00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:12,880 Speaker 13: that I have to do. 683 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:14,280 Speaker 12: Greg Jensen with the Rocket. 684 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 4: One of the benefits of going EV no catalytic converter 685 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,479 Speaker 4: and no SMOT check. 686 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,320 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure they'll find something else to steal. 687 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,600 Speaker 12: Police department confirms Since January, his team has seen fifteen 688 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,759 Speaker 12: catalytic converter thefts across five different locations, twelve of those 689 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 12: thefts happening just in the month of June. 690 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,880 Speaker 1: This is not a big city, it's not. 691 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,319 Speaker 11: Some of those vehicles include the Toyota PRIs. 692 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,800 Speaker 1: Thought So and the Honda a Cord. 693 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 12: According to price the cost of these pricey parts can 694 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,680 Speaker 12: be higher than the cost of the vehicle itself. 695 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:52,839 Speaker 1: What you do realize this has to be like less 696 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,799 Speaker 1: than five people who are stealing all of these and 697 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:57,800 Speaker 1: if we could just catch them and put them in jail, 698 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: this problem would go away in that town. This is California. 699 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,839 Speaker 1: We don't do that. That's true. We've got one more 700 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,959 Speaker 1: hour to go. Don't you go anywhere. It's the John 701 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:06,560 Speaker 1: Phillips Show.