WEBVTT - Is Daniel Lurie lying about ending harm reduction in San Francisco? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.920 It's the John Phillips Show. It's the fixed California Hour. 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.960 Johnny's on vacation. It's Randy Wang here and the phone 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.240 number to join us is eight hundred two two two 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.000 five two two two one eight hundred two two two 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.800 five two two two. Your emails at Johnny Don't like 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.599 show at gmail dot com and search for the John 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.000 Phillips Show wherever you get your podcasts. I literally just 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.800 posted the twelve o'clock hour. Our next guest is the 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.480 editorial director and CEO of the Voice of San Francisco. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.280 You can check out the website and read all of 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.840 the inside info on what's going on in San Francisco 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.000 The Voice SF dot org. The Voice SF dot org 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.160 Susan Dya Reynolds. Welcome back to The John Phillips Show. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.400 Hey Randy, how are you doing great? 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.400 So recently Daniel Lurie had his big State of the 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.080 City address. He's celebrating one year as mayor of San Francisco, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.280 and one of the accomplishments that he touted during the 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.880 State of the City address is, and to quote from 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:03.400 your article, we stopped freely handing out drug supplies and 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:08.039 letting people kill themselves on our streets. You disagree with that. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.840 I don't just disagree with that. There's evidence everywhere that 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.640 that's a complete lie. Hence my title Lurie's Big Lie, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.039 because you know, as much as I would love to 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.160 see him succeed, he has to tell the truth. And 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.800 the more he lies about things that are clear to 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.960 the eye and that are videotaped every day by community 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.160 advocates like JJ Smith. And if you don't follow him, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.640 everybody should, you know that there's just no way that 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.679 he can stand there with a straight face and say it, 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.000 and yet he does so. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.720 Tell us about some of the nonprofits that are still 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.920 participating in harm reduction, handing out drug paraphernalia funded by 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.080 the City and County of San Francisco, even though Daniel 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.360 Lurry says we're not doing that. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.080 Well, you know, the biggest one is the Ffaid's Foundation, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.320 which was started back in the day for a great cause. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.920 I have friends who died of AIDS, and I have 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.960 friends that were saved because they were into drugs and 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.079 they got safe needles, you know, and didn't share needles. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.040 But right now they're handing out needles to drug add 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.480 it and not just needles but smoking supplies for fentanyl, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:24.720 so pipes foil, and they don't just hand they they 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.320 don't just give you one. Right. The very idea of 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.000 a needle exchange started out being you bring us your needle, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.919 will give you another needle. Or bring us three needles, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.200 will give you three needles. Now they're going into the ocean. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.959 They're all over the streets as you know. And JJ 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.560 does these undercover videos all the time where he will 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.280 go to ffaids, which despite Danie Lurie saying in April 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.440 that the new regulations were they couldn't hand them out outside, 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.400 they had to do it inside. They had to have 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.680 counselors available, people from public health to offer treatment options. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.320 None of that is happening. And JJ has seen a seven. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.440 He has video of a seventeen year old getting harm 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.400 reduction supplies. He goes undercover, they fill his bag. What 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.840 do you need and he says, ohbrillo, I need a 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.160 you know of pipes, so I need a bubble, I 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.200 need here you go, here you go, here you go. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.839 No counseling offered. So they're the big dogs. That's who 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.000 our public health department in San Francisco. The behavioral part 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.239 which is run by Hillary Coonan's who's a one hundred 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.880 percent harm reduction fanatics. She's not an advocate, she's a 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.000 fanatic and needs to be fired. I'll just say it out. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.960 I actually just won a journalism award for coverage of 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.240 a secret recording I got of the San Francisco to 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.920 part of public health with all the harm reduction groups 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.720 talking about how it was other people's problem that they 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.320 had a problem with seeing drugs being used on the street. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.600 They won hundred percent support people doing drugs on the street, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.680 and that means they percent support overdoses, because there's no 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.320 way anyone can keep up with two people a day overdosing. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.760 And by the way, JJ, who's out on the street 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.680 every day, he you know, he videotapes them putting bodies 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.960 in the medical examiner van and they open it up 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:11.839 at seven in the morning and there's already three other 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.920 bodies in there. So I think it's probably more than 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:14.520 two a day. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.400 It's just insanity that we're allowing this, and we're paying 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.160 for this, And it seems like Laurie is giving lip 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.960 service to the common sense people out there that realize 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:31.039 this is nonsense. But apparently he's not able to detach 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.000 the city from all of the people inside public health 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.039 that are obsessed with this ideology. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.680 Well there's that, and then there's also the fact, and 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.240 I warned people this when he ran that he was 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.039 handed on a silver platter by his mother, Mimi Haff, 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.200 who married into the Levi Strauss fortune. He was handed 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.680 on a silver platter Tipping Point, which was his nonprofit, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.640 and at one point they put one hundred million dollars 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.240 out and said, we're going to solve fifty percent of 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.960 homelessness in five years. Well, homelessness went up by thirty percent. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.320 What was he doing the same things that the city did. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.640 He supported and still Tipping Points still supports the same 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.840 ones of these, the same harm reduction nonprofits. His crowding 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.960 achievement on Bryant Street that he bragged about, I did 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.760 affordable housing on Bryant Street. You know eight fifty five 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.440 Bryant Street is run by Episcopal Community Services, as they 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.920 do client services there who have the highest overdose rate 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.799 in San Francisco over the past five years. We actually 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.120 took the numbers and we broke them down and wrote 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.800 a story called Housing First More Second, and it's a 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.279 series that we're working on their deep and investigative dives, 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.120 and thirty percent of the overdoses are happening inside these 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.919 supportive housing buildings, one of which you know Lurie himself, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.080 you know, set up with Charles Schwapp Foundation, and it's 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.000 one of the worst ones by the way. It's run 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.719 over by rats. There's dog fighting, there's breeding of dogs, 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.479 which you know, I have a very big issue with. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.839 A social worker was stabbed. There's another one was shot. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.200 I mean, this is not you know, the way harm 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:16.080 reduction and housing first is not the answer, but that's 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.359 what comes from he has a nonprofit background. So the 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.120 one I wrote ab up in this particular article harm 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:26.719 reduction Therapy Center. They have vans and the city gives 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.320 them a sanctioned parking space where they pull up in 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.120 a van and they dole out harm reduction supplies and 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.960 massages for the drug tourists. So by school, by the way, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.960 not by school, by a park where there are children 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.080 playing in the park, they have a massage table set up, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.640 a sitting massage table where they're getting massages on sides 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.120 of the I can't make this stuff up. They're getting 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.240 about six million dollars from the city. Seventy five percent 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.560 of that goes to salaries, only twelve percent, less than 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.520 twelve percent goes to services. About five hundred and sixty 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.600 thousand dollars of six million goes to services. And I'm 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.800 assuming the services are driving the van around and giving massages. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.880 Yeah, I wonder what the line item on their budget 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.200 says how much they are charging the city for each 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.400 one of those massages. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.800 What's really funny that you say that, because these nonprofits 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.960 are masters of the empty nine to ninety. They are 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:26.640 absolutely masters at it. They don't tell you anything, They 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.520 just give you the numbers, and they get as little 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.960 information as possible. I mean, I'm not an accountant, but 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.120 I go through them quite often and very rarely do 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.480 you see line items. And their mission statements are always 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:43.000 something like to help with the suffering of drug addicts 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.560 or they don't even call them addicts drug users, and 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.960 to not stigmatize them and to show them that they 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.240 are people too, something like that. Those are their mission 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.840 statements six thousand, you know, six million dollars to thank you. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.320 That's quite lightly insane. We're speaking with Susan Dya Reynolds, 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.400 the Voice of San Francisco. You've got to check out 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.240 her latest article, Lurie's Big Lie, on the fact that 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.400 harm reduction is still alive and well in San Francisco. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.520 And it just drives me crazy to know that, you know, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.760 San Francisco is in a massive budget deficit. How are 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.520 these programs not the first ones on the chopping block? 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.760 Who is stilst defending this? There is no track record 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.880 of any success with these programs. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.680 There isn't any at all. And you know, and especially 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.040 a group like HRTC, which I really started to dig 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.240 into because it was one I was not familiar with 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.600 until JJ took video of drug tourist getting massages and 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.920 another guy sitting down shooting up next to our a 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.040 bunch of kids were playing and they they say on 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.360 their website that they have created a therapeutic mew that 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.360 attracts one hundreds of people literally with the number one 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.280 hundreds of people to seek therapy and other services, and 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.719 their mission statement is straight schlock out of the nineteen seventies. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.120 HRTC exis to transform substance user treatment by providing low barrier, 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.280 person centered, integrated mental health care, as well as clinical 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.800 harm reduction training to people and organizations impacted by the 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:17.719 War on drugs? What come on? Now, you know, I mean, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.040 I mean, there's va whole thing. And then you know 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.440 they also were there was an audit of the San 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:29.160 Francisco Street Teams and they got called out for performing 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.160 work for the City of San Francisco's Department of Public 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:37.959 Health without a signed, executed contact contract for over eighteen months. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.160 And they were there at the Resource Center attending weekly meetings, 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:48.640 leading trainings, mental health counseling, substance use for outpatients. Are 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.400 you serious? I mean there's not a doctor amongst them, Like, 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:53.200 what is this? 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.240 We're speaking with Susan Dyer Reynolds. You've got to check 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.839 out the voicesf dot org and make sure you follow 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.360 her on Twitter at Susan d Reynolds. Now, another thing 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.000 that Daniel Lurry made a big promise when he became 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.880 mayor was he was going to dismantle the open air 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.320 drug markets that plague the tenderloin and SOMA and now 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.360 the mission. We've seen some big raids, we've seen a 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.920 whole bunch of arrests, but the open air drug markets persist. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:21.520 What's going wrong here? 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.800 I bring it back to the harm reduction stuff. I 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.600 always say every time he stands up there and talks tough, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.120 how he's not going to allow people to sell drugs 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.080 on the street and use drugs on the street. Everybody says, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.240 get rid of the drug dealers. Well, of course, but 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.679 that's easier said than done, because you know, in that 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.439 case you have to deal with not just local authorities 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:46.480 but California law. And everybody's sawt on crime California, as 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.600 you know that the justice system here is an injustice system. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.520 So my you know theory. When I go to other 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.679 counties and watch how they deal with things, I note 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.720 that they don't have harm reduction vans driving around handing 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.160 out bags full of needles and smoking supplies. So my 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.640 number one suggestion to Daniel Lurie is that he stops 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:11.160 handing out smoking supplies altogether. There's no no, and I 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.760 don't buy the harm rediction theory that they might prevent 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.280 a colds or whatever. No, you don't need to hand 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.960 out smoking supplies. No other civilized cities do. And then 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.440 just makes them come inside to get which is what 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.520 he promised in April. Inside only you come to us. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.000 We don't come to you. You come to us. You 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.600 hand us your needles, will give you needles, and also 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.360 counseling and someone to tell you where you can find treatment. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.800 And now he wants to do this. You know, we're 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.600 going to send them home. We're going to fly them 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.600 home and give them some money to get set up 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:48.839 in their own town. Stop treating them like they're the victims. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.120 They're victimizing San Francisco. These are not These are drug 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.880 tourists who also commit crimes to keep their habits going. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.880 So the way other cities do it is they're not 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.360 nice about it. They just they throw them in jail, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.840 they check their warrants, They make it uncomfortable and until 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.160 Danie Lurie, you know, it takes some lessons from Matt 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.040 mahon and Sama's and actually does what he says he's 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.480 going to do, it's not gonna nothing's changing as long 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.960 as you go to them and hand them drug supplies. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.439 Drugs are plentiful. You know, we know that the dealers 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.560 are a problem, but getting rid of them it has 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.400 to be federal because locally they go into diversion. That's 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.880 my article coming out this week, I believe Tuesday is 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.280 how many of the drug dealers go through mental health diversion, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.840 So there really isn't any any action on that end locally. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.120 It has to be federally, and we don't have enough 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.680 federal you know, the lawyers to deal with all of them. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.959 There's no deportation happening because Daniel Loury doesn't want to 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.520 hear that word, because you know, sanctuary city, sanctuary city again, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.040 you know, just common sense. Tell me if I'm wrong, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.840 but I think sanctuary city shouldn't count for people that 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:02.560 are violent criminals, sells, drug dealers. Seems to me they 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.640 shouldn't be protected, and yet they are so until some 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.920 of those things change, and I don't see that happening. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.000 So you know, all I can say is he's one 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.760 really good candidate and three more State of the City 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.480 addresses away from losing his job if he doesn't do 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:16.920 something serious. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.160 Well, and to that point, on the drug dealers, especially 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.400 the ones that are in the country illegally, most of 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.880 them from Honduras, I think you remember a few years 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.880 ago when Supervisor Matt Dorsey wanted to change the sanctuary 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.760 policy in San Francisco to just make it that if 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.640 you're selling fentanel, we will hand you over to Ice 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.040 and he got shouted down as a racist for that. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.960 Well, so did I. And it's ironic because several years 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.200 ago I wrote a story called the Mansions that Sentinel built, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.160 and I took it from a federal case, and there 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.120 were pictures of the mansion in the transcripts, and I 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.000 read the whole transcript. I did the story about this 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:00.199 family that was caught on audio with a tapped, you know, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.480 a line. And also the son was going back and 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.320 forth to Honduras building a mansion, and the mother was 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.960 caught on the phone saying to his uncle, oh, you know, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.000 he's just he doesn't know he's going to put in 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:16.160 Marvel columns or if he wants a granite, And of 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.760 course somebody was called a racist. I think because of that, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.240 the Chronicle decided they wanted to prove me wrong, and 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.920 they sent reporters down to Honduras and guess what they found, mansions. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.440 And so it was absolutely true what I wrote five 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.680 years ago or so. They go back and forth, no fear. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.400 Maybe a little more now, but in those days there 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.280 was Biden's time, they had no fear. And you know, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.440 they're by far the biggest the drug dealers on the 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.960 street in the tender wine particularly by far the majority 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.640 of them are from Honduras. But they have no fear 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.200 because they go in. They you know, the judge says, okay, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.400 we release you on your own recognizance, and then they 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.120 go out and they're back on the street selling in 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.840 an hour. And that still happens. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.320 Well, and I remember Brooke Jenkins complaining that they would 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:04.840 go in front of the judge and say I'm a 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.080 victim of human trafficking and the judgers say, oh, oh, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.359 I'm so sorry. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.200 Yeah, mental health diversion, there you go. But unfortunately Broke Jenkins, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.000 you know, has the last say about this is what 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.760 you'll find out in my outcoming article. In California, there 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.640 the law states that the district attorney has the final 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.960 say on diversion. They're supposed to once a year look 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.040 at these programs and decide if they're working, and they 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.640 actually do have power there. So in my article I 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.320 suggest that perhaps these all of these programs need to 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.040 be looked at because you know, on another show we 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.760 can talk about what I found. But let's just say murder, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.960 you know, attempted murderers, you know, are in diversion for 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.480 mental health. I mean of course, if you're an attempted murderer, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.760 you probably have some mental health issues. But there's a 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.000 fine line between that and someone who probably deserves to 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.640 go to prison. The big difference. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.440 Well, in the Sacramento Shire, Jim Cooper try to get 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.920 those laws changed last year and it got killed in 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.720 committee in the Assembly, where we are all in on diversion, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.480 even when you think it's supposed to be for nonviolent crimes, 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.760 We're going all in on diversion for any self attested 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.760 mental illness, including ADHD for the most heinous of crimes. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.120 And it makes no sense. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.520 Oh, in an opioid now they are you know, in 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.240 San Francisco, if you say I have an opioid problem, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.160 they send you to mental health diversion, and then there's 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.560 drug diversion that I'm looking at those deaths right now, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.080 that's my next one. But I got to tell you 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.160 that the mental health diversion is out of control. The 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.120 selons that they allow. For example, in santave three selonies 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.600 were allowed into diversion, whereas in San Francisco it's over 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.800 a thousand, and you know, and first of all, I 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.840 think in many ways this stigmatizes people who actually are 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.080 mentally ill. You know, there's a big difference. Only about 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.920 three percent of people with mental illness who aren't impacted 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.680 by other things like drug addiction commit violent crimes. So basically, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.440 you're saying there's a thousand people with mental illness and three, 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.760 you know, a third of them or drug dealers. That 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.520 seems like a stretch. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.760 Susan Dyer Reynolds. The website is the Voice SF dot org. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.359 The Voice SF dot org. Thank you so much as 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.080 always for joining us. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.800 Thank you so much, and you can also follow us 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:25.600 on Twitter, on the VOSF dot at at the VOSS. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.399 At the vos F, thanks so much for joining us today. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.960 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.760 the telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.880 two two two. It's Randy Wang here on the John 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:43.000 Phillips Show. It's Jilly Buffett Friday on the John Phillips Show. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.800 Johnny's on vacation, so it's Randy Wang here. 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It's Randy way 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.200 Here on the John Phillips Show. It's Jimmy Buffett Friday 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.600 on The John Phillips Show. Johnny's on vacation, so it's 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.560 Randy wang here. Eight hundred two two two five two 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.560 two two is the telephone number. You can email us 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.960 at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com and 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.000 search for the John Phillips Show wherever you get your podcasts. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.880 You know what's really exciting. In two weeks, we've got 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.840 another live remote, the second live remote of the year, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.840 and it's coming on Friday, February sixth, join us for 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.280 a live broadcast at Gladstone's in Long Beach. We're heading 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.240 to Gladstones in Long Beach for our next live broadcast, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:50.840 and you are invited. Great food, good vibes, great my ties. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.800 Let me tell sag Meister right now, I can't have 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.320 one while we're doing the show because I will enjoy 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.000 it just a little too much. But you could enjoy 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:00.520 when if you come watch the show, show have a 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.240 fun afternoon by the water. We're gonna have special guests 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.919 with us, including Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.040 She'll tell you more about your taxpayer rights and protecting 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.200 Prop thirteen. The courts have made it easier to raise 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.320 your taxes. Come by and sign the petition to save 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.520 Prop thirteen. The deadline is coming fast February seventeenth. She 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.320 needs those signatures to get this on the November ballot 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.680 to strengthen Prop thirteen and stop the judges from finding 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.120 all these exceptions to Prop thirteen. Come hang out with us, 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.440 grab a bite, and be part of the broadcast. It's 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:38.120 the John Phillips Show Friday, February sixth from noon to three, 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:44.080 live at Gladstone's in Long Beach. I love that spot. Actually, 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.560 I love downtown Long Beach. Like at some point when 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.040 I relocate out of the San Fernando Valley and I 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.560 am thinking about where, if I'm going to stay in 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:58.720 southern California, where I would be. Long Beach is pretty 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:05.520 darn fun. Long Beach has its issues, but I'm really, really, 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:09.480 really tired of the boring San Fernando Valley. I'd like 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:11.960 walking to things, and I live in a part of 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:17.560 town where you can't walk to anything. San Jose has 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.119 been getting a lot of attention lately, because there's a 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.400 lot of people wondering if San Jose Mayor Matt Mayhan 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.520 is going to be running for governor. He made waves 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.840 himself saying that he's thinking about it because all of 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.200 the candidates on the Democrat side have yet to impress him. 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:40.120 Interestingly enough, over the weekend, Matt mahon invited Republican candidate 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.920 for governor Steve Hilton to see what he's doing when 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.240 it comes to homelessness, to see if anybody running for 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.480 governor will pay attention to one of the few success 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.359 stories in California. And San Jose has its share of problems, 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.240 but Matt Mayhan seems to be doing a lot more 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.200 than a lot of other cities. Let's see what's going 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.520 on here. Here is NBC in. 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.480 The Bay We now to the race for governor in California. 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:09.080 Dealing with the on house appears to be a big 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.520 issue with the upcoming gubernatorial campaign. Many of the candidates 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.160 are coming to Santase to learn about how the city 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.840 is dealing with the issue. Today it was Republican hopeful 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.960