1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: Something's not right here. Crime is up all over, the state. 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: Is out of. 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 3: Control, the economy is sick, are high. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: Housing is expensive, and businesses are leaving. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 3: Leaving California means fixing, and John Phillips is just the 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 3: man to leave the charge. It's the Fix California Hour 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 3: with John Phillips and Randy Way, and. 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 4: We continue at one oh five in the afternoon on 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 4: the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Wig is broadcasting live 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 4: today from Toronto, Canada. 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: And John, a listener just gave me a challenge that, well, 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to do it. Listener Barry doesn't believe 13 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: that I actually have a tattoo, and I just realized 14 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: I could either look up a picture which I refuse 15 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: to take pictures of this tattoo for the past thirteen years, 16 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: or I can roll up my sleeve. Oh my, this was, 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: without a doubt, the dumbest thing I've ever done. I 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: was twenty three, I was real high on being a 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: radio guy. I wasn't actually high, but I did just 20 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: have a triple king challenge at Fatburger, and I went 21 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: to Zebra Tattoo on Hollywood Boulevard to get my fake 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: radio name permanently etched into my skin. There can you 23 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: see it? 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 4: It's horrible, I can see it. Well, now you can't 25 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 4: ever be buried in a Jewish cemetery. 26 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: When I got it, I went to Magic Mountain the 27 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: next day with my family and my dad said, well, 28 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: we're cutting you out of the well. If you're watching 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: us live on YouTube, make sure to hit that like button. 30 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 31 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: a telephone number one eight hundred two two two two two. Well, 32 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: just when you think that George Gascone has wreaked as 33 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: much havoc as he's capable of wreaking on the people 34 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, he is back again. And Randy, if 35 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: the United Nations were a person, I think it would 36 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: be George Gascon because all that guy does is run 37 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: interference for murderers. We got some Bolanese allies. Since George 38 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: Gascon left office in the end of twenty twenty four, 39 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: the County of Los Angeles has paid out over fourteen 40 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: million dollars in retaliation lawsuits from deputy district attorneys who 41 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: were treated very poorly under the Gascon administration, to say 42 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: the least, whether they were denied promotions, transferred from their 43 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,519 Speaker 1: important jobs to less important ones, or all other ways 44 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: that they were diminished because they didn't buy into gascons 45 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: insane ideology. 46 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: So we you know, we're mindful of all his things. 47 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: But by the way, one of our listeners gave us 48 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: a great idea. There's a nickname that a listener gave 49 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 1: us at a listener party back at Gelson's a couple 50 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: of years ago for George Gascon. We can't say it 51 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: on the radio, but we can say it on next 52 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: week's Accountability podcast. So make sure you subscribe. 53 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 2: Who on YouTube. 54 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: But for more on this report from the people at 55 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: LA Material, here's one of their reporters on KTLA this morning. 56 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 5: Well, it's been nearly two years since La County. 57 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 4: I don't miss that face. I am so glad that 58 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 4: he is gone. I know that Barbara Ferrer might be 59 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 4: the most destructive public official in the state of California, 60 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 4: but this guy was the most destructive elected official in 61 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 4: the state of California. 62 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: Well, and he was a moving tornado. He destroyed San 63 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: Francisco after getting appointed by Gavin Newsome of all people, 64 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: and then went down to Los Angeles when he got born. 65 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: Look it's horrifying. 66 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 5: A district attorney, George gast Gohn, was defeated by Nathan 67 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 5: Hawkman and left office. Put a new report in LA 68 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 5: Material suggests taxpayers are still. 69 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: We have a listener that occasionally will see him in 70 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: his neighborhood in Long Beach, and sometimes they'll have some words. 71 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 4: And didn't Gascone's wife go nuts on him the last time? 72 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 5: Apparently feel feeling the effects of Gascon's sweeping. 73 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 4: Okay, look at him now with the glasses on, doesn't 74 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 4: he look like he has seasoned seats to the WNBA 75 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 4: there quite frankly. 76 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 6: Changes in a piece out today, the Gascon era is 77 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 6: proving costly. 78 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: This is the best new website in LA News LA Material. 79 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: They are fantastic, and yes they came up with that 80 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: Katie Porter YELP story. 81 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 6: Prize winning reporter Matt Hamilton reveals La County has approved 82 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 6: nearly fourteen million dollars in legal payouts in retaliation suits 83 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 6: brought by prosecutors who worked under Gascon, and that number 84 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 6: is expected to grow. 85 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, LA Material, see. 86 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: How many deputy das did Gascon screw over in those 87 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: four years? Probably all the good ones. 88 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 5: Your reporter Matt Hamilton. Well he joins us live now 89 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 5: here in studio. Matt, good evening, Great to see you. 90 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 5: Very too interesting article. As we were talking about, I mean, 91 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 5: as someone out in the field a lot, I was 92 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 5: hearing some of these rumblings about the complaints from other 93 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 5: attorneys at the DA's office. Before we get to the million, 94 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 5: the forty million dollars that have been paid out thus far. 95 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 5: You know, let's take a step back. When Georgie as 96 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 5: Goon he was sworn into office in December twenty twenty, 97 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 5: it was. 98 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: A crazy time for everybody. Would you go back and 99 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: think about what happened in that election. He ran on 100 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: the platform of the only way to stop racism in 101 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County is to fire the black chick. That 102 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: was essentially his platform. Correct, It was to get rid 103 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: of Jackie Lacy, who had worked her way up to 104 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: that office. And sure there were some problems, but he 105 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 1: was not the solution. And let's not forget some of 106 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: the politicians that straight up stabbed her in the back 107 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 1: by ditching their endorsement for her and endorsing Gascon, whether 108 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: it be people like Adam Schiff or people like Eric Garcetti, 109 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: It's so. 110 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 4: Wild to me that the people, the crowd who sees 111 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 4: racism in everything and every issue is racial to them. 112 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: They all did the same thing as Gascone. 113 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 4: We had a black female district attorney who was good 114 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 4: at her job, was concerned about public safety, went after criminals, 115 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 4: did everything district attorney is supposed to do, and they 116 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 4: went after her with a vengeance to replace her with 117 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 4: this idiot listener. 118 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: Barry writes in Gascone sounds like Dudley do Wright had 119 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: a child with Charroe Allies. 120 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 5: And he quickly issued a series of directives aimed at 121 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 5: fulfilling his mission of turning the DA's office into what 122 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 5: you called the nation's largest experiment in progressive criminal justice reform. 123 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 5: So if you just talk to us, you know, remind 124 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 5: people about the changes. 125 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: We're talking Abila Mice, WHOA. 126 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 5: What directives? 127 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: Sure? 128 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 7: This was December twenty twenty. This was after a summer 129 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 7: of Black Lives Matter protests downtown LA, all over the city. 130 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: And remember when Melrose burned and every single way. 131 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 7: Mo really a time of col well the way Mo. 132 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: That was more twenty twenty five. I don't because Waimo's 133 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: were in in La in twenty twenty. 134 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 7: Reckoning with what law and order and tough on crime 135 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 7: policies had done to black and brown in marginalized communities, 136 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 7: and George Gascone said, I'm going to change how we 137 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 7: do business, and on his first day in office, he 138 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 7: issued these directives that said, you know how, children are 139 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 7: never going to be prosecuted as adults, even if they're 140 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 7: seventeen years old and just a day or two shire 141 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 7: their eighteenth birthday. 142 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 1: And by the way, that policy right there, among all 143 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: the other policies, may have been the most destructive because 144 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: it's that policy that has kept the worst of the 145 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: worst offenders instead of going to prison, staying in juvenile hall, 146 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: further victimizing all the other kids in juvie. You want 147 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,439 Speaker 1: to know how the Bob Banta fight club started at 148 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: Los Padrinos, It's because George Gascon started sitting all the 149 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: gang members there instead of prison. 150 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 7: He said, we're going to take steps if they're gang members, 151 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 7: if there are firearms involved. He looked at ways that 152 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 7: they could reduce time in prison and other harsh sentences 153 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 7: and issued these blanket directives that said, no, we're going 154 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 7: to try to minimize prison sentences and take a different 155 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 7: approach to crime and punishment, right. 156 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 5: And just I recall a lot of these days were 157 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 5: told before they even enter the courtroom, you're not allowed 158 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 5: to go for the maximum penalty. 159 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 7: These were blanket policies. So the notion of discretion or nuance. 160 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: He came out on day one and I remember this, 161 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: I was covering it that day, and he put out 162 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: eight different categories of crimes that we were just not 163 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: going to enforce anymore, including things like trespassing, which may 164 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: have led to the rise in squattn. 165 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 4: Well, and let's not forget this wasn't something that was 166 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 4: unique to him. He was a cookie cutter of all 167 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 4: the Soros das who were getting elected at that time, 168 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 4: including Chase A. Boudin in San Francisco and Pamela Price 169 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: in Alameda County. And they even tried to take out 170 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 4: Todd Spitzer in Orange County with a clone of Gascon. 171 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: Oh, it's good. It is a good sign that California 172 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,199 Speaker 1: got rid of all of these people at some point. 173 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: Bip in his bet sure it's. 174 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 7: Her case by case analysis, many das felt that it 175 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 7: was kind of divorced from the facts in their particular 176 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 7: cases and made it very difficult to do their jobs 177 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 7: as attorneys who are sworn to uphold ethics. 178 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 6: All right, So twenty three employees of the DIA's office 179 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 6: filed claims or suits against the office for retaliation after 180 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,599 Speaker 6: speaking out about those directives or changes. Let's talk a 181 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 6: little bit about some of these claims and also this specific. 182 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: California has a lot of protections for whistleblowers, and there 183 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: was a lot of retaliation going on in that office 184 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: during the Gascone era. 185 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 4: Oh, he came in and had the attitude of a 186 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 4: bully of you either see the world the exact same 187 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 4: way as me, or I'm going to destroy your career. 188 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 6: That it led to. 189 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 7: Yeah, these involved some of the most prominent prosecutors in 190 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 7: the District Attorney's office. So the Robert Durst case, if 191 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 7: you saw HBO's then Jinks. The lead prosecutor on that case, 192 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 7: John Lewin, he actually. 193 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: Reived that's a tomming I think, yeah, end of the show. 194 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 7: See you the highest settlement, he said. He wrote these 195 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 7: memos criticizing gascon he was transferred from major crimes. He 196 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 7: hadn't lost a case in nearly twenty five years. One 197 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 7: of the most prosecutors. 198 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 4: If you're Gascone, the objective is not to win convictions 199 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 4: on people who did the crime. The objective was to 200 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 4: let as many criminals out as possible. So if you're 201 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 4: a prosecutor who's good at your job, he wanted to 202 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:01,959 Speaker 4: punish you just for that. 203 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: Listener Chris writes in Gascon represented the San Francisco upper 204 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: class theory of crime. Rich San Franciscan's don't experience crime, 205 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: so they think it doesn't really exist. 206 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 7: Bingo in the office, he was reassigned to inglewood handling, 207 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 7: you know, routine matters in the courtroom. And other attorneys 208 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 7: like John Hattammi who handled Gabriel Fernandez. He got a 209 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 7: settlement for one point five million, said he was retaliated 210 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 7: and defamed. 211 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: By Wow Atommy cashed in. 212 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 4: Good for him, Gascone, So how many of his friends 213 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 4: have asked him for money in the last six months? 214 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 7: Seven and eight figure settlements for these prosecutors who said 215 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 7: they suffered consequences. They didn't get promotions, they were passed 216 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 7: over for assignments and key cases. They were very very 217 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 7: good at. 218 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 6: Yeah, and reassigned and Lewin received a two point eight 219 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 6: million that's the highest right, that doesn't even include legal fees. 220 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 7: Correct the county. They would only tell me amounts that 221 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 7: they had settled, So they've spent about three point two 222 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 7: million in outside legal costs thus far. The actual number 223 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 7: is much higher. 224 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: Okay, so this is a drop in the bucket, by 225 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: the way, to all the money the county is settling 226 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: for other kinds of lawsuits, including all of the which 227 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: Nathan Hakman says are mostly illegitimate claims of sexual assault 228 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: at the juvies. 229 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 5: Uh oh, But the one time chief of staff of 230 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 5: George Gasconi is saying, oh, these are all corrupt. 231 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,839 Speaker 2: That the people that. 232 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 5: Are getting these checks is just because they were supporting 233 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 5: Da Nathan Hawkman, who is now our current date. 234 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 4: Well wait a minute, some of them ran against him. 235 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 4: John Hatammi was a candidate himself. He ultimately ended up 236 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 4: supporting Nathan Hakman in the runoff against George Gascon. But 237 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 4: don't act like they're part of some political machine and 238 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 4: they're being rewarded due to machine politics. They're being rewarded 239 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 4: because George Gascon abused his power as district attorney to 240 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 4: punish them in ways that were illegal. 241 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 7: He told me, look look at who's getting these, They 242 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 7: endorsed Nathan Hackman, they were critics of gascon, and they're 243 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 7: being rewarded with taxpayer dollars. Now, everyone involved in these 244 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 7: cases says that's just not true. County settlements go through 245 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 7: multiple layers of checkpoints. The Board of Supervisors votes on it, 246 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 7: and one of these cases did go to trial. There 247 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 7: was a trial in twenty twenty three and a jury 248 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 7: awarded one of the DA employees one point five million. 249 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 7: And they're saying that was the baseline for all these 250 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 7: because a jury already decided there was retaliation here, it 251 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 7: makes more sense. It's more cost effective to settle. 252 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: Okay, But yeah, this is going to go way up 253 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: if they took all these to trial, because you take 254 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: a random jury, even in Los Angeles County, and they 255 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: know that this guy was a boob. 256 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 2: So we know we're mindful of all these things. 257 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 6: But census in your reporting from both lawyers it was 258 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 6: that these suits. Had these suits gone to trial, the 259 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 6: burden on taxpayers could have been much much higher. 260 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 7: I need the case where there was a one point 261 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 7: five million. Even her lawyer told me this was among 262 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 7: the most least egregious cases. So if the county were 263 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 7: to take it to trial, they would be risking multiples 264 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 7: of that, you know, and taking the case to trial 265 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 7: is expensive. The county has to pay for lawyers for weeks, 266 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 7: they have to pay for all this other costs. And 267 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 7: they said, if we can settle these for under two million, 268 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 7: under one point five million, you know we're saving money. 269 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 5: I go forward and obviously Ellie County spent a lot 270 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 5: of money on payouts every year. Yes, why did you 271 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 5: decide to dive into this particular case. 272 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 7: I think we think that when politicians like just because 273 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 7: Gascone lost his election in twenty twenty four doesn't mean 274 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 7: that the long tail of his tenure isn't still being 275 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 7: felt in county offices. 276 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: And there are ripple effects, like I said, with all 277 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: of the juvenile gang members that could have gone to 278 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: prison because you stay in juvie till you're twenty five, 279 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: you don't go to prison when you're eighteen, and then 280 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: you get out and your record get scrubbed. That has 281 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: been a complete disaster that we're still living with every 282 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: single day. And it's part of the reason none of 283 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: the probation employees want to go to work. 284 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 4: My cousin, I think I said this on the radio before. 285 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 4: I have a cousin who lives in Seal Beach, which 286 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 4: is a very safe community in Orange County, North Orange County, 287 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 4: just south of Long Beach off the four or five freeway, 288 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 4: and he had a new truck that was parked in 289 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 4: front of his house overnight and someone stole it, and 290 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 4: the truck was found in South LA a couple days later, 291 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 4: and an arrest was made, and my cousin was totally 292 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 4: appalled that the vehicle was stolen right out of his driveway. 293 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 4: So he decided that he was going to find out 294 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 4: who did it. He was going to do a little 295 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 4: bit of research and figure out all of those details. 296 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 4: And he sent me a copy of the guy's rap 297 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 4: sheet which goes on like a CBS receipt, where this 298 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 4: guy was picked up for just about every imaginable crime 299 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 4: for a long period of time. And what's most notable 300 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 4: is all of the arrests and all of the convictions 301 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 4: that took place while George Gascon was the District attorney 302 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 4: in Los Angeles, and he would break the law, get arrested, 303 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 4: get convicted, be released, and then a short period of 304 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 4: time later rinse and repeat over and over and over again. 305 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 4: And it's not just the people of La County that 306 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 4: are victimized by these thugs, it's everyone else too, because 307 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 4: if you're a resident of La County, you can go 308 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 4: to any county you want, you can go to any 309 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 4: state you want, not expected to stay within the confines 310 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 4: of La County. And the amount of crime that has 311 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 4: gone on not just in Los Angeles but all over 312 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 4: California and all over the country because Gascoyne refused to 313 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 4: do his job for four years is immeasurable. 314 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,880 Speaker 7: There's just one way in which you know, the workplace policy, 315 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 7: like the bill comes due several years later, and this 316 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 7: is an example. You know, this court fight goes on 317 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 7: for years. 318 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, and there's still nine more. 319 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 7: There's still nine more and and other cases against gascones. 320 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 6: Yeah an all taxpayer money, fourteen million dollars and counting. 321 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 8: YEA. 322 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 6: All right. LA Material Senior reporter Matt Helmets would be 323 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,959 Speaker 6: sure to check out this article that came out today. 324 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 6: Thank you so much. 325 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: Thank you both for having me that paper. 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I the hell no, baby boy, Let me 363 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: get up one out of here. 364 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 3: It's the California Crime Blodder. 365 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: And this edition takes us to Livermore. A restaurant had 366 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: to be evacuated because of a fire. And the way 367 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: they named these fires is so stupid. They name it 368 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: after whatever street it started on. This one was called 369 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: the Little Fire. And while the restaurant was evacuated, somebody 370 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: thought it would be a great idea to break in 371 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: and steal all their meat. 372 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 4: Well, I guess gold meat is better. Than rotting meat, 373 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 4: as we've learned from Boyle Heights. For more, here is 374 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 4: a report from kpix. 375 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,959 Speaker 9: Livermore restaurant owner is really in shock tonight after becoming 376 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 9: a victim during a wildfire. Now, nothing burned, but the 377 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 9: restaurant was looted, not once, but twice in the same day. 378 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: They got a repeat customer. That is so ridiculous. 379 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 9: Yep, here's a look at the surveillance video. Some thieves 380 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 9: took advantage during the little fire that burned in Alameda County. 381 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: Earth the little fire, when we are the most ridiculous one. 382 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 1: It was a couple of weeks ago. There was a 383 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: fire in Harupa Valley and it was called the Volcano fire. Well, 384 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: how about the fire in northern California in Amador County? 385 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: Remember that one? What was that one called the Pooda fire. 386 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: That's right, that's a good one. 387 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 9: Earlier this week, you could see them just walking in 388 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 9: the restaurant after it was shut down early as the 389 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 9: flames got closer and closer and a lot of people 390 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 9: were sitting. 391 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: They're not even in any kind of hurry. They're just 392 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: kind of moseying along. Well, it's Alameda County who's going 393 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: to arrest them. 394 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 9: Dressed and concerned. That fire broke out Tuesday, burning more 395 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 9: than a thousand acres near Pleasanton and Snol. It's now 396 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 9: about seventy five percent contained, but firefighters are still there 397 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 9: mopping up hotspots as they look into what caused the fire. 398 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 9: Evacuation orders covered multiple neighborhoods, including the Ruby Hill area. 399 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 9: Those orders were lifted yesterday. The burglarized restaurant sits across 400 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 9: the street from that area and technically not in the 401 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 9: evacuation zone. You can see Deboquery Falls just outside of 402 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 9: the red area on the map, but out of caution, 403 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 9: they put up a sign saying they were closed around 404 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 9: four pm. 405 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 10: When they came up. 406 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: I mean, not a whole lot of people are going 407 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: to want to go in there if they think the 408 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: neighborhood's going to torch up any minute. 409 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 4: Hey, honey, how was your day at work? Well it 410 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 4: was kind of bad. Well what happened? We got looted twice. 411 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 9: Back the next day though they didn't find ashes, they 412 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 9: didn't find anything damaged. Instead, they realized more than one 413 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,479 Speaker 9: thousand dollars worth of meat was missing. 414 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: That's a lot of burgers. 415 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 9: Vin Coe talked to the general manager about the loss. 416 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:56,199 Speaker 10: When a wildfire forced mandatory evacuations across the street from Debauchery. 417 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 10: General manager Mitchell Bryant. 418 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: Oh, I get it now, da Baucher. That's an interesting 419 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,719 Speaker 1: name for a restaurant play on words. 420 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 2: He didn't hesitate. We're not between myself and our owner. 421 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 2: We decided to close early for the safety of the 422 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:13,959 Speaker 2: staff and the guests. 423 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 10: As the little fire threatened homes, spreading smoke and tension 424 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 10: across the tri Valley. This man broke in to Debauchery's 425 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 10: back gate. 426 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 2: He had cut this bolts gone in. He had taken 427 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 2: a look around to see what he could get into. 428 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,479 Speaker 10: Surveillance video shows the man in the locked area looking around. 429 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: Wait, is he covering his face because of security cameras 430 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: or he's covering his face because he's worried about getting 431 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: inhaling the smoke. 432 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 4: It's probably the smoke. If the fire caused them to 433 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 4: shut down early, my guess was pretty bad. 434 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 10: Using his shirt to cover his face. Then he walks 435 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 10: to an outdoor refrigerator, walking out with a case of 436 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 10: and try tip helpful. 437 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 4: Okay, you want to know how to catch this guy? 438 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 4: How's that figure? Out who's having the biggest barbecue this weekend. 439 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 2: Himself to the meat that we keep stored in there. 440 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 10: Hours later, at about ten thirty pm, surveillance video shows 441 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 10: a man who appears to be wearing the same clothing 442 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 10: as before break in again. 443 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: This time he brought a friend. Wait, so what's he 444 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: going to steal? This time? Tomatoes and lettuce. Listening to, 445 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: James writes in beef is expensive nowadays, and how popular 446 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: is liver and liver more? And I got an email 447 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: here from Alan and Napa. At one point there was 448 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: a fire in Napa County called the Hooker Fire in 449 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: Hooker Canyon. Listen to Gravity says he's trying to sell 450 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 1: the beef on Craig's list. 451 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 10: This time he brought a friend, taking four more cases 452 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 10: of burgers along with bacon and cheese. 453 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: It's got a real combo platter going. If he didn't 454 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: bring any buns, maybe he's low carbonate. Well we know 455 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: he's not lactose intolerant, just. 456 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 2: Shy of like one thousand dollars worth of product that 457 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 2: we spent on it. You know, the lost potential in 458 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 2: what we could have made off of it is obviously 459 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:29,360 Speaker 2: much higher. 460 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 10: Nine hundred and fifty dollars is generally the benchmark for 461 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 10: whether a theft is a misdemeanor or a felony. Livermore 462 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 10: police tell me this is an active investigation and it 463 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 10: is considered a felony crime. 464 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: It's felony beef theft. Okay, that second video didn't hide 465 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: his face. 466 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 4: You could see the guy's face on there using AI technology. 467 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: Can they not figure out who that was? Liver Bore 468 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: is not that big. 469 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 2: The optimist, to me would like to think that maybe 470 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 2: he's trying to feed a family. 471 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: Or no, no, no, no, no, come on, you don't 472 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: need to say this idiot got some other. 473 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 2: Personal problems that this was his only recourse. 474 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: But this is not Jean Valjean. 475 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 4: These people have a very French revolution idea of these 476 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 4: kinds of crimes. 477 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 2: So I just think it was opportunistic. 478 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 9: The restaurant just reported the theft today. The general manager 479 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 9: says their first thought was that all the product was misplaced, 480 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 9: until they looked at their surveillance footage and realized what 481 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 9: actually happened. 482 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's misplaced, all right, it's in that guy's fridge. 483 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: Well, it's a good thing they don't have a security 484 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: camera inside the walk in fridge, because you sometimes have 485 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: to wonder how much food's getting eaten by the employees. 486 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: I speak from experience when I worked at Magic Mountain 487 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: and I was opening the ice cream shop. Every morning, 488 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: I would stuff my face full of cheesecake. 489 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 9: They can't release any more information as they are actively investigating. 490 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: So there you go. The Livermore restaurant debauchery got all 491 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: their beefy stolen. 492 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 4: So let's go over what he stole. He stole a 493 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 4: bunch of burgers. Yes, he stole bacon, and he stole cheese, 494 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 4: and the type of cheese was not identified. 495 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: Correct. They did not say what type of cheese he's 496 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: making Western bacon cheeseburgers need some onion rings? All right, 497 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: I have to put this one on the screen. Listener, Ranya, 498 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: Ranya rites in, I'm surprised, Randy, no offense please, looks 499 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: like the Pillsbury dough boy and not a small Asian guy. 500 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: Love you, Randy, I really do. 501 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 4: What kind of loser do you have to be to 502 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 4: risk going to jail over stealing burgers? 503 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: And if you're stealing a thousand. 504 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 4: Dollars worth of burgers, my guess is you and whoever 505 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 4: it is that you have in your circle cannot eat 506 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 4: them in time before they go bad. I guess you 507 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 4: could freeze it. But what so you're gonna eat burgers 508 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 4: for a year that you stole from a restaurant and 509 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 4: you think that's worth it as a grown man. 510 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: It's the thuggish version of I'm gonna buy half a 511 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: cow and eat it all year. 512 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 4: And then what do you tell your wife when you 513 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 4: come home with all of the stolen beef and stolen 514 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 4: bacon and stolen cheese. So, honey, did you go to 515 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 4: Sam's Club? Well, something like that he was bringing home 516 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 4: the bacon. There are some people who are just never 517 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 4: gonna get with the program. If you're an adult and 518 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,479 Speaker 4: you think this is a risk worth taking and this 519 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 4: is a good use of your time, I don't think 520 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 4: there's any redeeming that person. 521 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: I really don't. Well, it's a new word for our vernacular. 522 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: Everyone Livermore has got a beef thief on the loose. 523 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 4: It's the John Phillip Show. It's the John Phillip Show. 524 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 4: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 525 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 4: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 526 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 4: two two two And A very lively chat is going 527 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 4: on right now from those watching us on YouTube and beyond, a. 528 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: Very lively discussion about how not Chinese I am. I've 529 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: told the story a million times. I thought I was 530 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,719 Speaker 1: a quarter Chinese. We found out my dad's adopted. Also, 531 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: my last name is not Wang, it's Wong. 532 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 4: If you're watching us live on YouTube, please click that 533 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 4: like button. We're just shy of two hundred. We'd like 534 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 4: to get that number as high as possible. It really 535 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 4: pushes us out on the YouTube platform in front of 536 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 4: more people. The higher we get that number. All right, 537 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 4: it's now time to reopen the California Crime Blodder. 538 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 10: It's happened yet again. 539 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: This Wow, Wow, what's up here? 540 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 3: Dumb reads the Califonia Crime Blodder with John Ray and Randy. 541 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: This edition takes us to Morgan Hill, where now the 542 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: copper wire thieves are going after the street lights. For more, 543 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: here's k TVU Fox Too is South by. 544 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 9: Reporter Jesse Gary live there tonight with more on the crime. 545 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 11: The motive and advice from police investigators. 546 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: Jesse Quody and good evening to you. 547 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 11: And remember when we were kids, you'd hear be. 548 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 2: In before the street whites come on. 549 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 11: All hard to do that when the street lights don't 550 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 11: come on. 551 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: Maybe, ah good point. 552 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 11: Papers say they first noticed the crime last weekend, But 553 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 11: what really has them shots that has these cones out here. 554 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 11: They hit the same stretch of road for the second 555 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 11: time in just four days. Orange cones now marking the 556 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 11: two dozen locations in Morgan Hill where street lights have 557 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 11: been vandalized. 558 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 1: This happened in my neighborhood a couple of years ago. 559 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: It took months to get them repaired and it's only 560 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: gotten worse now. If your street lights get destroyed, maybe 561 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: they'll get fixed in a year. 562 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 4: And it's not people who are stealing the copper wire 563 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 4: so they can feed their hungry family. It's crackheads who 564 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 4: want to feed their drug addiction. 565 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 8: It's unfair and I feel like we're already crunched with 566 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 8: prices as well. Now the city has to pay for 567 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 8: the right to replace it, and it keeps happening. 568 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 11: Morgan Hill police suspect a two person crew was likely 569 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 11: responsible for stealing several hundred feet of copper wire from 570 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 11: at least two dozen street lights on Olympic Drive. 571 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: It's going to cost tens of thousands of dollars to 572 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 1: fix all that and maybe they'll make one hundred bucks 573 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: off of it. 574 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 4: And if you're driving around in the dark, just imagine 575 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 4: how many accidents are going to happen because the street 576 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 4: lights weren't. 577 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 11: On Saturday and again Wednesday. 578 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 12: We know, look at the street lights, the wiring, the 579 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 12: same tampa marks, same kind of method of removing the 580 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 12: wire was observed. 581 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, usually the solution here is to cement in all 582 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: the access panels. So if the electric company actually has 583 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: to go in there and look at something, they'll need 584 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: a jackhammer. 585 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 4: Say, you know, this could be an easy problem to 586 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 4: solve if you find the people who are doing it 587 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 4: and you put them in jail, or you find the 588 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 4: people who are accepting the stolen copper wire at the 589 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 4: various shops that rely on business licenses and you pull 590 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 4: their licenses. 591 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 1: That's the part of the story that always confuses me. 592 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: Why there isn't way more resources being thrown from city 593 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: attorneys and district attorneys to shut down these operators or 594 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,399 Speaker 1: to make it way harder to sell this stuff. How 595 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 1: is it that you don't have to have a permit 596 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,440 Speaker 1: to sell copper, Like, where are you getting the copper 597 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: from We got to be looking at all the junkers, 598 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: all the smelters, all of that stuff, because this stuff 599 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,319 Speaker 1: is so heavy. It's not like it's getting shipped over 600 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: seas and then sold thousands of dollars. Remember when they 601 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: stall all the lights at the sixth Street Bridge in 602 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and then the LA City Council and their 603 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,359 Speaker 1: budget hearing wanted to allocate money to relighting the sixth 604 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,839 Speaker 1: Street Bridge and it would be an Olympics project, and 605 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 1: the LA City Council member Bob Lumenfeld said, well, I 606 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,439 Speaker 1: don't think you're going to want to pay to fix 607 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: it now because they'll just rip it down again before 608 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 1: the Olympics. 609 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 11: And damage has been done to the lights, leaving this 610 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 11: neighborhood in the dark when the sun goes down. 611 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 8: This is happening in a lot of places. Like I said, 612 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 8: it happened at my work as well. 613 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,399 Speaker 11: Experts say reselling stolen copper is valuable because it can 614 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 11: be used in everything from computers to cars to cell phones. 615 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 13: It is a good conductor for the signal, so the 616 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 13: signals go fast. Also for the heat, it's good. So 617 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 13: this is why you see all those companies. 618 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: Why is this guy's background image of data center. 619 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 4: Don't tell the angry members of the community where he's at. 620 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,879 Speaker 4: A lot of people picket signs outside his front door. 621 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 13: They're really going on the manufacturing these electronics with the copper. 622 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 12: A lot of times the thieves will steal this wire 623 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,720 Speaker 12: so they can sell it either to a recycled vendor. 624 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,840 Speaker 1: Wonder how much stolen copper wire California Waste Solutions gets, 625 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 1: good question, nearest Recycling. I mean, we just not saying 626 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 1: that every recycling center is crooked here, but we know 627 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 1: that one specific recycling company in Oakland is a straight 628 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 1: up criminal organization. 629 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 4: Okay, why can't you conduct a sting and send someone 630 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 4: dressed up like a crackhead into one of these recycling 631 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 4: centers and try to sell them stolen copper wire and 632 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,759 Speaker 4: if they buy the copper wire from the crackhead, pull 633 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 4: their business license. 634 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: Listener Jimmy writes in with a question, why don't they 635 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,879 Speaker 1: want to arrest and punish crime? I don't understand. Yeah, 636 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,399 Speaker 1: you and me both, buddy. 637 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 11: Vendors to the latest crime scene. Managers at Martinez Recycling 638 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 11: say they record the time and date of each sale 639 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 11: and require a driver's rices signature and thumbprint to guard 640 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 11: against receiving stolen property. 641 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:53,720 Speaker 1: You know what's weird. 642 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,479 Speaker 4: You need an Act of Parliament before you buy suda fed. 643 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,479 Speaker 4: Good luck getting a CBS to sell you Suda fed 644 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 4: unless the pharmacy is open and you go back and 645 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,120 Speaker 4: you talk to the pharmacist and you convince them that 646 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 4: you're not Walter White and breaking bad. For whatever reason, 647 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 4: they lock that up like it's Fort Knox. Yet with 648 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,760 Speaker 4: the copper wire, it's just anything goes. 649 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: We've got to make the standards way stricter than what 650 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: was just detailed by this recycling company. You need to 651 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,320 Speaker 1: be a registered business if you're going to be selling 652 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,320 Speaker 1: this stuff. And they're never going to do that because 653 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,319 Speaker 1: I'm sure there's somebody on Capitol, there's somebody in the 654 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: state capitol. They'll be like, well, this is how some 655 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,760 Speaker 1: of the homeless make their living from selling junk metal. Yeah. 656 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,840 Speaker 4: Well, let me give you a little tip. If some 657 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 4: guy walks into your shop looking like they're homeless, fidgeting 658 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,439 Speaker 4: and on the phone with Hunter Biden, and they want 659 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 4: to sell you copper wire, you tell them to get lost. 660 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,880 Speaker 13: Criminals are criminals. They find ways to overpass or to 661 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 13: go around those kind of rules. 662 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,719 Speaker 11: Morgan Hill police say the city is put in a 663 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 11: repair order with a third party, but it's going to 664 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,400 Speaker 11: take some time to get all of these light poles repaired. 665 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,399 Speaker 11: In the meantime, they suggest people use caution when out 666 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 11: at night in this area and if you see something suspicious, 667 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 11: like a vehicle parked next to a white pole, well you're. 668 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,439 Speaker 1: Not going to be able to see something suspicious because 669 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: it's dark. Yeah, you're not going to see anything in. 670 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 11: The very late hours or very early hours of the morning. 671 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 11: Give police a call. We're live in morgan Hill this evening. 672 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,800 Speaker 11: Jesse Gary KTVU, Fox TU News clouding back up the 673 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,879 Speaker 11: freeway to Oakland and to you all. 674 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 2: Right, Jesse, thank you certainly. I imagine it's so frustrating 675 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:43,320 Speaker 2: for that. 676 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 1: So there you go. In morgan Hill. They're living in 677 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,960 Speaker 1: a land of darkness because of rampant copper wire. Thievan. 678 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,920 Speaker 4: How do these crackheads not get electrocuted more often? 679 00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: We hear about one of those stories every once in 680 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,880 Speaker 1: a while, especially when they're going for more than just 681 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,760 Speaker 1: the wire. They're like going for the full access panel. 682 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,360 Speaker 1: But maybe they stole some rubber gloves from home depot. 683 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 4: First, I wonder if all of the electricity in the 684 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 4: neighborhood goes out if a bum gets deep fat fried 685 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:22,360 Speaker 4: while trying to steal copper wire. Listener Ron writes, in 686 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 4: these same recycling centers taking copper and catalytic converters, Yep, 687 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 4: they melt that stuff down for the platinum. Remember that 688 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:37,480 Speaker 4: scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when the cat bites 689 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 4: into the line the Christmas lights and gets electrocuted. Yes, 690 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 4: I would imagine it works in a similar sort of 691 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,480 Speaker 4: way when the bums get electrocuted when they're trying to 692 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 4: steal the copper wire. It happened to be on videotape somewhere. 693 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,839 Speaker 1: Ring a flashlight if you go into Morgan Hill. 694 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 4: Everybody, all right, we've got one more hour to go 695 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 4: right here. 696 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,279 Speaker 1: On The John Phillips Show,