WEBVTT - Worse And Worser Had A Debate 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.439 Well, the city council might only give you sixty seconds 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:05.560 to where your grievance is. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.440 Oh hi, I'd like to go to the first caller 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:09.160 on the phone. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:13.520 Well, if you're lucky, now we're giving you a full 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.880 sixty minutes. It's a KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.640 and our long recap of the day's top local stories. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.600 Fun your drive home, and unlike the City Council, we're 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.680 the perfect vehicle to actually get your voice heard. The 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:34.600 JABC News Blitz with Randy Wang starts no, No, No. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.640 It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:42.360 radio seven ninety KABC. This is your daily rundown of 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.320 everything you need to know that's going on in the 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.280 state of California, Southern California, the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.960 in the Central Valley. I compile a list every single 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:52.760 day of all the stories that I found that you 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:57.400 might find interesting at Randywangradio dot substack dot com, and 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.000 make sure to check out our YouTube channel Johnny Don't 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.440 dot com for the John Phillips Show and the Accountability Podcast. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.480 Let's get right into this. You may have heard that 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.000 there was a debate last night in Sherman Oaks between 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:17.039 La Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger, city Councilwoman Nythia Ramen. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.839 It was not broadcast anywhere that was easy to find 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.039 because they put it out on Zoom and they ran 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.000 out of participants, so unless you subscribe to the Punjabi 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.200 Live channel, it was really hard to watch this thing 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.840 last night. But the Sherman Oaks Homos Association did put 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.200 it out on their YouTube page this morning. So let's 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.520 listen to it all together. I'm gonna tell you right now, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.200 I have listened to this entire hour and a half debate, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.920 which luckily the show's only an hour and we have 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.080 commercial breaks, so I can't play you all of it. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.360 But my one takeaway is, as I tried to decide 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.600 between voting for Karen Bass or voting for Nithia Rahman, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.040 because those are my only two choices, you cannot write 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.640 in a candidate for a runoff, as much as you 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.360 want to write in Spencer Pratt, you cannot do that. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.959 And as I listen to these two candidates blame each 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.200 other for everything, blame the county for everything, the only 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.200 thought running in my head is if I have to 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:29.600 choose between voting for idiot one an idiot two. The 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.520 vote I really want to make at this point is 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.120 to vote with my feet and move out of the 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:39.160 city of Los Angeles, because these are my choices and 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.720 I'm not happy about it. Without further ado, here is 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.959 last night's disaster of a debate, moderated by one of 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.840 the best in the business, Phil Schuman of Fox eleven. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.920 Mayor Bass. Obviously, homeless is the big issue. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.040 So yeah, wasn't she supposed to solve that by twenty 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:56.520 twenty six? I guess not. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.880 We're going to start just by asking you to remind 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.079 our audience, tell our audience what your priorities are, if 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.679 you have to list the top priority or top two 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.080 or three priorities, given where we're at in twenty twenty six, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.320 given what you know has worked and hasn't worked. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.280 First of all, good evening everyone, I'm happy to be 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.720 here with you today. In the street homelessness period, we 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:18.960 absolutely have to do that. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.640 You said you were going to do that, but now. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.400 We need to increase massively the number of Angelinos that 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.200 we get off of our streets. We need to look 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.359 for less expensive ways, moving away from motels, using city 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.480 owned property, to put up new and improved and more 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:40.040 modern shelters and also providing the services that people need. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.640 We've already started to do this. As a matter of fact, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.400 just last week we cut the ribbon for one of 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.960 these developments in an adjacent city council district. But we 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.680 have to get people off the streets. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:52.680 It's hard for you to hear, but I can hear 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.480 it because I have headphones on. There's a siren going 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:56.360 on in the background. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:01.560 But after that, we actually need to transform the entire system. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.320 The city needs to be in control right now. One 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.320 of the fundamental dysfunctional features of the system is it's 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.080 governed by the city, it's governed by the county, and 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.400 it's governed by LASSA. So, for example, the city gets 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:19.440 people off the streets and into housing, but LASA in 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.880 the county controls who moves from shelters in interim housing 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.520 into permanent housing. The other thing the city and the county, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:32.200 the city and the LASA control is the services. So, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:33.400 in other words, the county. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.719 If you're confused yet, well, welcome to Los Angeles, Shaggy. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:38.240 You are right. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.800 The bureaucracy is real, and it's. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.600 One thing that I'll agree with Karen Bass. Our system 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.760 and the way that it's set up is a joke. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.240 The problem is Karen Bass is not running as a 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.840 first timer here. She's been in office for four years. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.120 So it took her four years to realize that our 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.720 system that we've had for thirty years is a mess 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.840 where the city and the county don't talk to each 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.480 other other. And they created LASA to start talking to 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.760 each other, and they still don't talk to each other. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.040 And the whole point was, Oh, we're gonna, you know, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.719 we're gonna make sure that we stopped passing the buck 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.000 and blaming the city and the county, blaming the city 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.680 and the city, blaming the county. Well, nope, we're doing 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:16.480 lots of that. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.920 He controls the services and you know, and everybody in 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.599 your nose. Until we address drugs and until we address 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.080 mental health, we will not be able to end homelessness 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:27.840 in this city. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.200 All right. That is fascinating. Karen Bass has been wandering 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.039 around for the last four years, not wanting to talk 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.359 about the drug crisis and the mental health crisis. She 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.480 will specifically go on and talk about her chicken and 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:49.880 egg theory that she believes that you probably started doing 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.320 drugs because you were homeless, because and you remember what 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.719 she said at that opening of the of the housing 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.479 for elderly in Woodland Hills, you need to you meth 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.840 at night or you're going to get sexually assaulted on 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:03.360 the streets. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.280 We also know that it's a chicken and egg issue. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.719 Now because she's trying to run to the right of 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.720 Nethia Rahman, she'll admit that it's a drug problem that's 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.400 driving what we're seeing on the streets. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.200 That is absolutely an imperative given that the county and 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.240 LASSA determines who gets the housing. What that means is 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.760 is that sometimes they put people from neighboring cities in 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.520 housing that the city controls, that the city pays for, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.280 and so we absolutely have to get the services. If 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.040 the city controls the system completely, we can have our 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.000 own contracts with federally qualified health clinics to get people 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.240 the healthcare that they need, especially in terms of drugs 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.280 and mental health. I believe in ending street homelessness, period. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.200 But here's the question, what have you been doing to 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.680 move us towards that? Because this whole administration started with 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.720 locking arms with the county, Well, we're not doing that anymore. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.880 What we're saying is we don't need the county, and 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:07.400 maybe that's the point. I will say. I do think 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.440 our system is a mess, and I think this is 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.880 true for so many different categories. The County of Los 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.600 Angeles is too big, the City of Los Angeles is 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:24.400 too big. The governments do not meld well, and they 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.280 do not talk to each other, and they constantly blame 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.960 each other for everything. So maybe we need to split 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:36.720 up the county reduce the size of the city. Maybe 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.160 we need a system like San Francisco, where the city 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.160 and the county are the same entity. San Francisco has 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.440 its problems, but at least you don't have the city 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.760 and the county passing the buck back and forth because 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:47.760 it's the same people. 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:48.280 Thank you. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.560 Still shocking to everybody in here that thirty years into 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.040 this we're still debating the structure and the hierarchy and 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:54.760 the strategy. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.760 That's right, So, Phil, can you run for mayor? You 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.320 have a bitter head on your shoulders than these two combined. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.040 Council person ram in two minutes, same subject. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.880 Yeah, So I think Angelino's are really fed up with 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.160 this issue. They're fed up with spending hundreds of millions 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.520 of dollars a year and not seeing the results that 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.960 they deserve on their streets. I think they have lost 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.840 trust in faith in the system, and by the way, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.560 people on the streets have lost trust and faith in 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.480 the system in. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:26.880 The system as well. Can you guys hear me? 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:27.520 Yeah? 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.880 Great, We're in like a high school auditorium for this thing. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.079 And I feel like the last three and a half years, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.440 where this mayor has spent four hundred million dollars on 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:43.600 inside safe refused audits, spent heavily on a program that 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.319 has sent forty percent of participants back to the streets, 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.760 and spent sometimes one hundred thousand dollars a year per person, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.600 have actually made some of these issues worse. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.559 And I've pushed back on this. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.880 That's right. I'm the voice of common sense at city 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:02.760 Hall from DSA candidate at the Araman. Sure, and the. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.760 Problems that the system has had in city Hall. But 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.000 here's what I would do to change it. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.760 One, within the first six months of me being in office, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.160 I would audit every dollar and I would track the 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.280 performance of every dollar. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.000 And we've already laid the groundwork. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.839 And then what do you do when you have nonprofits 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.800 that are either not helping the problem or making the 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.880 problem worse, like I don't know, Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.520 the nonprofit that we pay to pass out meth pipes. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.960 Are you going to cancel that program? I don't think so. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.040 For that in my time in city council, by creating 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.719 data for the first time about beds and performance and outcomes, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.640 and I would use that to make sure all of 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.680 your dollars are being spent wisely. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.400 Just like we did in my council district. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.240 The second thing that I would do is actually create 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.120 the real leadership and management over this issue at city Hall. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.600 I've pushed to create a Bureau of Homelessness Oversight. It's 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.160 been slow to be staffed, but we need to be 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.520 in charge of these dollars right now. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.479 This is what the bureaucracy needs, is more of bureauocracy 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.080 to look after the bureaucracy. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.559 Great city funds eight thousand beds, no one's in charge 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.760 of filling them. No one is making sure that every 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.600 dollar is being spent at city Hall, we leave it 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.160 to someone else to do that. And finally, we need 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.480 to deal with the mental health and substance use crisis 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.560 on our streets. In my council district, we beg and 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.160 plea for the county to show up, and they do sometimes. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.800 The one thing that Karen Bess and Nathia Rahman can 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:30.280 agree at this pathetic debate is that everything is La 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:36.720 County's fault. If that's the case, once again, maybe we 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.640 shouldn't have a county that has ten million people in it. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.920 Maybe the city of Los Angeles is just too large 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.800 and the county is just too large. Let's split it 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.000 all up. Let's go back to the Valley Secession plan, 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.559 and while we're at it, let's split up the county 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.600 into five smaller counties. Because everything is run terribly here, and. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.480 We fill in the gaps by funding street medicine teams. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.360 I want to do the same thing citywide. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.080 No one's advocating for the city to get what we're 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.520 paying for. By the way, with our tax dollars, we're 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.200 paying for mental health beds that we're not getting, and 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.360 I would be out there advocating for them using my 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:13.240 seat as the mayor. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.760 Thank you, we're going to come back. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.520 Excuse me, so you might need to explain what the 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.720 ground rules are, because if my opponent says something that's 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:22.880 blatantly untrue. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.000 Oh, it's getting ugly quick here. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.400 Definitely want an opportunity to count it. So saying that 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:29.720 it costs one hundred. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:30.640 Can you do it in thirty seconds? 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:30.960 Sure? 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.800 I said some beds saying that it costs one hundred 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.760 thousand dollars, And you have said this on many occasions, 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.280 that inside Safe costs eighty five thousand, one hundred thousand. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:40.600 Winks. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.560 Well, the monitor the number that I got for Monica 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.400 Rodriguez is some of these beds are seventeen thousand dollars 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.840 per homeless person per month. That's a hell of a 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.160 lot of money. And where's that money going to? Wherehouse 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.920 people in motels? There's a massive amount of grift going on. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.400 We could have cut all these people a check and 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.080 the outcomes would be better. We could have not spent 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.559 any money and the outcomes would have been better. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:10.280 You know perfectly well that the county reimburses for those services, 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.640 which means if you look at inside Safe in your 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.360 own department, and by the way, you are the chair 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.280 or you were the chair of the Homelessness committee, and 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.600 you know that we pay essentially the same amount for 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.360 Inside safe as we do for other forms of it. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.120 We also pay for county taxes, so we are paying 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:30.520 for art. 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.160 We're going to come back to this issue. I can 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:33.360 assure you we're. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.480 Paying for those costs no matter who's paying it, city 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:35.960 or county. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.160 R The second general topic is public safety in the LAPD. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.760 Much debate over the LAPD's budget over the LAPD raises. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.160 Yes, Karen Bass has unsuccessfully tried to increase the ranks 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.360 of the LAPD and if the iraman notably called to 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.360 defund the police when she first got into office, over. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:57.840 The levels of personnel in the LAPD. So let's start 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.480 with councilperson Ramen. When you were here during the primaries, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.720 you spent a lot of time defending your vote against 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.160 the rais to the LAPD, saying that the money you 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.600 need to be convinced that the money they already have 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.800 is being spent correctly. Well, what are your thoughts to 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.439 this group now several months later on public safety and 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:15.040 the LAPD. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.839 Well, Look, everyone deserves to feel safe in the city. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.920 We need that, Yeah, So how can we get there? 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.000 People don't feel safe, especially where this is going on 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.120 in the San Fernando Valley, which has been plagued by 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.640 NonStop burglaries. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.080 And we've been promised every single year that this mayor 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:33.360 has been in office that we're going to grow the 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:38.400 police force. And the contract I voted against gave salary 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.520 raises to the PD that we couldn't afford. I think 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.600 every city worker should be paid well. I think police 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.440 officers should be paid well. This is not a dispute 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.880 about that. This is about fiscal management of our public 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.400 tax dollars. This contract gave raises to this PD that 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:52.840 our city couldn't afford. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:59.200 Well, she's half right. What happened was and there is 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.720 a true bidding war that's out there. La wasn't nearly 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:08.560 as competitive as much safer cities nearby. But when the 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.400 city council, Karen Bass, everyone voted to give the police 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.840 a raise, the equitable thing to do was also to 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:22.080 give raises to every single city department. And that is 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.880 partially what bankrupt died the city and. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.240 We suffered as a result. We had a billion dollar budget. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.520 Deficit as a result, and now across the entire city, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:36.000 we cut street lighting, we cut pothole repair. We have 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.920 more potholes on our streets than we did before. We 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:42.120 do less graffiti removal than we did before. We absolutely 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.080 need to be able to at least retain the size 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.040 of the police force. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.960 That we have right now, but we are not doing that. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.640 We are actually losing people every single year. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.440 It's almost like it doesn't matter how much money you 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.440 throw at this. The on the line officers know that 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.400 either Karen Bass or Nythia Rahman or Uni Seas are 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.760 the rest of them. Nobody has their back, So why 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.680 should they put their life in the line to work 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.320 here when they're much more appreciated in Burbank or el Segunde. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.080 And I think we need to do better. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.080 And you deserve a city that responds to your calls 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.400 for help, that shows up and is the right person 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:19.160 to show up. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.840 Oh that's right, Nitya's whole idea here is nine one two. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.600 Call nine one one if someone's trying to stab you. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.960 But if it's just somebody who has a mental health 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.200 crisis that hasn't stabbed you yet, well then call the 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.400 unarmed Crisis Response and then when they get stabbed, then 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.400 we'll call nine one one for the call for help. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.080 That you're putting out there. I think that's incredible. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.360 How many of our problems all stem from us not 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.960 having looney bins anymore, us not having looney bins to 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.680 put all the crazy people. Even though I don't think 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.520 there's that many crazy people, there are some people out 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:59.040 there that have schizophrenia. I'm sure it's it's it happens, 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.320 and it is that we are not taking care of 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:05.160 those people. But I think the vast majority we see 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.680 on the streets every day is insanity and psychosis that 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.480 was caused by drug use. It was caused by meth 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.160 because we have decided to allow people to do meth 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.320 on the streets thanks to our vote back in twenty 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:23.000 fourteen on Prop forty seven, which correlation doesn't exactly equal causation, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.880 but that sure seems to be when the homeless problem 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.800 exploded in California. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.480 Sobally important. So first of all, we need to do 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:32.000 a few things. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.160 We need to make sure that we're getting clear data 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.520 about crimes across every neighborhood under this mayor's leadership, we 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.040 don't have that neighborhood level data, so we as residents 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.040 don't know whether we're getting the kind of protection that 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.800 we deserve. We need to make sure that we're changing 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.000 our hiring practices. The last two recruit classes have had 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.520 less than a third of the total capacity that they could. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.640 We can have sixte in each class. We have twenty 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.240 in the last one, seventeen in the last one because 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.880 our city hiring and personnel programs, which he's promised to change, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.000 have never been changed. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:06.520 But we also need to make. 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.000 Sure Karen Bass has made a lot of empty promises. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.920 You're totally right in ethia, how are you going to 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.280 be any better or that. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.720 For all of those calls for service where we don't 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.040 need armed officers to go out that we're actually building 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.440 out a citywide system. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.440 So what we need is to waste a whole bunch 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.240 of money on ambassadors. You know, Unisses has this same 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:29.960 idiotic theory. So here's what she'll say, and I'm paraphrasing. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.960 She'll say, you understand that every single time we have 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.119 the police respond to a call, it costs about eighty 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.600 five dollars. You understand that if we send out an 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:47.280 unarmed crisis responder, these circle teams what have you, that's 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.840 thirty five dollars a call. And you think to yourself, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.800 oh wow, that means we're saving a lot of money. Well, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:18:00.639 police aren't paid per call, and the unarmed crisis isn't 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.720 paid per call. So now that we're paying the full 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:08.240 time salary of the police officer and the unarmed crisis responder, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.000 each call to either of them is actually costing one 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.480 hundred and thirty dollars. Hey, look at that, I did math. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.680 Stay right here. We've got a lot more of this 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.119 awful debate and send me an email or give me 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.280 a call at eight hundred two to two two five 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.600 two two two if you want to react to this debate, 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:28.960 or if you've come to the same conclusion as me, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.760 there is no answer here other than we gotta go. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.800 It is time to leave Los Angeles because these are 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.040 the people that are going to be in charge and 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.760 they have no idea what they're doing. It's the News 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:52.639 Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's the News Blitz 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.000 with Randy Wang on KABC. Let's go to Mark in 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:57.400 downtown La Mark. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:05.080 Hello, Hello, he wit Randy. Yeah, Randy, am my aunt. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:06.960 You're on the air. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:08.640 Oh, I'm on the good good good. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:08.840 Yeah. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.119 They got to round these people up. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:10.440 I don't know. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.080 I came in, you know, I'm driving downtown. I had 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.359 a business around an event downtown for years, you know, 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.879 so I know downtown. My wife's closed downtown to the 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.159 tail to save some money. I always had my He 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.399 almost stole my phone out of my car because he 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.760 knocked over this crazy wacko lunatic. He docked over two 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.679 of those you know, automatic little carts that deliver food. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.960 So I just I just signed. I waved my finger around, 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.359 wagged my finger at him. I don't do that, don't 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.399 do that. He came charging at me. My window was open, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:44.400 and I said, hey, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I knew 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.560 he's gonna try and break my window or something. So 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.880 he reached in, tried to steal my phone anyway, got 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.560 my phone, but he got to round these people up. 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.719 And this city is you know, I don't know. I say, 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.439 that's a guy who live in Culver City, you know, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.400 and incorporated the city with rowan police force. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.040 But U yeah, that's the way to go. I'm telling you, 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.680 it's to get out. Is it just mean? Did Mark 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.359 sound like Joe Crummy? It's the News Blitz with Randy 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:17.000 Wang on KABC. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:23.280 on KABC. Let's get back to this incredibly depressing debate 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:28.399 between our only two choices for mayor, Karen Bass and 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.040 Nithia Rahman, or as she's referred to by my friend 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.720 Elizabeth barko'honna dumb mom, Donnie. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.280 Something I'm deeply committed to doing. I've created a plan 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:38.760 for doing. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.600