Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the John Phillip Show, Mister Randy Wings in Culver City, John.
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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do when she doesn't win in June? Oh,
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Speaker 1: We're Getting Even podcast. She's like Jason with the hockey mask.
Speaker 1: She just won't ever die.
Speaker 4: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1: And that is to say her career won't ever die.
Speaker 1: She just keeps running and running and running and running.
Speaker 4: Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots.
Speaker 1: Maybe she'll end up on the Food Network.
Speaker 3: I'm pulling in to the Bakery Well cooking show with Katie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she could take over for the Barefoot Contessa. Well,
Speaker 2: we know she's really enjoyed that peloton. Maybe she could
Speaker 2: be a guest instructor.
Speaker 1: We could eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 1: two East telphone number one eight hundred two two two
Speaker 1: five two two two. Well. Arrest were made at MacArthur
Speaker 1: Park and that generated national news.
Speaker 2: MacArthur Park, which has been ground zero for homelessness, open
Speaker 2: air drug markets, all kinds of crime, stolen social security numbers,
Speaker 2: was rated by LAPD and the DEA and other federal agencies.
Speaker 2: And John, you know, anytime we're talking about MacArthur Park,
Speaker 2: we need a little serenade.
Speaker 3: First in the rain.
Speaker 1: When people who don't live in Los Angeles hear about
Speaker 1: MacArthur Park, they think about the park from Mary Poppins,
Speaker 1: where it's gonna be Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke
Speaker 1: and those Banks kids just hopping around and dancing and
Speaker 1: singing and people drawing on the pavement and all of that.
Speaker 1: What In reality, it's a Dana crackheads.
Speaker 2: Not only that, but much like the Mission in San Francisco,
Speaker 2: it's where all the criminals go to sell their stolen goods.
Speaker 2: So let's find out what happened with the big raid
Speaker 2: on MacArthur Park. Here's Fox eleven and our buddy Matthews sedar.
Speaker 5: Investigators have targeted the Sineloa cartel as a suppliers for
Speaker 5: fetanyl and methodthetomy into the MacArthur Park area.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, we had a cartel connection.
Speaker 1: We do. So they are been put on notice.
Speaker 5: MacArthur Park belongs to the people of Los Angles again.
Speaker 1: For how long? That is going to be very very
Speaker 1: very temporary.
Speaker 6: One hundreds of law enforcement swore MacArthur Park a mathive sweep,
Speaker 6: cracking down on what they call an open air drug market,
Speaker 6: with than a dozen people arrested so far, at least
Speaker 6: nineteen kilograms a feentanyl seized. That's enough, they say, Lethods
Speaker 6: is to kill one hundred and ninety thousand people. Welcome
Speaker 6: to the Fox eleven is at five, So I will
Speaker 6: cast on Fox eleven plus. I'm Christine Devine. That rate
Speaker 6: happened just hours ago Fox eleventh. Matthew Siedoff was there
Speaker 6: as it all unfolded. We joined us live from the scene.
Speaker 7: Matthew.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Christina, very intense afternoon, and you can tell us
Speaker 8: business as usual here at MacArthur Park, just kind of
Speaker 8: what you expect to see out here.
Speaker 7: But the FEDS say, really focusing on these businesses.
Speaker 9: This is war against crime, it's war against the game members.
Speaker 7: We're about five or six minutes out from MacArthur Park.
Speaker 8: We're following all the DEA agents over there, wights and sirens.
Speaker 3: On and agreers.
Speaker 2: He's five or six minutes away from MacArthur Park because
Speaker 2: it's not safe to broadcast from MacArthur Park.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that every live shot from the
Speaker 1: park has sirens going off and crazy people screaming at
Speaker 1: the top of their lungs, the soundtrack of chaos.
Speaker 8: Following all the DEA agents over there, wights and sirens
Speaker 8: on a midday major raid in LA, Federal agents calling
Speaker 8: it Operation Free MacArthur Park.
Speaker 9: This is the part of the park that's claimed by
Speaker 9: the eighteenth Street Game, but today it's our park.
Speaker 7: We're taking it back.
Speaker 3: It'll be back to theirs tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Well, if you arrest them and you charge them in
Speaker 1: federal court, that means that the state of California doesn't
Speaker 1: have the ability to let them out. So maybe, just
Speaker 1: maybe we can put a dent in the problem.
Speaker 8: Maybe Crowns moving out as DA federal agents storm in,
Speaker 8: commands half the park closed and nearby businesses surrounded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of the storefronts in the MacArthur Park
Speaker 2: area were safe houses for all the drugs, because who
Speaker 2: in their right mind would actually lease office space down there.
Speaker 1: No, the only legitimate businesses that are in that area
Speaker 1: are businesses who have been there a very long time
Speaker 1: before that area turned into the war zone that it's now.
Speaker 1: Places like Langers Deli.
Speaker 2: And that yoshanoea beef ball that seems to defy odds
Speaker 2: and stay in business.
Speaker 7: The place notoriously known for open illegal.
Speaker 5: Drug use Ventanyl math drugs, there's criminal acts.
Speaker 3: What about super math.
Speaker 1: Drugs.
Speaker 3: There's criminal activity going on here. They're doing it out
Speaker 3: in front.
Speaker 5: It's happening every day, and we're here to tell them
Speaker 5: to stop.
Speaker 7: The business where they're serving this warrant. Today's clothed, so
Speaker 7: right now they're busting through the door.
Speaker 1: See you know it all sounds like it's in a
Speaker 1: war zone.
Speaker 2: Well, MacArthur Park war zone. Potato Potato, there's.
Speaker 5: Multiple locations on the street. It's not a specific target
Speaker 5: that we're looking for in the street. Is these are
Speaker 5: businesses that are complicit and assisting the drug sales that
Speaker 5: are going on.
Speaker 3: Here in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 8: So essentially, what you're saying that these businesses are stash houses.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying that's what the judge said.
Speaker 1: He's just quoting Judy.
Speaker 7: The Fed's collecting buses and bags of evidence.
Speaker 5: The tip of the spear on some of the massive
Speaker 5: moves you're making against corruption and fraud in America.
Speaker 8: Nineteen kilos of fetanyl already discovered, including some in a toilet.
Speaker 1: What's it doing there?
Speaker 2: Well, I would imagine they were trying to flush it
Speaker 2: so there wouldn't be any evidence when this goes to trial.
Speaker 2: But I think they threw so much down there it
Speaker 2: clogged the toilet.
Speaker 1: I wonder how long it'll be after they collect all
Speaker 1: the fetanyl and the meth and the super fetanyl and
Speaker 1: everything else, how long it'll be before Nitia Rahman goes
Speaker 1: The Feds are separating families.
Speaker 11: It's not so.
Speaker 7: I seventeen arrest made and more likely soon.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: That's what was going on at MacArthur Park, and notably
Speaker 2: LAPD Chief MacDonald was there and Karen Bess was not
Speaker 2: because she was busy doing debate prep.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and she doesn't want to give Donald Trump
Speaker 1: or the federal government any credit for doing her job.
Speaker 1: Maybe MacArthur Park will change, but I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: need a lot more of these raids on a daily
Speaker 1: basis for a long time. And Randy, we also have
Speaker 1: an update on naked man in the Sanfornando Valley.
Speaker 2: Naked Man, after three to four years of threatening and
Speaker 2: harassing his neighbors after they called the police over one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty times on him, complain to the city
Speaker 2: about him, including to Nithia Rahman, has finally been arrested. Finally, Yes,
Speaker 2: and it only took two news reports. You can go
Speaker 2: through the proper channels. You can call the city and complain.
Speaker 2: You can use three to one one, you can call
Speaker 2: nine one one. If none of that works, you call
Speaker 2: NBC four or CBSLA or ABC seven, KTLA five or
Speaker 2: Fox eleven. And when it's a story this good that
Speaker 2: involves nudity, you know they're all going to descend upon
Speaker 2: the neighborhood. The stories are going to go beyond Los
Speaker 2: Angeles and get carried through the internet everywhere. And the
Speaker 2: city got so embarrassed they finally arrested the crazy naked guy.
Speaker 2: Good job, homeowners for more, you're CBSLA.
Speaker 12: Yelling nudity alleged threats.
Speaker 1: Boy, that is quite a combo.
Speaker 12: Platter, yelling, nudity, alleged threats, and now an arrest. We
Speaker 12: first told you about this case and this week.
Speaker 2: You know, typically when you see somebody screaming at you,
Speaker 2: you can start to see the veins in their forehead.
Speaker 2: What do you think it's like when someone naked is
Speaker 2: screaming at you.
Speaker 1: Probably the same look as if they're opening up a jarapickles.
Speaker 12: You about this case and this weekend in a Resita
Speaker 12: neighborhood terrorized by a man despite hundreds of complaints, that
Speaker 12: man now arrested. Cbsla's Lauren Posen is live and Lauren
Speaker 12: neighbors are thankful but still worried.
Speaker 13: It's a mix of emotions here, you know. Neighbors say
Speaker 13: they're definitely relieved after all these years and arrest finally
Speaker 13: has been made, but they're also really concerned what happens
Speaker 13: if and when this man returns.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, they're taking him.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, when you get released from jail, one
Speaker 1: of the first things they do is they give you
Speaker 1: back your clothes. What happens if you're naked when you're arrested?
Speaker 1: Do they have some kind of jail issued burlap sack
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: They take you to ross dress for less.
Speaker 1: Maybe they give you clothes that's meant for the homeless, like,
Speaker 1: for example, memorabilia congratulating the team that didn't win the
Speaker 1: World Series and you get those T shirts.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, they're taking him.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you boy.
Speaker 2: Resita has come a long way.
Speaker 4: And now, oh my god, they're taking him.
Speaker 14: Yes.
Speaker 1: I wonder if the ladies from Recita were aware of
Speaker 1: naked men. Thank you. He needs help.
Speaker 13: After years of complaints, LAPD officers have arrested forty four
Speaker 13: year old Gregory William. This is a man neighbors say
Speaker 13: has been terrorizing their quiet cul de Sac with threats
Speaker 13: and disturbing behavior, from screaming outbursts like this, are your daughters?
Speaker 8: Are your nieces?
Speaker 7: Naked to the.
Speaker 2: Just remember the city didn't act on this for three years.
Speaker 1: Now do you think he did everything naked? Like for example,
Speaker 1: write above, because if he's an older man and you
Speaker 1: have the spokes and the chains, that could be hazardous.
Speaker 1: What about frying bacon? You think he did that in
Speaker 1: the nude?
Speaker 2: That is back away from the stovetop as that starts crackling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that guy might want to consider becoming a vegetarian.
Speaker 13: To exposing himself in an upstairs window and laughing obscenities
Speaker 13: in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3: He's the naked joker, he is.
Speaker 13: Police booked William Tuesday on felony criminal threats charges. As
Speaker 13: officers led him away, William cried out and completed for help.
Speaker 1: I Hel, wait, so now he's playing the victim, I throng,
Speaker 1: he me. He wasn't doing anything wrong. Oh yeah, he
Speaker 1: was just sticking his penis out the window because he
Speaker 1: wants to play ring toss with the niaghbor.
Speaker 3: All right, you're on the line, sir hi o oh
Speaker 3: god hel.
Speaker 13: The home at the center of the chaos now sits empty.
Speaker 13: Neighbors told CBSLA they've called LAPD hundreds of times over
Speaker 13: the past four years.
Speaker 3: That is so embarrassing.
Speaker 1: If you're the cop that arrested him, do you think
Speaker 1: you put some newspaper down on the backseat of your
Speaker 1: car before you put him in the back of the
Speaker 1: black and white.
Speaker 2: I hate to be this callous about it, but is
Speaker 2: it all possible that the reason something was finally done
Speaker 2: was because the councilwoman and the mayor were going to
Speaker 2: be on the debate stage, and they were worried this
Speaker 2: question would come up.
Speaker 1: Now, this guy is clearly suffering from some kind of
Speaker 1: mental health crisis, and the cops who finally arrested them him,
Speaker 1: I hope they took all of the care that would
Speaker 1: be required to deal with someone who's going through a
Speaker 1: crisis like this, and with that loving care. I hope
Speaker 1: when they arrested him and they are putting him in
Speaker 1: the back of that black and white, that they hit
Speaker 1: his head at the top of the black and white
Speaker 1: about five or six times before he finally made it
Speaker 1: to that back seat.
Speaker 2: When you're a police officer and you have to take
Speaker 2: someone into custody and they're naked, does the department spring
Speaker 2: for a car wash afterwards?
Speaker 1: I would hope so, not only a car wash, but
Speaker 1: they're going to need that baby powder freshener two.
Speaker 2: You know, we could never do this because we're governed
Speaker 2: by the FCC. But if we weren't, we could take
Speaker 2: calls from an hour from current and former police officers
Speaker 2: and they would tell us the things that have been
Speaker 2: done in the back of their police cars.
Speaker 1: Oh well, every time you arrest a homeless person, there's
Speaker 1: going to be all kinds of fluids back there.
Speaker 13: They say officers would respect, but the problems never stopped.
Speaker 13: A neighbor who asked us not to show his identity
Speaker 13: hopes it's different this time around.
Speaker 9: Especially to my wife, she feels like, Okay, hopefully it's.
Speaker 1: For a while.
Speaker 9: It's not like one or two days and come back
Speaker 9: and go back to the same thing again.
Speaker 1: What he's doing is not acceptible. That's him.
Speaker 9: He's not is not is not being a good neighbor.
Speaker 3: He is definitely not being a good neighbor.
Speaker 1: What does he state for him?
Speaker 2: They're not being a good neighbor either. No, I hope
Speaker 2: you Oh boy, he cry laughs too. Typically, you're not
Speaker 2: supposed to make fun of the mentally ill, But because
Speaker 2: he's been openly threatening and flashing people, we're gonna have
Speaker 2: all the fun we want with this one.
Speaker 3: No, I hope you.
Speaker 1: Wait, we're not supposed to make fun of the mentally ill.
Speaker 1: What are you new here?
Speaker 3: All right? So what happened?
Speaker 2: If the ladies from Mecita happened to walk on to
Speaker 2: Garden Grove Boulevard when this guy was getting carried away.
Speaker 1: That would be cut quite a scene. No, I hope
Speaker 1: you guys can get on the help he needs. Man,
Speaker 1: he really needs it.
Speaker 13: William is being held at the Van Eys Jail on
Speaker 13: a seventy five thousand dollars bond. So far, no court
Speaker 13: date has been set yet, reporting live in Rosita, Lauren
Speaker 13: Posen CBSLA.
Speaker 12: Lauren, thank you.
Speaker 3: I love that they actually give that guy bail.
Speaker 1: How is he not put in a nuthouse immediately?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: If you're sitting there in an LA County jail in
Speaker 2: Van Eyes and they issue you your traditional prison garb
Speaker 2: or your jail garb, you're wearing the orange. What's to
Speaker 2: stop him from taking that off in the cell?
Speaker 1: What you think he's going to nude up right there
Speaker 1: in the jail too.
Speaker 2: He seems to have a problem with clothing, and I
Speaker 2: don't necessarily think that's going to change now that he's
Speaker 2: in jail.
Speaker 1: You know, if they arrest him there and they take
Speaker 1: him to that holding cell, he's going to be in
Speaker 1: that holding cell with all the hardcore gang members that
Speaker 1: just got arrested at the park. How do you think
Speaker 1: they're going to react to him screaming and yelling in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night when they just want to sleep.
Speaker 1: I hope you. Let's go to Bill in Santa Rosia. Bill. Hello,
Speaker 1: Hi John, Randy.
Speaker 14: You were just commenting earlier about what it was like
Speaker 14: with a parment a police officer vehicle dealing with let's say,
Speaker 14: unsanitary situations like with the naked man. I can put
Speaker 14: a little bit of experience on that. I was a
Speaker 14: security officer at a hospital in Mendocino County, and of
Speaker 14: course there were times when we'd have situations where, oh,
Speaker 14: something would break out with fifty one fifty, or somebody
Speaker 14: would come in for one reason or another with a
Speaker 14: violent situation, and we'd have to help the officers load
Speaker 14: these people into the back seat of the vehicle. And
Speaker 14: there were times, not many, but a few where they
Speaker 14: were defecating or urinating at the same time we were
Speaker 14: trying to load them into the back of the car.
Speaker 3: Oh no, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, we were stepping in it. Oh it was
Speaker 14: a mess. But the seats in the back are fiberglass.
Speaker 14: They're like you'd see like in a food court or
Speaker 14: something like that. The very smooth, slick, almost like a
Speaker 14: bucket couple of bucket seats back there. And the horrible
Speaker 14: thing about it is the poor officer would have to
Speaker 14: drive the individual like across county to county jail or
Speaker 14: whatever with that situation. How horrible that must be having
Speaker 14: to smell all of that and deal with. Of course,
Speaker 14: vomiting was another situation. It was just horrible. I mean,
Speaker 14: it's just you can you can imagine all kinds of
Speaker 14: absolutely abhorrent situations, and those poor guys have.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is it's like having a two
Speaker 1: year old back there without a diaper. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: the telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two. Here with an update on the prostitution
Speaker 1: going on on Figueroa. Mister Randy Wing.
Speaker 2: The LAPD has been cracking down on all the rampant
Speaker 2: prostitution that's been going on on the Blade on Figueroa
Speaker 2: because Karen Bass is running for reelection, but because they're
Speaker 2: not doing that citywide, all of the rampant prostitution has
Speaker 2: moved to the Western Corridor near k Town.
Speaker 1: So wait, so they got a number of complaints about
Speaker 1: all the prostitutes and the Johns and the pims hanging
Speaker 1: out on Figaroa and let's just say calling Figaroa their home.
Speaker 1: So they figured that they would improve the situation by
Speaker 1: moving all of them to Koreatown.
Speaker 2: That's what's happening. For more, here's ABC seven Eyewitness News.
Speaker 15: Los Angeles continues to be one of the country's hubs
Speaker 15: for human trafficking and.
Speaker 1: It's we're number one. We're number one.
Speaker 3: And we're the city that wants to host the Olympics.
Speaker 15: Trafficking and it's leading to blatant prostitution even in some
Speaker 15: residential neighborhoods. Homeowners in the Larchmont and Koreatown areas have
Speaker 15: been complaining about an uptick of John's on their Sorry
Speaker 15: about that.
Speaker 1: Why do they have name of John's.
Speaker 15: On their streets and around their schools?
Speaker 3: So what is the LAPD doing?
Speaker 5: Seven on your Side investigates got exclusive access with officers
Speaker 5: who are signed there.
Speaker 15: Kevin Ozabek joins us now Live with more Kevin Well.
Speaker 9: Marco Michelle. You may remember earlier this year we took
Speaker 9: you here to what's called the Figaroa Corridor.
Speaker 3: It's a four mile.
Speaker 9: Stretch in South LA that is just notorious for prostitution
Speaker 9: that is happening right out in the open. But as
Speaker 9: we showed you, the LAPD is cracking down there. Well,
Speaker 9: now it appears that's pushing some of that prostitution to
Speaker 9: what's called the Western Corridor, which is Western Avenue between
Speaker 9: Second and Melrose.
Speaker 3: It goes all the way up to Melrose.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, wait, I thought Barbara Ferrer said she was
Speaker 1: going to solve this problem by offering social services to
Speaker 1: all the pims.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that didn't work out. Oh it's sweeps already.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, it's just after four am on a Friday morning.
Speaker 9: The Western Corridor is dark, but far from quiet.
Speaker 10: It's time to go home, didn't I tell you already?
Speaker 9: LAPD Senior Lead Officer Daniel Chaves sometimes drives these streets
Speaker 9: before the crack of dawn. His mission is to get
Speaker 9: these young women suspected of soliciting sex to head home
Speaker 9: before sunrise.
Speaker 10: This girl, this girl's got glowing heels here. Hey, you
Speaker 10: gotta go home. I like the shoes, but you gotta
Speaker 10: go home.
Speaker 3: Was she walking around in clear heels?
Speaker 1: Oh? Let me tell you she sees a guy with
Speaker 1: the mustache coming up talking about her shoes, She's gonna
Speaker 1: want to close the deed.
Speaker 10: I like the shoes, but you got to go home.
Speaker 10: Can I get complaints?
Speaker 2: By the way, this is pretty much all that police
Speaker 2: can do after Scott Wiener decriminalized prostitution in the State Senate,
Speaker 2: telling the institutes go home because they're and and yes
Speaker 2: a lot of them are victims of human trafficking, but
Speaker 2: we cannot arrest anyone for soliciting, for being the person
Speaker 2: walking up and down the streets selling their bodies.
Speaker 10: I like the shoes, but you got to go home.
Speaker 10: Can I get complaints constantly for my community that they're
Speaker 10: seeing these women, you know, claudly dressed out here when
Speaker 10: the kids are getting dropped off at school.
Speaker 2: And if you watch the videos that ABC seven is
Speaker 2: put together of the incidents on Figaro or the incidents
Speaker 2: on Western, they have to blur out so many of
Speaker 2: the images that are captured in broad daylight.
Speaker 1: They all look like Britney Spears when she was a
Speaker 1: teenager doing those music videos.
Speaker 10: All you've been out.
Speaker 9: Here on top of telling the women to get off
Speaker 9: Western Avenue, Officer Chaves checks cars parked on side streets
Speaker 9: where customers often take them.
Speaker 10: You'll start to see, like the windows getting a little
Speaker 10: bit foggy and stuff.
Speaker 1: Ah wait, they just do it in their car right
Speaker 1: there on the street.
Speaker 2: Yes, you think they're taking them to the hotel motel?
Speaker 1: How is that erotic?
Speaker 3: Creepy dude's gonna do a creepy dude's gonna do.
Speaker 1: Okay, but let's just say there's two people in the
Speaker 1: backseat of a car at some point, aren't you gonna
Speaker 1: get stabbed by the seatbelt?
Speaker 2: They haven't thought this all the way through. We have
Speaker 2: a lack of impulse control going down on Western Avenue.
Speaker 9: And he keeps his eyes on their suspected pimps.
Speaker 10: And so you could see right this is a coin laundry.
Speaker 10: So this is where the pimps are hanging out these cars.
Speaker 1: Do you think the pimps still dressed like they used
Speaker 1: to in the seventies.
Speaker 3: With the cane and the pink cadillacs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like Joseph and the amazing technicolor dream.
Speaker 10: Coat cars that are you know, backed in all blacked
Speaker 10: out tinted. They sit here all night and you know
Speaker 10: they wait for these girls to do their work. Ladies
Speaker 10: just tiding.
Speaker 1: How much you make for daddy today? You better not
Speaker 1: be shorting me. You'll get hit.
Speaker 2: The people that use the phrase daddy are pimps and
Speaker 2: jave aer Bisera.
Speaker 1: Didn't he say dad yesterday?
Speaker 3: He did? He's not too bright, you know.
Speaker 10: They wait for these girls to do their work. Ladies
Speaker 10: are time to go home. Let's go.
Speaker 9: When you ask them to go home, do they usually
Speaker 9: listen a lot of times they do, believe it or not,
Speaker 9: but not all follow orders. Some show no fear and
Speaker 9: argue back. One young woman even walked right behind our
Speaker 9: interview with Officer Chavez.
Speaker 2: So the police officer is standing right there with the
Speaker 2: camera crew being interviewed on ABC seven for this story,
Speaker 2: and the woman decides next to them to solicit her body.
Speaker 1: Boy, that's a woman who has zero fear of being arrested.
Speaker 2: We decriminalized it, hey, We didn't legalize and regulate it
Speaker 2: like they did in other countries or Nevada. We just
Speaker 2: decriminalized it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Do you think they're on a quota on
Speaker 1: how many tricks they have to turn per night?
Speaker 2: Yes they are, and if they don't, they get beat up.
Speaker 2: That's a real thing.
Speaker 10: Oh my, ma'am, I asked you to go home already.
Speaker 10: Why are you still out here?
Speaker 1: You were uber?
Speaker 10: You told me your uber was coming forty five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think that car was an Uber that
Speaker 1: she was getting into.
Speaker 2: The trip was real short. It was right around the corner.
Speaker 2: But she did get five stars.
Speaker 10: No, that wasn't another girl.
Speaker 4: That was you.
Speaker 10: I've talked to you a few times already.
Speaker 9: Today it's time to go home. Out in the open
Speaker 9: is this It's blatant.
Speaker 10: It's like there's not a care in the world.
Speaker 9: She walked right by you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and she knows there's a police car here. We're
Speaker 10: sitting here with the camera.
Speaker 9: It was also blatant when we were out with the
Speaker 9: LAPD seventy seventh division as they look for underage prostitutes
Speaker 9: on the Figaroa corridor. But here on fig some fear
Speaker 9: must now be sinking in as police continue their crackdown
Speaker 9: on Elie's most infamous hub of prostitution.
Speaker 10: As a result, I think we're seeing a lot more
Speaker 10: activity getting pushed down here north into our division, and
Speaker 10: we're seeing girls that we haven't seen before.
Speaker 9: We're seeing girls more frequently.
Speaker 11: We have historically seen prostitution related crimes in human trafficking
Speaker 11: along Western Corridor for decades.
Speaker 2: I think, what boy, Western fig all the big thoroughfares,
Speaker 2: they've just got nothing but rampant prostitution.
Speaker 1: Well, Korea Town, that's where all the karaoke bars are,
Speaker 1: many of the clubs, and they have some driving ranges
Speaker 1: down there too.
Speaker 11: I think what we're seeing now is the blatant prostitution
Speaker 11: that is happening out there and the trafficking of young women,
Speaker 11: and that is bleeding onto our smaller streets.
Speaker 9: That's even pushed some homeowners here to place these signs
Speaker 9: on their front yards warning John's and the women they
Speaker 9: hire they're being recorded and the video will be handed
Speaker 9: over to Officer Chopex and no.
Speaker 3: You can't have a copy.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine having to put a sign up in
Speaker 1: your very own front yard telling people that if they
Speaker 1: have sex on your property, you're going to tattle on
Speaker 1: them to the cops.
Speaker 10: They want to be able to walk their dog in
Speaker 10: the morning without seeing condoms, without seeing half, you know,
Speaker 10: naked women on the streets.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, imagine living in that.
Speaker 9: The Western Corridor sits inside Labed's Olympic Division, which is overseas.
Speaker 9: But Captain Rachel Rodriguez.
Speaker 11: One of the things I promised are our neighborhoods in
Speaker 11: our community is we are going to make sure our
Speaker 11: kids have a safe passage to school.
Speaker 10: You got Rent and Dove depit. You know it's dangerous though, right.
Speaker 9: So that's Officer Chobs this motivation for these super early mornings.
Speaker 9: He doesn't want kids seeing this before their first bound.
Speaker 3: Be a whole different kind of lesson plan.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, quite an education.
Speaker 9: But it's impossible for him to get every one of
Speaker 9: the dozens of women off Western before daylight. So it's
Speaker 9: now six point thirty in the morning, the sun is up.
Speaker 9: This neighborhood is starting to come to life.
Speaker 3: Guys, you might have mixed the music a little too loud.
Speaker 1: Who is hiring a prostitute at six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: Creepy guys gonna creepy guy.
Speaker 9: But still even in daylight, these girls are still working
Speaker 9: these corners. They are still soliciting sex. Saint Brendan Elementary
Speaker 9: and Laust Charles H. Kim Elementary are right off of
Speaker 9: Western Avenue.
Speaker 12: But it's just really uncomfortable, and then you have your
Speaker 12: kids asking like what's.
Speaker 1: That or do you have they're learning don't look over there,
Speaker 1: look over here?
Speaker 9: Or do you have the staffing to be able to
Speaker 9: overcome this problem?
Speaker 11: And I wish I had more officers.
Speaker 9: But even an understaffed LAPED seems to now be making
Speaker 9: progress on this Western Corridor too.
Speaker 1: Homeowners sell us they're seeing some they're going to go
Speaker 1: into Normandy. It doesn't sound like they're ever solving the problem.
Speaker 1: They're just moving them from one part of town to another.
Speaker 2: In six months, you're gonna be talking about the Highland
Speaker 2: Corridor then of the Onlabrea.
Speaker 9: Homeowners sell us they're seeing less John's parking overnight on
Speaker 9: their side streets.
Speaker 10: Hey stop, what are you guys doing out here?
Speaker 9: You trying to get a girlfriend?
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what he's looking for.
Speaker 2: We have de fanged our police department to the point
Speaker 2: where the senior lead officer's job is to walk up
Speaker 2: and down this street saying knock it off.
Speaker 9: And that's probably thanks to Officer chabs at his overnight patrol.
Speaker 9: Officer Chabez says most of those working the Western Corridor
Speaker 9: are between eighteen to twenty three years old, but police
Speaker 9: are also finding underage girls working this corridor just like
Speaker 9: they are on fig. The youngest girl the LAPD has
Speaker 9: rescued off that Western Corridor, MARKT. Michelle was only eleven
Speaker 9: years old.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, there's a whole world exists out there that
Speaker 1: you'd rather not know about.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: And one of the issues here, outside of Scott Wiener
Speaker 2: decriminalizing prostitution, is that even if the pimps get arrested,
Speaker 2: the prostitutes, the sex trafficking victims as they're referred to,
Speaker 2: are so afraid of retaliation because we're definitely not going
Speaker 2: to keep the pimps in prison for long that they
Speaker 2: refuse to testify against them. Oh yeah, Well, if you
Speaker 2: think Katie Porter has anger management issues, you should see
Speaker 2: some of these pimps when they're pissed off. Somehow, we
Speaker 2: got a Porter joke in this segment too, eight hundred
Speaker 2: two two two five two two two And right now
Speaker 2: it's time to open up the California crime blaters to
Speaker 2: catch his dummy.
Speaker 9: We shouldn't make this stuff up.
Speaker 1: If we tried, I said.
Speaker 3: Hell no, Verny boy, let me get up one out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 9: It's the California crime blodder and Randy.
Speaker 1: Today's edition takes us to Hayward.
Speaker 2: Where AT and T was just happened to repair some
Speaker 2: copper wire when they caught someone stealing some more copper wire.
Speaker 3: For more, here's Cron four.
Speaker 16: A top story this half hour a call all for
Speaker 16: AT and T crews responding to copper and fiber wire
Speaker 16: theft and Hayward turned into more than just a repair job.
Speaker 16: Crawford Sarah Stinson was on a plan right along with
Speaker 16: AT and T when an unexpectedly turned into a police
Speaker 16: investigation involving two people being detained.
Speaker 4: AT and T.
Speaker 17: Crews were responding to a copper wire theft here on
Speaker 17: Industrial Parkway in Hayward when they saw the potential thieves
Speaker 17: in action.
Speaker 18: So all this is kind of remnants of our cable.
Speaker 17: Bits of copper and fiber cables seem torn apart and
Speaker 17: burned along the railroad tracks off Industrial Parkway in Hayward.
Speaker 3: We just cannot have nice things in this state.
Speaker 1: Nope, not even a little bit.
Speaker 17: AT and T crews say this was the aftermath of
Speaker 17: an early morning copper wire theft on Wednesday. When they arrived,
Speaker 17: they say the situation was still unfolding as.
Speaker 1: We pulled up here.
Speaker 18: Kind of scared off the homeless gentleman. He started walking
Speaker 18: down the path and we called the police. When the
Speaker 18: police arrived, we saw the home. This man throws some
Speaker 18: stuff either over the fence or in the bushes. The
Speaker 18: police at the time cannot identify that.
Speaker 17: Police detained a man and woman, but without enough evidence,
Speaker 17: no rests were made.
Speaker 1: Usually that happens in La County and Oakland.
Speaker 18: Extremely troubling. You feel helpless. There's not a whole lot
Speaker 18: we could do. So as we could do right now
Speaker 18: is react and restore.
Speaker 7: Walking the Path with AT and T s.
Speaker 2: If you want to know why your cell phone bill
Speaker 2: is so expensive, it's because we have to constantly pay
Speaker 2: for this.
Speaker 1: They woult to raise your taxes to pay for it.
Speaker 17: Walking the Path with AT and T's Scott Gonzaga. He
Speaker 17: points out what crews found.
Speaker 18: This appears to be a burn pit that they would
Speaker 18: use to burn off the plastic layering of the copper
Speaker 18: cable itself to expose the bare copper wire.
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound like it's good for the environment.
Speaker 1: No it doesn't. And what they end up with is
Speaker 1: just raw copper cable. And this is what they're taking
Speaker 1: into scrap yards and of.
Speaker 3: Course for some reason we can't go after the scrappers.
Speaker 1: Why can't we just pull all their business licenses?
Speaker 3: Good question right around here.
Speaker 1: This palette, let's just say, is probably around two to
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 17: Thieves target copper for quick cash. They also damage fiber
Speaker 17: cables with impacts felt across entire communities.
Speaker 18: One hundred residents are out of service.
Speaker 1: They're writing on the copper.
Speaker 18: I'm not sure about the fiber. I know there's multiple
Speaker 18: businesses that were impacted, and I don't believe that they
Speaker 18: don't obviously care what damage they're doing or what impact
Speaker 18: it has on the public or their customers that are
Speaker 18: writing on the services.
Speaker 17: Once crews got approval from the Union Pacific Railroad, they
Speaker 17: began repairs to restore service, a process they say is.
Speaker 14: All to comment in the Bay Area, it's all day,
Speaker 14: every day.
Speaker 3: Copper theft seems to be the prevaient.
Speaker 2: If you want a job that's going to have some
Speaker 2: security for a while, get into copper wire and fiber
Speaker 2: optic cable repair.
Speaker 1: You know, the more I think about it, if we
Speaker 1: involved Shirley Weber, the Secretary of State in this, to
Speaker 1: try to pull the business licenses of all of the
Speaker 1: places that accept the copper wire. That's not going to
Speaker 1: help us out any All she'd do is tell them
Speaker 1: you can be hospice care facilities too. It's the John
Speaker 1: Phillips Show.