Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and Jettie and
Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Another Narco boat going up in flames, this time at
Speaker 3: the hands of the Coastguard south of the Galapagos Islands
Speaker 3: in the Pacific, the Coast Guard posting on x saying
Speaker 3: over the weekend, as part of Operation Pacific Viper, the
Speaker 3: Coastguard cutter Stone conducted three interredictions in a single night,
Speaker 3: seizing nearly thirteen thousand pounds of cocaine and apprehending seven
Speaker 3: suspected drug smugglers. And while this operation was more of
Speaker 3: a law enforcement interdiction rather than a shoot to kill
Speaker 3: military strike like we recently saw over a week ago
Speaker 3: with that Venezuela and Narco boat, all of this is
Speaker 3: part of the Trump administration's crackdown on cartels.
Speaker 4: I don't know what I think about this, as watching
Speaker 4: Ryan Paul on some cable show yesterday argue, even if
Speaker 4: they were drug runners, they could have been running drugs
Speaker 4: to somewhere else.
Speaker 2: We're not the only country that likes drugs.
Speaker 4: There's lots of places that like drugs and are we
Speaker 4: just going to kill all drug dealers anywhere in the.
Speaker 2: World that are setting drugs anywhere? I mean, how do
Speaker 2: we figure this out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's nearly as simple as a
Speaker 1: lot of people are portraying it, partly because it's kind
Speaker 1: of fun and directionally, everybody wants a tougher border and
Speaker 1: standing up to the cartels because they're monstrous.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about it, and make that clear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, somebody also pointed out that these
Speaker 1: guys in the boats are either like the lowest level
Speaker 1: guys or fishermen who are just trying to earn a
Speaker 1: little extra money by taking a bail from here to there.
Speaker 1: They don't ask any questions that sort of thing. There
Speaker 1: are arguments counter that too. You know, they're selling death,
Speaker 1: they're transporting death, and their criminal enterprises organized criminal enterprises,
Speaker 1: but stuff and people without trial ought to be looked
Speaker 1: at carefully. You don't really want your government to have
Speaker 1: the right to do that because it tends to get
Speaker 1: out of hand.
Speaker 4: So one of the biggest topics in America yesterday, and
Speaker 4: we talked about it a lot, was the so called
Speaker 4: National report Card on our schools that came out that
Speaker 4: showed once again they are headed in the wrong direction,
Speaker 4: as they have been for three decades at least. The
Speaker 4: coverage of it was exactly what I expected. Unfortunately, it
Speaker 4: was blamed on COVID and then they would mention this
Speaker 4: at a time that the Trump administration has fired half
Speaker 4: of the people in the Department of Education. Neither of
Speaker 4: those things really relevant, as the numbers have been going down,
Speaker 4: as I pointed out, for decades. And you know, COVID
Speaker 4: didn't help, but it's not the cause by any means whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Well, and the idea that your child learns to read
Speaker 1: and write because of the federal Department of Education is hilarious, right,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a canard?
Speaker 2: Is they say it's a falsehood? Please? Well, in these.
Speaker 1: Minor and overblown duties and just tracking test scores and
Speaker 1: forcing schools to adopt progressive policies for the last several years.
Speaker 4: This data was from before those firings happened anyway, But
Speaker 4: I guess the idea from the media is now, we're
Speaker 4: going to try to fix this with half of the
Speaker 4: Department of Education.
Speaker 2: What makes what is it that leads you to.
Speaker 4: Believe that more government, more at the federal level, is
Speaker 4: what would fix this anyway?
Speaker 2: And where where's that come from?
Speaker 4: Oh and then I wanted to throw in, as I
Speaker 4: mentioned last hour, an eighth grader I know, talking about
Speaker 4: being in science class yesterday with kids looking at their phones.
Speaker 2: That didn't get discussed yesterday.
Speaker 4: How prevalent is that around the country, kids having phone
Speaker 4: in the phones in the classroom.
Speaker 2: That's insane to me.
Speaker 5: I can't believe that lasts five minutes, yes, let alone
Speaker 5: school by school, the whole classroom people are just sitting
Speaker 5: there looking their phones. I was told that a couple
Speaker 5: of girls sitting there with earbuds in watching videos on
Speaker 5: their phone.
Speaker 2: Of course you're not learning, Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's a majority of states now have banned
Speaker 1: smartphones in classrooms. But whether it's enforced or not is
Speaker 1: you know, varies. I'd imagine state by state, and even
Speaker 1: district by district. Certainly Blue County to Red County, there's
Speaker 1: probably a difference. We got this email from a twenty
Speaker 1: year school marm. As she describes herself, I'm a twenty
Speaker 1: year veteran teacher, having taught almost every grade K through eight.
Speaker 1: I've spent the last seven or so years in kindergarten,
Speaker 1: and I agree with all of your takes on public
Speaker 1: schools and why we are failing. I believe very strongly
Speaker 1: the teachers' unions and the inability to retain students are
Speaker 1: our main obstacles to real and affected positive change. Some
Speaker 1: other food for thought, What was the purpose happening to
Speaker 1: number retain meaning whole back flunk?
Speaker 4: We think we used to call it flunk you flunked
Speaker 4: second grade now, and then they called it held back.
Speaker 4: Now I noticed they call it retain. Yeah, you're not
Speaker 4: allowed to retain people. Why you can't read or do
Speaker 4: math at the grade level you're in right now? Why
Speaker 4: would I move you on to the next.
Speaker 1: Grade, says the administrator, because that's easier for me. It'd
Speaker 1: be super hard to justify to the parents and tutor
Speaker 1: this kid and get them caught up to speed.
Speaker 2: It's super easy to pass them on.
Speaker 4: Part of that, there's a number of reasons. Part of
Speaker 4: it is the whole self esteem movement. It would hurt
Speaker 4: the kid's self esteem. Well, you're not going to help
Speaker 4: their self esteem by sending them out in the world
Speaker 4: where they can't read or do math. And they can't
Speaker 4: work a job. That's pretty hard on your self esteem too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, some intriguing questions from the veteran teacher. What
Speaker 1: was the per capita number of books per child or
Speaker 1: books per household twenty years ago? How about the minutes
Speaker 1: per day that children interact with crayons, scissors, plato before
Speaker 1: the age of five twenty years ago is compared to now?
Speaker 1: Now we have kindergarteners arriving to school where we are
Speaker 1: now expected to send them to first grade as readers
Speaker 1: who cannot identify, much less write their name, nor do
Speaker 1: they know how to use crayons, and they've spent the
Speaker 1: first five years coloring with fingertips on screens. I could
Speaker 1: go on, and it's worth pointing out here is that
Speaker 1: And a person could certainly say, well, this is the
Speaker 1: computer age.
Speaker 2: They don't need crowns or you know whatever.
Speaker 1: But I unfortunately, as study after study has shown, handwriting
Speaker 1: is an incredible stimulator of your brain, connecting the mechanical.
Speaker 2: With the cerebral.
Speaker 1: We're talking about your brain, and there's practically no substitute
Speaker 1: for it for developing your brain.
Speaker 2: But I'm that's true, But is it?
Speaker 4: It's not the same though, when you're coloring in with
Speaker 4: your finger on a tablet, because I've done that with
Speaker 4: my kids when they would do that, it's very similar,
Speaker 4: I don't know. Or writing your fund writing with your
Speaker 4: finger instead of holding a pen. I don't know why
Speaker 4: that would be much different.
Speaker 1: I am absolutely deeply in agreement with the need for
Speaker 1: a complete overhaul the way public schools operate government schools,
Speaker 1: but we have to talk about the ways that families
Speaker 1: are or not setting their children and teachers up for
Speaker 1: success with what they are doing with their children before
Speaker 1: they reach the school doors. Thanks for beating the drums
Speaker 1: for sanity, Kta Kacas, keep talking about our crazy ass schools.
Speaker 2: It's a twenty year school, marm.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this and this, this is a
Speaker 1: statement that any sane, decent.
Speaker 2: Person must agree with. That's a good setup. And I
Speaker 2: will take all commers who deny that.
Speaker 1: We need to approach the failings of our government schools
Speaker 1: and the failings more generally of our kids to learn
Speaker 1: and achieve with completely open eyes and honesty. And there
Speaker 1: can be no sacred cow. I was spared if they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be spared. Teachers' unions, we hammer them all the time. No,
Speaker 1: you do not get to hide behind your rhetoric anymore.
Speaker 1: There can't be any fear of quote unquote blaming the victims.
Speaker 1: There can't be any fear of coming off as racist
Speaker 1: or what have you. When you and your progressive policies
Speaker 1: do them little black kids and brown kids or whatever
Speaker 1: to low achievement and failure. That's not being nice to them.
Speaker 1: That's the worst thing you could do to them. It's
Speaker 1: got to be dealt with honestly and bluntly, and don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of hope that that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And as we point it out yesterday, and I was
Speaker 1: going to try to dredge up this article again by
Speaker 1: the absolutely brilliant Harvard economists whose name is flitted out
Speaker 1: of my head because I'm old.
Speaker 2: They figured out how.
Speaker 1: To turn around schools, and they did it successfully in Houston,
Speaker 1: poor schools with poor kids. It's known what to do,
Speaker 1: but the educational industrial complex has no interest in that.
Speaker 1: Schools don't exist to teach your childs anymore, your children anymore.
Speaker 1: They exist as a jobs program and a political patronage Program's.
Speaker 4: Me, they're still doing the test scores up on CBS.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to see because that should be a topic
Speaker 4: and it has gone down ten points. I forget if
Speaker 4: it was reading or math, which one it was, but
Speaker 4: one of them has gone down ten points in the
Speaker 4: thirty years they've been tracking it for seniors. That's an
Speaker 4: amazing drop given how much more money we spend per
Speaker 4: pupil on schools across the country. More money, less results.
Speaker 4: But one of my blind spots would be, you know,
Speaker 4: I only know my own socioeconomic experience. I don't know
Speaker 4: what it's like for most of the country, or you know,
Speaker 4: the bottom third or whatever of schools. Because that person
Speaker 4: that just wrote about kids showing up to kindergarten without
Speaker 4: any of the skills that can gardners used to have. God,
Speaker 4: where I live, the kids show up, they've already know
Speaker 4: how to play the cello and speak an of their language,
Speaker 4: and they've been to Europe and all these different things.
Speaker 2: But what I've always.
Speaker 4: Wondered is it seems like the like kindergarten, first grade
Speaker 4: is so much more advanced than it was when I
Speaker 4: was a kid.
Speaker 2: Where does the drop off occur.
Speaker 4: From your doing like math that we used to do
Speaker 4: in seventh grade in first grade but then somewhere in
Speaker 4: between it like falls off a cliff.
Speaker 2: That's what I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah it is. It is odd and varies a lot.
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Speaker 4: I'm happy to see up on the screen. They're toalking
Speaker 4: about it, and it says American Kids Test Scores declining
Speaker 4: it should be talked about. It is a couldn't hardly
Speaker 4: be a bigger deal. Like I said, as usual, finger
Speaker 4: pointing goes in the wrong direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the dominant media, legacy media.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, We'll all be saying, therefore, we need more money, right.
Speaker 2: And then what.
Speaker 4: We've been throwing more money at it, and it's been
Speaker 4: going in the wrong direction. You'd think for for decades,
Speaker 4: you'd think that'd be enough to say, Okay, we gotta
Speaker 4: try something different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'd think, but.
Speaker 1: Spanish progressivism has is their scam is easier to sell
Speaker 1: than the truth.
Speaker 4: But you said blue states, Red states with like phones
Speaker 4: in the classroom. I don't know. Is that the way
Speaker 4: it would break down? What's the Blue state argument for
Speaker 4: phones in a classroom.
Speaker 2: I've heard various arguments about.
Speaker 1: You know, the progressive parents who tend to vote in
Speaker 1: blue states say I need to be able to get
Speaker 1: together with my to connect with my kids, they've got
Speaker 1: to have their phone. And I would I would be
Speaker 1: willing to bet a substantial sum of money that helicopter parenting,
Speaker 1: snowplow parenting is more prevalent in progressive families than in
Speaker 1: conservative families.
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Speaker 6: Wants to get away from the spotlight, so she's going
Speaker 6: to spend a few weeks with her sister in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: I uh, I don't want to take a joke serious
Speaker 4: and get off on this, but I wish we would
Speaker 4: change the way we talk about that in America, to
Speaker 4: filed for divorce from their family as opposed to filed
Speaker 4: from divorce from their husband or their wife. Because that's
Speaker 4: what you're doing. I don't give a crap about the
Speaker 4: dad or the mom. They'll get over it. The kids
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Speaker 4: more accurate. Mike Tyson says he was using fentanyl back
Speaker 4: in the day, long before anybody even knew what it was.
Speaker 2: Wow, he had he had.
Speaker 4: Come across it somehow and somebody explained to him how
Speaker 4: it was like, it's something like fire hundred times more
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Speaker 4: had morphine a couple of times in my life when
Speaker 4: I had my gullbladder out and then something around my cancer.
Speaker 2: It's pretty effective.
Speaker 4: I went from being in the worst pain in my
Speaker 4: life to zero pain, like immediately what.
Speaker 2: They put me on? The morphine?
Speaker 4: Yeah amazing, And fentanyl's way, way, way, way more powerful
Speaker 4: than that. But Tyson was taking it for his feet,
Speaker 4: I guess, back in the day, and he's now happy
Speaker 4: that he did not become more addicted.
Speaker 2: Or die for it. Yeah yeah, wow.
Speaker 4: He's a sixty year old man in the pot business
Speaker 4: now mostly how he makes his money. And he's going
Speaker 4: to fight Floyd Mayweather, some consider the greatest fighter of
Speaker 4: all time. He's the most boring fighter of all time.
Speaker 4: But anyway, Tyson's gonna fight him next year.
Speaker 1: I guess so may Mayweather, who fought the crippled Filipino
Speaker 1: man back in the day, Yes, one of the worst
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Speaker 2: He also fought who's the lunatic Irishman? Conor McGregor. Conor McGregor,
Speaker 2: I paid for that one. I think I paid like
Speaker 2: one hundred bucks for that one. Uf Oof was right,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I know a couple of surgeons who are just astounded
Speaker 1: that fentanyl is a street drug now oh really just
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, It's just it's the idea that you're
Speaker 1: buying it from some dude on the street and you're
Speaker 1: trusting them to get the dosage right. It is just well,
Speaker 1: it's it's so stupid. It could kill hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people. Whoops, I know nothing about this.
Speaker 4: How many people are knowingly buying fentanyl as opposed to
Speaker 4: it's in drugs to make them more addictive?
Speaker 7: Do you know?
Speaker 2: No idea? Is it mostly the first or you don't know?
Speaker 2: I don't know either. No, I honestly don't know.
Speaker 1: I know there the truly insidious part is the second,
Speaker 1: where it's used to beef up how high it gets
Speaker 1: you and cut the cost and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately people die a lot from it with no idea.
Speaker 2: That they're going to ingest fentanyl and whatever form.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tyson said he was on it, uh for a
Speaker 4: little while for his toe, mostly his tow wort, and
Speaker 4: then when he stopped it, he was full on throwing
Speaker 4: up and shakes and everything like that, and he's like, whoa,
Speaker 4: what the heck? So it's crazy addictive, like really really
Speaker 4: like almost immediately.
Speaker 1: I was neglecting my pigeons. It was terrible. My tigers
Speaker 1: was looking at me with disrespect. That's a good Mike, Tyson.
Speaker 2: That's very good. Is it a mocking a lisp? Here
Speaker 2: or here he bunch me right in the face. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's just what he talks like.
Speaker 4: That is what he sounds like. It's not mocking a list,
Speaker 4: it's doing an impersonation. So give you an idea.
Speaker 2: Of what it would sound like if Mike Tyson said that,
Speaker 2: that's what it was. Indeed, he's gone soft thitter the mind.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Michael, Exactly, Jack, you need a tough enoughses.
Speaker 4: So one of the hottest stories in America is how
Speaker 4: are all these lunatics who have committed so many crimes
Speaker 4: out on the street to commit even worse crimes. We're
Speaker 4: gonna talk one of the nation's leading experts on knowing
Speaker 4: all about that coming up next.
Speaker 2: And we got to change the way we do things
Speaker 2: in this country.
Speaker 1: What should you know about cash free bail that whole system.
Speaker 1: Does it work?
Speaker 2: No? And we'll talk about.
Speaker 1: Why Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: President Trump says this murder was a result of state
Speaker 4: democratic policies.
Speaker 2: We saw are the results of these policies when.
Speaker 3: A twenty three year old woman who came here from
Speaker 3: Ukraine met her bloody and on a public train.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, one of the policies we're talking about is
Speaker 4: people not having to put up bail and getting to
Speaker 4: head out onto the street and recommit crimes, which is
Speaker 4: obviously horrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the idea of cash free bail, which ends up
Speaker 1: being catch and release, is very popular and lefty circles.
Speaker 1: But what's the reality of it to discuss that in
Speaker 1: some of these crimes that have happened recently. We're glad
Speaker 1: to welcome longtime friend of the Armstrong in Getty Show
Speaker 1: Topo Padilla, who's not only been a licensed baal agent
Speaker 1: for forty two years, but just finished up his term
Speaker 1: as president of the Golden State Bail Bonds Association California
Speaker 1: and also the president of the Professional Bail Agents of
Speaker 1: the United States, representing agents across the country. Topo, how
Speaker 1: are you welcome?
Speaker 2: Good's creagi be on here with you, guys.
Speaker 1: Hey, twenty seconds is probably enough for thirty seconds. Why
Speaker 1: does bail exist? What is it and why is it important?
Speaker 7: Bill has really one sole purpose up for most is
Speaker 7: not as accountability.
Speaker 2: Accountability that people go to.
Speaker 7: Court and if a law enforcement officer arrest them and
Speaker 7: they're charged with the crime, that they go to court
Speaker 7: If they don't, it is our job to go return
Speaker 7: them to court at no cost to the taxpayers.
Speaker 4: And the experience is over many many years of doing
Speaker 4: this is people are much more a likely to show
Speaker 4: up for their court date and less likely to reoffend
Speaker 4: while they're out there if there is money up because
Speaker 4: of like family pressure.
Speaker 7: Yes, it is accountability built by a bond. You know,
Speaker 7: I don't want to use the word bail, bond and bond,
Speaker 7: but we build bonds with the person that's in jail
Speaker 7: and the people that are bailing them out, whether it's
Speaker 7: family or friends that bail them out, and that bond
Speaker 7: does in fact, and it's been shown Jeff reisig Da
Speaker 7: of Yellow County Data study, and it showed that recidivism
Speaker 7: happens when you have no skin in the game. And
Speaker 7: what we do is we build that bond with our
Speaker 7: clients to make sure that they go to court and
Speaker 7: change their lives. That's it. You know, I don't throwing
Speaker 7: people in jail, Okay, that's fine and dandy. Change their
Speaker 7: lives and if you're held accountable, as we know as
Speaker 7: raising children, you might change your ways. And that's that's
Speaker 7: our objective in our criminal justice system is to change
Speaker 7: people's ways.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, one of the interesting effects of the bond
Speaker 1: or the bail system is exists is you have family
Speaker 1: and friends all get together with the bail agent and
Speaker 1: the courts as a team to say, all right, look,
Speaker 1: let's settle this problem in a smart way. Let's get
Speaker 1: the best result possible. We're all going to cooperate. Let's
Speaker 1: do this as opposed to a guy just skipping out
Speaker 1: and doing more crimes. That's not doing them any favor.
Speaker 1: What's the reality of the cash free bail, a system
Speaker 1: that's lefty states are embracing.
Speaker 7: Well, if I could say something, I was on the
Speaker 7: phone the other day with somebody who's very very close
Speaker 7: to the administration. In our profession, we have about eight
Speaker 7: to ten people that are very close to the president's
Speaker 7: this administration. And one of the things I said, hey,
Speaker 7: can we get him? Does you quit using the word
Speaker 7: cashless bail? And they said, no, he's not going to
Speaker 7: quit using that term. It's a term he's latch onto.
Speaker 2: But it's truly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was told that by somebody who's right next
Speaker 7: to him. The real facts of the matter is this
Speaker 7: just because it costs money to bail out of jail
Speaker 7: through a bail bonds, and they used the merge money
Speaker 7: bail or cash bail. No, it's a bail bond. And yes,
Speaker 7: you pay for a bail bond, just like be for
Speaker 7: car insurance, house insurance. It is a bail bond. So
Speaker 7: there's a monetary amount set. When somebody's arrested, say it's
Speaker 7: ten thousand dollars, they can put up ten thousand dollars
Speaker 7: to the court and if that don't go to court,
Speaker 7: they lose that ten thousand, or they can go through
Speaker 7: a bail bond and pay us an insurance premium. And
Speaker 7: that's what we do for the people that don't have
Speaker 7: the money, for the people that aren't rich. And you're right,
Speaker 7: which you said Jack moments ago. People will get together.
Speaker 7: They'll band together to bail their loved one out and
Speaker 7: they want to see them change as well. And that's
Speaker 7: where our system does work.
Speaker 1: But if you if you actually go to court like
Speaker 1: you're supposed to, the bond is just ten percent of
Speaker 1: the bail, right.
Speaker 2: That's correig.
Speaker 7: It's ten percent eight percent. There's different rates and different
Speaker 7: states have different rates. Yeah, but yeah, that's what it is,
Speaker 7: and that we put up that bail bond making sure
Speaker 7: that you go to court. And I'm telling you guys,
Speaker 7: the stats in my office, because I write bail a
Speaker 7: little different, are over a ninety nine percent success rate
Speaker 7: of returning people to court overall profession, it's a profession.
Speaker 7: We have over a ninety eight percent success rate in
Speaker 7: turning people to court. And if you compare that to
Speaker 7: somebody who just signs a piece of paper and is released.
Speaker 7: And if you look at that perpetrator, that murderer that
Speaker 7: did what he did in North Carolina, that man he
Speaker 7: knew there was nothing that was going to stop him,
Speaker 7: so just he just kept many crimes, many crimes. And
Speaker 7: that's a real tragedy. And it's sad that that young
Speaker 7: lady has lost her life to bring this to the
Speaker 7: forefront of this country.
Speaker 2: What is the catch and releases?
Speaker 1: That the term you prefer instead of cash list bail,
Speaker 1: What should we be saying.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, It should be secured bail. And this
Speaker 7: is what I said to the advisors that.
Speaker 2: I was speaking to.
Speaker 7: It should be called secure bail because we put up security.
Speaker 2: We put up in a bond.
Speaker 7: If somebody puts up to the whole ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: That's secured bail. There's a secured bill. There's one day
Speaker 7: I will tell you, guys a story about happened in
Speaker 7: Plasma County that had something to do with a father
Speaker 7: putting up cash in the sun running but that secure.
Speaker 7: I would ready to see the term secured bail and
Speaker 7: unsecured bail, cashless bail is a term that it's getting
Speaker 7: people's attention. But the bottom line is we want people
Speaker 7: to go to court, we want them to be held accountable,
Speaker 7: we want them to change their ways, and it's just
Speaker 7: a system that has been trounced on. However, as you
Speaker 7: guys know, in twenty eighteen Proposition twenty five, the voters
Speaker 7: overwhelmingly by more than two million votes, said we do
Speaker 7: not want to eliminate bail bonds.
Speaker 2: That within the state of California.
Speaker 7: Correct, That is correct, So we won there. Yeah, but
Speaker 7: that should resonate across this country.
Speaker 4: Even in California. People think the whole you ain't got
Speaker 4: to have any skin in the game is.
Speaker 1: Nuts, right, It's the whole protected class and unprotected class.
Speaker 1: The elite intellectuals who hold these what are often referred
Speaker 1: to as luxury beliefs because you know, you're affluent, college educated,
Speaker 1: only white people who have no idea how the real
Speaker 1: world actually works. They congratulate themselves for holding these beliefs,
Speaker 1: but meanwhile, in the hood, the people know exactly how
Speaker 1: it works, and they hate the idea.
Speaker 2: One more thought topo.
Speaker 1: You put it out in some of the written stuff
Speaker 1: you gave us that when you just sign a piece
Speaker 1: of paper say yeah, I'll show up to court whatever,
Speaker 1: and it's unsecured, that fugitive rates skyrocket and when people
Speaker 1: are on the run, they're more app to reoffend.
Speaker 2: So this actually leads to more crime.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, And one of the things I put in there
Speaker 7: that I really have to bring we in the bail
Speaker 7: profession created a fugitive. We have a fugitive problem in
Speaker 7: this country, We truly do. And those fugitives are not
Speaker 7: out on bail. They are truly out on unsecured release.
Speaker 7: And we, as bail bondsmen, are now being stimied because
Speaker 7: of a case that happened in Missouri from going across
Speaker 7: state lines ay fugitive and bringing him back. And we
Speaker 7: are hoping that the President looks at our executive order
Speaker 7: and understands all we want to do is do our
Speaker 7: job and be able to apprehend fugitives no matter where
Speaker 7: they go, because we do have a fugitive problem. And Joe,
Speaker 7: as a matter of fact, in my forty two years,
Speaker 7: when people are fugitives, they're not living right, they're not working,
Speaker 7: they're not taking care of their family right, They're on
Speaker 7: the run. In Los Angeles in twenty eighteen, there were
Speaker 7: more than two point one million warrants. Jim Cooper brought
Speaker 7: that to the Assembly floor when he was an assemblement
Speaker 7: and said that today, I promise you that is over
Speaker 7: three point five million active warrants. People that are wanted,
Speaker 7: that are wanted. Every time they see a cop, their
Speaker 7: stomach turns. And that's a problem we have in this
Speaker 7: country as hugitive.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Topo Padilla president until just very recently of the professional
Speaker 1: bail Agents of the United States.
Speaker 2: Topo.
Speaker 1: Great stuff, great information. Let's stay in touch on this.
Speaker 1: It's important. Thanks you got it. Thank you guys.
Speaker 4: So that's all true, and I believe it. The statistics
Speaker 4: back it up and everything like that. Having skin in
Speaker 4: the game for the individual and then the people that
Speaker 4: you know around them to keep them.
Speaker 2: Accountable to show up all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: This horrible case in Charlotte, the blonde girl being hacked
Speaker 4: to death by this lunatic. The guy's completely crazy. That
Speaker 4: guy's completely crazy. That is mostly a failure of our well,
Speaker 4: our judicial system, our mental health, the way we deal
Speaker 4: with all of that.
Speaker 2: But the guy is crazy. His mom knew he was crazy,
Speaker 2: his dad knew he was crazy. The cops knew he.
Speaker 4: Was crazy, dangerously and dangerously crazy. They were like, he's
Speaker 4: going to do something horrible sometime. We got to come
Speaker 4: up with a way to deal with that.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead. We've we've got to be moving toward.
Speaker 4: And I think we are with public awareness, a more willing,
Speaker 4: more willingness to lock up crazy people against against their will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just have to.
Speaker 1: And look, we are more than acquainted with the excesses
Speaker 1: of the past that can be dealt with. We have
Speaker 1: so overcorrected, I mean, like in a way that is
Speaker 1: well mad, it's crazy in itself. The brilliant Nelly Bowls
Speaker 1: of the Free Press wrote one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: that I've seen about this horrible case in Charlotte and
Speaker 1: how it came to be, And she describes the story
Speaker 1: and she says there are many angles to this story,
Speaker 1: the media blackout that followed the mayor's response that offered
Speaker 1: more sympathy to the killer than the killed. He was, well,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, she is absolutely evil. He was
Speaker 1: well known to law enforcement, having been arrested at least
Speaker 1: fourteen times. Over and over, he was arrested and released.
Speaker 1: The obvious question is why was this man walking free?
Speaker 1: The answer is simple, and you know I've expressed this
Speaker 1: several times. When she does it more eloquently, says, we
Speaker 1: don't like to incarcerate our maniacs until they kill. Mental
Speaker 1: institutions have been deemed too terrible an option. So in America,
Speaker 1: every lunatic gets one free murder. A lunatic who runs
Speaker 1: around trying to kill someone for years should at least
Speaker 1: get one before he is locked up. Right, Irena Zerutzko
Speaker 1: was de Carlos Brown Junior's one free murder, And they
Speaker 1: have several stories about that topic.
Speaker 2: But that's right.
Speaker 1: You can do anything until you murder somebody. Then we'll
Speaker 1: incarcerate you. Then we will separate you from all of
Speaker 1: your potential victims. But you get to murder somebody, well,
Speaker 1: we got to change that, Oh yes we do, and
Speaker 1: soon and I'm not sure how much can be done
Speaker 1: at the federal level, but it's it's a social thing,
Speaker 1: you know. Politics is always downstream of society, of the
Speaker 1: morals and beliefs of the people. Culture in short, and
Speaker 1: we've got to change the culture and help people understand
Speaker 1: that the progressive crime policies are madness in themselves.
Speaker 2: They're nuts.
Speaker 4: Depends on where you live, of course, but where I live,
Speaker 4: I walk by somebody that probably should be locked up
Speaker 4: every single day, every day, often parking my car here
Speaker 4: work and walk into the building.
Speaker 2: But to other places every.
Speaker 4: Day I come in contact with people that almost certainly
Speaker 4: should be locked up by the state.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which came across something. It's one of the
Speaker 1: most unbelievable, astounding failures of journalism ever. Seattle Times, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at you. We'll have that for you in moments.
Speaker 4: More excerpts from Kamala Harris's book, which are out today.
Speaker 2: Stirring.
Speaker 4: Stirring is the word I would choose. It's a blame athon,
Speaker 4: among other things. On the way stay here the new
Speaker 4: pull out from New York City about Momdani with a
Speaker 4: giant lead. I mean, it's most people are calling in
Speaker 4: a lock I mean, there'd have to be some extraordinary
Speaker 4: event at this point, and what does that mean for
Speaker 4: our national politics?
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll talk about that in hour three.
Speaker 1: Also next hour of Vladimir Putin putting a thumb in
Speaker 1: the eye of NATO flying a bunch of drones deep
Speaker 1: into Polish airspace?
Speaker 2: Holy cow? What does it mean? We'll get to that.
Speaker 1: So continuing briefly our discussion of the horrific murder of
Speaker 1: the young woman in Charlotte and the you know, turning
Speaker 1: back onto the street over and over again a violently
Speaker 1: crazy person, one of the really great pieces of writing
Speaker 1: thinking journalism by kat Rosenfield in The Free Press. She
Speaker 1: points out the greater issue is a cultural one. She's
Speaker 1: talking about how you know conservatives have latched on to
Speaker 1: this is yet another example of the idea that we
Speaker 1: must let serial offenders just stay on the streets for
Speaker 1: some reason. And she writes, while this vicious crime plausibly
Speaker 1: represents the policy chickens of twenty twenty coming home to roost,
Speaker 1: that only halfway explains why the story is so captured
Speaker 1: to the public imagination. The greater issue is a cultural one,
Speaker 1: a growing frustration with what often feels like limitless tolerance
Speaker 1: for public disorder and anti social behavior, and with it
Speaker 1: a sense that one must not only avoid discussing these
Speaker 1: things to remain a liberal in good standing, but actively
Speaker 1: pretend that they don't exist. And she talks about the
Speaker 1: media blackout in the wake of this murder, which didn't
Speaker 1: last because it's too horrifying and big and for the
Speaker 1: reasons we're discussing. But like Wikipedia, the editors are trying
Speaker 1: to take the page down that discusses the murder. You've
Speaker 1: got to actively stop people from talking about it.
Speaker 2: Which brings me to what I t which is.
Speaker 1: The almost hilarious failure of the Seattle Times. It's an
Speaker 1: article written by one Greg Kim mayoral candidates take opposing
Speaker 1: tax on homelessness response, and it's you know, fine in
Speaker 1: describing that about how the two main candidates. One is
Speaker 1: intent on removing tents and making public spaces usable again.
Speaker 1: Parks and sidewalks. We got to keep them clear, and
Speaker 1: we got to get people off of them and let
Speaker 1: the citizens, you know, do what they do. And the
Speaker 1: progressive challenger wants to take a more compassionate approach. She
Speaker 1: agrees that public spaces need to be used for their
Speaker 1: intended purposes, but says the city needs to get there
Speaker 1: by dramatically increasing its shelter capacity, which means finding new
Speaker 1: progressive revenue sources, new taxes. Okay, here's the punchline. This
Speaker 1: is a fairly long article. It's several hundred words, and
Speaker 1: I actually did. I read it, then did a search
Speaker 1: to confirm it. It does not once mention drugs wow
Speaker 1: or drug abuse, not once, and that is the.
Speaker 4: The leading reason for the street person problem. Yeah, they're
Speaker 4: junkie camps. These ten camps are junkie camps. They're drug
Speaker 4: abuser camps, the vast, vast majority of it.
Speaker 1: And this entire article carries with it exactly what cap
Speaker 1: Rosenfield was talking about.
Speaker 2: In the free press.
Speaker 1: You're forbidden to talk about the actual dynamics of what's
Speaker 1: happening to remain a liberal in good standing like this
Speaker 1: so called journalist, and the entire article is an implication
Speaker 1: that the homeless are merely people who need housing.
Speaker 2: It's almost hilarious.
Speaker 4: I can't think of another example of this ever, when
Speaker 4: there's a major issue, but we don't talk about by.
Speaker 2: Far, the main part of it, and so.
Speaker 4: It was saddled themselves where they had a study that
Speaker 4: showed ninety percent of the street people were drug addicts.
Speaker 1: Right now, remember the percentage, but a huge percentage were
Speaker 1: from elsewhere who had come to Seattle because they made
Speaker 1: it so easy and comfortable to be a drug addict.
Speaker 2: So then you just go the same.
Speaker 4: So then you discuss how to fix the street person problem,
Speaker 4: and drugs does not make an appearance in the conversation.
Speaker 2: Can't think of another example, right, not even in passing.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious, wild, it's bizarre and troubling too.
Speaker 4: I'll bet it wasn't even on purpose. It was that
Speaker 4: they're so married to there's a French term for it,
Speaker 4: feakes id or something like ide feaks, but it's you're
Speaker 4: so you're so swimming in a particular view of something.
Speaker 2: Right. They probably didn't even have to do that on purpose.
Speaker 4: They're just so stuck in the idea that this is
Speaker 4: an unfair e canomics.
Speaker 1: Issue right, right, And anything that would distract from that
Speaker 1: narrative is for boten, even if it means ignoring a
Speaker 1: huge part of the problem. Or this guy might say
Speaker 1: it's a small part of the problem, but anyway, there's
Speaker 1: an agreement on the left. You do not admit to
Speaker 1: inconvenient truths that might give the evil conservatives you a
Speaker 1: tool to to overturn your policies with
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