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We've been adding 20 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: to it as the days go by. John notice yesterday 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: we're missing a good replacement for the worst politician we've 22 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: ever encountered on the show City Council in Mike Bonden. 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: She'll be on with us next hour. It's Tracy Park. 24 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: This is the eleventh council district in the City of 25 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, so we'll talk to her. She's on our 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: voter guide and we'll see what she can do if 27 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: she wins that election. We've had John Allion frequently. He's 28 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: from Santa Monica. He's a landlord, businessman, and he's been 29 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: an activist to try to clean up the downtown region. 30 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: The promenade area, which I don't know when the last 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: name with Santa Monica, but a promenade in downtown areas 32 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: really gone to hell. They've they've let the homeless run rampant. 33 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: The parking garages are stink like poop. Oh. I was 34 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: in one recently and I wouldn't take the stair way 35 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: because it smelled so bad of poop and I didn't 36 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: know what I was going to find. So I walked 37 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: out of the garage by going round and round down 38 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: the ramps. Oh, because I heard the elevators are kind 39 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,959 Speaker 1: of Oh. I'm not going in an elevator. I do 40 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: not do not want even Yeah, And you know, they 41 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: had their their riots that that the city officials wouldn't stop. 42 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: They had the looting of the stores and the fires 43 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: which drove a lot of businesses out. And now you've 44 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: got a lot of crime running around and a lot 45 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: of stores are boarded up or gone because of the 46 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: riots and the fires that ran unchecked, or because of 47 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: all the crime and the homeless people. And of course 48 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: they have they had very severe shutdowns. One of the 49 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: most shutdown cities that I've ever encountered has been Santa Monica. 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: There half the promenade storefronts are shuttered. Yeah, yeah, it's wow. 51 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: I mean that's the big shopping and seconds to three 52 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 1: promenade that was such a cool, beautiful play one of 53 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: the first places we went to when we moved out here, 54 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: and we thought, wow, this is a lot of fun 55 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: to go to on weekend nights. And it's a hell 56 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: hold now and the Santa Monica officials let it happen 57 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 1: and nobody's stopping them. John Alley sometimes seems like a 58 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: one man band, So we're gonna get him on because 59 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: there's at least one councilman starting to make some squawks 60 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: about policies and what Phil Brock said. Here's a quote. 61 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: I'm tired of hearing from John Alley, but I'm more 62 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: tired that we're not doing what we should be doing. 63 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: Let's get John Alley on. Hi, John and Ken, Hey, 64 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: how are you doing? Welcome? Really admire what you're doing 65 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: and your persistence. There's very few people have the stamina 66 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: that you have to try to fix things. Thanks. Well. 67 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: Since we last spoke, the homeless crisis is turned into 68 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,119 Speaker 1: a day and night wave of crime in downtown. It's 69 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: now being overrun the city by violent addicts and mentally 70 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: ill from all over the city and country. There's a 71 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: few adults stepping up now that really believe that these 72 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: people need to be removed and placed in mental facilities. 73 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: We've got a mayor and we've got some on city 74 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: council that think we can build our way out of 75 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: the problem with a nice apartment to cause us about 76 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand per person before it's destroyed, and with 77 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: the quality of light for all of us. But we 78 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: really need some proactive policing now. Read Park where I 79 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: spent my teen years riding my bike and playing tennis 80 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: is now overrun most days by groups spread white wide 81 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: open eight o'clock in the morning twelve noon with their bombs, 82 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: stolen bike, chop shops, smoking, dealing crack. And this is 83 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: where the city staff wants to meet people on their turf, 84 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: they say, and on site intervention and distribute free needles 85 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: and syringes. This is not the approach that more and 86 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: more of us. I want to continue with, Oh my god, 87 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: have you seen what happened in San Francisco? With that math, 88 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: they ended up with tens of thousands of drug addicts 89 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: and mental paces showing up to get there to get 90 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: their drug injections, and I think they only helped at 91 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: one point seventeen, only seventeen out of tens of thousands. Well, 92 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: the kids don't go to the parks unless they're with 93 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: their parents. Colleagues and I spend about several nights in 94 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: mornings in the parks, almost twenty eight on the streets 95 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: and in the dumpster rooms and the garages. We interviewed 96 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: about sixty three homeless people over a four week period. 97 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: And that was before they go there to charge their phones, 98 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: light up, get high, or try to come down. But 99 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: we were told, but we saw for ourselves that two 100 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: nights worth of fentnol mess crack can be bought in 101 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: downtown or in the parks for only two to ten 102 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: dollars as much as one wants within ten minutes. So 103 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: for most people, you think of the pier and the 104 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,679 Speaker 1: promenade as attractions right now. For the for the people 105 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: that we don't want coming into Santa Monica, it's actually 106 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: attractive place to come because the cost of sentinel, myth, 107 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: strong weed, even heroin is cheaper and less expensive in 108 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: Santa Monica than anywhere else in southern California. That's the 109 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: tourist attraction we don't want. Do you know why that is? 110 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: I don't Why is the question? Why is it even 111 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: cheaper there? We don't know, but we know that there's 112 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: a demand because within ten minutes of a phone call 113 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: or an app, it's delivered, and there's a middleman. And 114 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: these poor people that still overnight in the parks and 115 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: the garages, they have to pay one hundred bucks a night, 116 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: excuse me, one hundred bucks a month to gangs for 117 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: protection or else. When they come down and go to sleep, 118 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: everything they have is still and their wallet their phone, 119 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: any few bucks that they have on their pocket. So 120 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 1: it's a big problem. So the gangs now act as 121 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: landlords in the public parks and garages and charge ranked 122 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: to the homeless who try to live there. We saw 123 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: it in the garages, we saw it in Read Park, 124 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: we saw it in Douglas Park, and we saw it 125 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: right outside twenty sixth and Cover Field the People Concern, 126 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: which is the largest social services group that Santa Monica 127 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: funds to help the homeless. But when you drive by there, 128 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: John and Ken, there are more tense on the sidewalk, 129 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: and at night there are more people on the sidewalk 130 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: than there are inside. It's just a crime, and nobody 131 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: from the city has wanted to investigate that because I 132 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: think the people in the city want to pat themselves 133 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: on the back and say, hey, we've contributed what we 134 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: need to from our budget, let's move on. But it's 135 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: not working. We're not going to spend our way out 136 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: of this, and we're not going to build enough housing 137 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: to solve this problem, or else we'll still have the 138 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: same problem. We think in twenty to thirty years they're 139 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: comfortable with all this, huh. I mean they must know 140 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: what it's done to the promenade, and that hurts the 141 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: tax revenue. You have all these businesses, we're not paying 142 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: tax revenue anymore, sales tax, property tax. I mean, that's 143 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: got to impact. It's really sad. We've in addition to 144 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: bus drivers and city maintenance workers right near the promenade 145 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: getting whacked and hit over the head. We're getting an 146 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: average of three smashed storefronts a month. This has been 147 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: going on for fourteen months, but now we're getting just 148 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: six per week. Walk in and grab walk out again. 149 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: Robberies and our former city attorney and our current city manager. 150 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: We're touting the new program that they have that diverts 151 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: people to programs rather than the rest them and it's 152 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: not working. We've seen what happened with Prop forty seven, 153 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: We've seen what happened with our DA. It's all in 154 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: the same boat. Most are they come back. We've seen 155 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: our hotels. We've talked to every hotel manager booking manager 156 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: on Ocean Avenue. Sixty five percent of the people staying 157 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: two to five days are canceling after they've been there 158 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: for one or two days, just because they don't like 159 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: what they see, what they smell, and they don't like 160 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: the homeless. It's very, very intimidating. A young drug use 161 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: is out in the open. It's out in the open. 162 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: These people fall asleep with the weed right in front 163 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: of him. All right, hang on, we're talking to John Alley. 164 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: He has described it while he's a businessman, a landlord, 165 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: and an activist in Santa Monica who's been on this 166 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: case for quite a while. We've had among so a 167 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 1: number of times trying to clean up the homeless crime 168 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 1: problem in that city, particularly as it pervades the area 169 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: of the promenade the parking garages around it. Every time 170 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 1: we bring them on, he says he's had more meetings, 171 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: he's getting more and more people involved. But the government there, 172 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: we'll talk about this one city councilman, Phil Brock, who 173 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: was on our show and seems to be trying to 174 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: spearhead some sort of change to this problem. When we 175 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: come back, John and ken Kfi, what do you do 176 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: when a government is made up of entirely of lunatic 177 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 1: crazy people. You end up with Santa Monica, I mean 178 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: you end up with they've ruined the downtown promenade. Half 179 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: the businesses are gone, there's homeless people everywhere, drug addicts everywhere, 180 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 1: all kinds of crime and insanity. They've taken over the parks, 181 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: the public garages. The gangs now seem to run some 182 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: of those places and charge rent to the homeless. It's 183 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: out of control. Police police are non existent. They're not 184 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: allowed to do anything. And the idiots that run the 185 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: government are saying that they're going to build eight hundred 186 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: thousand dollars homes for all these mental patient, drug addicted derelics. 187 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: John Alley, he is a businessman, landlord. He's been an 188 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 1: activist trying to get Santa Monica back to the way 189 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: it used to be and it used to be beautiful. Um, 190 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: that's really sad. I was just sad listening to John talk. 191 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk back with him some more. Now, 192 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: let's get him. Oh that doesn't sound promising the wrong 193 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: line or is he going No, that's that's something I 194 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: did because we have a new system and I didn't adapt. 195 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: So just call him up again. Oh I thought we were. 196 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: I mean the method is to have the person running 197 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: the board to put the calls on. I know, but 198 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: I'm just used to clicking it to get the mons. Well, Anyway, 199 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: when he holds these meetings and he had sheriff in 200 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: a wave of come to one of them, he gets 201 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: a lot of people show up in person. He gets 202 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 1: a lot of people to watch online. He doesn't get 203 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: too many people from the Santa Monica City government. On one. 204 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: City Councilman Brock, who was on our show is apparently 205 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: paying some attention to this and wants to do something 206 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: about this. That's what I wanted to talk to John 207 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: Allie about next to see if there's you know what 208 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: I was thinking of, Is he back or yeah? Do 209 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: you remember years ago there was a problem in Santa 210 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 1: Monica with the homeless and they were feeding them in 211 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: a park. Yeah, right there, Palasades Park. I think it 212 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: was called, right the one on the cliff, and it 213 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: looked like you and I thought this is going to 214 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: go off the edge, going to be but it turned around. 215 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: Eventually they kind of woke up and shut that down 216 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: and they seem to get a handle on the homeless 217 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: problem in the city. As is going back twenty years, 218 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: I know it's a new generation of these These woke 219 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: people are not like the old liberals of the nineteen nineties. 220 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: This is a whole new breed. Really, it's just they're 221 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: just nut, all right, John, Sorry about that. Talk to 222 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: us about the meetings you're having. Phil Brock one of 223 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: the councilmen. He seems the only one open to restoring 224 00:12:54,559 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: Santa Monica. Council members Brock Andartory are the only two 225 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 1: council people that have actually walked the promenade, talked to 226 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: some of the tenants. Oscar picked up the phone one 227 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: morning and said, John, let's walk the garages. I want 228 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: to see where these dumpster's rooms are. I want to 229 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 1: find out what's going on. So we spent a good 230 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: morning and the people appreciated that. But the mayor and 231 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: the city staff are on a different planet altogether. They've 232 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: lost six million dollars that they spent last year. So 233 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: they lost six million dollars. They can't account for how 234 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: they spent six million dollars on homeless and homeless services. 235 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: So the mayor appointed three people on the city council. 236 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: The three people on the city council couldn't get anything 237 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: from staff, so the mayor decided to hire the accounting 238 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: firm of Moss Adams. For months, they've been working on 239 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: this and last night they came back in an audit 240 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: subcommittee meeting and said they won't have anything until December, 241 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: which is it's really a shame. They don't have a 242 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: metric for success. And when they do have the report, 243 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: the report's going to staff and to the city Council 244 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: for edit and review. So I'm not real hopeful about 245 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: reading much truth in that document. Six million dollars this 246 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: is money that was but sent to homeless non profits 247 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: or we don't know. We don't know, We just don't know. 248 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: It's it's not adequately explained. We even we got really 249 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: incensed listening to the mayor in a speech gloat that 250 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: the number of homeless had decreased to nine hundred this year. 251 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: Apparently it's eight oh six. And I went on that 252 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: city account, but I knew it wasn't true. So I 253 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: hired a Century City based audit and accounting firm to 254 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: help us, and we did our own homeless account. We 255 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: pulled together fifteen other civic minded people. We did our 256 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: own boots on the ground count two nights, cold morning 257 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: and from midnight to six am last November was forty 258 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: six degrees and the same this January, thirty six degrees. 259 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: We hit the streets, every park, almost twenty I think 260 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: twenty eight parks, Alleyway's garages. We counted twenty three hundred homeless, 261 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: almost two and a half times the number we were 262 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: being told. Wow, well you're talking about right, there's the 263 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: big lie. And this mayor we haven't said her name yet, 264 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: we should. Sue himmel Rich is the woman you're talking about. 265 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: And she actually stood up and claimed it was eight 266 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: hundred and six and you found twenty three hundred, and 267 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: the counts on both nights varied by less than ten percent. Yeah, 268 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: she tells you there's a consistency of what you got right. Right, 269 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: So you did. You did the same count twice. In 270 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: other words, a month apart, a month apart, yes, two 271 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: weeks ago. Two weeks ago, the city hosted one of 272 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: Biden's cabinet secretaries in Palisades Park where both of you 273 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: were talking about the feeding that was going on a 274 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,479 Speaker 1: couple of years ago. They were showing off the renewable 275 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: energy on the pier and it's impressive. But the city 276 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: swept all the homeless away in tents and cardboard boxes, 277 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: and the homeless moved three blocks east. Guess where the 278 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: garage is promenade downtown. Unfortunately, just for a great camera shot, 279 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: the city maintenance worker was attacked from behind from a 280 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: vagrant sitting on the sidewalk. Even that the mayor, when 281 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: she visits, we've been begging her to walk the parks 282 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: with us. She doesn't want to. She walked the parks 283 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: last Saturday or Sunday, but she'll only do it if 284 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: she has an entourage because she doesn't feel safe, and 285 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: most people don't. I can't blame her. Yeah, that figures, 286 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: but a hypocrite, she doesn't feel safe. I just astonished 287 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: by the stories you're telling this half hour. It's amazing, 288 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: really at about it because it was a favorite place 289 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: to go to. This morning, I came to my building 290 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: to let the cleaning crew in and I couldn't get in. 291 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 1: I called it for thirty. By the way, when you 292 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: call between eleven thirty and seven, there's no law enforcement 293 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: service except for nine one one. They've turned it over 294 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: to a company Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky firm called Block by Block. 295 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,959 Speaker 1: It's ambassadors. They can't do much. They call the police, 296 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 1: but basically we have no coverage. Between eleven thirty and 297 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: seven or eight am in the morning, and it took 298 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: a police officer and forty five minutes to come. He 299 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: asked the person to move. He said hello to four 300 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: people who were doing crack and homeless in front of 301 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: the Dodger pop up store and Adidas. The homeless person 302 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: in front of my building promised to move, packed up 303 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: his clothes. I waited for him a distance away. The 304 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: officer left and the guy wouldn't let me in my store, 305 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: so I had to let my crew go. I could 306 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: not get in, and I called back the police and 307 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: I waited another hour. Nobody came. But we're not set up. 308 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: That's why. About three weeks ago we had a verse. 309 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,880 Speaker 1: I personally called the sheriff. I don't really know him well, 310 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: and he returned the call quickly and he said, I'm 311 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: here to help. I said, we just would like a dialogue. 312 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 1: Here's what's going on. How can you help us? And 313 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: he came and spoke to a large group at the 314 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: Women's club, right in the heart of downtown, right in 315 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: the heart of the enemy territory. And it was well received. 316 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: In Santa Monica. Is you know, it's very leftists, not progressive, 317 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 1: but leftist. But people walked away really understanding what his 318 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: host team does. He prayed the police department, he actually 319 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: trains some of the inline recruits and he provides mental 320 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: health people to the city. City will never admit that, 321 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: but he does, even with the budget cuts. But he offered, 322 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: he said, look, we've got to support your chief, but 323 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: it's more of an issue of your city council and 324 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: mayor supporting your chief. If the chief is defunded, which 325 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: he is. We've got one hundred and seventy officers. We 326 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: need two hundred and twenty. Council Member Brock said, we 327 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: need to fifty. Then he said three hundred, and the 328 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: crowd erupted and enjoy. Then the council is going to 329 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: have to step up and allocate that money. The money 330 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: is there, it's just allocating it. We just have to go. 331 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: But it's always a pleasure to talk to you, even 332 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: though it's a difficult topic. We appreciate all you're trying 333 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: to do to bring Santa Monica back to sanity. Thank 334 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 1: you for coming on again. All right, let's businessman activist 335 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: in Santa Monica about the homeless crime problem. There more 336 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: coming up, John and Kenn Oh, how about that? The 337 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: US government announced today they've reopened the embassy in Kiev 338 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: in Ukraine. Reopened it after three months. That's a hopeful 339 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: sign that Ukraine is hanging in there. I don't know 340 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: if I go and return to my job at the 341 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: US Embassy in Kiev, but there's that. We were just 342 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 1: talking to John Alley, and when we talked to John Allie, 343 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: he's a landlord and an activist and he's at in 344 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: Santa Monica fighting the good fight over the homeless crime problem. 345 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: We had mentioned the drug use and you had mentioned 346 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: John up in San Francisco. It's the Tenderloin district where 347 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: there's open drug use. The star columnist, really the newest 348 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: at the Olsagondo Times, is a woman that really just 349 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: tops yourself every time, Anita Chabria, and she has done 350 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: a long story about Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver's safe drug use 351 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 1: sites are wrenting to see, but California should open them anyway. 352 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: It's accompanied by a large picture of a guy lying 353 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: on his back on the sidewalk being treated for an overdose. 354 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: You know, I saw that headline in that photo today 355 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: was the first thing I saw when I started my day, 356 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: and I laughed out loud, and I just thought, my god, 357 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: they really have just gone insane. You look at that headline. 358 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: It says it's wrenching to see, and you see the 359 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: photo and it is wrenching to see the guy lying 360 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: on the ground whacked out on drugs. But we should 361 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 1: open them anyway. We need more of this. And after 362 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 1: reading this, I don't know how you'd be convinced of that. 363 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: I mean, the people she talks to in the problems 364 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: that they have, and they're lined up at this clinic 365 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: when it opens in the morning, ready for their injections. 366 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: The argument is that this is safe and they won't 367 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: die in the streets and the gutter alone. They're dying anyway. 368 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: There's two thousand people that died last year of drug overdose. 369 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: Is here in Los Angeles. There's there's one hundred thousand 370 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,439 Speaker 1: that died in America last year. So the idea that 371 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: they're not dying because they have these open air drug 372 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: markets is false. That there there As long as you 373 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: keep the addiction going to these kinds of hard drugs, 374 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: they're gonna die. It's just the date that's in question. 375 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: But they don't all live long. Their life expectancy is 376 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: very short, this is not disputable. The argument here is 377 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: they're calling it harm reduction. We heard that with COVID 378 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 1: didn't but changes to prevent drug users from being stigmatized 379 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: or jailed. It focuses on removing physical and emotional obstacles 380 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: to treating their addiction. Read Michael Schellenberger's book Okay, harm 381 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: reduction is one of those trending, nonsense woke terms that 382 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 1: that that that is total garbage. But well, fahood. He's 383 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,719 Speaker 1: on Twitter today about this very Nico, and I'll read 384 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: you what he wrote. Michael Schellenberger, by the way, is 385 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: our choice for governor of California. Millions of people recover 386 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: from addiction every year. To deny the reality of recovery 387 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: and promote addiction maintenance, that's what he calls. It is 388 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: grotesque and humanizing. When I become governor, will make recovery, 389 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: not addiction maintenance the goal. He also one quote in 390 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: the article is this from Anita Chabria, which was retweeted 391 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: by this Erika D. Smith and other else they're lunatics. 392 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: For many people, a drug free life isn't a realistic 393 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: or necessary goal, and demanding it is a one way ticket. 394 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: To failure for both people and policy, meaning they're never 395 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: going to get off the drugs, so put them in 396 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: a place where they can do it safely. To Schellenberger's point, 397 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: what do you say about all the people who do 398 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: and so you want them to die in the street, 399 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: and on top of that we have to watch them. 400 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: You're giving up. He calls it palliative care. That's a 401 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: good term. But you take beautiful places and you turn 402 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,360 Speaker 1: them into death camps, like the Tenderline District is a 403 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: slow motion death camp. Skid Row is a death camp. 404 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 1: What this crackpot? Anita Chabria writes about in Vancouver. She 405 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: describes East Hastings, Tell me if you want this anywhere 406 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: near your neighborhood. In every direction there were needles and 407 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: arms and buttane lighters, melting chunks of fentanyl, heroin and meth. 408 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 1: The stench of burning chemicals was unavoidable for many residents 409 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: and business owners. Only a block away East Hastings means theft, garbage, graffiti, 410 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 1: and a near constant blare of sirens. And let's refer 411 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: back to the headline, California should open these anyway, Ye 412 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: see the difference. What you've been talking about San Francisco 413 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: and skid Row is not what this is. This is 414 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: an actual clinic where they can treat overdoses, where you 415 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: come in and you get care in case something goes wrong. 416 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: But they do in San Francisco and skid Row is 417 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: just allow people to lie there in their own filthon. 418 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 1: But in any case, all you get is people on drugs. 419 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: Whether that's not going to change, well, yeah, whether you're 420 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: claiming you're helping them or not, whether they actually get 421 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: helped or not, is irrelevant. It's you're you're enabling them 422 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: to continue their addiction. And there are another there are 423 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: another day closer to an early awful death, and it's 424 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,679 Speaker 1: government sanctioned death that that that they're they're forcing us 425 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: to watch. There's another person she cited in the article 426 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: who is advocating prescription fentanyl wow, because she's tired of 427 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: seeing her patients trapped by sex, work, stealing, incarceration, victimization, 428 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: at other harm that comes from sometimes leaning up to 429 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a day to pay for dirty and 430 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: illegal drugs. She's tired of seeing them die. So imagine, 431 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: imagine if the fentanyl is that easy to get. Now, 432 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: the government will hand it out for free, so you 433 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: get you get less, you get less. Drug addicts dying 434 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: in the street because they're on fentanyl. They end up 435 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: in the street. They can't hold they can't they can't 436 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 1: hold an apartment, they can't work. If you're worked out 437 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: on fentonel all day, you're not working, which means you 438 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 1: can't pay for an apartment. So you'll get evicted in 439 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: your homeless what's wrong with everybody? You can't live on 440 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: fenton il you die young, you end up homeless. How 441 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: else do you what the what is the other option? 442 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: All right? We got more coming up. I can't believe 443 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: this stuff, you know. And they talk about pedaling disinformation. 444 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: This is healthy John and Ken show and Santa Monica 445 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: downtown and promenade being overrun with crazy people, psychos, homeless criminals. 446 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: I got a text from a friend of mine. He 447 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: was a dad at the school our kids went too, 448 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: and he runs a store in Santa Monica and he's 449 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: been listening to the show for over twenty years and 450 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: he said, he says, I can relate everything to John Ali, 451 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: the businessman we had on is saying and affected by 452 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: it every day. My store is on Main Street, and 453 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: I faced these drug, violent criminals. The city calls them 454 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: homeless and even worse incidents almost daily. I'm seriously considering 455 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: selling the store. Yeah, not the only one. If all 456 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: those empty storefronts on the promenade or any indication I've 457 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: been in this store. And on top of that, that 458 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: rioting that occurred after the death of George Floyd said, 459 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,959 Speaker 1: some businessmen running they do they worry? Do they at 460 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: all concern what's going to be left? No, what's gonna 461 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: be left at the end of this Just gangs and 462 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,239 Speaker 1: and and psycho drug addicts and criminals running them up. 463 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: That's it. We'll be joined by candidate Tracy Park after 464 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: the news at four o'clock. She wants to replace Mike 465 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: Bonnen on the Los Angeles City Council. That's Council District 466 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: number eleven. And John we put her on the voter 467 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: guide because John says that's the pick that'll come up 468 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: after the news at four o'clock. You would asked, I 469 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,479 Speaker 1: think Monday the shooting in Laguna Woods at the Taiwanese church. Yeah, 470 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: and I think you asked Todd Spitzer in comparison, remember 471 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: the Buffalo shooter apparently had a huge manifesto that they've 472 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: gotten a hold of to read his motivations, and he 473 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: had been active on many sites. Oh, every day more 474 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: stuff comes out out about all his postings. Yeah, we're 475 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: gonna get into that in the four o'clock hour. But 476 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,439 Speaker 1: there's an update on the church shooter in Laguna Woods. 477 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: Pertaining to that question you asked. Apparently he has mailed 478 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: seven volumes of something called the Diary of an Independence 479 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: Destroying Angel to the Los Angeles offices of the World Journal. 480 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: It's a Chinese language newspaper. This just came out today, 481 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: So he does have a manifesto, being that he's sixty 482 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: eight years old. I don't know whether he typed it 483 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: up or what he did. Probably he probably put in 484 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: the US mail and sent it to a Chinese paper, 485 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: probably single spaced on onion skin typing paper. Still, like 486 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: the newspaper has set the documents to law enforcement. They're 487 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: not going to print the contents. In fact, one of 488 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: the people quoted in the story says, we haven't actually 489 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: read through all of it. A photo included with the 490 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: World Journal article showed eight stacks of paper that appeared 491 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: to be hand oh, handwritten in Chinese and hand binder clips, 492 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: handwritten in Chinese and blutle binder clips on them. Yeah, 493 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: so he hand wrote it in Chinese. This is old, 494 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: old school here, right. Maxwell Lynn, a West Covina based 495 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: attorney for the newspaper The World Journal, confirmed that they 496 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: got the documents yesterday morning and it did list Chao's 497 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: name as well as an address from his hometown a 498 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: Las Vegas. So it looks genuine. It's fascinating, like all 499 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: these guys are the same guy in a way, and 500 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: they're so secretive, right, nobody around them knows what's going on. Right, Oh, 501 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: I didn't know. He seemed like a nice guy. Oh, 502 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: it is very quiet. He said Hi, every day, was 503 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: smiling and friendly. They don't know, and then you find 504 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: out in some cases they write thousands of pages, but 505 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: it's thousands of pages that nobody reads until after they 506 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: go on their killing spree. While they're alive. Nobody knows 507 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: what's going on in their head. Well, because they're often loaners. Yeah. 508 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: The thing is we got to really tear into the 509 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: dark web because there are people that post all sorts 510 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: of crap like that Buffalo shooter that we got to 511 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: start prying and see what people are doing. It's easy 512 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 1: to it's easy to get in there. Oh and by 513 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: the way, you were right he said he was radicalized 514 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: on four chan. H You had mentioned that the other day. 515 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: That was a good possibility for Buffalo shoot who said 516 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: that's what got him turned on during the pandemic to 517 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: all of his races to beliefs. Yeah, and so the 518 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: thing is, you can't close those channels down. I don't 519 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: even know a country their servers are based in, but 520 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: there's people around the world and they all feed off 521 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 1: each other, and it's it's one insanity after the next. 522 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: So that's why you have to because more stuff came 523 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: out about this guy's mental condition and it's clear what 524 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: has to be done. You have to go after the 525 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: mental condition because you're not going to get rid of 526 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: all the bizarre ideologies on the internet. That's impossible, nor 527 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: are you going to get rid of all the weapons. 528 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: That's impossible. 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