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Speaker 2: So Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 3: It's simple but fundamental pillar of our democracy that the

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Speaker 4: The US Justice Department is opening an investigation into the

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Speaker 4: New York Attorney General Leticia James's office. This comes as

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Speaker 5: There are now two Grand Jurisa poenas issued by the

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Speaker 5: looking to get information about James's office, basically trying to

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Speaker 5: see if there was any criminality by her office when

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Speaker 5: she filed that civil lawsuit against the Trump organization. If

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Speaker 5: you remember that lawsuit going to trial and the Trump

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Speaker 5: in penalty.

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Speaker 1: The mission is clear.

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Speaker 6: I'm focused, I'm prepared, I'm ready. I've been trained by

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Speaker 6: the best. I went to Howard University that overturned legal

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Speaker 6: with third Good Marshall once taught I'm not afraid of

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Speaker 6: no President Donald Trump. We're ready for you. We're coming

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Speaker 6: for you, We're standing up for you.

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Speaker 2: We're fighting on. We're not going down.

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Speaker 6: Sailing victory, my friends is clear. It's now and I'm

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Speaker 6: not waiting four years. I'm waiting two. I tell us,

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Speaker 6: speaker of the name of Hi King Jeffries comes to.

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Speaker 1: Bring us some rest.

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Speaker 6: Come on, ladies, it's up to us. We saved this

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 7: Damn body made the decision to bring a civil lawsuit

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Speaker 7: because I think PAM has the budget right now to

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Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna be the step too. Has

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Speaker 8: Trump today authorized the use of military force against the

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Speaker 8: Mexican cartels. And that's only the third biggest headline. The

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Speaker 8: said that CIA officers when they travel CIA officers have

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Speaker 8: not who they fear. They fear the Mexican cartels because,

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Speaker 8: as I have heard it said, when you leave China,

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Speaker 8: When you leave the Middle East, you're you come home.

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Speaker 8: This is your little bubble where you live. They they

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Speaker 8: So for Trump to do this has all of my support,

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Speaker 8: Imagine people in politics actually solving problems instead of talking

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Speaker 9: We're going to take our capital back. We're taking it

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Speaker 8: President Trump said that in twenty twenty two, nearly seventy

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Speaker 8: This is not complicated, folks, and the President recognizes that.

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Speaker 2: Share with your friends, and you'll be the most popular too.

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Speaker 2: There's more to do.

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Speaker 2: Where there's been a call to defund the police. President

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Speaker 9: This entire public safety crisis demis directly from the abject

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Speaker 8: seventy percent of the criminals in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: Went unprosecuted even when arrested.

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Speaker 8: Let me ask Greg Pemberton, is crime worse in DC

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Speaker 8: today than it was a year or two or three ago,

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Speaker 8: the chairman of the DC Police Officers Union. For people

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Speaker 8: who don't know for ourselves, please put this into perspective

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Speaker 8: for us, because you guys are on the streets of

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Speaker 8: DC every day.

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Speaker 11: Well, in twenty twenty three, we saw violent crime totals

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Speaker 11: topping thirty year highs. We had nearly three hundred homicides

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Speaker 11: that year, we had nine hundred and sixty armed carjacking,

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Speaker 11: thousands of robberies, thousands of shootings, numbers that we hadn't

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Speaker 11: seen since the crack epidemic in the early nineteen nineties.

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Speaker 11: Since then, the police department reported in twenty twenty four

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Speaker 11: the crime dropped thirty six percent, and this year the

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Speaker 11: reporting that has dropped another twenty five percent. But as

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Speaker 11: you very eloquently stated in your intro, we don't believe

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Speaker 11: that that's true. The reason being is that won our

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Speaker 11: NBC affiliate here in Washington uncovered information earlier this month

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Speaker 11: that a commander of a police district is now under

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Speaker 11: investigation and it has been stripped of as police powers

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Speaker 11: for going into police databases and changing classifications from felonies

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Speaker 11: to misdemeanors so that those felonies aren't carried on the

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Speaker 11: monthly reports. And in addition to that, we know that

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Speaker 11: our members are being told when they go to these

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Speaker 11: scenes and victims are reporting that they were a victim

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Speaker 11: of a violent crime or a felony, that managers are

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Speaker 11: coming to those scenes, lieutenants, captains and above, and are

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Speaker 11: ordering the officers to take reports for lesser offenses to

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Speaker 11: keep those crime stats moving in a downward trajectory. But

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Speaker 11: what anybody that works, or lives or travels to DC knows,

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Speaker 11: As you mentioned, it really is problematic. Anywhere you go,

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Speaker 11: you can feel and sense, it's palpable that there is

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Speaker 11: criminal activity a foot, whether that's the smell of marijuana smoke,

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Speaker 11: whether that's traffic incidents, whether that's more violent crime like

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Speaker 11: robberies and carjackings. It's ubiquitous throughout the city, and so

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Speaker 11: we don't believe the crime has gone down. We believe

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Speaker 11: that that's a manipulation of the crime stats here in

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Speaker 11: the district.

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Speaker 8: June thirtieth, at the twelve hundred block of Seventh Street,

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Speaker 8: Eric Tarpinian Jaquim was shot and killed. He was a

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Speaker 8: twenty one year old congressional intern. It's only one persons,

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Speaker 8: seemingly isolated incident, but those types of things tend to

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Speaker 8: catch a lot of attention. Then, we had Big Balls

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Speaker 8: this past week who was beaten pretty badly by about

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Speaker 8: ten young young folks. We've had some of these high

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Speaker 8: profile cases. How common are these cases? I have to

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Speaker 8: tell you, I've been going to d C since I

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Speaker 8: clerked there as a young lawyer in nineteen ninety five,

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Speaker 8: and it feels less safe, but I've also grown older

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Speaker 8: I recognize that.

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Speaker 11: Well. Unfortunately, they're all too common. I mean, one of

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Speaker 11: your representatives from Texas, Henry Quaar, was carjacked in Navy Yard.

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Speaker 11: I think that was earlier this year. We had Angie Craig,

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Speaker 11: representative from Minnesota, who was assaulted in her elevator of

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Speaker 11: her own apartment building. There are multitudes of staffers that

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Speaker 11: have been victims of robberies, assaults, carjackings. Rand Paul's staffer

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Speaker 11: was stabbed in the head, probably about a year and

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Speaker 11: a half ago, and the stories continue and continue. Obviously,

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Speaker 11: those are the ones that you hear about because they

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Speaker 11: make the news. But on a day to day basis,

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Speaker 11: our officers are running call to call to call for

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Speaker 11: these various types of incidents that are happening to citizens

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Speaker 11: all over the city. And it's a disservice to the

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Speaker 11: the police department to manipulate these crime staffs. It's the

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Speaker 11: disservice to the city, and ultimately it's an ultimate disservice

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Speaker 11: to these victims because we're not dedicating the proper resources

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Speaker 11: to investigating those cases and trying to close those cases.

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Speaker 11: But ultimately, what's the takeaway the bad guys get away

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Speaker 11: with it, right, because we're not doing what we need

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Speaker 11: to do to get handcuffs on them and get them

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Speaker 11: into the criminal justice system, no matter how broken it

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Speaker 11: is here in the district. But we need to do

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Speaker 11: our job on the front end, which is handcuffed these

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Speaker 11: guys and get them booked and charged with these crimes.

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Speaker 11: And we can't do that in the current environment that

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Speaker 11: we're working in.

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Speaker 8: Greg Pemberton is a chairman of Washington DC Police Officers Union.

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Speaker 8: President Trump has sent in some FEDS over the weekend,

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Speaker 8: seemingly in a supplemental capacity to assist the DC police officers.

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Speaker 8: Nobody's criticizing the DC police officers and the work they're doing.

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Speaker 8: They're outmanned, outgunned, overwhelmed, understaffed, the problems that we see

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Speaker 8: across the country. Do you welcome a greater federal presence

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Speaker 8: on the streets.

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Speaker 11: Definitely, But let me back up a little bit and

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Speaker 11: give a little context. In twenty twenty, our city council here,

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Speaker 11: the municipal government legislative branch, passed a multitude of pieces

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Speaker 11: of legislation that handcuffed police officers, that made it impossible

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Speaker 11: for them to do their jobs and increased their liability

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Speaker 11: for administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions even when they go

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Speaker 11: out and do their job properly. And since then we

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Speaker 11: have had a mass exodus of police officers. Our police

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Speaker 11: agency has an authorized staffing level of four thousand sworn members.

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Speaker 11: We are currently sitting one and eighty with more than

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Speaker 11: eight hundred vacancies for the position a police officer. The

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Speaker 11: way the department is making up that difference, that that

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Speaker 11: staffing difference is through mandatory overtime, and we're currently working

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Speaker 11: more than two million hours per year in overtime, which

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Speaker 11: is completely unsustainable. It is four times or maybe even

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Speaker 11: five times the pre COVID averages for annual overtime rates,

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Speaker 11: and it is burning out our officers and it is

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Speaker 11: sending people packing for other agencies where they aren't treated

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Speaker 11: this way. And the reason that the FEDS are looking

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Speaker 11: at this and saying let's send some supplemental resources, which

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Speaker 11: of course we welcome, is because we cannot staff the

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Speaker 11: police department based on the way our local government treats us,

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Speaker 11: which is just a horrible environment for policing and public safety.

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Speaker 8: Agreed, get an officer hurt as well? Greg Kemberton, the

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Speaker 8: chairman of the Washington DC Police Officers Union. Thank you, sir,