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Speaker 1: off today. We have quite a bit this hour. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk with Rick Caruso after two thirty, the former

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Speaker 1: candidate for mayor. He would have made a difference by now,

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Speaker 1: but we went with Karen Bassetti, and so we've got

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Speaker 1: exactly the same life we had with Eric Garcetti. Nothing's

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Speaker 1: changed at all. And the mobs are back, the ransacking

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Speaker 1: gangs that come in and try to destroy nice department stores.

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Speaker 1: It happened at the Americana in Glendale. That's the place

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Speaker 1: that Russo owns, that shopping center, the Eves Sant Laurent store.

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Speaker 1: They came in and robbed thirty people. And then in

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Speaker 1: Canoga Park at the nord Stroms. This is Debra's favorite Nordstroms.

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Speaker 1: It is I go there all the time. Thirty to

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Speaker 1: fifty people dressed in all dressed in black, very difficult

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Speaker 1: on the video I saw it to tell make any identifications,

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Speaker 1: and they caused a lot of mayhem. And Blake Trolley

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Speaker 1: has got that story. So if Crusaw on after two thirty,

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Speaker 1: we're going to have Blake Trolley on now for the

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Speaker 1: nord Strom situation. Blake, Yeah, what's up?

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Speaker 2: John?

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm really curious to see what Caruso is

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Speaker 3: going to say and what you know he's going to

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Speaker 3: say about his retailers, the state of his retailers, because

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Speaker 3: this is the second high profile robbery burglary, mob burglary,

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Speaker 3: however you want to call it, we've had in a

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Speaker 3: week at the Westfield to paying the mall. On Saturday,

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Speaker 3: more than three hundred thousand dollars were learning was stolen

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Speaker 3: by a mob that ran in and took everything they

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Speaker 3: could in sight. Cell phone video caught the thieves smashing displays,

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Speaker 3: taking high end clothing and handbags. In some cases, the

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Speaker 3: group was trying to steal things that were tethered to

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Speaker 3: their display for security purposes. The displays kind of just

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Speaker 3: dragged behind them like soda cans behind a just married car.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was quite the spectacle. A security guard

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Speaker 3: The thieves then took off in several cars. This woman

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Speaker 3: who works at the mall says her co workers witnessed

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Speaker 3: all of this. I should warn you, John, as soon

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Speaker 3: as I began talking to her, a construction crew decided

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Speaker 2: But yes, everyone was running out, running up the little

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Speaker 2: mall like somebody got shot or something, but there was

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Speaker 2: was just like any means necessary to just ran gotcha?

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Speaker 3: Well, she says, all of this has her worry just

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Speaker 2: I think there definitely needs to be security, more security,

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Speaker 2: more better laws, stuff like that. And since they passed

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Speaker 2: the log in California for you to be able to

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Speaker 2: steal and stuff like that, that doesn't make anything safer

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Speaker 2: better for anybody, especially if you have children. So I

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Speaker 2: think that they need to change a lot of things

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Speaker 3: Aside from this high profile robbery. I mean, yeah, this

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Speaker 3: you just seeing other theft?

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Speaker 2: Oh, all the time, every time, especially the weekends, because

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Speaker 1: Stealing all the time.

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Speaker 2: They stole a lot of Victoria's secret was insane. It

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Speaker 1: So scary.

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Speaker 3: Please tell me they are looking for a potential link

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Speaker 3: between this robbery and the burglary in Glendale. John, Now

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Speaker 3: all of this, you know, some of this is being

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Speaker 3: blamed on Prop forty seven. Today I spoke with Assemblymen

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Speaker 3: I spoke with him this morning. He says he knew

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Speaker 3: By the way, he says, this committee only works on data.

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Speaker 3: So his bill has been amended into a study, aka,

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Speaker 3: the government needs to study John if we should lower

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Speaker 3: Anyways, Alanie's told me that has him frustrated, of course,

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Speaker 5: You have these underserved, low income communities that unfortunately become

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Speaker 5: the first ones for retail stores to close down, or

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Speaker 5: ordering online. And then now that causes the stores to

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Speaker 1: It's the definitely that's what he's describing, and this is

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Speaker 3: He says he's really confident if this gets out to

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Speaker 3: the full assembly. We've heard this about other bills like it,

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Speaker 3: to kick in as a as a felony. But you know, John,

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Speaker 3: I've spoken with quite a few retailers and I've been

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Speaker 1: That's something we haven't seen before.

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Speaker 3: So it seems, at least in this case, this is

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Speaker 3: a much more aggressive robbery than we even saw in

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Speaker 3: And these are the types of stories that we're now hearing.

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Speaker 1: You can take whatever you want and you'll get out

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Speaker 1: to that run of smash and grab mobs around Christmas

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Speaker 3: That is a really good question, John. When I spoke

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Speaker 3: figure out exactly where these goods are going. Who's behind this?

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Speaker 3: They said, even if it's a low level operation, they're

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Speaker 3: you know that what do they call it a flash

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Speaker 3: mob burglary in Glendale? It sounds like at this north

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Speaker 1: But is anybody talking about having police forces or private

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Speaker 3: Well you have to wonder if that's what it's gonna

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Speaker 1: But are the security guards? Are they armed and are

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Speaker 1: is ornaments maybe to try to scare some of the

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Speaker 1: bad guys into not taking them on, but in reality,

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Speaker 1: if you walk in and steal, they're not going to

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Speaker 3: That's a good question, John, I'd have to look into that.

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Speaker 3: But what we heard with this is that the security

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Speaker 3: imagine he was far outnumbered. When you hear that thirty

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Speaker 3: it's a good question whether they were armed or not.

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Speaker 3: That's something that we're going to have to look into.

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Speaker 3: I didn't see any armed security today. That's not to

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Speaker 3: They did not appear to be armed. All right, Blake,

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Speaker 1: That Blake was describing, because what happens is they do

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Speaker 1: time for this. And they don't have enough people at

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Speaker 1: There are twenty two people lined up. Twenty two people.

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Speaker 1: You know, they got what they have seven registers, one

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Speaker 1: of them is manned. They got nobody to help to

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Speaker 1: unlock all the uh, you know, all the merchandise that's

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Speaker 1: behind some plastic panel. The experience is terrible. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I go home Amazon and you know, run up a

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Speaker 1: which means eventually all these places are going to close

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Speaker 1: and there's nothing to replace them, and that is happening.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just saw a video montage of San

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Speaker 1: there's nobody to appeal to, there's nobody who seems to

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Speaker 1: want to do anything about it. We'll talk to Rick

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Speaker 1: Caruso about all this because he had his Americana shopping

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Speaker 1: center in Glendale hit by these smash and grab mobsters

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Speaker 1: last week, so that'll be a two thirty when we

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Speaker 1: come back. Though, this whole story begins and ends with

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Speaker 1: George gascon because George gascone Raw wrote Prop forty seven

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Speaker 1: who his ass off. I'll give you that whole story

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Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with the details. But now in

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Speaker 1: the New York Post they have an exclusive that they

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Speaker 1: Well, the smash and grab mob that stormed into the

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Speaker 4: I'm doing great, John, How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing all right, But you know, i'd be a

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Speaker 4: they need to realize that there's a consequence to them

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Speaker 4: is you're no longer in office. That's what we have

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Speaker 4: to do now.

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Speaker 1: We talk about that all the time. People have to

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Speaker 1: terrible failure, and everybody can see it. I don't hear

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Speaker 4: Let's fix it. Get busy, get well paid to do

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Speaker 4: your job. Go do your job. And also let's lean

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Speaker 4: into things like and you know, because we've talked about

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Speaker 4: this that Tina and I are doing, and we're not

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Speaker 4: the only ones doing it. Many people are. We're down

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Speaker 4: in in areas that are added below the poverty line.

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Speaker 4: We're supporting schools and families. We were just down there

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Speaker 4: You know, Operation Progress. That's teaming up LAPD officers with families.

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Speaker 4: You know, the mentorship, the scholarship, all of that, it

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Speaker 4: all has to come together. And again, it's so crazy

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Speaker 4: to me, it's so damn self evident needs to be done.

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Speaker 4: I can even argue about that, I know, right.

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Speaker 1: I know, I mean, everybody is saying the same thing,

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Speaker 1: you know it, there's another story in the news. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what. You know, how

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Speaker 1: business owners are supposed to deal with this. Not everybody

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Speaker 1: can hire their own police force.

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Speaker 4: Well, and that's the sad thing, Jhen. You've got small

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Speaker 4: businesses that are just getting destroyed. I get more calls

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Speaker 4: from people. Somebody comes into a small business and steals

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Speaker 4: one thousand or two thousand dollars worth of merchandise. That

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Speaker 4: could be the profit for that store, that could be

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Speaker 4: their rent, that could be the food on the table.

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Speaker 4: You know, I, of course have the resources. We've got

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Speaker 4: very sophisticated security systems. We're going to catch these guys

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Speaker 4: in my mind. And that's why I put up the

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Speaker 4: And I would encourage everybody that has the resources. If

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Speaker 4: you're getting targeted, you get hit, put out a reward.

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Speaker 4: Let's push back on this we have to do this

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Speaker 4: as a community coming together, pushing back, saying enough is enough,

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Speaker 4: don't get violent. We don't need more mobs. There's a

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Speaker 4: lot of other ways to do it. Work with law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: If somebody has information on the robbery where you were

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Speaker 1: in Glendale, who do they call?

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Speaker 4: Glendale PD actually has a confidential hotline, and I don't

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Speaker 4: want to I don't have it in front of me,

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Speaker 4: but it's a great question. I will text it to you.

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Speaker 4: We'd love to have it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, text me and I'll put it on the air

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Speaker 1: because if people know there's a specific line, and maybe

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Speaker 1: that leads to the reward money that might be in

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Speaker 1: the incentive because somebody, you know, these guys went back

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Speaker 1: to some neighborhoods somewhere and we're bragging about what they did.

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Speaker 1: So there are no doubt there are people out there

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Speaker 1: who know what went.

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Speaker 4: On exactly right, and that's how we're gonna We're gonna keep,

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Speaker 4: you know, cracking this nut. And again not to beat

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Speaker 4: up too much in our elect officials, but they really

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Speaker 4: got to get some courage out there, get a dose

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Speaker 4: the courage and start going after this. It can change,

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Speaker 4: and it will change. Here's the number, John, Glendale PD

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Speaker 4: confidential number one eight hundred two two two or seven seven,

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Speaker 4: and or you can call Glendale Police Department at eight one,

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Speaker 4: eight five four, eight four nine one. I'd appreciate everybody's support.

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Speaker 4: Let's come together as a community and let people know

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Speaker 4: that we don't tolerate this kind of behavior in our

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Speaker 4: great city.

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Speaker 1: All right. So that second number you gave was eight one,

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Speaker 1: eight five four eight four. And what was the first

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Speaker 1: number again?

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Speaker 4: Eight Glendale PD is eight one eight five four eight four.

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Speaker 1: All right, Rick, thanks for coming on with us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, John, appreciate it. Thanks to all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: All right. Rick Caruso, uh, former mayoral candidate, and he

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Speaker 1: owns the Americana in Glendale, among other places, and his

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Speaker 1: place was hit by this flash mob a thieves. So

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Speaker 1: was the Nordstroms at the Pega Canyon Mall. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know he said it very succinctly, and it's true. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We we know what to do because you know, for

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Speaker 1: most of our lives this Los Angeles ran pretty well

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Speaker 1: and we didn't have this kind of crime. And then

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Speaker 1: we went on this experiment and the experiment has failed.

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Speaker 1: So now we should go back to the way things

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Speaker 1: were all right, we got to take a break.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 6: Am six.

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Speaker 1: Forty after four o'clock on the iheartapp. It's the John

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Speaker 1: and Ken on Demand podcast. And if you just joined us,

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Speaker 1: we just had Rick Carusol on talking about the flash

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Speaker 1: mobs robbing various shopping centers, including his in Glendale, The

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Speaker 1: on Demand the podcast. It is so bad now in

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. The US Department of Health and Human Services

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Speaker 1: are telling hundreds of their employees in San Francisco to

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Seventh Street. It's an eighteen

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Speaker 1: everybody to stay home, as the Department of Labor there

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Speaker 1: as well the Department of Transportation and an office for Pelosi.

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Speaker 1: But has also got a huge open air drug market

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Speaker 1: users that collect on a daily basis. The Assistant Secretary

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Speaker 1: for Administration at Health and Human Services is Cheryl Campbell,

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Speaker 1: and she sent out a memo. In light of the

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Speaker 1: conditions at the Federal Building, we recommend employees maximize the

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Speaker 1: use of telework for the foreseeable future. This should be

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Speaker 1: utilizing telework flexibilities. In other words, if you're not if

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Speaker 1: you're staying home, keep stay home. If you don't work

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Speaker 1: from home, go home immediately. Because it's a war zone

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Speaker 1: down there, which is what the title of the memo

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Speaker 1: should be. Dozens of dealers plant themselves on next to

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Speaker 1: or across the street from the property. They operate in shifts,

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Speaker 1: and everybody is smoking, snorting, and shooting up The concrete

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Speaker 1: benches are popular for the users to get high, socialize,

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Speaker 1: and then pass out. This is the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.

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Speaker 1: It's the end of civilization. Not even the government, not

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Speaker 1: even the government wants to be doing business in San

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Speaker 1: Francisco anymore. To clearing out the Federal Building. Because all

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Speaker 1: the all the drug pushers have won, they're now an

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Speaker 1: occupying army in San Francisco, and nobody is trying to

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Speaker 1: stop them. Nobody's doing anything. All right, We're coming up

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Speaker 1: in fact, when we come back this this crime issue

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Speaker 1: top to bottom. You know Newsome suspended the death penalty

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Speaker 1: some years ago. Well, there's a new death penalty poll

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Speaker 1: from a company called Signal and they found out that

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Speaker 1: you still have majorities in this state who want the

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Speaker 1: death penalty. We're going to talk to Jim Lacey about

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