1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,279 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 2: I've We've got about two shows worth of material today, 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: so we're not wasting any time. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: We're gonna go right to it. 6 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: And the first thing I want to get into is 7 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 2: a story that we just assembled here moments ago. I 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 2: want to play a piece from Channel seven, so I 9 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 2: think there'd be a quick way to get an idea 10 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: of what this is about. You know, I figured out 11 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 2: Karen Bass a long, long time ago, way before she 12 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: was mayor. She's got an act. Most successful politicians have 13 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: an act, and most of the time people fall for 14 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: it because most people are. 15 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 1: Kind of dim. 16 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 2: So Karen Bass's act is to be smiley and positive 17 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: and enthusiastic about things, and you don't notice that she 18 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: fails at what she claims she's doing, and she is 19 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: failing miserably in her first year and a half. But 20 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: it's not reported on because you know, it's not appropriate 21 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 2: apparently to paint Karen Bass and a bad life for 22 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: any number of reasons. But the truth is she's failing. 23 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 2: She's got this fake program called Inside Safe. She puts 24 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: out fake numbers and you know how I know they're fake. Well, 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 2: first of all, I have a pair of eyes, and 26 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: there's still tons of homeless all over the place. Sometimes 27 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: they get moved from one neighborhood to the next, but 28 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 2: they're still here and they're still increasing. She can't prove 29 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 2: that any of the numbers are true, and she doesn't try. 30 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 2: So you look at what people do, and you also 31 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 2: look at what they don't do. If it works, you'd 32 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 2: be bringing you'd be bringing the proof. But it's not working. 33 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: And another sign is she's still getting sued. The LA 34 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: Alliance for Human Rights is an interesting group. They're made 35 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: up of business owners, residents, and homeless people who think 36 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 2: Carrie Bass is failing spending tax money on programs that 37 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 2: don't work. Fourthly, the reason I know this is a 38 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 2: scam is now a federal judge, David o'carter, has ordered 39 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 2: an audit of these homeless programs, including Inside Safe. If 40 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 2: it was working so well, you'd see it with your 41 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: own eyes, she would be bringing forth proof. You wouldn't 42 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: have a suit from the LA Alliance for Human Rights, 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 2: and you wouldn't have a judge demanding an audit be done. 44 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: Let's get a rundown here from Josh Haskell from eightyc seven. 45 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: I'm not losing faith, but I've just been very discouraged. 46 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 3: Rosie Wong was thrilled when the city finally cleared a 47 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: homeless encampment that blocked the sidewalk in front of her home, 48 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: but not even a day later, tense reappeared with other 49 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 3: members of our own house population. The encampment was cleared 50 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 3: under Los Angeles me Or Karen Bass's Inside Safe, which 51 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 3: is now part of an audit ordered by federal Judge 52 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 3: David O. Carter of all homelessness assistance programs funded or 53 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 3: conducted by the City of Los Angeles. 54 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 4: We brought this case in March of twenty twenty, right 55 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 4: as the pandemic was descending because of the decades of 56 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 4: failure by government. But government continues to be the only 57 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 4: entity that can make an impact on this. 58 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 3: The plaintiff in the federal case is the Alliance for 59 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 3: Human Rights, a group of business owners, residents, and members 60 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: of the unhoused population upset over how taxpayer dollars are 61 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 3: being spent on homelessness. 62 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 4: We are disappointed in this city, and we do not 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 4: believe that they've complied with our agreement. The city has 64 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 4: made some progress. The Mayor's Insight Safe program has brought 65 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 4: some people inside, but the numbers are far short of 66 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 4: what we anticipated under the agreement. 67 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: And a statement regarding the federal audit the Mayor's office 68 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: set in part. Mayor Bass has long led calls for accountability, 69 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 3: transparent errancy and outcome measures regarding homelessness services and the 70 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 3: cost incurred by the city, which is why the Mayor 71 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: suggested an independent audit. The City Controller CASI Media is 72 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 3: also conducting his own auditive inside Safe. The Alliance for 73 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 3: Human Rights will be back in federal court Thursday, as 74 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 3: an auditor is expected to be appointed. The city tells 75 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 3: me that tomorrow they'll release invoices related to their homeless 76 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,799 Speaker 3: efforts as instructed by the court. 77 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's two audits going on, one from the city 78 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 2: controller and he's a socialist, and one now ordered by 79 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 2: the judge David Carter. Now, if you had a successful 80 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 2: program going on, why would you get calls for two audits. 81 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 2: If you had a successful program, why would you have 82 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 2: so many people going on television saying I'm disappointed, I'm disappointed. 83 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: Here's the crux of it. What I noticed in that 84 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: report is that they clean out a homeless encampment and 85 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: a few days later they're back, or maybe they're around 86 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: the corner. Now they clean it up again. And some 87 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: of these encampments have been cleaned up several times. Well, 88 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: if you clean up fifty people the first time, and 89 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 2: then they come back, and then you clean up another 90 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 2: fifty people, that's one hundred people. Is that's what you're 91 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: counting in your statistics. The same people that you're cleaning 92 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: up over and over again, the same people that you're 93 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: putting in motels, and then they wander out of the 94 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: hotels and end up in a different encampment, and you 95 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,239 Speaker 2: clean them up and send them to a second motel. 96 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 2: Do you think they're actually keeping track of the identities 97 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 2: of these people? Do you think they're keeping track whether 98 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 2: it's the same people over and over again. 99 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, every once in a while. 100 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 2: People want to take a break from the grind of 101 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: living in a tent and decide, yeah, yeah, sure, I'll 102 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: take the abandoned motel for a while. This is a 103 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 2: failed program, and she does And Garcetti did this for 104 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 2: nine and a half years, and he really left behind wreckage. 105 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: I mean he really was a stinker of a mayor. 106 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 2: What a mastrosity he was. But she's adopted all his tactics. 107 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 2: You smile, you give these smooth sounding sound bites, you 108 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 2: come up with a bunch of fake numbers, you know, 109 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 2: you shuffle the papers around so nobody can keep track. 110 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: And finally everybody has had it. It's been how many 111 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: years has this been. It's been almost a decade of this. 112 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 2: Enough enough, we know what you're doing. You just took 113 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 2: billions of dollars. These fake criminal nonprofits have blown the money, 114 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: mostly on their own salaries. And as I told you 115 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 2: earlier this week, there's a coalition of pro homeless groups 116 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 2: that want to extend the sales tax and send billions 117 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: more dollars from LA citizens to this homeless hole, this 118 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 2: homeless industrial complex. This huge money sucked. They actually want 119 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 2: to double the tax and extend it. 120 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: Because it's supposed to. 121 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 2: Expire in two years. They want to double it and 122 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: extend it billions of dollars. And after seven years of this, 123 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 2: we got nothing to show for it. We got Karen 124 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 2: Bass and or fake statistics, and we got encampments that 125 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 2: she's cleaned up three times over, probably double in triple 126 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: accounting these people. We've got them housed in some dilapidated hotels. 127 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: But that, excuse me, that's a budgetbuster. She herself said, 128 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: we can't afford this because even the dilapidated hotels charged 129 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 2: too much money. 130 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: And she's got no place to put to these pets. 131 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: And nobody makes them clean up their own miserable lives. 132 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 2: How long do we have to cater to this crowd? 133 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 2: They won't work, they won't get any any treatment for 134 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 2: whatever problems they have. How long do we have to 135 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 2: pay for them to not live and defecate in the 136 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 2: parks and the streets. 137 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: How long? 138 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: What's the endpoint on this? It's the same people, and 139 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 2: then there's no one's coming in. She has failed at this, 140 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 2: absolutely failed, which is why she spends most of her 141 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 2: time running around talking about the Olympics, because the Olympics 142 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 2: are a happy, smiley thing that we're all supposed to 143 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 2: get excited about. I think a lot of people are 144 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 2: going to get out of town all I'm seeing today's 145 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 2: stories about. You know, we have to we have to 146 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 2: get the buses running, and we have to get the 147 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 2: new train lines put in because the Olympics are coming meanwhile, 148 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 2: day to day life, they're a pain in the ass 149 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 2: under Caaren Bass because she failed. We've got more coming 150 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 2: up and Steve Gregory as a report, and I just 151 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 2: heard a piece of this, and Steve must be the 152 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 2: only reporter in the whole city, in the whole state 153 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: that has this. I woke up this morning and there's 154 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 2: just a little piece of the story. I heard that 155 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 2: there was seventy thousand homeless arrested over the last four 156 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 2: years in the LA area. Seventy thousand, a lot of 157 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 2: them for Warrens. Arrest Warrens. And I'm looking all day 158 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 2: to see who else has the story. It seems nobody does, 159 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 2: and Steve dug it out of I don't know, some 160 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 2: commissioned meeting report. We'll get all the details for sure, 161 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 2: coming up with Steve after one thirty. 162 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 163 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 5: six forty. 164 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 2: On the radio from one until four and then after 165 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That is the podcast. 166 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 2: It's the same as the radio show. You hear what 167 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 2: you missed for. Steve Gregory is going to be on 168 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 2: in about what about ten to fifteen minutes, and he's 169 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 2: going to tell us about a report which I only 170 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 2: have a bare headline on because nobody else has covered this. 171 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 2: Steve has a report on tens of thousands of homeless 172 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 2: people getting arrested over the last four years. A lot 173 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: of them are on arrest warrants. So we'll talk to 174 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 2: him after Debor's one to thirty news. Oh, speaking of Deborah, 175 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 2: if you go to our social media, whether it's Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, 176 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 2: I guess everything, you will hear the audio clip of 177 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 2: the prank that the two Debora's played on. 178 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: Me on April fools on April. 179 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 2: Fool's Day, the Deborah Mark and my wife Deborah and 180 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 2: they teamed up, And not to tell you too much, 181 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 2: but you should listen to it. I do have to 182 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 2: clarify though, real quick. 183 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 6: Instagram servers are down and so it might not pop 184 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 6: up on people's feeds until the server is back up 185 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 6: and running. But you can see it on Twitters, at 186 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 6: John Cobelt. 187 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: Radio and on the podcast. It's the last. 188 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 6: Hour, yes, third hour of the podcast, third hour, Yes 189 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 6: Fool's Day. 190 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 2: So all right, so we got that covered, Yes, thank you, 191 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 2: all right, you give me any more. Instagram bulletins on 192 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: when it's up and well, I will up operating again. 193 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 1: I know you care so much. I do, I do well. No, 194 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: I think I. 195 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 2: Think the all the listeners should see the talent of 196 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 2: the two devors here. 197 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: Yes. 198 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: No, it was very funny find a pull fast one 199 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 2: on me and succeeding. All right, this is good news. 200 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 2: We'll spend a few minutes on good news, and I 201 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 2: hope it holds out. Nathan Hakman announced a poll they 202 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 2: pulled eight hundred and seventeen likely voters about his race 203 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: against George Gascone for La County DA in November, and 204 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 2: according to the poll, Hawkman gets forty four percent. Gascone 205 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 2: gets only twenty three percent, So it's almost two to 206 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: one for Hawkman, with one third undecided. 207 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: What's to be undecided about? 208 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 4: Uh? 209 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: Hakman, according to his people, has a massive lead among 210 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: Republicans and independents and is statistically tied within the margin 211 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 2: of error among Democratic voters. Apparently gas Combe can't even 212 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 2: get half of the Democrats to vote for him. Hakman 213 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 2: leads among Latino voters by two to one, leads among 214 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 2: Asian voters by three to one, and again overall, he's 215 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 2: up forty four to twenty three, with a third undecided. Generally, 216 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 2: in elections, if people haven't decided when the incumbent has 217 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 2: been around a number of years, they usually break towards 218 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 2: the majority will break towards the challenger. 219 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: Fewer than one in ten. 220 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: Voters feel safer since Garkkatskon took office. To be specific, 221 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 2: nine percent, nine percent of La County voters feel safer, 222 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 2: fifty nine percent feel less safe. His overall favorability rating 223 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 2: gascon eighteen percent. Wow, vegetables have a better favorability rating 224 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 2: than that. He is negative across the board, even among 225 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 2: registered Democrats. Can you imagine registered Democrats in Los Angeles 226 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 2: of all places? He has only a twenty four percent 227 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 2: favorable rating thirty seven percent unfavorable according to the poll, 228 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 2: So his favorability ratings are even worse than the twenty 229 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: five percent of the vote that he got. I guess 230 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 2: there's some people don't like him, but they just won't 231 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: vote for a non Democrat. Hawkmann, it needs to be 232 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 2: stressed is running as an independent because from what I'm 233 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 2: told is Gascone is just going to try to smear 234 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 2: him as right wing, and what he is is an 235 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:16,599 Speaker 2: old fashioned prosecutor who's got this radical belief that you 236 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 2: enforced the law and you prosecute bad guys, which is 237 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 2: the way it always was, and maybe after this experiment, 238 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 2: the way it always will be for the foreseeable future. 239 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 2: You can't have it any other way. They had their run, 240 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: They had this experiment. They tried it in New York, Chicago, 241 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 2: San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Washington, d C. They got 242 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 2: all these left wing, progressive, whack job prosecutors, and every 243 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 2: single one of those cities is overrun with crime, ranging 244 00:14:53,360 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 2: from burglaries and thefts to violent crimes, murders. It it's just, 245 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 2: it's just awful. One simple decision. We elected prosecutors who 246 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 2: don't put people in prison. Well, what do you think 247 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 2: is going to happen. You don't put violent people in prison, 248 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 2: you get more violence. You don't put thieves and burglars 249 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 2: in prison, you get more theft in burglaries. What else 250 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 2: would happen? I'll never understand this period. This was like 251 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 2: a collective nervous breakdown, collective insanity. What made anybody think 252 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 2: that if you throw, if you keep prisoners out of prison, 253 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 2: life would be better? Why would you think that, but 254 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 2: this is still part of the whole twenty twenty melt 255 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 2: emotional breakdown that much of the country had for a 256 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 2: number of reasons. But these are the worst. These are 257 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 2: the worst policies that a country has ever created. And still, 258 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 2: I mean still, you'll get you get, you get a 259 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 2: quarter of the county willing to vote for Gascon, even 260 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: people who don't like the job he's doing. 261 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: Well. 262 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 2: You know, he is a Democrat, and I'm a Democrat, 263 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: and I just vote Democrat until the thieves break in 264 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 2: and carry out all your furniture. I do not understand 265 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 2: human nature. Get out of your tribe, use logic, common sense. 266 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 2: Guy is stealing stuff, Guy is harming people. You put 267 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 2: him in prison. When they're locked up, they can't hurt anybody. 268 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 2: And it's the same people who commit the crimes over 269 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 2: and over and over again. We only have to put 270 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 2: a small number of people away, and we will. We 271 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 2: will eliminate a large number of crimes. It's true, there's 272 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 2: only a few people who are that bad. We have 273 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 2: to lock him up. Nothing more complicated. You don't have 274 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 2: to go and study criminology at some Ivy League university. 275 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 2: All right, more coming up. Steve Gregory's got to explain 276 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 2: how many homeless people have been arrested in recent years 277 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 2: in the Los Angeles area. 278 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 5: Here and for what you're listening to John Cobel's on 279 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 5: Demand from KFI, a six forty. 280 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: Ron every day from one until four and after four o'clock. 281 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 2: Whatever you missed John cobelt Show on demand the podcast. 282 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: I want to get right to this. I heard this 283 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 2: almost by accident this morning. I happened to pop in 284 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 2: the car like a minute before seven o'clock and I 285 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 2: heard Amy King's News on KFI, and she play. 286 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: I heard a piece of the story. 287 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 2: I heard a little bit of an audio clip of 288 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 2: a female official speaking and heard Amy read a few lines. 289 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 2: But the gist of it was thousands of homeless people 290 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 2: have been arrested in recent years in Los Angeles, and 291 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 2: a lot of them have had warrants. 292 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: Out And it's like, oh, what's this? 293 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 2: So I go home and I'm looking for stories everywhere 294 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 2: else nothing And it turns out that Steve Gregory did 295 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 2: the story, and he kind of found the story by 296 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 2: accident too. 297 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: Explain how you stumbled across this. 298 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: I monitor the LA Police Commission meetings every week and 299 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 2: sometimes the meetings are canceled and sometimes they're moved or 300 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 2: whatever the case is. But this one from would be yesterday. 301 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: You know. 302 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 2: The way it goes is the Chief of Police will 303 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 2: give his update and then the commissioners can all ask 304 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 2: questions and then it goes to public comment. Well after 305 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 2: public comment, then it goes to the remaining agenda items. 306 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 2: And one of the things that was on the agenda 307 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 2: item yesterday had to do with a very interesting metric 308 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 2: that I was not aware of and was tracking the 309 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 2: number of arrests of homeless people and their disposition. So 310 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,400 Speaker 2: I listened in on it and it was Commander Giselle 311 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 2: Espinoza who was in charge of this, but this was 312 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 2: a mandate from City council. City Council asked the LAPD 313 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: to cobble together these numbers over the last four years 314 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 2: to figure out how many homeless people have been arrested, 315 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 2: why were they arrested, how long did they stay in 316 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 2: jail and why and how were they released. So she 317 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 2: went down all the numbers and ultimately it was actually 318 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 2: sixty nine seven and twenty three homeless people were arrested 319 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 2: in a four year period. 320 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: Up up to last year. 321 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 2: That's a huge number of those, so I rounded up 322 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 2: to seventy because I say nearly seventy thousand, which is accurate. 323 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 2: So of that, the majority of them were arrested for 324 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 2: felony warrants, outstanding warrants. Outstanding felony warrants, outstanding felony warrants, 325 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 2: followed by outstanding misdemeanor warrants. That was number two. Number 326 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 2: three was assault with a deadly weapon whoa. Number four 327 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,880 Speaker 2: was battery, and the last one the top five was robbery. 328 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 2: So those were the five crimes most that all the 329 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 2: homeless people were arrested for most of the homeless people 330 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 2: we arrested for over that four year period. They didn't 331 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 2: get into the metrics of what the felony warrants were 332 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 2: for or what the misdemeanor warrants were for. But something 333 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 2: else that popped up from here also was that more 334 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 2: than thirteen thousand of that close to seventy thousand were 335 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 2: released on zero bail. 336 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 1: Wow. 337 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 2: I mean because either they have for the most part, 338 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 2: warrants out for their arrest, which means they didn't show 339 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,479 Speaker 2: up to face the court the first time, or they 340 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 2: did something suspected of doing something violent right on the 341 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 2: felon and there's no bail for most of these people. Yeah, 342 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 2: so more than thirteen thousand were let out on zero bail, 343 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 2: and all of those that were arrested, their average time 344 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 2: in jail was twenty four hours. 345 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: That was our average time in jail. The second. 346 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 2: Coming in number two in terms of release was the 347 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,959 Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars bail mark, which that was the second highest, 348 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: followed by twenty thousand dollars bail, followed by ten thousand 349 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 2: dollars bail, So the numbers go down dramatically from there on. 350 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 2: The number of people fifty thousand dollars bail would indicate 351 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 2: a violent crime very very much. 352 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 6: So. 353 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, and seventy thousand is a big number because there's 354 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 2: only supposed to be like forty five thousand homeless people 355 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 2: in the city, so you've got, you know, an arrest 356 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 2: and a half for every homeless person around. The other 357 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 2: thing that they didn't talk about was how many of 358 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 2: these folks are repeat offenders. There was that that metric 359 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 2: was an offer. There has to be a lot of them, 360 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 2: but the fact that one, you know that the top 361 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 2: reason for arrest is that they'd already been arrested and then. 362 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, well shown up. 363 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 2: So there's a lot of criminals out there, which that's 364 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 2: I've always made and you have all these activist group 365 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 2: and politicians saying no, no, these are people just down 366 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 2: on their luck and you know it's a lack of housing, 367 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 2: and it's like, no, they're criminals. They clearly they are. 368 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 2: I mean, this is proof they are. You have a 369 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 2: community of forty five thousand homeless, you have seventy thousand arrests. 370 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 2: They've already committed crimes in many of those cases, and 371 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 2: then they've got new crimes that they're being arrested for. 372 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 2: So this is not a warm, cuddly group that we're 373 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 2: talking about here. And of course they get spun through 374 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 2: the system with no accountability, no punishment at all. We're 375 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 2: put back out on the street. Well, and I'm not 376 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 2: sure what the city council is going to do with 377 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 2: these numbers. 378 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 1: Now. 379 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 2: Are they coming from the other angle where they think 380 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 2: the police are harassing the homeless, arresting them too much 381 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 2: and they're supposed to be overlooking these warrants and not 382 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 2: charging them. I don't know what. I don't know what 383 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 2: the plan is. All I know is that the city 384 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 2: council directed the LAPD to go back over these years 385 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 2: and put together this report, and it doesn't They never 386 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 2: did say. And it's something that because I don't monitor 387 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 2: city council and so I'm not sure what the intent is. 388 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 2: It makes me want to go back and and I 389 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 2: mean I was going to look into this a little 390 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 2: bit more and ask why are you doing this? I mean, 391 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 2: what's the endgame here for these numbers? 392 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: Yeah? 393 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 2: Are they trying to figure out I've never heard this 394 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 2: reported on before. That's why, Well me too, That's why 395 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 2: I caught my intention. When I was monitoring the meeting, 396 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 2: I was like, wait, that's odd. How many homeless people 397 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 2: are interested. I always thought that they're not arrested enough 398 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,679 Speaker 2: because they're committing crimes all day long, sure, quality of 399 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 2: life crimes and you know, all the drugs and whatnot, 400 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 2: but that they had been arrested, and a lot of 401 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 2: them for serious stuff. Well, the felonies are going to 402 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 2: be either a felony is going to be, you know, 403 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 2: a robbery at a certain number you know over what 404 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 2: is it nine point fifty? Yeah, so that's going to 405 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 2: be a felony or violence. Those are usually the two 406 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 2: reasons that you're going to get a felony some violent act, 407 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 2: or you stole something of. 408 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: High value that's and got caught. 409 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 2: Sure, you know, because a lot of this stuff doesn't 410 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 2: get it could be drugs too. I mean, yeah, that 411 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 2: would be that'd be pretty significant. They'd have to have 412 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 2: a lot of drugs for to be affiliated because generally 413 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 2: the police are not rousting the homeless for the drugs. 414 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: They're taking everybody's left inside their tents and they're busy 415 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 2: ingesting whatever they're ingesting. And that's and that has become 416 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 2: part of the problem too, because when you look at 417 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 2: small business owners and people in neighborhoods, you know, the police, 418 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 2: they're put in a very precarious position. And in fact, 419 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 2: the story I was covering in San Bernardino County today 420 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 2: mental health and in policing, was a big deal in 421 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 2: this pressor this morning with Sheriff Dicas that all of 422 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 2: these misguided legislation and these policies and in the politics 423 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 2: are are putting undue strain on law enforcement because they 424 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 2: don't they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. 425 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 2: So if a small business is saying, hey, would you 426 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 2: please come clean up this homeless camp, get these people 427 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 2: out of the front. Then they do it. Then the 428 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 2: ACLU steps in, or you know, city council steps in 429 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 2: and tells the chief you're being too mean to the homeless. 430 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 2: And then this is cycle. 431 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: You know. 432 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's nuts because most cities in America don't 433 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 2: have this problem, not to this level, not to this level. No, 434 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 2: you know, you know, everybody has their skit Row neighborhood. 435 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 2: That's in every city, sure, but all the cities that 436 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: I go to and certainly out in the suburbs, nobody's 437 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 2: got this issue. 438 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: These are our choices that our. 439 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 2: Government is making, and we choose to have these people 440 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 2: in government making these stupid decisions. 441 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: But this is a self inflicted wound. 442 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 2: I'm almost seeing more photo ops than I am homeless 443 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 2: people getting off the streets. 444 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. 445 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 2: Well that's why Karen Bass has two audits now into 446 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: this inside safe program. 447 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: Somebody's going to finally blow the little me. Ask me something. 448 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 2: While I got you were on the homeless issue, have 449 00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 2: you heard any of the follow up from those people 450 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 2: LASSA that were throwing the food away that we're supposed 451 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 2: to be delivering the food, but they were throwing it 452 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 2: in the dumpster. 453 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: No, have you ever heard whatever happened to those folks? 454 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 2: No, that's one of those things I really wish David 455 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 2: Goldstein would but he retired. He retired, but you know, 456 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 2: got too much for him. That was one of my 457 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 2: favorite stories. He's I know, I know, actual actual investigative reporting. Yeah, 458 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 2: and getting video of it. 459 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 1: There's there's there's like, you know, two guys in the. 460 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 2: Whole town who do this, Yeah, and he was one 461 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 2: of them. And it just I always wondered what the 462 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 2: disposition was for those individuals. I mean, these these lost 463 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 2: employees tossing the food, not even feeding the homeless with 464 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 2: it because they didn't want to be bothered. 465 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: It was all box. 466 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 2: It was perfectly good food and just tossing it away 467 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: and then going to the coffee shop and then going 468 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 2: there picking up their laundry and bring back the empty trade. 469 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, job done. This is what we got. I know. 470 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 2: Very good, Steve, Thanks bud uh Steve Gregory. I've got 471 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 2: We've got more. I've got more to say about this 472 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 2: when we come back. 473 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM 474 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 475 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock. 476 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 2: Michael Monk's from KFI News because the there's a new 477 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 2: program in Los Angeles to offer mental health service people 478 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 2: instead of cops when you call in if there's something 479 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 2: crazy happening at your house, somebody's gone off and already 480 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 2: they've had three hundred calls just since March the twelfth. 481 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: Why are there so many mental problems? Why are you 482 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: looking at me? I thought you might know. 483 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 2: I don't remember in my neighborhood a lot of mental 484 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 2: health problems. 485 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: Well, people probably just didn't talk about it. 486 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 2: Then there weren't cops showing up and crisis intervention, and 487 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 2: people just lived, they went to work every day. 488 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: Maybe you just maybe people were more quiet about it. 489 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: Maybe they were. I mean some of the moms would 490 00:27:58,840 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: get pretty loaded. 491 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,920 Speaker 2: That I knew for sure, the moms, Yes, what about 492 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 2: the dads. Yeah, well I saw during the day it 493 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 2: was mom's dads were at work. I think they got 494 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 2: loaded on the way home to dad's. But I didn't 495 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 2: see that part. 496 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: No. I once had a loaded mom drive me home. Yeah. 497 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, my friend's mom and she ended up on the 498 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 2: front lawn of a neighbor's house. 499 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: Oh that's scary. Yeah, wow, Okay, see there's craziness back 500 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: in the day. 501 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know, I know. The thing is now 502 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 2: that would be considered a felony. Yes, back then we 503 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 2: just laughed it off. 504 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: It's like, wow, she and you weren't wearing a seatbelt either. No, 505 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: no seatbelt, mom driving up the lawn. Not my mom. Hey. 506 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 2: We were talking with Steve Gregory about his report, which 507 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 2: he found almost by accident. Turns out, at the Ally 508 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 2: Police Commission meeting, on the agenda was how many homeless 509 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 2: people had been arrested in Los Angeles And over the 510 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 2: last four years, would you believe sixty nine thousand, seven 511 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty three homeless people. 512 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: Have been arrested. 513 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 2: Now, we're constantly they constantly lied to us all day 514 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: and night, constant propaganda, not just from city officials, not 515 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 2: just from people in those criminal nonprofits and in that 516 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 2: criminal loss of organization, but everybody. 517 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: In the media. 518 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: Well, they have to look at them with compassion and 519 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 2: understanding people down on their luck that they just don't have. 520 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: The same privilege. 521 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 2: No, these people are nuts and their criminals and the 522 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 2: majority of them had sell any warrants or misdemeanor warrants. 523 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 2: Those were the top two categories for being arrested, they'd 524 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 2: already done something bad and most of them got little 525 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 2: to no bail, so they never showed up in court 526 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 2: to address their felony or misdemeanor charges. This is the 527 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 2: system we have here. I don't know how most of 528 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 2: these people got caught on top of it. Then, the 529 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 2: third most common reason forgetting arrested is assault with a 530 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 2: deadly weapon. Well, that doesn't sound very peaceful, does it. 531 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: And imagine putting all these people in one of Karen 532 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 2: Bass's motels. What do you think is gonna happen there? 533 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 2: The fourth was battery, the fifth was robbery. Sixty nine 534 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 2: seven hundred and twenty three arrests of homeless people just 535 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 2: in the city of la we supposedly have about forty 536 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 2: five thousand at any given moment. That averages to about 537 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 2: an arrest and a half for every single living homeless person. 538 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 2: That's how many criminals are out there, repeat criminals, Criminals 539 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 2: who get out immediately average stay twenty four hours or less, and. 540 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: A lot of them know bail. 541 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 2: And then we're told not to be afraid, treat them 542 00:30:53,320 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 2: with respect, treat them with humanity and compassionate. These are 543 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 2: frightening statistics. They are more likely than not on the 544 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 2: lamb after not showing up in court for their felony 545 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 2: arrest or misdemeanor arrest or they're more likely than not 546 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 2: when you add these categories in to assault you with 547 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 2: a deadly weapon, to batter you or rob you. That's 548 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 2: the truth. That's the LA Police Commission agenda. This is 549 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 2: a real fact that they were discussing here. And the 550 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 2: reason they were discussing this is the city council wanted 551 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 2: to know. Why do they want to know I'm suspicious? 552 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 2: Why do they want these people not being arrested anymore 553 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 2: for any reason? 554 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: Look the other way. 555 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 2: If they're assaulting you, battering you, hitting you with a 556 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 2: baseball bat. This is a real story, absolutely unreported. This 557 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 2: is stuff that the city Council, the Police Commission should 558 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 2: be reporting to us in a news contry. They should 559 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 2: be saying, beware the homeless people outside your kid's school, 560 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 2: Beware the homeless people in that encampment, because these people 561 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 2: are dangerous for all the danger warnings they give us. 562 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 2: But and nobody reports about it in the media. This 563 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 2: media in La. It's really on lockdown, isn't it anything? 564 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 2: That violates the propaganda rules just doesn't get discussed anymore more. 565 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 2: We will have more coming up after two o'clock. Michael 566 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 2: monks about this new program that will divert mental health 567 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 2: calls from LAPD to mental health professionals unarmed of course, 568 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 2: so somebody's going nuts in your house. It's not for 569 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 2: the police anymore. It's a pilot program and they've had 570 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 2: hundreds call in since March twelfth. 571 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: A lot of the stress out there. We'll talk about it. 572 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 2: We come back Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty 573 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 2: four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 574 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. 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