1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 2: We're on every day. 5 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 3: From one until four and then after four o'clock. If 6 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 3: you missed parts of the show, or god forbid, the 7 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,080 Speaker 3: whole show, you go to the iHeartRadio app John Cobel 8 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 3: Show on demand. It's the podcast same as the radio show. 9 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 3: And we have a special guest. We haven't seen it 10 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 3: in a while. That is Zi, former La City councilman. 11 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 3: He's been with LAPD for many decades. He's still a 12 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: reserve officer. 13 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: Right, carrying a gun and protecting society. 14 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 3: What kind of natural disaster would have to happen for 15 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 3: them to call you out after I mean, you're what 16 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: seventy seven years. 17 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: Old, seventy seven gonna be seventy eight and lugus twenty 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: eighty three from one hundred. 19 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: What could you do out there if there was some 20 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 2: kind of threat? 21 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: I worked uniform and they can't discriminate against your age, 22 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: your sex, whatever the case may be, all right. As 23 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: long as I can jump and fire a weapon and 24 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: protect society, they're doing it all right. 25 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 3: And Dennis has been on our show over the years 26 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 3: and it's coming on to talk about the new LAPD chief, 27 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 3: Jim McDonald, who used to be La County Sheriff and 28 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 3: Long Beach Police chief as well. And wet's talk about 29 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 3: the crime because there's a great divide between officials and 30 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 3: government who think the crime isn't so bad and the public, 31 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 3: which sees their toothpaste locked up in drug stores. So 32 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 3: there's a big disconnect and that's what Dennis and I, 33 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 3: among other things, are going to talk about. Dennis, welcome again, 34 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 3: Thank you, it's good to see you again. All right, 35 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: So what do you know about about crime in Los Angeles? 36 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 2: What do you think is going on? 37 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: Well, I joined the LAPD in nineteen sixty eight. I've 38 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 1: been with them ever since, so I know about crime 39 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: patterns and how it goes up and down, and the 40 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: politics involved, serving on the city Council for twelve years 41 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: a charter commission before that. I have a son who's 42 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: a captain with LAPD, so I'm well connected with it 43 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: as far as crime goes. There's a citywide profile that 44 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: they publish and as of eleven nine, twenty twenty four, 45 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: we have eight thousand, seven hundred ninety police officers. Now 46 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: when I talk about police officers. That's everyone from the 47 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: chief of police to the recruiting academy, detectives, people on vacation, 48 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: people are injured, on doing whatever the case can be. 49 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: There's eight thousand, seven and ninety protecting the massive population 50 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: in the city of Los Angele. 51 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 2: That's a very low number. 52 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: Historically it should be about ten thousand, So there's a 53 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: desperate need for more personnel. I encourage them to sign 54 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: if they're looking at law enforcement. But when we look 55 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: at the numbers, the actual numbers of homicide, rape, robbery, 56 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: agaby assault, and total person crimes, if I compare it 57 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four, they're all down. 58 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: For example, homicide in twenty twenty two there were three 59 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: hundred and forty six. Twenty twenty four there's two hundred 60 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: and forty three. So if you look at the categories homicide, rape, 61 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: rob reactivated assault, total person crimes, they're down. The numbers 62 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: have come down. Why it's not that crime is not happening, 63 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: it's that people have given up on most part and 64 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: not reporting. There's many people who have been victims of 65 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: crime and they haven't reported it because they don't think 66 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: that report's important, That report is critical. That's how they 67 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: deploy officers, that's how they get detectives to do the 68 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: follow up. Every single crime needs to be reported. But 69 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: people say, well, nothing's going to happen. We call nine 70 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: one to one, no one answers, We wait in line. 71 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: Nobody cares. People care, and law enforcement cares. But it's 72 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: incumbent upon the public. When your house is broken into, 73 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: when your car is stolen, when you're robbed, when you're attacked, 74 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: to report that to the police department. They need to 75 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: have that documentation. But when I look at the statistics, 76 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: we say crime is down. I'm sure it's up, but 77 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: people aren't reporting it. And we go by the number 78 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: of reported crimes. That's how they judge the factors of 79 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: crime and prevention. 80 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it. 81 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 3: Doesn't represent the reality, as you just pointed out, and 82 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: people react to the reality. 83 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: I mean, I know a lot. 84 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 3: Of people who said they have seen trespassers, they report burglaries, 85 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: break insto their house, all the theft that's gone on 86 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 3: retail stores, venience stories, drug stores, right, massive theft. Nobody 87 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 3: in those stories calls it in because they say the 88 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 3: cops don't even show up. 89 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: Well, you've got fifteen year olds on bicycles that go 90 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: to a seven to eleven and loot the place. I mean, 91 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: it's incredible. We've had the street takeovers. We used to 92 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: have street racing, but now they take over the intersection 93 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: and do the donuts, and yeah, people get injured and killed, etc. 94 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: But you have what happens becomes a lawless society. And 95 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: when they call the police, they don't have anyone to 96 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: dispatch because the shorter personnel, they're shorter dispatchers. Many times 97 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: when you call nine one one, that phone will ring 98 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: and there's no one answering that phone. True, and say 99 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: where are the people who's supposed to serve us? When 100 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: I say, we're desperately shorter personnel, not only sworn police officers, 101 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: but the civilian part. That's very critically important if people 102 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: are looking for a career, not only LAPD, but you 103 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: have it throughout Los Angeles County where they're shorter police officers. 104 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: And maybe these apartments hire officers from lap and they 105 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: give them a huge signing bonus when they go to 106 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: those other department because they're already trained. 107 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 3: So well, the bottom fell out in twenty twenty with 108 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 3: the anti police protests to fund the police. Black Lives 109 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: Matter and Eric Garcetti calling them killers killers and taking 110 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 3: a knee worshiping in front of the BLM protesters and 111 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 3: a lot of police quit. 112 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: Did they not, Well, they found other places to go. 113 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: There's other cities in La County and other places in 114 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: California where they do support law enforcement, where they strongly 115 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: support law enforcement. You go to Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills 116 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: supports a law enforcement You're never going to hear their 117 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: council or the mayor or the police chief saying anything negative. 118 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: They want something in Beverly Hills Basically every intersection Beverly 119 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: Hills under video surveillance. They got drones that they launched 120 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: on calls. Beverly Hills and many of these small cities 121 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: fund their police officers, respect their police officers, and support them. 122 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: But when you've got wackle council members who are socialist Democrats, 123 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: they do everything they can to undermine the law enforcement. 124 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: You've got council members that voted against the chief of 125 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: police than McDonald. Why would you vote against the man 126 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 1: who wants to protect and serve These people get elected 127 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: by the public that wants to be saved and then 128 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: they have their ownly agenda. The socials Democrats in the 129 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: city Council or a disgrace. They don't protect their constituents, 130 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: they don't protect anything there collecting the paycheck, and they 131 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: condemned the police, and then two of them that were 132 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: in council voted against Chief McDonald. I went down and 133 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: testified at the request of the Mayor before council, and 134 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe the conduct of the audience. They were 135 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: cursing at will. It's like, is there any decorum and 136 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: city council There used to be when I was there. 137 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 3: It's these activist groups that are important to disrupt the 138 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: council meetings and they do it, and they do it. 139 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: When I was there, we used to have two uniformed 140 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: officers protecting the council, maintaining order in the council chambers. 141 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: They now have twenty that's ten police cars that are 142 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: pulled off the streets in Los Angeles to protect the 143 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: council when they're conducting their meetings at City Hall. It's 144 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: really a sad situation how it's deteriorated, but there's no respect. 145 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: The comments are absolutely outrageous. I have not been to 146 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: council since I left, and it's been almost twelve years. 147 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: Last time I was in council chambers, I was appalled 148 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: when I saw the conduct taking place and I heard 149 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,239 Speaker 1: the F bomb constantly. It's like, what is going on here? 150 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: It's a whole different environment. And I talked to the officers, 151 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: how many are you here? With twenty twenty twenty offices? 152 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: That's ten police cars that we would have two officers 153 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: in a car patrolling. So the city has to be protected, 154 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: but you need elected officials. And I'm going to give 155 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: the mayor credit. The mayor is trying, but she doesn't 156 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: have full support of the city council. And it was 157 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: clear when two council members voted against Jim McDonald, who's 158 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: a wonderful man, a lot of experience. Why he wants 159 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: to after he left LAPD goes to Long Beast, goes 160 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: the ship. Why he wants to do this at this 161 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: point in life. I really give him credit because he 162 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: wants to do it for the right reason. He's not 163 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: there for the money of the glory. He wants to 164 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: make Los Angeles say, but you can't do it without 165 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: the support of the council that gives you appropriations to 166 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: make sure that the officers could do their job to 167 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: protect and serve. Why is the public voting in these 168 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: democratic socialists. I have no idea. 169 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 3: I mean they come from the poor neighborhoods, yes, and 170 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 3: I don't understand because those areas, that's where you have 171 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 3: a lot of these people are victims of crimes. They're 172 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 3: putting up with all the chaos, Yes, that happened. Why 173 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 3: do they want I mean this new woman who's replacing 174 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 3: Kevin de Leon, Yes, you know her campaign slogan was 175 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 3: at the. 176 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: Police well and she admitted and I heard an interview 177 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: she did on the radio she's a socialist Democrat. 178 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, that means what that group. 179 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: That means she's not for what law enforcement, what LAPED 180 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: professional officers want to do. They want to protect and serve. 181 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: But when you have a council that's divided, Not all 182 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: council members are that way. Bob Bloomfield and other council 183 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: members are very supportive, John Lee very supportive. But when 184 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 1: you only have a small group of elected officials that 185 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: make those decisions, and now all of a sudden, immigration 186 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: is a big issue. If LAPD want to go out 187 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: and enforce immigration laws, they do not have the personnel 188 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: to do it. I wouldn't worry about them. Enfortunate they 189 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: don't have the personnel to have ale radio calls. 190 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 3: Leave it on enforcement, abrac about it's because they an 191 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 3: internal memo surface today from Homeland Security and Venezuelan gang 192 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 3: Trent Diarragua. They're in sixteen states. They're in Los Angeles. 193 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 3: Joseah Bara who raped and killed Lake and Riley in Athens, Georgia. 194 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 2: He was a member of that group. 195 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 3: So they're here and LAPD can't do anything to arrest them, 196 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 3: to get them deported, to cooperate with the federal government. 197 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: They can't. If it's strictly immigration. LAPD is banned for 198 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: years officers doing that. But even if they were to 199 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: do that, they don't have the people to do it. Again, 200 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: they don't have enough officers handling the radio calls for service. 201 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: Leave alone, go out and do an immigration enforcement. And 202 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: when you make a report, now body camera. Every time 203 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: you stop someone for a traffic violation, most of the 204 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: listeners will see there's no traffic enforcement. People are speed 205 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: and running red lights. You've got very few officers doing 206 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 1: traffic enforcement. You've got to write a report. When you 207 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: write a tritation, it's all on bodycam. I mean, it's 208 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: become so cumbersome for the officers. Basically they'll handle a 209 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: radio call, but the problem is there's more radio call 210 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: that there are officers to handle him. So the frustration 211 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: goes to the public. And I hope Jim McDonald gets 212 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: the support he needs from the council. I know the 213 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: mayor is going to support him. The Olympics are coming, 214 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: major events coming. You need to number one, boast of 215 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: the police department with personnel at the same time, do 216 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: you give them the tools to do their job and 217 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: don't pick on them and make them feel bad for 218 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: doing the job of protecting and serving the people of 219 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: Los Angeles? 220 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 2: Can you stay for another segment? 221 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: I will stay all day if you want. I know 222 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: you had. 223 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 224 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 4: six forty. 225 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 3: 'ron every day from one until four and then after 226 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 3: four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. 227 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 3: We continue with Dennis Sign, former LA City Councilman LAPD 228 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 3: since nineteen sixty eight, still a reserve officer and he's 229 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 3: talking about we're talking about the perception of crime versus 230 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 3: the reality of crime. So I know if you heard. 231 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 3: But earlier this year we had Dominic troy On. He 232 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 3: was the enterim LAPD chief, yes, until McDonald finally took over. 233 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 3: I guess this week, yes, but he came in and 234 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 3: he had a bunch of statistics saying crime is down, 235 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 3: and then he said that he thinks people are just 236 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 3: watching too much news and too much social media. 237 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 2: That pissed off the audience. 238 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 3: You know, the audience, like I was saying before, goes 239 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 3: to the store and it takes you an hour to 240 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 3: get out of CVS because so many things are locked up. 241 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 3: So clearly we're not imagining this. And he's not the 242 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 3: only one though. There's this been this condescending attitude from politicians, 243 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 3: although we up to Gavin Newsom where they treat us 244 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 3: like little children and saying now now you just had 245 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 3: a bad dream. 246 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 2: It's really not so terrible out there. Why do they 247 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 2: do that? 248 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: I don't know why they do that, But what I 249 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 1: do know is that stores are locking up merchandise. I 250 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: was at a major store recently and I was talking 251 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: to the manager and I said what's the story when 252 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: theft takes place? He said, the company policy at our store, 253 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what story is. But it's 254 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: a major store. It is not to interfere with someone stealing. 255 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: I said, what if they're taking this kind of huge, 256 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: expensive we can't do anything. We have to let them 257 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: walk out the door. I said, you've got to be kidding. 258 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: That's a corporate policy. So they basically condone people stealing items. 259 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: He said, you see the cage there with all the 260 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: items in the cage. I said, this is not cost 261 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: go by the way, because they do have security. He said, 262 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: we lock it up so people can't take it. But 263 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: I said, if someone takes this or that they can 264 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: do it, we don't do anything about it. Do you 265 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: make a police report? No, we don't do. That's exact policy. 266 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 3: Right. 267 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: That's another theft. That's hackling that no one is responding 268 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: to the police talking about Gable. 269 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 3: That that's why makes everybody crazy is the businesses gave up. 270 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 3: They don't file any police reports, and then the police 271 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 3: come and tell us that everything is fine. 272 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 2: It's like the hell with all of. 273 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: You crimes down crime. I got the statistics right here. 274 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: You don't make a report, it shows no crime. 275 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 3: And then the La Times has this is almost like 276 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 3: a prayer that they put in every crime story saying, well, 277 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 3: actually crime is down. It's like the stupid reporters don't 278 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 3: know any better. 279 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, all like Times going through some crisis. Yeah, 280 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: but then let me you mentioned Gaven Newsom. He is 281 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: uprooting from Fair Oaks to a nine point one million 282 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: dollar home in Marine County. He's going to a nine 283 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: point one million dollar home. This is the man who 284 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: takes care of the California people. Nine point women dollar home. Gavenuwsom. 285 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: His salaries two hundred and three thousand dollars. He's he 286 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: affording a nine million dollar home and the thing's not 287 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: even in his name. And this gas price increase. 288 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's going to be ninety cents a gallon 289 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 3: next year. 290 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 2: What the hell is going on? 291 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: And many gallons you're take, we're going to pay four 292 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: dollars plus in the four dollar range, so now you'd 293 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,439 Speaker 1: be paying five dollars. It's ridiculous, But that's that's what 294 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: our elected leaders. When people vote, they need to look 295 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: at the person. What do they represent, what do they 296 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: want to do for society, for the homeowner, for the 297 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: business person. I know many business people that have a 298 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: hard time making any kind of profit because of the regulations. 299 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: For example, restaurant owners. I have a friend who has 300 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: a restaurant in the San Fernento Valley, a very popular restaurant, 301 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: and he says, you've got these street vendors that are 302 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: selling food on the street competing with him. He's got 303 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: to pay minimum wage, he's got to have insurance, he's 304 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: got to have health inspection. Even catering trucks have health inspection. 305 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 1: But you set up a little stand on the street, 306 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: no regulation, know nothing. You're taking away from a business 307 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: that has to pay all kinds of taxes, utilities. Things 308 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: are not working as they should. No, there's so much 309 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: disorder it is. And then look at the homeless population. 310 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at why do they tolerate 311 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: the homeless population? 312 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: And the voters spend. 313 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: Millions and millions and millions of dollars and they vote 314 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: these measures in and it's not getting any better, it's 315 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: getting worse. Well, there's your money, folks, wake up and 316 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: look at reality. You're spending money and you have a 317 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: poor quality of life in the city. Of the Angels. 318 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 3: What is wrong with voters in Los Angeles and in California. 319 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 3: I mean, the gas is two dollars more a gallon 320 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 3: because of Newsom in the legislature. The crime is crazy 321 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 3: because of Newsom in the legislature. 322 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 2: The homeless situation. No other state has any. 323 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: Of this, none, none. But I'll tell you what. People 324 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: who work for the city of La You look at 325 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: where they are when they retire. They're out of California. 326 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: They're out of Los Angeles. That's what happens. They're taking 327 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: those pension dollars with us our tax money, our tax pensions. Well, 328 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: they deserve that pension. They work for it, they receive that, 329 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: but they're the chief of police. 330 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 2: They work for it. 331 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: With the Tennessee what the tenant, Well he went to Tennessee. Yeah, 332 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: So you know, no begrudging. You can do that. You 333 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: can live anywhere you want. But the fact of the 334 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: matter is our voters are not recognizing what they're dealing with. 335 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: So what's wrong. 336 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 3: Is there some kind of magical spell that people are 337 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 3: living under, you know, as a virus infected their minds. 338 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: There's something that's affecting the voting population. Clearly, the voting 339 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: population is not in tune to reality. Reality is you 340 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: have an understaffed police department. Do you have a city 341 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: council that votes against polical issues that they need to 342 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: have if they want to if they want to have 343 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: a new tool to protect society, the council votes against it, 344 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: not all of them. But you've got this growing group 345 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: that does not support law enforcement as far as the dsas, Yes, 346 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: you go, Soda Martinez, Nthia Rahman, you this is Hernandez 347 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: and this new woman Hurrado, I forget his last name 348 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: is Isabelhado. She's a member and she said she's a 349 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: member of that group. And that group is anti police. 350 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: And if they're anti police, then they're pro criminal. You 351 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: can't be you can't be anti criminal and anti police. 352 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: You got to be pro police and anti criminal. But 353 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: when you're a victim and your car stolen, your cattle 354 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: of the converter, it's that stolen. You're going to pay 355 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: over one thousand dollars to get the replace. Just remember 356 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: if you would have had more police officers maybe arresting 357 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: these people and doing something about it, or how about 358 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: the street lights their state taking the wires out so 359 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: you don't have street lights at night, and you're still 360 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: paying on your property tax for street lighting. It's happening everywhere, 361 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: you know. 362 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 3: They wander around people's ring cameras, neighbors ring cameras, pick 363 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 3: up these guys in the middle of the night dressed 364 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 3: in black hoodies. Next day it's like, why is it 365 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 3: so dark? 366 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 2: Right? 367 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,239 Speaker 3: And the whole block for several blocks around all over 368 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 3: They got all the wires. 369 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: All over the place and it's getting worse. And then say, 370 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: we don't have the resources, we don't have the personnel, 371 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: we don't have that, we can't buy the wire to 372 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: put it. 373 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 3: Back together, and the budget is bigger than ever and 374 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 3: they're and they're they're broke. 375 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: And they're having a problem because of the liability. Because 376 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: the city attorney needs to wake up and say, how 377 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: am I going to handle the liability that's affecting the 378 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: City of Los Angeles. Because every time an officer does something, 379 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: they're gonna get criticized, ridiculed. They wear body camps to 380 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: justify what they're doing. My heart goes out. The officer's 381 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: working radio cars and dealing with this on a daily basis, 382 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: and the taxpayers need to wake up and say let's 383 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: put people in office who are going to protect us, 384 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: our business and our community. LA was not always the 385 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: way it is now, but it's getting worse. 386 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:45,199 Speaker 3: Was it like this even ten years ago? I know, 387 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 3: all right, Dennis, it was good scene. Hey, I'm not 388 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 3: going to hurry, but I'll say, huh, I'm not going 389 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 3: to hurry. All right, you want to stay one more? 390 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 3: I think it's fun. Okay, A lot that people know reality. 391 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 3: I'm here pret reality. I'm with you on the We're 392 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 3: on the same team. All right, one more secment. Dennis 393 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 3: Vines coming on, Dennis zign You're. 394 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 4: Listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM six forty. 395 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 3: He can follow us at John Cobelt Radio and we're 396 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 3: looking to get to twenty thousand followers by the end 397 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 3: of the year. We got that designed with us former 398 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 3: Los Angeles City councilmen, back when councilmen were grown men, 399 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 3: rational people, and the city was run well. And he 400 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 3: also has been with LAPD since nineteen sixty eight, still 401 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 3: as a reserve officer, and he's got a lot of 402 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 3: common sense, a lot of logic, a lot of obvious 403 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 3: truths that he's telling here. All right, let's talk about 404 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 3: Neither one of them is a new player on the scene, 405 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 3: but they have new jobs. Jim McDonald, you mentioned him 406 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 3: a couple of times already. What can we expect from 407 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 3: Jim McDonald being the new LAPD chief? How's life going 408 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 3: to get better? 409 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: You can expect he will be a strong leader and 410 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: he's not a pushover. He smiles a lot. He's from Boston. 411 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: He has a nice smile, very cordial, but he is 412 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: a professional member of law enforcement, not only here but 413 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: Long Beach Delly sheriff for five years. He knows it 414 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: inside and out. You can't pull your roll over Jim's eyes. 415 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: And what you're going to find is with the World Cup, 416 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, eyes are going to be 417 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: on Los Angeles. He's going to put together this organization. 418 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: There will be a lot of retirement's taking place, and 419 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 1: we need to boaster the numbers, but he's going to 420 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: put together a winning operation because he wants to shine 421 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: and make Los Angeles shine, and we want to make 422 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Department shine. I was a member of 423 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: the eighty four Olympics team and it was a wonderful 424 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: experience as a law enforcement also to do that. He's 425 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: going to bring new environment with his leadership because the 426 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: people he puts in place, his command staff, are going 427 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: to be delivering what he demands, and he demands excellence. 428 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: He doesn't accept anything out of than excellence. 429 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 3: And I'm glad he's going to do that, and I 430 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: know that's something Karen Bass is preaching. What irritates me 431 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 3: is that everybody's geared up to try to clean up 432 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 3: the city for the Olympics, and we've been living in 433 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 3: manure for the ten years. 434 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 2: Literal, I want to use the s word. 435 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 3: We've been living walking around in people's feces right and 436 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 3: needles for ten years. Why is everyone interested now in 437 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 3: cleaning up for the world stage and no one's interested 438 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 3: in what we have to live with, you know, all 439 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 3: the ordinary tax payers. 440 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: It should have been that way a long time ago. 441 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: I know, back in the early sixties when I came 442 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 1: on the late sixties, it was a different world. We 443 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: didn't have the homeless population we have now, and it's 444 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: been ignored for you know, they closed the mental hospitals, 445 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,959 Speaker 1: and Ronald Reagan and this and that, but that's all history. 446 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 1: They need to address it now. But we legalize drugs. 447 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: We make it very easy. The day I went down 448 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 1: to City Council to testify before the council about the chief, 449 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: I'm walking on City Hall property and what do I see? 450 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: A hype needle? A hype needle there on the steps 451 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: of city Hall. So you've got people that have given 452 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 1: up on themselves, But we as a society don't need 453 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: to give up on them. We need to address it 454 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: and be very vigorous. Like San Francisco they cleaned place up. 455 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: When foreign dignitaries come to town. It needs to be 456 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: done on a regular basis and not Why won't they 457 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: There's a there's a tendency to just ignore it and 458 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: uh and come why you know, like someone come, let's 459 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: cover it with a sheet and then we'll ignore. 460 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: But did they end up walking through all this film 461 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 3: they do just to get the city Hall? 462 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: I know? 463 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 3: You know we had my wife and I were just 464 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 3: downtown last week. It is terrifying. You know, we come 465 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 3: out of an event, our car is a half a 466 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 3: block away, and we've got to like lay out a 467 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 3: battle plan. You know. All right, I'll go left, you 468 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 3: go right. Wait, there's a weirdo on a bike coming. 469 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 3: Wait there's another guy who's stumbling down the sidewalk. How 470 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 3: do we zigzag around the two of them at the 471 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 3: same time. Okay, I'll unlock the door and you jump in, 472 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 3: and then you lock the door, and then I'll unlock 473 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 3: it again so I can jump in. 474 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,719 Speaker 2: We actually had this conversation. 475 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: Because you don't feel safe, and now we weren't safe. 476 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: Reality is you're not. And that's why so many people 477 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: have applied for ccwsurrig and see what they want to 478 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: get me a gun to protect themselves. But it's like 479 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: like the celebrity he gets his catalytic converter stone, he 480 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: gets shot and murdered. 481 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,479 Speaker 3: Yes, well that's what I'm afraid of. Fifteen city council 482 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 3: members and a mayor. Why don't they get up every 483 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 3: morning and say enough of the crazy people, enough of 484 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 3: the filth, enough of the criminals. 485 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 1: Because many of them say, some of them soldierst Democrats 486 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: cater to them, like the park where they take the 487 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 1: fence down and they open it up to the people 488 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: who've destroyed the place. This is the problem. You've got 489 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: elected officials who don't care. They only cater to certain groups, 490 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: not to the masses that pay taxes. The people that 491 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: pay taxes deserve better and deserve more. I will say 492 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: Karen bass is trying, but she can't do it without 493 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: the support of the council. Many cities have a council 494 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 1: working with the mayor with the police. Sadly, Los Sanders 495 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: doesn't have that attitude, and we've got knuckleheads on the 496 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: city council that create this negative environment that we all 497 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: as taxpayers suffer. I don't leave my house. I don't 498 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: leave my house. I don't take a walk without protecting myself. 499 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: That's how I feel safe in the city of Los Angeles. 500 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: People need to realize there is crime that's not reporting. 501 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: There's criminals that are running free. And you look at 502 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: the district attorney gas gone. Thank god, he's gone. He 503 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: will be gone soon. He's let so many cases pile 504 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,959 Speaker 1: up that are sitting getting ignored. You've got a new one, 505 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: Nathan Hockman, coming in and I've met with him a 506 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: number of times. He's going to be wonderful. But you 507 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 1: have a team. You got a new police chief, You're 508 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: gonna have a new DA and we're gonna get back 509 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 1: to what we call basics to make it a safe environment. 510 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: For the families, for the kids, so your car is 511 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: not broken into your catalytic conversion, so you can go 512 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: to the market at night and not worry about being accosted. 513 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: This is going to be an experience that people are 514 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: going to be looking for, and that's what they deserve 515 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,959 Speaker 1: and that's what they're paying for. And those knucklehead council members, 516 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: which I call crazy people, need to somehow understand either 517 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: buckle up and get in line or move on to 518 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: something else, because Los Angeles wasn't always what it is, 519 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: and it's because of the ignorance, and it's because of 520 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: ignoring is why we're in this predicular situation that needs 521 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: to change, and it needs to change before the Olympics 522 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: and the World Cup and all these other experiences. 523 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 3: That are going to come to Los Angeles. Yeah, I know, 524 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 3: it actually enrages me. It's like, oh, by twenty twenty eight. 525 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 1: What about now? What about now you're paying taxes? Now 526 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: your street lights are out because they're seeing the wire. 527 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: Well wait a second city, put it back together. Do 528 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 1: what you need to do. Karen Bass wants to clean 529 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: up MacArthur Park. You went to Langers, you know what 530 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: it was that the owner of Langers nor My why no. Personally, yeah, 531 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: he got a ton of publicity. I mean his twenty 532 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 1: seven dollars cornby sandwich wonderful. But he got a tremendous 533 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: amount of free publicity. But you know, he's still in place, 534 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: and the place is still a disaster. Except the sidewalk 535 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: where you line up to go in the restaurant that's 536 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: cleaned up. The rest of it still looks like hell. 537 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: It's been neglected, and the council member there has done nothing, 538 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: nothing to miss it. N this is Hernandez. Yes, they 539 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: don't have any pride. They have no pride. I don't 540 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: know why they're in public office. I don't know why 541 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: the people elect these people to public office. It's a 542 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: disgrace to the taxpayers, the good, honorable taxpayers, the women 543 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: and children to tolerate this environment. And then let's talk 544 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: about Metro. I ride on the Metro. That's a Metro disaster. 545 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 1: We can do a host show on Metro. That's another disaster. 546 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: They take a lady who's former FBI, who's former military, 547 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: and they fire her and they don't put anybody in place. 548 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: It's like, wait a second, what are you doing to 549 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: protect I go on the metro once in a while, 550 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: but I don't go on unless I'm armed and protecting 551 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: myself and whoever I'm with. This is not the way 552 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: the City of the Angel should be, and God help 553 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: us to change it. Before the eighty four Olympics. At 554 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: eighty four Olympics, I was there at the eighty four Olympics, 555 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: right before the next Olympics. Don't coming around. It needs 556 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: to change, but it won't change until people wake up 557 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 1: and start saying we want a difference, we want it better, 558 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: and we want it now. We don't want to wait. 559 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 3: They woke up in San Francisco and Oakland. They got 560 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 3: rid of the mayor in both cities. They got rid 561 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 3: of the district attorney in both cities. 562 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 2: I mean, and here, I mean got rid of the dea. 563 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 1: You got rid of the day. 564 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 2: But we're still sunk with this idiot city council. 565 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: Well, they're the ones who set the tone. But the 566 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: people put those people in and they do ballot harvest 567 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: you all kinds of things. And what's happening is our 568 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: good law buying taxpayers and our good law abiding police 569 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: officers and firefighters. When they get that pension, they seem 570 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 1: to go to other places where it's safe and secure. 571 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: We got great weather, we've got great environment. We can 572 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: make it a great place, but we need to work 573 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: together to make it happen, and God help us if 574 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: it doesn't get better. 575 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 2: Eric, you got that that audio? 576 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 3: Are we come back on to play the audio and 577 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 3: I want you to react to a Dentis sign about 578 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 3: this neighborhood homeless camp and what's going on. It's been 579 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 3: there a while and it's in the neighborhood where Eric's 580 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 3: family lives. 581 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 582 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 4: six forty. 583 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 3: Ron every day from one until four and then after 584 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 3: four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. 585 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 3: That design is with us former La City councilman, member 586 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 3: of the LAPD for fifty five years now, and he's 587 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 3: been involved in public service for a long time and 588 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 3: like all of let's fed up with the direction LA 589 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 3: has gone. I want to play you this news story. 590 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 3: We just got a couple minutes. This is going on 591 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 3: where Eric's parents live in Tarzana. Lauren Leicster KTLA Channel five. 592 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 3: Listen to the story about this homeless encampment in a 593 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 3: residential neighborhood. 594 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 5: About a dozen residents speaking out to us saying they 595 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 5: want more help from this city. They say homelessness in 596 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 5: this area of Bessemer and Rosita has become a major problem, 597 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 5: and with it drug use and safety issues. A Tarzana 598 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,919 Speaker 5: resident capturing these photos at a bus stop depicting what 599 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 5: appears to be illegal drug use in broad daylight, right 600 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,479 Speaker 5: out in the open. Just a few examples of what 601 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 5: neighbors we spoke to tell us they want to see stopped. 602 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 6: We've been suffering from the homeless encampments in the area. 603 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 6: They've been doing fires, graffiti the majority. 604 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 7: Of the time that you can see groups gathered using 605 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 7: drugs or obviously in fualse wing out of it. 606 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 5: They formed an online group with seventy members, several of 607 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 5: them showing up to talk to us, saying they've been 608 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 5: meeting with local officials and trying to figure out how 609 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 5: to solve the issue. 610 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 2: They want to see more action. 611 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 5: In the meantime, there's a lot of issues with us 612 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 5: being afraid to walk down the street. 613 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 6: I've considered selling my house because I just don't feel 614 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 6: safe in my neighborhood. 615 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 7: You know, We're all working really hard to live in 616 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 7: this neighborhood, and so to not feel like I can 617 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 7: access my local corner store is quite annoying and disturbing. 618 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 5: With a short walk, it didn't take us long to 619 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 5: find a group of people next to the Metro Orange 620 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 5: Line bus lane appearing to be using drugs, a few 621 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 5: telling us they used to live in an encampment in 622 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 5: this wooded area next to the bus lane until it 623 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 5: caught fire. 624 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 7: You stay in the wares sort of the burned down 625 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 7: they can now we're just kind of have nowhere to go. 626 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 5: Limbo that fire butting up to homes like this one, 627 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 5: These people saying they now stay on the streets here, 628 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 5: hoping to get into a nearby tiny home village, but 629 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 5: claiming outreach workers haven't been able to connect them with shelter. Melissa, 630 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 5: who says she is addicted to fentanyl and methamphetamine, says 631 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 5: she does understand neighbor's concerns. 632 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 2: Only so many places we too go And yeah, I 633 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 2: understand the whole. 634 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 5: It's interesting because realistically it is we live to They 635 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 5: have no idea what it's like to be in our food. 636 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 2: I mean, what would they do if. 637 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: They didn't have that to keep on. 638 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 5: In a statement, LA City Councilman Bob Blumenfield's office telling 639 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 5: us in part, they are well aware of this location 640 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 5: and have been partnering with law enforcement to help remedy it, 641 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 5: saying the council members secured overtime funding to increase patrols 642 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 5: around the area, calling the alleged outdoor drug use here 643 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 5: beyond unacceptable. The homeless people I spoke to say they 644 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 5: want housing, and the people who do live here at 645 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 5: home say they want more police presidents to deter the 646 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 5: criminal behavior and also crack down on it. And they 647 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 5: also say they'd like to see more services for those 648 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 5: struggling out here with addiction. 649 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 2: How could this possibly exist for more than a day. 650 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 3: And then you get the council in Bloomingfeld, Aw, we're 651 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 3: working with the police. This has been going on for 652 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 3: quite some time. What's wrong? What breaks down in the system? 653 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: System? 654 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 2: Turn on is my? 655 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: Turn on is mine? The system has collapsed in many areas. 656 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: And Bob Bloomfield, who I know has the district that 657 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: I used to have, tries hard. But the problem is 658 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: it's not accomplishing anything. And Bob Bloomfield, what. 659 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 3: Is trying hard is calling the police and everybody gets 660 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 3: rounded up and taken out of the neighborhood. Well, this 661 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 3: isn't basic residential neighborhood exactly, and this is duplicated in 662 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 3: many areas. So they need to say we're done with 663 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 3: it and we're going to clean it up once and 664 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 3: for all, and not they cleaned it up, it comes 665 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 3: back cleaned up. 666 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: It's a merry go around. Like the motor homes. They 667 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: don't want to have the motor homes because no one 668 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: claims them in the motor that they toe company gets 669 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: stuck with it. They need to come out with a 670 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: budget because the city's billions of dollars and we're going 671 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: to eliminate, eradicate. That's what they need to do and 672 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: concentrate and get rid of it instead of the mary 673 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: it's a merry go round. They'll send something out there, 674 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: they'll do something, it comes back. It's like they keep 675 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: coming back to the same environment and the people are 676 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: fed up. The taxpayers deserve better and it can be accomplished, 677 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: but it's got to be consistent. 678 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 3: So there's one resident says they meet with the councilman 679 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,479 Speaker 3: Bob Bloomenfield and a senior lead officer with LAPD and 680 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,239 Speaker 3: was told there's some gray area regarding jurisdiction and what 681 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 3: can be enforced. 682 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: What the hell does that mean? There's no gray area 683 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: when it comes to that. The gray area is what 684 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: they want to create. But Bob Bloomfield, I know them personally, 685 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: wants to be responsive to the constituents and the police department. 686 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: The senior lead officer has their hands full to try 687 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: and make it happen. It can't be ignored forever. But 688 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: they need to eradicate it and not just do it. 689 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,239 Speaker 3: But why don't they get up in the morning and 690 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 3: do it. They know what to do. They need to 691 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 3: bring in their resources to get it done. 692 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 1: And you can't say, well, we're not going to do 693 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: it today, we'll do it tomorrow. You got to do 694 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: it now. But this is duplicated all over, this all 695 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: over the city of Los Angeles, all over. This is 696 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: not just one area. This is a continuing problem. That's 697 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: why put your pressure on the council member. Let the 698 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: council member they have discretionary funds, use those funds to 699 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: do these details to get rid of the problem once 700 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: and for all and not tolerated. But we've become so 701 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: open hearted and so sympathetic to the homeless. Most of 702 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: the homeless either mentally ill or on drugs. The bottom 703 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: line is mentally ill or drugs. If they're mentally ill, 704 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: there's hospitals for them. If they're drugs, lock them up. 705 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: But we continually make excuses and destroy neighborhood after neighborhood. 706 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: So I don't want to condemn Bob Bloomfield. He wants 707 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: to try, and they'll seemly, but he's got to get 708 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: it done. He's got to get it done. The bottom 709 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: line is to get it done. They can get it done. 710 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: Put forth the initiative, put forth the effort. Again. Our 711 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: taxpayers in Los Angeles spending billions, not millions, billions on 712 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: the homeless, and it's a merry go round because there's 713 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people making money on it, and it's 714 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: not solving the problem. Those billions of dollars are feeding 715 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: a lot of organizations. That's what's happening with the money. 716 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: It's not solving the problem. Denny, let me close with this. Yes, 717 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: I was one of the few council members that was 718 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: never interviewed by the FBI when I was on council. 719 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: I want to add that as the closes. 720 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 2: Now we got what like four of them in prison, 721 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 2: are going to prison. 722 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of them, man, Yeah, I'm standing by. 723 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 2: The hell goes. What is going on. 724 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: Corruption is corruption. You got to have the rotten morals 725 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: and the right standards to do the right thing and 726 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: protect the people. The people are paying dearly. We need 727 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: to provide those services and get rid of the problem. 728 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: All right. 729 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 3: They don't make guys like you anymore. No, they fine, 730 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 3: We'll talk again. 731 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: I love it coming on and seeing you. 732 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 2: All right, let's go. 733 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 3: To Debra Mark Live in the CAFI twenty four hour News. Hey, 734 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 3: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 735 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 3: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 736 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 3: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 737 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 3: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.