1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the show. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: We are in the air from one until four and 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: then if you miss anything, and you shouldn't miss anything today. 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: Some days maybe you could miss a segment here or there. 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: Not today it's gonna be all good stuff. And after 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: four o'clock it becomes a podcast, John Cobelt Show on 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeart app. This hour, this should be 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: entertaining as we delve into it in a little while. 10 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: There is a grand comical soap opera going on at 11 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: the very top of the El Segundo Times. The family 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: that owns the El Segundo Times is at war with 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: the newsroom. The news editor, the executive editor quit about 14 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and it looks like there is there 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: are all kinds of terrible problems festering, and it's just 16 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: it's dying. The place is dying financially. It seems that 17 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,919 Speaker 1: Patrick Suon Sheong, the owner, is sick of losing money. 18 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: He has blown about a billion dollars AND's got nothing 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: to show for it. If he sold it tomorrow, I 20 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: don't know if he would get more than ten bucks, 21 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: maybe less. His wife is certainly upset with all the 22 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: money they've spent. And the daughter who's become almost like 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:34,839 Speaker 1: the de facto newsroom editor while she attends school in Europe. 24 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: She controls the newsroom through tweets, and she's so far 25 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: left she thinks the newsroom is too conservative to boil 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: it down. So it's gotten hysterical. And I was planning 27 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: to talk about this at the start of the show, 28 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: right because it's such a rich story. And then I 29 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: found out this morning that the Los Angeles Times had 30 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: endorsed George Gascone for reelection as La County District Attorney. 31 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. How many times do we 32 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: do stories? And I have to say, I'm not making 33 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: this up. They published this yesterday, and I'm glad I 34 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: missed this yesterday would have ruined by Sunday. This is 35 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: the Times editorial board. I like, and there's a lot 36 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: of members of the editorial board, and I like how 37 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: they're so cowardly. Nobody signs their name to these things, 38 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: so when they write something really stupid, they could always 39 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,119 Speaker 1: blame it on somebody else. Not I didn't write that one. 40 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: It wasn't me. George Gascone was elected. This is what 41 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: they wrote. George Gascone was elected Los Angeles County District 42 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: Attorney in twenty twenty, a convulsive year in which Americans' 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: lives were upended by the pandemic and public confidence in 44 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: the criminal justice system, which shaken by the murder of 45 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: George Floyd. The latter led to a reckoning over racial 46 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: inequity and arrests, prosecutions, and punishments. Voters wanted Gascon to 47 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: set a corrective course while keeping people safe. Well, I 48 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: don't know what you should. I don't know why you 49 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: need a corrective course. The purpose is to arrest, prosecute, 50 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: and punish criminals because they actually committed a crime. Nobody's 51 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: ever explained to me what the color of anybody's skin 52 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: has to do with being guilty of a crime. Committed 53 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: the crime and the county could prove it, or you 54 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: didn't commit the crime, or they can't prove it. It 55 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: doesn't matter about the color of your skin, or your eyes, 56 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: or your hair, or how many fingers you have. None 57 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: of that matters. It's did you do it? And can 58 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: we prove it? And again I'm not aware there's very 59 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: few people wrongfully convicted. You can look it up. It's 60 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: a very small number, and there's an extensive appeals process 61 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: in this country, and it takes a very long time 62 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: to actually convict somebody and make it stick. Secondly, I'm 63 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: not aware of a lot of criminals running around who 64 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: were not arrested because of their color. I'm not aware 65 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: of those cases where the cops knew somebody had done something. 66 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: And is there any proof of that. No, there isn't. 67 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: I'm sure it happens, but again, it's extremely rare. Everything 68 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: in life happens, and most of it it's extremely rare. 69 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: What happened in twenty twenty was just mass hysteria. We 70 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: know that now. When you end up with a police 71 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: chief Michael Moore and a mayor Eric are Seti kneeling 72 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: in front of BLM protesters while the Jewish businesses in 73 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: Fairfax are burning, eighty eight businesses burned, and our leaders 74 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: were kneeling. You can only describe that as a massive, 75 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: mass nervous breakdown, a psychotic break from reality. And that's 76 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: what twenty twenty was. He goes on to I'm sorry. 77 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: The editorial board goes on to say, about gascon He 78 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: is doing what he promised and doing it well, despite 79 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: intense and dishonest backlash from opponents inside his office and 80 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: among right wing politicians and pundits across the nation. LA 81 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: County voters would be wise to reject the nonsense and 82 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: keep Gas going on the job and criminal justice reform 83 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: in its place. Falsehood's about his policies and about the 84 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: apocalyptic landscape that Los Angeles has supposedly been come because 85 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: of them are widespread, so much so that the voters 86 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: are supported them three and a half years ago. May 87 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: I've forgotten what you know. I live on the West Side. 88 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: I know mostly people who vote Democratic. Almost all of 89 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: them are afraid to go out at night, to go 90 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: to a restaurant, to go to a shopping mall. Nobody 91 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: wants to go downtown. Really, you try to. You try 92 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: to ask your friends, Hey, you want to meet downtown 93 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: for dinner. No, they don't because and because all the 94 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: homeless people are in the streets and they are crazed, 95 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: angry mental patients. You don't know who has weapons, You 96 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: don't know when they're going to snap and jump on you. 97 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: And then you have the guard variety of criminals doing 98 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 1: their smash and grab routines. Nobody wants to eat dinner 99 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, and if you do, you certainly can't 100 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: wear jewelry of any value, or a watch or a necklace. 101 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: And you have to be careful what kind of car 102 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: you drive and where you park the car. And I 103 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: can tell you that's about as universal as any other 104 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: topic that you can bring up with people. The unit 105 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: and the and and the farther you get out of 106 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: for me, the West Side, the worse it gets. Then 107 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: I have friends who own guns. I have friends who 108 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: are carrying around some kind of defense weapon on them, 109 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: whether it's a taser or pepper spray. It's it's pervasist 110 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: throughout the city. And it's because when you don't prosecute criminals, Uh, 111 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: there's a tremendous amount of repeat crime. Now that is 112 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: the reality. And the Los Angeles Times editorial board flat 113 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: out lies and their dodges. Oh I don't. We don't 114 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: see these statistics on this well out in the real world. 115 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: If you talk, well, first of all, you go into 116 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: stores and now you see lots of stuff locked up 117 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: behind glass or plastic cases, and you've got to get 118 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: an employee to open up the case so you can 119 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: get the item out. That is increasingly more pervasive because 120 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: the stores, the management is told not to make a fuss, 121 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: don't call the police, certainly, don't interrupt the robbery or 122 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: the shoplifting, whatever they call it. Don't interrupt it. Let 123 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: the guy go take it. We're just going to spend 124 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: some money and install the plastic cases and you'll all 125 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: be given keys. And that's just the way life is 126 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: going to be. And of course the customers say, well, 127 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: the hell with this. I'm going to just order on Amazon, 128 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: which is which is what I do. I can't, I 129 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: can't spend time. I cannot. I had to do this 130 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: up in San Francisco. Last year. I went to San Francisco, UH, 131 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: and I had to stop for something. I went into 132 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: like a drug store. I forget which chain, and I 133 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: couldn't buy anything because everything was locked up in San Francisco. 134 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: You think it's bad here at San Francisco, it's unbelievable. 135 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: And it took me about twenty minutes to buy one item. 136 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: And I said, never again. If this is how people 137 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: here want to live, well, that's their city. But I'm 138 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: not living this way. I am not going to wait 139 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: because you know, because they hardly have any employees of 140 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: these drug stores, and you end up just chasing your tail. 141 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: This is what Gascon brought us because he doesn't prosecute 142 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: right fourteen thousand prosecutions. He didn't follow through one, and 143 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: when it was brought up on the debate, he didn't 144 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: deny it. He did not deny it. Let's see where 145 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: am i in time. He's the only La County District Attorney, 146 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: perhaps ever to step in the job after learning the 147 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: ropes in a parallel post in another county. He was 148 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: the DA of San Francisco. Other prosecutors may know the courtroom. 149 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: Gascone knows the system. Well, that's a clever twist. Gascone 150 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: has never prosecuted a case never, He's never been in 151 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: the courtroom as a prosecutor. Evert is a clever way. 152 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,839 Speaker 1: This is what biases, This is what misdirection is. This 153 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: is what propaganda is. Well, other prosecutors may know the courtroom. 154 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: Gascon knows the system. Yeah know the courtroom. I got 155 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: more on this when we come back. This is re 156 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: elect George Gascon as La County District Attorney. That's the 157 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: headline of the La Times endorsement, We'll talk more, John 158 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: Cobelt showed. 159 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 160 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 2: six forty. 161 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: We are going through the shocking endorsement by the El 162 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: Segundo Times re elect George Gascon as La County DA. Yes, 163 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: after three and a half years, and all the criminals 164 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: that were not prosecutor or let loose early, all the 165 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: people who got harmed, all the stuff that's been stolen, 166 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: all the vagrants that have been allowed on the street, 167 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: harassed and menacing and urinating and defecating and creating all 168 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: kinds of mayhem. After all that, for three and a 169 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: half years, the worst district attorney in American history, and 170 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: the ally time says no, no, no, Everything has worked 171 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: out beautifully. He's done exactly what he said he would do. 172 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: They want more of it. They actually want more. LA 173 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: voters picked him. This is their writing, picking up where 174 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: he left off. LA voters picked him because he correctly 175 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: saw the self defeating nature of a system that does 176 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: not know when to stop punishing. We were punishing too 177 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: long studying the data. They really have a fetish for 178 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: corrupted false data. They think that they can lord the 179 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: word data or the word statistics over you or research 180 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: over you as long as it comes from somebody with 181 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 1: credential from one of their fair minded universities. They have that. 182 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: It's like, well, we automatically win the argument. We have statistics, 183 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: we have data, we have science and research, and this 184 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: researcher has come from I don't know, Harvard, like the 185 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: Harvard resident. Yeah, studying the data, cascon realized that punishment 186 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: must be properly dosed. Like medicine. Too much for too long, 187 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: the numbers show, and the imprisoned defender is broken instead 188 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,319 Speaker 1: of corrected, loses the ability to responsibly re enter society, 189 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: and becomes more likely to reoffend. Boys at an inverted universe, Actually, 190 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: you let him out early, and he's going to reoffend sooner. 191 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: They're not giving him. A bad guy who steals stuff. 192 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: If you don't give him a sentence or it's really short. 193 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: As soon as he's out again, he's going to steal stuff. 194 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: That's what he does. If they sell drugs, they're gonna 195 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: keep selling drugs. If they steal stuff, they're gonna keep 196 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: stealing stuff because it's lucrative for them. They make money. 197 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: It's not even a moral decision for them, it's a 198 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: business decision. And then there's the crowd that is just 199 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: violent because their brains are disordered. You can't fix disordered brains. 200 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do. You lock them up so 201 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: they don't hurt other innocent people. Gascone's policies seek the 202 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: most fitting rather than the longest sentences. This smart approach 203 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: was such a departure from older, failed strategies that the 204 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: Maga write promptly distorted into a false narrative. Oh, for 205 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: God's sakes, there isn't a Maga right that's of any 206 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: force in La couty. The hell is he talking about? 207 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: Good Lord, The phenomenon of imprisoning people has endangered all 208 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: of us for far too long. It has perpetuated multi 209 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: generational racial inequities by disproportionate locking up black and Latino Angelinos. Again, 210 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the color of the perpetrator is 211 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: or the color of their parents. What matters is whether 212 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: they committed the crime, and they can't commit further crimes 213 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: as long as you lock them up, that's the purpose here. 214 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: There is no rehabilitation in jail or prison. That's a fiction. 215 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: It doesn't go on. We had a district attorney on 216 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: last year and when I mentioned what do they do 217 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: in their so called rehab programs and she laughed. She 218 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: laughed because there's no such thing. There's nothing that's effective. 219 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: The La Times actually wrote the argument that Gascone is 220 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: lax or lenient on crime simply does not hold up 221 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: to the facts. The various crime surges in the last 222 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: few years. Get a load of this wrongly attributed to 223 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: Gascone occurred nationwide and have largely abated. Prosecutorial policies have 224 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: no short term effect on crime. You got that. So 225 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: when you constantly arrest somebody, you let them out with 226 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: no bail, and then they go out and steal again 227 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: that day and then the day after the day, has 228 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: no effect on crime. That is such a preposterous, ludicrous statement. 229 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: If you arrest somebody and you don't put them in jail, 230 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: then they're going to steal again the next day, and 231 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: they do, especially when you can steal up to nine 232 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars and no shop owner even reports 233 00:15:55,240 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: those crimes anymore. They just call to get those plastic 234 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: cases installed so they get lock up merchandise behind a 235 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: lock and key Gascon is the right da and the 236 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: right place at the right time. Voters were right to 237 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: pick him in twenty twenty. You know, these are a 238 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: lot of assertions. It's like, well, he was the right man, 239 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: it was the right time. Voters are right to They 240 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: just declare something because we say so and completely ignore 241 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: the mayhem that we're all afraid of. And I guarantee 242 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: you the employees at the El Segundo Times feel the 243 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: same way, unless they're making a big salary and they 244 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: have they're hiding in some suburban bubble far away. You know, 245 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: all these writers and editors work from home. Now. We 246 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: found out in one of these stories about the collapse 247 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: of the Times, which I'm gonna get to next, is 248 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: that nobody everybody is we're looking from home. The office 249 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: is still closed since twenty twenty because of COVID. If 250 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: somebody does go to the office, they still have to 251 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: wear a mask. Patrick Soon Sheyong never reopened the offices. 252 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: So all these people write these editorials safely from their 253 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: home offices, probably in suburbs that are far removed from 254 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,239 Speaker 1: all the insanity on the streets of the city. I 255 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: can't imagine how you could be so ignorant of the 256 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,719 Speaker 1: fear that everyone has, of the real street crime that 257 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: goes on constantly. It's fascinating. It's a mental illness, is 258 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: what it is. When we come back, the Hollywood Reporter 259 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: has the real inside story about the Sun Chiang family 260 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: who apparently a number of members would like to would 261 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: like to sell the paper or or find the paper 262 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: two right wing for their political taste. Seriously, I'm not 263 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: making this up. 264 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 265 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: Six forty moistline coming up on Friday, eight seven seven 266 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: Moist eighty six. Why don't you call now? Maybe you 267 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: have opinion on the La Times endorsing George Gascon eight 268 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 1: seven seven Moist eighty six and on. 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All right, let's 279 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: go on to the Hollywood Reporter. There's a number of 280 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: stories about the La Times falling apart. I mean, this 281 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: is serious. They could go out of business or they 282 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: could shrink dramatically. It all started about two weeks ago 283 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: when an executive, the executive editor, Kevin Marita, resigned. He 284 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: still had another five months on his contract, and for 285 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: the El Segundo Times, it was a big hire. He 286 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: was considered one of the top editors in the country. 287 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: He'd worked at the Washington Post, he'd worked for ESPN 288 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: sixty six years old, and he didn't want to come 289 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: to LA but he was given quite a package. And 290 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: I'll describe that payment package. And when you hear what 291 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: they were paying and giving him, you might say, Okay, 292 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: I'll do that anyway. Marita, he had to make a 293 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: decision back in October, after the Hamas terrorists barged into 294 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: Israel and killed twelve hundred men, women and children, hacking 295 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: up their bodies, raping the women, taking hundreds of hostages 296 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: back to Gaza. There was an uproar over all the 297 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: negative coverage of Hamas and the Palestinians, the people of Gaza, 298 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: and thirty six, not six, not twenty six, but thirty six. 299 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: Three dozen so called journalists at the La Times wrote 300 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: an open letter denouncing the paper's coverage. Apparently they thought 301 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: it was a little too harsh on Hamas, too supportive 302 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:05,719 Speaker 1: of Israel's suffering. You believe that it was so bad, now, 303 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: understand the executive editor of the La Times. Yeah, you 304 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: have to be fairly left wing just to get the 305 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: job right. It's not like they were trying to hire 306 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity to be the editor of the paper, so 307 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: he's a left wing guy. But when he read that letter, 308 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: he said, no, no, we can't do this. We can't 309 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: have a public letter by thirty six newsroom employees denouncing 310 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: our coverage and demanding that Hamas be treated better. So 311 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: he basically suspended them from covering the war. None of 312 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 1: the thirty six could, None of them could. They could 313 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: no longer write or edit or anything about the war. 314 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: For ninety days. That was that was their punishment. Well, 315 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: this pissed off the owner of the newspaper, Patrick sun Chian, 316 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: and I'm sure his daughter, Nikki, she's thirty years old. 317 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 1: And as the Hollywood reporter writes, and we've talked about this, 318 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: she's apparently appointed herself the unofficial ombudsman of the paper, 319 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: publicly criticizing journalists when their politics don't fall in line 320 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: with their own progressive thinking. Now, Nika has paid a 321 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: picture of the Palestinian flag on her Twitter feed, and 322 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: she instructs journalists to refer to Israel as an apartheid state. 323 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: She also follows and frequently likes the Goods News Network QUDS. 324 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 1: You say that it's a news agency suspected of being 325 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: affiliated with Hamas, so she wants to follow the policies 326 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:52,719 Speaker 1: of the Hamas approved news agency Goods And a lot 327 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: of people think that the coverage of the war has 328 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 1: become more hostile since Nika the daughter has been issuing 329 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: her grand opinions. For example, two days after the Hamas 330 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: attack and again twelve hundred men, women and children killed, 331 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 1: the Times illustrated its front page story on the assault 332 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:18,360 Speaker 1: with a photo of an injured Palestinian child, which got 333 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: a lot of people angry. One Times reporter tried to 334 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: debunk reports that Hamas fighters had committed rape and other 335 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: atrocities during the attack. So a pro Israel group sent 336 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: a billboard truck to the Times offices, which circled the 337 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: building playing videotape testimony from the survivors. Yikes. Also in 338 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 1: this story is really some humorous nuggets. As The Times 339 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 1: tries to be super woke, they've been trying to broaden 340 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: their appeal to Latinos. They have a new LATINX files newsletters, sorry, 341 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 1: a latinx files newsletter. Well, only three percent of Latinos 342 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: use the term LATINX. They look at themselves as Latinos 343 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: or Latinas depending on their whether they're male or female. Uh. 344 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: There's also a New Day Loss section online, and they're 345 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 1: trying to lure younger readers. So The Alley Times has 346 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: an Instagram feed featuring a sheep puppet delivering commentary on 347 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: fires and floods. Has anyone seen the sheep puppet? This 348 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: is what they're putting their money into. Is that what 349 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: appeals to gen zers? They'll follow the news if a 350 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: sheep puppet is giving them the report, Eric, have you 351 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: seen the sheep puppet? Do you follow this? No? I 352 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 1: haven't seen this. Haven't seen the sheep puppet? All right, 353 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: And as the reporter puts out, this is not a 354 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: really good mixed with the core audience of the Times, 355 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: which still is older, more affluent, frequently Jewish westsiders. But 356 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: it's not just Jewish readers. The Times has been alienating, upsetting. 357 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: The old editor was Norman Pearlstein. He used to run 358 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: the Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and Nika 359 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: the daughter got on his case too. During the BLM 360 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: protests and the riots in La. He was calling she 361 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: was calling out writers and clashing with the with the 362 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: editors over the use of the term looting in the headlines. 363 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: You remember I mentioned the eighty eight businesses that burned 364 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: and after they were their windows were smashed and their 365 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:54,360 Speaker 1: stores were burned frequently. Uh Their their products were stolen. 366 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: This is known as looting, very common term. It's been 367 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: around forever. Uh. Well, Nika wanted to ban the word 368 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,719 Speaker 1: looting from the La Times. And then she got upset 369 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: because they did run an item on smash and grab 370 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: robberies that were hitting the department stores. And claimed that 371 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: just by covering the crimes, the Times was doing the 372 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: bidding of the La County Sheriff's Department. So you weren't 373 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: supposed to describe the thieves as looters, and you weren't 374 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: supposed to report on the thefts at all. And I 375 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: don't know if the owner's daughter is yelling at you 376 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: on Twitter publicly to stop covering the thefts? Do you 377 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: not cover the thefts? How many? How many of those 378 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: crime stories did they not cover that? That's that's that's 379 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: the flip side of the bias is you don't know 380 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: what they're not covering. Apparently, her mother, Michelle, also had 381 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 1: trouble with the with the paper the food section. She 382 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,239 Speaker 1: was trying to get her husband to build kitchens at 383 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: the Times to test recipes for the paper's cooking section. 384 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: Well recently, according to the reporter, Michelle has been pushing 385 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: her husband to sell the newspaper, seeing it as a 386 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: gigantic money suck. She was on a Zoom conference in 387 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,919 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one with the Black Caucus, and she said 388 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: she broke down in tears, complaining that the family had 389 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: to write a million dollar check every week to keep 390 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: the paper afloat, because again they lost fifty million dollars 391 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 1: last year the year before that, So yeah, that comes 392 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: out to about a million a week. I guess that's 393 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: just to make payroll, not to mention about five hundred 394 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: billion he spent to buy the thing, and they totaled 395 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: it up in one of these stories that he's probably 396 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: in for a rebillion and the thing is not going 397 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 1: to be worth a dollar. In fact, there's precedent for 398 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: this Newsweek. You remember Newsweek used to be one of 399 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: the premier news magazines in this country. Eventually they were 400 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 1: sold for a dollar and I think the new owner 401 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: had to take on some of the pension debts or 402 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: other debt, but it was a dollar cash. And now 403 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: it's the name is still there, but it's some riffraff 404 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: news site. So it's not even one percent of the 405 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 1: old Newsweek. It just has that name. It's like they 406 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: brought they bought the name and nothing else and because 407 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: it's a good name, Newsweek. So that's the state of 408 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: the El Segunda Times and they want George Gascon to 409 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: be re elected. 410 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 411 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: six forty. 412 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: You want to be listening. Right after two o'clock, we 413 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: got Tammy Nobles coming on. We discussed this story last 414 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: week with her attorney, Brian Claypool, who's based here in 415 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles area. Tammy is the mother of a 416 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: twenty year old Kayla Hamilton. Kayla was murdered by an 417 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: illegal alien MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador. She 418 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: has filed a one hundred million dollar lawsuit against the 419 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and 420 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: Human Services for letting this illegal alien into the country 421 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: without confirming that he was an MS thirteen gang member, 422 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: and he had a tattoo which might have given a 423 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: clue had our border agents looked, which is what they're 424 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: supposed to do. So she is testifying for that impeachment 425 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: inquiry into the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandra Majoricus. Well, if 426 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: Tammy Nobles coming on, very very sad story and a 427 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: completely preventable if we had a functioning government, we're talking 428 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: about all the a crazy crime that the La Times 429 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: apparently has not seen. In Oakland. They've got the same 430 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: problem and now the only in and out in Oakland 431 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: is closing for good. You're gonna hear why from Da 432 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: Linn from CBS News Bay Area. 433 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: Dozens of cars inching along the drive through line and 434 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 3: plenty more people inside the dining room, including loyal customer 435 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 3: Joan Bundy. 436 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: First time I take when they burned, I was like, 437 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: oh my god. 438 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 3: The lifelong East Oakland resident comes at least twice a week. 439 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 3: He's well aware of the car break ins in the 440 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 3: parking lot. There are warning signs in front of in 441 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 3: and out and throughout the lot. He witnessed thieves breaking 442 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 3: into a car next to him. 443 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: They have weapons, so you don't want to run up 444 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: a hero. 445 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 3: Less than two months ago, it happened to his truck 446 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 3: when he ate inside. 447 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: They was trying to steal my vehicle, but I had 448 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: a kill switch on it they didn't know about, so 449 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: they couldn't get the vehicle, but it took all my 450 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: belongings out. 451 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 3: The damage cost him about five hundred dollars. Now, his 452 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 3: partner stays in the truck while he orders inside. That's 453 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 3: why he's not surprised In and Out is shutting down 454 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 3: the Oakland location. 455 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: It's really a sad moment. Definitely frustrated. 456 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 4: Definitely frustrated, you know, because if it's not in and out, 457 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 4: It's gonna be something else tomorrow. 458 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: These are people's jobs, you know, and it's essential to 459 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: have jobs so we can spend money, you know, in 460 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: the community. 461 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 3: The San Francisco Chronicle report, since twenty nineteen, police have 462 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 3: recorded over thirteen hundred incidents in and around the fast 463 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: food restaurant, more than any other location in Oakland. Most 464 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 3: of the reported incidents where car breakings targeting visitors coming 465 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 3: through Oakland Airport. Employees tell me they've seen armed robberies 466 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 3: of customers as well. 467 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 4: It's terrifying because like it also puts us in danger. 468 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 3: This in and out workers as thieves stay away when 469 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 3: officers patrol the lot, but they're only here for a 470 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 3: few hours a day. 471 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 4: They just look around all the time, and then they 472 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 4: see PD leaves for a second, and then that's when 473 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 4: they take the chance. 474 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 3: In and Out release a statement that reads in parts. 475 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 3: Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers 476 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 3: and associates are regularly victimized by car break ins, property damage, thefts, 477 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 3: and armed robberies. We cannot ask them to visit or 478 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 3: work in an unsafe environment. 479 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 4: We are in a state of emergency we are in 480 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 4: the state of emergency. Should it have to take a 481 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 4: declaration to deliver when we're living this. My district has 482 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 4: been in crisis. 483 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 3: Councilwoman Treva Reid represents the area. She's been calling on 484 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 3: the city council and Mayor Chang Tao to provide more 485 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 3: police resources, but says she has gotten very little support. 486 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 4: The Oakland Airport, the Hagenberger ninety eighth Area Corridor is 487 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 4: a gateway into the East Bay, and we have got 488 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 4: to invest more and have dedicated regional, statewide collaboration on 489 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 4: how we are going to support and strengthen that corridor. 490 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 3: Starbucks in the same lodge shut down late last year, 491 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 3: raising Kams is doing drive through only to prevent car 492 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 3: break ins and then out it'says it's the last day 493 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 3: we'll be on March twenty fourth. 494 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: This is the worst as ever been. 495 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 3: The company says the workers here will be given the 496 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 3: option to transfer to other nearby in and out restaurants. 497 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: That is so sad. They're only in and Out is 498 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: closing because of overwhelming crime, because of criminal justice reform, 499 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: because they emptied out the prisons, they won't put anybody 500 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: in jail, and they have woke prosecutors up in Oakland 501 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: as well, just like La it's the same cult, same 502 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: weird religious ideology that nobody should be arrested, nobody should 503 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: be prosecuted and put away. And so now you had 504 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: a Starbucks that close. Now the in and out is closed, 505 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: and the raising kine is only accepting drive throughs. They'll 506 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: probably close too. So now all the good places you 507 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: want to get some fast food or coffee doesn't exist anymore. 508 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: Did you hear? That's theatistic. This has to be highlighted. 509 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: Thirteen hundred crimes near the in and out since twenty nineteen, 510 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: five years. Thirteen hundred crimes in that one little shopping 511 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 1: area there, thirteen hunts the house. But contrast that with 512 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: the El Segunda times in dartsbund To, Georgia. Gascon Oh no, no, 513 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 1: the crime isn't going off and the prosecutors have nothing 514 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: to do with it. They had their own gascon up 515 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,240 Speaker 1: in the Alameda County there. There's gascones all over the place. 516 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,439 Speaker 1: This is what they bring. The business is just it's 517 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,280 Speaker 1: a lot all our statistics stuff, you know, your statistic 518 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: My eyes say that in and out is closed, that 519 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: Starbucks has closed. There's no customers going into raising canes anymore. 520 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: What was the story the other day from the same neighborhood. 521 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: They're warning people who stopped for gas on the way 522 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 1: to the rental car return at Oakland Airport. Don't stop 523 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 1: for gas. That's what my eyes tell me. Let me 524 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 1: see those statistics again. All right, we come back. Tammy 525 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:19,839 Speaker 1: Nobles her daughter Kayla Hamilton, twenty years old, murdered by 526 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: an illegal alien from El Salvador. Tammy is filing a 527 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar lawsuit against the Department of Homeland 528 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,760 Speaker 1: Security and the Department of Health and Human Services because 529 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,320 Speaker 1: they let this illegal alien into the country without confirming 530 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: his identity. They would have found out. All they had 531 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 1: to do is look at his tattoo. They would have 532 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: seen these with MS thirteen gang from El Salvador. Deborah 533 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 1: Mark is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 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