1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,279 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four after four o'clock John 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 2: Cobel Show on demand. It's the podcast version and you 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 2: could listen to whatever you missed and you could listen 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 2: to it today, tonight, all weekend. We're going to talk 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 2: now with Alex oh moistline coming up twice next hour. 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: Alex and Daisy Dela Rosa. They are husband and wife 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 2: and they. 10 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: Took it upon. 11 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 2: Themselves to start filling potholes because I guess the Compton government, 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 2: like most governments around here, they don't do their job. 13 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: I guess the guys in the pothole yard are I 14 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 2: don't know, playing poker, going to the strip club. I 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: don't know, but they're not filling the potholes. And so 16 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: Daisy Dealer Rosa and Alex we're filling their own. So 17 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: you think that would embarrass the city. And they'd say, geez, 18 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: we're sorry, guys, stay home, we'll take care of it. 19 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: We'll do it ourselves. We'll reimburse you for your trouble. Now, 20 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: they get a lawyer to write a cease and desist 21 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 2: letter a ceased desist letter because the Dala Roses are 22 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 2: trying to fill the potholes so that their cars and 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 2: everyone else's cars don't get wrecked. Well, we're going to 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 2: talk to Daisy Dela Rosa now to tell us the story. Daisy, 25 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: how are you? 26 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: You're on camera? I'm good. I love this story. So 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: tell me. 28 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 2: I guess you and your husband have driven to a 29 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 2: lot of damaging potholes lately. 30 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 3: Huh oh yeah, if I if you would only know, 31 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: we have approximately from fifteen. 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 4: To twenty thousand dollars and just repairs in the last 33 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 4: five years or so that we've been independent contractors and 34 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 4: working as four years within the city. 35 00:01:59,120 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: That's right. 36 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: Your job is to deliver things, so you're on the 37 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 2: road all day and your vehicles hit a lot of potholes. 38 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 4: Correct. We actually worked seven, yes a week, so you 39 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 4: know it's a big toll on our car. 40 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 2: And how much money have you spent on repairs so far? 41 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 4: On one far? 42 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 3: We have from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars? 43 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: Oh my god? So what is it? 44 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: Your your wheel alignments, your tires, the axles, what's the damage? 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 3: Axle suspensions, wheels, the bad joint water mounts. One time 46 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 3: we fell like really really hard, was really deep and 47 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 3: a radiator so we had to change the radiator. 48 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: And this is from the rough roads. 49 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: That's that's amazing, all right, So what what did you 50 00:02:50,720 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 2: guys do? Explain your pothole filling operation? Hang on, I 51 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: don't know if she's talking or there's a cat getting tortured. 52 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 2: That's a lot of squealing. We can we fix. Here's 53 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 2: this squealing or crying there and uh, all right, we'll 54 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: try to reset that. See if we can get a 55 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: better Yeah. So there their couriers. They spend all their 56 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: days delivering stuff. And you know the purpose of paying 57 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 2: taxes is so the city can facilitate things so our 58 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: lives functioned properly. 59 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: Would help. 60 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: If our lives are made easier, it is not hard 61 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 2: to ask the City of Compton to lay down some 62 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 2: new asphalt patch the potholes. And I know on the 63 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: west side of town in La potholes have been there 64 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 2: for weeks and nobody fixes them, and everybody calls three 65 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 2: one one. Believe that the people on the west side 66 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: their pains in the neck. They're calling three one wine. 67 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: They're they're they're they're filling out the form online. The 68 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 2: city simply doesn't sell the potholes. Nobody shows up. This 69 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: is where we need David Goldstein again from Channel two. 70 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: He used to do. 71 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: He just retired a few months ago, Bud. This is 72 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: the reports he used to do. Follow around the pothole 73 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: crew from the city and see if how many they 74 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 2: fill in a given day, and maybe you know they've 75 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 2: stopped at the bar for a couple hours. Do we 76 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 2: have the Daisy again or is she disappeared? Just to 77 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 2: hold on for one minute and Daisy there, Yeah. 78 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 4: There you go, Like, was I talking to myself this 79 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 4: whole time? 80 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: Well maybe, but I'll tell you the last thing. 81 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: The last thing I asked is what kind of pothole 82 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 2: filling operation did you and your husband have? 83 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: Explain how you did it? 84 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 4: Well, we went at first we he looked up how 85 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 4: to fix the potholes, and then from there we just 86 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,799 Speaker 4: literally went spent four hundred dollars on our first trip 87 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 4: and seeing well we needed, which was basic needs for 88 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 4: him to start a little shovel, gloves, a hand compressor, 89 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 4: and the assholet itself, and we went from there. He 90 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 4: went off and we went back to our driveway, and 91 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 4: he's seen the pathole, he's like park, oh you know, 92 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 4: like right near to it. He started cleaning it. He 93 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 4: busted off like all the dirt and then from there 94 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 4: he he opened like the asshole bag to poured it in. 95 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 4: Then he started compressing it by hand by hand. And 96 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 4: to this day, after all their rains, they're they're holding strong. 97 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: And your asphalt patches are holding right. 98 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 4: Yes, there are very very strong. 99 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: So you went where did you go to buy bags 100 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: of asphalt? 101 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 5: We went on home depot, home depot. 102 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: So that's all you have to is go to home 103 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: depot by bag of asphalt and shovel and uh and 104 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: you have your own patching business going on here. 105 00:05:57,960 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: So uh. 106 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 2: The City of Compton, they they didn't thank you for 107 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 2: doing all this work. They didn't apologize for having to 108 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 2: make you do the work. Instead, you got what in 109 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 2: the mail? 110 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 4: We got assist and assist letter? 111 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: And was it did they threaten you? 112 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 4: Well, that's what practically the whole letter was. It's either 113 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 4: you stop and or else we're gonna, you know, give 114 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 4: you a citations or we're gonna sue you and you're 115 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 4: gonna be liable for anybody who gets in a car 116 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 4: accident where within those puzzles that you still in, So 117 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 4: apparently we're violating city codes or something. I'm like, okay, 118 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 4: you're liable, then when I fixed them yourself, and in 119 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 4: that case, return all the money that I haven't rested 120 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 4: in my vehicle since you're liable, you know. 121 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, so you have ten thousand dollars worth of 122 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:44,799 Speaker 2: damage to your vehicles. 123 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: But they're threatening you with a lawsuit, right, you know. 124 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 4: And I'm not asking them for anything. We're not asking 125 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 4: them for anything. Everything that we have received has been 126 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 4: a sponsor sponsorship from company that have come out and 127 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 4: filled out PAHO what does and from the community, which 128 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 4: well we've been having all the support from oh. 129 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 2: Oh you've had You've had other people in your neighborhood 130 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: do this as well. 131 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 4: I there's people who people who actually came out and 132 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 4: helped him fill in the PAHO, and the rest have 133 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 4: been sending money through cash, abzll or the. 134 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: This is what we have to do. 135 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 2: We have to do our own street repair because the 136 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: cities don't respond. LA doesn't respond, Compton doesn't respond. 137 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: What are we supposed to do? 138 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 2: Just blow another other you know, ten thousand dollars trying 139 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 2: to get the car repaired. 140 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: I mean they make they make it impossible simply because 141 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: they refuse to do the job. 142 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: They have bags of asphalt, they have shovels, they have vehicles, 143 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 2: they could do this, they choose not to. 144 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: They're lazy, they don't care. 145 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 4: Yes, exactly what we're saying. And the thing is that recently, 146 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 4: since we brought over like the spotlight and since they 147 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 4: went viral and you know where, everything we're doing is 148 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,679 Speaker 4: the positive outlets for Compton besides everything negative that everybody 149 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 4: talks about Compton. And we've seen like the public works 150 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 4: recently throwing asshole on the potholes. Whether their technique will 151 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: not hold because they only go and pour the asshole 152 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 4: with the shovel and then let the cars, you know, 153 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 4: just flatten it out. Eventually they don't. They don't use 154 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 4: the correct technique for them to last. How are ours 155 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 4: lasting after three weeks to range and theirs come out 156 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 4: within the first range. 157 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you do better pothole patching than the uh 158 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 2: Compton public Works Department. I'm looking up online public Works 159 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: Street Maintenance. The Street Maintenance Division Mission is responsible for 160 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 2: the maintenance of roadway sewers and streetscapes, and the major 161 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 2: responsibility is to maintain public facilities and provide safety for 162 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 2: residents and businesses, including maintaining. 163 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: Sidewalks and streets. So that's their mission, and. 164 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 4: They don't do it exactly. And if you see them, 165 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 4: like if you were actually like on the street like 166 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 4: we are every single day, you'll see them part under 167 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 4: a park, under a tree, sleeping with their feet up. 168 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 4: They just recently got new cars, And I'm like, what 169 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 4: they're supposed to be working, right, They're supposed to take 170 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 4: taking care of our cities, but we're doing wrong because 171 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 4: we're doing this on top of our job, on top 172 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 4: of our kids, on top of our family. No. 173 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're sleeping with their feed up. They parked 174 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: it under under a tree. They're in the shade seat 175 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: back feed up. 176 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 2: And you and your husband are out there shoveling asphalt. 177 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 2: And then they come and send you a nasty lawyer 178 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 2: letter boy. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. I'm 179 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 2: telling you. Government workers are just so stinking lazy, and 180 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 2: the bureaucrats too. They just nobody cares at all. 181 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. 182 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 2: I noticed on the street maintenance page, I don't see 183 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 2: any names here don't the names of who runs this 184 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 2: department exactly. 185 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 4: I believe it's the city council or the city manager. 186 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 4: I believe that that's see. 187 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: The city manager is here. 188 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was the most upset because on the 189 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 4: city council meetings where residents are able to go, there 190 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 4: were He was really upset. How we I already talked 191 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 4: to them directly. I'm like, when was this. I even 192 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 4: turned to my husband, I was like, did you receive 193 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 4: a call? Although because we never received anything. Oh, in 194 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 4: they're lying to your faith. You know, they're staying and 195 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 4: we call them. We have never received the call. I 196 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 4: can't believe that. First is yourself or news stations, the 197 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 4: La Times, like all these newspapers, universities are getting to 198 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 4: handle us directly to our cell phone, but the city 199 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 4: can't give us a call. 200 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, Willie Hopkins, Willie Hopkins, all right, I've got to go. 201 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 1: We gotta do the news. 202 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: Daisy Dela Rosa, congratulations for all the good work you're doing. 203 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 2: All right, and if you have any more to the story, 204 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 2: let us know. We'll put you back on. 205 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 4: All right, great, thank you. 206 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to look up this, Willie Hopkins, the 207 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 2: city manager. 208 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 209 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 6: six forty. 210 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 2: Coming up after two thirty, We're going to talk with 211 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 2: Michael Monks from KFI News. 212 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: La Metro. 213 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 2: Wants to get an in house police department constructed, and 214 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 2: transit activists don't want police, they want ambassadors. There's one 215 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty of them that showed up at the meeting. 216 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty transit activists. Who are these people? 217 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 2: The only county Sheriff's department says that says that they 218 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: could do the job. That's going to be a waste 219 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 2: of money to set up their their own police department. 220 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 2: We're going to talk about this. We come back with 221 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 2: Michael Monks. These transit see I see these activist I'm thinking, 222 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 2: who somebody's paying these people? Nobody wants to go to 223 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 2: a Metro meeting to chant for ambassadors? 224 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: What is that? It's a sense to me. We were 225 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: just talking to Daisy Dealer Rosa. 226 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 2: This is great. I love people like this. She and 227 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 2: her husband Alex, their couriers. They deliver stuff all day 228 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 2: and night, seven days a week. I mean they work 229 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: long hours. They're working hard their own business and their 230 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 2: vehicles are getting wrecked because of the potholes in Compton, 231 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 2: LA and the whole county because nobody in these public 232 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 2: works departments. 233 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: They don't do their jobs. 234 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: You know, as Daisy said, you could see the public 235 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 2: the maintenance workers, and they park their car unders under 236 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 2: a tree, their feet are up on the dashboard and 237 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: they're taking an app We all see this crap, and 238 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: they won't fill the pot. So Daisy and her husband Alex, 239 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 2: they go to home depot and they buy bags of asphalt, 240 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 2: and they buy shovel and whatever other equipment they need, 241 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 2: and they're filling their own potholes, and their potholes last longer. 242 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 2: When the City of Compton fills a pothole, it washes 243 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 2: out by the next rain. So I'm trying to find 244 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 2: names of people who run Compton. I love this, these 245 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: these little thiefdoms, these low rent local politicians who make 246 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 2: lots of money. As you're going to see, because now 247 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 2: the City of Compton doesn't put a single name to 248 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 2: the street maintenance department. There's nobody in my name, by 249 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 2: name you can call or complain to. They're all anonymous, 250 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 2: right because I guess they're sick of hearing from the 251 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 2: taxpayers complaining that nobody does their job. 252 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: But I did find that they have a. 253 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: New city manager who just took over in January, named 254 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 2: Willie Hopkins. Willie Hopkins, he's getting a monthly salary of 255 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: almost twenty one thousand dollars. 256 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: Twenty one thousand dollars. 257 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 2: He's making almost a quarter of a million dollars a year. 258 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: Plus get this, Willie. 259 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 2: Hopkins gets a six hundred and fifty dollars monthly auto allowance, 260 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: so he gets help paying the bills if the pothole 261 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 2: wrecks his car. 262 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: But Alex and Dais, you don't get that. He gets that, and. 263 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: Then Alex and Daisy says, he gets upset with all 264 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 2: this criticism. 265 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: Now he's a US Army veteran. 266 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 2: You would think that a guy like trained in the 267 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 2: military would be running you know, the street maintenance department 268 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 2: and everything else in Compton with extreme discipline and precision. 269 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 2: And everybody's got to do their job. You got to 270 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: pull in a full eight hours. There's no excuses, there's 271 00:14:58,880 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 2: no loafing. 272 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: Hmm. 273 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 2: But maybe with a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 274 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 2: salary to run Compton. 275 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't care. I don't know. I don't know 276 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: what's going on there. 277 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: Sure there's a story though, And they can't get the 278 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 2: pothole the pothole crew to fill the holes. And apparently 279 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 2: when they do fill the holes, they wash out, so 280 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 2: they get mad at Alex and Da Daisy Dela Rosa, 281 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 2: and they send him, They send them a cease and 282 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 2: desist letter saying they're gonna get sued. You should be 283 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: thinking them. You should have a dinner honoring them. You 284 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 2: should be out there helping him. Willie Hopkins ought to 285 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 2: grab a shovel and help the Deala Roses. If he 286 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 2: can't get his own street maintenance department to fill the holes, 287 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 2: he ought to be out there filling the holes. That's 288 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 2: what a mayor ought to do in between cashing checks. 289 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 2: Now here's another incompetent agency that we talked about earlier 290 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: in the show, La Metro. They want to spend one 291 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. No, I'm sorry. Li Metro wants to 292 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 2: spend a lot of money on an in house police department. 293 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 2: They don't want to use the sheriff's department anymore. But 294 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: these transit activists want them to hire unarmed transit ambassadors. Well, 295 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 2: if you have an unarmed transit ambassador, then the mental 296 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: patients and the drug addicts and the homeless and the 297 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 2: criminals get to do what they want. Well, Michael Monks 298 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 2: covered this meeting. We're going to talk to him about 299 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 2: it next from CAFI News. 300 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 301 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 6: six forty. 302 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: We got them Moistline coming up twice next hour. Also 303 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 2: after three o'clock, we're going to talk with Riverside County 304 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 2: Sheriff Chad Bianca. Chad Bianco, because well, two things we 305 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 2: want to see how that how the signature gathering is 306 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 2: going for this proposition to rewrite Prop forty seven. And 307 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 2: we have another appearance that we're going to be announcing. 308 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 2: Well don't have all the details yet, but we could 309 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: give you enough. Next hour we're going to be doing 310 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 2: the show live in the area, so you could come 311 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 2: and sign the petition to do a complete revision of 312 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: Prop forty seven. But first we've got Michael Monks from 313 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 2: KFI News and Metro has been in the news a 314 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 2: lot today because they're a chief safety officer just quit, 315 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 2: well actually she got fired just a couple of days 316 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 2: after filing a complaint with the Inspector General. And that's 317 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 2: that's what the CEO does, Stephanie Wiggins. She fires people 318 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 2: who complains. And now this story is how there's these 319 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 2: transit activists. They want La Metro not to develop their 320 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 2: own in house police department, but instead spend one hundred 321 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 2: million dollars on ambassadors, transit ambassadors unarmed. Michael explain what 322 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: is this? 323 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 5: Happily, John, those of you who ride any Metro product, 324 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 5: particularly the train system, might see these transit ambassadors. They 325 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 5: wear green shirts and they say hello, and they tell 326 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 5: you wish side of the track you should be on. 327 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 2: And nobody in our audience rides the Metro. Oh, I 328 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: ride it every days to go. 329 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:25,719 Speaker 1: I do, really I do. 330 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 5: I ride the Red Line from DTLA all the way 331 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 5: up here to Universal City. 332 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: I catch the burdbanks. I've got one. You've got a car. 333 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: You're voluntarily doing this. I'm you know, I'd like to 334 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: relax on the commute. You're perfect for our show. You're 335 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: out of your mind, boss. 336 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 5: I get to bring you the insider look of what 337 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 5: it's really like in the depths of the Metro system 338 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 5: under the ground. 339 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: As we make our way to work every day. 340 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 5: Absolutely, so I see a lot of this stuff that 341 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 5: people are talking about. Here's where we stand, right. Metro 342 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 5: spends about one hundred and seventy million dollars a year 343 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 5: year on contracts with the La County Sheriff's Office, the LAPD, 344 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 5: the Long Beach Police Department. And they're looking at the 345 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 5: numbers and they're thinking, what if we did our own thing, 346 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 5: we could probably save a little bit of money. So 347 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 5: they ran some numbers and they figure for about one 348 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 5: hundred million dollars they could have their own Metro police 349 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 5: department inside and get out of these contracts. Now, of course, 350 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 5: Sheriff Luna here in La County says, your numbers are 351 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 5: a little bit off. It would probably cost you about 352 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 5: two and a quarter two one hundred and twenty five 353 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 5: million dollars instead, So just a little bit off on 354 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 5: where they are. This is still in the exploratory phase. 355 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 5: But there are some transit activists, as you noted here 356 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 5: in the community who went to the Metro Board of 357 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 5: Directors meeting yesterday and said, look, Metro board of Directors, 358 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 5: which includes a lot of the heavy hitters here in 359 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 5: La and La talking Maribas, all the supervisors, other cities 360 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 5: represented on that board. They said, don't spend money on 361 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 5: a new police force. Instead, change the twenty million dollars 362 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 5: that you're spending on your ambassador program. 363 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: Up that to one. 364 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 5: Hundred million dollars and eras the additional police force, and 365 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 5: just give us more people in green shirts saying hello 366 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 5: and pointing us to the different sides and the shirts. 367 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that evades the major point is that they 368 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: have a lot of crazy people on the trains. Drug 369 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 2: addicts and mental patients and criminals and gang members. Yes, 370 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 2: and green shirts aren't going to stop those people from 371 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 2: acting up. 372 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 5: They're not equipped to stop those folks. They're not trained 373 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 5: to stop those folks. These are folks who are meant 374 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 5: to create a more hospitable experience while you're enjoying. 375 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: That's fine, but you need both. You still need guys 376 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: with guns. 377 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 5: And what you're hearing from some of these transit organizations 378 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 5: or these activists, including the Alliance for Community Transit LA 379 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 5: they call themselves act LA for short, they say, give 380 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 5: more training to these ambassadors, not necessarily with weapons, right, 381 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 5: Teach them some social work skills, Teach them how to 382 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 5: interact with housing agencies to direct the folks who are struggling. 383 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 2: So crazy guy who's frothing at the mouth, he's whacked 384 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 2: out onth he's waving a knife in the air. How's 385 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 2: an unarmed person supposed to counsel this character. 386 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 5: I think you would hear from writers that the ambassadors 387 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 5: do a nice job greeting you and telling you which 388 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 5: side of attraction need to be on. But they don't 389 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 5: because they're not equipped, you know, to offer much in 390 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 5: the way of safety. 391 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,479 Speaker 1: It's two different jobs. 392 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 5: You'll see transit ambassadors on the train, sometimes traveling in 393 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 5: the same direction as you inside the car, and some 394 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 5: you know, some type of tom foolery is taking place, 395 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 5: not necessarily violence, but something that is certainly against the rules, 396 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 5: either smoking or loud music or something minor like that. 397 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 5: The minor stuff makes people uncomfortable exactly, But the ambassadors 398 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 5: don't do anything about. 399 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 2: Who are these transit activists? What does that racket about? 400 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 5: These are folks who present as being present committed to 401 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 5: improving access to public transit. In addition to suggesting that 402 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 5: the money should be spent on ambassadors instead of police, 403 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 5: they say, get us bathrooms, get us more reliable frequency 404 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 5: with the trains and the buses and all that sort 405 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 5: of thing, gets better lights in some of these stations 406 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:07,959 Speaker 5: that that would improve safety. 407 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: And that's something else you do. 408 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 5: Here from a lot of writers is that, hey, it's 409 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 5: a little dank down here. 410 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 2: Right, But again, no, it's a very badly mismanaged system. 411 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 2: There's a lot of things it needs, but the first 412 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 2: thing it needs is a way to get rid of 413 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 2: all the bad people on the trains and buses. That's 414 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 2: number one, because you're never going to get customers if 415 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 2: people are scared to death. 416 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 5: So they're figuring out exactly what that means. 417 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: Right. 418 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 5: So if it's a Metro Police department another police agency 419 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 5: here in the area, but this one handled internally at Metro, 420 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 5: it would eliminate those contracts with LAPD, Long Beach Police 421 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 5: and the LA County Sheriff's Office. They say they can 422 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 5: do it in a way that's different than it's currently 423 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 5: done now, Like they wouldn't have officers in pairs, they 424 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 5: would have single officers out there patrolling. You really don't 425 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 5: see police that often on the actual trains. It does happen, 426 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 5: but you don't see it a whole lot. You also 427 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 5: see security guards at various stations, from the security you know, 428 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 5: those who are contracted to provide security services, not police services. 429 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 5: Security guards and some of the but no really on 430 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 5: the car. I don't think any of the politicians really 431 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 5: care about Metro. It's just a way to suck. 432 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 2: It's an excuse to suck billions of dollars from taxpayers, 433 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 2: and then they run these empty buses and trains all 434 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 2: day long and it doesn't matter to them. 435 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 5: But to the credit of one of the activists, at 436 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 5: least he called out the board and said, how many 437 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 5: of you ride Metro at least twice a week? And 438 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 5: I think only one or two hands popped up. 439 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: Nobody does. I don't know. You're the first person I know, Ronest. 440 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 5: I'm on the Red line every day, Johnny the persceps 441 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 5: of La hell Man since I moved. 442 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 2: To Los Angeles. You're the first person I've ever heard 443 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 2: of who takes the Metro train. Absolutely, so, congratulations. I 444 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 2: can read I'm relaxed, I'm not. I'm happy when I 445 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 2: get here. Just hope you don't turn up on the 446 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 2: crime blotder. 447 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 5: Oh right, gosh, let's say that there are occasional concerns 448 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 5: yeah right, I'm here today. 449 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,199 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, good you'll be our correspondent underground, believe 450 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 2: all right, Michael Monks, KAFI News, thank you very much. 451 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 2: My pleasure always won in the Craft's so he's one guy. 452 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 2: All right, we come back. The Governor of New York 453 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 2: was thrown out of that service for the cop who 454 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 2: was shot to death the other day by a career criminal. 455 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 2: We'll give you the details on it, because this is 456 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 2: what ought to be happening every day to everybody in 457 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 2: public office. 458 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI six. 459 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 2: This is the way politicians should always be treated in public, 460 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 2: the way the Governor of New York, Kathy Hokeel. She 461 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 2: was thrown out of a wake for a murdered New 462 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 2: York City Police officer. The cop was named Jonathan Dillar. 463 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 2: And just to set up the story, Diller was shot 464 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: and killed by a suspect, Guy Rivera. And here's how 465 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 2: that went down. Rivera had a accomplished Lindy Jones, who 466 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 2: was the dry and officer Diller saw the car. Jones 467 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 2: was behind the wheel of a car that was parked 468 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 2: illegally in front of a bus lane. So Diller and 469 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 2: his partner approached them on Monday. Rivera refused to roll 470 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 2: down his window or show his hands and then opened 471 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 2: fire an officer, Diller, hitting him under his bulletproof vest. 472 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 2: Diller's partner returned fire. Rivera and Diller were rushed to 473 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 2: the hospital, and Diller the officer, was found dead. Jones 474 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 2: is still in the hospital. And uh, this is this 475 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 2: is devastated people in New York. He's a young cop, 476 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 2: he's the father of a one year old, he's got 477 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 2: a wife, and he's you know, thirty years old. 478 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 6: Here. 479 00:25:54,240 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 2: Well, it turns out that these two characters, Rivera and 480 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 2: and Lindy Jones have long arrest records. I mean dozens 481 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 2: of times they've been arrested. Jones, for example, has fourteen arrests, 482 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 2: spent ten years in prison on attempted murder, and he's 483 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 2: not talking to police. Rivera has been arrested nineteen times, 484 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 2: at least nineteen times. They'll probably find more. So Kathy 485 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 2: Hochel shows up at the wake. This is the thing 486 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 2: that Trump went to. Hochel shows up and a guy 487 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 2: in the crowd shouted, get her out of here, and 488 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: then a man in a dark suit walked up and 489 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 2: they started having an animated conversation. He was speaking furiously 490 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 2: to Hokeel and pointing to the crowd. Hokel finally walked away, 491 00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 2: with officers outside the funeral home clapping because she's part 492 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 2: of the soft on crime is overstating it. There's no 493 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 2: consequences for crime in New York the way there's no 494 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 2: consequences for crime in Los Angeles. And one correction. The 495 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 2: guy who did the killing, the guy in the coptail, 496 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 2: he'd been arrested twenty one times, twenty one times, the 497 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 2: other guy fourteen times. Between the two of them, thirty 498 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 2: five arrests, and they're both out on the street and 499 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: Huckel comes to pay her respects to the dead cop. 500 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,199 Speaker 2: That's a lot of nerve. So that's the way she 501 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 2: should be treated. Tossed out, get the f out of here. 502 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 2: So now, Rivera charged with first degree murder of a 503 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: police officer, attempted murder for Amy's gun at a second officer. 504 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 2: Lindy Jones, the driver, charged with a number of gun crimes. 505 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 2: He was arrested on a gun charge last spring, already 506 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,679 Speaker 2: spent ten years for attempted murder. Like I said, arrested 507 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 2: for a gun charge last spring, not in jail. This 508 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 2: is what everybody's dealing with. There is nothing you can 509 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 2: do to stay in prison. In these progressive cities and 510 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 2: progressive states like California and New York, Los Angeles, New 511 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 2: York City, there is nothing you could do to get 512 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 2: yourself put away. 513 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: I wonder if murdering a. 514 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 2: Cop will even do it, you think, And then the 515 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,959 Speaker 2: nerve of these politicians to come and pay their respects 516 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 2: and show their sympathies. Oh, let me guess she's probably 517 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 2: offering her thoughts and prayers. I'm sure her thoughts and prayers. 518 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 2: Politicians who offer thoughts and prayers, they ought to be 519 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 2: confronted in the streets just for using that phrase. 520 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: I keep looking for a turning point. 521 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 2: I keep looking for the moment, the crime where a 522 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 2: majority of people, not only they rise up and they 523 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 2: go public and they put so much pressure and they 524 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 2: make it so difficult for the progressives in power to 525 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 2: exist comfortably in society anymore, and for people to vote differently. 526 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 2: I don't know what it takes. I mean New York. 527 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 2: The voting patterns in New York are so far over 528 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 2: the edge. It's unbelievable. The people they put in their 529 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 2: politics is nothing that anybody would recognize from the past 530 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 2: one hundred years, nothing you've ever seen before in your life. 531 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 2: It is total carte blanche to the criminals. No rests, 532 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 2: no prosecutions, no bail. Everybody lets out is let out early. 533 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 2: No crime is too heinous to have some kind of excuse. 534 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 2: It's like they all got brainwashed to believe that the 535 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 2: victims are the people who do the killing. The people 536 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 2: who commit the killing, who commit the robberies, who commit 537 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 2: the rapes and the assaults, they are the victims, where 538 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 2: they're ones who need to be punished. I don't know 539 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 2: where this came from and why it took root. I 540 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 2: mean there's always been crazy people. Why this took root 541 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 2: and became so widespread among politicians and why people vote 542 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 2: for that willingly, it's astounding to me. Even ten years ago, 543 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 2: you wouldn't find this in New York, not even ten 544 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 2: years ago, with this kind of mentality exist. 545 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: How did this happen? And it's not just the college lunatic. 546 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 2: It's not that many people go to college to get 547 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,959 Speaker 2: voted in with this kind of progressive ideology. You know, 548 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 2: you have to get a lot of people from the 549 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: older generations to buy into it. Anyway, we come back, 550 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 2: we're going to talk with well, we've got our own 551 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 2: problems here. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, he's the chairman 552 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 2: of the Law Enforcement Coalition for the initiative that would 553 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 2: revise dramatically Prop forty seven. And we got another signature 554 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 2: gathering event that we're going to do soon, and we've 555 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 2: got some details on that as well, so you could 556 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 2: put it on your calendar and come watch our show. 557 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 2: We'll be doing it live out and about all that 558 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 2: to come. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt 559 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 560 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 2: KFI Am six forty from one to four pm every 561 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on 562 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.