1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John and 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We're on 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: the radio from one until four, and then after four 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: o'clock it's the iHeart app for the John and Ken 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: on demand podcast where you could listen to everything you missed. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got Friday going on, which means the 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: Moistline people will be here in the three o'clock hour. 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: And you know, the committee met this morning. They did 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: get a hack for the dumpster based on a story 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: we covered yesterday. If you listen carefully to the show, 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: you might figure out who it is. This person is 12 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 2: going in the dumpster in the three o'clock hour. Never 13 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: been thrown in the dumpster by us before, of course, 14 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: not really. 15 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: Been on the radar except the past two years. So 16 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: a very late entry, a late entry, but a worthy entry. 17 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: But we're gonna start. You know, I was looking at 18 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: this Morning USA today. That's kind of a right off 19 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: left wing. I get upon them a long time ago. 20 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, but they did a story on Karen Bassetti's Inside Safe. 21 00:00:59,200 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: It was kind of new. 22 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 4: Yeah. 23 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: I read it a couple of times to see, you know, 24 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: get much out of it. The bottom line is something 25 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: we talked about the other day. They're getting people out 26 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: of the encampments to some extent, but they're putting in 27 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: the hotel rooms. 28 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 3: But how long is that going to last? Nobody knows, 29 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 3: and how much is that going to cost? 30 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 2: And what's the permanent housing solution? 31 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 3: They don't have any of that. They don't have any 32 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 3: of that now. 33 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: Right they take a thousand people off the street and 34 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: they do a victory dance, and there's another forty plus 35 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: thousand to go. 36 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, you think about hard working people right now 37 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 2: have trouble finding housing. But the ones that have the 38 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: wherewithal in the brains go to a place where they 39 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 2: can live and afford. If it's the Inland Empire or 40 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 2: the Central Valley or another state. 41 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,279 Speaker 1: They do that. That's the solution to this. These people 42 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: have to move elsewhere. You can't live in la you 43 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: can't afford it. It's like you can't afford a neighborhood. 44 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: You can't afford to send your kid to a certain 45 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: private school, you can't afford to shop at Nordstroms. 46 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 3: Can't go right, So that's it, that's the answer. 47 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: You can't go. You haven't accumulated enough wealth to Livia, So, 48 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: is this. 49 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: The ultimate example of entitlement that since I can't afford 50 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: all those things, I'm just gonna stop here and throw 51 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: my stuff down in this park, right because I want 52 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 2: until you find me a permanent heart. 53 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 5: Right. 54 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: And and all these people, many of them, if not 55 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: most of them, wandered in from somewhere else. Yeah, laid 56 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: down their their tent, their sleeping bag, and said, Okay, 57 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: I'm not a citizen of La. What do you got 58 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: for me? 59 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 3: But I like it. 60 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: This is close to the beach, it's shady here, LA's 61 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 2: got good weather, minimum beach view. I'll stay here until 62 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: you figure out what you got from me. 63 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: I want at least three thousand square feet I'd like, 64 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: I'd like I'd like a two bedroom. So we begin 65 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: with Bassetti and it looks like more than what more 66 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: than Bassetti got booed during this. This was on the 67 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: West Side. It's the corner of Pico and Midvale where 68 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: Bessetti and the local city council hack Katie Araslavsky want 69 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: to put some kind of homeless shelter. And because there's 70 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: a lot of homeless in the area fouling the place up, 71 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: it's it's even though it's near Pico, it's a it's 72 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: a residential air are you and what's fascinating you'll hear 73 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: the residents want nothing to do with this. And this 74 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: is normally a best SETI type crowd. I know because 75 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: there were quite a few people wearing masks, and to 76 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: see people booing while wearing masks, that was a new experience. 77 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: This is near the West Side Pavilion. If you know 78 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 2: where Overland. 79 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 3: Is Peico, that area I used to go to the movies. 80 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: There a lot. 81 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: That's a nice neighborhood. John is right. I've walked through 82 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 2: there a few times. And when this story came up, 83 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 2: two listeners sent it to us. This is like a 84 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 2: week ago, and I said, this is probably going to 85 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: create a stir Yeah, because it's not really an encampment. 86 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 2: I think it's going to be like tiny homes, but 87 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: they're going to put up something for like thirty I 88 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: think vagrants, some kind. 89 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: Of homeless project that would make them residents of the neighborhood. 90 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: There you go, and Yaroslawski's answer is, well, they're here, 91 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: they're your neighbors already. 92 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 3: Let's just find them a suitable place to sleep. 93 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: These people didn't fall into homelessness from that neighborhood, all right. 94 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 2: So the report here is coming from Fox eleven. It's 95 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 2: Ed Laskos, and there was a meeting. I guess the 96 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 2: residents showed up to discuss to this plan and Bass 97 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: and Yaroslavsky are there and here's this. 98 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 3: Here's the report. 99 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 6: Your council woman, I believe is taking a very great step. 100 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 3: This is past. 101 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 7: That was fast Crowdney La mayor hit with a chorus 102 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 7: of hissing and booze. It's the emotional fallout after the 103 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 7: La City council Woman Katie Yaroslavsky unveils her plans for 104 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 7: you housing for the homeless. 105 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: Homeless people on our streets, many of whom used to 106 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: be housed in our neighborhoods. 107 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 8: No. 108 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 7: The controversial project is the latest attempt to solve LA's 109 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 7: exploding housing crisis by setting up interim beds here on 110 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 7: Peekle Boulevard in the West Side. 111 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 2: When you see it in candid and you call her 112 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: office and you say, do something. 113 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 9: About it, we literally don't have places for people to 114 00:04:58,680 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 9: go right now. 115 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 7: It's a partnership that's tied to La Family Housing, which 116 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 7: already operates this facility for the homeless in North Hollywood NonStop. 117 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 7: There's always someone fighting, screaming and yelling. 118 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 6: There's been a few people. 119 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 3: Shop as well, few people who's been stabbed. It's just insane. 120 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 7: The North Hollywood homeless facility are already sharply rejected by 121 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 7: many neighbors there. It's a growing controversy reported earlier this 122 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 7: week exclusively here on Fox eleven US. 123 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 9: The one in North Hollywood is a building, not many houses, 124 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 9: and they did not clear the sidewalks. People are intense 125 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 9: on the sidewalk besides the people in the building. 126 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 7: But the council woman not backing down her office, saying 127 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 7: they have a good plan in place. 128 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 3: There will be twenty four seven security on site. 129 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we think we've got a good plan, but 130 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 2: we wanted to be able to talk about it with 131 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: the community for now. 132 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 7: This West Side community left with many questions and concerns 133 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 7: about the homeless crisis that many here say just isn't 134 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 7: going away anytime soon. 135 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 8: Need to have services, but you also need to have 136 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 8: housing for those to be effective. Right now, people are 137 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 8: just running around even if they are dangerous, and there's 138 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 8: no security whatsoever. So it's like, you can't have it 139 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,799 Speaker 8: both ways. You can't just wish these these people disappeared 140 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 8: now live. 141 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 7: It's the mayor who ends this meeting or early about 142 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 7: ten to fifteen minutes after it began because of all 143 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 7: the booing. The Councilwoman's office admits they have a good plan, 144 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 7: but they admit that they've got to them up with 145 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 7: a better way to present that plane at the next meeting, 146 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 7: to try to keep, as they were saying, everybody calm 147 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 7: so they can at least hear what's being talked about. 148 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 7: But you know yourself, whenever you're talking about putting a 149 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 7: homeless shelter in somebody's neighborhood, you bet there's fireworks. 150 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: That's right, ed, Lascos, There is fireworks, and you know 151 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: it's bam. 152 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 3: And you say, well, we're just going to put them, give. 153 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 2: Them a nice place to live, but we have to 154 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 2: have twenty four to seven security. 155 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, what does that say. 156 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: That's what they promised in Venice for Garcadia to press 157 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: home and that was a disaster that destroyed the neighborhood. Yes, 158 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: all right, so you people, and this is like borderline. 159 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: The section is called West Los Angeles and it looks 160 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: to be just a little bit to the eu To 161 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: Rancho Park, just south of Pico. And if there's anybody 162 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: listening from that neighborhood, you better fight this to the 163 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: bloody death here, because you let Yaroslavsky's nutty idea take root, 164 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: You're in a lot of trouble because these people. First 165 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: of all, you show me which one of these people 166 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: actually lived in the neighborhood. That neighborhood's too expensive for 167 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: this crowd, because if you see the video in this 168 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: Fox eleven story, you know these people are complete meth 169 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: freaks or fentanyl freaks right there. They're incapable of living 170 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: in a civilized society anymore because they do shout, and 171 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: they do scream, and they do fight, and and they 172 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: brought all their garbage and their tents and and just 173 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: their chaos with them. And I don't know where they're from, 174 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: but I guarantee you, I guarantee you none of them 175 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: was owning a home in that neighborhood. 176 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 2: And also in that report, I think they mentioned something 177 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 2: like this in North Hollywood. But I go to Venice 178 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 2: after they set up these kinds of situations, bridge home encampments, 179 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 2: whatever a bunch of other people begin to camp outside 180 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: the encampas sort of a new little homeless encampment forms 181 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 2: because it's like, well, there's probably services here, and I 182 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 2: can just take the place of the people that are 183 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 2: now in the encampment, and I'll just be on the 184 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 2: waiting list. So I'll just start so that something begins 185 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 2: to grow outside of whatever they say, because none of 186 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: these people are ever gonna work, and none of these 187 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 2: people are ever gonna get off the drugs. So while 188 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 2: you give them a roof for the night, they're gonna 189 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 2: be wandering around outside during the day doing their drugs, 190 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 2: all the same activities they're doing now, and they'll be 191 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 2: doing it in in this whatever this shelter is gonna be. 192 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 2: They're gonna be snorting meth, smoking crack, taking their fentanyl pills, 193 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 2: or injecting themselves with heroin, whatever. 194 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: Their method is drinking. They're gonna be crazy people. And yeah, 195 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: their friends are gonna come and that building is gonna 196 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: be a hangout. That's gonna be, you know, the public 197 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: center of the community. You have to get them all out, 198 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: carry your Jaroslovsky is lying to you, Karen Bass is 199 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: lying to you. 200 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 3: Trust me, they're lying. They're lying. They're lying, they're lying. 201 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: No neighborhood that got one of these crazy developments is 202 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: happy about it. All right, say goodbye to your property values. 203 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: I mean say goodbye to your safety. Your kids won't 204 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: be able to you won't be able to walk your dog, 205 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: your kids won't be able to play in the streets. 206 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 1: These are drug addicts, mental patients, and criminals. Remember the 207 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 1: prison system sends three thousand fellons a year into La 208 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: County newly minted homeless. 209 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 3: Ye, that's right. 210 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 2: That was a great story, not a great story for us. 211 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 2: All right, we got more coming up. Johnny KENKFI AM 212 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 2: six forty were live everywhere. It's the iHeartRadio app. 213 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 214 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:43,599 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 215 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 9: Hedy. 216 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 2: We'll be talking to Steve Gregory. CAFI News will be 217 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 2: stopping by for a story on metro security. You know, John, 218 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 2: I saw the headline Taylor Swift's concert last night, and 219 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 2: SOFI was emotionally what's that word, cathartic? Emotionally cathartic. So 220 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 2: you know, they want people to ride the buses and 221 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 2: trains to get the sofa. The next year, we just 222 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: had a horrible stabbing shooting situation occurred. 223 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 3: Not that far Crenshaw. 224 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: You know, I can't think of a better place for 225 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: young women to be than in a metro train or bus. 226 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: I mean that is so safe. I mean positive absolutely, positively, 227 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: you will not get physically assaulted or shot or stabbed 228 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: or set on fire. 229 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 3: No chance of that happening. 230 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: Well, if it's old Taylor Swift, fans hold together taking 231 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 2: over the whole training bus, you know, maybe the vagrants 232 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 2: will move on, the drug addicts and the theaters. 233 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 3: We'll run out screaming. Have you ever. 234 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 2: No for you? You ever had a catharsis? Is that 235 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 2: done in the bathroom? 236 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think you need somebody to 237 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 3: mop up afterwards. 238 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I is that like a realization though it's some 239 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: sort of a like a massive emotional release. 240 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 3: Sounds like you have. I don't know if I have. 241 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 3: I'm not How would I know if I did. 242 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 10: I don't know. 243 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:05,719 Speaker 3: You're really into it. 244 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 10: So I thought maybe you were dying to tell us. 245 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 3: Maybe I leave a puddle behind. I don't know. 246 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 2: No, Well, we turned to you because it seems like you, 247 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 2: Deborah Mark, would have something like that occur where you 248 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: really just had this moment where all if your emotions 249 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 2: came together and you you know, just if anyone would 250 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: have a catharisist. 251 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 3: Yet, I have to think about it. Is it like 252 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 3: a breakthrough? What does it mean? 253 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 6: No? 254 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: I think you let out either all your your sadness, 255 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: your own story with somebody dies and nobody shows any 256 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: emotion for days and then suddenly one. 257 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 3: Day they're wailing and screened. Do you have a little one? 258 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 10: When I gave birth to my son, he came out, 259 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 10: he wasn't breathing because the corpus wrapped around his neck. 260 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 10: It was really scary and I thought I thought he 261 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 10: was going to die. The the the obg y N 262 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 10: was in there. They couldn't find the anesthesiologist. And there 263 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 10: was this feeling that started from my head all the 264 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 10: way down to my toes, like this feeling of warmth, 265 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 10: and I knew he was going to be okay. And 266 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 10: literally after that feeling left my body, he started crying 267 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 10: and he was fine. 268 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 3: That was our little angel. 269 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 10: Yes, my guardian angel, a miracle something. 270 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 3: Your mother's energy. Yes, that could be a cathar Yes, 271 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 3: there you go. 272 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 2: All right, Steve will be by after one thirty. Well, 273 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 2: we're going to do an updates story now on something 274 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 2: we talked about yesterday. We just talked about the vagrants 275 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 2: on the West Side and sticking them in a property 276 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 2: near the West Side Pavilion, which didn't go over well 277 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 2: with the neighborhood. This is really an underreported story, though 278 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 2: we learned a few months ago Spectrum News did a 279 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: story on it. This is what they're calling it, the 280 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 2: RV wasteland. Holly Mitchell is an LA County supervisor. That's 281 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 2: the only government that would be overseeing this area, which 282 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 2: is in an area of East Guardina and West Rancho Dominges. 283 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: If you're familiar with that part of Los Angeles County, 284 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 2: it's considered unincorporated industrial area too, right, So that's why 285 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 2: you might think, all right, well, if the vagrants are 286 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 2: going to park their RVs anywhere, it should be somewhere 287 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 2: where there's not but there's people. In fact, this story 288 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 2: was going to play you from ABC reporter Rob Hayes. 289 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 2: They did have a gathering to discuss this, and it 290 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 2: says that hundreds of people showed up to a voice 291 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: their objections and get this thing moving. 292 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 3: So let's play the story. 293 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 4: If you thought more than twenty RVs packed out of 294 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 4: with silmar lot was bad, or the roughly sixty RVs 295 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 4: lining forest Lawn Drive, well, then you probably haven't been 296 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 4: here lately. 297 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 9: Literally two straight blocks of RV garbage RV garbage. 298 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 4: These are the streets of East Gardina and West Rancho Dominguez. 299 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 4: We're more than five hundred beat up, run down and 300 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 4: unsafe RVs have overrun block after block after block, says 301 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 4: the Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce. Local residents and business 302 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 4: owners have had enough today, more than one hundred of 303 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 4: them packed a warehouse to meet with local government and 304 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 4: law enforcement officials. 305 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,079 Speaker 1: We're just trying to get the streets clean and say. 306 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 3: And this is more more than just a nuisance problem. 307 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 4: Lack of any kind of real sue and system means 308 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 4: there are hundreds of people with no way to dispose 309 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 4: of they're human waste. Are is a lot of human waste, 310 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 4: much of it ending up in the stormwater runoff drains 311 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 4: which pour right into our coasts untreated. 312 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 8: Oh, approximately nine thousand gallons a month. 313 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 4: What of human waste. 314 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 8: Flowing to the ocean out of these RVs. It's an 315 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 8: environmental disaster and needs to be cleaned up now. 316 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 4: Making matters even worse, there are more than one hundred 317 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 4: children living in these RVs. Gnawa County Sheriff's Department says 318 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 4: twenty seven RVs have already been removed over the past 319 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 4: few weeks. Twenty seven doing so is rife with obstacles. 320 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 8: The toll companies that we were working with one didn't 321 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 8: have room in their yard and weren't equipped to deal 322 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,359 Speaker 8: with the hazardous past. 323 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 4: The area affect It sits in unincorporated La County, inside 324 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 4: the district of Supervisor Holly Mitchell. She didn't sh go 325 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 4: up for today's meeting, but one of her representatives says 326 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 4: Mitchell's office is rolling out its new RV pilot program 327 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 4: in Hoole later this month, but can't say how long 328 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 4: it'll take to clear these streets. 329 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 6: Supervisor Mitchell completely go agrees with them that we need 330 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 6: to be the county needs to move faster. And she's 331 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 6: been on for two years and completely understand that the 332 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 6: residents have lived with us for longer than the two 333 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 6: years because she's been in office. 334 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 4: But the people who live and work here say they 335 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 4: needed this action months ago, that they're surrounded by filth, 336 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 4: and rising crime. Just last night, someone was shot and 337 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 4: killed at the corner of Redondo Beach Boulevard in Maine. 338 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 4: This is a community at its breaking point. 339 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 3: We're business people. 340 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: You can't make money when you're in the middle of 341 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: this kind of a toilet. 342 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 3: That's a good way to end the story. 343 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: Yes, you can't make money when you're in the middle 344 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: of this kind of toilet. Say nine thousand gallons. They 345 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 2: said this forced out to the ocean every day. 346 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: And her stupid, her stupid spokes Hoole is going, well, 347 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: you know she's she's been there for two years, as 348 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: if that's too short a time to have an effect, right, 349 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: there's no way you could possibly tow five hundred RVs 350 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: in two years. 351 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 3: By the way, that spokes Hoole the name is. 352 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 2: Is Zalea, Grecian Senior Deputy on Housing and Homelessness. 353 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: So that's her job. Good job is Zalea for a supervisor? 354 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: Holly Mitchell? No, Holly Mitchell is a failure and she's 355 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: a nut because we saw her story yesterday that I 356 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: guess channel seven rand. 357 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 3: And you just take a look at her. 358 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: Okay, bug guys, there's nothing going on there, and she's 359 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: done nothing for two years. All right, I'm sure these 360 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: people have been screaming at her repeatedly for years and years. 361 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: Just like Bassetti and Yaroslavsky. They're all talk. They have 362 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: no They just don't care about your problems. They wish 363 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: you would stop calling them, stop bothering them. 364 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 3: They're busy. 365 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: We can contrast that to the other RV encampment we've 366 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,360 Speaker 2: been talking about. That's at the Bologna the Boyona Wetlands. 367 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 2: Right at least Tracy Park is trying to do something. 368 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 2: She may have cleared out a thousand feet worth of RVs. 369 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: We're gonna have a guest on after two o'clock, Friends 370 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 2: of the Jungle, who, of course very interested in getting 371 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 2: that area cleared on the west side of Los Angeles. 372 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, Steve Gregory will be here. 373 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 2: Chris Metro wants you to know it's safe to go 374 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 2: to Sofi to see Taylor Swift. So get on the bus, 375 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: get on the train, don't worry about people with guns 376 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 2: or knives. 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And of course they're in 386 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 2: a bit of a pr mind because well they're trying 387 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 2: to get everybody to take the bus and train to 388 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 2: go see Taylor Swift and so Fi Stadium. Well, something 389 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 2: ugly just happened the other day with a guy with 390 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 2: a gun and a guy with a knife, and. 391 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: The guy with a gun lost. Yeah, kind of like 392 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: a duel. I guess they were having Yeah, and the 393 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: knife guy won. 394 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 3: Yep. 395 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 1: And now you're supposed to tell the Taylor Swift fans 396 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: that everything's fine, that you're safe. Yeah, in this case, 397 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: don't ever bring a knife to a gunfight. I know, 398 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,400 Speaker 1: kind of goes bring a gun again fight. 399 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 3: Yeah. 400 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: Well, fortunately John, for you to get to the concert, 401 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: you had car service, so you were fine. 402 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 3: John was there last night. John's a swifty. Don't I 403 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 3: look like a swifty? 404 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: In fact, every time she changed costume, I changed costume. Wow, 405 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: the stands. Actually I can't name one song. Well, I 406 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: think you identify as a swiftye right only at. 407 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 2: Home, told people, if you can't get a ticket, do 408 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: not expect to come to the parking lot and dance 409 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 2: because you can hear the music outside. 410 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 3: We're not gonna let you. 411 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is what's happening now because of what's 412 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: going on what can just mentioned, and Transit Bureau with 413 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: the Sheriff's Department, Transit Division with LAPD Long Beach PD, 414 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: those are the three primary agencies that provide security for 415 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: the transit services, and MTA has its own security service. 416 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: They had to get together and figure out what they 417 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: were going to do for this because they were anticipating 418 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: obviously record number crowds coming. So they basically pulled out 419 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: the playbook from the Super Bowl and they sort of 420 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: blew the dust off that playbook, opened it up, went 421 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: through it and said, okay, let's deploy the same number 422 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: of resources here and there. So what they were doing 423 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: and then the events of you know recently with the 424 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: stabbing and the other violence, they were pulling officers and 425 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: deputies from the lower crime lines or lines with lower 426 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: crime and redeploying them on the Expo line, which is 427 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: the primary one that goes over to sofar, So they've 428 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: basically pulled from all the other areas in the region 429 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: and putting them all on this line, so that you've 430 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: got presumably I was told you'll have armed presence on 431 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: almost every train and they're gonna have to do this 432 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: for a week, right, this is the concerts? 433 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 7: Yeah? 434 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, there a train that goes right to so Fire. 435 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 2: Do you have to get on a bus after the train? 436 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 2: Because I remember with going to Rams games there was 437 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 2: the Green line, but that's a little further south and 438 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 2: people got on a bus and the bus took you 439 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 2: to the stadium. A X bow line, I'm not sure. 440 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 2: I'm not sure either. It's that you can get to 441 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 2: the coliseum with. But my understanding doesn't the ex BOWLL 442 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 2: line going to Santa Monica? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I 443 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 2: was thinking Long Beach for a second. There, No, it 444 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 2: goes to Santa Monica. See, I don't know all these 445 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 2: routes because I don't. I'm not because you don't want 446 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 2: to get stabbed, shot or set on fire. And that's understanding. 447 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 2: But you're an inquisitive reporter. We thought you would spend 448 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 2: a day on these trains and buses to Yeah. 449 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: I was live with you guys. Oh, yeah, you did, 450 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: that's right, I did. I went to a long beach. Yeah, 451 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: but I had to make sure I had security with me. 452 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: Did you have an ambassador? No, they didn't have an ambassador. 453 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: They went around yet they went around, but I was 454 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: told they were also doubling the number of ambassadors. 455 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if you know the answer to this, 456 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 2: but obviously we had a concert last night, it kicked off. 457 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 2: Did a lot of people take the trains or buses 458 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 2: or yes? 459 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: They said there was a noticeable increase in ridership last 460 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: nek Is that right? And they're expecting this weekend because people, 461 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, for the reasons that it exists, they don't 462 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: want the parking lot chaos. People don't want to go 463 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: into the parking lot. Not a good parking situation. 464 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 3: It's so far. 465 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been there. I was there for a preview 466 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: thing for the Super Bowl, and I found that weird 467 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: because they started that stadium from scratch. They've got a 468 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 1: lot of land, but it just seems like the few 469 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: times I've gone there, the parking situation is as absurd 470 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: as Dodger Stadium. I didn't understand why didn't they do 471 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: it right, they made nice grounds as a whole water 472 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: thing out there. Yeah, I can't park in the water. 473 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: I didn't want to. I never understood that either. It's well, 474 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: I mean, look at LAX, the people behind LAX, they 475 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 1: didn't think that airport was going to grow someday. 476 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, but isn't it what we always think it is? 477 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 2: They don't want cars, so they're not going to build parking. 478 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: I don't think people with the Lax situation, I don't 479 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: know that's a long time that car ahead. Whereas people 480 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: like at Denver International they get the airport, they want courage, 481 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: mass transit, but there's people getting shots down and set 482 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: on fire. So I mean, no matter how many press 483 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: releases they put out and happy talk horse Maneur, people 484 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: read the news, they see it on television. 485 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 3: They're not fooling anybody. Ridership's way down. 486 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna put medical cots complete with the 487 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: fibrillators and everything, at the end of every train car now, 488 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: so that they have on site medical triage services right there, 489 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: they'll be able to go ahead and administer for medication, 490 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: first aid, miners, ditches. 491 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 3: The last rites have a preest there. 492 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: The chapel will be in the front of the I say, 493 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: you don't want to put a chapel in the back, 494 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: you want to put it in the front, So they'll 495 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: be a prayer chapel in the front. 496 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 2: It's not free because I got a free bust to 497 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium from the Harbor Gateway Transit Center. So I 498 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: was wonder if they're giving the swifty fans any kind free. No, 499 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 2: they're not, because it's a little pat on the head 500 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 2: for not taking your car. We'll let you drive right 501 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 2: for free. 502 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 3: We'll put you in the no stabbing car. 503 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: Pick your violence car, pick your preferred attack method. I mean, 504 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: we're all sitting or joking. I mean, but they happy 505 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: to say you. I talked to LAPD today about it 506 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: and they said they had absolutely no issues at all 507 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 1: last night. I think that with that armed presence, and 508 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: this goes back to what the Sheriff's Department was doing 509 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: when they were doing Operation Safe Travel under the Vinueva. 510 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: When he put all his extra deputies on these trains, 511 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 1: they had a seventy six percent drop in violent crimes 512 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: on the train in that experimental thirty days or sixty days, 513 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: I can't remember if it was one or two months, 514 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: and in that period they had a seventy six percent 515 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: drop in violent crime because they had armed presence on 516 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: those trains. 517 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 3: So there shouldn't be a debate about this anymore. 518 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: Well again, if you look at spend the money, hire 519 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: the officers, get it done. Remember you go back to 520 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,959 Speaker 1: the Public Safety Advisory Council, that ad hoc committee of 521 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: the mt A that said that the writers were scared 522 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: of having armed presence, they all stop it. And then 523 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: when you look at the actual survey, their liars. When 524 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: you look at the actual survey, that was rife with 525 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 1: leading questions, you know, would you would you rather have 526 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: a a nice person with a pleasant personality in an 527 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: orange vest or a big, burly, mean police officer with 528 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: all kinds of all kinds of weapons hanging off. Which 529 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: would you like? You know, those kinds of questions, And 530 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: so I'd like the big burly man myself. But of 531 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: course you you identify a swifty So that's why that survey, 532 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: If you really look deep in the survey, the majority 533 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: of people preferred having armed presence on there, but the 534 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: way it was crafted makes it look very opposite. 535 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 3: So it's it's I think it's proven beyond a shadow 536 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 3: of doubt. 537 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: Now, and all the times we've been covering this, whether 538 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: me and New are You on, talk that armed presence 539 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: on these trains and buses makes a significant difference in 540 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 1: the in a person's safety. 541 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 2: So they are beefing it up for the Taylor Swift Show. Absolutely, 542 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 2: is it gonna be Sheriff's department or says in this 543 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 2: story there might be some private security US. 544 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: Well, that's the that's the Metro security folks that well 545 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: they bring. Okay, if they have any sense, they should 546 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 1: be terrified of a terrible event because that would be 547 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 1: international overwhelming coverage. Well, and I will tell you that 548 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: part of the Super Bowl protocol has to do with 549 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, I mean, you've got 550 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: counter terrorism people that are already keenly aware of what's 551 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 1: going on, because not only are you going to have 552 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: more presence on the trains, you will have more presence 553 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: on the platforms. Right, So that that is that's stuff 554 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: that's already that's stuff you don't even see that's going 555 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 1: on behind the scenes. And the undercover officers, I will 556 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: tell you, are are increasing in numbers as well. You've 557 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: got a lot of undercovers that ride those trains to. 558 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, because it says here aggravated assaults reported by Metro 559 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: ups seventy two percent from twenty nineteen to this year, 560 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 2: but part one crime homicides thefts are slightly down. But 561 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 2: I mean aggravated assault means what you just push somebody or. 562 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, that kind of stuff exactly, aggravated just kind of push, shoves, punch, 563 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Now is that on the transit 564 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 1: or just in Metro La Kenny, Metro Metro. 565 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 3: All right, Steve, thank you got guys. 566 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,719 Speaker 2: All right, Steve Gregory, CAFI News, covering the story that 567 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 2: Metro wants to make sure people going to see Taylor Swift. 568 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 2: It's so FI feel safe getting on the trains and 569 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 2: Metro trains and buses to get there. 570 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 3: More coming up. 571 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 2: Johnny Ken, CAFI AM six forty Live Everywhere iHeartRadio app. 572 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 573 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 574 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 3: Coming up after two o'clock, we're gonna welcome back to 575 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 3: the show. 576 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 2: Lucy Han. She's with Friends of the Jungle. Sounds like 577 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 2: a nice group anyway. They have been very active in 578 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 2: trying to get to the Biona wetlands cleaned up from 579 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,479 Speaker 2: all the RV's vans and everything else that's parked there 580 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 2: along Jefferson Boulevard. We told you earlier this week. Council 581 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 2: person Tracy Park came on the show. They have cleared 582 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 2: out about a thousand feet from that area and they 583 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 2: hope to clean it up more. This is Implia del 584 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 2: Rey on the west side and what I thought we'd 585 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 2: do because we'd like to independently verify, bring on somebody 586 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 2: that's not in political office to talk about if it's 587 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 2: looking good and how it's going. And this has been 588 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 2: a horrible, horrible site for anybody that's driven through that 589 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 2: area for years. As this RV encampment has grown. Now 590 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 2: it's not at the level of the one we talked 591 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 2: about earlier this hour down there in East Gardena and 592 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: Rancho Dominguez, but that's hundreds. But this was enough, and 593 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 2: this is an environmentally sent to the area, and. 594 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: There's no excuse for the city not being able to 595 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 1: tow RVs. I do not want to hear any excuses 596 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: at all. 597 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:54,239 Speaker 3: Do it. 598 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: Hook up the RVs and go drive them out somewhere 599 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: and find a place to put them. 600 00:27:59,160 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 3: Stop it. Stop it. 601 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: Well, you know, we're working on it, and you know 602 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: we we we just don't have the space. 603 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 3: And the toe company that were. 604 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 2: Shutting a huge compactor and just smash them down into 605 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 2: a tiny little metal thing. 606 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 3: And yeah, they're worthless anyway. They don't even run. No, 607 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 3: it's garbage. Take it to a place. Yeah, that that. 608 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: That crushes metal, metallic garbage. It's landfill material. 609 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 2: And besides the fact we found in a touching moment 610 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 2: earlier this week on the Johnny Can Show that John 611 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 2: is very sensitive to butterflies and there is a particular 612 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 2: species called the el segundo blue butterfly that isn't danger 613 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 2: by all the stink. 614 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 3: By the filth and the sewage. That what was in 615 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 3: uh that. 616 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: That story of we just did in La County right 617 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: with the with the five hundred RVs. 618 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 3: That's nice, Gardina. 619 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: Nine thousand gallons of human way sewage going. 620 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 2: Into directly to the ocean, into the ocean. It's like 621 00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 2: a pipeline. 622 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: Nine thousand This this is Holly Mitchell's Los Angeles right, 623 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: She's content with nine thousand gallons of human sewage going 624 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: into the ocean. 625 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 3: We're working on it. We don't have a place to 626 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 3: tow the arvy. I've only been in office for two years. 627 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. 628 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 2: Oh, okay, what they used to they used to term 629 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 2: a soft approach. We're taking soft. That means you sends 630 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,719 Speaker 2: somebody there to talk to the RV people. You know what, weeks, months, years, 631 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 2: they try to gently get them to leave. 632 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: No more discussion. Your your policy's failed failure. You've tried 633 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: it for many years now, none of them worked. Let's 634 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: go back to towing the RV and taking it out 635 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: of the county. 636 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 2: Now, speaking of policies, finally, this was put together nicely 637 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 2: by a writer opinion piece in the Washington Post, of 638 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 2: all places, Charles Murray. 639 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 3: I think he's one of the think tanks. 640 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 2: We've talked from time to time on the show over 641 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 2: the years about broken windows policing. This is a Rudy 642 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 2: Giuliani thing. And he's in the news this week, isn't he. Yeah? 643 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 3: And and William Bratton, who was PRIs chief here too, 644 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 3: and here too. Yeah. Well what Murray. 645 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 2: Did and he really really crunched the numbers and the statistics. 646 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 3: But he's making the case. And let me just read 647 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 3: this part of it. 648 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 2: The National Crime Story over the past seventy years tells 649 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 2: of a disastrous rise in crime in the sixties and seventies, 650 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: followed in the nineties and two thousands by one of 651 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 2: the greatest successes of social policy, a steep decline in crime. 652 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 2: Policy analysts still argue about the reasons. I will not 653 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 2: try to adjudicate the competing claims made for changes in 654 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 2: policing or increased incarceration, or economic and cultural factors. But 655 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 2: it's a fact that the progress occurred after many large cities, 656 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 2: including New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, adopted a new 657 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 2: public safety philosophy broken windows policing, and don't you think, 658 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 2: especially in the times we're living in now, the homelessness 659 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 2: thing falls into this category. It wasn't as prevalent back 660 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 2: in the eighties when they started to do this in nineties. 661 00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 3: Here's what it is. 662 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 2: The art argument that making arrests for minor offenses heads 663 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 2: off a sense of lawlessness that invites serious crime. These 664 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 2: offenses are ones for which police could make an arrest, 665 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 2: but ones that they instead choose to ignore depending on 666 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 2: the circumstances. Offenses that don't physically harm anyone or steal property, 667 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 2: but their insults. 668 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 3: To public order. That's a good way to put it. 669 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 2: People say, what's the harm of him just sitting there 670 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 2: on the bench, the homeless guy with his tent. He's 671 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 2: there all night and day. He's not stealing from anybody, 672 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 2: He's just. 673 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 3: But that's what the problem is. 674 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: It lives to public disorder, yes, because then homeless man 675 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: stands up, he starts doing drugs in public, he starts 676 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: urinating and defecating. The drug taking leads to him engaging 677 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: in aggressive behavior. Suddenly he's pushing and shoving and stealing 678 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: from people walking by him, Whereas if you just made 679 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: him move along for vagrancy, none of that happens in 680 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: that spot. Right, it's gonna go. He's gonna have to 681 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: go somewhere else. It's not going to be in your neighborhood. 682 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: And if you allow graffiti vandalism, then bad guys wandering 683 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: around say, oh, all right, bad neighborhood here. Police don't 684 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: there's no police presence here, And looks like the local 685 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: residents don't really care. So what are they gonna They're 686 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: gonna feel at home, they're gonna feel comfortable, They're gonna 687 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: start collecting and engaging in more quality of life crimes. 688 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, so the kinds of things he's talking about with 689 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 2: broken window crimes, vandalism, theft of services, vagrancy, public drunkenness, 690 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 2: lude behavior, prostitution, loitering, disorderly conduct. These are minor offenses, 691 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 2: but if you don't do anything about them, they can 692 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 2: lead to bigger problems. 693 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 3: And all that stuff is disgusting to have to deal with. 694 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: If it's your neighborhood, if it's your park, Oh, it's depressing, 695 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: and it hurts property values and it hurts your desire 696 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: to stay where you are. I don't want to be 697 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: around vagrants doing any of that stuff. And I don't 698 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: care about the reasons. I don't care about your arguments. 699 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: I want that out of the neighborhood, out of the park. 700 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 1: And it used to be unanimous. Virtually every persons said yes, 701 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: I don't want that out of my park, out of 702 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: my neighborhood, and they would force their council people and 703 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: the police department to keep it clean. And then, I 704 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: don't know, one day everybody gave up on that, and 705 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: now it's gone to hell. 706 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 3: Everybody's going to understand what happenedn't used to be. 707 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 2: Like this, so He points out that back in twenty 708 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 2: thirteen to twenty fourteen, it's like ten years ago, LA 709 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 2: did use flash incarceration. And we've made fun of flash 710 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 2: incarceration because sometimes that's what they're doing with the really 711 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 2: evil state prisoners who violate their probation. They throw them 712 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 2: into a county jail for a few days. But LA 713 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 2: used to do this for these kinds of broken window 714 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 2: crimes we talked about, and the city stopped arresting people 715 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 2: for vagrancy down ninety eight percent, failure to appear in 716 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 2: court down ninety eight percent, and contempt of court down 717 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 2: ninety one percent. So this is what we're talking about. 718 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 2: Everybody just gave up. And when you give up, this 719 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 2: is what you get. You get the streets overrun with 720 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 2: homelessness and drug use and all the other problem. 721 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 3: Does that go with that? 722 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 2: Something happened in New York and pretty much in Washington, 723 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 2: DC according to analysis so well, because the low level 724 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 2: criminals and the vagrants, if they're constantly being put in 725 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 2: jail for ten days at a time, will either change 726 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 2: their behavior or change the location of their behavior. But 727 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 2: to go from putting on nearly five thousand low level 728 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 2: of criminals away to almost zero. I mean it was 729 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,360 Speaker 2: really almost zero. And the same thing with the vagrancy 730 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 2: and all the other minor crimes. Well, now you see 731 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 2: what happens. And we think that three strikes was another 732 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: reason why we had a nice period of low crime 733 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,799 Speaker 2: in California, along with the idea and the cities of 734 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 2: the broken window policing was given up on. 735 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: This is part of the reason we are where we are. Yeah, 736 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: it's shocking. You enforce the law. The criminals are held 737 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: at bay. If you don't enforce the law, then they 738 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: run wild. 739 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to get a residence 740 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 2: perspective on what's been going on on the West side 741 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 2: there in the Biona Wetlands and Plia del Rey where 742 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 2: there's been a horrible parking of RVs now for years, 743 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 2: and the story is that at least a thousand foot 744 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 2: stretch of it has gotten cleaned up. Johnny Ken, caf 745 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 2: I AM six forty Live everywhere iHeartRadio. 746 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,279 Speaker 3: App Mark in the twenty four hour Cafe Newsroom. 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