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Speaker 1: Alex Stone awaiting here. After a big flurry of activity

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Speaker 1: quiet again. Let's get Alex ABC news any any any,

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Speaker 1: anything new? Here. Well, yeah, I mean they're they're looking

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Speaker 1: at a lot of stuff, and that the flurry of

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Speaker 1: today they're investigating. This is a slow part of John

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Speaker 1: is not. Today the Sheriff's department saying, yes, they've recovered

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Speaker 1: that would be amazing and great likelihood though, is it's

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Speaker 2: Any deed that was thrown out on the side of

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Speaker 1: So that is why the FBI is actively in a

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Speaker 1: The brother in law is a musician, right then, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And that's why they got to look at all of that.

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Speaker 1: got going on in your life. There's been a lot

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Speaker 1: But they've got to go through all the family members

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Speaker 1: of would somebody have been targeting you know. I've even

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Speaker 1: And it's still you will hear from some law enforcement

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Speaker 3: six forty Tuesday.

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Speaker 5: The hated start stop feature onto America consumers, which unnecessarily

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Speaker 1: How about we have a fully funded fire department, fully

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Speaker 1: funded police department. I don't know how anybody argues with that,

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Speaker 1: but they do, and they try to tell you that, well,

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Speaker 1: the city is safe. Even even Jim McDonald says, look,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have crime down to levels from nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty seven. One of the reasons we have statistically fewer crimes,

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Speaker 1: first of all, is because a lot of legal, criminal,

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Speaker 1: illegal aliens were removed from the streets. They got deported.

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Speaker 1: Trump and his crowd deported thousands of illegal aliens. They

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Speaker 1: really were committing crimes, some of them there really was

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Speaker 1: a lot of bad guys. So of course, when you

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Speaker 1: take out thousands, whatever percentage of criminals are there, that's

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Speaker 1: going to lower the total. But here's here's where everything

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Speaker 1: breaks down. There are seventy two thousand homeless people in

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Speaker 1: the County of Los Angeles, and I'm not wasting my

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Speaker 1: time with people who are going, you know, and it's

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Speaker 1: down three percent. We have seventy two thousand, which is

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Speaker 1: seventy two thousand too many.

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Speaker 5: For a.

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Speaker 1: Normal city. I grew up in a town where we

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Speaker 1: had zero homeless people, right. I grew up in a

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Speaker 1: small suburban town New Jersey. There are about fifteen thousand people,

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Speaker 1: and all fifteen thousand were living under a real roof.

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Speaker 1: And now it wasn't a wealthy town. It was lower

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Speaker 1: middle class. It was like factory worker people, all right,

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Speaker 1: stay at home moms. So it was entirely normal. There

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Speaker 1: were no homeless people. If there was an occasional vagrant

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Speaker 1: stumbling around, the police picked them up, took them away.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to them, don't care. But

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, under Karen Bass and potentially under defund

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Speaker 1: the police Nthia Rahmen, they have allowed along with the

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Speaker 1: county supervisors. They have allowed homelessness to explode into unimaginable numbers.

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Speaker 1: These are numbers that could not have been imagined if

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Speaker 1: you go back, you know, ten to twenty years. And

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Speaker 1: when people see these vagrants wandering around in their neighborhoods,

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Speaker 1: they don't feel safe. So most people will tell you,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel safe out here. And then officials will say, well,

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Speaker 1: if you look at the statistics, like well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: homeless people commit crimes all day long. They're just not

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Speaker 1: arrested for them. They're not enforced, they're not written up

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Speaker 1: on the statistics sheet. For example, you know the average

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Speaker 1: person has to defecate, oh, any once a day, twice

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Speaker 1: a day. The homeless people do all their business out

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Speaker 1: in the street. How many crimes right there are not reported.

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Speaker 1: There used to be crimes like disturbing the peace and

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Speaker 1: you know these these people scream well into the night. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's not written up as crimes anymore either, these quality

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Speaker 1: of life crimes. No, they're not murder, they're not rape,

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Speaker 1: and oh there's a fair amount of that with this crowd.

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Speaker 1: They must steal stuff, right, they're using drugs openly in

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Speaker 1: the streets they're injecting and starting, and our tax buddy

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Speaker 1: is going to provide them the needles and the meth

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Speaker 1: pipes and the crack pipes. But those aren't counted as crimes.

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Speaker 1: So just count up all the drug crimes. Just count

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Speaker 1: up all the theft crimes, the public her nation and

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Speaker 1: defecation crimes, the harassment crimes. You know, when somebody's is

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Speaker 1: yelling at you on the street and haggling you're trying

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Speaker 1: to get money, that's that's harassment. That's a crime right there.

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Speaker 1: So every day there are thousands of crimes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: every single vagrant in the street must commit a half

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Speaker 1: a dozen of those crimes every day. But it's all

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Speaker 1: wiped away as a zero. And then the progressives, the

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Speaker 1: officials who are afraid of the progressives, will tell you, well, no,

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Speaker 1: crimes actually at its lowest rate. No, the crime that

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Speaker 1: you choose to count is that it's lowest rate. Over

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Speaker 1: here in the real world, where we have to deal

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Speaker 1: with the truth and not your lies, the crime is

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Speaker 1: intolerable because everybody's afraid to leave, certainly at night, to

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Speaker 1: leave their house to walk in the streets. Of course

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Speaker 1: they are, that's a rational response. It's not because people

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Speaker 1: are reading too much Twitter, too much to the neighborhood app.

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Speaker 1: It's not because they're connected to the citizen app. It's

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Speaker 1: not because they're watching too much of the five and

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock news. It's because they see with their own

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Speaker 1: eyes mental patients, schizophrenics, bipolar patients, violent angry misfits, drug addicts,

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Speaker 1: crazy people. In short, they see it every day. And

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Speaker 1: it used to be that you couldn't be a crazy

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Speaker 1: person and live in a public place. And because the

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Speaker 1: progressives have embraced them as part of their holy trinity,

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Speaker 1: the holy trinity of vagrants, illegal aliens, and criminals, and

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Speaker 1: they vow to protect all their rights ahead of all

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Speaker 1: of our rights, us normal people who pay taxes. And

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Speaker 1: this is what makes me crazy about the public debate,

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Speaker 1: if there even is a public debate. They don't consider

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Speaker 1: all the things that frighten ordinary people to be crimes anymore.

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Speaker 1: They don't count them. And then they give you a

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Speaker 1: bunch of phony, nonsense, garbage statistics. They lie to you,

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Speaker 1: they light to it, and they are professionals that they've

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Speaker 1: hired to lie to you, to go on news shows

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Speaker 1: and talk shows and spout out all their false, misleading, twisted,

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Speaker 1: nonsense statistics. But you know I've got eyes, You've got eyes.

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Speaker 1: You see what you see? Well, come back, I'll get

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Speaker 1: to this New York Post story. How many calls an

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Speaker 1: hour do you think the Los Angeles Police Department gets

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Speaker 1: about homeless people? How many calls an hour? Give you

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Speaker 1: that number. When we come back.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have State Senator Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach,

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Speaker 1: a Republican, and he has a bill called the Fixed

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Speaker 1: nine to one one Act. You know the Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: blew a half a billion dollars on a new nine

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Speaker 1: to one one system and it didn't work. It completely failed,

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Speaker 1: bordered a border from the mountains to the sea. The

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Speaker 1: whole nine to one one system was busted from day one.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't work. Half a billion dollars. Well, Tony Strickland

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Speaker 1: has a bill to try to deal with that. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about it with him and the LAPD. There was

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Speaker 1: a story about their nine to one one experiences right now.

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Speaker 1: Do you know that one third of calls to the

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Speaker 1: LAPD are now homeless people? With mental health problems. One

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Speaker 1: third of the calls forty an hour. The phone rings

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Speaker 1: at an LAPD station forty times or at nine to

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Speaker 1: one one forty times an hour, and it's the same

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Speaker 1: thing crazy guys screaming or somebody reporting a crazy guy

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Speaker 1: screaming or menything, menacing threatening.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Jim McDonald told this to The California Post. He said,

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Speaker 1: we spend an awful lot of our patrol time dealing

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Speaker 1: with people who have mental health issues. Police get called

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Speaker 1: when somebody is threatening someone see, but they'll tell you

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Speaker 1: that that's not a crime, right, that's not in the

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Speaker 1: crime statistics, That crime is down. You are getting forty

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Speaker 1: calls an hour about this of people feeling threatened. How

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Speaker 1: many is that in a What is that? That's like

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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty every six hours. That's about a thousand, right,

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Speaker 1: that's a thousand calls about somebody having a mental health breakdown? Wow,

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Speaker 1: a day, thousand a day. One LAPD source told the Post.

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Speaker 1: Things will get pushed aside. We listen to the community,

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Speaker 1: and many in the community are sharing with us that

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Speaker 1: they're concerned with these encampments. So we have to be responsive.

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Speaker 1: So people are calling people are calling all day, a

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Speaker 1: thousand times a day to say, crazy person in the

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Speaker 1: homeless encampment is having some kind of moment. Jim McDonald's

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Speaker 1: said that. That's when McDonald started talking about the lack

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Speaker 1: of police. We only have eighty seven hundred. He goes,

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Speaker 1: we need substantially more than ten thousand. We need twelve thousand. Now,

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Speaker 1: remember he hired somehow the police department hired four hundred

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Speaker 1: people this year without having the money for it. But

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Speaker 1: now the city council is going to fund it anyway.

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Speaker 1: But he says it even hiring four hundred, we're still

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Speaker 1: at a deficit for the year. We're going to lose

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Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty to six hundred people to retirement.

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Speaker 1: So here we are, two years out from the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: five months out from the World Cup, and we're in

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Speaker 1: a challenging spot. Nithia Ramen and we'll talk about this

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Speaker 1: next hour. Nthia Ramen back in twenty twenty posted that

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Speaker 1: we should defund the police. She's running for mayor. Now.

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Speaker 1: Progressives are really excited because they hate the police. They

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Speaker 1: hate them. These are the people who go on on

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Speaker 1: and cheer when a police officer is killed there's apparently

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Speaker 1: more of them than I ever knew in the city

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Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, because Nythia Ramen is the hottest thing

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Speaker 1: going and she's a defund the police girl. Now Karen

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Speaker 1: will deny that she is, but she is because look

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Speaker 1: at her funding. We're down to eighty seven hundred people

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Speaker 1: and headed south Virregosa ten thousand. Bass eighty seven hundred

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Speaker 1: would have been eighty three hundred if McDonald hadn't hired

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Speaker 1: four hundred people when nobody was looking. So Bass and

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Speaker 1: Nythia Rahman, the allegedly two leading candidates, defund the policers.

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Speaker 1: And I don't care what they say today. I look

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Speaker 1: at what they said in the past and what they've done.

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Speaker 1: Because Nithie Raman voted against the most recent LA police

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Speaker 1: pay package, so she doesn't want him hired, and she

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Speaker 1: doesn't want him paid, and she doesn't really want him

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Speaker 1: to exist. And these two, these two who have who

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Speaker 1: love to fund homelessness, embrace homelessness and give free reign

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Speaker 1: to the crazy people, defund the police department with all

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Speaker 1: the power that they have. If there's a vote, Romen

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Speaker 1: votes against police funding. Karen Bass just doesn't hire anybody.

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Speaker 1: Jim McDonald had to go around system to hire four

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Speaker 1: hundred people. Nobody even knows how these four hundred, where

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Speaker 1: they came from, how how it was done. But once

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Speaker 1: they were there, then the city council decide, well, I

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Speaker 1: guess we got to pay them. Now here's your choices.

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Speaker 1: We have more coming up. Tony Strickland on newsom sebusted

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Speaker 1: nine to one one. The nine to one one operation

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Speaker 1: cost US half a billion dollars. He's got a bill

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Speaker 1: to try to address that. That's next. Debor Mark live

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