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Speaker 2: talk right out with my councilwoman, Tracy Park, who I

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Speaker 2: hold up as one of the few shining lights in

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Speaker 2: politics in the entire States. She replaced the idiot Mike

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Speaker 2: Bonden some years ago and has really transformed the West

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Speaker 2: side of Los Angeles. There is far fewer homeless encampments.

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Speaker 2: I drive around and I look for them, and I've

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Speaker 2: called her office a few times to report stuff I've seen,

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Speaker 2: and they've taken care of it. And now she Jim McDonald,

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Speaker 2: the new LAPD Police chief, and the new District Attorney

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Speaker 2: in La County, Nathan Hockman, they got together to announce

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Speaker 2: a new crime fighting measure for the district on the

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Speaker 2: west side of Los Angelet's get Let's get Tracy park

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Speaker 2: On Tracy.

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Speaker 3: How are you, John, Hi, I'm good, great to talk

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Speaker 3: to you.

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Speaker 1: When are you running for mayor?

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Speaker 3: That's a good question, you know. Right now, I am

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Speaker 3: focused on cleaning up the mess on the West Side

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Speaker 3: that we were left with after a decade of neglect

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Speaker 2: You're telling me talk about this this initiative because it's

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Speaker 2: got several parts to it and it's all good to

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Speaker 2: fight crime and to make life better for people on

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Speaker 1: So go through the whole package.

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Speaker 3: Sure, So, I am really excited about this. You know,

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Speaker 3: residents on the West Side have been subjected to home burglaries, mashions,

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Speaker 3: with it. We also know that we have serious, dangerously

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Speaker 3: low understaffing levels in LAPD, so in the interim, I

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Speaker 3: have introduced this package that includes about a half a

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Speaker 3: million dollars spend on automated license plate readers that will

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Speaker 3: be installed around strategic entry points and within the district.

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Speaker 3: That will be a tool to help our police with

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Speaker 3: situational awareness in real time, as well as a source

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Speaker 3: We also are funding dedicated over time to LAPD so

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Speaker 3: that we can increase the number of police patrols present

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Speaker 3: on the streets in our community. Also, for the first

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Speaker 3: time in history, we have secured a dedicated park ranger

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Speaker 3: presence for Ocean Front Walk, which is our city's most

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Speaker 3: frequently used creation and tourist destination. And we also think

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Speaker 3: It gives crime a place to thrive. So we are

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Speaker 3: also investing money and our partners at Bureau of Street

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Speaker 3: proud to stand with our new police chief and our

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Speaker 3: that the West Side is a great place to live,

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Speaker 3: to work, and to visit. But I also am sending

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Speaker 3: a message that if you come here and commit crime,

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Speaker 3: failed social experiment in CD eleven is over.

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Speaker 1: This is so exciting.

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Speaker 2: I want to have a party, because this is consumed

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Speaker 2: life on the West Side, as you know. For you,

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Speaker 2: in fact, every one of these initiatives that you laid

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Speaker 2: with it on my neighborhood. On my block, for example,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the copper.

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Speaker 2: Wire was stolen or what the story was, but suddenly

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Speaker 1: Went dark, which is scary.

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Speaker 3: It is scary, and it makes the neighborhood inviting to criminals.

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Speaker 3: It gives them the cover of darkness that they need

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Speaker 3: of it. John. I speak to constituents every day that

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Speaker 3: we're standing together, united in the message we are taking

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Speaker 1: In CB eleven, you are this is not hyperbole.

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Speaker 2: I know several families that have moved out or are

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Speaker 2: And crime is a big part of it. I mean,

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Speaker 2: everybody's sick of that police helicopters over our neighborhoods almost

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Speaker 1: Must be chasing the same guys over and over again.

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Speaker 3: Well, and because under the watch of people like Mike

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Speaker 3: Bonnon and George Gascon, criminals got the message that it

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Speaker 3: going to take back our streets, We are prioritizing cleaning

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Speaker 3: going to get our communities back on track. The constituents, residents,

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Speaker 3: and stakeholders in Council District eleven deserve nothing less.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know we're short on police, and I know

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Speaker 2: there are some neighborhoods that have far more criminal activity

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Speaker 2: with the burglaries, way more than anything I ever remember

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Speaker 2: been out here thirty years, and the police presence is

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Speaker 2: People are thinking of signing up with two security services

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Speaker 2: on top of all the taxes they pay for LIPD.

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Speaker 3: That's right, and that is an untenable burden to put

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Speaker 3: It's not fair that our businesses have to hire private security,

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Speaker 3: It's not sustainable and we've got to fix this. And

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Speaker 3: you know, unfortunately, with police staffing levels being what they are,

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Speaker 3: we are going to have to supplement with technology. We

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Speaker 3: know these licensed plate readers are a great way to

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Speaker 3: do this. We actually thought a rollout in Council District

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Speaker 3: we have criminals coming from all over the world to

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Speaker 3: chief and the district attorney, and at least this council

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Speaker 3: We're coming for you.

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Speaker 2: Tracy. You are terrific. You really are the best. And

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Speaker 2: let's talk again soon. I know you have to run.

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Speaker 3: You got it, John, have a good day, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Tracy Park the councilwoman on the West Side, I wasn't kidding.

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Speaker 2: She ought to be the mayor. Uh more coming up?

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Speaker 2: Oh this hour. This fascinates me, this story. If you

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Speaker 2: heard about the drones in New Jersey. Every night, there's

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Speaker 2: all these drones up in the sky. Nobody knows what

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Speaker 2: they are. They're hovering a lot of them near Trump's

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Speaker 2: hovering in the area where I grew up, and nobody

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Speaker 2: wants to say in government what these are, and everybody

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Speaker 2: reason the government says they don't know is maybe because

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Speaker 2: it's the government that sent up the drones. All there's

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Speaker 2: a secret agency that even most people in government are

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Speaker 2: not aware of. I don't know if it's behind these drones, but.

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Speaker 1: We're going to explore it.

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Speaker 2: And we're still going to have a reporter from a

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Speaker 2: newsdation coming on after that, and.

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Speaker 4: I actually have a drone story to tell you about.

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Speaker 4: Oh you have a drones story?

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Speaker 5: I do?

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Speaker 2: All right, yes, all right, Well we'll get to all

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Speaker 2: this coming up, jam Packed Show.

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Speaker 2: the FBI doesn't know why there are dozens of drones

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Speaker 2: flying over New Jersey every night for weeks. They a

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Speaker 2: lot of have been flying over Trump's golf course in Bedminster.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: I grew up in New Jersey and worked there for

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Speaker 2: I've driven in every county, probably every town, every highway

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Speaker 2: at several radio stations in New Jersey, and one of

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Speaker 1: That's where I grew up. There are drones probably over

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Speaker 2: House and Sacon Morris County, in Hunterdon County in South Jersey,

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Speaker 2: and they're asking all the officials, and the officials are going,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. We don't know anything.

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Speaker 2: And the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, said there

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Speaker 2: were forty nine reports of drones just on Sunday, and

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Speaker 2: one state representative named Brian Bergen says he's not getting

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Speaker 2: enough information as to what's going on. He said there

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Speaker 2: story quoting some experts who say this may be a

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Speaker 2: don't even know about. This is according to Clinton Emerson,

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Speaker 2: a retired Navy seal, and he owns a security company

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Speaker 2: called Escape the Wolf.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this.

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Speaker 2: My first guess is there are potentially government programs kept

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Speaker 2: within what's known as a Special Access program, which is

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Speaker 2: personally purposely put together to keep even the most well

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Speaker 2: even to keep the people with the highest clearance, the

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Speaker 2: the government says we don't know. They're being truthful because

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Speaker 2: the people in government don't even know the program exists.

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Speaker 2: The circle could be as small as a dozen officials.

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Speaker 2: So this is a secret government agency doing drone tests.

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Speaker 2: It may be the technology they're carrying, not the drones themselves.

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Speaker 2: It could be different types of collection capabilities, different types

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Speaker 2: of cameras, high definition, infrared, thermal, or it could be

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Speaker 2: a payload that has hardware that scoops up all the

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Speaker 2: cell phone data in a given environment. Let's say we

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Speaker 4: We don't have any window covering, right, and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I remember the story. So maybe this

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Speaker 1: That is creepy.

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Speaker 2: Well, if it was targeted at your know, then I

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Speaker 1: You should know.

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Speaker 2: Because they're you know, when they're caught. No, they're always

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well wasn't made that day, So there you go.

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Speaker 2: how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm good, How are you?

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me?

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Speaker 1: What do you know about this? What are they saying

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Speaker 6: Well, not a lot, that's for sure. That are saying

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Speaker 6: Brian Bergen came out. He said, this is an amateur hour.

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Speaker 6: We don't have answers until you tell us the origin

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Speaker 2: Oh here?

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Speaker 6: And so far we have none of it, and.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's been able to capture one of these drones.

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Speaker 6: Not yet, not yet, but I imagine that is coming. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Anybody giving credence to what the Congressman from Jersey, Jeff

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Speaker 2: Andrews said that this is uh, these are Iranian drones

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we just we just talked to him, muse nation.

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Speaker 6: So you then, I was at a meeting today where

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Speaker 2: Jerseys incredibly densely populated, so you can't get away with

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Speaker 6: There's a munition site Earl, you know, is a naval site,

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Speaker 2: All right, I know, you gotta you gotta get on.

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Speaker 2: Rich McHugh from News Nation, thank you for coming on

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: According to this story, drones are legal in New Jersey

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Speaker 2: I mean, they actually held a meeting for all the

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Speaker 2: we will talk to Todd Benjman coming up after three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: This story is going to make you crazy. If there's

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Speaker 2: one thing I wish I could magically convince people of

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Speaker 2: is stop voting for homeless taxes. A few weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: the idiots of La County voted to double the homeless

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Speaker 2: sales tax and make it permanent. Even though enormous amounts

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Speaker 2: of money have been wasted, homelessness is not better in

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Speaker 2: most of the city. Karen Bass has failed with all

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Speaker 2: her promises. Well, here's the latest insult. Over a five

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Speaker 2: year period, twenty five percent of shelter beds in La

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Speaker 2: City went unused. Twenty five percent. We have a report

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Speaker 2: here from KTLA and Omar Lewis.

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Speaker 7: Despite efforts from the city to convert former hotels into

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Speaker 7: shelters like this one here in Woodland Hills, that audit

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Speaker 7: revealed some major gaps in how resources for homelessness are managed,

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Speaker 7: finding that one in four interim housing beds went unused

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Speaker 7: over a five year period, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions

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Speaker 7: of dollars.

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Speaker 1: We can tell you more information this morning.

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Speaker 7: From that audit by the LA City Controller, it found

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Speaker 7: that from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three, one in

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Speaker 7: four city funded shelter beds went unused, costing life Los

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Speaker 7: Angeles taxpayers and estimated two hundred and eighteen million dollars.

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Speaker 7: That's according to the audit released on Tuesday by LA

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Speaker 7: City Controller Kenneth Mahea. The report revealed that only twenty

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Speaker 7: percent of interim shelter residents transitioned to permanent housing, while

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Speaker 7: more than half returned to homelessness or had unknown outcomes.

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Speaker 7: Mahia called the findings unjustifiable, saying any bed that goes

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Speaker 7: unfilled means an unsheltered person living on the streets is

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Speaker 7: waiting longer than they need to move into a safer

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Speaker 7: space and begin their path to permanent housing. Now, the

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Speaker 7: Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, or LASA, said many of

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Speaker 7: the issues occurred before current leadership took over. Lasa's current

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Speaker 7: CEO says that her team has prioritized improvement since day one,

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Speaker 7: and that includes a record eighteen percent increase in permanent

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Speaker 7: housing placements last year and new systems to track bed

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Speaker 7: availability and performance. Still, the audit emphasizing systemic issues, including

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Speaker 7: severe day quality problems and a lack of formal reservation policies.

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Speaker 7: Mehia also pointed to barriers like landlord discrimination against people

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Speaker 7: using housing vouchers, urging lawmakers to address these challenges head on.

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Speaker 7: In a statement from Controller, Mahia reads, in part, this

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Speaker 7: is unjustifiable, especially giving that there's a massive bed shortage.

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Speaker 7: Local lawmakers should pass legislation that would prevent landlords from

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Speaker 7: requiring credit checks for people using vouchers or subsidies. It

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Speaker 7: would eliminate an unnecessary barrier to permanent housing now. That

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Speaker 7: audit also went on to recommend other things to the city,

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Speaker 7: like adding more housing navigators and also clarifying some of

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Speaker 7: the ways that the city collects his data.

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Speaker 1: Here from that report, we have reached.

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Speaker 7: Out to representatives from LASA and the City Controller's office

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Speaker 7: to react and respond with an interview to this latest audit.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we'll bring that to you as soon as

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Speaker 1: it happens.

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Speaker 2: So over a five year period, twenty five percent of

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Speaker 2: the beds were unused cost US two hundred and eighteen

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Speaker 2: million dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's our tax.

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Speaker 2: Money, and you all went out and doubled the homeless

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Speaker 2: tax that's good idea. So maybe next time they do

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Speaker 2: an audien, we'll find out they wasted four hundred million

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Speaker 2: dollars and mentioned in the report, and I want to

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Speaker 2: explore this one. Officials have cited several challenges preventing i'll

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Speaker 2: call them vagrants from acquiring permanent housing. Well, acquiring permanent well,

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Speaker 2: they're not going to acquire anything. They have no money.

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Speaker 2: You acquire something when you pay for it.

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Speaker 6: I mean.

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Speaker 2: He has said when a person receives a voucher or

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Speaker 2: a subsidy for permanent housing, they often face discrimination to

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Speaker 2: get a lease because landlords want credit checks. Yeah, landlords

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Speaker 2: want credit checks exactly you're supposed to. They want a

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Speaker 2: state law that would forbid landlord from require a credit

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Speaker 2: check from a homeless person with a voucher. So if

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Speaker 2: the voucher runs out, then the landlord would be stuck

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Speaker 2: with the drug addict or the mental patient. Because you know,

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Speaker 2: it's nearly impossible to evict anybody, so how the hell.

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Speaker 1: Would you get rid of them?

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Speaker 2: Because giving them this home with a voucher does not

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Speaker 2: cure their mental illness or their drug addiction. Landlords ought

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Speaker 2: to be able to discriminate you because you're a drug

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Speaker 2: addict or because you're a mental patient, and having a

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Speaker 2: housing voucher proves that you are nearly all the homeless people.

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Speaker 2: Our drug addicts mental patients are both nearly all of them,

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Speaker 2: the ones out in the street.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, so we.

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Speaker 2: All, oh my god, we spend our lives paying our

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Speaker 2: bills to ensure our credit rating. That's the most important

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Speaker 2: thing in the world. When you're a responsible adult, and

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Speaker 2: I you know what I don't. I would never want

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Speaker 2: to rent anything out to anyone.

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Speaker 7: Mhm.

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Speaker 2: Because everything is about forcing the landlord to risk their property,

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Speaker 2: to risk control of their property, to.

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Speaker 1: The to a lunatic.

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Speaker 2: You know, landlords or business people, they're grown up, they're mature,

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Speaker 2: they take responsibility, they're they're they're trying to make money,

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Speaker 2: God forbid, you make when you're when you're you're leasing

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Speaker 2: out property, renting out rooms or whatever you're doing, you're

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Speaker 2: trying to earn profit, maybe live off that money. That's

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Speaker 2: that's like your job. Your job is is renting out

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Speaker 2: real estate or leasing out homes. Mahea that he did

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Speaker 2: the audit, but then all his ideas are nuts and

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Speaker 2: he's one of these socialists as well. Local lawmakers should

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Speaker 2: pass legislation that prevent landlords from requiring credit checks. This

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Speaker 2: is something that's been proposed at the state level but

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Speaker 2: has not been implemented. It would eliminate an unnecessary barrier

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Speaker 2: to permitted housing. There should be barriers to mental patients

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Speaker 2: and drug addicts from taking over your home forever.

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Speaker 1: Of course you should have a credit check. This is correct. Well,

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Speaker 1: I thought they were going to build all this housing.

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Speaker 1: What happened to that? Remember they were building at a

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Speaker 1: million dollars a pop. What a racket? What a bunch

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Speaker 1: of thieves? And then.

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Speaker 2: Some of the other recommendations which kind of got blown

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Speaker 2: by in that report formalizing reservation policy.

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Speaker 1: But they don't have a database.

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Speaker 2: When when when uh, when crazy homeless guy comes up?

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Speaker 2: There's that's there's not a clerk who says, Okay, we've

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Speaker 2: got you booked at this motel room on December seventeenth,

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Speaker 2: and you're allowed to stay there for two months, but you.

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Speaker 1: Got to get it. They don't have that.

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Speaker 2: They don't have the reservation policy, they don't have the

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Speaker 2: data of bed capacity, housing navigators, whatever the.

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Speaker 1: Hell that is.

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Speaker 2: We've given them billions of dollars, billions of dollars. Every

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Speaker 2: audit they do comes up with the same result. There's

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Speaker 2: still tens of thousands of people on the street. We

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Speaker 2: don't know where the money went. We think it's unfair

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Speaker 2: that landlords want credit checks. Can you imagine having a

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Speaker 2: home or an apartment building and the state saying you

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Speaker 2: can't do a credit check on this guy who's shown

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Speaker 2: up at your front door. By the way, he's not

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Speaker 2: wearing any pants, and he's got a crack pipe hanging

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Speaker 2: out of her out of his mouth, and he screams

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Speaker 2: at the moon all night. But it'd be discriminatory to

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Speaker 2: ask for a credit check. All right, We come back

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Speaker 2: Todd Bensman, and he's with Center for Immigration Studies. He

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Speaker 2: also writes a lot of great articles journalists, and he's

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Speaker 2: got a new piece in the Daily Mail what he

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Speaker 2: discovered inside these migrant Mexican camps, proving that Trump's policy,

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Speaker 2: as harsh as it is, is already working.

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Speaker 1: Todd ben Todd Benjman is going to explain next. Hey,

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