WEBVTT - Bad Mayor Monday: Todd Gloria 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.200 I did eat a whole sleeping oreos in front of 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.399 a seven eleven today and was scolded by a ten 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:14.280 year old. It was it was for medical reasons. Okay, 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.160 how am I going to introduce? How do we need 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.439 to start? That's the start, We already got it. Okay, yeah, 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:23.079 we're doing the oreos yep, ten year old children? Okay, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.119 I guess yeah, yeah, yeah, this is where it worked. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:30.400 And today everyone, because it's Monday, we are starting something 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.560 that we like to call shitty mayres Monday. I don't 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.120 know as we'll actually let us put shitty in the 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.120 in the in the title. They might, they might. That's 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.360 that's that's what we're calling it. That's what we're calling 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.080 it on the can't stop us here. It would be 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.680 funnier if it just had like ten seconds of bleep 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.840 and then it was like bears Monday, like I'd said, 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.320 some truly unfathomable shit. Okay. So we've noticed that across 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.279 America right there a lot of mayors who ran and 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.520 were elected as liberals, progressives, certainly as Democrats, but tend 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.080 to have governed in a particularly shitty and terrible way 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.800 that doesn't really have any material difference from a Republican mayor, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.040 but like the way that they post on Instagram is 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.399 a little bit different. So I guess that is nice. 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.800 And we're starting with the town I live in, which 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.080 is San Diego, and with the mayor we have, who 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.680 is Todd Gloria. The people might have heard of Tod Gloria, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.120 and last year we did we did an episode with 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.800 several people who work with an How's people in San 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.360 Diego Mutual Aid workers advocates, and they spoke a lot 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.320 about Todd Gloria. Not in glowing terms, but we spoke 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.800 about Tod Gloria. So we're going to talk about his 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.840 record on homelessness, We're going to talk about his life 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.560 a little bit, and then we're going to look at 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.639 sort of the promises he made when he was elected, 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.720 I guess, and the things that he's done, which it 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.639 will shock you to hear, are not the same things. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.880 And we're also going to talk about his hip hop video. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.920 Yeah yeah, yeah, Bunny really yeah he did. He did 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.360 Return of the Mat but hilariously changed it to Todd 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.560 Gloria is Back. Oh yeah, No. If you want to 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:12.680 see some problematically sinking, you're going to Yeah, Grace yourself. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.640 A local newspaper had a headline that called it the 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:22.320 cringiest video ever, which rare wind for local media. Everyone's 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.200 in a while, local news does one good thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, occasionally, 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.639 like like like a stopped clock there, yeah exactly, yeah yeah, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.919 all right. So when Todd Gloria talks about his early life, 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.600 he talks about being the son of a maid in 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.040 a gardener, and it's a way I think of distinguishing 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.240 himself from the very few elites who have held power 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.200 in the city for a very long time, people whose 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.519 names are on every building. But his dad's LinkedIn profile 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.560 tells a little bit of a different story. According to 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.200 his own LinkedIn account, Phil Gloria a sixty four, there's 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.320 been in the aerospace industry for many years, including as 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.160 a production controller at General Atomics, who people might remember 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.880 as a manufacturers of the Predator and Reapid drones. Oh yeah, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.600 so it's a slightly different story, right, It's different from 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.720 made in a gardener. Prior to working at General Atomics 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.840 to a Gloria works for fourteen years the supervisor United Technologies, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.239 another errors space and technology company. Gloria has clarified later 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.040 that his parents didn't work in those specific fields that 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.800 the son of a maiden a guiden the thing recently, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.080 but they did when he was born, so he wasn't 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.000 he's not. Yeah, I don't, that's bullshit. Like I could, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.160 I can. I could take this argument and argue that 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.840 like I am the child of like a pancake maker 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.480 and a dishwasher, like this is a yeah, yeah, it's 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.080 like it's it's sort of classic like this classic politicians, right, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.560 like like telling enough of the truth for it not 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.560 to be a lie, but but maybe not telling the 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.120 whole truth. And like I know, like like my folks 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.680 worked in agriculture when I was a kid. They still do, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.800 but like they also worked very hard, you know to 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.360 like provide for me and get a better splace in life. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.600 And I wouldn't want to run them down by denigrating 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.440 the work that they did, but hey, I don't want 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.560 to be a mayor either. Yeah. It's also like also 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.520 like you know, you don't get to do your fucking 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.600 like burnishing working class credentials and then your dad worked 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:19.960 for a fucking like yeah, yeah, none of my parents 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.560 have ever made a reaper drone, so I guess I 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.600 do have that in my favor, it is an extremely 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.120 San Diego story. In twenty twenty, San Diego Union Tribune 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.640 wrote he was running so to San Diego. Story that 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.480 allowed his mother, a hotel maid and his father, a gardener, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.320 to work hard and afford a home doesn't end with 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.640 their generation. That story seemed to admit the glaring reality 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.080 that San Diego is one of the least affordable cities 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.680 in the world right now, and it's housing as unaffordable 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.120 as ever has been, and it's got worse since took 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.320 Gloria became mayor. So who is to Gloria. He's an 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.360 enrolled member of the clinget hyda Indian tribe of Alaska. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.560 He was born and raised in San Diego and graduated 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.960 from me Versity of San Diego with a bachelor's degree 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.359 in history and political science. He began his career to 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.279 San Diego's Health and Human Services Agency, and then he 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.600 worked with Congresswoman's Susan Davis, who became his mentor. He 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.560 was elected to the city Council in two thousand and 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.920 eight and two thousand and twelve and served as interim 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.520 mayor from August twenty thirteen to March twenty fty He 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.279 was also elected to the California State Assembly in twenty 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.400 sixteen and twenty eighteen, and he chose not to seek 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.800 reelection for the Assembly when he launched his campaign for 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.040 mayor in twenty twenty. So he's done the kind of 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.000 the sort of the climb up of offices that you 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.680 see a lot of these folks do, right, And I'm 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.400 sure that he has admissions to run for further office. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.120 That would be my guests. So in twenty twenty he 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.559 was elected mayor of San Diego. He became our first 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.400 gay mayor, our first mayor of color, our first indigenous mayor. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:50.800 So it was a lot of first for us. And 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.159 it is good to have a gay indigenous mayor, right like, 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.400 if we're going to have a mayor, you didn't know. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.320 It's nice to there's a position. It's open to more people. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.640 But unfortunately he hasn't done a lot else to encourage 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.200 up with social mobility. He made a big push for 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.480 private sector housing building as opposed to subsidize public housing, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.920 and he promised police reform. In a twenty op ed 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.080 for The Union Tribune, Lauria wrote, we watched in horror 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.320 as George Floyd was killed by four Minneapolis police officers. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.920 Mister Floyd and other victims of excessive force by law 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:27.320 enforcement demand that we revisit, reconsider, and reimagine how police 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.839 operate in our community and how we expect them to 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.040 interact with the public. It's time we work together to 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.520 create a more just system of policing. The primary responsibility 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.440 of government is protected. It's people, all people. Many of 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.880 us don't feel safe or protected, particularly our black community, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.760 so it seems like a like a pro at least 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.000 reform statement, right. He went on to say, whether it's 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.040 our mental health crisis or a homelessness crisis, we resort 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.520 to the same solution, send the police and arrest people. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.880 We have to stop severely penalizing some people for minors 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.560 steps and invest in lifting people up from difficult situations. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.000 I will need to put a pin in that. As 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.480 we talk about his politics, it will shock you to 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.200 hear that he's done exactly that. He also wrote, the 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.480 rapidly expanding and secretive use of digital surveillance of our 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.440 community members is unconstitutional and it should end. Again put 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.160 a pin in that. As we get back to discussion 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.440 of the cameras that we're putting on street lights in 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.520 San Diego. So in a PDF of his plan to 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.720 end homelessness, which has been removed from his campaign website 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.840 but was sank represerved by our friends at Voice of 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.440 San Diego, Gloria wrote, no more criminalizing the existence of 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.960 San Diego's poorest and sicus residence. He also told right 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.000 wing news station KUSI that San Diego cannot claim to 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.720 be America's finest city or even a great city where 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.040 thousands of people live unsheltered and dying on our streets. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.960 It's time to stop the band aids, the temporary solutions, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.080 and bad policy from city hall on this issue, he said. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.400 As mayor, my administration will prioritize ending chronic homelessness, focus 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.000 the cities energy and resources and results oriented programs proven 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.880 to get homeless individuals off the street, connected to services, 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.680 and back on their feet. Not to be fair. Well, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.480 one is that anything okay, like any person who was 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.480 running from mayor, is the system out can lying to 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.720 you about what they're going to do. The second thing 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.560 is if you ever hear someone say the words results oriented, 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.880 it is time to grab like the largest saber you 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:29.960 have and like get to work. Oh yeah, And as 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.599 we'll discover the results that he has oriented towards somewhat disappointing. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.360 For I was gonna say for all of us. Hashtag 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.599 for all of us is his campaign slogan. It's yeah, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.080 it's just it's very cringe and I don't know, will 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.720 it's very sad when we see the impact of this 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.720 for like the least fortune of people in San Diego 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.800 and then like it, it is very funny. But when 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.680 you see how this plays out on the street, so 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:01.000 it's also very sad. You know what is also very funny. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:09.000 I'm kind of sad. Mia the coin, so yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.680 it's a Ronald Reagan silver coins that pay for my 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:27.000 friends to get hormones. So please enjoy these adverts. Thank 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:33.760 thank you, ally Ronald Reagan for funding the HRT. Yeah, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.040 thanks for Ronnie. All Right, we're back and we're talking 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.720 about Todd Gloria, san Diego's mayor, and we've just before 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.599 the break we talked about like his promises, right, so 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.400 let's see how he did on those promises. I want 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.600 to start with January nine, twenty twenty one. Tod Gloria 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.760 taken office a few days before. If you can cast 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.800 your mind back then there have been a significant event 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.559 at the at the Capitol A couple of days before 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.160 Proud Boys the Nazis Earth assorted ch decided to visit 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:05.120 San Diego. Three days after they visited the capitol, Anti 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.559 Fascist assembled shows them they weren't welcome, and the police 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.920 responded by declaring the anti Fascis assembly illegal, escorting the 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.520 chent around Pacific Beach as they did various crimes and 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.520 trying to shoot me in the dick with pepper balls. 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.000 Garrison's just smirking, I thought. Gloria, the guy who ran 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.120 on police reform, had this to say. Mayor Gloria spoke 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.240 candidly about what happened at the Capitol and how that's 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.960 reverberating around the country. After seeing what happened in Washington 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.200 on Wednesday, What are you doing out on our streets 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:38.520 supporting that mess right racism, fascism, anti democracy. Why would 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.840 you choose to be out there, Gloria says, despite his feelings, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:48.040 San Diego supports peaceful protests of all kinds. But on Saturday, 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.240 police say three people were arrested and five officers suffered 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.440 minor injuries. We're asking for the public's assistance and helping 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.520 us identify some of those folks who we were not 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.800 able to apprehend yesterday, to make sure they held account 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.800 with these people on both sides of the debate. Both sides, Yeah, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.000 both sides. So some of you remember some other people 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.200 have caught out people on both sides the debate. So 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.839 I think the most blatant sort of thing he did 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.679 with regard to the police comes after Derek Shovin, the 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.400 cop who murdered George Floyd, was convicted of murder. I 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.160 guess a few you can probably remember where you were 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.520 that day. I can remember I was, and it was 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.280 at the very least after an entire summer of protest. Right, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.520 it was like the smallest token instance accountability, but I 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.760 guess at least it was something. And in that moment 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.000 told Gloria, who was looking at that same thing that 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.360 nearly everyone was looking at in this country that day. Right, 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.760 He thought about what he wanted to do, and he 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.200 decided that rather than talking to the black organizers who 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.959 had been a street for almost a year and have 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.720 been peppable and tear gassed and maced and never stopped 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.920 in minding justice, he was instead going to call the 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:00.880 cops and he's such many such cases. Yeah yeah, and 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.360 check out the video that the verdict wasn't making him sad. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.920 What he did was took over the entire police scanner 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.400 radio thing and delivered a message to the cops, which 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:16.000 I've got audio of here. Colleague, this is Mere Todd Gloriam. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.920 I want to address each and every single one of 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.920 you who nobly serve our great city. Today's verdict is 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.439 just the beginning of building a deeper trust with our community. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.520 Justice will served today against someone who does not represent you, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.280 or us, or our department, or who we are as 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.440 a nation. So I want you to hear from me today. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.680 I know who you are. You are people who help 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.240 complete strangers on the worst day in their life. You 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.199 are people who believe in collaboration in community. You're people 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.760 who put your lives on the line every single day 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.800 to protect this city. I and the people of San 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.280 Diego are grateful for your dedication and your service. With 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.480 today's decision made, there's now time for all of us 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.400 to come together, to heal and to move forward. Please 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.120 take care of yourself of each other. You know the 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.640 people of this great city. Be safe. Everybody has anyone 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.560 ever said the words to move forward and not be 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.640 in like, not just be an absolute dipshit. This sounds 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.880 like it was written by an ai y. Yeah, if 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.199 you had a chat GPT for a liberal mayor, it 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:29.200 wouldn't look hugely different to several mayor statements. Yeah yeah, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.640 chat GPT, right, liberal mayor writing a ponto the cops. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.480 Now it's time to heal and come together as a community. Yeah, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.880 stop with you a black lives mattering. It's it's scary. Yeah. Yeah, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.880 it was extremely cringe like, especially when you consider how 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.319 it differs from what he was saying just a few 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.080 months ago. And that again, like this was about a 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.360 man who murdered someone, and that somebody in sending it 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.640 was an STPD who killed the person, but somebody in 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.439 San Diego died in similar circumstances with someone doing a 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.720 carotid straight on them. A few days before this, Gloria 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.920 also proposed a budget. In his budget, he proposed that 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.520 we cut library hour significantly and lay off one hundred 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.680 and fifty three library employees, but give the police nineteen 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.240 million dollars more than a previous year. The previous year, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.880 I probably don't have to remind people is a year 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.280 in which San Diegans had turned up in droves at 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.360 zoom council meetings to urge the city to do the 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.840 exact opposite of this. Let's check in on that surveillance 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.760 claim he made. You remember that he said it was unconstitutional? Right, 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.440 so on ye the second of this year, told Gloria 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.040 in a shocking vault fast tweeted street light cameras and 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.560 license plates readers can be helpful public safety tools. You know, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.640 just because he thinks it's unconstitution or doesn't mean he 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.680 doesn't think it's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's once again 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.760 been held back from protecting the people of San Diego 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:53.400 by that pesky constitution. The city pass strong privacy protections 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.080 last year, and now it's time for at San Diego 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.320 PD to use this technology to keep us safe public eatings. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.080 To get this done, start soon. So yeah, these street lights, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.760 they were deactivated in twenty twenty, but they had previously 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.160 been introduced and build us a way to assess traffic patterns. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.000 But in fact, they never assessed traffic patterns. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:19.440 this will shock you. They put thousands of cameras and 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:24.120 microphones on our streets, including one outside a planned parenthood facility, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.120 you know, for traffic You know, the funniest part about this, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.040 this was literally the thing about doing traffic science was 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.200 this was literally Tom Cruise's cover story and like one 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:40.320 of the early Mission Impossible movies. So that's what we 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:45.520 have next. Is it fucking scientology coming for San Diego? Yeah, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.440 it'll it'll shock you to hear that we stopped using 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.240 these for very reasonable people had very reasonable concerns in 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.480 twenty twenty that you know, it's not a good idea 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:55.680 for the cops to be able to see and hear 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.160 everything that you do, to be able to read your 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.480 license plate and see everywhere that you go. Betond once 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.720 some back and if people actually want to follow the 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.200 discussion about having them back, because every single time, like 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.640 every single public meeting, there's someone and they'll stand up 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.760 and have a vehement like position pro cameras, and then 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.320 it'll turn out that they are like a prosecutor at 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:21.320 the DA's office or in one instance, there was a 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.440 prosecutor in one instance who insisted he was there in 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.600 his personal capacity, but like the lieutenant for Soron is 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:31.640 defending the surveillance cameras that are being posted around Middle Earth. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.560 Curious this, this guy whose name is not Big Brother, 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.880 is here to advocate for having cameras in your home. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:47.320 The King of the a new surveillance progres. But he's 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.520 wearing a fake mustache, so you can't tell who he is. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.680 So let's look at what he said about stopping criminalizing homelessness. Right, 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.680 And this is a big, big issue. In San Diego. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.760 We have a massive and growing gunhouse population because our 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.200 rent so are exceptionally high and oh waits are not. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.520 So the number of unhoused people has increased in the 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.040 Gloria so of death on the street, which hit a 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.439 record of five hundred and seventy four in the county 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.320 last year. So that's more than one person dying every 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.160 single day in the streets. Right. He's opened some shelters, 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.520 but some scouters are scheduled to close. The shelter beds 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.760 and traditional transitional housing provided have failed to go at 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.320 the same rate as a young house population. Let's haven't 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.639 stopped him taking photos and claiming every single one. It's 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.679 a huge step forward. We also continue to build what 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.119 are called congregate shelters, which which don't give people privacy, right, 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.040 which don't give them. A lot of people might not 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.720 want to go into a congreate shelter, into effectively a dormitory, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.000 and there are a number of reasons why you might 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.119 not want to do that, and yet that's what we're building. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.000 There are also some other sort of single occupisity shelters, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.600 but nowhere near enough. He's been a huge backer of 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.600 something called California's Care Court. Are you guys familiar with 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:01.520 the Care Court at all? No? No, this shit is dystopian. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.639 This could be a whole episode. Maybe one day it 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.080 will be CARE stands for community assistance, recovery and empowerment, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.840 which I have a feeling that this is not going 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.880 to be about empowerment. Yeah, when it's empowering someone Garrison, 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.040 but it's not empowered to people we might want to empower. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.159 What it is in practice, it's a massive expansion of 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.359 force conservatives ship. So I'm going to quote from Human 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.560 Rights Watch here. Human Rights Watch said the plan promotes 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.960 a system of involuntary coerced treatment enforced by an expanded 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.399 judicial infrastructure that will in practice simply remove unhoused people 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.320 with perceived mental health conditions from the public eye without 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:46.639 effectively addressing those mental health conditions. Jesus, Yeah, it's pretty bad. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.920 It doesn't provide money for mental health services. It takes 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.040 money that's already existing in the budget and puts it 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:58.520 across to court mandated treatments. It doesn't provide housing, which 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.199 the multiple study share that housing First's approach a housing 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.240 first approach is a way to solve homelessness. Instead, it 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.879 allows for a broad range of people, which include family members, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.200 first responders including cops and outreach workers, the public guardian, 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.240 service providers, and the director of the county Behavioral Health agency, 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.320 to refer individuals to the jurisdiction of the court to 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.399 take away their autonomy and liberty. It very broadly covers 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:28.040 people it describes to having schizophrenia, spectrum or other psychotic disorders. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.200 Under this system, judges can force people into treatment and housing. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.840 If they don't comply, they can be forced into conservatorship. Now, 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.119 obviously evidence doesn't support the conclusion that involuntary outpatient treatment 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.639 it's more effective than intensive voluntary outpatient treatment, and indeed 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.040 it does show that involuntary coercive treatment is harmful. But 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.800 it isn't really about people with mental health. It's about 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.800 keeping gun house people where they can't be seen, and 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.560 Human Rights Watch claims that this violates due process and 0:19:55.640 --> 0:20:00.280 international human rights conventions. And yet the Clode Door and 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:01.960 Gavin you some to be fair, who I'm sure we'll 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.159 run for president soon, have been cheer leading this and 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.120 it's I'm surprised it hasn't got more press coverage into 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.520 nationally and naturally sorry, because it's a massive assault on 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:17.120 personal freedoms, right, And it's extremely easy to effectively say 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.040 that somebody quote unquote need to mental health, help force 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.760 them into conservatorship. And if they're not willing to attend 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:24.879 these treatments, so they're not able to attend these treatments, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.439 that they're not willing to go into the housing that 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.680 they are assigned. Let's say that they don't want to 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:31.920 live in in congret at housing, right or something like that, 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.359 or they're in housing with someone who they don't feel 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.440 comfortable or safe with them, they could be forcing into 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.440 conservatorship and effectively lose all their liberty. Rent. Yeah, it's 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.200 pretty bad. It's a new and exciting way of criminalizing 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.800 homelessness effectively. Like I said, it doesn't provide housing, it 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.200 doesn't provide funding, for behavioral healthcare. It just directs existing 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:57.160 funding to court mandated programs. So I could pick hundreds 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.600 of other examples of this told glorious stuff, but I 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.520 want to pick one more to focus on, and it's 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.280 something that I think it gets a little bit like 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:12.840 inside politics, grifty stuff, but it like it has ruined 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.680 a good number of careers in San Diego politics. And 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.480 I'm really heavily indebted to that plan certain Voice of 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:24.200 San Diego for their reporting on this. But let's start 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.920 by talking about public restrooms. So I think most of 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:29.680 us are going to agree that, like having a safe 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:31.640 place to shit and wash your hands is a pretty 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.240 basic human right, but in San Diego it's something that 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:39.480 not everyone has. So since two thousand four, grand jury 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.480 reports have warned the city's inadequate public restroom infrastructure could 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.399 become a public health threat. That's what happened in twenty 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.240 seventeen and twenty eighteen when a hepatitis a swept through 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.280 the city, sickening five and eighty two people and killing 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.920 twenty So after the hepit yeah, it's not a thing 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.240 that like you expect, right and like like on the 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.919 left coast America's find a city most Americans will not encounter, 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:07.840 thankfully hepatitis in their lifetime and sadly made this isn't 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:12.200 our only hepatitis outbreak, so that's great. Oh no. And 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:17.280 so after the hepe outbreak, the city stopped locking restrooms 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.120 at night, which they had done previously, but that changed 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.760 with the COVID pandemic when the facilities were temporarily closed 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.479 and some have since not returned to twenty four seventh service. 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.639 Following this, a twenty twenty one Shigella outbreak second at 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:33.560 least forty one homeless residents, most of whom were staying 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.800