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Speaker 1: Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I just

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Speaker 1: found this. I just found this looking at my phone

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Speaker 1: wandering to the restroom. It's like every five minutes there's

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Speaker 1: something and up in San Francisco, near Fisherman's Wharf, a

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Speaker 1: TV reporter got video of criminals in Alexis driving along

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Speaker 1: a line of cars near the wharf, smashing windows and

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Speaker 1: stealing all the contents and then moving on to the

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Speaker 1: next car, in the next car, And this is in

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Speaker 1: the New York Post. Guys, if you could there might

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Speaker 1: be audio with it. There's certainly video, but see if

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Speaker 1: you can get audio with it, because the reporter trailed

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Speaker 1: the car as they were doing this south. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into more of those details coming up after three o'clock,

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Speaker 1: after three twenty, and then I'll perfect lead into Todd Spitzer,

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Speaker 1: three Orange County District Attorney, who doesn't think much of

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Speaker 1: La may Or Karen Bass and her task force to

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Speaker 1: stop the smashing grabs, and said this all goes back

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Speaker 1: to Bass and George Gascone because everything's been decriminalized. They've

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Speaker 1: emptied out their jails and prisons. They're zero bail and

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Speaker 1: the stuff is now spilling over into Orange County. They

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Speaker 1: had a smashing grab at the shopping mall and coast

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Speaker 1: The other issue that is out of control and nobody

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Speaker 1: is the vagrants, the mental patients and drug addicts who

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Speaker 1: live out on the streets. Joe then Attieri is the

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Speaker 1: mayor of Whittier and his city is trying to do

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Speaker 1: something because you know, everything spills over from Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: into a city like Whittier, and they've spent a lot

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Speaker 1: Daily News explaining what they're doing, and we thought we

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Speaker 2: Joe, you there, I am how you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good? What are you doing? And what's working?

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Speaker 2: So as you know, and we'll do all the history here.

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Speaker 2: We had two major encampments, one along WOODI or Boulevard,

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Speaker 2: those who were en camped. And then we had another

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Speaker 2: So we have had our share of the homelessness issue.

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Speaker 2: And well we ended up doing and we did it

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Speaker 2: with the under the auspices of the Orange County lawsuit

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Speaker 2: with Judge Carter, is we entered into an agreement whereby,

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Speaker 2: as you know under Martin versus Boisei, that Ninth Circuit

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Speaker 2: case basically said, hey, you can't enforce your quality of life,

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Speaker 2: no trespassing, no camping, blah blah blah ordinances unless you

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Speaker 2: the way I read that case is you don't have

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Speaker 2: So we went ahead and the people what you agreed

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Speaker 2: I'm not a big one for tax increases. Candidly, because

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Speaker 2: I think people do better keeping their money than giving

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Speaker 2: We went from nine nine point five up to ten

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Speaker 2: went to what are your police department? Someone went to

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Speaker 2: And what we ended up doing is we end up

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Speaker 2: will do homeless services for us, then we will met

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Speaker 2: the agreement under that lawsuit of the sixty beds for

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Speaker 2: And so what I said in this newspaper article op

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Speaker 2: can't put them in the Salvation Army because they're disruptive,

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Speaker 2: and we need the county, we need the state to

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Speaker 2: Because we've got everything that we can do with people

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Speaker 2: anything about that. County, State, please step up, time to

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Speaker 1: And those are those are the ones that really scare people.

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Speaker 1: Those are the ones that have caused so many people

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Speaker 1: but there has to be Eventually, there has to be

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Speaker 1: they have to be forced into treatment. They have to

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Speaker 1: be forced into mental health or drug treatment. There's no

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And what's weird about this whole situation. We

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Speaker 2: at the city of where you are recognize this probably four

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Speaker 2: and we've seen it for a long time time, and

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Speaker 2: the care Court initiative that starts in Norwalk here in November,

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Speaker 2: and basically there's one judge down, there's going to be

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Speaker 2: take someone who looks to be mentally ill and take

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Speaker 1: Okay, so some agency in Whittier, for example, could take

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Speaker 1: how they get treated. Is that the simplest way of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it'll be it'll be our met team, our

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Speaker 2: and they'll take them uh and do the filing in

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Speaker 1: And if they resist, if they physically resist, what's going

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: If if they physically resist, then the court will have

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Speaker 1: It'll be by force if they if they have to

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Speaker 1: be escorted by the police. And that's what's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, at the end of the day, the air Court

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Speaker 2: starts in November. I think you are absolutely correct. I

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Speaker 2: think that's what's going to happen. UH, if people don't

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Speaker 1: Because that's ultimately for the for the for the toughest cases,

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Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: to themselves. And we talk about what's humane and what's

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Speaker 2: inhumane to allow people who are mentally ill, who are

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Speaker 2: So we're hopeful come November. We've asked Supervisor Haun we'd

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Speaker 1: Good luck Joe, we'll talk with you again. See what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, that's the mayor Whittier, Joe Vinettieri. And they

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Speaker 1: He's talking about people wandering into the streets. They in

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Speaker 1: the name of equity, California legalized jaywalking. Guess what more

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Speaker 1: You could listen to what you missed and in a

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Speaker 1: Todd Spitzer coming on. Todd Spitzer not impressed with Karen

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Speaker 1: with with Blake. Trolley and Blake had covered the press

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Speaker 1: conference announcing the task for us, and Robert Luna, the

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Speaker 1: La County Sheriff, announced during the press conference that they

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Speaker 1: recently are tracking one hundred and seventy retail thefts in

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Speaker 1: Can you do that for ordinary local retail crimes? Take

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Speaker 3: But that's your But John, you talk about this, You

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Speaker 1: Do you know what happened with the suspects that were

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Speaker 3: then these guys go mia and they go out and

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Speaker 3: commit more crimes. And then guess what, when you commit

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Speaker 1: Forty one? We got to take a break of Scott.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Todd, I've had so many people on today, Todd,

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Speaker 1: I got to run. Thank you for coming on. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk again soon.

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Speaker 3: You got it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Todd Spitcher, Orange County, DA.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: After four o'clock. Man, there was a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: packed in today the John and Ken on demand podcast,

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Speaker 1: and you could hear see Gregory on for a half

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Speaker 1: hour about Malley and all the bizarre behavior by Hawaiian

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Speaker 1: officials trying to hide all their botch job. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna you hear that in a lot of other things

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Speaker 1: on that South Coast Plaza smash and Grab in Costa Mesa.

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Speaker 1: It was a temporary Gucci store and I guess they

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Speaker 1: sold temporary handbags. One hundred thousand dollars in handbags stolen

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Speaker 1: these guys five to ten thieves and they ran out

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Speaker 1: to waiting cars. Happened at seven point fifteen customers inside

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Speaker 1: store was opened. It was at a temporary location because

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Speaker 1: the main store is under construction, and police wereun seen

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Speaker 1: dollars worth of stuff has been stolen just in the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks at these various shopping malls. Conway's here.

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Speaker 5: Hey, now, hey, this side governor who had a cage

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Speaker 5: match with Steve Gregory, governor of Hawaii. Yes, that guy's

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Speaker 5: been in Hawaii for like eighteen years. He was born

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Speaker 5: and raised, grew up in New York and Pittsburgh. And

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Speaker 5: I mean that they refer to that as mainlander face,

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Speaker 5: doing mainlander face. He's a Mainlander, he's one of us. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and he's you know, he's calling us all names fraud.

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Speaker 5: Why would you not be as kind to those reporters

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Speaker 5: as possible, for A so they don't snoop around, and

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Speaker 5: B that we all see that you guys desperately need

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Speaker 5: stuff and we send money right away. Yeah, you want

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Speaker 5: to be sympathetic. That's right, and and it's amazing. I

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Speaker 5: guess the police chief over there is a pain for

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Speaker 5: the press to deal with as well.

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Speaker 1: They all have been Yeah, nobody and none of them

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Speaker 1: want to tell the truth. Are all very defensive. And

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Speaker 1: then they got pissed at Steve because he's asking direct questions.

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Speaker 1: The one two punch they get.

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Speaker 5: These poor people get hit with that line of fire

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Speaker 5: and then they don't get the help they need. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you know, there should have been c one thirties flying

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Speaker 5: in and out of there every ten minutes, with supplies

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Speaker 5: the whole. You know, they can set up It makes

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Speaker 5: me crazy. They can set up these tents in Central

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Speaker 5: Park and on Staten Island for people who have just

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Speaker 5: come to this country and they can't do anything for Lahina,

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Speaker 5: no nothing, no God, Almighty man. And that kind of

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Speaker 5: that stuff makes me crazy, absolutely crazy. Dean Sharp's gonna

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Speaker 5: come on with us, and I might blame him too

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Speaker 5: for what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Really really pissed.

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Speaker 5: And also LA County leaders announced the task for targeting

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Speaker 5: these thieves that you were talking about.

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Speaker 1: All right, Conway big dog Crusher Krusher has the news

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