WEBVTT - It Was Never About Crime feat. Prop 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:08.559 As media, what's up, Y'all's your favorite cousin again? 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:10.719 Prop is in the building? 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Yeah, I'm saying, well in y earbuds or speakers, however 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.800 the hell you listen to this, your favorite cousin is here. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:20.600 I am going to assume that that is the truth, 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.319 and since you can't answer me, we just gonna go 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.480 with that. It's been a while since I tapped in 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.800 with y'all ruined your music festivals and then told you 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:34.840 about your municipalities and your waters. Somebody reached out to us, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.040 who you know, gestures wildly. We have not been able 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.400 to get back to her, but about how she was 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.160 a part of an effort to non privatize the water 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.800 inside of her neighborhood and district and they won. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.040 So shout out to you. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.000 We apologize if you've You know, our job has not 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:53.479 been boring. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.400 Since the start of twenty twenty five. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.200 But today I'm gonna bring you some blackness, some genuine blackness, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.680 and then some This has to be a black conversation. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.280 Because you, matter of fact as are racist. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.400 I have to approach it like this because crime has 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:17.920 become a color mute term in the era of Trump. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.679 It kind of always has been, but it's really obvious 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:29.240 now with the National Guard being unleashed onto the streets 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.840 of Washington, d C. There's this some sort of clearly 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:38.959 obvious conflation between the houseless population, poverty, crime black folks. Like, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.760 it's all kind of like one thing with this food, 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.880 which is not rocket science for y'all, it's just you 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.720 know what he talking about. You know how I know 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.080 this how he thinks is because whenever he talks about 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.880 black people supporting him, he talks about criminal reform, because 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.360 apparently that's what all black. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:57.960 People care about. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.120 Only just like you know, when he's say immigration, he 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.920 mean Latino And the whole not feeling safe is just 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.680 because you know, the crime that the houseless population of 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.880 DC have is being ill. That's the crime, because they 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.200 No one has ever given me a legitimate reason as 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.200 to why not having a place to stay as a crime. Hell, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.280 you know, Margaret Kill joined him have this whole joint 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:27.560 about loitering and loitering laws like truancies. Why I'm getting 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.560 ahead of myself. The point is the crime is that 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.880 you exist. So today I want to talk to y'all 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.280 about something that y'all already know. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.480 Which is it's never been about the crime. All right. 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.440 Now, first of all, some stuff that don't matter. Y'all 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.040 still following Drake. I don't know if y'all like, Okay, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.160 my crowd is following Drake. Let me stop making a 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.680 difference between us. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:51.600 But listen. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.960 So you know Drake suing UMG and his label over, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.000 you know, not like us, and just proven that he's 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.720 not like us anyway. The new thing in this man's 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.040 lawsuit he is he's demanding UMG bring evidence over to 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:06.960 push the teeth thing. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:08.919 What do I mean by to push the teeth thing? 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:10.440 When Push the T came. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.720 At him, which we can all agree if you in 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.480 the rap, he won also shout out the clips. So 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.040 when you go back to the Push the Teeth time, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.320 this is the back to back and I'm charged up 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.519 that time he was like, Yo, I'm gonna show y'all 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.480 the emails, and y'all bring in the emails from when 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.760 you guys were suppressing Push the T's stuff, when you 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.000 guys were like making sure that like it got copyright 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.360 claimed and stuff getting off the streamers and pulled down 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.320 all the say, man, you helped me suppress this man's music. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.800 When Push the te came after me. Why y'all don't 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.760 do it with not like us. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.760 Which means your corny ass you just told on yourself. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.000 Oh so push it was right. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.520 So what you're saying is and you trying to take 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.840 down Kendrick unsnitched on twenty eighteen, you right, okay, so 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:07.080 because you had to label interfere with this battle fam. Now, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.920 if you want to hear some more like real just 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.400 rapping ass rappers, there's this great battle that was going 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.839 on between Joey Badass and Ray Vaughn and then somehow 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.560 it became a triple with this dude named Daylight and 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.880 this other brother named Reason. These were some really really 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.479 dope bars. Now Absol got into the middle of it. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.640 But now Apsol, Rhapsody, and Joey are going on tour, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.080 which sucks because I'm on the same management team as 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.560 all of them, and I ain't on that tour. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.039 I wish I was, though it'd. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.000 Be a rap and rapping tour, but I definitely don't 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.000 do the numbers they do anyway. Today, you know, in 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.080 light of like I said, the Feds in DC, Trump 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.520 keep claiming these emergency cases that gives him these powers 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.320 to do these different things. And as a side note, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.720 remember when Jay six happened and he was like, well, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.960 Nancy Pelosi should have called in the National Guard. Shan't 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.960 call in the passion of guard? What was President Trump's 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:10.239 supposed to do? Well, I would think what he's doing now, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.400 because they used to say these same people that was 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.520 arguing that Trump ain't had a power to stop it, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.680 meaning he didn't have the power to call in the 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.520 National Guard, are also praising him right now for using 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.559 his presidential power to call in the National Guard. Boy, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.200 I tell you, racism make you dumb as hell. But 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:34.400 in light of this, despite all evidence showing that the 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.360 crime rate has dropped thirty percent in DC, this man 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:43.000 still keeps talking about the crime wave and the safety 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.320 or the lack of safety that people feel in DC. Now, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.160 I'm gonna let Bridget do a full episode on really 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.560 what's going on in Chocolate City? My mama from DC. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.800 You know, my whole mama side of the family still 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.520 out there. So I used to spend every other summer 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.440 in DC. Now, don't give me it wrong. Being down 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:08.440 thirty percent is absolutely positive, But DC ain't safe now. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.520 It depends on what parts you in see, that's the 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.080 thing about crime statistics. But before I get into crime statistics, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.760 I need to talk about the concept of crime. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:17.160 Period. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.400 This will be no surprise to y'all because you listen 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:22.360 to cool Zone media. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:23.920 Crime is made up. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:32.479 Now, criminal crime, I think it's very important to understand 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.120 that it is a social construct. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.800 Now what do I mean by that? 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:42.360 What I mean is it's situational, right, How the same 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.640 act can mean two different things. Now, this is a 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.960 conceptual thing that obviously our felt experience is a little 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:50.480 more real. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.360 But let me give you an example. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.320 Let a disaster hit, a hurricane, an earthquake, a flood. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.960 If I go into that grocery store and get some bread, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:05.200 am I looting or scavenging? Am I stealing or surviving? 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.680 And the answer is depends on what color you are. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.200 Crime is a social construct. Because if that's the case, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:17.000 how is George Zimmerman still walking? Having said that, one 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.600 could take this argument and go super bonkers on it 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.320 and say the same thing about pedophilia, Like, who's to 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.560 say that what Epstein did is a crime? Because, like 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.800 you said, crime is a social construct. Here's my answer 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.920 to that. It's social because we live in a social 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:38.280 soci it t fam. Although borders are made up, so 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.640 is money, and so are driver's licenses. Of course, there's 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.600 no force field at the forty ninth parallel that separates 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:49.360 Canada from America. However, we have decided that before you 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.800 get behind the wheel of a car, you better have 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.040 passed some sort of examination for us to know that 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.120 you're safe enough to drive behind this You could physically 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.080 drive this car, but we live in a society that says, hey, homy, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:06.280 I need you to make sure. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.840 We need to have some sort of due diligence. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.720 We have decided as a species that is self aware 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.000 that our children matter. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.200 Their safety is important to us. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.920 The person standing next to you has the right to exist. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.160 Whether you like that person or not, they have the 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.840 right to exist. You cannot hold them against they will. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.000 That's hey be as corpus, apparently unbeknownst to Christy Nole, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.400 who clearly don't. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.720 Know what hate be as corpus means. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.320 As a whole other topic, what is criminal and what 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.320 is lawful is something that we've agreed upon in our 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.079 social contract. Now, we, however, live in a modern secular 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.720 democracy which says that we have a say in what 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.040 becomes laws or not so and got to just lay 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.920 down and let you just cause stuff a crime that 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.160 ain't a crime or that shouldn't be a crime. Now, 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.800 speaking of what is and is an crime, here's the 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.280 thing Black people have been telling you the answer for 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:08.760 a long time, specifically rappers. Okay, Now, I saw a 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.200 TikTok about this, and it's very irresponsible of me that 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.240 I can't remember love Hommy's name and I can't you know, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.839 you get the suggested, you know, or yeah, just stuff 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.400 pop in like before you. I cannot find Brad Brushs 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.920 TikTok black Man, super brilliant, but he reminded me of 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:34.679 some lyrics that Freeway said that captures the point of 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.920 what we're trying to make. I love his dude's TikTok man, God, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.120 I gotta find it. Hopefully, I'll hopefully I'll find it 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.240 and put it in the show notes. But Freeway's verse 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.199 with a song with jay Z says, we still hustle 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.160 to the sun come up, crack a forty when the 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.280 sun go down. It's a cold winter, y'all, niggas better 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.839 bundle up. I bet it's a hot summer. Grab an 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.840 onion just to rock it down, you hot, Now listen up, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.280 follow me. You don't know the cops soul purposes to 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.000 lock us down. Throw away to key. But without this 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.960 drug shit, your kids ain't got no way to eat. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:10.800 Huh. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.280 We still trying to keep mom smiling because when her 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.960 teeth stops showing and her stomach start growling, then the 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.520 heat start flowing. If you from my hood, you know 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.440 you feel me keep going, the sneaks start leaning and 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.400 the heat stop working, then my heat start working, I'm 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:33.720 gonna rob me a person. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:34.880 Okay, now listen. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:41.120 These are the lyrics that Lil Bra quoted in his TikTok, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.760 and the point he's making, which is the same point 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.560 I'm making, is that he's talking about the solutions to crime. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.960 Like he said it right there, like I just want 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.800 my mom to smile. My kids don't have any other 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.680 way to eat. And then he says, when the heat 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.840 stop working, then my heat start working, I'm gonna rob 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:03.520 me a person. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.720 It is resources. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.160 But again, follow what this brood trying to tell you 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:17.120 is that you putting law enforcement in our neighborhoods doesn't 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:17.880 fix anything? 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:18.880 Does you? 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.720 Does what we're saying, He's like, no, you just want 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.280 to lock us up. That is not solving the problem. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:31.720 The problem is I'm hungry, My mama's hungry, my kids 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.880 are hungry. My sneaks start leaning. What he's talking about 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.040 is his tennis shoes as sneakers, they're leaning. You know, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.760 when you walk on your sneakers too much in the 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.600 back of your shoes in the back house start running 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.920 around the side. Then it starts thinning out, so it's 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.400 like the back of your shoe just looks uneven. That's 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.680 when your sneaks are leaning. This is what he's trying 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.480 to say. My stomach is rumbling. Had we had better 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.360 funded schools, had we had more opportunities, he was like, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.880 I'm robbing this person because there is no other OPA. Now, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.199 are there other options? Maybe, But if you're gonna do 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.760 the math, listen, this is simple economics. If you want 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:15.000 to make one thousand dollars tonight because the rents do tomorrow, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.640 you go over to Spanish Jose's house. Spanish Jose say, hey, listen, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.440 you ain't got to do nothing. Just put this bag 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.120 in your backseat and drive the park slope, drop it 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.360 off a comeback, or you can go. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.679 Work twenty dollars an hour at McDonald's. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.880 Ain't no uncles with endowments, and check this out exactly. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.760 Let me push you even further, even if you are 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.880 smarty awt Now, even if you're a smart one. The 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.880 government just told Harvard that they can't recruit in my neighborhood, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.080 even if I got the grades for it, because that's 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:47.680 woke shit. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.520 So what you want? What the fuck you want me 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:49.800 to do? 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.680 Now here's the premise of what I'm talking about, which is, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.720 we know the solutions. It's never been about crime, okay, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.360 but let me talk about out some folks, some black 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.880 folks who do care about the solution, who do care 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.360 about crime. Because if we're talking about crime in our 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.440 urban areas, who the fuck do you think the crimes 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.120 are against? And see, that's the part that makes me 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.520 so mad. When I be talking to these people. You 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.040 think we don't care because who are these crimes getting 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.400 carried out against. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.760 You think we happy to see all them police. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.120 One would think, if it worked, we would be happy 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.600 to see all these police in our streets. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.880 But you know what, the shit don't help. Okay. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:33.920 What I'm gonna do in the rest of the show 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:40.320 is prove to y'all, based on decades of research, what 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.240 does reduce crime. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.280 We're gonna link all the things in the bio. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:45.839 I knew I had to come my a game if 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.320 I'm going on the cappen here, because these some of 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.199 the smartest people like y'all. Listen, the people on this show, y'all, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.640 y'all is like real journalists. I'm just a rapper that 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.640 knows how to explain shit. So I needed to make 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.520 sure that i have my ducks in a row. So 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.800 I'm about to show y'all a trillion examples of where 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.800 if you really from these blocks, if you really do 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.880 care about the welfare of black people, then maybe you 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.680 should listen to black people see and let me bring 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.120 in my trans community here because they problem with you this. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.680 To be honest with y'all, I'm gonna be transparent, which 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.800 this is part of what radicalized me whilst really started 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.000 to understand the trans experience is because the shit they 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.520 say about us is the shit they say about you. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.800 Your crime is we just don't like you around. At 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.800 the end of the day, all these laws against trans 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.720 people is really just because you just think they gross 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.680 And so with us, it was just like you, like, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:51.120 what is redlining, discriminatory practices in jobs? You just don't 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.600 want us around. What is white flight, you just don't 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.960 want us around. And your justification of this is this 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.480 made up ass word name crime and that you care 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.600 that crime at But Nikki, you don't. Okay, I'm getting 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:17.600 getting ahead of myself. Let's take a break. All right, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.920 here we go. I've calmed down. So the first thing 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.680 you want to think about is how crime is reported, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.720 right in the ways for which it's reported, and then 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.840 the geographical locations that we're talking about. So when you 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.480 say the crime in Washington, DC, it's not like the 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:40.040 crime happens in an evenly distributed thing, Like it's not 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.720 all of DC, if you will, there's northeast, Northwest, Southeast, 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:51.320 south southeast, and southwest. Now due to gentrification, southeast which 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:56.080 is where Anacostia is and was at one time the 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.960 sort of mecha of just like Black DC of chocolate Cy, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.080 Chocola Cy. The whole city was chocolate forever. Like I said, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.000 I noticed because I spent every other summer there and 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.000 my mama from there. But like Southeast DC is the 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:13.200 last non gentrified area. Now do you think it's thugs 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.360 sitting on the National Monument sipping forty ounces. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.320 No you out there with the tourists sipping macha. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.840 So in one sense is when you say crime has 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:30.600 dropped thirty percent, it's like thirty percent since when? 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:31.640 Okay? 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:37.000 And is it averaged across all of DC or are 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:41.040 you talking about in its areas where things like carjackings, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.680 homicides and stuff like that happened right now? Remember what 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.800 I talked about a long time ago, at least on 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.800 my show. Hopefully y'all remember this that the crime rates 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.240 in America is always a weird situation because we don't 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.320 live in America. You live in your city, so maybe 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.880 is going crazy in your own local neighborhoods, so you 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.840 feel like, damn, this place is wild. Or maybe, like 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.480 I said, maybe you're in like Northwest Portland, you know 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.600 what I'm saying. Like you know, over there off Gleason, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.760 you feel me in like it's nice, you know what 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.040 I mean? Like you don't never see a single But 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.040 if you live over there in Chinatown next to Voodoo Donuts, Dog, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.480 you seem like you walking over zombies. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:22.040 I don't know. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.679 What I'm trying to say is sometimes the statistics can 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:31.520 be deceiving. Now Granny and them who you know, bought 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.080 their house a long time ago. They see the graffiti 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.760 on the wall and they think, you know, YadA YadA, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.520 the boys like loitering outside. How do you fix it? Well, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:46.560 allow me to introduce it to Philadelphia, which coincidentally is 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.760 where Freeway is from. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.840 So the data is pretty clear. You know. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.760 If you look at the Violent Crime Reduction Report, it's 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:56.760 literally it's at the Department of Justice. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:58.840 You can read it yourself. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:04.160 It tells you exactly what has worked to drop homicide, 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:10.760 violent crime, carjacking, theft. It tells you what has worked, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.679 what has not worked. A simple google right, and the 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.480 intro of this is this is a violent crime reduction 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.600 between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five, and it 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.240 says for the past three years, the Justice Department has 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:30.359 been executing comprehensive strategies to reduce violent crime rooted in 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:35.439 local communities, and we're seeing trends in the form of 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.640 crimes being prevented in live saved. According to available data 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:44.440 from twenty twenty three, murder, rape, robbery, and aggregated assault 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:49.120 is in a considerable decline and nearly ninety major cities 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.000 across the country. Violent crime has continued to drop during 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.199 the last six months of this year compared to the 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.000 same period last year, including a seventeen percent decrease in homicide. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:01.720 This is the Deputy. 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:08.919 Attorney General Monkyo on September seventeenth, twenty twenty four. Now, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.000 to keep it very real again, violent crime rates being 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.879 up and down are obviously relative. Now, one thing was, well, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.359 we were in a pandemic, so there's that, right. Another 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:25.800 thing is it's almost like how everybody was complaining again 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:26.840 that crime was up. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.760 It's like y'all forgot the nineties existed. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:34.879 Like I lived it, and baby, this ain't nothing, you know, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:41.280 the actual fear of pain and suffering. 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:43.399 This pales in comparison. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:47.000 We live in a great place in relation to what 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.639 we went through in the eighties and nineties. Now again 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:56.639 we're talking national trends right again. In your local neighborhood, 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.919 it may be it may be a green light apvening. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:19:59.560 I don't know. 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.120 I'm just saying for you to say that our country's 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:04.160 becoming a cess. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:05.920 Pool means you not reading the data. 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:11.600 According to the Conversation, it's like independent journalist this author. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.480 Her name is Katerina g Roman. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.560 She's a professor of criminal justice at Temple University and 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.480 as a side note, at Temple University, Mahomie Timothy, he's 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.320 teaching a class on Kendrick. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.600 Lamar and his lyrics and hip hop and justice. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.400 I actually spoke at his class a couple of times, 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.440 so that was pretty dope to hear what he's doing. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.119 But now check this out. 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.360 According to her writing, it says that the Pennsylvania spends 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.960 roughly two hundred thousand dollars a year for each juvenile 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.520 it incarcerates. According to the twenty twenty one report from 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:48.840 a bipartisan Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Track Force, that's fifty times 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:53.120 the cost to deliver evidence based family therapy that would 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.119 prevent kids from going into the justice system in the 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.560 first place. I'm gonna tell you before I even read 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.480 the rest of this, because I lived it. We just 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.359 be bored. It ain't nothing to do. There are no opportunities. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.280 When the heat stopped working, then my heat start working. 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:13.399 In Philadelphia, juvenile incarceration involves the confinement in city ran 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:18.320 Philadelphia Juvenile Services and other residential placements facilities young people 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:22.199 leave these facilities with lower chances of graduating high school, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:26.800 freight mental health, and the higher likelihood of re arrest 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.199 or being shot. Can I again please speak from my 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:34.000 own experience. When you go into these juveniles cases, you 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.080 have to pick a location of people that you would 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.320 fo protection, even if you don't run with them, even 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.480 if you an'll know them niggas outside here, when y'all 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.040 get outside, y'all may never have talked again. But in here, 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.560 even if you went in there over some stupid like shoplift, 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:51.080 is some damn spray paint, whatever the case may be, 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.800 you now got to run with the people that got 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.520 your same skin tone and are from your part of town. 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:00.639 You have to kids. Don't go in being members of gangs. 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:03.720 You have to join one to stay alive. Now check 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:08.399 this out. When you get out. Part of the terms 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:13.760 of your probation is you can't be around certain criminal 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.840 festivities or activities or people. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.479 With criminal records. Where you're gonna go. 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:23.640 If I just happen to live on sixtieth Street next 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.400 to my uncle, I just live here. You mess around, 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:29.879 go visit your granny house, and then it got a 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:34.440 report to your PO. You've been fragnized when known gang members. 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.960 You're probably going back. This shit don't work, y'all. But 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:39.600 what does now? 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:40.600 Again? 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.720 Back to this article, drawing from about thirty five years 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.000