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Speaker 3: Phoch, good to.
Speaker 2: See you, you too, man, Thanks, Buddy, Robert, good to
Speaker 2: see it's been so long.
Speaker 3: Have you aged horribly?
Speaker 1: How are you looking?
Speaker 2: I have not aged well, No, no, no, time has
Speaker 2: not been kind to me, not at all. Although hey,
Speaker 2: fun fact, I think you and I here to spend
Speaker 2: a few more days together in August because I think
Speaker 2: MO has some some vacation time built up.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, oh that's right. He does have
Speaker 3: a vacation coming up. We get those.
Speaker 4: No, he gets those, he gets he gets tawala, my man.
Speaker 3: How are you doing? Man? Hey brother, I woke up
Speaker 3: this morning. I'm fantastic, good, free, upright and ambulatory. Man.
Speaker 3: Complain right, yes, absolutely, yeah it is.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a that's a great point that you make,
Speaker 2: is that sometimes we complain about the things that we
Speaker 2: don't really take stock of the blessings that we do have. Right,
Speaker 2: And and we'll talk a little bit later on about
Speaker 2: what's going on in Texas and of course, as we
Speaker 2: were talking with Mark Thompson the last segment, anybody that's
Speaker 2: been through the wildfire disasters here locally.
Speaker 3: Of course that's the most recent one that we think of.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's it's times like that that make us put perspective.
Speaker 3: On anything else that's going on. You know.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I have a bad day at work and
Speaker 2: I sometimes I have to just kick kind of kick
Speaker 2: myself and go yeah, but you know what, you got
Speaker 2: a job. You know, you got to go to work today.
Speaker 2: You weren't worried about are the bills going to be paid?
Speaker 3: Right? Because you got that job, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I love that. I love that you said that.
Speaker 2: You know, you got up this morning. That's uh, I
Speaker 2: mean that's half the battle. So good for you. Been
Speaker 2: watching what's going on.
Speaker 3: Obviously, the raid through MacArthur Park was odd to see,
Speaker 3: you know, the the.
Speaker 2: Sort of procession of ice agents that were going through
Speaker 2: MacArthur Park and uh, horses and somebody. I didn't see it,
Speaker 2: but did somebody? Was there a tank in there too?
Speaker 2: We had armored vehicles or whatever.
Speaker 3: I thought. Man, we can't imagine.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody imagined that when when people were
Speaker 2: talking about Trump and he was running for office and
Speaker 2: he says we're gonna build a wall to pour them all,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people thought, all right, we're
Speaker 2: gonna clean up illegal immigration. And we kept hearing all
Speaker 2: this rhetoric about Biden's open border policy, and there was
Speaker 2: no open border policy.
Speaker 3: There never was.
Speaker 2: We still have a border, it was still being patrolled.
Speaker 2: We didn't we didn't fire CBP, nothing like that. But
Speaker 2: the complaint was that we were granting asylum requests to
Speaker 2: anybody that asked, right, and so people were freaked out
Speaker 2: because they basically said, people who are trying to come
Speaker 2: across our border have figured out how to play our system.
Speaker 2: And then the political speech turned into open border policy.
Speaker 3: It's not an open border policy.
Speaker 2: It's just that somebody figured out how do I get
Speaker 2: across the bord or without having to sneak across and
Speaker 2: they and they figured that out. So now what we're
Speaker 2: doing is we're saying, forget it, we're gonna deport everybody.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people were behind this. Right.
Speaker 2: Trump got elected U for the second time based on
Speaker 2: his immigration talk. I mean, there's this It really comes
Speaker 2: down to a couple of things. The guy's a business owner,
Speaker 2: and people say, oh, he's gonna be good for the
Speaker 2: economy and uh. And then they said, well he's gonna
Speaker 2: he's gonna take care of all this illegal immigration. Okay,
Speaker 2: so now we're seeing it, and people at the time went,
Speaker 2: you know, it's gonna look a little weird when you've
Speaker 2: got armed agents that are taking children out of the country.
Speaker 3: That's not gonna play very well.
Speaker 2: I made mention a year ago about how we we
Speaker 2: freaked out over Elian Gonzalez.
Speaker 3: Remember that back in the nineties, guys, remember.
Speaker 2: When, uh when, when we were we had to go
Speaker 2: get Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban guy who came here right
Speaker 2: and and Janet Reno caught all kinds of grief for uh,
Speaker 2: these armed agents. And there was the photo that became
Speaker 2: incredibly famous. And you haven't seen this if you were,
Speaker 2: if maybe you were too young you didn't see, or
Speaker 2: if you don't remember it simply being that one and
Speaker 2: it's basically an armed agent who's holding a very large
Speaker 2: weapon of war in the face of this I think
Speaker 2: he was like eight years old at the time, and
Speaker 2: we went, oh my gosh, and we exploded and I thought,
Speaker 2: this is not going to fly in America. We are
Speaker 2: not going to be cool with this when it starts
Speaker 2: happening and mass and.
Speaker 3: We kind of are.
Speaker 2: Although what we saw at MacArthur Park was I think
Speaker 2: it was one step beyond what anybody imagined. And what
Speaker 2: really hit home is when I saw somebody make mention
Speaker 2: of God, imagine if Biden had done anything close to that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you heard people talking about Byron excuse me,
Speaker 2: they talked about Biden the tyrant, Biden, and then it
Speaker 2: was Biden the incompetent and Biden the mastermind, Biden the idiot.
Speaker 2: He's somehow both. But just imagine if the Biden administration
Speaker 2: had militarized public parks in red dates. Imagine the blowback.
Speaker 2: Imagine what would have gone on on Fox News, on Newsmax,
Speaker 2: and oh yeah, they would have lost their minds. And
Speaker 2: yet we go, well, you know, that's that's what we
Speaker 2: voted for here, Well, we voted to get rid of
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants, and b this is this is what it's
Speaker 2: going to look like. Even Joe Rogan said, I don't
Speaker 2: think people imagine this. This is exactly what we were
Speaker 2: told was going to happen. And then it happens and
Speaker 2: people are stunned by it. So aside from the spectacle,
Speaker 2: aside from the imagery, there are, aside from the human side,
Speaker 2: the individuals who are dealing with, you know, where's my
Speaker 2: loved one or the loved one who goes, how am
Speaker 2: I going to see my kids again? These are obviously
Speaker 2: very very personal, very dramatic issues, but we also have
Speaker 2: an economic impact on this. California is feeling that now
Speaker 2: we are being singled out because we're a blue state,
Speaker 2: because we've got sanctuary sanctuary cities, and because it's really
Speaker 2: popular for GOP politicians to poke at California and New York. Right,
Speaker 2: we've seen that a good jillion times before. But the
Speaker 2: real world implications are this, it's starting to have an
Speaker 2: effect on the economy. Specifically, it's starting to have an
Speaker 2: effect right here at home where we're trying to rebuild
Speaker 2: from the wildfires. In fact, Katla was talking about how
Speaker 2: it's slowing things down.
Speaker 5: Realtor Brock Harris says, seems like this of immigration enforcement
Speaker 5: operations in the LA area are impacting rebuilding efforts in
Speaker 5: Altadena following January's wildfire. He describes federal agents recently visiting
Speaker 5: a job site of one of his developer clients.
Speaker 6: The ice agents visited looking for a particular person who
Speaker 6: wasn't on the job site, who wasn't at work that day.
Speaker 6: The next day, half the crew didn't show up to
Speaker 6: spook to come whoo.
Speaker 3: Half the crew didn't show up? How do you get
Speaker 3: the house built?
Speaker 2: To work?
Speaker 5: And Harris says he's seeing the impact on local construction
Speaker 5: more broadly.
Speaker 6: Job sites camouflaging themselves, pulling dumpsters in from the street,
Speaker 6: taking construction fences, hiding borda potties. Whether or not it's true,
Speaker 6: they feel like these places might be targets and it's
Speaker 6: making the workers less likely to come to work.
Speaker 5: Another woman who lost her house in the Eton fire
Speaker 5: tells us she's seeing an impact on her Alta Dina rebuild, too,
Speaker 5: telling us by phone that ahead of immigration raids in SoCal,
Speaker 5: twelve workers would come to her job daily. These days
Speaker 5: it's three or four.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I.
Speaker 6: Mean, when hammers start swinging, we're not getting the houses
Speaker 6: we need rebuilt in Altadena.
Speaker 5: LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger, who represents this unincorporated area,
Speaker 5: tells us in a statement some Alta Dina constituents have
Speaker 5: shared that ice raids are slowing down their construction work.
Speaker 5: It's disappointing to hear this and another compelling reason why
Speaker 5: Congress needs to sponsor legislation that actually legitimizes and allows
Speaker 5: people to work.
Speaker 3: That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: We know that's not going to happen because the administration
Speaker 2: for a while said, oh, well, you know we're gonna
Speaker 2: we're not going to prioritize construction, agriculture, all the jobs
Speaker 2: that we think of as being more stereotypical for people
Speaker 2: who are here without documents. But the Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins,
Speaker 2: has now said that millions of adult medicaid participants are
Speaker 2: facing stricter work requirements under this new GOP, big beautiful bill,
Speaker 2: and they can replace the foreign farm workers that are
Speaker 2: being deported or I guess construction workers.
Speaker 3: So don't worry if your.
Speaker 2: House is not being built fast enough Alta Dina, because
Speaker 2: one legged Grandma is coming to the rescue. Rollin said,
Speaker 2: there will be no amnesty. Mass deportations are continuing, but
Speaker 2: in a strategic way, we will move the workforce toward
Speaker 2: automation and one hundred percent American participation.
Speaker 3: There is a difference between.
Speaker 2: Being able bodied and being able bodied for any job,
Speaker 2: and I think there's a big disconnect.
Speaker 3: I've often thought about this. Guys, can we just be
Speaker 3: straight here for a minute.
Speaker 2: Our jobs are pretty great, right, I mean, if God forbid,
Speaker 2: we were in a traffic accident we lost a leg,
Speaker 2: we could still do radio.
Speaker 3: Am I right? Well?
Speaker 4: Also, who wants to tell Brooke Rollins that nearly half
Speaker 4: the jobs in the United States don't offer health coverage,
Speaker 4: which is why those people need Medicaid.
Speaker 2: Well, what she's saying is, yeah, but now you can
Speaker 2: work and you get me your Medicaid. But the thing
Speaker 2: is is the point is they're already working. I think
Speaker 2: many of them are. Yeah, and that oh I sw
Speaker 2: what you mean? They are working and so but they
Speaker 2: don't have insurance, which is why they've got the supplement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great point, great point, Mark so so.
Speaker 2: But my I guess my question is how does someone
Speaker 2: who has a disability, who may be able to do
Speaker 2: office work, for instance, how does that person go to
Speaker 2: the fields to do agriculture work.
Speaker 3: They don't. They don't, I don't. If they have thought
Speaker 3: about this, that's that's not weird.
Speaker 2: Now now they don't know because I think I think
Speaker 2: what you're doing is you're just tapping into anger. And
Speaker 2: it's people who are upset and they go, well, uh,
Speaker 2: immigran it took mere job. And so they go, well,
Speaker 2: if we just got rid of the immigrants, that i'd
Speaker 2: have my job back. Okay, well, why don't you go
Speaker 2: do that job? Then why don't you go? You know,
Speaker 2: want work construction? Well I can't because I've got this
Speaker 2: other problem. Okay, well then who's gonna build the house?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: So you're you guys are right, there's we're not thinking
Speaker 2: it through, not thinking it through at all. Speaking of
Speaker 2: not thinking things through, there was a bill that passed
Speaker 2: a while back that said we have to demand more
Speaker 2: from our police officers. However, there were unintended consequences when
Speaker 2: that bill passed, and now there are concerns over what's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. Uh if we don't have enough officers. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what the latest effort is to increase recruitment.
Speaker 2: That is next on Chris merrill In from O Kelly.
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Speaker 2: if I more stimulating talk and you can listen anytime
Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Okay, a few years back,
Speaker 2: do you remember there was a time, and I'm old
Speaker 2: enough to remember this, there was a time that we
Speaker 2: had some what we would call unrest in America. Do
Speaker 2: you guys recall this? And this came on the heels
Speaker 2: of George Floyd being killed at the hands of police officers,
Speaker 2: and we had an awful lot of people nationwide, and
Speaker 2: this kind of flew under the radar, but I do
Speaker 2: remember a few headlines about this. We had a few
Speaker 2: incidences where people were protesting police, and then we had
Speaker 2: this call to defund the police, which was the worst political.
Speaker 3: I guess tagline ever. It fizzled.
Speaker 2: It did not work, because the truth is, nobody wants
Speaker 2: to get rid of the police. You got a few
Speaker 2: anarchists who do, but for the most part, nobody wants
Speaker 2: to get rid of the police. What generally people wanted
Speaker 2: was police reform. They wanted a ability right. That was
Speaker 2: the big thing, accountability and they wanted to take a
Speaker 2: look at things like what do they call it qualified immunity,
Speaker 2: and they and they wanted to make sure that a
Speaker 2: light was shown on bad officers. Now, I've always said
Speaker 2: that body cams are an equalizer. Body cams protect good
Speaker 2: people from bad cops, and they protect bad They protect
Speaker 2: good cops from bad lawyers. Right, So with when you've
Speaker 2: got bodycam footage, it's another layer of evidence. And so
Speaker 2: CHP actually has now said they're going to equip all
Speaker 2: of their officers with body cameras. I didn't realize that
Speaker 2: just three years ago only three percent of California Highway
Speaker 2: Control officers had cameras, which that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Well now they say it's happening.
Speaker 2: So they've got about a third of them right now,
Speaker 2: and now seventy six hundred CHP officers are gonna start
Speaker 2: wearing body cameras. I think this is great. This This
Speaker 2: is really h officer's ability to counter whatever the you know,
Speaker 2: the TikTok is that's showing them behaving badly. Right, then
Speaker 2: they can you have you have totality, you have context
Speaker 2: around things. And when those cameras get shut off or
Speaker 2: they don't get turned on quite right, and there have
Speaker 2: been stories about this happening. It raises new questions and
Speaker 2: it puts a spotlight on that officer's behavior, and I
Speaker 2: think that's important too. So we want transparency. I love
Speaker 2: the body camps in California. After the murder of George Floyd,
Speaker 2: and again, I don't know if you recall this, there
Speaker 2: was a there were problems, we had some we had
Speaker 2: some people who were very upset about this.
Speaker 3: There were some there's some protests about.
Speaker 2: It, and California said, we need to make sure that
Speaker 2: we've got the best of the best wearing the badge.
Speaker 2: And so there was a law that was put forward
Speaker 2: that would say that all officers in California had to
Speaker 2: have a bachelor's degree. That law was later modified a
Speaker 2: little bit and it was said, Okay, officers have to
Speaker 2: be at least twenty one years old, and we're going
Speaker 2: to create a program for higher education requirements.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So the reason they set a bachelor's degree is that
Speaker 2: stats show that if you have higher educated officers, you
Speaker 2: have fewer the questionable incidents and you have higher performing
Speaker 2: officers on the street. So Assembly Member Jackie Irwin, who's
Speaker 2: from Thousand Oaks, is proposing a new bill which would
Speaker 2: establish education standards based on recommendations that were made in
Speaker 2: light of this bill from twenty twenty. Some law enforcement
Speaker 2: and criminal justice reform advocates don't like it. The reason
Speaker 2: they don't like it is that her bill says you
Speaker 2: have to have an associates or a bachelor's degree, but
Speaker 2: there are.
Speaker 3: Exceptions, and.
Speaker 2: Within some of these exceptions that others are proposing as well,
Speaker 2: would be simply an equivalent, all right, So you could
Speaker 2: have your associates degree in modern policing your bachelor's degree
Speaker 2: in modern policing, and or you could have exemptions if you,
Speaker 2: for instance, have four years of military or four years
Speaker 2: of working as an officer with an out of state
Speaker 2: law enforcement agency. So somebody is living in Denver and
Speaker 2: they moved to southern California, then they could join the
Speaker 2: police force if they had four years with the Denver
Speaker 2: ped People are saying, wait a minute, Wait a minute,
Speaker 2: what's the point in having requirements if you're going to
Speaker 2: create these loopholes. So that's one of the issues that
Speaker 2: people are having. Another issue that people are having, and
Speaker 2: I think this is a very practical one, is hold on,
Speaker 2: you're putting these requirements on here professional policing certificates or
Speaker 2: associate's degrees or bachelor's degrees or whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: And when you do that, it decreases the pool of
Speaker 2: people that we can hire. In fact, what they found
Speaker 2: in the past is when they put requirements on applicants,
Speaker 2: they found that the number of applicants was cut in half.
Speaker 2: Robert Luna, the LA Sheriff, wrote a letter about this
Speaker 2: very thing, and he said that the sheriff's office once
Speaker 2: required all applicants to have a bachelor's degree, but the
Speaker 2: requirement was short lived because the office on immediate decline
Speaker 2: and applicants by about fifty percent. So what we've done
Speaker 2: now is we're saying, oh, we can't have high standards
Speaker 2: because then we won't find enough people. All right, So
Speaker 2: how do you find the right people and maintain the
Speaker 2: standards If you're running any other business and I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about the government, I'm not talking about law enforcement.
Speaker 2: If you're running any other business. Let's say that you
Speaker 2: work in the tech sector or you work in nursing
Speaker 2: for instance. All right, you're going to have certain requirements
Speaker 2: that are necessary, certain educational standards. You don't want somebody
Speaker 2: coming in as a programmer who doesn't know what they're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 3: They don't. We don't need to teach somebody how the
Speaker 3: mouse works. Okay.
Speaker 2: We expect that there's a certain level of education that
Speaker 2: somebody's gonna have. If you're a nurse, we expect that
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a certain amount of education and a
Speaker 2: nursing license. But with that comes some perks. And so
Speaker 2: when you've got a group that was screaming defund the police,
Speaker 2: and that same group is saying and for the people
Speaker 2: that are gonna be cops, you have to have these
Speaker 2: high standards. All right, what's the trade off? Because if
Speaker 2: you are requiring a professional degree, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: pay professional wages. You're gonna have to have upward mobility
Speaker 2: within that job. If I have an MBA in order
Speaker 2: to get my job as middle management, I'm not getting
Speaker 2: an MBA so that I can be a middle manager
Speaker 2: the rest of my life. I'm getting an MBA so
Speaker 2: that I can be a middle manager and work my
Speaker 2: way up the ladder. If you're requiring a professional degree
Speaker 2: from peace officers, you're not gonna be able to continue
Speaker 2: to pay them ninety thousand dollars a year. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have to step up the amount of money that you're
Speaker 2: paying those officers. So do you want a decreased number
Speaker 2: of applicants. Obviously you don't. You want to have a
Speaker 2: broad pool of applicants. But you also want to have
Speaker 2: the best applicants possible. Here's what we know in any
Speaker 2: other job. If you want the best, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to pay for the best. You're not gonna be able
Speaker 2: to require a professional degree but not raise that incentive
Speaker 2: for being an officer without seeing the applications drop off.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work like that. So you want the best,
Speaker 2: you gotta.
Speaker 3: Pay him like they're the best.
Speaker 2: One thing that we are seeing in southern California, and
Speaker 2: it's following a trend nationwide, has got to be music
Speaker 2: to the ears of law enforcement. And I'll tell you
Speaker 2: what that is here just a moment. It's Chris Merril
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Speaker 1: Tonight you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
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Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I was just listening to our promo there about the
Speaker 2: moist line. I got in trouble at my real job today.
Speaker 2: So somebody brought in brownies and they asked how they were,
Speaker 2: and I said, and this is no joke, it was
Speaker 2: like the best brownie I've ever had. It was amazing,
Speaker 2: And I said, it is so moist it just falls
Speaker 2: apart in my fingers. And I had one of the
Speaker 2: girls in the office got mad at me for saying.
Speaker 3: The word moist. Women hate that word. I know they do.
Speaker 4: That's such a weird word to hate, especially since that
Speaker 4: was a compliment towards the baked good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're just like, I don't like to hear moist.
Speaker 2: Please don't ever say that again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But also she's the person in the office nobody likes.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna sweat it too much. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: Careful because that person can still go to HR.
Speaker 2: You're like, he said moist. That is just very offensive
Speaker 2: to me. Like, I don't need that phone call, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't need HR to go. You can't use the
Speaker 2: word moist anymore.
Speaker 3: Oh, I hate that. Hey, I got good news. Los
Speaker 3: Angeles is seeing fewer murders this year. We're down twenty percent.
Speaker 7: Yay, yay.
Speaker 2: We're on pace to see our best year since the
Speaker 2: nineteen sixties. Good job on not being so murdery people,
Speaker 2: Well done all the way around. The decrease mirrors a
Speaker 2: national trend, which some experts attribute to the COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 2: Some people believe the pandemic and the lockdowns upended the
Speaker 2: routines and activities for many, So I guess they got
Speaker 2: more murdery and then a society closer to its pre
Speaker 2: tent pandemic form. Excuse me, homicide levels have dropped. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is about the pandemic that was
Speaker 2: making us achilli. You know, when it first came out,
Speaker 2: crime generally dropped across the board.
Speaker 3: Nobody was leaving the house.
Speaker 2: It was like, listen, I could go do my gang activity,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to get sick.
Speaker 3: Right. But then we started getting.
Speaker 2: Bored with following the rules and trying to flatten the curve,
Speaker 2: and we said, ugh, these drugs aren't going to sell
Speaker 2: themsels So we went back onto the street and we
Speaker 2: started selling drugs and then killing people. According to the
Speaker 2: co founder of ah Datalytics, Jeff Ashery says, we're seeing
Speaker 2: really not just declines, but large declines, and across the
Speaker 2: board declines. I mean it's everywhere and here we are.
Speaker 2: We're looking at nineteen sixties level of murder. And I
Speaker 2: should point out this is raw numbers, not just percentages.
Speaker 2: So killings are way down. We're down to one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixteen through the first half of the year, one
Speaker 2: hundred sixteen murders and that means I think fewer than
Speaker 2: one a day.
Speaker 3: Good job. Really, last year.
Speaker 2: We were at almost one hundred and sixty people murdered
Speaker 2: by the end of June, so fewer people. But again,
Speaker 2: our population now versus the nineteen sixties is much greater,
Speaker 2: which means that our rate is even lower. So that's great, right,
Speaker 2: that's really fantastic, So good job on not killing people.
Speaker 2: One of the issues though, is that if you do
Speaker 2: go all murdering, you're probably not going to get caught. Yeah,
Speaker 2: got about a fifty to fifty chance if you if
Speaker 2: you murder somebody, about a fifty to fifty chance of
Speaker 2: getting busted. Well should I should modify that. Well, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Half of America's murderers, they say, get away with it.
Speaker 3: That's the headline. Half of America's murderers.
Speaker 2: Get away with the killing, which seems somewhat bizarre. I
Speaker 2: thought I had audio on this. I guess I don't. Oh,
Speaker 2: yes I do. Why didn't I open this up? That's
Speaker 2: a good question. Wait to go, Meryl.
Speaker 8: More people are getting away with murder, based on shocking
Speaker 8: figures published by The New York Times. According to the report,
Speaker 8: the homicide clearance rate, a metric used by the FBI
Speaker 8: to assess how many murders cops solve, was nearly fifty
Speaker 8: eight percent in twenty twenty three. That makes the US
Speaker 8: among the worst at solving murders.
Speaker 3: What why? Germany and are we just better at committee murder.
Speaker 8: Comparison consistently clears well over ninety percent of its homicide cases.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 8: Retired NYPD police officer Jillian Snyder has done her own
Speaker 8: research and puts the rate of unsolved.
Speaker 2: Kill Yeah, she did her own research. She watched some
Speaker 2: YouTube videos. That's how you do your own research nowadays.
Speaker 8: Puts the rate of unsolved killings in the United States
Speaker 8: between fifty one and fifty two percent. Most of the
Speaker 8: victims in that count young black and Latino men.
Speaker 9: Which is mind boggling because fifty years ago, agencies for
Speaker 9: solving upwards of ninety percent.
Speaker 8: Experts say there are a number of reasons why cases
Speaker 8: go cold.
Speaker 2: Okay, like like we don't care about the victims because
Speaker 2: they're people of color.
Speaker 3: Now, all that can't be true.
Speaker 8: More guns, more violence. A murder by a firearm is
Speaker 8: harder to solve. Gang related crimes are also difficult to crack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do they not have so many gangs in Germany?
Speaker 3: I mean I can think of one that they had,
Speaker 3: but it's been a while.
Speaker 8: Add to that a lack of resources and staffing issues.
Speaker 9: There's no way to think that a detective or investigator
Speaker 9: can take on ten to fifteen new serious violent crimes
Speaker 9: or homicides every month. That's way too much to be
Speaker 9: able to dedicate the time and the resources to a
Speaker 9: proper investigation.
Speaker 2: You know, I watch I watch a lot of TV,
Speaker 2: and my wife loves to watch true crime, but I
Speaker 2: think she's studying and what I what I realize is
Speaker 2: that each one of these crimes. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you guys ever watched like forty eight hours or whatever,
Speaker 2: right where they've we got to get a lead or
Speaker 2: else this case, you know, the chances of it going cold,
Speaker 2: double or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, by not by force, but by just walking by. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know what you mean. You know what I'm saying. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so I'm sitting there and I'm like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: I'm going to watch the show with my wife, and
Speaker 2: then and I realize they get a crime dropped in
Speaker 2: their lap, and it's not like it's not like, Okay, well, uh,
Speaker 2: we've got this murderer solve.
Speaker 3: Oh, we'll have this wrapped up by dinner time so
Speaker 3: we can tackle another one tomorrow.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I mean they're juggling a dozen murders at once, so
Speaker 2: that sucks.
Speaker 8: Distrust between cops and the communities they serve is another
Speaker 8: obstacle to solving crimes.
Speaker 9: There are times that people don't want to work with
Speaker 9: the police. They might have had a bad encounter, or
Speaker 9: they might have known someone that had a bad encounter.
Speaker 2: I think this comes back to why you're seeing people
Speaker 2: of color and communities of color are affected by unsolved
Speaker 2: murders more than other places because they're skeptical of cops.
Speaker 2: I wonder why, what could have possibly happened throughout history
Speaker 2: that would make them skeptical.
Speaker 9: But the police cannot effectively do their job and they
Speaker 9: can't get justice or victims without community support.
Speaker 7: Now, there are some potential solutions to help combat violent crime.
Speaker 7: Law enforcement and researchers suggest increased resources, more detectives, inner
Speaker 7: agency cooperation, and also the use of modern technology.
Speaker 2: Okay, modern thing. AI is going to fix the crime
Speaker 2: for us. Okay, good, We've got AI will fix everything.
Speaker 2: So tired of hearing about AI. I'm such a fuddy duddy.
Speaker 2: Am I the only one that's just going I just
Speaker 2: got to get to retirement before I have to learn
Speaker 2: everything about AI?
Speaker 4: You have to.
Speaker 3: I think Mark's pants tightened up.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, AI is going to learn for you.
Speaker 3: You don't have to do anything, I hope.
Speaker 2: So I'm just imagining when the Internet came about from
Speaker 2: my parents and they were in their mid forties, and
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking, you know, my parents were very forward thinking.
Speaker 3: That was that was pretty great.
Speaker 2: But I also knew a lot of people who were
Speaker 2: in their forties and fifties the Internet came along and
Speaker 2: they went, I don't this is completely foreign to me.
Speaker 2: This is It's like learning a whole new language. Liked,
Speaker 2: how much do I have to understand this before I
Speaker 2: get to retirement. I'm just like, I just got to
Speaker 2: get to retirement before I have to let chat GPT
Speaker 2: take over everything.
Speaker 3: Those are the same people who still use the post office.
Speaker 3: That's me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll just mail it in. No, no, no, no, I
Speaker 2: mean I'm very bad. I'm great with the Internet. That's
Speaker 2: great everything that was cool in the nineties and the
Speaker 2: two thousands, Like I.
Speaker 3: Was into it.
Speaker 2: I can tear apart a computer and put it together
Speaker 2: in ten minutes. I mean, I'm all there. But if
Speaker 2: you asked me to create prompts to make chat GPT
Speaker 2: make your job simpler, It's like, I have.
Speaker 3: No idea how I'm gonna do this, no clue.
Speaker 10: It is so crazy how easy it is though, really
Speaker 10: to literally like if you need to draft and I've
Speaker 10: had to draft documents to the staff that are work
Speaker 10: at the school, and just you just type in, say
Speaker 10: need to draft policy on tardiness, okay, and it just
Speaker 10: literally will write it out for you. Put in a
Speaker 10: few and they may ask you for some details. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and you provide that necessary information and Bam, You've got
Speaker 10: a legally hr qualified document in front of you.
Speaker 3: That I could do right that.
Speaker 2: I'm comfortable of that if you said, hey, can you
Speaker 2: write I need a document? Can you have a chat
Speaker 2: GPT help you with that? Yeah, that's cool. I can
Speaker 2: do that. But it's for instance, you saw it. I
Speaker 2: don't want to take you too far behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: But our show rundown, for instance, I have a very
Speaker 2: specific way I like to have my show run down.
Speaker 3: And I have tried in the past to say.
Speaker 2: Give me the top fifteen stories affecting the majority of
Speaker 2: people in Southern California, and it's like, okay, people in
Speaker 2: Southern California care about and it will give me something
Speaker 2: from November of last year, or it'll say, you know,
Speaker 2: it'll be like Jerry Brown is really working on that
Speaker 2: bullet train, and it's like, come on, you know. And
Speaker 2: so I don't think that it's necessarily going to work
Speaker 2: for me right now. Maybe that's my frustration that anything
Speaker 2: I've tried to do with it, I run into a
Speaker 2: brick wall and I go, this is not accurate information.
Speaker 2: It's not current information. It's certainly not in a format
Speaker 2: that I want.
Speaker 4: Well, I think you should go with your gut on this, Chris,
Speaker 4: And let me just cite exhibit A here and I'll
Speaker 4: rest my case. Apparently Elon Musk's Grock AI went full
Speaker 4: Nazi yesterday and called it to all that mecha Hitler
Speaker 4: and had to be shut off. So maybe a little
Speaker 4: skepticism about the AI he mark that goes Hitler, I
Speaker 4: am not. What I'm saying is that goes into the
Speaker 4: person and or people behind the design.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Like, if you have someone who is pro Hitler putting
Speaker 10: in the information, you're going to get mecha Hitler spitting back.
Speaker 3: Out at you.
Speaker 4: Oh, one little sighile and now everybody is pro Hitler.
Speaker 2: Cat GPT, can you give me an image of a
Speaker 2: proper salute and it goes out the yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: oh man, mecha hit Oh I hadn't seen this before.
Speaker 2: In addition to the responses about Hitler, Groc also referred
Speaker 2: to Israel as that klingy x still whining about the
Speaker 2: Holocaust and called itself mecha Hitler. Embracing my inner mecha
Speaker 2: Hitler is the only way. One Grock response read uncensored
Speaker 2: truth bombs overwoke lobotomies. If that saves the world count
Speaker 2: me in. Let's keep the brigade at Bay. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: gra just plug right into Elon's head, didn't it.
Speaker 3: Maybe pump the brakes on the AI. Yeah, all right, boy.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what the platform is for
Speaker 2: the New America Party. That'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Oh. I can't wait for it to write up the
Speaker 3: entire basis for that.
Speaker 2: California is saying no way to the White House because
Speaker 2: the White House says stop letting dudes play women's sports.
Speaker 3: It seems like its a little more complicated than that.
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Speaker 2: talking about AI off the air here, and we've got
Speaker 2: another story coming up at about an hour a little
Speaker 2: bit after nine o'clock, we'll discuss chat GPT psychosis. There's
Speaker 2: some people who are using chat Toula was just talking
Speaker 2: about how much time it can save you if you
Speaker 2: know how to use it. But some people are using
Speaker 2: it as more of a conversation piece and it's making
Speaker 2: them nuts, like really terrifyingly crazy, involuntary type commitment sort
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 3: So that's coming up here at nine o'clock. Did want
Speaker 3: to make mention of this.
Speaker 2: President Trump repeatedly threatening to withhold federal funding from California
Speaker 2: if we don't cooperate with a number of his initiatives,
Speaker 2: including changing the way that we treat trans athletes. Katla
Speaker 2: with the story.
Speaker 11: President Trump's Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is threatening more
Speaker 11: legal action after California refused to ban transgender athletes from
Speaker 11: school sports. McMahon said on X Today that state leaders
Speaker 11: will be hearing from US Attorney General Pam Bondi. The
Speaker 11: California Department of Education said Monday that it refused the
Speaker 11: Trump administration's demands to revoke policies on transgender inclusion and
Speaker 11: apologize to cisgender female athletes. The California legislature passed a
Speaker 11: law back in twenty to thirteen that allows student athletes
Speaker 11: to play on teams that match their gender identity. The
Speaker 11: Trump administration claims that violates federal anti discrimination law and
Speaker 11: is threatening to withhold federal funding.
Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, California, there's an easy way around this.
Speaker 2: You just say that you did create a policy, and
Speaker 2: you put it on Pambondi's desk right next to the
Speaker 2: Epstein files, and she should be able to find that
Speaker 2: they're right there.
Speaker 3: Ah, thank you, see what I did.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about the Epstein files or the non
Speaker 2: files coming up here after eight o'clock. But while you've
Speaker 2: got the administration saying we're going to withhold funding, not
Speaker 2: going gonna do crap this, we're going to withhold funding nonsense.
Speaker 2: I'm so tired of this argument about how we're going
Speaker 2: to withhold funding. We're gonna hold tax dollars hostage. The
Speaker 2: federal government isn't gonna hold tax dollars hostage any more
Speaker 2: than we can hold our tax dollars from going to
Speaker 2: the federal government.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be nice if we could.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be great if California, who pays in more
Speaker 2: than any other state, could simply say, you know what,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna send our money to the federal government
Speaker 2: and Screw Kentucky and forget West Virginia, and sorry, Texas,
Speaker 2: you're on your own. These are all states that take
Speaker 2: more than they pay in. Wouldn't it be great if
Speaker 2: we could do that.
Speaker 1: We can't.
Speaker 3: And the federal government also.
Speaker 2: Isn't gonna be able to say we've decided we're not
Speaker 2: gonna allow this or that or the other thing.
Speaker 3: This is how.
Speaker 2: This is why when Lenna McMahon says, you're gonna hear
Speaker 2: from Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, that's how it's done.
Speaker 2: It's not about threats of withholding moneys. And I know
Speaker 2: the administration's tried to do this in a few different aspects,
Speaker 2: but we end up suing the administration.
Speaker 3: Saying you can't withhold our money.
Speaker 2: And the administration says, no, we're gonna do it if
Speaker 2: there is a legal dispute over state law versus federal law.
Speaker 2: That's what the courts are for, right And look, the
Speaker 2: administration has packed the court to their favor already, so
Speaker 2: they shouldn't be afraid of filing these lawsuits. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: they are suing California over our transgender athlete policies.
Speaker 3: California is refusing to comply.
Speaker 2: We're gonna sue back, and it's going to work itself out.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, it'll be interesting to see which politicians
Speaker 2: who are running for president continue to moderate on the issue.
Speaker 3: I wonder who I could be talking about. Huh.
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