1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeakclendarshow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:31,480 much for your support. All Right, so, one of the 10 00:00:31,559 --> 00:00:35,520 last hour we were talking about mass transit. Obviously, Mecklimburg 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,240 County has this big referendum coming up to add a 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,679 penny to the sales tax to pay for this big 13 00:00:40,759 --> 00:00:45,960 transit plan. But one of the issues associated with mass 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:54,119 transit is safety is crime because the use of mass 15 00:00:54,119 --> 00:01:00,560 transit relies on a high trust society. Okay, otherwise nobody 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,640 rides it. People will not ride in a you know, 17 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:12,280 in a cylindrical coffin with forty fifty sixty other people 18 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,640 if there's no guarantee of safety, or if you know, 19 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,319 there's if there is some sort of violence that erupts 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,719 that there's then no justice for the victims, and so 21 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:29,400 people will not put themselves into that situation when they 22 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:33,120 have other means available to them. Right, So, if you 23 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,480 have high crime, if you have the perception of high crime, 24 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:43,159 if the perception is that the mass transit system is 25 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,519 not going to be safe for you, and you have 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,400 a vehicle, you're not going to ride mass transit and 27 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:52,280 you're not going to vote to raise taxes to support 28 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:53,599 more of the mass transit. 29 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 2: Look. 30 00:01:55,159 --> 00:02:00,239 Speaker 1: I grew up on Long Island, New York, and about oh, 31 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,159 probably three quarters of a mile from my house out 32 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,599 on the island was the Long Island Railroad. Now, I 33 00:02:07,719 --> 00:02:10,439 did not have a stop that was near there that 34 00:02:10,439 --> 00:02:12,680 that was just the tracks, But I could go to 35 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:14,800 the next town over, and people did this all the time. 36 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,680 They had station cars, not to be confused with the 37 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,240 station wagon, which was usually used by people who didn't 38 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,360 take it to the train station. The station cars were 39 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,199 like these were beater cars. You would take like you 40 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:31,719 would find some five hundred dollars nineteen seventy two Honda 41 00:02:31,759 --> 00:02:34,319 Civic and I say that because that's what I owned, 42 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:36,800 and actually mine was a seventy seven. But you would 43 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,400 take this to the train station. You wouldn't even lock 44 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:42,599 the doors, if they even locked it all, no air conditioning, 45 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,280 no heat. Right, the thing barely got you to the station. 46 00:02:45,719 --> 00:02:47,520 The point was that you could leave it there all 47 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:51,240 day and nobody would steal this thing. And you didn't 48 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,960 use it if you were going on a trip. You 49 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:55,199 were you know, in your home on the weekends. You 50 00:02:55,439 --> 00:02:58,479 didn't drive it any other time except to the station. 51 00:03:00,039 --> 00:03:02,919 And the trade off there is that you get on 52 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,919 the train and then you ride it into the city 53 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,080 if you're working in the city, and a lot of 54 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,039 people do that. They live out on the island, they 55 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,280 have a better quality of life. They get on the 56 00:03:11,319 --> 00:03:13,759 train and then they drive, they ride it into the station, 57 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,000 and you could go in a car. They got like 58 00:03:16,039 --> 00:03:18,280 the quiet cars now where you go in there and 59 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,560 you're not allowed to talk, dimly lit, you know, can't 60 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,639 play music out loud, that sort of thing, and they 61 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,680 actually have a conductor that walks through and you know, 62 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,159 takes your ticket, you know, stamps it or whatever or 63 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:36,919 punches out the little card and you know, enforces the 64 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:39,520 quiet car stuff. And the trade off on all of 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,080 this is just to say that you can go in 66 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,639 there and you can read, you can sleep right, you 67 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,840 can watch a movie like you get your time back 68 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:52,599 that you would otherwise spend sitting in traffic, and so 69 00:03:52,759 --> 00:03:54,960 that is part of the equation as well. But if 70 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,879 you don't feel safe going to the station, parking the 71 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:00,879 car at the station, someone's going to steal your car 72 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,319 or slash the tires or something. You're going to be 73 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:05,479 accosted at the station, You're going to be attacked on 74 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,400 the subway car, you have to walk multiple miles after 75 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:10,080 you get to the city, or you've got to make 76 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:13,240 multiple transfers. Like, all of these things factor into the equation, 77 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,279 and safety is a very big part of it, which 78 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,720 is why I think Democrats are completely stupid to be 79 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:31,600 having this meltdown over Donald Trump sending troops and taking 80 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:36,959 over the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, d C. First off, 81 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,279 it's a federal district. He is he can do this, 82 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,199 It's he can only do it for thirty days. Then 83 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,240 Congress has to, you know, has to give him permission 84 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:51,720 to continue to do it. But I gotta believe that 85 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,000 deep down, a lot of the people that are complaining 86 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,000 about this are secretly kind of happy that somebody is 87 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,040 going to do something thing about the crime in Washington, DC. 88 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,279 And like we keep hearing these stories. We see the 89 00:05:09,319 --> 00:05:12,399 stats and they're trying to gaslight us, saying, well, actually, 90 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,839 our crime stats are down. And I went over this 91 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:18,519 the other day. You had the NBC story from a 92 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,879 month ago that reported how a commander had been suspended 93 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,160 for falsifying the crime data they've been and the report 94 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,600 said that there were all these anonymous sources, and one 95 00:05:29,759 --> 00:05:32,560 on the record was the local chapter of the FOP 96 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:37,160 that was saying that they're juice in the stats. They're 97 00:05:37,199 --> 00:05:39,800 falsifying the data. When they go to a scene and 98 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,199 it's a violent attack of some kind, it's you know, 99 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,040 some sort of a bad crime stat they'll they'll mark 100 00:05:47,079 --> 00:05:49,839 it down as a lower offense so it doesn't get 101 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:53,319 registered as a violent crime, and then it doesn't get 102 00:05:53,360 --> 00:06:00,319 reported to the FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics. That's a problem, right, 103 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,360 That's a problem. And Donald Trump said this at his 104 00:06:04,399 --> 00:06:06,519 press conference yesterday. I just want to play this clip 105 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,879 real quick and tell me if this sounds like a 106 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,079 familiar philosophy that he is expressing here. 107 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,439 Speaker 3: You know, my father always used to tell me I 108 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:19,160 had a wonderful father, very smart, and he used to say, son, 109 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,279 when you walk into a restaurant and you see a 110 00:06:22,319 --> 00:06:26,639 dirty front door, don't go in, because if the front 111 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:28,480 door is dirty, the kitchens dirty. 112 00:06:28,519 --> 00:06:30,959 Speaker 2: Also, same thing. 113 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:31,519 Speaker 4: With the capital. 114 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 3: If are capital's dirty, our whole country is dirty, and 115 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:38,560 their all respect us. So it's a very good question. 116 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, what is that. 117 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: It's a form of the broken windows philosophy of policing. 118 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,160 If you care about the little stuff, it sends a 119 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:52,040 message that you care about the big stuff too. In fact, 120 00:06:52,079 --> 00:06:55,279 you care about the big stuff even more. You know, 121 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,639 if you allow people to do things that create chaos 122 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:05,000 and so disorder in your high trust society, people lose 123 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,399 trust because the bad actors, the sociopaths and psychopaths among us, 124 00:07:10,279 --> 00:07:14,720 they will take every inch you give them. They will 125 00:07:14,759 --> 00:07:19,399 continue to behave in antisocial ways, and the people who 126 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:24,160 are not antisocial will now remove themselves from the equation. 127 00:07:24,839 --> 00:07:28,240 There was a story that the president of El Salvador 128 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,480 told Okayley is his name, and he was asked about 129 00:07:32,519 --> 00:07:38,000 this crackdown on gangs and cartels and crime in general, 130 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:41,360 and he talked about you know a guy who grows 131 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:44,360 tomatoes I think he said, was the example, and takes 132 00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:46,279 them into the market to sell, and he may be 133 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,120 there all day long trying to sell the tomatoes from 134 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,040 the farm, and he may sell five dollars worth of tomatoes, 135 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,879 and on the way back from the market, he gets 136 00:07:57,079 --> 00:08:02,199 attacked by the gang and they take his five dollars. 137 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:06,680 So what is the message that the farmer now takes 138 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:11,759 away from this? It is better for him to go 139 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,000 and take five dollars from somebody else who's selling their 140 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,839 stuff than it is to actually do the work and 141 00:08:17,879 --> 00:08:20,639 play by the rules and engage in commerce. 142 00:08:22,079 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 2: And when you have enough people. 143 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:27,519 Speaker 1: That decide that that is the preferred path because that's 144 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,639 what's being rewarded or at least, you know, not enforced, 145 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,519 then you have a breakdown in your society. 146 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: Then all you have is like Gangland. That's not a 147 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:40,799 high trust society. 148 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:41,639 Speaker 4: Right. 149 00:08:41,759 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: Your number one job as gov CO is to provide 150 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,559 the umbrella of security to allow for commerce among free 151 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,320 people to occur. And if you can't get that right, 152 00:08:51,879 --> 00:08:57,519 City of Charlotte, Washington, DC, then you need to reprioritize 153 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,679 the other things that you are doing that is distracting 154 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,600 you from this core service. It is the thing, the 155 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:08,559 only reason why people band together and create a government 156 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:09,799 power in the first place. 157 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 2: That's it. 158 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: Mutual defense, that's it. If you can't provide that, you 159 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:20,759 have no reason to exist. It's not for the buses, people, 160 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:27,039 it's not for the trains. It's for mutual protection, enforcement 161 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,559 of law, for violators, punishment. All right, if you're listening 162 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:33,200 to this show, you know I try to keep up 163 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,000 with all sorts of current events, and I know you 164 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:37,480 do too, And you've probably heard me say get your 165 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,440 news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you 166 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,440 detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed 167 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,240 with ground News. 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Subscribe 178 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,000 through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. 179 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,080 I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to 180 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:30,600 every feature your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 181 00:10:30,639 --> 00:10:33,000 but it also supports ground news as they make the 182 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:38,240 media landscape more transparent. Here is a message from Mark. 183 00:10:38,759 --> 00:10:39,600 It's a Pete mail. 184 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 2: Pete. 185 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:47,799 Speaker 1: The DC mayor Muriel Bowser of the of the What 186 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:52,480 Mario Brothers fame is stating that violent crime is way down, 187 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:56,960 the lowest in thirty years. However, murders are at record levels. 188 00:10:57,759 --> 00:11:02,120 That's because you can't juice a murder stat it can't 189 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,279 be shown as a lesser offense. That's exactly right. It's 190 00:11:05,279 --> 00:11:08,159 a great point, Mark. It lays bare the fraud that 191 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,679 are the DC crime stats. Right they keep talking about 192 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,080 in their defense of DC and in opposition to the 193 00:11:15,159 --> 00:11:18,360 you know Orange Hitler that how dare he help us 194 00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:20,960 police our streets when we've got we've got a violent 195 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,679 crime that's way down. Yes, because the commander who just 196 00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:28,639 got suspended was falsifying and apparently this has been running rampant. 197 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 2: They've been declassify, not declassified, but. 198 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: They've been what would I say that to demoting or 199 00:11:36,399 --> 00:11:41,440 something like they they define it down right, they're making 200 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:45,960 them less serious offenses at the point of the police report, 201 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,639 so it doesn't get coded as a violent crime. Hence 202 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,960 the miraculous turnaround. But here's the thing, if you even 203 00:11:53,039 --> 00:11:55,399 compare it to twenty eighteen, it's still higher than it 204 00:11:55,519 --> 00:11:59,039 was before COVID twenty eighteen. I see them talk about 205 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:03,159 twenty nineteen, but it's still higher. It's been going up 206 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:04,440 and up and up and up. And by the way, 207 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,799 the carjacking numbers are through the roof, it's like four 208 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:14,120 hundred five hundred percent increase. So President Trump announced that 209 00:12:14,159 --> 00:12:17,399 he was federalizing the police force in Washington, DC and 210 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,879 mobilizing the National Guard to clean up the streets of 211 00:12:19,879 --> 00:12:25,120 the district. Washington, writes David Strawm at hot air dot com, 212 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,559 as one of the most dangerous cities in America. It's 213 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,919 in the same basic category as Chicago, New Orleans, and 214 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,639 Saint Louis. Its murder rates exceed those of Bogata and 215 00:12:35,799 --> 00:12:41,639 Mexico City, both famously dangerous cities. The city, which famously 216 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,320 puts taxation without representation on its license plates, also wants 217 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,559 to be a state. If it were its own state, 218 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:55,120 it would be the most dangerous state in America. DC 219 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:00,720 has a higher violent crime, higher murder, and higher robbery 220 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:04,840 rates than all fifty states, recording a homicide rate in 221 00:13:04,879 --> 00:13:08,840 twenty twenty four of twenty seven and a half murders 222 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:14,240 per hundred thousand residents. It also experienced the nation's highest 223 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,720 vehicle theft rate, with eight hundred forty two thefts per 224 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:25,720 hundred thousand residents. Eight hundred forty two thefts. That is 225 00:13:25,759 --> 00:13:30,279 three times the national average. So they're part of that average, 226 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:34,279 which they drive up, and there's still three times more 227 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,320 than that. The District of Columbia is, by some measures, 228 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,480 among the top twenty percent of the most dangerous cities 229 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,559 in the world, not to mention the fact that DC 230 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,799 is cooking the books to make things look better than 231 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:52,200 they actually are. One thing the establishmentarians are saying is 232 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,320 that they don't care what happens to people as long 233 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,799 as those people aren't themselves. Basically, it's been amazing to 234 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,519 watch all of these quote unquote elites. 235 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 2: I got to come up with a better word than 236 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:05,360 that elites. 237 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:11,519 Speaker 1: Fo leats these folites right, because they think they're elites, 238 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,480 but they're not. Okay, and they're like, oh, what is 239 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:18,360 all upset about? I work in DC every day, and 240 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,360 I go in there by an uber and I don't 241 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,279 ever have any problems whatsoever. And I live in Arlington, Virginia, 242 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,840 and it's no problem to me. Yeah, so a problem 243 00:14:29,879 --> 00:14:32,159 to you because you don't live there and you don't 244 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:36,960 take mass transit in I got a quote here. Hang on, 245 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:39,159 let's play this quote. See if you can peg who 246 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:40,960 this is. It's from a couple of years ago. But 247 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:41,639 take a listen. 248 00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:45,519 Speaker 4: Driving home, my staff lives here in the hill reminded me, 249 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:49,000 don't stop at a stop light until I'm out of 250 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:52,279 town if I see a red light late at night, 251 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,639 since there's very little traffic slow up at the other block, 252 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,679 so I never come to a full stop except in 253 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:58,919 the middle of the block. 254 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,639 Speaker 2: Because of carjackets. 255 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,919 Speaker 4: Stopping to light, people standing in a corner walking up 256 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:06,399 with a gun. 257 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,519 Speaker 2: Do you know who that was? Can you tell? 258 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:13,159 Speaker 1: It was from nineteen ninety two that my friends is 259 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:18,480 Senator Joe Biden. Now, people in DC that are Democrats 260 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:19,799 and media, But I repeat myself. 261 00:15:19,799 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 2: They may claim that. 262 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: It's not a problem at all, but I have seen 263 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,320 reports that carjackers are now getting carjacked in d C too. 264 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,559 That's how bad it has become by the way. I 265 00:15:32,639 --> 00:15:37,840 did this in nineteen ninety six, I believe it was 266 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:41,200 I went to see The Grateful Dead Bob Dylan opened, 267 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,000 and that's why I went, because I wanted to see 268 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:45,360 Bob Dylan because I thought Bob was old and he 269 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:47,200 was going to die, and I wanted to see Bob 270 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,240 Dylan in concert before he died. 271 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,559 Speaker 2: And then a month later, Jerry died. But so we 272 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:54,759 went to d C to RFK Stadium. 273 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: And yeah, they checked our vaccinations and all of that 274 00:15:58,759 --> 00:15:59,399 before we went in. 275 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: If you had that scenes then they wouldn't let you in. 276 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:02,600 But no RFK Stadium. 277 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: And we got lost because we didn't have map Quest 278 00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:08,279 or any GPS stuff. And we were driving around trying 279 00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:10,159 to get out of DC, and it was very late 280 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,960 at night and it was summer. Windows were down, no 281 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,279 AC in the car, and we're driving around. I stop 282 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,440 at a stoplight and I hear some people on the 283 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:23,960 corner saying, you're not from around here, and they said 284 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,240 that because of our skin color in the vehicle and 285 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,639 all of the Grateful Dead stickers on the car. Probably 286 00:16:28,679 --> 00:16:31,600 but they yeah. And so that was the last stoplight 287 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:35,120 I stopped at in downtown DC. And that was thirty 288 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,240 years ago. Okay, this is not a new phenomenon. People, 289 00:16:39,639 --> 00:16:42,320 here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 290 00:16:42,399 --> 00:16:45,879 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 291 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,159 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 292 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:52,559 Asheville is your connection. 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Donald Trump is giving 319 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,960 voice to. Donald Trump is saying no, we don't have 320 00:18:23,079 --> 00:18:27,920 to live under these conditions. We can make these things better. 321 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,400 And I think that's really the fear, is that people 322 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:35,440 are going to see that the city becomes safer. People 323 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,960 are going to feel safer, and then they may start wondering, well, 324 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,880 why hasn't this been done before? Why aren't the people 325 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,880 that we keep voting for, why aren't they doing these things? 326 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:57,519 This is from the National Review by Rich Lowry, And 327 00:18:57,559 --> 00:18:59,319 I would just point out before I get into this, 328 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:06,400 that San Francisco cleaned itself up for the commie leader 329 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,160 of China, Winnie the Pooh, when he came to town. 330 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 2: Right, why did they do that? How did they do that? 331 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:15,880 How could they do that? 332 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:16,799 Speaker 4: Right? 333 00:19:17,039 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 1: They obviously know what to do and how to do it, 334 00:19:21,279 --> 00:19:23,759 but they just won't do it for their American citizens. 335 00:19:24,039 --> 00:19:26,960 I mean, think about the contempt and the disdain that 336 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:30,400 they must have for their own citizens to live under 337 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,720 those conditions. But when the communist leader from China shows 338 00:19:33,799 --> 00:19:36,720 up with his jar of honey, and then it's like, well, 339 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:39,720 clean the streets, you know, rouse the hoboes, get them 340 00:19:39,759 --> 00:19:41,680 all out of here, so it all looks nice and 341 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,240 clean for the communists. So the communist gets to see that, 342 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:51,920 he gets to experience the best foot forward in San Francisco, anyway, 343 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,880 Rich Lowry says, At its best, Washington, DC is a 344 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:59,640 city of timeless grandeur, of iconic monuments and world historical 345 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,000 centers of power. At its worst, it's a harrowing place 346 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,640 where a remorseless fourteen year old could steal your car. 347 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,880 The Metropolitan Government of Washington has never been worthy of 348 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:15,079 the seat of government of the greatest and most powerful 349 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:21,480 nation that has ever existed. Ever, it's consistently been an embarrassment, 350 00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:25,440 and for decades now has tolerated and worse, created the 351 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,359 conditions for disorderly and dangerous streets. He then runs through 352 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,079 a brief history. The federal government had to put a 353 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,799 financial control board in charge in the nineties because the 354 00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:42,279 district was on the brink of bankruptcy. In the grand 355 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:45,759 scheme of things, Trump's intervention is more the norm than 356 00:20:45,799 --> 00:20:50,319 an exception in DC's history. Way back in the nineteenth century, 357 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,640 Congress governed the district via committees before giving home rule 358 00:20:54,799 --> 00:20:59,519 a try in eighteen seventy one, and then it had 359 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:04,160 to quickly pull back after the district was yes financially mismanaged. 360 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,920 DC has enjoyed home rules since nineteen seventy three, although 361 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,039 with the Financial Board exercising significant power from nineteen ninety 362 00:21:13,079 --> 00:21:18,720 five through two thousand and one. As usual, Lowry says, 363 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:22,960 Trump is opting for the sledge hammer over the scalpel. Still, 364 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,799 his indictment of Washington, d c. For allowing lawless young 365 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:31,480 people to blight the city is accurate. The critics object 366 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:36,480 that violent crime is actually falling in Washington. Yes, it is, 367 00:21:36,599 --> 00:21:40,519 although from an unacceptably high level. As of twenty twenty four, 368 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:43,000 d C had the fourth highest homicide rate of major 369 00:21:43,079 --> 00:21:46,119 US cities and a higher homicide rate than all fifty states. 370 00:21:47,279 --> 00:21:50,440 Charles Layman of the Manhattan Institute points out that the 371 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:54,000 city's homicide rate for young black men has been above 372 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:02,079 the national average for decades. The killings overwhelmingly involve males 373 00:22:02,319 --> 00:22:05,519 who have already been entangled in the criminal justice system 374 00:22:05,839 --> 00:22:10,759 with substantial rap sheets and prison time. Layman cites a 375 00:22:10,839 --> 00:22:14,799 report by the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform that 376 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:19,440 found that about five hundred people that are identified. Five 377 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:24,279 hundred people are in this category of you know, substantial 378 00:22:24,319 --> 00:22:29,119 criminal histories in prison time. These five hundred people account 379 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:33,440 for sixty to seventy percent of all the gun violence 380 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:39,440 in the city. They know who the people are. The 381 00:22:39,519 --> 00:22:44,039 carjackings tend to be carried out by miners. And I 382 00:22:44,079 --> 00:22:48,880 actually have a text here from Ellen who says miners 383 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,759 are not included in the DC numbers. Yeah, those go 384 00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:57,119 down as auto thefts, right, which are violent. Carjackings are violent. 385 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,720 Layman argues that the the DC cops or sorry. The 386 00:23:02,839 --> 00:23:07,160 DC needs more cops who are more active making stops, 387 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:14,000 making arrests, and there need to be more prosecutions. Right, 388 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:20,000 if you do not punish the anti social behavior, you 389 00:23:20,079 --> 00:23:23,839 will get more of it. And people who heretofore were 390 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:27,039 not antisocial and did not engage in that behavior, they 391 00:23:27,079 --> 00:23:31,319 will see no reason to not join with the anti 392 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:37,200 social behavior if they don't leave. It is a rational response, right, 393 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:39,519 It is rational to do so if like, Okay, well 394 00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:41,799 this is the way it is, and my government's not 395 00:23:41,839 --> 00:23:44,039 going to protect me, then I'm going to engage in 396 00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:45,559 the behavior because why not. 397 00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 2: You offer no incentives to get people. 398 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: Off of that career path if you will and onto 399 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:03,720 a legit one. 400 00:23:58,920 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 2: Don't know who this is from. 401 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: On the text line, I lived in Charlotte my whole life, 402 00:24:01,759 --> 00:24:03,720 forty six years. I rode the light rail when it 403 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:08,480 was new and vagrants didn't pay their fares. Then these 404 00:24:08,519 --> 00:24:11,599 pro trained liberals have no clue. Who will ride straight 405 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,359 into their safe quote unquote safe suburbs. That's always been 406 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,720 the argument against mass transit is that you now allow 407 00:24:19,319 --> 00:24:23,160 a criminal population to spread out more whereas before it 408 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,680 may have been localized. And by the way, at the 409 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,400 heart of this crime issue is the victims, and the 410 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,839 people who are most victimized by these soft on crime 411 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,079 policies are the poor and minority neighborhoods. They're the ones 412 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,160 that bear the brunt of this. You know, stories are powerful. 413 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,279 They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 414 00:24:43,559 --> 00:24:45,839 Stories connect us to the people of our past while 415 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,279 transcending generations. 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They're doing a news 433 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:53,160 conference and Smith was apparently formerly before she became chief, 434 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,880 she was the chief equity officer at the Metro PD. 435 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:00,920 And she was asked a question by a reporter and 436 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:06,839 see if you can spot something. 437 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 2: That is suboptimal. Let's say, does what the share of 438 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:10,839 command is? 439 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 4: Now? 440 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:12,559 Speaker 2: What does that mean? 441 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: Quote? Is it cam Bondi's Greeks does his work? 442 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:16,319 Speaker 3: So? 443 00:26:16,799 --> 00:26:17,079 Speaker 2: Okay? 444 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: So now they bring in the mayor. So she has asked, 445 00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:24,440 so can you explain what the chain of command is now? 446 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,759 And her response is what does that mean? She is 447 00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:32,559 the chief of police and does not know what the 448 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:38,920 chain of command means? Doesn't know what the term means. Guys, 449 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,880 I think I think I may know the problem. 450 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 2: In DC. 451 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: Raphael Mangul he is the he's a contributing editor at 452 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,680 the City Journal, and he does public safety issues for 453 00:26:55,759 --> 00:26:59,759 the Manhattan Institute, and he says a good portion of 454 00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:02,640 my work has been focused on trying to remind people 455 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,920 that poor mostly minority neighborhoods bear a disproportionately large chunk 456 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,039 of America's crime problem. The collateral consequences of violent crime 457 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,160 for a community are enormous, and not just for the 458 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,880 immediate victims. The ripple effect goes far beyond what most 459 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,519 people who casually take positions on criminal justice policy have 460 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,400 ever considered. It's long past time for conservatives and other 461 00:27:28,519 --> 00:27:33,880 quote unquote tough on crime folks to reoccupy the moral 462 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,160 high ground in these debates and take up the job 463 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:44,200 of defending the pro social against the anti social. Bottom line, 464 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:49,480 there is absolutely nothing moral about failing to meaningfully incapacitate 465 00:27:49,599 --> 00:27:53,319 repeat offenders who have exhibited through a long pattern of 466 00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:57,359 criminal conduct, that they will not play by society's rules. 467 00:27:58,759 --> 00:28:04,720 He's exactly right people who are talking about soft on 468 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,279 crime policies and why they should be adopted, people that 469 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,839 want to just treat the judicial system as a turnstyle 470 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,960 for repeat, repeat offenders. You do not occupy the moral 471 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:26,039 high ground. You are revictimizing entire communities of people. It's grotesque. 472 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,240 It's more grotesque given that you promote yourself as the 473 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,720 caring one that you care more about these very neighborhoods 474 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,039 and communities that you allow to be repeatedly victimized by 475 00:28:39,079 --> 00:28:43,680 the same people, over and over and over again. Which 476 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:50,839 brings me to the District Attorney of Mecklenberg County who 477 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,000 has announced that there will be no charges against police 478 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,480 officers Charlotte Mecklimberg police officers in the shooting death of 479 00:28:57,519 --> 00:29:01,599 Reggie Allen Knight. This occurred on March seventh. It started 480 00:29:01,599 --> 00:29:04,519 at about four point forty in the afternoon March seventh, 481 00:29:05,079 --> 00:29:11,000 at one two five two four, Headquarters Farm Road in Charlotte. 482 00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:13,720 Earlier that day, CMPD received a nine to one to 483 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,799 one call stating that Reggie Knight was wanted by police 484 00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:21,599 and had recently been seen at this residence. Six cops 485 00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:25,960 respond to the scene. Prior to approaching the house, the 486 00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:30,720 officers met at a nearby location and they briefed right, 487 00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:32,559 they looked at they got the photo of him right, 488 00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:35,440 they pulled his rap sheet and stuff, and they worked 489 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,279 out their plan. This guy had unserved Mecklenberg County arrest 490 00:29:40,319 --> 00:29:45,599 warrants four possession of meth, possession of a firearm by 491 00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:50,640 a convicted felon, carrying a concealed weapon, resisting a public officer, 492 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:56,519 possession of drug paraphernalia, communicating threats, domestic violence, two counts 493 00:29:56,519 --> 00:29:59,160 of assault on a female, assault with a deadly weapon, 494 00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:06,680 and assault by strangulation. Unserved warrants on this guy. Additionally, 495 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,200 he had pending orders for arrest for a felony probation, violation, 496 00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:16,359 intoxicated and disruptive behavior, driving while license revoked, and driving 497 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:19,799 while impaired. Three cops go to the front door. One 498 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,039 places himself on the right side of the house, one 499 00:30:22,079 --> 00:30:24,759 on the left, one in the backyard. They ring the bell. 500 00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:28,279 The mother answers the door and lies to the police 501 00:30:28,319 --> 00:30:32,720 and says she hadn't even seen her son in a while. Meanwhile, 502 00:30:32,759 --> 00:30:36,839 her son is leaving out the second floor, comes out 503 00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:40,000 on the deck, proceeds down the stairs, starts making his 504 00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:43,279 way across the backyard. He's told to stop, he refuses. 505 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,079 He starts to run, then he stops, turns around and 506 00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:48,759 opens fire on the cops. One of the cops hit 507 00:30:48,839 --> 00:30:51,039 in the leg, the other one got hit in the belt, 508 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,480 but the belt stop the bullet, and the one cop 509 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,799 that got shot in the leg takes the guy down, 510 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,200 wrestles with the gun and gets it out of his hand. 511 00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:03,039 Speaker 2: As his colleagues. 512 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: Open fire on the suspect, killing him, which saved us 513 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,759 all a bunch of court costs. All right, that'll do 514 00:31:08,799 --> 00:31:11,359 it for this episode. 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