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So, 10 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:33,079 as you heard at the end there of Vince Cokeley's show, 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,560 going into the news, the press conference was held up 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,960 in Minneapolis, the scene of a shooting that occurred at 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:47,240 a Catholic school for K through eight grades. It was 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,000 at the Annunciation Catholic School and students were in a 15 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:59,240 morning mass service. According to the chief of police in Minneapolis, 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,319 the gunman approached the church began firing through the windows 17 00:01:05,359 --> 00:01:09,799 from outside. He had a rifle, a shotgun, a pistol. 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:16,560 Two kids were killed, ages eight and ten. Seventeen others 19 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,879 were injured, fourteen of those were children. Two were reportedly 20 00:01:20,879 --> 00:01:24,719 in critical condition, and then the gunman. 21 00:01:25,799 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: Killed himself. 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,359 Speaker 2: That's all the information we have right now, and so 23 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,000 as I do in all of these types of cases, 24 00:01:34,159 --> 00:01:39,319 I wait until we get more information. There's no indication 25 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,680 as to who the shooter was. Also, I will not 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:47,959 name him when we find out who he was. And 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,319 I think despite what the mayor in a grotesque fashion, 28 00:01:54,519 --> 00:02:02,280 dismissed thoughts and prayers, no prayers are important. That's what 29 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:07,319 the kids were doing at the time. So pray for 30 00:02:07,519 --> 00:02:11,360 the families up there in Minneapolis, and we'll give you 31 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,879 more information as it becomes available. But right now there 32 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,400 just is not a lot of information to report to you. 33 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:28,039 This issue though, of crime, it's not going away, despite 34 00:02:28,479 --> 00:02:32,120 what I think a lot of political leaders would prefer, 35 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:39,360 particularly political leaders in our large cities in America. In fact, 36 00:02:41,039 --> 00:02:48,360 a second, I've got the latest Associated Press NARC poll. 37 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,520 The vast majority of Americans see crime as a major 38 00:02:53,599 --> 00:02:58,360 problem in large cities. Eighty one percent say it's a 39 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,319 major problem. And of course this is the Associated Press, 40 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:07,159 and so they will frame this as literally a concern 41 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:12,840 Trump has seized on, because remember Republicans always pounce or 42 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:18,439 seize sometimes both. When a scandal is about Democrats, then 43 00:03:18,599 --> 00:03:22,439 the media coverage is always the Republican reaction to the scandal. 44 00:03:22,439 --> 00:03:25,759 And make no mistake about it. Crime in Democrat controlled 45 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:30,319 cities is a scandal for Democrats. That's why you get 46 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:34,319 this framing of the Republican reaction and that they are 47 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,719 seizing on this in order to make Democrats look bad. 48 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:41,120 It's not that Democrats have made themselves look bad. It's 49 00:03:41,199 --> 00:03:45,800 not that they've proven themselves unable to govern large cities. Now, 50 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,400 whether voters will ever say, you know what, let's give 51 00:03:49,439 --> 00:03:51,759 some Republicans a shot and see if they can clean 52 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,360 up the city, not sure if that's ever going to happen. 53 00:03:55,159 --> 00:04:00,159 Tribalism is real, and so they the voters are, in 54 00:04:00,199 --> 00:04:02,800 my estimation, probably not going to make any kind of 55 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:06,400 a change. They'll just keep picking different Democrats who always 56 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:12,159 have to cater to the same base. Despite the perception, 57 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,960 data shows that violent crime in DC is at a 58 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,319 thirty year low. 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But as we 92 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:18,040 heard like two weeks ago, word broke that a DC 93 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:23,639 police commander had been suspended for shall we say, massaging 94 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:29,879 those very numbers for his district. This is a piece 95 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,959 by Beege Wellborn at hotair dot com. Surely it's no 96 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:37,120 big deal if there's only one rotten apple in a barrel, right, 97 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,399 that's how one rotten apple and a barrel works. I 98 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,360 think it never spreads off of the one rotten apple, right, 99 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,040 that's the old axiom. Well, it turns out that the 100 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:50,319 officer was suspended in May and only placed under investigation 101 00:06:50,439 --> 00:06:52,560 when he fingered a big guy in the department in 102 00:06:52,639 --> 00:06:55,600 an equal opportunity complaint, and then his union stepped into 103 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,279 the fray and the union then began gathering the evidence. 104 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,759 The Fraternal Order of Police chairman Greg Pemberton said at 105 00:07:03,759 --> 00:07:05,959 the time, when our members respond to the scene of 106 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,079 a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that 107 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,399 a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or 108 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:14,639 a captain that will show up on the scene and 109 00:07:14,759 --> 00:07:19,720 direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense. 110 00:07:20,879 --> 00:07:24,720 The police department's command staff is focusing on two categories 111 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,560 in order to get the numbers to fall, Pemberton said, 112 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:32,759 armed with a dangerous weapon and injured person to the hospital. 113 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:39,439 Those are the two categories when management officials are directing 114 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:43,600 the rank and file officers to take a report for 115 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,759 felony assault or if they're going back into police databases 116 00:07:48,279 --> 00:07:51,839 and changing offenses to felony assault. Well, felony assault is 117 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,720 not a category of crime that's listed on the department's 118 00:07:56,199 --> 00:07:58,040 daily crime stats. 119 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:01,959 Speaker 1: Does that mean they. 120 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:07,079 Speaker 2: Created a category of felony assault that they don't report, 121 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:16,079 and then they tout a decline in violent crime while 122 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,839 not including felony assaults. But now, oh wait, there's more. 123 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,120 Now Here comes the Washington Free Beacon, a national treasure 124 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:31,199 with a report that in a sane and rational world 125 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,480 would probably cut the legs right out from under that 126 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,000 whole narrative. It's down thirty percent, but it obviously will not. 127 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:42,000 A former DC cop sued the department in twenty twenty, 128 00:08:42,639 --> 00:08:48,759 and the city has now quietly settled her lawsuit. Do 129 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:51,320 you know what she sued them for. I'll give you 130 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:55,919 three guests. Three guesses, and the first two don't even count. 131 00:08:57,519 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: That's right. 132 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,399 Speaker 2: It was for juice and the stats. The District of 133 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:05,360 Columbia quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused 134 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:10,960 Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the 135 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:15,120 district's crime stats. This is according to court records obtained 136 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:18,200 by the Washington Free Beacons. So now you have two 137 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,200 different officers, two saying that this has been occurring and 138 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:26,440 has been occurring for a while. Because this lawsuit was 139 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:32,200 filed in twenty twenty, the brass at the department repeatedly 140 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:38,200 told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent 141 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,879 assaults to downgrade them to lesser offenses. According to internal 142 00:09:43,279 --> 00:09:48,600 Metropolitan Police Department emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts that 143 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:54,399 the Free Beacon has now reviewed the former sergeant. Her 144 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:59,159 name is Charlotte Jossoue. She sued the department in twenty twenty, 145 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,320 alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against 146 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,639 the scheme. Josu, who joined the force after serving honorably 147 00:10:07,759 --> 00:10:12,440 in Iraq, accused MPD brass of attempting to distort crime 148 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,279 statistics by quote downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors 149 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:21,279 so that there will be fewer felonies in the statistics. 150 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,320 By the way, I wonder how many other cities are 151 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,879 seeing this. Are any other jurisdictions engaged in this kind 152 00:10:30,919 --> 00:10:38,960 of data manipulation, right, Because when this sort of thing happens, 153 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:41,960 that's just the first time you caught it, right, And 154 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,559 it's only because you had a couple of whistleblowers that 155 00:10:45,759 --> 00:10:49,759 did so. And I'm curious, like, maybe there are other jurisdictions. 156 00:10:49,759 --> 00:10:54,159 Maybe here in Charlotte, somebody, some enterprising young cub reporter 157 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:59,440 could try to root this out. I don't know, but 158 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,240 it's going to rely on whistleblowers and people coming forward 159 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,360 and having the proof, right, that's what this is going 160 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:10,080 to require, as these two cases have the evidence themselves. 161 00:11:10,519 --> 00:11:15,960 She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed 162 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,720 their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep 163 00:11:20,759 --> 00:11:25,039 them out of the crime stats that the city reports 164 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:30,399 to the public. Josue reported also according to the Free Beacon, 165 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:34,080 one case in which a female was cut on the 166 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,600 side of her face was a deep, open cut with 167 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,120 an unknown object from her forehead to the bottom of 168 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:44,440 her chin. While the responding officer had called in the 169 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,639 crime as assault with a dangerous weapon, the captain allegedly 170 00:11:47,639 --> 00:11:51,759 classified the offense as a sick person to the hospital, 171 00:11:54,360 --> 00:12:00,879 which isn't really the same thing. Josue called Captain Conbo. Really, 172 00:12:00,919 --> 00:12:07,039 that's his name, Captain Conboy how Dickensian, the captain who 173 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:13,519 ordered officers to use the TPO sorry tpwor strategy is 174 00:12:13,519 --> 00:12:16,720 what they called it. About another case from twenty nineteen. 175 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,679 In that instance, there was an on duty watch officer 176 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,279 who downgraded an assault with the deadly weapon to a 177 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,759 misdemeanor simple assault, and Josue said, I feel like they're 178 00:12:26,799 --> 00:12:28,639 just downgrading the classifications. 179 00:12:28,799 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: Well, there's a reason why. It's because they are. 180 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:36,879 Speaker 2: Captain Conboy was then promoted for his work. He was 181 00:12:36,919 --> 00:12:43,559 appointed Captain of the Metro Police Departments Research and Analytical 182 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,200 Services Branch in twenty twenty one. And do you know 183 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,360 what you do when you're in charge of that branch. 184 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:55,559 He's responsible for overseeing the development of statistical reports, charts 185 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:01,039 and maps covering crime trends and patterns. In other words, 186 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:08,080 this has been rigged in DC for years, for years. 187 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,600 All right, you hear me talk a lot about incentives, right, Well, 188 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,159 let's talk about incentive trips, the kind that companies offer 189 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,440 employees to fire them up and reward their teams. If 190 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,600 you own a business or you work somewhere that offers 191 00:13:20,639 --> 00:13:23,639 these incentive trips, first off, good for you. But also 192 00:13:23,879 --> 00:13:26,240 there is a custom app that's a game changer for 193 00:13:26,279 --> 00:13:31,159 these trips. It's called Incentive Tripkit. Private group messaging, shared photos, 194 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,080 your itinerary, travel details all built into a single, easy 195 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,320 to use app. There's even a traveler locator so Carl 196 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,159 from Accounting doesn't get left behind. The best part about 197 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:45,120 Incentive trip Kit it's totally private. No email captures, no 198 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:49,480 sign ups, no cringe ads. It's simple clean and secure, 199 00:13:49,639 --> 00:13:52,559 and when the trip is over, Incentive trip Kit turns 200 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,519 those highlights into a professional storytelling video. 201 00:13:55,759 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 1: So think about it. 202 00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 2: When you launch next year's incentive trip campaign, that video 203 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:04,000 becomes your greatest motivator. Talk about a return on investment. Right, 204 00:14:04,279 --> 00:14:07,440 You got to check out Incentive trip Kit for your business. 205 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,519 Visit incentive tripkit dot com because great trips deserve even 206 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,000 better returns. All right, So then there's this story out 207 00:14:15,039 --> 00:14:20,320 of Chicago. This was okay, cards on the table. I 208 00:14:20,759 --> 00:14:24,399 gotta give you full disclosure here. I never thought this 209 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:30,679 was a really good idea. The violence interrupters. You know, 210 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:36,600 the whole concept seemed a bit too social worky, you know, 211 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,600 like we're gonna get these like old gang bangers. We're 212 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,840 gonna get these people that came from the gangs, and 213 00:14:44,879 --> 00:14:48,320 we're going to like give them some reflective vests and 214 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,600 have them walk around the worst parts in the most 215 00:14:51,679 --> 00:14:55,399 crime ridden areas and they're going to quote interrupt the violence. 216 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,240 I kind of thought it might actually contribute to the 217 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,639 violence a little bit because they're wearing reflective vests and 218 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:08,559 people may see them as like an extension of law 219 00:15:08,639 --> 00:15:14,559 enforcement and anyway, so it hasn't really gone It hasn't 220 00:15:14,559 --> 00:15:21,080 really gone that well, in particular in Chicago. Okay, so 221 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,440 this is from CWB Chicago dot Com, state, county, and 222 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:30,440 city programs. A lot more than one hundred million dollars 223 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,279 to so called violence prevention programs in Chicago. Much of 224 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:40,919 that money is distributed to violence interrupters, people whose life 225 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,039 experiences on the street are supposed to make them uniquely 226 00:15:45,159 --> 00:15:51,080 qualified to intervene in and defuse conflicts before they spiral 227 00:15:51,279 --> 00:15:57,320 into shootings. I don't think it's working. I understand it. 228 00:15:57,399 --> 00:16:00,279 There's like a bunch of people murdered, like every in 229 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:05,240 Charlotte or uh, Chicago, But there are some new questions 230 00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:09,720 about what some interrupters are actually doing. And now the 231 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,840 questions are starting to pile up. See back in March, 232 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:24,039 a woman was shot during a chaotic teen takeover in Streeterville. 233 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,759 I do not know what a teen takeover is. I 234 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,200 assume it's like one of the street takeovers, or it's 235 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,159 like the wheelie boys that drive their ride their bicycles 236 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:37,759 and motorized scooters and stuff and traffic and assault people 237 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:41,000 and scare people and jam up the traffic patterns and 238 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:41,399 all of that. 239 00:16:41,639 --> 00:16:42,759 Speaker 1: I assume it's like that. 240 00:16:43,159 --> 00:16:45,279 Speaker 2: I don't know if they card you to make sure 241 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,240 you are eighteen, Like, I don't know if you're a 242 00:16:47,279 --> 00:16:49,279 twenty year old and you're trying to access the teen 243 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,399 takeover and they're like, no, you can't be part of 244 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:52,279 our teen takeover. 245 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that all works. 246 00:16:53,759 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 2: But there was a teen takeover and one of the 247 00:16:58,639 --> 00:17:04,960 self styled violent interrupters ended off ended up speeding off 248 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:08,519 after two or three teens jumped into his car, so 249 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,880 he drove the getaway car from a teen takeover event, 250 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,000 which is illegal. I guess these teen takeovers, they're not 251 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,839 exactly smiled upon by law enforcement. And I guess when 252 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,799 the cops showed up, a violence interrupter took a bunch 253 00:17:22,799 --> 00:17:25,319 of the teens maybe they can't drive, don't have licenses 254 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:28,839 because they're too young, or something, just piled them in 255 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:33,640 the car and help them evade arrest. So I mean, 256 00:17:33,759 --> 00:17:37,319 and now, to be sure, that is a form of 257 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,680 violence interruption, right, particularly if the teens were to have 258 00:17:42,599 --> 00:17:47,160 tried to resist arrest. Then Earlier this year, one of 259 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,319 these peacekeepers received a nine year prison sentence for taking 260 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,759 part in a mob beating that left a motorist badly 261 00:17:55,759 --> 00:18:00,720 injured in little village of former Obama administration official excused 262 00:18:00,759 --> 00:18:04,359 his conduct by saying the man mishandled the stress of 263 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,480 being a violence prevention worker. See, and that happens to 264 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:11,359 me all the time, Like people are like Pete, you know, 265 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,599 we need you to come in here and try to 266 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,519 keep the peace, and it's just so stressful, you know, 267 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,599 for people who don't know, I did a stint as 268 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,799 a bouncer at a bar years and years ago. Well 269 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:27,920 to be all right, to be honest, I was more 270 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,920 of a of a door guy, like I just carded people, 271 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:35,599 but it did require some sort of contract work as 272 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,000 a bouncer. Whenever there would be a fight or something, 273 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,559 I would have to go in and help the other 274 00:18:39,599 --> 00:18:40,519 guys break it up. 275 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:41,039 Speaker 1: And so. 276 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 2: That was just very stressful too, and that just made 277 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,359 me beat people up like that. So I totally understand 278 00:18:48,519 --> 00:18:51,079 how that could happen. You're there to prevent the violence, 279 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,599 and then it's just so stressful preventing all the violence 280 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,720 that you end up beating a dude into the hospital, right, 281 00:18:57,759 --> 00:18:59,559 So I mean that does make some bit of sense, 282 00:18:59,599 --> 00:19:03,440 I guess. And then on Sunday, a new video surfaced 283 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:08,759 showing men claiming to be violence interrupters heckling and interfering 284 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:11,920 with Chicago cops who were trying to arrest a man 285 00:19:12,079 --> 00:19:17,519 accused of illegally carrying a gun with an extended ammunition magazine. 286 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,240 And I watched the video and the guy is on 287 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:25,680 the ground resisting arrest, and you know what he's saying 288 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,640 to the police. They don't have their knee on his 289 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,000 neck or anything like that. One cop has him by 290 00:19:32,039 --> 00:19:35,319 one arm, another cops got the other arm, and they're 291 00:19:35,319 --> 00:19:39,160 trying to stand him up, and he's struggling against them, 292 00:19:39,519 --> 00:19:44,880 and you know what he's saying, I can't breathe, which 293 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,759 is what a lot of people who don't want to 294 00:19:46,759 --> 00:19:50,480 get arrested say. Now, they say I can't breathe, and 295 00:19:50,519 --> 00:19:53,559 they're being captured on somebody's smartphone so they can be 296 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,480 the next Saint George Floyd. All Right, if you're listening 297 00:19:56,559 --> 00:19:58,119 to this show, you know I try to keep up 298 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:59,920 with all sorts of current events, and I know you do, 299 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,039 you too, And you've probably heard me say get your news. 300 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: From multiple sources. 301 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 2: Why, well, because it's how you detect media bias, which 302 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,880 is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's 303 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,400 an app, and it's a website, and it combines news 304 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,400 from around the world in one place so you can 305 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,759 compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out 306 00:20:19,799 --> 00:20:24,400 at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put 307 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,359 the link in the podcast description too. 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I 316 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,799 use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 317 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,759 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 318 00:20:55,799 --> 00:20:58,960 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 319 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:05,400 more transparent. Some messages from the text line driven by 320 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:11,480 Liberty buick GMC data. This is from Bubba Data. Manipulation 321 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,240 is alive and well in cmpd pete, twenty cars broken 322 00:21:16,279 --> 00:21:21,440 into at an apartment complex is just one incident, not twenty. 323 00:21:21,519 --> 00:21:25,240 In the white shirts eyes, it's funny you mentioned that 324 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:30,559 there was in my neighborhood. There was a string of burglaries. 325 00:21:32,519 --> 00:21:36,920 There's a there are a set of docks down on 326 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,079 the other side of the neighborhood. 327 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,519 Speaker 1: I don't have a boat, but some people in. 328 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:43,839 Speaker 2: The neighborhood do, and they had somebody came up and 329 00:21:44,079 --> 00:21:48,039 slashed all of the boat covers and stuff and stolen 330 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,319 things out of the boats or whatever. And that's exactly 331 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,359 what they did in that scenario too. They tied it 332 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,759 all to a single incident report versus individual even though 333 00:21:57,799 --> 00:22:00,359 the boats are all owned by different people and the 334 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,759 boat's slips are also owned. 335 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: By those people. 336 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 2: They counted it all as one incident instead of a 337 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:13,920 slew of incidents all at the same location. So can 338 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:19,960 confirm they that is what they do. Kevin says, could 339 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,839 you imagine being a DC police officer and you arrest 340 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,440 somebody for shooting someone, and because your supervisor tells you 341 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,160 to reclassify the offense, the next day, you see this 342 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:31,720 dangerous individual back out on the street. That has got 343 00:22:31,759 --> 00:22:34,759 to be frustrating. Well, it absolutely is. And if you 344 00:22:34,799 --> 00:22:37,720 talk to law enforcement officers and you can get them, 345 00:22:38,039 --> 00:22:41,160 you know, in sort of an unguarded moment, they will 346 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,960 tell you they are supremely frustrated as well. The Justice 347 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,440 Department should make a public announcement that all whistleblowers will 348 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,559 be protected from reprisals by the federal government if they 349 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:57,319 come forward. Well, yeah, I mean there are whistleblower laws 350 00:22:57,759 --> 00:23:01,839 that do protect them from when they come forward, but 351 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,440 I think every state is different. But there's the federal 352 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,440 whistleblower law. And so if, yeah, if you go blow 353 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,119 the whistle with the Feds, then I don't know if 354 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,079 that would protect you, you know, to a higher standard. 355 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:19,039 Somebody wanted to know the website for the Alzheimer's Association 356 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:24,599 walk again, it is al Z for Alzheimer's al z 357 00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:28,559 dot org slash walk and then if you want to 358 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,680 make a donation or you want to walk with my team, 359 00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:35,720 it's just search for my team named Pete's Pack. Pete's Pack. 360 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:40,000 That's not Political Action Committee. That's pac k like a 361 00:23:40,279 --> 00:23:44,240 like a pack of wolves, but friendly one dogs, like 362 00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:49,920 a pack of dogs, well trained and friendly dogs. Anyway, 363 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:53,720 I was going for the alliteration, not really the canine reference. 364 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,839 Kirk says, I am supportive of the federal takeover in 365 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,240 DC of law enforcement, but I think to do the 366 00:24:01,279 --> 00:24:04,119 same in the States is not constitutional. I tend to 367 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,599 agree with that that they can ask for support, they 368 00:24:07,599 --> 00:24:09,440 can call it their own national guard, and they can 369 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,240 do that sort of stuff. But these are democrat controlled cities. 370 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:16,640 They can actually direct their own law enforcement agencies to 371 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,839 do more. But they can and not juice the stats. 372 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,160 But the other big part of this, and I'm going 373 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,119 to get into this in the next hour, particularly here 374 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,960 in Charlotte, the bigger component are the courts. It is 375 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:37,480 the magistrate judges, it is the judges, magistrate judges, Yeah, 376 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:41,839 the magistrates, it's the judges on the bench. And it 377 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:50,519 is state law that allows for these generally juvenile offenders 378 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,920 to be immediately released right back out into the general public. 379 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:01,559 And in my view, this experiment has failed. Okay, that 380 00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:07,079 wasn't the problem, right when you when you allow people 381 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:12,240 who are fourteen fifteen years old to break all sorts 382 00:25:12,279 --> 00:25:17,680 of laws and not suffer any immediate repercussions, but instead 383 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,240 get turned right back out onto the street, back onto 384 00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:24,759 the you know, the guardianship of their parents or guardians 385 00:25:24,799 --> 00:25:27,039 who obviously are not doing a bang up job as 386 00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:31,480 it is, it's not solving the problem. In fact, it's 387 00:25:31,519 --> 00:25:33,640 sending the message that you can do all of this 388 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,960 stuff and to the point where and I have had 389 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:41,880 these discussions with law enforcement officers when talking about like 390 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,480 all of the kids that walk through the neighborhoods and 391 00:25:45,599 --> 00:25:49,960 pop locks on doors. Right, they walk up the street 392 00:25:50,039 --> 00:25:52,319 and they just go into your driveway and they check 393 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,599 your door handle and if you leave it unlocked. First off, 394 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,960 that's a stupid thing to do. But secondly, they open 395 00:25:57,079 --> 00:25:59,319 up the door and now they get access to your car, 396 00:25:59,319 --> 00:26:01,279 and they can steal your car. They can take everything 397 00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:08,440 in your car. And those kids are often organized by adults. 398 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,960 The adults will drive the kids to a neighbor a neighborhood, 399 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,839 send them out into the neighborhood, and then they come 400 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,359 back and they turn over all of the stolen merchandise. 401 00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:21,559 They get paid some money, they get to keep some stuff, 402 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,440 and then the adults go and fence the rest of 403 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,799 the stuff, either online or at pawnshops. So you've created 404 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:39,519 juvenile criminal gang enterprises. The experiment is not working. There 405 00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:43,880 needs to be some sort of a shift here. One 406 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,599 other note in Chicago with these violence interrupters. Back in 407 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,400 twenty twenty three, police allegedly found a full time violence 408 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,599 interrupter hiding naked under a bed with fifty thousand dollars 409 00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:58,720 in cash on the floor, narcotics in the room, and 410 00:26:58,799 --> 00:27:02,359 a gun on a kid windowsill. That same summer, two 411 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,480 peacekeepers were shot in separate incidents, including one who was 412 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:09,759 on electronic monitoring at the time. Again, I'm not sure 413 00:27:09,839 --> 00:27:14,160 this experiment is really working. All right, that'll do it 414 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,799 for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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