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the New York Post piece by Charles Gasparino headlined Trump's
DOJ found evidence Democrats are skewing crime stats ahead of
the midterm elections. No, really, nobody would do something like
that to try to paint a rosier picture in order
to not suffer the consequences of their policies. According to
the Peace, officials in President Trump's Justice Department have been
scrutinizing crime data over the last few months, and they
have found evidence that Democrat politicians have been skewing crime
stats ahead of the midterms. Illinois Democrat Governor JB. Pritzker,
a vocal opponent of Trump's use of federal troops for
both immigration enforcement and fighting big blue city crime has
lately touted double digit declines in Chicago crime rates, where
shootings and homicides on our highways are down sixty seventy
eighty percent depending on where you look. Which that's a
quote from Governor Pritzker shootings and homicides on our highways,
which is a very limited data set. Nor like I'm
going to take all the homicides in Chicago and I'm
gonna throw out any of the homicides that occurred not
on a highway, right.
Speaker 2: I don't understand who keeps track of this.
Speaker 1: Like, I've been following crime data for twenty plus years
and I have never seen it broken down into a category.
Speaker 2: Of homicides on highways.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, yes, car crashes like fatalities on highways.
Speaker 2: Yes, homicides on highways.
Speaker 1: No, I guess it's like so like, if it's a
drive by shooting and it's on the highway, then that
would count. But if it's a drive by shooting on
like a suburban residential street or something, or maybe in
the downtown Chicago area not a highway, so that would
not be counted. Is that the deal? I don't know.
It's just a really bizarre thing to say. The number
of felonies in Chicago, not to mention in New York,
Los Angeles as well as Portland, is declining. Right, you
keep hearing this, it's all declining. All these numbers are
dropping well. According to the sources at the DOJ, the
reason why the numbers are declining is because prosecutors are
knocking down felonies to something less severe for political reasons.
Speaker 2: No really.
Speaker 1: Famous among them is Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney, who
has continued to allow violent defenders to plead to misdemeanors
instead of felonies, even after committing robberies or violent assaults.
This is what you call juicing the stats. I have
heard people call it juking the stats as well, but
I don't I don't know which one is correct. I
prefer juicing the stats, right, because you take the stat
and then you just like beat it to a bloody pulp, right,
wheeze it, you drain it, rather than juking, because like
juking seems like like a football move, like in order
to get around somebody, like you juke them, you know,
which doesn't I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess either could apply. I'm down a rabbit. Hole. Sorry.
Speaker 1: One Trump DOJ source pointed to the recent case of
David Mazariegos, a sword wielding maniac who was arrested last
week for the allegedly unprovoked killing of a straphanger that's
what they call subway riders straphangers.
Speaker 2: A man named Nicola Tanzi.
Speaker 1: This maniac attacked this guy, stomping him on the head
repeatedly outside of a Brooklyn subway station. He killed him,
beat him to death, attacked him with the sword. Mazariegos,
the maniac, has a long criminal record, and yet this
past July, just before his latest ee want to act,
a New York City judge lowered his bail in an
assault case because prosecutors did not charge him with a felony,
instead settling for a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: So, if you knock the charges down from the violent crimes,
now it's no longer a violent crime. See and it
shows up in the stat as a misdemeanor, and it's
not violent anymore. It's only the really serious violent crimes
that we count. And this guy that murdered the straphanger
is not an outlier.
Speaker 2: He is the norm. When the DOJ.
Speaker 1: Stats are released, they expect this to be in the
coming weeks. They should be a wake up call for
the Democrat Party, says Charles Gasparino at The New York Post.
That's because these big city economies will continue to sour
as more tax paying residents leave for places that provide safety.
Of course, the Democrat leadership must also find the necessary
guts to push back against the policies and policing edicts
of far leftists like aoc Zoron Mamdani who are ascendant
in the party. DOJ sources believe Governor Pritzker's recent talking
points are part of a concerted effort by the National
Democrats to hide the various forms of blight created by
their support for police defunding measures, to appease the social
justice types who believe law enforcement is racist. And finally,
at the very end of this piece, again at the
New York Post, Fox Business reporter Tuta lukaj Okay. Anyway,
this reporter uncovered proof that even the good crime stats
are actually horrible crunching other data on the NYPD website
for reported acts of murder, rape, robbery, felony, assault, burglary,
grand larceny. If you look at the number of reported acts.
Those numbers rose every year from twenty twenty through twenty
twenty three. Then the number dropped a bit in twenty
twenty four, even with the decline from last year. We
don't have obviously twenty twenty five stats yet, but I mean,
and the key here is that they were looking at
the number of reports rather than the disposition of the
case through the charges.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Knocking down from a felony to a misdemeanor gives you
this fake idea of what the stat is. But if
you look at the number of reports, those numbers have
they skyrocketed. They dropped off in twenty twenty four a
little bit, yes, but it's still higher than all the
way back to the year twenty thirteen. That was the
last year Mayor Mike Bloomberg was mayor, and that marked
the beginning of the end of Rudy Giuliani's crime crackdown.
Twenty thirteen. The number so like, that's how high crime
has gotten in New York City, for example, which brings
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don't know if he's from Ashville actually, because like very
few people are actually from Ashville, but he lives out
there and he sort of exploded onto the Twitter verse
scene during Hurricane Helene a year ago.
Speaker 2: His name is Matt van Swoll, real name, and.
Speaker 1: He would do a lot of videography and stuff of
like the damage. And then he became very disillusioned with
the local government response. The governor at the time, my
good friend Ray Cooper, and so he had this sort
of walk way moment from the Democrat party. He'd always
considered himself to be a Democrat and he's became very disillusioned.
And he's got a massive following now on Twitter, formerly
known as x.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's got three hundred and sixty five thousand followers now, Okay,
And over the last few weeks, I want to say,
he has now turned his attention to the outrageousness of
what I call our catch and release court system here
in Charlotte. And it's not just in Charlotte, it's all
over the place. But we keep proving that, like we
really are committed to this bit, right. And so he's
got another case. And so he just he posted some
of these cases and he just puts them out there,
and he's got this one.
Speaker 2: I think this was today, yeah, today, this morning.
Speaker 1: Herbert Jordan, a Charlotte man who has been arrested fifty
previous times. That's five oh fifty times, including for allegedly
assaulting a police officer as well as assaulting women. And
he has just been arrested again for assaulting a woman
while out on bond, and he gets arrested again for
another assault on a female and he was given five
thousand dollars bond. It's just nuts. Why is this happening?
How does this keep happening? Well, if you go to
the Mecklenburg County website mechanc dot gov. In fact, if
you go to CJS dot mechnc dot gov, CJS criminal
Justice and Safety, I believe is what the CJS stands for.
And they've got a nice little write up there about
the Safety and Justice Challenge. In twenty twenty, this is
from the county's own website. Okay, In twenty twenty, Mecklenberg
County was awarded its second grant in the amount of
one million dollars from the MacArthur Foundation. Now, if that
name rings a bell, it's because they fund a lot
of NPR programming and such. It's part of the Safety
and Justice Challenge that the MacArthur Foundation was part of
and still is as I understand it, and the money
is to be used was to be used to continue
supporting the county's efforts to develop and implement strategies capable
of positively impacting the main drivers of the local jail population.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get to the root cause.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, okay, they got Mecklenberg got its second grant.
In twenty twenty two, the county was awarded another three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to ensure recent reforms were sustainable. Okay,
so they put the reforms in place at the height
of the fiery but mostly peaceful rioting. They started with this,
you know, reform agenda. The MacArthur Foundations throwing all this
money around. Mecklenburg picks up a bunch of grants, probably
somewhere in the neighborhood of oh here. It is total
investment in Mecklinberg County so far three point three million dollars. Well,
what is the MacArthur Foundation buying?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: You don't just hand out this money for no reason.
To continue safely reducing the jail population. That's the goal.
To safely reduce the jail population. The county plans to
implement strategies. Now, there's a lot of pr corporate gobblygook
in here, okay, but these strategies aimed at addressing system
and efficiencies, enhancing existing services, providing non jail alternatives for defendants,
and increasing community engagement in local justice system reform. This
will include enhancing services provided to defendants pre trial, implementing
more meaningful first appearance hearings, and improving case processing, and
partnering with residents to identify and implement community led programs
and policy interventions. They touted the fact that between twenty
fourteen and twenty seventeen, Mecklenberg County reduced its jail population
by eleven percent, but they want that number to be higher.
They want a further reduction of another seventeen percent.
Speaker 2: That's the point.
Speaker 1: That's what MacArthur is funding, a reduction in the number
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Speaker 2: So there is a.
Speaker 1: Newsletter that has put out uh Liberty Sentinel dot org.
They do an INTEL bulletin. This thing was published, This
particular bulletin was published in twenty twenty one by the
Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief. It is produced by the Law
Enforcement Charitable Foundation and is delivered to every sheriff and
police chief in America. Okay, so that's the INTEL bulletin.
It's like six pages and it's written up at Liberty
Sentinel dot org and it goes over what the MacArthur
Foundation is doing. This is from four years ago, what
the MacArthur Foundation is doing at the local government level.
I just gave you the numbers. Three point three million
dollars that's been given to Mecklenburg County Court System and
they've they've got a whold write up on their website.
They're proud of this, they're proud.
Speaker 2: Of the work, doing the work right with the.
Speaker 1: Goal to clear out the jails. That's the goal. They
want a reduction in the jail population. And the sort
of baseline reduction that the MacArthur Foundation proposes is twenty
five percent. And so while Mecklenberg was clearing out the
jail population. Prior to twenty seventeen, got jail jail numbers
down eleven percent. They want it now reduced another seventeen
percent on top of that, and.
Speaker 2: How do you do that?
Speaker 1: Mecklenberg County's Criminal Justice Services and Criminal Justice Advisory Group
partnered with New York State Psychiatric Institute to create a
comprehensive implicit bias training for criminal justice professionals, and that
could be anybody. This training examines how unconscious or implicit
biases can affect an individual's thought processes and decision making
in both subtle and overt ways. What's this about the
disproportionality and disparities at the decision points of arrest, filing charges,
and booking into jail. In other words, there is an
overrepresentation of blacks and Hispanics in the jail, and so
they have a higher number of a proportion as a
proportion of the jail population than you see in the
general population. And so therefore that disparity is proof of
systemic racism. Remember this is from like five years ago.
This was what the Left was doing in everything. All
sorts of disparities that you see in outcomes is proof
of racism. That was their baseline argument. So the MacArthur
Foundation is going around the country funding these programs, funding
these trainings and such, and again from this bulletin, dubious
racial quotas are being used to determine who goes to
jail and who stays free, and the decisions making it
possible are happening behind closed doors, funded by big bucks
from an unaccountable left wing organization in Chicago, with leaders
tied to radical movements, including one key official tied to
a movement aimed openly at abolishing police across America. One
of the key forces behind this disturbing trend is the
MacArthur Foundation, a tax exempt behemoth with some seven billion
dollars that is showering huge grants on police departments and
law enforcement agencies nationwide. Well and as I just read,
also our court system. MacArthur is buying drastic policy changes
outside of the democratic process and the reach of voters.
No kings, anybody, what does democracy look like? Show me
what democracy looks like? Oh you street chanters yesterday, where
are you on this? You're okay with all of this?
You're okay with some unnamed shadowy foundation pumping millions of
dollars to change policies behind the scenes. They refuse records requests.
They say, we don't have to give you information. Foyas
don't matter. Freedom of Information Act requests don't matter to
us because we're we're a private entity. With the nearly
two hundred and fifty million dollars spent so far on
the Safety and Justice Challenge, the point is to reduce
the number of criminals behind bars in communities across America.
Speaker 2: Again, that's what this is.
Speaker 1: So like, I come across this, this initiative, the Safety
and Justice Challenge, and I do a quick search in
Mecklenburg and sure enough, there it is three point three
million dollars that's come into Mecklenburg County from the MacArthur Foundation.
This is what they're buying. They're buying decarceration. And so
when we see these stories somebody with fifty arrests, violent
rap sheet arrests, how is this person getting released over
and over and over and over again. Well, that would
be the Safety and Justice Challenge, the implicit bias. See,
it's not that this person is a danger or a
threat to his fellow citizens. No, no, no, it's that
the system is racist against him. That's why he keeps
beaten up on women. Don't you say it's racism. According
to the bulletin, this starts from the false assumption, a
false assumption that is ubiquitous in the MacArthur Foundation's work,
even beyond its criminal justice programs. This false assumption that
the reason that people from quote, communities of color are
arrested and jailed more often is because of racism in
police and government. But countless studies and reports have pointed
out the flaw in this thinking, behind the idea that
alleged systemic racism is responsible for this issue.
Speaker 2: It is not. It's not like you may have a
better case to.
Speaker 1: Make on things like you know, being pulled over more often,
that kind of stuff, like you know, ticketing and that
sort of thing, But when it comes to violent offenses,
like the data is pretty clear here. You got a
dead body, Like that's a stat like, there's no way,
there's no way to dress that up as some form
of systemic racism, you know, changing policy and systems with
big money rather than through the legislative process and public
debate is what they are doing. Launched more than five
years ago, the scheme has more than fifty jurisdictions in
more than thirty states involved. So when I was a kid,
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this MacArthur Foundation program is appropriately named. It is one
hundred percent a challenge to safety and justice. True, it's
called the Safety plus Justice Challenge.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: It is challenging these things. So they've pumped two hundred
and fifty million dollars on this safety and Justice challenge
across the country. Three point three million of it at
least has come into Mecklenburg County's court system, and they
are changing policy and systems with this money rather than
going through a legislative process or public debate. Launched more
than five years ago, they've got fifty jurisdictions in thirty
states involved.
Speaker 2: Already. Over on its Facebook.
Speaker 1: Page, MacArthur Program Operatives and its partners have defended their
view that reducing jail populations would not cause increases in crime.
They say, quote narratives connecting these reforms to rising crime
rates are misleading and damaging. So again, this goes back
six years, five six years. That's the window where all
of this stuff ramped up, right COVID, yes, twenty twenty,
but more importantly, the fiery but sometimes peaceful rioting that.
Speaker 2: Occurred after George Floyd's death.
Speaker 1: Right, that's when the left had a fever for this
kind of reform. Everybody you know literally literally took a
knee in the face of these demands, and everybody thought,
this is why Roy Cooper, my good friend ray, former
governor of North Carolina, now running for US Senate and
trying to run away from his Criminal Justice Equity task
Force that he put together, with the co chairs of
that task force being the current governor, but then Attorney
General Josh Stein and Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, and
their blueprint that they put together on this task force
is right in line with the safety and Justice Challenge
program goals. It's all the same philosophy, the quote reform philosophy,
and so five years ago they're like, no, no, no, no,
these reforms they got nothing to do with increases in crime, No, no,
nothing at all related. We just want to make sure
that we don't have people in jails. The Criminal Justice
Reform Schemes goal, it continues, is to reduce over incarceration
by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails.
Local judges and law enforcement officials all signed off. Among
the strings attached to the grants were demands that, under
the guise of racial justice and equity, more and more
criminals be released from detention and less people be placed there.
Despite the ongoing surgeon crime. Local authorities agreed to obey
the foundation's quotas by ensuring almost twenty five percent less
people in local jails.
Speaker 2: It's a quota system.
Speaker 1: MacArthur has been instrumental in peddling the narrative that American
police are racist and that law enforcement perpetuates white supremacy.
The Center for American Progress led a Mayer Plan, for instance,
called for rejecting outdated tough on crime approaches, claiming that
being tough on crime was racist because it allegedly has
a disproportionate effect on black and Latino communities. The MacArthur
Foundation also showered money on the left wing Brennan Center
for Justice so it could produce a report. That report
headlined reducing racial and ethnic Disparities in Jails Recommendations for
local practice. Right, this is the scaffolding upon which all
of these reforms, this catch and release philosophy is built.
Among other debunked left wing talking points taking aim at police,
the report argued that police supposedly suffer from implicit racial bias. Right.
That's what the report showed, and that's what the Social
Injustice Challenge gives Mecklenburg County the training implicit bias training. Ironically,
despite the MacArthur Foundation's condescending attitudes towards both police and minorities,
polls show Black and Latino Americans overwhelmingly want the same
amount or even more police in their communities, not less. Indeed,
black and Latino Americans, like all Americans, also want criminals
taken off the streets, rather than allowing them to roam free,
terrorizing their families, their businesses, and their neighborhoods. Because the
issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
This is how you destabilize a society, and that's really
the goal.
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