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your support. All Right, So, developments in a local story

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here in Charlotte. So it started yesterday morning a four

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year old boy was shot and killed.

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Speaker 1: While in his house.

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Speaker 2: He was shot after or during a car theft in

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the parking lot of these town homes or apartments. I

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think they're townhomes. Yeah, townhomes. A suspect fired shots while

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stealing a black Dodge charger from outside a town home.

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This occurred near the intersection of South Tryon Street in

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Carowin's Boulevard. The According to the Charlotte Observer report, the

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suspect fired directly intentionally into the house, unprovoked and for

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unknown reasons, and one.

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Speaker 1: Of those bullets struck the boy.

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Speaker 2: Then yesterday afternoon, I see the story come across. Here's

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the report from Queen City News by Robin Kennedy and

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Sierra Lankford. Police swarmed an area just minutes down the

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road where at least one person was taken away in handcuffs.

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Swat teams and dozens of police cars surrounded a Steel

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Creek neighborhood between Rivergate Parkway, which is at the Rivergate

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Speaker 1: And Duval Drive. Okay, it appeared to be.

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Speaker 2: A single family home neighborhood, so during the news here

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I just checked up on this story and WBTV is

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reporting piece by Luke Tucker. Four men were arrested and

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charged with the murder of a four year old boy

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who was shot during a car theft in a Charlotte

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neighborhood Wednesday morning. Court documents showed that Angelo Lamont Hudson,

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Jordan Chandler Davis, Marquise Gerriere were arrested in the case.

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Anthony Abel was arrested in Raleigh in connection with the

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shooting and will now be brought back to Mecklenburg County.

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AffA Davids connect all four to yesterday's theft of a

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Dodge charger on Cigar Court in Charlotte. The affidavit's alleged,

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and by the way, I'm reading this for the first time,

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so you'll forgive me if I give you if I

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read some information twice here. The affidavits alleged that when

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they stole the charger, a person in the vehicle that

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they arrived in fired shots into the town homes. The

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shots entered at least one of the homes and hit

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a four year old named Jace Edwards. He died before

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he could even be taken to the hospital. In addition

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to stealing the Dodge charger, the affidavits also linked the

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group to a stolen Dodge Durango in Cabaris County, a

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Chevy Camaro in York County, and a Jeep. This is

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an auto theft ring. That's what the that's what you

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would call this an auto theft ring. Court records indicated

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the investigators were able to use surveillance footage to get

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descriptions of the suspects. Using those descriptions, they were tracked

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to a gas station. Once they were tracked to that

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gas station, the affidavit said, Charlotte Mecklenburg police tried to

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pull them over, but they kept driving before they eventually

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got out and ran. One of the suspects got caught

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and admitted to being at the scene with the other

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three men. They will now all be charged or we're

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all charged with first degree murder. Good job, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police.

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Good job, because we've been hearing that the problem is

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not enough police. We have to spend more money to

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hire more police, and that's the reason why people are

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getting gunned down in the streets. It's all about the police. No,

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like the stabbing on the light reil car, it's not

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a police problem. Look, I'm fine if you want to

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hire more cops, totally fine with that. You want to

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propose that Democrats, which I have been told Democrats are

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now actually going to be pitching ideas at the General

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Assembly to hire more police, which is quite.

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Speaker 1: The turnaround from twenty to twenty.

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Speaker 2: But hey, I welcome them to the side of logic

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and rationality. I welcome them hire more police. Yes, however,

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that's not the problem. The problem was what happens after

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the police bring them into the jail, and then they

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go before a magistrate, and then they go before a judge.

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Then they get released and then they get their charges dropped.

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That's the problem. That's always been the problem. Here's a

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story from Fox News National Fox News. This was from July.

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An already grieving father was further enraged upon learning that

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the man accused of killing his daughter in a home

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burglary could have already been in prison for numerous other

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crimes had it not been for an apparent clerical error.

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Logan Federico, a twenty two year old aspiring teacher from Waxaw,

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was visiting friends at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,

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staying at a home on Cyprus Street when a career

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criminal broke in and shot her in the early morning

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hours of May third. The suspect, Alexander Dickey, a thirty

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year old man with a lengthy rap sheet, entered the

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home early in the morning, stole several credit cards and

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debit cards, and then fatally shot her. The police describe

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it as a random crime. Dicky has nearly forty prior

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arrests across different counties. The Fox reports says North Carolina,

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but I think it's South Carolina because this was in Columbia.

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I think they just mistated that, and then they used

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South Carolina throughout the rest of the report forty arrests

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across the state dating back more than a decade.

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Speaker 1: Technically, he had.

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Speaker 2: Thirty nine arrests for twenty five felony charges.

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Speaker 1: Over a decade.

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Speaker 2: In August twenty fourteen, he was charged with grand larceny.

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South Carolina Law Enforcement received his fingerprints associated with that arrest,

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and the charge and disposition appear on his criminal history.

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He was served with four additional burglary and larceny warrants

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in August of twenty fourteen. Again, this is eleven years ago,

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but those charges and dispositions do not appear on his

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criminal history, and SLED said that it did not receive

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additional prints for that set of charges. A couple months later,

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authority serve additional warrants on burglary and larceny. Those do

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not appear on his criminal history, adding to the agency

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did not receive additional prints for that set of charges either.

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A first to agree burglary charge carries a minimum fifteen

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year prison sentence and maximum life sentence. In twenty fourteen,

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he pleaded guilty to second degree nonviolent burglary, sentenced to

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ten years. Here's the key suspended. A ten year suspended

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sentence meaning he would not have to immediately serve any

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prison time. The next year, he had one of his

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two other burglary charges dropped. He pleaded guilty to a

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first defense third degree burglary, which carries a much lighter sentence.

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He then pleaded guilty to a first offense third degree

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burglary for a second time.

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Speaker 1: You see the pattern. It's the same. It's not the police.

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Speaker 2: They caught the guy, and had they not dropped the charges,

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had they not pled him down, had they not reduced

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the charges, that guy would have been imprisoned for a

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long long time. He would not have been out to

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murder the twenty two year old wax Saw native Logan Federico.

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It's not an understaffing of police issue. It is a

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turning the criminals loose through a revolving door justice system

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that is the issue.

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Speaker 1: Here's another one. This is more recent. A man.

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Speaker 2: This is from yesterday WSOCTV suspect back on the streets

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after bystanders stop a rail trail beating. All right, so

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here WSOCTV reports a man said he was walking along

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the Charlotte rail Trail in South End last week when

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he was attacked by a stranger. Good Samaritans stepped into help,

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but the suspect, who has prior assault to rests, is

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already back on the streets. The victim was walking home,

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and he says his injuries could have been much worse

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if bystanders did not step in during that attack on

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the rail trail near Sycamore Brewing. The defendant's name Hayden

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James Davidson, and the victim says, it almost seems like

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you can go do whatever you want, and as long

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as you post bail, you can get out the next day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, all right, hang on a second.

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Speaker 2: There's a rational, reasonable explanation for why it seems like that.

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It's because it's actually true. Davidson was seen on video

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using racial slurs when first responders arrived. He was also

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struggling to get out of the stretcher while in restraints.

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He had spent time on probation for assaulting deputies in

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Iredelle County in twenty seventeen. Deputy said he was drunk

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at the time and had a warrant for assault on

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a female and again he is back out on the streets.

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Speaker 1: Now, the.

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Speaker 2: Warm fuzzy part of this story is that those good

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Samaritans who came to the victim's assistance, they beat the

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snot out of this defendant. So that's say it's a

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happy ending kind of sort of, even though he still

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out walking the streets.

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Speaker 1: Already. Let me go over and get Jim on the program. Hello, Jim,

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what's going on?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 1: A quick question.

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Speaker 4: Have you looked up our president district attorney in Mecklenburg County?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Spencer Merriweather. I've had him on the show.

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Speaker 4: Really yep, you had him on the show and the

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microphone didn't melt down. Now, Spencer is a restorative justice.

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He has a DEI department, and he doesn't believe in

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criminally charging people.

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Speaker 2: He would disagree and point to stats that show he

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does charge people, and he does.

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Speaker 1: They do have some get they do.

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Speaker 2: We get press releases of people that they have charged

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and you know they've taken plea deals or a jury

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convicted them or a jury acquitted people or whatever. So

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they do try people. I mean we do, like I

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got some ined to jury duties. So there are trials.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well the problem comes in is you're talking about

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all of these people getting charged with ault and then

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getting out on misdemeanor assault. That's a free deal and

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it's from him.

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Speaker 1: It's good.

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Speaker 2: So not so not necessarily you have the magistrates when

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somebody gets brought in and.

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Speaker 4: Then with magistrates in North Carolina are charging. Magistrates they

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charge at the level they charge. All they do is

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determine probable cause and give an initial bond.

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Speaker 1: Right, So they're the magistrates judge.

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Speaker 2: I know, they're not trial judges because those are trial judges, right,

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So when a magistrate is that they're the first contact

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with the court system, right when the somebody gets arrested,

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and the magistrates are supposed to just say, well are

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you going to appear in court or not? Right, And

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so they have to determine is this person a flight

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risk or are they not going to show up for court,

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for your appointments, then they can situate a high bond

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or something. But there is this belief now that this

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cashless bail idea that that's too onerous for a poor person.

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going to release them with the promise to appear, right,

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which they are not. In the case of de Carlos

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Brown Junior that murdered Arena Zarutzka on the light railcar, right,

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this guy had and known mental health history. He had

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a violent past, he had multiple charges, he had served

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prison time, and I would submit that when a magistrate

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looks at that history, they should identify this person as

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a risk to the public.

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Speaker 1: When you rack up fourteen.

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it's pretty clear this guy is a threat to the community.

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Speaker 2: Which there's no reason why she wouldn't have. But yeah, no,

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I appreciate the call of Jim. That's the I mean,

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that's the key. Did you have the information? All indications

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are that she did. Richard, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Hey Richard, Hey, how you doing.

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Speaker 3: You know there's a pattern here throughout the country and

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we all have to ask Ussel, well why because common sense,

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if you're a career criminal, whether you're doing burglaryes et cetera,

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et cetera, you're going to graduate to homicide. Same thing

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with the mentally ill, but.

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Speaker 5: Exactly it always does because they're in that world. Unfortunately,

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they become so desensitized and sociopathic that they're going to

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kill somebody.

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Speaker 3: So there's a pattern throughout.

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Speaker 5: The country now, So there is an ideology going on

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that is allowing dangerous people on the street, and we

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have to examine this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the same thing, Yeah, Richard, it's the same idea.

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It's the same concept behind the broken windows policing strategy,

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and it's based off of the same concept as you know,

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when you have a kid that's you know, that's that's

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murdering pets, right, that's killing dogs and cats and stuff

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at a young age. Like every serial killer has done that.

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There is like say, there's a pattern there, and that

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pattern is in our society. When they start doing the

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low level stuff, they eventually graduate to worse and worse

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and worse and worse. Look at the story I just

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did about the guys that stole the car and shot

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into the house. They've been they've been committing auto theft

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and now they graduated to murder because they haven't ever

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faced the consequences in a harsh way. At the very

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beginning to say this is unacceptable. You're gonna throw the

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rest of your life away you do this. I appreciate

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the call, Richard. So when I was a kid, my

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grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom

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and my dad took care of him as he got worse.

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with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a supporter

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I participate in the annual Walk to end Alzheimer's and

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I'm leading a Charlotte team again this year, and it's

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called once again Pete's Pack. You can sign up and

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thepetepod dot com. There's also a link in the description

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Can you help us get there? Will you walk with me?

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For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments.

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This is why we This from Jeff, who notes the

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story of the suspect that beat up the man and

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broke his neck is out on parole, Build more prisons.

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I actually have that story here too, Jeff. Charlotte Observer

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report from two days ago. Angelia Adams, she goes by Angie.

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She's from Chester County, South Carolina. She has seen in

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her days of news coverage about the August stabbing death

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of a Ukrainian woman.

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Speaker 1: She has watched with empathy for.

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Speaker 2: The family of the dead woman and wondered what will

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be done to keep the public safe, and she shares

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the pain. It is not the news of others, It

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is her life because her brother is paralyzed after an

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attack on a Charlotte Area Transit System bus back in March.

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Her brother cannot walk, he cannot feed himself, He cannot

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change the channel on the TV or work a cell phone.

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For weeks, he couldn't even breathe without a machine to

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keep him alive. Adams's brother, Aiames Mark Godfreed, sixty four,

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suffered a broken neck and spinal injury in the March

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sixth attack on a Cat's bus pushing age sixty five.

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Her brother now has to depend on others to eat,

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sleep and survive. Adam says she has even more concerns

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about overall Cat's safety after learning of the assault of

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a fifty seven year old veteran on a Cat's bus

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on August twelfth, and then the fatal stabbing of Arena

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Zarutzka on August twenty second. In her brother's case, emergency

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officials were not called to help her brother on March

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sixth until the bus dropped off the suspect at a

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men's shelter and the bus returned to the Downtown Transit Center.

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The victim In this case, mister Godfrey, a Navy veteran

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who was homeless at the time, was hurt when another

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passenger on the bus hit him several times. There is

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Cat's video surveillance footage that shows Godfrey, the victim, appears

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to go up and talk to the suspect. They then

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argue and Godfrey points at him before attempting to grab

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a book bag next to the suspect, the document states.

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The affidavit here from the law enforcement states the suspect

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hit Godfreed in the head and face with his knee,

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knocking Godfrey to the ground unconscious. He continues kicking and

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stomping on the victim as he lays on the ground.

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The suspect uses his feet to stomp on the victim's

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body additional times while the victim remains on the ground motionless.

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Um Adams said her brother required emergency surgery and a

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ventilator and was hospitalized for months until.

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Speaker 1: Recently being sent to a nursing facility.

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Speaker 2: He cannot walk or use his hands and likely will

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be disabled for the rest of his life. After the

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suspects got off the bus, the bus driver continued her

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route to the Cat's Transit center. And requested medic after

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realizing that the passenger on the bus was injured, which

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I'm unclear as to how she didn't see the motionless,

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paralyzed body laying on the floor, or maybe she did

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see the body and assumed, well, he's homeless, and that's

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just what a lot of homeless people do on our

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transit system. They just lay down on the floor in sleep,

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and so maybe she thought he was sleeping until the

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bus got to the transit center. CMPD detectives went to

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the men's shelter and identified the suspect, Moses Early, twenty

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nine years old. They arrested him four days later on

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a charge of attempted murder. Early's case of attempted murder

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and assault remains pending. He has been released on an

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unsecured two hundred thousand dollars bond, unsecured with GPS ankle

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monitor pending the trial. This guy attempted to murder somebody.

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It's on video. Why is he out? He is homeless?

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Why is he out? His address on police in court

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documents is listed as the men's shelter. The sister of

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the victim said Charlotte's prosecutors advised her of the defendant's release,

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yet she has safety concerns for the public as well.

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She should and should all of us. Guy's charged with

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a serious crime. He's free to roam the streets, engage

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in his similar patterns, his habits. But he has an

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ankle monitor, so I guess we'll be able to pinpoint

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his location if and when he victimizes somebody else. Once again,

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I will say this, Democrats, liberals, leftists, your ideas for

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criminal justice reform have failed. We are not doing this anymore.

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We are not doing this anymore. In fact, Congress is

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gonna come to town. Congress is coming to Charlotte this month. Yeah,

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they're gonna hold a Congressional hearing here. Oh that's I'm

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sure that's what the local boosters in chamber are really

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excited about, right, having Congressional committees come here and hold

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a hearing on crime, getting national headlines and detention because

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we can't seem to keep our crazy, deranged, violent criminals

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locked away from the society at large.

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Speaker 1: This is a choice. This is all a choice.

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Speaker 2: The US House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a field hearing

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for September twenty ninth in town here. Jeff Van Drew,

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a New Jersey Republican who chairs the committee, says, I'm

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holding this hearing in Charlotte to expose how blue cities

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keep putting career criminals back on our streets, making our

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communities less safe. This was entirely preventable, and we owe

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it to the people to fix it before another innocent

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life is lost.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder if they're going to be pulling some

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crime stats. Ooh, I wonder if they're.

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Speaker 2: Going to be dragging some local elected officials in front

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will be required as the moral declined spirals out of

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control in the interim, we should hire Bernie Getz to

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run the transit security system. There's an idea, prisons. Why

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don't we use Eastland Mall site as a place for

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a new prison. Put a new prison in each zip

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code in Charlotte and it will bring jobs for people. Yeah, well,

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if we do a prison at the Eastland Mall site,

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maybe we bring back Gary Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden.

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He could rebuild the ice rink right in the prison,

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right because he's already got the recording studio for the

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quote residents aka inmates, So why not teach them ice

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skating or hockey. Actually that's probably not a good idea,

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not hockey, and probably not a good idea to give

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them bladed footwear. Okay, never mind, what was the ticket status?

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Don't know of the bus fare now, usually I don't

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think you can get on the buses without fare maybe,

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but I don't know. I'm not sure what the ticket

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status was. I haven't seen anybody reporting on that. Let

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me go to Brian. Hello, Brian, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 6: Hey Pete, thanks for taking a call.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't have all.

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Speaker 6: The information directly in front of me. I'm in my car,

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but I want to just tell you kind of what

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I know. And that is like twenty three, North Carolina

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passed the lall that says magistrates must set fail We're

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one of the only states that do that. So here's

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a problem. If I have to set bail, fine, who

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you want to keep somebody in but I'm going to

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set it real high. But that's when you get into

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Fourth Amendment stuff. Now you get sued for that stuff.

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So if we want to keep people in jail, we

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got to go back to the legislature in North Carolina

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and allow the magistrates to have some authority to set bail.

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Speaker 2: So they took away the ability to set bail on

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serious crimes and required them to go in front of

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judges right for like murder, rape, like that kind of stuff.

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That was the Pre Trial Integrity Act, which I suspect

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the lawmakers are going to be coming back and probably

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adding more categories into the into the exempted crimes. You

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know that that would be one expectation. Now, yes, you

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can set the bonds high. You absolutely could do that.

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And you could say that a two hundred thousand dollars

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bond for the guy who paralyzed a dude on the bus,

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Oh well two hundred grand for a homeless guy.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty high, right, But it's unsecured.

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Speaker 2: So oh yeah, like they do have they they do

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have discretion and they have the authority to do the

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bond amounts based on their uh you know, their ability

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or any the magistrates belief that they will appear, but

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also are they a danger to the public, And if

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they are a danger to the public, I think then

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that covers you for setting a very high bond amount.

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Speaker 1: What do you think?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I absolutely agree. I think I mean, some of

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these folks should have bonds them mouths that are unbelievably high.

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But if I remember correctly, and this is again I

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apologize when I'm wrong. I thought that the law required

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the magistrates to set upond, that they did not have

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the authority to deny bond and therefore keep somebody in jail.

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Speaker 1: Well that that would not surprise me.

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Speaker 2: But even so, you still have the discretion, like we

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just went over to set the bond high, but you

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have magistrates that are not doing so.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think when you go back and as well,

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not only they need to set high bonds, but also

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just give them the straight up authority of no, you

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are a threat to society and you're not going to

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show up. You are denied bond and you must stay

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in jail.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: If they believe that the person is not going to

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show up for court, they can deny that bond, right,

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because that's one of the criteria.

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Speaker 6: Is it okay? Then I must have misread that, right, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean that's my understanding.

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Speaker 2: I don't have the law in front of me either,

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so like I'm just going by memory. But those are

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the reasons why magistrates can they have to factor those

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things in.

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Speaker 1: Now, maybe they are required to set a bond.

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Speaker 2: And if they believe that somebody is not going to

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turn up for their court appearance, then like if they're

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a flight risk or something, then you give them a

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you know, a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond. Maybe, Yeah,

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because they're a flight risk.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not a lawyer, nor if I stayed the

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holiday in express lately. Those were just they use those

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questions to determine the bond, but they still had to

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set a bond. Yeah, but either way, we got to

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look at our magistrates operate in the law.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, guiding that Yeah.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 2: I've said from the beginning that the legislature needs to

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fix the laws that allow this kind of this kind

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of crime to continue to occur.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, Brian. It's a good question.

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Speaker 2: So the legislature has a has a very big role

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in this. I think they are taking it seriously. And

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I want to see more money for prosecutors as well,

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because that is part of this equation too, and North Carolina,

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in my opinion, has underfunded prosecutors' offices for two law

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So I appreciate the call, Brian. All right, that'll do

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it for this episode.

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