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I mean it really broke last night as
soon as I woke up this morning this is
the absolute first thing I saw so didn't
think I was going to be leading with
this but things happen sometimes that
you can't do anything about so in San
Francisco uh Paul Pelosi Nancy Pelosi's
husband he's 82 years old he was the
victim of a violent crime last night and
the San Francisco Police Department did
a press conference a little bit ago and
here's what we know so far so last night
at approximately 2 30 in the morning
Nancy Pelosi you know obviously she's
the speaker of the house after the Vice
President she would be next in line to
be president of the United States she
was in Washington DC and her husband and
82 year old Paul Pelosi was home alone
while he was home at 2 30 in the morning
an assailant a 42 year old broke into
the house and essentially tried to
kidnap and hold Mr Pelosi hostage I mean
this is a serious violent crime the
individual was armed with a hammer and
he actually did beat Mr Pelosi with the
hammer he tried to tie him up some of
the things that the offender said during
this is he was saying where's Nancy
where's Nancy and he was saying that he
wanted to basically try to hold and tie
up Paul Pelosi until Nancy Pelosi came
home now the information that we have
right now is that there weren't police
on site so police officers weren't
physically there guarding the house but
there must have been some video feed or
some surveillance or security system
because police officers responded and
were actually able to get there really
quickly the information from both the
San Francisco police department and the
Capitol Police who you know does have um
responsibility in jurisdiction along
with the U.S Marshals to
provide security for people in Congress
and elected officials you know what they
said is that as police got there on
scene that somehow both Mr Pelosi and
the offender this 42 year old man were
both armed with a hammer or they were
wrestling over the same hammer and it
was at that point that the police
officers rushed in and tackled the
offender so they did give his name which
I'm not going to read on here they did
say he's a 42 year old male and they did
not announce a motive but if we think
about this you know the fact that he was
yelling where's Nancy where's Nancy I
mean not that it is for sure but just uh
thinking just the most reasonable thing
to think is that this is someone who is
ideologically opposed to Nancy Pelosi um
the where's Nancy chance kind of is
reminiscent of some of the nonsense that
happened on January 6th so I'm not
saying that's for sure with what
happened but that's what it seems like
at least from The Limited information
that we've been giving from law
enforcement this morning
um this isn't the first time that the
Pelosi's home has been targeted by
criminals so back last year there were
some painting and some vandalism that
was done at the Pelosi's home in spray
paint the words cancel rent and we want
everything along with a pig's head we're
left on their property so when you look
at that evidence that seems like okay
that's someone from the far left the
whole cancel rent crowd the we want
everything crowd that's typically stuff
from the far left
um that you would that you would see
that from however this time it does seem
like it's someone who is is on the the
right side of things far right
unreasonable and insane is what it seems
like the individual today so the good
thing is that he was arrested by police
he is in custody I'm sure they'll give
us more information and they did say
that Mr Pelosi is uh recovering he
should make a full recovery but think
about it this guy is 82 years old he's
been through a lot with his drunk
driving arrest and then now with this
any 82 year old who's beaten with a
hammer it just isn't isn't a good good
situation so
um yeah I think it's good that he's
making a recovery and hopefully they
hold this violent offender uh
responsible
um the the idea that there wasn't just
immediate security there I'm not really
sure what the deal is with that but
maybe the Pelosi's will think about
either protecting themselves with
Firearms or something else in order to
make sure that this doesn't happen again
and it just because
Francisco is just one of the far left
cities and I I it's not that I'm trying
to criticize the far left it's it's that
I'm trying to criticize and look at
different policies because a lot of the
time bad public policy leads to
predictable results and I've always
talked about cities like Seattle and
Portland and Austin who kind of put
forth these Progressive policies that
have you know really just predictable
just bad results and San Francisco is a
prime example of that but the difference
in San Francisco is that at least in the
last year or so the people there are
kind of starting to fight back so let's
just rewind this just a little bit and
you know one of the things that happened
in San Francisco so between 2018 and
2022
So within the three and a half year
period Walgreens closed 23 stores in the
San Francisco area and this isn't
because people stop needing to get
prescriptions it's not because you know
the owners who own these Walgreens just
you know didn't want to make any more
money or the businesses you know weren't
profitable the reason is because of
crime because of crime and shoplifting
was just so out of control they couldn't
keep merchandise on the shelves and the
Walgreens stores also couldn't keep
their employees and customers safe so
and this is again these things don't
just happen randomly there's a reason
why this was happening in San Francisco
and not happening in Tulsa or not or not
happening in other cities around the
country so we it when we have bad
results like this it's really important
to say okay what policies were in place
that led to this and in California in
San Francisco with what led to 23
Walgreens stores closing it's really
easy to look at what you have to do is
back in 2020 Gavin Newsom the governor
signed a law all into signed a bill into
law in California that had to do its
shoplifting it essentially said that
shoplifting anything under 950 dollars
is considered a misdemeanor okay so
usually when it comes to shoplifting
just like an air in this state that I'm
currently in the level that would
determine shoplifting from Felony to
misdemeanor is 500 so in my state if you
shoplift 498 dollars it's going to be a
misdemeanor if you shop below 501 it's
going to be a felony okay so and and and
it's almost half it's almost the level
of of felony and so essentially the
level for a felony in my state is pretty
low it's it's twice as high so you could
think about I mean you would really have
to steal a lot of from Walgreens to
get over 950 so I guess where I'm going
with this is essentially almost every
shoplifting offense in San Francisco was
considered to be a misdemeanor okay so
we have the bad or I'm going to say the
bad law that makes most shopliftings
Miss misdemeanors in California now we
go to San Francisco specifically well
the San Francisco police department in
uh in um aligned with Progressive
theories on how to control the city and
how to prevent crime and how to uh how
to
um be a little more I guess pro-criminal
is to they had a policy the San
Francisco Police Department that any
misdemeanor that the police officers
unless there were extenuating
circumstances they just weren't supposed
to make arrests they're supposed to
issue tickets or summonses or
essentially no people don't show up to
these summonses so it's essentially
there's just you know police officers
even if you were caught you weren't
going to go to jail so essentially now
we have this California law that makes
almost all shoplifting a misdemeanor and
then the specific policy for police
officers in San Francisco that they
really just can't take any enforcement
action against most shopliftings and
that's how this happened
um but like I said San Francisco as much
as I've just criticized it which is
reasonable it's only fair to say that
they've kind of been fighting back so
the mayor London breed back just about a
year ago in December of 2021 she ran on
so she's very far left obviously she's
the mayor of San Francisco she's not
going to be a conservative very far left
and she actually ran and was elected on
a platform of defund the police well
once she got in office in less than a
year in office she realized all these
things that I just said about crime
being out of control about all these
Walgreens closing and she saw that you
know this is not a net good for the
people who actually live here the
regular normal citizens who just want to
be able to go to Walgreens the senior
citizens who live in San Francisco who
want to be able to walk to the corner
Walgreens store to get their
prescription yeah they should be able to
do that so London breed back in December
of 21 she gave a speech and it was
really an impassioned speech where she
basically walked back all of the defund
the police nonsense that she had ran at
ran on she said they weren't going to do
that that instead there was going to be
the opposite she said there was going to
be a crime Crackdown and she said that
the reign of terror that criminals are
putting on the city and the regular
citizens is going to come to an end
that's coming from the mayor of San
Francisco about a year ago again someone
who ran on and was elected on a defund
the police platform so in order so the
result had to be so bad for essentially
her to admit hey these policies were a
mistake we're going we're going to
change it now it's absolutely fair for
me to point out and for all of us to
point out the bad policies but we should
also acknowledge when politicians also
acknowledge the policies are bad and are
going to make a change also what San
Francisco did and I can never say this
guy's name Chessa boo boo Dwayne the
progressive pro-criminal D.A he was up
for a recall election this past June
June of 2022 and he was actually
recalled and fired from his job by the
residents of San Francisco so all of
these things you know San Francisco of
the different cities who do have kind of
you know Progressive policies that tend
to lead to to predictably lead to more
crime you know at least San Francisco
seems like the vote voters are sick of
it you know it's one of those things
they always say that San Francisco is
the most far left City I don't know if
that's true or not but you know I think
one of the reasons why we see this in
San Francisco the voters and the mayor
kind of changing course is because they
pretty much hit rock bottom you know so
once you've hit rock bottom you really
don't have anywhere else to go and this
is something that Adam Carolla on his
show says all the time that why do we
have to wait till we get get to Rock
Bottom you know when we have record
homicides in New York and Chicago and la
and violent crime is out of control and
the crime rates are the highest they've
been in decades like why can't we make a
change now like why do we have to wait
till it hits rock bottom but it seems
like San Francisco did hit that rock
bottom and are doing something about it
which is good um so let's see if we have
any comments on that Nick the Oaky Nick
says Oklahoma is fantastic I think I
mentioned Tulsa yeah absolutely uh let's
see we've got Sandy Bagwell in San
Antonio uh let's see
um
uh let's see
yeah so that's that's that's reasonable
uh let's see uh red General red General
District Court what do you think of the
new uh table method cops are adapting
taser assist baton lead enforcement um I
don't know what that is so uh maybe you
can put a link to it in there and I can
see after the show I'm not sure exactly
exactly what that is okay so you know so
that's the Nancy Pelosi story um
obviously we all we always Paul Pelosi a
quick recovery and uh hopefully the
criminal who did this any violent
criminal no matter who the victim is
should do years in prison and hopefully
that is what happens here
um I want to talk about a school
shooting so there was a school shooting
last Monday on October 24th that
happened in St Louis and unlike other
school shootings for some reason this
one just didn't get a whole lot of
national media attention so this was a
19 year old individual who went into a
school in in St Louis and he was armed
with a rifle and he shot nine people he
actually killed two people a 15 year old
student and a 61 year old teacher and
then then seven other people were
injured so there were nine people that
were shot and you know this story just
didn't get that much national attention
and I'm really interested and curious in
the comments is if maybe you know people
can put in their what their thoughts are
and why they think that might be the
case
um so a little bit of information on
this so This 19 year old individual he
did have some mental health problems um
he was he police were called to his
house multiple times for suicide
attempts they were also called because
and the the most interesting thing about
this is that nine days before this
happened so on on October um I believe
it was October 15th his family called
police because they found this exact
rifle this exact gun they found it in
the house and they didn't think that he
was mentally competent enough to handle
this gun so they called the place so the
police got there and it's one of those
things where the police kind of agreed
but they really couldn't do a whole lot
about it so you know if you're a 19 year
old and you're legally able to own a gun
if there's no other reason you're not in
the moment you're not threatening to
kill yourself or you're not threatening
to harm anyone else there really just
isn't a lot police officers can do so I
know we've talked before about red flag
laws but Missouri doesn't have a red
flag log so even if police wanted to
confiscate the gun like it just wouldn't
have been legal for them to do so what
happened was police officers essentially
gave the firearm to another member of
the family who didn't live with this
individual and you know for them to hang
on to the firearm but that it's in a
legal order I mean essentially like even
if the place wanted to that they can't
just take someone's firearm it's just
not something that they're able to
legally do unless a crime's been
committed or you know some states have
laws where if someone is actively in the
moment threatening suicide or
threatening to um harm someone that
might be a reason but just the family
member saying hey this guy's not
mentally stable and we don't think he
should have a firearm there isn't a lot
police can do so somehow the individual
was able to get possession back of the
firearm within nine days going to this
school and do a and and do a school
shooting kill two people
um injure seven so nine shot total
um with this there's a couple things so
let's talk about the police response as
much as we talked about the horrible and
awful response from Uvalde during this
officer involved shooting this is
exactly how police officers should
respond to officer-involved shooting so
here's what happened within someone
calling police police officers arrived
on scene within four minutes a lot of
the police officers who arrived on scene
were off duty they were actually at a
funeral for a retired police officer who
had passed away they left the funeral in
their just regular clothes and they all
headed to the scene so on duty and
off-duty police officers got to the
scene within four minutes and instead of
just sitting around and waiting around
outside once they got there they did
exact the right thing and they entered
the school now this was a really big
school it actually had three floors to
it so when I say the time frame maybe it
might sound kind of like a long time
until they actually reach the gunman but
if you think about it trying to clear a
school and that has three stories to it
um it's reasonable that it took this
long so from the time they got on scene
to they cleared the school and actually
made contact with the shooter was eight
minutes so within eight minutes of
getting on seeing police officers were
in a gunfight with the bad guy and
within two minutes of starting that gun
fight bad guy was dead so um the the
police haven't said specifically whether
or not it was their bullet who killed
the bad guy or it was or if it was
suicide they just said that the police
did um engage in a gun fight with the
individual and he was killed within two
minutes so um again I I don't want to
say that the police are responsible who
did the good job in killing this guy or
if he killed himself because that
information just hasn't definitely been
out there but we do know police got
there quickly once there they went into
the school immediately they searched out
for the bad guy and they um engaged in a
gunfight with him within eight minutes
which is exactly what they were supposed
to do so the response to this was was
absolutely fantastic from law
enforcement and but again this shooting
just really have been covered so I
look Kyle writtenhouse
I'm going to compare it to Kyle
Rittenhouse is because Kyle Rittenhouse
was the exact same age I think maybe one
year difference uh but just about the
same age as this individual so Kyle
Rittenhouse shot three people and he
killed two of them just like this
individual but this person the bad guy
in this case he shot nine people three
times as many people as Kyle Rittenhouse
yet you're not going to see this case on
the news on national news where they
talk about it every single day you're
not going to see
um The View talk about it and disparage
the shooter constantly and and you have
to ask yourself why so I'm curious in
the comments about why people might
think that's the case is why a case like
Kyle Rittenhouse case where it's obvious
self-defense where he shot three people
who were actively attacking him so the
victims just weren't very sympathetic
victims but in this case people in the
school students and teachers inside of a
school absolutely sympathetic victims so
why is this case not being covered as
much I think that's an important
question to ask
um
okay so yeah so let's see uh Sergeant
George first Columbine then Sandy Hook
Rob Elementary and now the St Louis
school shooting uh schools are suddenly
turning into gigantic War zones yeah I
think that's I think that's reasonable
so
statistically they are still pretty rare
but we have to think about okay what can
we do just on a policy or just on a
reasonable level to stop some of these
school shootings and it just seems like
and we don't know how this individual
entered the school so it just seems like
the first thing to do is just make sure
all doors out of school are locked I
know that sounds simple but that's how
they evolved a shooter got in and I'm
not sure how this shooter got in there's
been conflicting information but just
make sure all doors are locked that
seems like a pretty simple thing and
then have armed police officers at the
school are they going to be able to stop
the school shooter every single time no
especially on big schools could the
police officer be in the gym and and a
bad guy come into a different building
in the school yes so an armed police
officer that's not a cure-all but just
having someone on scene I don't see how
anyone thinks that that is a bad idea so
those are some of the things that I
think we we might be able to do
um just on a reasonable just policy
level just to try to protect schools um
but again this was this is a tragedy but
the police response was exactly how we
want police to respond to active
Shooters uh someone has a question about
uh the Daniel Santi has a question about
Fabian Gonzalez sentencing in New Mexico
that's a really good question so I'll do
that really quick so for those of you
who don't know of uh this was the case
in Albuquerque New Mexico
um that happened a few years ago um the
short version is is that Victoria
Martens was a 10 year old girl who was
killed
um she was killed by Fabian Gonzalez was
an individual he met uh Michelle Martens
who is was Victoria's mother they met on
a dating app within a few weeks of
knowing each other they started to live
together essentially Fabian Gonzalez
moved into an apartment in Albuquerque
that was shared by Victoria Martens and
um and uh uh Michelle Martins they
started doing drugs together then Fabian
Gonzalez's horrible cousin Jessica Kelly
who has a violent history and was always
on drugs and meth she gets out of prison
she starts to hang out over there well
there was one evening right around just
right around Victoria Martin's 10th
birthday where Fabian Gonzalez and the
the mother Michelle Martins they went
out looking for drugs while they were
out looking for drugs um tragically
Victoria Martens was was killed in a
pretty horrific fashion inside the
apartment and the only one there was
Jessica Kelly once Fabian Gonzalez and
the mother got back Victoria Martin's
body was set on fire it was dismembered
it was absolutely horrible police
officers arrested all three of those
individuals Fabian Gonzalez the mother
and and Jessica Kelly who was there when
um uh who was there when Victoria
Martens was tragically killed so Fabian
Gonzalez was just sentenced in
Albuquerque yesterday he was said he was
found guilty of essentially creating a
situation that would lead for there to
be a situation where there was the death
of a child endangerment of a child and
he was sentenced to 37 years yesterday
so my thoughts on that are good that is
absolutely fantastic uh the judge uh
Cindy Leos she made some really good
comments and she said that yes that even
though Fabian Gonzalez wasn't physically
present when Victoria was killed he
helped to create a situation that made
it likely that there could be violence
against Victoria Martens
um and I agree with the judge 100 so
um that's an awful horrible tragic case
but
um it is
but it is um it is a a good legal
outcome I believe that uh Fabian
Gonzalez got 37 years uh the mother got
12 to 15 years because they needed her
testimony and then uh Jessica yeah 37
and a half for Fabian and then uh I
believe that Victor uh Jessica Kelly got
around 44 years or so um so thank you
for asking about that particular case
it's a case that should be a national
story because of how how horrific it was
um uh so I know that we talked about
Uvalde last week and we always kind of
we always kind of talk about talk about
Uvalde
um
uh let's see uh
if you are a real cop I love you as long
as you ain't liberal well I mean I don't
okay
again I don't like to just criticize
people just because they're you know
conservative or liberal I think it's way
more interesting to criticize policy
because I think we can all look both
Democrats and Republicans have good
policies and bad policies and I think
it's really that's the more interesting
and honest conversation is to say let's
look at this policy and see what are the
likely results and then have our
arguments there
um but
thank you Chet
um let's see uh okay so Uvalde um so uh
Stephen McCraw is the chief of police
the head of the Texas Department of
Public Safety you'll remember him
because he was the one who was
essentially right after the Uvalde
shooting he was speaking on behalf of
the government because the the governor
is the one because the governor was the
one who um appoints the chief of the
Texas Department of Public Safety so he
gave a lot of the briefings and a lot of
the information that Steve McCraw gave
to the media in these initial briefings
like right after you've all they
happened the information just ended up
not being true and at the time I
remember saying well okay well we don't
know is he purposely saying things that
aren't true or was this just such a
boondoggle just such a mess that
he doesn't know and he's just trying to
give the best information that he can um
I think I even said at the time on a lie
that you know if he's saying something
that isn't true you know there's body
cameras there's surveillance video so if
Mr McCraw Chief Macross saying something
that's not true like this is going to
come out
and it's going to be obvious that he
wasn't telling the truth so um the idea
that he was lying about stuff just
doesn't make a whole lot of sense I
think it's I think especially when it
comes to government officials I think to
always assume someone's lying probably
isn't correct it's more likely that they
just didn't know or that it's
incompetence um I think that's usually
the way to go but there was a public
meeting a public safety commission
hearing
um yesterday in Austin Texas that Steve
mccrod gave a 15-minute speech at after
the public hearing people mostly family
members of victims in Uvalde were
talking about it where we're um we're
able to ask him questions and basically
what they wanted was for a Steve McCraw
to resign and they kept asking that he'd
be terminated and that he resigned from
his position one of the reasons is that
Steve McCraw he gave a public statement
that basically said that if during the
investigation during this internal
investigation that if there's any way
that Texas Department of Public Safety
failed the community he said I should go
so he basically said that he should
resign and be held responsible if any
member of the Texas Department of Public
Safety fail the public well since then
you know we've had some more information
we know that they fired Sergeant the
highest ranking Texas
um Department of Public Safety member
he's a sergeant a sergeant he was on
scene you know he was one of the ones
who had given an order to not go in and
he was um he was fired um recently there
was also a commander with the Texas
State Police who also was terminated for
his role in the response of Uvalde so
there has been some problems there also
from new surveillance video and body
camera footage that is has just come out
we know that at one point there were 91
members of the Texas Department of
Public Safety who were on scene and some
of them actually arrived and were
physically there on scene within 10
minutes of when the call of when the
call came in so it's one of those things
that um it's it's one of those things
that uh yes there have been some calls
for him to him to resign and um I think
they're I think they're reasonable and
people are obviously pissed off um at
this meeting there were Representatives
both Republicans and Democrats who were
elected representatives who were asking
for Mr Mr McCraw to resign from his
position as the Texas head of the
Department of Public Safety now we have
to think about this as reasonably as we
can and that this is an election year so
right now there is an election Governor
Abbott is going up against beta O'Rourke
and it looks like Governor Abbott is
going to win but since you know the
governor is the one who appoints the
head of the Texas Department of Public
Safety a couple before the election yet
you absolutely uh Chief McCraw is not
going to resign that politically that
just wouldn't make any sense now once
the election is over because that
essentially would be an admission of
failure and then beta would be able to
use that so we have to think about all
of this when it comes to politics
because that's when that's when these
things are likely going to happen so
once the election is over Governor
Abbott is likely going to be re-elected
at that point I absolutely could save
chief for chief macro retiring or
resigning at that point but um probably
not going to happen anytime before that
um
also I you know I've on my on my Tick
Tock where I post I post a lot of a lot
of things um I've been posting a lot
about
um this just stop oil so I don't know
how many people are familiar with this
but just stop oil is essentially this
far left
maniacal group of environmental
activists and what they do is they like
to do things that for lack of a better
term just annoy regular people and they
try to disrupt things why they think
this is going to be convincing I'm not
sure but here's a little bit of a recap
of some of the things they've been doing
so in London they went a van Gogh um in
London at an art gallery there's a sun
file a very famous sunflower Van Gogh
painting they took cans of tomato soup
and they threw it on the van Gogh
painting now the van Gogh painting is
under glass so there's no permanent
damage but you know it's it's irritating
and then what they do is they um glue
themselves to the wall right underneath
the painting so they did that then in
Germany there was a painting by Monet
that they um threw mashed potatoes on
they've also been going to car
dealerships uh Bugatti Ferrari and
Bentley and they've been spray painting
the outside and these videos have been
all over and just stop oil the the group
that's in charge of this that you know
they're all do they all have shirts on
that they just stop oil you know I mean
they're they're promoting this you can
follow them it's amazing who on Twitter
I know that Elon Musk just took over
Twitter we might talk about that in a
little bit but it's amazing of it's in
all of these let me get my thoughts
together all of these things are crimes
this is all criminal activity we can all
agree maybe it's low-level criminal
activity but it's still criminal actions
and it's amazing who's allowed on
Twitter for saying things that people
who's kicked off of Twitter for just
saying things that people don't like as
opposed to people committing actual
crimes because if you follow like I do
uh just stop oil on Twitter like they
post all of these things they're posting
their own videos and they haven't been
kicked off the platform not saying that
they should be kicked off the platform
but it's just amazing that you know them
promoting criminal activity that's fine
to be on Twitter and people who just say
things that people find offensive those
kinds of people are kicked off Twitter
so uh the the comparison there is what a
lot of people are irritated about
um so also what just stop oil has been
doing is they've been
um blocking traffic and and stuff like
that you know and that just makes it
difficult for police officers and
ambulances and fire trucks to get
through I just want to say that you know
and when it comes to the environment
it's very possible that reasonable
people a normal reasonable people might
have some concerns about the environment
like that isn't that isn't an
unreasonable position to just look at
this and say and just to have questions
about it or to think that it's at least
somewhat important where I'm going with
this is that there are some people who
are reasonable maybe even on the right
side of the aisle who on a policy level
might actually agree not completely
because these people are nuts but you
know might actually agree on a little
bit when it comes to a policy level with
the with just stop oil on some things
but when you do things like this like
block traffic like spray paint random
car dealerships or throw mashed potatoes
on on famous paintings when you do
things like this you discuss and just
alienate people it's almost like they
said hey how can we make these people
who might agree with us on some policy
level how can we get them to just
despise us on a personal level I know
several people who are more on the left
side of the aisle and you know after
I've posted these videos they've reached
out to me and they've said things like
you know I would never support a group
like this or vote for our candidate that
a group like this wanted me to just
because I just can't stand these tactics
so so what do you think that I did so
none of this makes any sense I just I
just don't understand what they're doing
I'm not sure how many people
I'm not sure how many people uh yes Duke
City gaming uh glue yourself to the poor
showroom floor yes exactly that's the
kind of stuff that they uh that they
have been doing
um you know and I don't know how many
people listen to this podcast it's the
Patrick Bet David podcast pdb podcast
it's unbelievable I listen all the time
because he asks really hard and good
questions to everybody
um but what Patrick Bet David had on the
two women females I don't know if I can
still
say that or not but you know if they
died and their bones were dug up 500
years from now everyone would say that
they that it was a it was a female that
if um uh Patrick Beck David had two of
these women on um they were 20 years old
and he asked them some hard questions
and it's pretty sad it's it's just it's
obvious that they're just being used by
this company
um this group just stopped oil and that
they really don't know what they're
talking about so
um again I just think it's an
interesting issue it's been happening
everywhere most of it has been happening
in Europe but I'm sure it's going to
come over here and I think that we all
find it just absolutely disgusting when
people especially block traffic that's
the most irritating thing uh let's see
Sergeant George says show-offs that's
all they are yeah yeah exactly because
what they're doing really isn't making
anything better if you're concerned
about the environment Why not pick up
trash Why not pick up litter why not go
clean up a beach like these are some
reasonable thing if you're concerned
about the environment and you say I'm
going to spend all Saturday morning and
I'm gonna go clean up garbage in a park
that's reasonable we would all say great
thank you for doing that you know and
then maybe they might get some supports
but I guess that just isn't as much fun
as throwing mashed potatoes on on a
Monet uh let's see while they ride bikes
uh let's see um
yeah uh and they ride bikes that were
made by gas and oil and I'm just going
to tell a personal story here real quick
on this so um I have a I have a family
friend who I've been friends with since
I was I was a little kid again it's a
family friend and you know about 15
years ago they got she got married and
it was a green wedding okay so someone
comment and tell me if I'm thinking
about this wrong but it was a it was a
green wedding it was in the Chicagoland
area that's where everyone was from and
the wedding was at a state park about
two hours from Chicago so everyone you
know 150 200 people essentially had to
drive from Chicago to the state park two
hours away for a green wedding and they
made such a big deal about how it was a
green green wedding and reused flowers I
made that up I don't know I wasn't
really paying attention but you know it
was all vegetarian food and this is a
whole big deal about how it was a green
wedding but again literally 200 people
had to drive two hours each way in order
to get there and it just seems like the
gas emissions to get to this green
wedding
um were just pretty silly
um as opposed to what they were trying
to accomplish so I I just thought that
was always a contradiction there but
maybe I'm wrong maybe someone could put
it in the chat another interesting
another interesting case that we covered
a couple times was the Daryl Brooks case
the mass murderer in Waukesha Wisconsin
so his circus trial finally came to an
end so um he was charged you know he
killed he drove his red SUV
through a Christmas parade in Waukesha
Wisconsin last year he killed six people
injured 62. he represented himself in
court the whole thing has been an
absolute mess I've talked about the last
couple weeks just because it is just
such a circus he gets in shouting
matches with judges and then he has to
be put into a different room he's a
sovereign citizen I mean this thing has
just everything if they did a movie
about Dahmer they should really do a
movie about this guy too because it's
absolutely absolutely crazy
um but he was convicted of over 70
charges so um I think it was 76 he's
also a rap star um he uh they played
some of his rap videos in in in the
trial it was absolutely just it's again
it's wild stuff um uh and um so he was
convicted of I think 76 charges and
found guilty on just about everything
um yeah you could find some of his since
they I mean it's really interesting what
Spotify has decided to do with this they
essentially got rid of Kanye and they're
putting all of Daryl Brooks stuff in
there instead so
um that that's that's that's interesting
um but he was found guilty of the 70
charges um as he was being sentenced one
of the the victims family members yelled
out in court you know rotten hell you
piece of which is I think a lot of
what people um were thinking someone did
an individually got kicked out of court
of course because the judge has to you
know maintain
um courtroom rules and stuff like that
but I think that's um absolutely
appropriate
um and this should once and for all I
went over what Sovereign citizens are
last last week so I'm not gonna do that
again but this should once and for all
just be a case study of how the
Sovereign citizen defense first of all
how stupid it is and how it doesn't work
it's not a real thing it's ridiculous
it's like Scientology like it's not real
okay so anytime any police officers on
here or anyone you know has the
unfortunate
um instance of meeting a sovereign
citizen just play them some of this
Daryl Brooks tape and you'll be able to
see that hey this stuff actually does
not work in a real court of law maybe in
an imaginary court of law and some kind
of a fantasy but in the real world The
Sovereign citizen defense absolutely
does not work so his sentencing I
believe on Monday of next week they're
going to have another another Court
setting and at that point I don't think
he's going to be sentenced on that date
but they're going to at least and
they're at least going to
um they're at least going to say
um uh when the sentencing is and the
judge should set a date um and I what
this just reminds me of how many people
watched It's Always Sunny in
Philadelphia but Charlie fancies himself
to be the the greatest bird lawyer in
the United States and you're listening
to some of Daryl Brooks arguments
reminds me of Charlie from It's Always
Sunny so my favorite episodes of It's
Always Sunny in Philadelphia are the the
episodes where they're in court and they
have trials I think it's absolutely
great sometimes I have my kids who ones
13-1-7 sometimes in order to settle a
dispute I'll have a mock trial not like
I learned in law school but you know
really with the same rules that they
employ and Always Sunny in Philadelphia
because I think that's reasonable
um let's see if anybody has comments
about some of this stuff uh
okay okay we'll see uh hey Jeff uh Jeff
Menifee uh tearing up a city is not the
way to express things uh when Brianna
Taylor Anthony happens in Louisville
almost all of downtown was destroyed and
looted yeah that's that's a good point
um I'm not sure what the comp was in
reference to but um yeah I I don't I I
I've said this before I don't under if a
police officer commits a crime which
wasn't the case in the Brianna Taylor
shooting at least when it comes to the
the use of force but when a police
officer does something wrong or commits
a crime
um it seems like the public should want
that police officer to be held
accountable to me it seems strange to go
to random buildings downtown that are
owned by like local grocery stores and
to uh burn down a local grocery store
because you're mad about something that
a police officer did to me that doesn't
make any sense
um if someone can explain that logic to
me
um uh if someone can explain it a lot to
me I'd love to hear it Sergeant George
says I've never had any time to watch
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia well
sir you should make time it is an
unbelievable show it is extremely funny
so now we go on to New York City and
I've covered this a couple times before
but in this past week New York City had
something happen again another random
person was pushed onto the subway tracks
and I say random so it's not like this
was like a domestic violence situation
or there was a a dispute over business
that went bad or people were people were
were arguing like I you know I always
imagine a Seinfeld where you know
Kramer's trying trying to get into the
subway car and he's getting into fights
with people it wasn't anything like that
like literally a person just standing
there and a random offender running up
to him and pushing him in so this
happened again this past week luckily
this individual survived but in New York
City this is the 25th time that this has
happened this year two of them have
actually been fatal um this individual
that that they found he was in custody
the police were able to arrest him based
on the surveillance video um they do
have many costumes obviously you know
he's been arrested like you know 200
times this is a career Criminal Who we
can all objectively you know not even
looking at what he looks like or
anything like that just read the list of
crimes he's been charged with and
convict of and say yeah this person
should not be in society with everybody
else that's this guy um so luckily he
didn't kill this individual but it's a
scary thing to be pushed in front of a
subway car
um so I and that leads me to just a
couple things so I talked about public
policy earlier and how public policy
especially when it comes to criminal
justice and crime just has very
predictable results so one of the things
that New York City did is they
implemented broken windows back in the
90s now broken windows was a crime
control theory that was created by
someone named James Q Wilson in 1982 and
just the base level what it is is that
minor signs of social Decay like broken
windows minor signs of social Decay and
disorder can contribute to an atmosphere
where crime is allowed and happens
um that's basically what it is no other
way to phrase it is if you if you
enforce and take care of the Small
Things the big things will take care of
of themselves and the best way that I
can describe this and the best example
is New York City under Rudy Giuliani you
know before he was working for Trump and
had the the hair dye running down his
face and he was silly um when Rudy
Giuliani was like you know a very
serious person as the mayor of New York
he hired a really smart guy Bill Bratton
as the chief of police and between 1990
and 1996 they ran this broken windows
they ran this broken windows type crime
and they went after what they call
quality of life crime so especially in
the subway system people who were
jumping turnstiles so just not paying to
get in and just jumping through drinking
in public urinating in public disorderly
conduct so all of these that I guess we
would consider smaller crimes quality of
life crimes the enforcement on that was
ramped up if they saw you doing it it
was like everybody gets arrested there
are no there are no Second Chances we
catch you jump in a turnstile you're
going to jail now that might sound sound
harsh but what they found you know
basically the data through seven years
of doing this what they found is that
the end it's really difficult for police
officers to catch someone right before
or prevent right before someone
pushes someone to a subway tracks or
before someone is robbed at gunpoint or
before there there's a violin assault
it's really difficult because if people
see police officers they're not going to
do those kinds of things right in front
of them so it's really difficult for
police officers to catch people
committing these violent felonies but
what they found is that well it really
isn't that important to catch people
doing the violent felonies as long as we
get those people into custody for
something and they found that the same
people shockingly the same people who
were committing the violent offenses
were the exact same group of people who
were committing these minor offenses so
anytime someone jumped to turnstile and
the police called him immediately they
were arrested and went to jail these are
called quality of life issues and crimes
that were enforced to an unbelievable
degree so the case that I talked about
um this past week that happened in New
York city so the one or the ways the
individual and I'm not saying that this
would have absolutely prevented it but
right before the individual pushed the
guy onto the tracks he jumped the
turnstile in order to get in so that's
pretty much just an example of that now
it's so okay so and we talk about these
are the policies that were that were put
in place but what were the results well
from 1990 to 1996 when broken windows
was implemented and chief Bill Bratton
was in New York City implementing these
these um this crime control really heavy
Crackdown on small minor quality of life
crimes violent crimes and felonies went
down 40 percent and the murder rate was
cut in half here's what I mean by that
in the year 1990 there were just over 2
600 murders in New York City by 1996
when Bill Bratton retired there were
just over 1300 murders literally the
murder rate was caught cut in half now
the correlation isn't always causation
so I'm not saying it was just broken
windows but really it's a set of
multiple different policies the main one
the base level Theory and philosophy
being broken windows of why this
occurred so you know we I've talked
before about black lives matter and I
think black lives do man better every
life matters we should want to save as
many people as possible so if we look at
the numbers in New York City on a yearly
basis who are the victims of who are the
murder victims so who's actually being
killed in New York City and even though
African Americans only make up about 15
percent of the population in New York
City they represent 67 percent of people
who are the victims of homicide in New
York city so if we take the number from
1990 to uh to um uh 1996. you know 1300
people 1300 lives every year were saved
well 67 percent of that is 838 so
essentially this broken windows policy
every year that it was implemented it
saved over 800 black lives and it just
seems like if we really care about
saving people this is the kind of thing
that we should be doing and the kind of
policies that we should be implementing
because in every city and every
population there are predators and there
are criminals we need to take those
criminals out of society throw them in
jail so the other 99 of us can just live
normal lives and we can go into
Walgreens and we can go to the subway
without having to worry about being
pushed in or being robbed in the subway
uh let's see Duke City gaming where is
all the money they made uh well they're
a black lives matter
um is being investigated by
um all kinds of attorney generals um and
this uh there's going to be some
criminal charges coming down absolutely
uh let's see they've also made some uh
they've also bought uh several different
uh multi-million dollar Mansions
um so that's those are the main cases
that I want to talk about let's see uh
any other comments any other comments
here let's see
no other comments so those were the
cases that I uh let's see talk about the
lieutenant being reinstated uh after
Okay
um
so don't have any other comments or any
other questions
um
let's see no nothing else so I mean
those are the cases that I want to go
over it's a really interesting week for
crime like I said the main story was
that Paul Pelosi's story so um you know
we'll definitely track that one as it
goes on and
um yeah that's gonna just about wrap it
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