May 17, 2024 • 24 mins
Mayor Bass orders police ‘surge’ on Metro routes amid spike in violence. Another person killed on the Metro hours after Mayor’s ‘safety’ conference. Senators unveil plan for AI regulation as companies race ahead. LAUSD police deployment to 20 schools collapses after one day amid opposition and confusion. Supreme Court to decide contentious issues amid ongoing criticism.
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it's some I don't interesting, fascinating, heartbreaking news. So the mayor ordered
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a surge of law enforcement. Let'sget more law enforcement inside buses and subway
stations and subway cars. And whyis that? Well, another person killed
yesterday on the Metro and that wasjust a few hours after the MTA,
of which the mayor is the headof any mayor, and they're talking about
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safety and what they're gonna do whensomeone gets killed. Well, she's actually
on the board of directors as well, in addition to being mayor, she's
on the board. Yeah I saidthat, she's automatically she heads the board.
And so what's going on with this? Let's do the politics for a
moment, Okay, Black Lives Mattercomes into play, and as a result
of Black Lives Matter, its progenyis defund the police and the crazy cases.
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Disband the police. By the way, defund doesn't mean take all the
money away from the police, justcut the budget or cut the increased spending
or whatever. And so there wasa huge movement. There is a huge
movement to get rid of the cops, and that's exactly what happened on the
way because we don't want police there. And what is the argument, Well,
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not only the police somehow make usfrightened, but if you look at
the minorities, particularly black and brownpeople, they are particularly uncomfortable with the
police because theoretically the police go afterthem and they don't feel safe with the
cops around. So therefore, weshouldn't have cops. We should have social
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workers or outreach people or whatever thehell they want. And so as a
result, or is that a result, the crime has exploded and people are
getting killed and getting hurt, gettingmaimed on the subways. So she realizing
that okay, there is now ademand for police. The people that are
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arguing we don't want cops, defunddisband the police, and that movement has
sort of shriveled up. That's kindof gone because crime is up there,
and so they don't want or theydidn't or still don't want police there because
of fear that the police are goingto somehow target black people. Well,
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how about targeting the people that haveknives guns? Isn't that special? You
would think they would be targeted.So the mayor finally realizes, Okay,
we've got to do it. Thereare still people that are saying, no,
it's not working. Crime is stillgoing up no matter what. Now,
what's interesting is we can statistically tellhow much crime is going up.
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We can statistically connect that with anumber of cops. What we can never
do is connect the number of policethat are out there with the number of
crimes that have not happened, crimesthat in fact would have happened but do
not because the police are there.We don't know that. So we're now
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talking about some kind of a lawenforcement slash political move to make the metros
a little bit safer. Now Ihave a question, who the hell would
ever go on a subway here?Uh, Cono, you don't count.
Oh well, okay, you're oneof the people that look like one of
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the people that would run around androb people and stab them, and he'd
walk in with camouflage. Yeah,packing Amy. Would you ever go on
a metro or subway? No,not again. I wrote it once and
that's enough, all right, andnope, Neil. Before Max was born
Tracon, I used public trans quitea bit. I would not anymore.
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Yeah, you just feel well,not only I mean the chance of statistically
of actually getting hurt are pretty low. There was a guy smoking crack on
the seat on the station platform whenI was there and gave her zero and
that's why she's so upset about it. Yes, the point is it's not
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only the crime, but feeling unsafe. And then you have who rides the
metro. This is why Zelman's isintroducing Zelman's Minty Body mints. Gotcha,
boy, you know nothing worse thanlike a Mortis breath. Yeah, you
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want to clean it from the insidebecause that's what's rotting. It's completely crazy.
So here's why I know we're notgoing to take a break yet a
little bit about what's going on.How many people three people this week stabbed,
then we had the shooting yesterday,So you say the percentages are low,
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I say your percentages changed drastically onceyou step off the sidewalk and onto
metro. Yeah. I think alot of it is also perception and the
kind of people. So, Amy, in your case, you had a
guy smoking crack on the metro.Were you frightened or did you just I
was with a group, so itwasn't as bad, but I was very
uncomfortable. And there was another guywho was like stuck on the elevator with
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a bicycle and a shopping cart andhe had the elevator door jammed open and
he was wearing like a Superman cape. That made me uncomfortable. Took him
about five minutes to figure out howto get out of the elevator. Yeah,
it's so it's a combination of safety, which is really important, combination
of who you're hanging with the kindof people that that's not to say that
people don't do transit. Public transitaren't people that come to work like you
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and me, but very few peopledriving the car that are doing crack cocaine.
Yeah. But Amy, how doyou know that wasn't a superhero?
Well that point came good point.I mean, why were you Maybe he
was returning the cart and saving somebodyfrom the cheese And let me tell you
the difference. If you ever havea chance to go to London and use
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the London Underground the tube, yeahyou will, uh, you will see
as you get on the train.Bank presidents next to attorneys, doctors,
workers. It's just a part oflife, is there. I don't know,
but it certainly is in London.And yeah, but they're also standing
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next to you know, the politiciansare standing next to criminals, and there's
drug addicts. They just happen tobe the same people, all right.
But yeah, so you're going tosee more more cops on the subways.
Is not gonna help. I hope, I hope at least people feel safer,
except people of color who somehow brownpeople, black people who somehow think
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the very concept of the police atthe same station they're going after those.
Maybe they can put them in brightyellow or green shirts or vests. Yeah,
instead of you know, big police, scary police looking at with big
targets on their back. Yeah.Poor those poor young people. All right.
Now, one of the things aboutAI which we've been talking about is
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the fact that technology is running somuch faster than ethics and our ability to
deal with it legally, and thisis part and parcel of my entire practice,
my legal practice from the first dayI was practicing, it was third
party reproductive law. And these wereall the issues of frozen embryos and surrogacy
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and sperm donation. I mean,you talk all about that the technology was
created, you can't stop technology.Ever, the law it took years to
catch up literally, and the ethicstook years to become somewhat established that third
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party reproduction is considered okay, itis good. And we didn't know that
when we started. We had noidea the bioethical situations, the circumstances are
going to be. And so ifyou take what happened then and we're talking
early eighties to what's happening now,what's happening now is by an order of
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magnitude, far far more important andfar far more reaching, because I'm talking
about AI that's going to affect everysingle one of us on this planet.
Because who is not influenced by computersor the Internet, even if you don't
have access to it. And we'retalking about people in the third world countries
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or even in America that live inrural areas et cetera, and don't have
access to the Internet, are stillinfluenced by the Internet because the Internet affects
all travel, the manufacture, andthe reporting of information back and forth from
your vehicles, from your business,as you talk to other businesses that you
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order goods. I mean, it'sall there on the Internet. And then
of course AI comes into this thing, and now we're talking about an explosion
of information and an explosion of theinfluence. And so even the creators of
AI are scared to death of thisand are saying, we need guardrails here.
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So finally the Senate is jumping onit. They've actually been looking at
this thing for about a year,and the Senate just issued they had a
report. They had a group ofpeople called the Senate AI Gang, and
they issued a thirty one page roadmapthat calls number one for billions of new
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funding and AI research. It alsoargues how the law should be applied.
Some guardrails, not very many,and you've got consumer advocates furious it's too
vague. It doesn't protect people fromAI's harms. The initiative is sucking up
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oxygen from other efforts to regulate thetechnology. The director of Fight for the
Future, an advocacy group Evan Greersaid, this roadmap leads to a dead
end and the plan is pathetic andalready of course, like anything else,
it doesn't matter what the politicians voteon, doesn't matter what the president signs.
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Either it's not enough or it isa disaster. Just pick your devil,
right, you can just go aheadand pick your poison. And so
what is going on, Well,it's the start of some kind of regulation,
but it's this stuff is moving soquickly. Maybe it's getting to the
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point where AI is going to writethe regulations for itself. Wouldn't that be
wild where the very writers of thesebills turn to AI to help them figure
out what's going on. By theway, that is a whole world onto
itself writing. And I was involvedin writing one of the first surrogacy bills.
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My god, they go as andthey're specialists. They're staff members on
all of these staffs of senators andassemblymen and members of Congress, I mean
all of it. And they areexperts in writing this. And let me
tell you, they have to researchother bills. Is it? Does it?
Do they this one contradict? Doesthis one influence? Does this one
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supersede does this one somehow change,I guess, say you know what,
AI would be be a big partof it. It would be a big
part of even writing the very billsthat we follow. Interesting. So that's
the start. I'll be reporting toyou a whole lot more. Okay,
Now, I just did a segmenton the ordering of police on metro routes
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and bus lines subway in Los Angelesbecause this incredible spike in criminality and murders.
I mean, this week, Ithink there were three attacks, two
in the subway, one on busline. Two of them were a deadly
where people ended up dying. Well, let me tell you what's going on
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with La United LA Unified School District. This is where I went to school,
LA USD, and I talk aboutthis as a sort of the poster
child, like the worst school systemin the country. It's the second largest.
So what ended up happening is theschool district and the LA decided they
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were going to yank the cops awayfrom schools again as a result of the
murder of George Floyd. The BlackLives Matter movement, the progeny is defund
to spand the police, so theyyanked police from the school campuses. And
guess what the school superintendent, AlbertaCorvao said, you know what, We're
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returning the police. And a daylater the thing starts falling apart. The
school board. We're not talking aboutthey're not talking about the safety of the
schools. No, No, whatthey're talking about is how does the superintendent
make that decision without talking to us. Come on, really, the issue
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is do we need more cops oncampuses And the answer clearly is yes,
yes, yes, yes. Sothis deployment one officer per campus and I
love this, Oh god. Hisoffice includes critical training for supervision staff,
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such as unarmed campus aids, schoolclimate advocates, whose role is to connect
students in positive ways to create amore nurturing and safer environment. I'll tell
you what a safer environment is,taking away that ar fifteen from this kid
who's about to make the other kidstarget practice? How about that for safety
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and dealing with the environment. TheLA Unified School Police Department, the deputy
chief said, we do not policestudents. We protect students, yeah,
from students that want to kill them. We embrace opportunities for restorative practices and
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diverting criminal matters. From the courtsto support the students. Yeah, we
believe in utilizing de escalation tactics wheneverpossible to eliminate or reduce the use of
force. Yeah, look at theanality it's going on. Do you know
how many calls I get on handleon the law, and I mean constantly,
to the point where I don't eventake more than one an hour.
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My son, my daughter was beatup at the school, was bullied,
was attack, was assaulted. Theschool did nothing, No police officers were
there, administration didn't do anything.I mean that's the case. That has
been the case after the defund thepolice, and now people are realizing,
you know what, you have tohave the cops. That's what's going on
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with Metro and all the statistics thatare out there, Well, the police
really don't help. You've got crimeon the increase. I got news for
you. The more cops say,here's a stat that you can actually prove,
the more cops, the less thecrime. You can talk all day
long about social workers getting involved,you can talk all day long about what
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we really have to do is outreach. The problem isn't the crime itself,
it's what happened, why the crimewas committed. Why do these people turn
to crime? They are homeless,so let's put them in housing. They
don't have training, they don't havemarketable skills, Well let's train them,
all right. How much money doyou want to spend on that? And
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I am not of that crowd thatbelieves that the social work method works.
I'm fine with the escalation training.I'm perfectly fine with that on a couple
of levels. It's safer for peoplearound that cockroach who is either threatening or
shooting or stabbing people and or isso mentally ill about to And for the
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safety of the cops. You know, this week, how many cops were
killed also ambushed? I think thereprobably were three or four police officers killed
this week in the line of duty, domestic domestic disturbent calls, serving a
warrant, ambush, being shot throughthe door. I mean, it has
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become a crazy world out there,And obviously I'm a big fan of the
police. Needless to say, Now, are there bad apples? Yeah?
Where aren't there bad apples? Right? How many good how many bad lawyers
are out there to screw people over. Let's get rid of all the lawyers,
which, by the way, don'tsay it because I know a lot
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of you believe that with lawyers.Shakespeare kill all the lawyers. There's a
lot to be said for that.Okay, Supreme Court, Here come the
judge judges, and the Supreme Courtis going to hear some big cases this
year. I mean big cases,some Second Amendment stuff, some stuff about
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religious freedom, various aspects of abortion. Even though Roe v. Wade is
over, that doesn't necessarily mean therearen't abortion cases out there, state abortion
cases, Kent cities, criminalize homelessness, tax powers of Congress. One of
the big ones is former president ishe immune to federal charges under any circumstances?
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And while I think that is acrazy premise for the Justice to take
up, I don't even know whythey took the case. Yeah, it
may go that way. Well,here's the problem with the Supreme Court is
that he's become so politicized, moreso than in the history of the Court.
In my opinion and certainly historically lookingat it, I'm not alone.
Over the last three years, theCourt has seen a consistent drop year to
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year drop in its approval ratings.You've got polls by Gallup, Pew Research.
The Court has had as much asa fifty nine percent disapproval rating.
Supreme Court has historically been either amongor the highest rated part of the government.
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I mean these are Supreme Court justices. Judges do great in terms of
approval ratings. I mean people trustthem and their judges, and they sit
up there on the bench and theyhave these flowing robes. During the summer
they usually go commando, but therobes cover that all up. And the
Supreme Court at the top of theheap. In terms of what should be
approval ratings, which should be admiration, which should be trust, that's all
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gone. And so the issue wenot only politics, but just the ethics
themselves. Clarence Thomas with his billionairefriends, while his billionaire friends had cases
going up, business cases, andClarence Thomas saying, oh, no,
no, no, I'm objective.I look at it. Clarence Thomas again,
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right, people asking him recuse yourselffrom anything to do with the election
twenty twenty election and President Trump,former President Trump, asking for immunity.
Why because his wife, Jeanie,is a conspiracy theorist and she was part
of Stop the Steel movement, andhe's married to her. And his argument
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is, we never talk politics.There's a firewall between us, so we
just don't talk about that. Sureof course you don't talk to your spouse
about that. And so we're seeingsome of the worst of political diatribes and
movements and decisions that I think we'veever seen. By the way, I'm
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doing a podcast, as you know, I'm rolling out a podcast in a
couple of weeks, and I'm goingto go through the important cases in US
history, going back to the granddaddyof all of them, eighteen oh three,
eighteen oh three Marborie versus Madison.And I'll explain that on the podcast.
How's that for a tease. Sowhat the court did is come out
with a fourteen page code and commentary, the first formal code of conduct for
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the justices, which by the way, are appointed for life, and no
one can tell them what to do. They can't be thrown off the bench.
They can be senile, they canbe so wildly political justice solito.
Right. We just found out thatin the middle of the Steel stop the
steel movement, he puts up inhis front yard whereas he says, his
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wife puts it up an American flagupside down, which was that one of
the symbols of the stop the Steelmovement. The election was rigged. Supreme
Court Justice flag upside down flagpole infront of his house. My wife did
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it, and she only did itin response to the signs that were put
up by the neighbors. Objective,horrible signs that were put off put up.
So my wife responded by putting upthe flag upside down, which is
the symbol of stop the steel movement. Supreme Court Justice, I mean,
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it is that crazy. Now hasthe court been political before? There have
been you know, people coming asa conservative court, Hey, welcome to
America. There have been times whenthe court has been wildly liberal. You
look at the Warren Court, veryliberal, and the conservatives were screaming like
crazy, Hey, you know what. This is the way it goes.
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The president nominates, the Senate confirms, which is why I mean, I'm
not happy with the three justices thatwere appointed by former President Trump, but
hey, those are the rules.The president nominates, the Senate confirms,
and the Senate was in charge.It was the Republicans were in charge of
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the Senate, and the confirmation happened. And by the way, it happened
by one vote because the Republican Senatehad a majority by one vote. It
went straight down party lines. ClarenceThomas, for the most part, went
down party lines. So you're gonnahear a lot more about that. Boy.
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We haven't even started with what theSupreme Court is gonna do. The
decisions come out in June, bythe way, that's when it all hits.
So come June, we're gonna havea rip roaring good time talking about
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I handle here and the morning crewon a Friday? Are you making the
listeners? Do your formatics now now? I am I am AFI you know,
yeah, you figure you got it? Yeah? All right, Oh
it's some I don't interesting, fascinating, heartbreaking news. So the mayor ordered
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a surge of law enforcement. Let'sget more law enforcement inside buses and subway
stations and subway cars. And whyis that? Well, another person killed
yesterday on the Metro and that wasjust a few hours after the MTA,
of which the mayor is the headof any mayor, and they're talking about
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safety and what they're gonna do whensomeone gets killed. Well, she's actually
on the board of directors as well, in addition to being mayor, she's
on the board. Yeah I saidthat, she's automatically she heads the board.
And so what's going on with this? Let's do the politics for a
moment, Okay, Black Lives Mattercomes into play, and as a result
of Black Lives Matter, its progenyis defund the police and the crazy cases.
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Disband the police. By the way, defund doesn't mean take all the
money away from the police, justcut the budget or cut the increased spending
or whatever. And so there wasa huge movement. There is a huge
movement to get rid of the cops, and that's exactly what happened on the
way because we don't want police there. And what is the argument, Well,
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not only the police somehow make usfrightened, but if you look at
the minorities, particularly black and brownpeople, they are particularly uncomfortable with the
police because theoretically the police go afterthem and they don't feel safe with the
cops around. So therefore, weshouldn't have cops. We should have social
(02:25):
workers or outreach people or whatever thehell they want. And so as a
result, or is that a result, the crime has exploded and people are
getting killed and getting hurt, gettingmaimed on the subways. So she realizing
that okay, there is now ademand for police. The people that are
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arguing we don't want cops, defunddisband the police, and that movement has
sort of shriveled up. That's kindof gone because crime is up there,
and so they don't want or theydidn't or still don't want police there because
of fear that the police are goingto somehow target black people. Well,
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how about targeting the people that haveknives guns? Isn't that special? You
would think they would be targeted.So the mayor finally realizes, Okay,
we've got to do it. Thereare still people that are saying, no,
it's not working. Crime is stillgoing up no matter what. Now,
what's interesting is we can statistically tellhow much crime is going up.
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We can statistically connect that with anumber of cops. What we can never
do is connect the number of policethat are out there with the number of
crimes that have not happened, crimesthat in fact would have happened but do
not because the police are there.We don't know that. So we're now
(03:52):
talking about some kind of a lawenforcement slash political move to make the metros
a little bit safer. Now Ihave a question, who the hell would
ever go on a subway here?Uh, Cono, you don't count.
Oh well, okay, you're oneof the people that look like one of
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the people that would run around androb people and stab them, and he'd
walk in with camouflage. Yeah,packing Amy. Would you ever go on
a metro or subway? No,not again. I wrote it once and
that's enough, all right, andnope, Neil. Before Max was born
Tracon, I used public trans quitea bit. I would not anymore.
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Yeah, you just feel well,not only I mean the chance of statistically
of actually getting hurt are pretty low. There was a guy smoking crack on
the seat on the station platform whenI was there and gave her zero and
that's why she's so upset about it. Yes, the point is it's not
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only the crime, but feeling unsafe. And then you have who rides the
metro. This is why Zelman's isintroducing Zelman's Minty Body mints. Gotcha,
boy, you know nothing worse thanlike a Mortis breath. Yeah, you
(05:19):
want to clean it from the insidebecause that's what's rotting. It's completely crazy.
So here's why I know we're notgoing to take a break yet a
little bit about what's going on.How many people three people this week stabbed,
then we had the shooting yesterday,So you say the percentages are low,
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I say your percentages changed drastically onceyou step off the sidewalk and onto
metro. Yeah. I think alot of it is also perception and the
kind of people. So, Amy, in your case, you had a
guy smoking crack on the metro.Were you frightened or did you just I
was with a group, so itwasn't as bad, but I was very
uncomfortable. And there was another guywho was like stuck on the elevator with
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a bicycle and a shopping cart andhe had the elevator door jammed open and
he was wearing like a Superman cape. That made me uncomfortable. Took him
about five minutes to figure out howto get out of the elevator. Yeah,
it's so it's a combination of safety, which is really important, combination
of who you're hanging with the kindof people that that's not to say that
people don't do transit. Public transitaren't people that come to work like you
(06:31):
and me, but very few peopledriving the car that are doing crack cocaine.
Yeah. But Amy, how doyou know that wasn't a superhero?
Well that point came good point.I mean, why were you Maybe he
was returning the cart and saving somebodyfrom the cheese And let me tell you
the difference. If you ever havea chance to go to London and use
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the London Underground the tube, yeahyou will, uh, you will see
as you get on the train.Bank presidents next to attorneys, doctors,
workers. It's just a part oflife, is there. I don't know,
but it certainly is in London.And yeah, but they're also standing
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next to you know, the politiciansare standing next to criminals, and there's
drug addicts. They just happen tobe the same people, all right.
But yeah, so you're going tosee more more cops on the subways.
Is not gonna help. I hope, I hope at least people feel safer,
except people of color who somehow brownpeople, black people who somehow think
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the very concept of the police atthe same station they're going after those.
Maybe they can put them in brightyellow or green shirts or vests. Yeah,
instead of you know, big police, scary police looking at with big
targets on their back. Yeah.Poor those poor young people. All right.
Now, one of the things aboutAI which we've been talking about is
(08:03):
the fact that technology is running somuch faster than ethics and our ability to
deal with it legally, and thisis part and parcel of my entire practice,
my legal practice from the first dayI was practicing, it was third
party reproductive law. And these wereall the issues of frozen embryos and surrogacy
(08:30):
and sperm donation. I mean,you talk all about that the technology was
created, you can't stop technology.Ever, the law it took years to
catch up literally, and the ethicstook years to become somewhat established that third
(08:52):
party reproduction is considered okay, itis good. And we didn't know that
when we started. We had noidea the bioethical situations, the circumstances are
going to be. And so ifyou take what happened then and we're talking
early eighties to what's happening now,what's happening now is by an order of
(09:13):
magnitude, far far more important andfar far more reaching, because I'm talking
about AI that's going to affect everysingle one of us on this planet.
Because who is not influenced by computersor the Internet, even if you don't
have access to it. And we'retalking about people in the third world countries
(09:37):
or even in America that live inrural areas et cetera, and don't have
access to the Internet, are stillinfluenced by the Internet because the Internet affects
all travel, the manufacture, andthe reporting of information back and forth from
your vehicles, from your business,as you talk to other businesses that you
(10:03):
order goods. I mean, it'sall there on the Internet. And then
of course AI comes into this thing, and now we're talking about an explosion
of information and an explosion of theinfluence. And so even the creators of
AI are scared to death of thisand are saying, we need guardrails here.
(10:24):
So finally the Senate is jumping onit. They've actually been looking at
this thing for about a year,and the Senate just issued they had a
report. They had a group ofpeople called the Senate AI Gang, and
they issued a thirty one page roadmapthat calls number one for billions of new
(10:45):
funding and AI research. It alsoargues how the law should be applied.
Some guardrails, not very many,and you've got consumer advocates furious it's too
vague. It doesn't protect people fromAI's harms. The initiative is sucking up
(11:07):
oxygen from other efforts to regulate thetechnology. The director of Fight for the
Future, an advocacy group Evan Greersaid, this roadmap leads to a dead
end and the plan is pathetic andalready of course, like anything else,
it doesn't matter what the politicians voteon, doesn't matter what the president signs.
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Either it's not enough or it isa disaster. Just pick your devil,
right, you can just go aheadand pick your poison. And so
what is going on, Well,it's the start of some kind of regulation,
but it's this stuff is moving soquickly. Maybe it's getting to the
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point where AI is going to writethe regulations for itself. Wouldn't that be
wild where the very writers of thesebills turn to AI to help them figure
out what's going on. By theway, that is a whole world onto
itself writing. And I was involvedin writing one of the first surrogacy bills.
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My god, they go as andthey're specialists. They're staff members on
all of these staffs of senators andassemblymen and members of Congress, I mean
all of it. And they areexperts in writing this. And let me
tell you, they have to researchother bills. Is it? Does it?
Do they this one contradict? Doesthis one influence? Does this one
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supersede does this one somehow change,I guess, say you know what,
AI would be be a big partof it. It would be a big
part of even writing the very billsthat we follow. Interesting. So that's
the start. I'll be reporting toyou a whole lot more. Okay,
Now, I just did a segmenton the ordering of police on metro routes
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and bus lines subway in Los Angelesbecause this incredible spike in criminality and murders.
I mean, this week, Ithink there were three attacks, two
in the subway, one on busline. Two of them were a deadly
where people ended up dying. Well, let me tell you what's going on
(13:28):
with La United LA Unified School District. This is where I went to school,
LA USD, and I talk aboutthis as a sort of the poster
child, like the worst school systemin the country. It's the second largest.
So what ended up happening is theschool district and the LA decided they
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were going to yank the cops awayfrom schools again as a result of the
murder of George Floyd. The BlackLives Matter movement, the progeny is defund
to spand the police, so theyyanked police from the school campuses. And
guess what the school superintendent, AlbertaCorvao said, you know what, We're
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returning the police. And a daylater the thing starts falling apart. The
school board. We're not talking aboutthey're not talking about the safety of the
schools. No, No, whatthey're talking about is how does the superintendent
make that decision without talking to us. Come on, really, the issue
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is do we need more cops oncampuses And the answer clearly is yes,
yes, yes, yes. Sothis deployment one officer per campus and I
love this, Oh god. Hisoffice includes critical training for supervision staff,
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such as unarmed campus aids, schoolclimate advocates, whose role is to connect
students in positive ways to create amore nurturing and safer environment. I'll tell
you what a safer environment is,taking away that ar fifteen from this kid
who's about to make the other kidstarget practice? How about that for safety
(15:24):
and dealing with the environment. TheLA Unified School Police Department, the deputy
chief said, we do not policestudents. We protect students, yeah,
from students that want to kill them. We embrace opportunities for restorative practices and
(15:45):
diverting criminal matters. From the courtsto support the students. Yeah, we
believe in utilizing de escalation tactics wheneverpossible to eliminate or reduce the use of
force. Yeah, look at theanality it's going on. Do you know
how many calls I get on handleon the law, and I mean constantly,
to the point where I don't eventake more than one an hour.
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My son, my daughter was beatup at the school, was bullied,
was attack, was assaulted. Theschool did nothing, No police officers were
there, administration didn't do anything.I mean that's the case. That has
been the case after the defund thepolice, and now people are realizing,
you know what, you have tohave the cops. That's what's going on
(16:29):
with Metro and all the statistics thatare out there, Well, the police
really don't help. You've got crimeon the increase. I got news for
you. The more cops say,here's a stat that you can actually prove,
the more cops, the less thecrime. You can talk all day
long about social workers getting involved,you can talk all day long about what
(16:51):
we really have to do is outreach. The problem isn't the crime itself,
it's what happened, why the crimewas committed. Why do these people turn
to crime? They are homeless,so let's put them in housing. They
don't have training, they don't havemarketable skills, Well let's train them,
all right. How much money doyou want to spend on that? And
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I am not of that crowd thatbelieves that the social work method works.
I'm fine with the escalation training.I'm perfectly fine with that on a couple
of levels. It's safer for peoplearound that cockroach who is either threatening or
shooting or stabbing people and or isso mentally ill about to And for the
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safety of the cops. You know, this week, how many cops were
killed also ambushed? I think thereprobably were three or four police officers killed
this week in the line of duty, domestic domestic disturbent calls, serving a
warrant, ambush, being shot throughthe door. I mean, it has
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become a crazy world out there,And obviously I'm a big fan of the
police. Needless to say, Now, are there bad apples? Yeah?
Where aren't there bad apples? Right? How many good how many bad lawyers
are out there to screw people over. Let's get rid of all the lawyers,
which, by the way, don'tsay it because I know a lot
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of you believe that with lawyers.Shakespeare kill all the lawyers. There's a
lot to be said for that.Okay, Supreme Court, Here come the
judge judges, and the Supreme Courtis going to hear some big cases this
year. I mean big cases,some Second Amendment stuff, some stuff about
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religious freedom, various aspects of abortion. Even though Roe v. Wade is
over, that doesn't necessarily mean therearen't abortion cases out there, state abortion
cases, Kent cities, criminalize homelessness, tax powers of Congress. One of
the big ones is former president ishe immune to federal charges under any circumstances?
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And while I think that is acrazy premise for the Justice to take
up, I don't even know whythey took the case. Yeah, it
may go that way. Well,here's the problem with the Supreme Court is
that he's become so politicized, moreso than in the history of the Court.
In my opinion and certainly historically lookingat it, I'm not alone.
Over the last three years, theCourt has seen a consistent drop year to
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year drop in its approval ratings.You've got polls by Gallup, Pew Research.
The Court has had as much asa fifty nine percent disapproval rating.
Supreme Court has historically been either amongor the highest rated part of the government.
(19:51):
I mean these are Supreme Court justices. Judges do great in terms of
approval ratings. I mean people trustthem and their judges, and they sit
up there on the bench and theyhave these flowing robes. During the summer
they usually go commando, but therobes cover that all up. And the
Supreme Court at the top of theheap. In terms of what should be
approval ratings, which should be admiration, which should be trust, that's all
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gone. And so the issue wenot only politics, but just the ethics
themselves. Clarence Thomas with his billionairefriends, while his billionaire friends had cases
going up, business cases, andClarence Thomas saying, oh, no,
no, no, I'm objective.I look at it. Clarence Thomas again,
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right, people asking him recuse yourselffrom anything to do with the election
twenty twenty election and President Trump,former President Trump, asking for immunity.
Why because his wife, Jeanie,is a conspiracy theorist and she was part
of Stop the Steel movement, andhe's married to her. And his argument
(20:59):
is, we never talk politics.There's a firewall between us, so we
just don't talk about that. Sureof course you don't talk to your spouse
about that. And so we're seeingsome of the worst of political diatribes and
movements and decisions that I think we'veever seen. By the way, I'm
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doing a podcast, as you know, I'm rolling out a podcast in a
couple of weeks, and I'm goingto go through the important cases in US
history, going back to the granddaddyof all of them, eighteen oh three,
eighteen oh three Marborie versus Madison.And I'll explain that on the podcast.
How's that for a tease. Sowhat the court did is come out
with a fourteen page code and commentary, the first formal code of conduct for
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the justices, which by the way, are appointed for life, and no
one can tell them what to do. They can't be thrown off the bench.
They can be senile, they canbe so wildly political justice solito.
Right. We just found out thatin the middle of the Steel stop the
steel movement, he puts up inhis front yard whereas he says, his
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wife puts it up an American flagupside down, which was that one of
the symbols of the stop the Steelmovement. The election was rigged. Supreme
Court Justice flag upside down flagpole infront of his house. My wife did
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it, and she only did itin response to the signs that were put
up by the neighbors. Objective,horrible signs that were put off put up.
So my wife responded by putting upthe flag upside down, which is
the symbol of stop the steel movement. Supreme Court Justice, I mean,
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it is that crazy. Now hasthe court been political before? There have
been you know, people coming asa conservative court, Hey, welcome to
America. There have been times whenthe court has been wildly liberal. You
look at the Warren Court, veryliberal, and the conservatives were screaming like
crazy, Hey, you know what. This is the way it goes.
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The president nominates, the Senate confirms, which is why I mean, I'm
not happy with the three justices thatwere appointed by former President Trump, but
hey, those are the rules.The president nominates, the Senate confirms,
and the Senate was in charge.It was the Republicans were in charge of
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the Senate, and the confirmation happened. And by the way, it happened
by one vote because the Republican Senatehad a majority by one vote. It
went straight down party lines. ClarenceThomas, for the most part, went
down party lines. So you're gonnahear a lot more about that. Boy.
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We haven't even started with what theSupreme Court is gonna do. The
decisions come out in June, bythe way, that's when it all hits.
So come June, we're gonna havea rip roaring good time talking about
this court. This is KPI AMsix forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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