August 22, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/22) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Joe Khalil from NewsNation comes on the show to talk about crime numbers in DC plummeting since Pres. Trump took control of the DC Metro Police. DC results are undeniable so why does Mayor Bass still hate the National Guard? The DC model should be expanded to LA. Chicago is next on Pres. Trump's list of cities to clean up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't f I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
It's the John Coel Show. Lou Penrose sitting in for
Cole Belt today. The numbers are in now. It's almost
been two weeks since President Trump assumed control under his
federal authority of the Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Police Department.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It's now under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Justice,
and the numbers have plummeted. Crime statistics are unbelievable and undeniable.
Robbery down forty six percent, assault with the deadly weapon
down six percent, carjacking down twenty one percent.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Carjacking is a big problem in DC.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Violent crime overall down twenty two percent, property crime down
eight percent.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So it's working and the people of DC are happier.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And for whatever reason, major Democrat runs cities and their
leaders refuse to give Trump credit for what he has accomplished.
But it's undeniable. Joe Colli from News Nation joins us Joe,
these numbers are frankly unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, I'm so happy for the residents of DC.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I worked for three members of Congress, I lived there
and you know, there were areas Ward eight you could
not go to in the daytime, let alone travel around
at night.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Now people are out jogging at night. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, So the objectively, it's a good thing if we
see crime numbers come down. For sure. We've seen numbers
that the White House has put out. We've seen separate
numbers that the DC Police Union have put out, and
they have shown that, you know, week to week, that
the crime has fallen, and you just worsted some of
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the statistics there. I think that the White House has
put out so that is good news. I would just
caution at this point what they are compared ring is
the one week before the National Guard was in town
and then the one week that the National Guard has
been in town. So it's a bit of a small sample,
but you'd hope that that trend continues. So obviously, you know,
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if numbers objectively are going down, that's reason to be
reason to be happy and to feel safer in DC.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Is that the criticism from the from from from the
DC Mayor's office that it's just too small of a sample.
The numbers the week before and the numbers the week
of the occupation of the National Guard. Sure, sure, that's
a small sample, but these are these are no. I mean,
you know, robbery down forty six percent in a week.
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I mean, I guess they could have been a real
big robbery spree going on the week prior that might
spike those numbers a little bit and make it look
more dramatic.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But they're going in the right direction, certainly.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, And again, I mean, it's a good thing. And
that is not a criticism coming from anybody in town.
That's just me trying to be a careful journalist and
make sure we keep everything in a perspective here, because
you know, statistics are a little tricky. The criticism that
you do hear from the mayor's office and from a
lot of folks that live in d C is you know.
I was in Ward seven and Ward eight, as you
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mentioned for those not familiar, these are the southwest area
of d C, or excuse me, Southeast d C, which
is an area where statistically and historically you have higher crime.
And it was interesting to talk to those folks because
you had a lot of people there who were telling
me that they would welcome seeing the National Guard patrolling
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their neighborhoods. The National Guard is actually not in those
neighborhoods right now. They're sort of in the like near
Union Station, which is a big thoroughfare tourist coming in
and out the White House. They are around the monuments,
some of them. And you talk to those folks, they say,
we do have a crime problem here. We would love
to see the Guard, you know, in the high crime
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areas as a deterrent. A lot of those folks said
they're not sure the military is the answer, but they're
very pro police. They like they want more policing done
in their neighborhoods. So it's sort of an assumption here
the National Guard can't be in DC forever. What they
want to see is potentially more funding for more police officers,
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more sort of boots on the ground, if you will,
not military boots, but you know, DC metro police in
those neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're talking about jo Khalil with News Nation about the
unbelievable statistics that are coming out of Washington, d C.
Just less than two weeks after President Trump assumed authority
over the police department. This is an interesting little game
that I'm watching Democrats on the City Council and the
Mayor's office this like they want they're happy that crime
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is going down.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
They want crime to go down.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They don't want to use just these two weeks as
a proof that it's all solved. They don't want the
National Guard in Georgetown, but yet they.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's very like who cares.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Right, if you are a resident of DC and your
your car was not broken into this past week, whether
you parked it the in Ward seven or you parked
it in Georgetown, you're happy, Like there is a psychological
impact to the good when you hear about robberies coming down,
carjackings going down, and violent crime going down.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Sure. And you know, look here, I'm not gonna I
don't get paid enough to share my personal opinions, so
you're not going to get those from me. But we've
been reporting, We've been reporting for days on this. So
what I'll tell you is this, this is what I'm
hearing from DC residents. Keeping in mind, Washington, d C.
Is one of the most progressive areas in the country,
and ninety six percent voted for both President Biden and
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for Vice President Harris when she ran right, So keeping
that in mind, what we've heard is that they don't
like seeing military presidents in their neighborhoods, so it makes
them uncomfortable to see tanks, to see armored vehicles, to
see Humby's with National Guard troops from West Virginia and
South Carolina and Ohio patrolling their streets. And again, you
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can disagree with the sentiment. I'm just reporting what I'm
hearing from peoples. The statistics over the last couple of
years has shown that although DC's murder rate, for example,
is too high objectively right, it is one of the
top ten in the country, it has been coming down generally.
Crime has been coming down over the last couple of years,
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and people who have talked to especially in Ward seven
and eight, in those tougher crime areas, they have told
me they've felt that like they they literally told me
they felt safer now than they did ten years ago
or twelve years ago. Now, having said all of that,
DC is obviously not close to perfect. It has a
significant problem as it comes to crime relative to other
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cities in the country. So, you know, I think the
diagnosis is probably correct here, and I think there are
just probably questions from the people that live here about,
you know, whether this is the right solution. You know,
there are obviously some people that will say, of course
I'm gonna feel safer, but there are there are other
There is that sort of back and forth. So just
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want to make that clear. That is what we hear
from the folks living in DC as they you know,
navigate their their day to day.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Joe Khalil, have yourself a fantastic weekend. Appreciate your time,
Joe Kayalil with News Nation. All right, so when we
come back, I want to address this. We are happy
crime is going down, but we don't like to look
at the National Guard and we're willing to like we're
not willing to make that trade off. It's a very
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interesting psychology, particularly from Democrats.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So we'll talk about that next.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So that the crime statistics out of DC, just less
than two weeks since President Trump assumed authority over the
police department, have been nothing short of staggering. I mean
real reductions in really bad stuff robbery, assault with the
deadly weapon, carjacking, violent crime. And they're debating over whether
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the numbers are as accurate. Maybe it's like it doesn't matter.
It's not so much what the numbers are, it's the
direction the numbers are going. And the numbers are going
down significantly, which means that you can.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Indeed control crime in a major city. You can do it.
You have to have the political will to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You have to not care about political correctness and what
the color of the skin is of the guy in
the back of the squad car. But if they committed crimes,
they need to go to jail and it can be done.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Now. You just heard from I mean, the report from
Joe Khalil, I think is accurate.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It is the same information that we're getting that DC
residents and certainly DC Democrat leadership, they are not unhappy
that crime is going down. They are unhappy with the
militarization of it all. They don't like to look at
the National Guard bothers them.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And I just don't understand this.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
The same phenomenon was happening with Democrats in Los Angeles
and I didn't understand it at all, and I still
to this day don't understand what the problem is. It's
still a guy with a gun and comma. It's still
a person.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
On our side. What's the I hear this all the
time from democrats. Well, it's one thing to.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Have police officers, but when you militarize the streets, by golly,
what's the difference? Like, forget the whole posse comma tatis nonsense, Like,
what's the difference. It's still a guy with a gun
keeping the peace. It's still law and order. Whether it's
a marine from twenty nine Palms or an LAPD or
a sheriff or a man from the National Guard or
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a woman from the National Guard, they're all on our side.
They're all going after the bad guy or protecting somebody
that's going after the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
What is it about the National Guard that is upsetting
to these liberals in these democrat run cities.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It comes across quite silly, to be perfectly honest with you.
Here's the White House Press spokesperson, Carolyn Levitt.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
According to the White House, law enforcement officials have made
six hundred and thirty total arrests. One missing child was recovered,
eighty six firearms were seized, and also two hundred and
fifty one people who are in the country illegally have
been arrested since August seventh, including three known gang members.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
There are nearly two.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Thousand National Guard soldiers now patrolling.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Two thousand National Guard soldiers in DC. Two weeks, six
hundred plus arrests, illegal weapons off the street, two one
hundred illegals deported, some.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Of them gang members. This is wonderful. I mean, DC
is about seven hundred thousand people. LA is seven.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Million people, depending on where you draw the line. So
extrapola up. Wouldn't you like to have that many guns
off the streets that were illegally in possession of some
somebody had illegally you know, thousands of people arrested, bad people, right,
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thousands of illegals picked up that are in gang members
like these are good numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
This is good news. And whether the people of.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
DC like it or not, they're safer as a result
of President Trump's actions. It was absolutely the right thing
to do, and it proves that it can be done.
It could be done in LA, It could be done
in Chicago. It could be done in Baltimore, Maryland. It
could be done in Birmingham, Alabama. All these murder capitals
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of the United States could be reversed. In two weeks
if we really wanted to. And I think the problem is,
I don't know when the last time you were in DC.
I worked for three members of Congress, so I was
back in DC quite often. And what you see on
TV isn't really DC. What you see on House of
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Cards or in West Wing, or if you chaperone your
middle school kid when they go back to d C
for a trip, or with the Boy Scouts, or maybe
they're part of some kind of organization that does a
trip back to the US Capitol.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You know, my eighth grader did that once, and.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Like, that's that DC that you see isn't really what's
going on in Washington, DC all day and all night.
That is, you land at the airport, you get into
an air conditioned vehicle or a bus, a tour bus.
They take it to the hotel, they give you lanyards,
and then they take you on a sightseeing tour to
the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial. Maybe you go to
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the Capitol or the White House, and then you go
over to Georgetown or yeah, some other area of town
that's close to where the capital is and their security everywhere,
and you have a nice dinner and you go back
to the hotel room and then you're off and you'd
think you saw DC. But that's just the DC that
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they show you on TV. The real DC is a
third world hell hole, very dangerous, like to the point
where I would.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
After having dropped off the congressman at the airport.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
If I had to be in some of these areas,
especially at night, you wouldn't stop at a stop sign.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I mean you would roll through the stop sign.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You do not want to be stopped because you don't
see them when they come at you to carjack your car.
You won't stop at a red light, like if there's
not a copper round. If there's a copper round, you're
safe because there's a copper round. There's only so many
metroped If like you're it's nighttime and you're at a
red light, you'll roll through that red light because.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You're just you're not gonna have the car not moving like.
That's the reality of people.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That were and I worked there, so I can only
imagine people that live there and have to park their
car on the street only to wake up to see
their car broken into see stuff. Stolen crime is a
real measurement of a first world nation. Like, to me,
that's the big one, that government should provide public safety.
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What separates like a good place to live and a
third world hell hole isn't the restaurants, It isn't the weather.
It really it's it's at the quality of the education
of the public schools.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And it's not the culture, the arts or the theater.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
What it separates a nice place and a third world
hell hole is whether or not you can park your
car safely and somebody won't break the window to steal
whatever they can find, like pop your trunk and steal
whatever they can find. That's a real pain, Like that's
a real boot. Nobody likes that. Nobody likes thinking that
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if they want to run out at ten o'clock at
night down to the corner market to get milk for
the kids, cereal tomorrow, or pick up a pack of
cigarettes or I don't know, whatever you need to get
at ten o'clock at night, and you might get mugged.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
In DC, you'd be lucky if you just got mugged.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And again, there are people that live like that day
in and day out, and it's just it's it's not necessary.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And now it's come to a stop.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
But with the guard on the ground. Crime is on
the decline. For the first time in a long time,
DC has gone seven days without a homicide, and that's
not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are
down forty six percent, cartheff's down twenty one percent, and
overall violent crime is down twenty two percent.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
When you have these kind of numbers, yeah, when you
have these kind of numbers, you can't deny them.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I love the fact that we've gone seven days without
a homicide, and that's news, but that's the reality. So
why would we want to have that report for Los Angeles?
Why would we not want to have those numbers for
Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Why would we not completely mirror what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And scale it up for a city the size of
Los Angeles and have the exact same results.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Why would we not want that?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Even if you are triggered somehow by the vision of
a National guardsman or a National Guard unit, couldn't you
be a grown up and you know, work through whatever
your problem is to have the rest of us have
those crime statistics that DC is now enjoying.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Like, can you get over yourself?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I think you're gonna have to because President Trump suggested
this morning that la might be nest and we'll share
it with you coming up next. Lou Penrose, if of
John coblt on the John Cobelt Show on KFI AM
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Speaker 5 (17:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 3 (17:32):
Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
Eric Mendez, No, Lyle Menendez.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
We have to wait and see. ABC News.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Legal analyst World Oakes will join us following the news
at two o'clock to give us a Menendez update right now,
talking about these statistics that are coming out of the
police union in Washington, d C. That show very dramatic
drops in crime in that very small area in a
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very short amount of time.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Everybody lost their mind.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Every Trump critic lost their mind when Trump made the
decision to use his federal authority and assume control of
the federal city. Now, he didn't take complete control over
the federal city, which he's allowed to do. He only
wanted to run the police department, and he did. And
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now the crimes are going away and people are very happy.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I have friends that are still there. I have friends
that are there still and they.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Said, look, for the first time I went for a
summer jock. It's really fun to go run the mall.
The mall is the long green, rectangular football fieldish thing.
And the food in DC is so bad for you
that you have to constantly exercise. To say a thing,
you see members of Congress when they're candidates for Congress
for the first time, they're all smelt and four years
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in they look like politicians.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Is a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It's because it's uh, the food is no good and
there's no place to exercise because you'll get mugged or stabbed.
Now you can go run, and that's what they're doing.
So two things are happening. One the quality of life,
which is an important thing for Americans. The quality of life,
the freedom from crime, is falling expeditiously for the people
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that live in our nation's capital, and it is providing
a blueprint on how to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It is, frankly quite simple.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The imposition of a police officer is the highest deterrent
to crime. So have people that are police officers or
police officer esque, which is what the National Guard is
doing to deter crime. People see the National Guard and they.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Say, maybe not not a good day to card jack.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
They see the out there arresting people, Maybe not a
good time to break into a car. And I think
we should model this in Los Angeles and every other
major city that has a crime problem.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now we know the recipe. Big guns and big vehicles.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Scare the bad guys. So if we can just figure
out what therapy these liberal people that are somehow triggered
by the National Guard and get them the therapy they
need so that they can too root for the good guys,
regardless of you know what platform, whether it's National Guard,
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whether it's the US Marines, whether it's the police Department,
the sheriff's department, anybody that is deputy, anybody that we
allow to carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Let them come and stand around.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I found it so interesting when Governor Gavenuwsen was criticizing
President Trump's taking over the California National Guard and putting
them in downtown Los Angeles, and he was saying, they're
standing around doing nothing, And I thought, yes, that's what
we want.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We want them to do nothing. They're doing nothing because
nobody is attempting to break the law. That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You want them to impose themselves upon society, so that
because it doesn't bother me, I have no problem. I
see a couple of guardsmen around a federal building, I'm like, good,
safe day to go in and get my passport. I
delightful to see marines in downtown Los Angeles. It's hot
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in twenty nine palms. They probably had a really good time.
So I don't understand why it is so triggering for
Democrats to see the National Guard in DC. But if
we could figure out a way for them to get
over it, I think we could have the kinds of
crime statistics that President Trump is touting. Let me give
you an example.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's so clear to me.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I gree grew up in New York, and I remember
watching the Mets about to win the pennant at Chase Stadium,
and in the ninth inning, right before it was all
over and the Mets were gonna get the pen win
the pennant, New York Police Department mounted on horses would
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come out of the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And line the line Chase Stadium with.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
The horses facing the stand. The horses weren't watching the game.
The horses were facing They were watching you. Now, why
did the NYPD do that they did it to send
a signal to everybody at Shay, Hey, we know you're
very excited. The Mets don't win pennants very often. You're
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gonna need to control yourself. You can cheer, you need
to stay in your seats up there, you cannot come
run on the field and guess what it worked. Imagine
that a police officer on a horse facing you got
people to second guests.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Whether you know, maybe I really.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Would love to jump on that field and grab myself
a souvenir like first base or something.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm not gonna do it. I may I bet like it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Why do you think, why do law enforcement do those
kinds of things? And you see this at parades at
large gatherings?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Is that militaristic or good law and order practices?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So more of this? President Trump said, Chicago is next,
and then we're.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Gonna make our country very safe. We're gonna make our
cities very very safe. So I think Chicago will be
our next, and then we'll help with New York, and
we're gonna help with.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I think, Oh I heard a fight. I heard New York.
Trump didn't say Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Somebody said Los Angeles hit that again there with New
York and.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We're gonna help with Wesena.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I think with us, I I I think, yeah, somebody's
saying Los Angeles, we have to find out who is
speaking into the President's ear. But for me, I say
bring it, President Trump. We need the help. And I
love the California National Guard. You want to bring the
Marines back, that'll be fine too. Anything to get crime
out of control in the City of Angels. Lou Penrose
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Speaker 5 (24:32):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Loke Penrose in for John Coblt today. Good to have
you along with us. Coming up following the news at two,
in just about ten minutes, ABC News legal analyst Royal
Oaks will join us to give us an update. Eric
Menendez denied parole. Now Lyle will be reviewed. This all
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goes back thirty six years and the California parole hearing
denial marks a significant development in this decade's long case.
Over three decades, and people are still fascinated by these two.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
The interesting thing is the process and We'll get into
this with Gurel Oaks, like what makes you eligible for
parole is like what factors come in? And there is
of course behavior while you're in prison, and that came up.
So apparently he wasn't a very good prisoner, or at
least I don't know how many shots you have to
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get while in prison for to count against your parole.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But he can reapply in three.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Years, and I suspect he will, and we'll talk about
it three years from now. Right now, President Trump said
that Chicago will likely be next. You'll finish fixing DC
and then Chicago's crime will go down, and then New
York and somebody mentioned LA.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
We're going to make our country very safe. We're going
to make our cities very very safe. So I think
she Trago will be our next, and then we'll help
with New York and we're going to help with us.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
That you hear in the background, somebody mentioned Los Angeles.
I don't know if it was the Vice President. I
don't know who it was, but somebody brought up Los Angeles.
So it's Los Angeles is on the mind of somebody
in the Oval Office with respect to the strategy of
taking over the National Guard and placing the National Guard
in and around the city while the cops.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Go in and make arrests. And again the numbers are stunning.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's been less than two weeks, over six hundred arrests
of really bad guys, eighty six weapons removed from the
streets of DC. Two hundred of the arrests were eigal
aliens that were in and some of them were in gangs.
So you know, we were throwing a large net and
getting all kinds of bad guys and bad things.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Out of a small area.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I think DC is really the perfect model for this experiments.
It's small enough that you can measure like you know
at the Potomac there, and you have other states, so
it's it's a perfect place to see if a lot
of good guys will make the bad guys stay away.
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And the first week the numbers were higher than they
are now. Like the very firsty, carjacking was down eighty
three percent in the DC metro area.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
This week it's down twenty one percent. So word got.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Out that if you got caught carjacking, you were going
to be arrested and they'll put you somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Now they may run out of jail space. But who cares.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You'll be in a jail in Baltimore, Maryland, You'll be
in a jail in Delaware, somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You'll be somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
You're not going to be free to go, and they
are in the process of doing away with bail. I mean,
it is the same progressive attitude toward crime that we
have here in LA.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So it's not working.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Right. We have high crime statistics in Los Angeles, there
are high crime statistics in DC.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
In the last ten days, those.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Statistics have dropped because of a different policy.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Why would we not at least take a look at it.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I already heard the mayor of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass,
say that it is discriminatory because the people that are
being arrested are of color. All right, look, if she
wants to go there, make that case. All I know
is the crime rates are going down, so something's happening.
Anybody can commit a crime, but who they're grabbing have
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committed crimes, had standing warrants, and were a possession of
firearms that they should not have. And now that's one
less bad guy on the street. I don't think President
Trump really cares about the color of the.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Skin the criminal.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
He just wants all the criminals gone. And then, I
don't know if you heard this in the press conference today,
he is going to replant Washington d C.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Washington d C. One of the things we're going to
be redoing is your park. So I'm very good at
grass because I have a lot of golf courses all
over the place.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Is it just me or is that absolutely hilarious and
absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I know a lot about grass because I play a
lot of golf and I own a lot of golf courses.
So I'm the right guy to go to when it
comes to making DC green.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
And we're going to be regressing all of your park
so all brand news sprinkless systems the best that you
can buy, just like the Augusta. Don't it'll look like Augusta.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean, love him or hate him, man, you gotta
admit that's very good. Like that's that is so amusing
to me that the President of the United States, who
also owns golf courses, is very concerned about getting the
graffiti off the bridges and overpasses, getting all the criminals
behind bars, getting all the homeless into homeless shelters.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
In other areas.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
He told the homeless they are gonna have to find
homeless shelters in Baltimore, in Maryland, in Delaware, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I don't care where you go. Just pack your crap
and go. And they left.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And now he's gonna replant the city because he knows
all about grass.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
But we're gonna, look, we're gonna have all brand new
beautiful grass. You know, like everything else, Gress has a life.
Do you know that grass has a life? You know,
we have a life in Gress is a life. And
the grass here died about forty years ago. So we're
gonna be rebuilding all of your parks.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's right, He's gonna rebuild all the parks.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The guys with the badgers and the guns are gonna
get all the bad guys, and everybody's gonna be able
to go out at night and walk around. And that
will be the huge success, and that will be the
model for success going forward for major cities. And I
look forward to hearing from the Mayor of Los Angeles,
who is a Democrat in a large blue city with
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a crime problem, with a graffiti problem, with a grass problem.
I want to hear her say that DC residents are
not better off. I want to hear the mayor of
Chicago make the case that no crime, no graffiti, and
green grass is no good. Same with San Francisco and
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Baltimore and Birmingham, Alabama, like all.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
These other hellholes of cities where it's unsafe.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Have them all make the case that President Trump didn't
do the right thing by bringing in the National Guard.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And the National Guard is not going to be there forever.
So there is a short.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Runway for victory for President Trump. But he seems to
hit the numbers just right.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And we'll see if the.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Carjackers come back anytime soon to DC.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We'll wait and see. So loopse INVA.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
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Speaker 2 (32:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:06):
It's the John Coel Show. Lou Penrose sitting in for
Cole Belt today. The numbers are in now. It's almost
been two weeks since President Trump assumed control under his
federal authority of the Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Police Department.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It's now under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Justice,
and the numbers have plummeted. Crime statistics are unbelievable and undeniable.
Robbery down forty six percent, assault with the deadly weapon
down six percent, carjacking down twenty one percent.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Carjacking is a big problem in DC.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Violent crime overall down twenty two percent, property crime down
eight percent.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So it's working and the people of DC are happier.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And for whatever reason, major Democrat runs cities and their
leaders refuse to give Trump credit for what he has accomplished.
But it's undeniable. Joe Colli from News Nation joins us Joe,
these numbers are frankly unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, I'm so happy for the residents of DC.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I worked for three members of Congress, I lived there
and you know, there were areas Ward eight you could
not go to in the daytime, let alone travel around
at night.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Now people are out jogging at night. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, So the objectively, it's a good thing if we
see crime numbers come down. For sure. We've seen numbers
that the White House has put out. We've seen separate
numbers that the DC Police Union have put out, and
they have shown that, you know, week to week, that
the crime has fallen, and you just worsted some of
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the statistics there. I think that the White House has
put out so that is good news. I would just
caution at this point what they are compared ring is
the one week before the National Guard was in town
and then the one week that the National Guard has
been in town. So it's a bit of a small sample,
but you'd hope that that trend continues. So obviously, you know,
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if numbers objectively are going down, that's reason to be
reason to be happy and to feel safer in DC.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Is that the criticism from the from from from the
DC Mayor's office that it's just too small of a sample.
The numbers the week before and the numbers the week
of the occupation of the National Guard. Sure, sure, that's
a small sample, but these are these are no. I mean,
you know, robbery down forty six percent in a week.
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I mean, I guess they could have been a real
big robbery spree going on the week prior that might
spike those numbers a little bit and make it look
more dramatic.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But they're going in the right direction, certainly.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, And again, I mean, it's a good thing. And
that is not a criticism coming from anybody in town.
That's just me trying to be a careful journalist and
make sure we keep everything in a perspective here, because
you know, statistics are a little tricky. The criticism that
you do hear from the mayor's office and from a
lot of folks that live in d C is you know.
I was in Ward seven and Ward eight, as you
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mentioned for those not familiar, these are the southwest area
of d C, or excuse me, Southeast d C, which
is an area where statistically and historically you have higher crime.
And it was interesting to talk to those folks because
you had a lot of people there who were telling
me that they would welcome seeing the National Guard patrolling
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their neighborhoods. The National Guard is actually not in those
neighborhoods right now. They're sort of in the like near
Union Station, which is a big thoroughfare tourist coming in
and out the White House. They are around the monuments,
some of them. And you talk to those folks, they say,
we do have a crime problem here. We would love
to see the Guard, you know, in the high crime
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areas as a deterrent. A lot of those folks said
they're not sure the military is the answer, but they're
very pro police. They like they want more policing done
in their neighborhoods. So it's sort of an assumption here
the National Guard can't be in DC forever. What they
want to see is potentially more funding for more police officers,
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more sort of boots on the ground, if you will,
not military boots, but you know, DC metro police in
those neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're talking about jo Khalil with News Nation about the
unbelievable statistics that are coming out of Washington, d C.
Just less than two weeks after President Trump assumed authority
over the police department. This is an interesting little game
that I'm watching Democrats on the City Council and the
Mayor's office this like they want they're happy that crime
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is going down.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
They want crime to go down.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They don't want to use just these two weeks as
a proof that it's all solved. They don't want the
National Guard in Georgetown, but yet they.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's very like who cares.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Right, if you are a resident of DC and your
your car was not broken into this past week, whether
you parked it the in Ward seven or you parked
it in Georgetown, you're happy, Like there is a psychological
impact to the good when you hear about robberies coming down,
carjackings going down, and violent crime going down.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Sure. And you know, look here, I'm not gonna I
don't get paid enough to share my personal opinions, so
you're not going to get those from me. But we've
been reporting, We've been reporting for days on this. So
what I'll tell you is this, this is what I'm
hearing from DC residents. Keeping in mind, Washington, d C.
Is one of the most progressive areas in the country,
and ninety six percent voted for both President Biden and
(05:48):
for Vice President Harris when she ran right, So keeping
that in mind, what we've heard is that they don't
like seeing military presidents in their neighborhoods, so it makes
them uncomfortable to see tanks, to see armored vehicles, to
see Humby's with National Guard troops from West Virginia and
South Carolina and Ohio patrolling their streets. And again, you
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can disagree with the sentiment. I'm just reporting what I'm
hearing from peoples. The statistics over the last couple of
years has shown that although DC's murder rate, for example,
is too high objectively right, it is one of the
top ten in the country, it has been coming down generally.
Crime has been coming down over the last couple of years,
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and people who have talked to especially in Ward seven
and eight, in those tougher crime areas, they have told
me they've felt that like they they literally told me
they felt safer now than they did ten years ago
or twelve years ago. Now, having said all of that,
DC is obviously not close to perfect. It has a
significant problem as it comes to crime relative to other
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cities in the country. So, you know, I think the
diagnosis is probably correct here, and I think there are
just probably questions from the people that live here about,
you know, whether this is the right solution. You know,
there are obviously some people that will say, of course
I'm gonna feel safer, but there are there are other
There is that sort of back and forth. So just
(07:15):
want to make that clear. That is what we hear
from the folks living in DC as they you know,
navigate their their day to day.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Joe Khalil, have yourself a fantastic weekend. Appreciate your time,
Joe Kayalil with News Nation. All right, so when we
come back, I want to address this. We are happy
crime is going down, but we don't like to look
at the National Guard and we're willing to like we're
not willing to make that trade off. It's a very
(07:42):
interesting psychology, particularly from Democrats.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So we'll talk about that next.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So that the crime statistics out of DC, just less
than two weeks since President Trump assumed authority over the
police department, have been nothing short of staggering. I mean
real reductions in really bad stuff robbery, assault with the
deadly weapon, carjacking, violent crime. And they're debating over whether
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the numbers are as accurate. Maybe it's like it doesn't matter.
It's not so much what the numbers are, it's the
direction the numbers are going. And the numbers are going
down significantly, which means that you can.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Indeed control crime in a major city. You can do it.
You have to have the political will to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You have to not care about political correctness and what
the color of the skin is of the guy in
the back of the squad car. But if they committed crimes,
they need to go to jail and it can be done.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Now. You just heard from I mean, the report from
Joe Khalil, I think is accurate.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It is the same information that we're getting that DC
residents and certainly DC Democrat leadership, they are not unhappy
that crime is going down. They are unhappy with the
militarization of it all. They don't like to look at
the National Guard bothers them.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And I just don't understand this.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
The same phenomenon was happening with Democrats in Los Angeles
and I didn't understand it at all, and I still
to this day don't understand what the problem is. It's
still a guy with a gun and comma. It's still
a person.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
On our side. What's the I hear this all the
time from democrats. Well, it's one thing to.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Have police officers, but when you militarize the streets, by golly,
what's the difference? Like, forget the whole posse comma tatis nonsense, Like,
what's the difference. It's still a guy with a gun
keeping the peace. It's still law and order. Whether it's
a marine from twenty nine Palms or an LAPD or
a sheriff or a man from the National Guard or
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a woman from the National Guard, they're all on our side.
They're all going after the bad guy or protecting somebody
that's going after the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
What is it about the National Guard that is upsetting
to these liberals in these democrat run cities.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It comes across quite silly, to be perfectly honest with you.
Here's the White House Press spokesperson, Carolyn Levitt.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
According to the White House, law enforcement officials have made
six hundred and thirty total arrests. One missing child was recovered,
eighty six firearms were seized, and also two hundred and
fifty one people who are in the country illegally have
been arrested since August seventh, including three known gang members.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
There are nearly two.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Thousand National Guard soldiers now patrolling.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Two thousand National Guard soldiers in DC. Two weeks, six
hundred plus arrests, illegal weapons off the street, two one
hundred illegals deported, some.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Of them gang members. This is wonderful. I mean, DC
is about seven hundred thousand people. LA is seven.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Million people, depending on where you draw the line. So
extrapola up. Wouldn't you like to have that many guns
off the streets that were illegally in possession of some
somebody had illegally you know, thousands of people arrested, bad people, right,
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thousands of illegals picked up that are in gang members
like these are good numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
This is good news. And whether the people of.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
DC like it or not, they're safer as a result
of President Trump's actions. It was absolutely the right thing
to do, and it proves that it can be done.
It could be done in LA, It could be done
in Chicago. It could be done in Baltimore, Maryland. It
could be done in Birmingham, Alabama. All these murder capitals
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of the United States could be reversed. In two weeks
if we really wanted to. And I think the problem is,
I don't know when the last time you were in DC.
I worked for three members of Congress, so I was
back in DC quite often. And what you see on
TV isn't really DC. What you see on House of
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Cards or in West Wing, or if you chaperone your
middle school kid when they go back to d C
for a trip, or with the Boy Scouts, or maybe
they're part of some kind of organization that does a
trip back to the US Capitol.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You know, my eighth grader did that once, and.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Like, that's that DC that you see isn't really what's
going on in Washington, DC all day and all night.
That is, you land at the airport, you get into
an air conditioned vehicle or a bus, a tour bus.
They take it to the hotel, they give you lanyards,
and then they take you on a sightseeing tour to
the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial. Maybe you go to
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the Capitol or the White House, and then you go
over to Georgetown or yeah, some other area of town
that's close to where the capital is and their security everywhere,
and you have a nice dinner and you go back
to the hotel room and then you're off and you'd
think you saw DC. But that's just the DC that
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they show you on TV. The real DC is a
third world hell hole, very dangerous, like to the point
where I would.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
After having dropped off the congressman at the airport.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
If I had to be in some of these areas,
especially at night, you wouldn't stop at a stop sign.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I mean you would roll through the stop sign.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You do not want to be stopped because you don't
see them when they come at you to carjack your car.
You won't stop at a red light, like if there's
not a copper round. If there's a copper round, you're
safe because there's a copper round. There's only so many
metroped If like you're it's nighttime and you're at a
red light, you'll roll through that red light because.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You're just you're not gonna have the car not moving like.
That's the reality of people.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That were and I worked there, so I can only
imagine people that live there and have to park their
car on the street only to wake up to see
their car broken into see stuff. Stolen crime is a
real measurement of a first world nation. Like, to me,
that's the big one, that government should provide public safety.
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What separates like a good place to live and a
third world hell hole isn't the restaurants, It isn't the weather.
It really it's it's at the quality of the education
of the public schools.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And it's not the culture, the arts or the theater.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
What it separates a nice place and a third world
hell hole is whether or not you can park your
car safely and somebody won't break the window to steal
whatever they can find, like pop your trunk and steal
whatever they can find. That's a real pain, Like that's
a real boot. Nobody likes that. Nobody likes thinking that
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if they want to run out at ten o'clock at
night down to the corner market to get milk for
the kids, cereal tomorrow, or pick up a pack of
cigarettes or I don't know, whatever you need to get
at ten o'clock at night, and you might get mugged.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
In DC, you'd be lucky if you just got mugged.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And again, there are people that live like that day
in and day out, and it's just it's it's not necessary.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And now it's come to a stop.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
But with the guard on the ground. Crime is on
the decline. For the first time in a long time,
DC has gone seven days without a homicide, and that's
not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are
down forty six percent, cartheff's down twenty one percent, and
overall violent crime is down twenty two percent.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
When you have these kind of numbers, yeah, when you
have these kind of numbers, you can't deny them.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I love the fact that we've gone seven days without
a homicide, and that's news, but that's the reality. So
why would we want to have that report for Los Angeles?
Why would we not want to have those numbers for
Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Why would we not completely mirror what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And scale it up for a city the size of
Los Angeles and have the exact same results.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Why would we not want that?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Even if you are triggered somehow by the vision of
a National guardsman or a National Guard unit, couldn't you
be a grown up and you know, work through whatever
your problem is to have the rest of us have
those crime statistics that DC is now enjoying.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Like, can you get over yourself?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I think you're gonna have to because President Trump suggested
this morning that la might be nest and we'll share
it with you coming up next. Lou Penrose, if of
John coblt on the John Cobelt Show on KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
Eric Mendez, No, Lyle Menendez.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
We have to wait and see. ABC News.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Legal analyst World Oakes will join us following the news
at two o'clock to give us a Menendez update right now,
talking about these statistics that are coming out of the
police union in Washington, d C. That show very dramatic
drops in crime in that very small area in a
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very short amount of time.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Everybody lost their mind.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Every Trump critic lost their mind when Trump made the
decision to use his federal authority and assume control of
the federal city. Now, he didn't take complete control over
the federal city, which he's allowed to do. He only
wanted to run the police department, and he did. And
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now the crimes are going away and people are very happy.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I have friends that are still there. I have friends
that are there still and they.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Said, look, for the first time I went for a
summer jock. It's really fun to go run the mall.
The mall is the long green, rectangular football fieldish thing.
And the food in DC is so bad for you
that you have to constantly exercise. To say a thing,
you see members of Congress when they're candidates for Congress
for the first time, they're all smelt and four years
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in they look like politicians.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Is a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It's because it's uh, the food is no good and
there's no place to exercise because you'll get mugged or stabbed.
Now you can go run, and that's what they're doing.
So two things are happening. One the quality of life,
which is an important thing for Americans. The quality of life,
the freedom from crime, is falling expeditiously for the people
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that live in our nation's capital, and it is providing
a blueprint on how to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It is, frankly quite simple.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The imposition of a police officer is the highest deterrent
to crime. So have people that are police officers or
police officer esque, which is what the National Guard is
doing to deter crime. People see the National Guard and they.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Say, maybe not not a good day to card jack.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
They see the out there arresting people, Maybe not a
good time to break into a car. And I think
we should model this in Los Angeles and every other
major city that has a crime problem.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now we know the recipe. Big guns and big vehicles.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Scare the bad guys. So if we can just figure
out what therapy these liberal people that are somehow triggered
by the National Guard and get them the therapy they
need so that they can too root for the good guys,
regardless of you know what platform, whether it's National Guard,
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whether it's the US Marines, whether it's the police Department,
the sheriff's department, anybody that is deputy, anybody that we
allow to carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Let them come and stand around.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I found it so interesting when Governor Gavenuwsen was criticizing
President Trump's taking over the California National Guard and putting
them in downtown Los Angeles, and he was saying, they're
standing around doing nothing, And I thought, yes, that's what
we want.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We want them to do nothing. They're doing nothing because
nobody is attempting to break the law. That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You want them to impose themselves upon society, so that
because it doesn't bother me, I have no problem. I
see a couple of guardsmen around a federal building, I'm like, good,
safe day to go in and get my passport. I
delightful to see marines in downtown Los Angeles. It's hot
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in twenty nine palms. They probably had a really good time.
So I don't understand why it is so triggering for
Democrats to see the National Guard in DC. But if
we could figure out a way for them to get
over it, I think we could have the kinds of
crime statistics that President Trump is touting. Let me give
you an example.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's so clear to me.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I gree grew up in New York, and I remember
watching the Mets about to win the pennant at Chase Stadium,
and in the ninth inning, right before it was all
over and the Mets were gonna get the pen win
the pennant, New York Police Department mounted on horses would
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come out of the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And line the line Chase Stadium with.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
The horses facing the stand. The horses weren't watching the game.
The horses were facing They were watching you. Now, why
did the NYPD do that they did it to send
a signal to everybody at Shay, Hey, we know you're
very excited. The Mets don't win pennants very often. You're
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gonna need to control yourself. You can cheer, you need
to stay in your seats up there, you cannot come
run on the field and guess what it worked. Imagine
that a police officer on a horse facing you got
people to second guests.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Whether you know, maybe I really.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Would love to jump on that field and grab myself
a souvenir like first base or something.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm not gonna do it. I may I bet like it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Why do you think, why do law enforcement do those
kinds of things? And you see this at parades at
large gatherings?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Is that militaristic or good law and order practices?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So more of this? President Trump said, Chicago is next,
and then we're.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Gonna make our country very safe. We're gonna make our
cities very very safe. So I think Chicago will be
our next, and then we'll help with New York, and
we're gonna help with.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I think, Oh I heard a fight. I heard New York.
Trump didn't say Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Somebody said Los Angeles hit that again there with New
York and.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We're gonna help with Wesena.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I think with us, I I I think, yeah, somebody's
saying Los Angeles, we have to find out who is
speaking into the President's ear. But for me, I say
bring it, President Trump. We need the help. And I
love the California National Guard. You want to bring the
Marines back, that'll be fine too. Anything to get crime
out of control in the City of Angels. Lou Penrose
(24:26):
infa John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty live everywhere
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Speaker 5 (24:32):
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Speaker 3 (24:37):
Loke Penrose in for John Coblt today. Good to have
you along with us. Coming up following the news at two,
in just about ten minutes, ABC News legal analyst Royal
Oaks will join us to give us an update. Eric
Menendez denied parole. Now Lyle will be reviewed. This all
(24:58):
goes back thirty six years and the California parole hearing
denial marks a significant development in this decade's long case.
Over three decades, and people are still fascinated by these two.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
The interesting thing is the process and We'll get into
this with Gurel Oaks, like what makes you eligible for
parole is like what factors come in? And there is
of course behavior while you're in prison, and that came up.
So apparently he wasn't a very good prisoner, or at
least I don't know how many shots you have to
(25:32):
get while in prison for to count against your parole.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But he can reapply in three.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Years, and I suspect he will, and we'll talk about
it three years from now. Right now, President Trump said
that Chicago will likely be next. You'll finish fixing DC
and then Chicago's crime will go down, and then New
York and somebody mentioned LA.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
We're going to make our country very safe. We're going
to make our cities very very safe. So I think
she Trago will be our next, and then we'll help
with New York and we're going to help with us.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
That you hear in the background, somebody mentioned Los Angeles.
I don't know if it was the Vice President. I
don't know who it was, but somebody brought up Los Angeles.
So it's Los Angeles is on the mind of somebody
in the Oval Office with respect to the strategy of
taking over the National Guard and placing the National Guard
in and around the city while the cops.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Go in and make arrests. And again the numbers are stunning.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's been less than two weeks, over six hundred arrests
of really bad guys, eighty six weapons removed from the
streets of DC. Two hundred of the arrests were eigal
aliens that were in and some of them were in gangs.
So you know, we were throwing a large net and
getting all kinds of bad guys and bad things.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Out of a small area.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I think DC is really the perfect model for this experiments.
It's small enough that you can measure like you know
at the Potomac there, and you have other states, so
it's it's a perfect place to see if a lot
of good guys will make the bad guys stay away.
(27:18):
And the first week the numbers were higher than they
are now. Like the very firsty, carjacking was down eighty
three percent in the DC metro area.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
This week it's down twenty one percent. So word got.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Out that if you got caught carjacking, you were going
to be arrested and they'll put you somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Now they may run out of jail space. But who cares.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You'll be in a jail in Baltimore, Maryland, You'll be
in a jail in Delaware, somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You'll be somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
You're not going to be free to go, and they
are in the process of doing away with bail. I mean,
it is the same progressive attitude toward crime that we
have here in LA.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So it's not working.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Right. We have high crime statistics in Los Angeles, there
are high crime statistics in DC.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
In the last ten days, those.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Statistics have dropped because of a different policy.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Why would we not at least take a look at it.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I already heard the mayor of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass,
say that it is discriminatory because the people that are
being arrested are of color. All right, look, if she
wants to go there, make that case. All I know
is the crime rates are going down, so something's happening.
Anybody can commit a crime, but who they're grabbing have
(28:44):
committed crimes, had standing warrants, and were a possession of
firearms that they should not have. And now that's one
less bad guy on the street. I don't think President
Trump really cares about the color of the.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Skin the criminal.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
He just wants all the criminals gone. And then, I
don't know if you heard this in the press conference today,
he is going to replant Washington d C.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Washington d C. One of the things we're going to
be redoing is your park. So I'm very good at
grass because I have a lot of golf courses all
over the place.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Is it just me or is that absolutely hilarious and
absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I know a lot about grass because I play a
lot of golf and I own a lot of golf courses.
So I'm the right guy to go to when it
comes to making DC green.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
And we're going to be regressing all of your park
so all brand news sprinkless systems the best that you
can buy, just like the Augusta. Don't it'll look like Augusta.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean, love him or hate him, man, you gotta
admit that's very good. Like that's that is so amusing
to me that the President of the United States, who
also owns golf courses, is very concerned about getting the
graffiti off the bridges and overpasses, getting all the criminals
behind bars, getting all the homeless into homeless shelters.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
In other areas.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
He told the homeless they are gonna have to find
homeless shelters in Baltimore, in Maryland, in Delaware, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I don't care where you go. Just pack your crap
and go. And they left.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And now he's gonna replant the city because he knows
all about grass.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
But we're gonna, look, we're gonna have all brand new
beautiful grass. You know, like everything else, Gress has a life.
Do you know that grass has a life? You know,
we have a life in Gress is a life. And
the grass here died about forty years ago. So we're
gonna be rebuilding all of your parks.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's right, He's gonna rebuild all the parks.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The guys with the badgers and the guns are gonna
get all the bad guys, and everybody's gonna be able
to go out at night and walk around. And that
will be the huge success, and that will be the
model for success going forward for major cities. And I
look forward to hearing from the Mayor of Los Angeles,
who is a Democrat in a large blue city with
(31:04):
a crime problem, with a graffiti problem, with a grass problem.
I want to hear her say that DC residents are
not better off. I want to hear the mayor of
Chicago make the case that no crime, no graffiti, and
green grass is no good. Same with San Francisco and
(31:26):
Baltimore and Birmingham, Alabama, like all.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
These other hellholes of cities where it's unsafe.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Have them all make the case that President Trump didn't
do the right thing by bringing in the National Guard.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And the National Guard is not going to be there forever.
So there is a short.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Runway for victory for President Trump. But he seems to
hit the numbers just right.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And we'll see if the.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Carjackers come back anytime soon to DC.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We'll wait and see. So loopse INVA.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
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