August 12, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/12) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about immigration activists calling for a boycott of companies they believe have been silent when it comes to speaking out against ICE operations in LA. How much money is LA paying out in lawsuit settlements? More on DC's Metro Police being placed under federal control by Pres. Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. It is the John Cobelt Show.
I Am six forty and Michael is here because there.
You probably didn't know this. There is a boycott going on.
There's a community stoppage started at midnight. It's by the
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immigrants rights organizations here in Los Angeles and they have
events planned throughout the day into the evening. And you
know what, I heard about it vaguely last week and
forgot about it and didn't notice it today.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, they announced it last week in the wake of
those immigration enforcement actions at the home Depot stores in Westlake,
Van Nys, San Bernardino. Just yesterday there was a home
Depot that was hit in North Hollywood. So they decided
that they needed to get back to the streets. We
haven't seen a lot of immigration enforcement. We haven't seen
a lot of protests since the court order narrowed the
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focus of what the federal immigration agents could could do.
And now it seems to be picking up again on
both sides of that.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And what was the point of this, I mean, this
is about as feeble a protest or just workstop. I
just have to say what work stopped exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, they've asked immigrant workers, maybe a varying legal status,
to not go to work today. And also they've called
for a twenty four hour boycott of some of the
larger businesses that serve folks here like home depot, Target, walmarts,
and fast food restaurants because their position is that these
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are organizations that benefit from immigrant labor, immigrant dollars, but
they're not speaking out in support of them. In fact,
the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights LA also known as
cheer LA, surely and Helica Salas the executive director, that
explains why they're in the streets today.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Those ice agents that want us to hide, that want
us to.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Hide away, we.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Are here because we're courageous people who are willing to
say for our families, fight for our city, and fight
for our nations. So thank you so much, our courageous community.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh, she's got to be a lot of fun at breakfast. WHOA, Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
They're not eating breakfast today, they're not going to those
restaurants today. They're on the boycott list, and so fast
food workers were supposed to not go.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
To work today.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
As of midnight, and then the boycott is supposed to
last for twenty four hours. She was speaking at a
rally at MacArthur Park, and this thing is supposed to
sneak its way through parts of the city all the
way into the evening. Any sense of how many people
didn't show up for work, No, not any numbers directly
related to who may or may not. We know some
people who have spoken to the media on the scene
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of these things have said that they did skip out
on work today. Now I don't know if they made
proper arrangements to do that or if they just went
on strike, but yeah, some people did.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I don't have any exact numbers on that. I
can't imagine there'd be. There's gonna be no effect from this.
This is not exactly gonna stop Trump and Holman here.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If the federal courts couldn't stop what appears to be
the exact type of enforcement that is that you can't
be doing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No, I don't think that this protest will either.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Jorge Mario Cabrera is a spokesperson for CHEERLA, and you're
gonna hear him explain a couple of things here.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They know better, They know that this is a very
peaceful activity, that this is within our rights to let
our officials know that there's a better way to enforce
our laws. In one way or another, they either have
not come out and spoken against these raids or they're
in a way complicitly participating in these actions.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That was a person or a robot.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That was a cheerless spokesperson Orgete Mario Cabrera. The first
part he's saying he doesn't expect immigration agents to show
up at these rallies today in spite of maybe some
abnormally large targets that they might incarcerate Barrow. And the
second was an explanation of why they are targeting these
large corporations. He's just saying that they are not speaking
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up on our behalf and because of that, we are
out here boycotting them.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, it's not really the political climate to do that.
You don't want to get into Trump's sites that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's really at the foundation of this entire argument. We
saw what's happened in Washington, D C.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
This week.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, President Trump didn't like what he was seeing with crime.
Regardless of what statistics have been presented to say, no,
crime is actually down in Washington, D C. And of
course there's some debate over the accuracy of those numbers,
but he did an unpresidented move and sent, you know,
federalized the DC police.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
We's had a whole lot of pushback from the mayor
or the police chief.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Because they're in a different situation than we are here
at Washington, d C is a federal district. They do
have some municipal control, but Congress can strip that away
whenever they want. The question is whether the executive can
do what he did. But yes, there was not as
much pushback from Mayor Muriel Bowser in Washington, d C.
As we saw here in Los Angeles when the National
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Guard was sent in. But because the president is willing
to do what he wants when he wants, I don't
know that any protests would do anything except antagonize them
further and invite further action.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. I don't know. I just find the whole thing
to be silly and it doesn't accomplish it. And you know,
if I was here legally, the last thing I'd be
doing is showing up at an immigration rally. Well that
I don't want to piss off my bosses either. It's
an interesting point. Yeah, you know this is where you
keep your head down and keep moving along and hope
for the.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Best, especially because if the immigration agents do agree at
some point that the court order has to be abided
by that we cannot just go up to people because
we assume they're legal immigrants because they're in place where
illegal immigrants tend to be. They're going to use better
intelligence for more targeted enforcement. I mean, that's clear. And
one way to do that is to find businesses that
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they suspect of hiring people without doing THEE verify appropriately
and then going in that way and making sure the restaurants,
the hotels and all of these businesses that probably do
hire illegal immigrants even if they don't know for sure,
they could be targeted and have these folks.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Not that you'd have the answer to this, but what
occurred to me just reading some analysis because the Trump
crowd put together a briefing to appeal to the Supreme
Court about well, and then that raid happened in the
Home Depot, right the Trojan Horse raid, and they arrested sixteen,
and I thought, well, how many of those sixteen were
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they wrong on? Were they sixteen for sixteen not hitting
illegal aliens? And it is it discrimination when you're right
on every single person you pick up, not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But what we know is the federal government will often
tell us after the fact, h three or four of
these folks or more, depending on how large the arrest
group is, had serious criminal records. Rapist, d multiple DUIs,
armed robberies, murderers, those sorts of things. In this case,
I believe they had six that had criminal records. But again,
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we don't know what the intelligence was, We don't know
what the impetus was right for that stop, and if
it was out of compliance with the court order, you
can bet that it will be used as evidence.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Six out of the sixteen had a criminal record. That's
a pretty good hit rate, that's more than twenty five percent. Yeah,
but did they haven't been picking up any citizens by
mistake or even Green cardholders by mistake, anybody with legal status.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
No, they have, at least that's been the argument from
some folks. You know, it's very difficult to determine the status,
especially because it's a sensitive topic that you know, you're
a liminitous.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I just figured if it was if there was an
American citizen picked up in one of these big races,
you have had claims of folks who say they've caught
our dad, they've caught our brother, they caught our son
and he has documentary that he is either a citizen
or is here lawfully. So it has happened, and that's
when they get released.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Usually ideal or no, that's right, they are supposed to
be released, but it does take take a court to
evaluate that. What you will see today with this community
stoppage that I know you're excited about, is they started
with this take Back our Park rally at MacArthur Park.
This was the scene take it I KNOWHOI which it
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would be cleaned up, but they go ahead, so they
started with their take back our Park. This has been
the scene of some strange immigration activity. We saw that
weird horseback display earlier in the summer that did not
involve any enforcement action, just a present a big showcase.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was a big show.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
They had their rally at ten o'clock and then they
have they have since marched down to the La County
Board of Supervisors meeting that's going on currently at five o'clock.
They're going to a rally at overa Street and to
El Pueblo and then they're going to march over to
the Federal detention center at six o'clock. They'll have a
vigil at seven fifteen, so they're going to be busy
all day. And there have been modest protests every day
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outside these detention centers. I don't know if you're aware
of the La Music Festival.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Well, I've heard of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
This is the code word on social media for the
immigration protests. Now it's I'm going to the La Music Festival. Oh,
I see, And that's that's that's their new slangognito not
so secret apparently. I mean it's out there online and
then you look at the video and that doesn't look
like a music festival to me.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Is there an La Music Festival? I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's not cool, you know, well, and I have to
go upstairs and ask the FMS.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But for us, no, I have no idea. That's why
they have down here in the base on the fourth floor,
the uncool people. All right, Michael, thank you for coming
on My Pleasures News. And uh, we we've got because
I'm just sitting down and getting everything together when we
come back. How about this the let me get this
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math right. The amount of money that the city of
La pays out in lawsuits has gone up eightfold. It
used to be thirty five million in six now it's
two hundred and eighty six million. This is people suing
the city of Los Angeles and getting these massive settlements.
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Tell you about it. We come back.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Just had Michael Monks on telling us about I who knew? Right?
Did you know what this was going on today? Is
a legal alien community work stoppage. That's that's what's supposed
to be going on. Those those those immigration groups that
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take our tax money, like Churla Churla thirty four million
dollars in tax money they got from the state. Good lord,
they were they're the ones who helped facilitate the riot.
They're back in action trying to get illegal aliens to
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not show up for work, and they're trying to organize
a boycott against home depot, target Walmart and fast food restaurants.
What the hell? How many how many illegal aliens are
actually going I mean, I haven't seen the video. I'd
be curious to see this. Maybe there's a lot. I
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don't know, but boy, if you're here illegally, and you
go to a demonstration that's rigged by an organization that's
taking American tax money to facilitate the protest. Boy, that's
that's gaul. That is really nerve.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
See, I'd be more ruthless than Trump at home, and
I would definitely have done a raid at the rally because,
like I was saying, when they did the Trojan Horse raid, right,
it was sixteen guys they got at home depot, I
bet you they were sixteen for sixteen there when it
comes to illegal aliens. So how's that stereotyping? How's that discrimination?
They were right? I don't know what methods they're using,
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but they're right on with them. They're correct. Why else
would you be there standing in the parking lot. Legal
citizens don't do that. Of course they don't do that.
It's a ridiculous way to run your life and earn
a living. Who would do that? So the I mean,
you go work for a real construction company. Certainly there's
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plenty of construction companies in action right now, especially on
the West Side. So I don't I don't I think
I'd be going up to these I'd be applying every
construction company in southern California right now because they've got
so much work that they've got to do. No need
to stand at a home depot near MacArthur Park of
all places. Jeez, and this is all like it's weird.
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A midnight fast food worker strike near MacArthur Park. Who
the hell is going out for a cheeseburger at MacArthur
Park at midnight? Why would you do that? That's a
good place to take the family. Yeah, kids, let's all
go to MacArthur Park. There's a Burger King. What kind
of a fast food strike? Is that? Who you're hurting?
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And then they have a coffee and breakfast at five am,
a take back our park coffee and break Honestly, are
these things really drawing a crowd that is feeble, that
is silly a week and I wouldn't care, except Charla
my tax money. I'm paying for the coffee and breakfast.
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I'm paying for the midnight at Burger King work stoppage.
I'm paying for all this, so are you? Yea, here's
another thing you're paying for. La is compulsively settling lawsuits
for for in total, hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
They've got They've got a city attorney called Heidi Feldstein
hyphen Soto or is it Heidi Soto Feldstein or is
it Soto Heidi Feldt. I don't know what it is.
She's just she's this thing, and she's signing off on
lawsuits left and right. In two thousand and six, two
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thousand and six, city at La paid thirty five million
dollars in liability claims. You know what, this year is
going to be minimum two hundred and eighty six million,
two one hundred and eighty six million dollars. That is
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at least seven times as much as it was twenty
years ago. And for what to settle lawsuits? We're bankrupt
and we're going bankrupt because Heidi Feldstein Soto is giving
away hundreds of millions of dollars to anybody who bitches
and complaints. I don't know what their problem is. I
guess they're tripping on sidewalks. Maybe a couple of criminals
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got beat a little too hard by the police. You know,
I didn't really care anymore about all this stuff. Two
hundred and eighty six million dollars. By the way, the
roads around my neighborhood are disastrous. My wife and I
were driving around this morning, and it was like being
on a rickety wooden roller coaster from the from the
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nineteen seventies. The roads are a disaster in Los Angeles.
They're not spending any money on paving the roads. But wow,
two hundred and eighty six million for every jackass who
files a lawsuit. Heidi Feldstein Soto is that her name,
he Soto Felstein. I don't know what order that name
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is in. I know there's hyphens and things. Just shoveling
our money out the door. You go to work, I
go to work, ends up in her office. She's got
her big money shovel and she opens the door, shovels
it out into the hallway, and there's just a line
of people with grievances and claims and fake injuries, and oh,
whate is me? Oh I suffered, Oh I fell? Oh,
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for God's sakes, what a culture we have here. There's
something called the Los Angeles City Claims Board. On May
the fifth, they had a meeting to settle eleven lawsuits.
Two weeks before that, they had a meeting to settle
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forty other lawsuits. Wait before that, in other sessions twenty
so right, there. It's seventy one lawsuits as of early
May seventy one. The money comes not from the city
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departments responsible for the liability costs. Well, it's like like
the Bureau of a Bureau of City Streets should be
responsible for the streets of the sidewalks. Somebody trips cuts
their knee, they got one hundred and seventy thousand dollars
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for that. Well, the money should come from the streets Bureau,
and it does it. It comes from the general fund.
Property taxes thirty five percent of that revenue, and then
it's also sales taxes, business utility, all kinds of taxes,
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and that's more than seventy percent of the income for
the general fund. And they and these lawsuit claims eat
up a huge amount and nobody's doing anything. First of all,
you could like solve whatever legitimate issues are behind these claims.
You could actually pay the road fix the sidewalks. You
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could do that and take it out of that department's budget.
In fact, take it out of the salary of the
people responsible. Imagine if the guy in charge of scheduling
sidewalk repair had to he zeroed out his paycheck for
a few weeks Betsy, he's got crews all over now,
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and they'll be fixing the sidewalks, and they'll skip over
their their poured break every day at lunch, or their
stripper party break in the after noon. Betcha they will
if the guy running the department got his paycheck vacuumed.
According to Kenneth Mahea, who's a socialist, is the LA
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City Controller. He said they're going to do an audit
of how the city manages their risk management. He says
liability payouts are a major reason that the city is
in a fiscal emergency. Behind each payout is an example
of the city government failing to serve and meet the
expectations of its constituents. It is just a total disaster
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inside the carried Bass administration, a total freaking disaster. Every department,
every facet in a Los Angeles government is a complete failure. Here.
They had a billion dollar deficit that they had to
fix most recently, and they're blowing out a quarter of
a billion dollars just on lawsuit settlements. It's on a
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more than five hundred percent in two decades, more than
five hundred percent your money. You know, I guess you know.
In La if you don't feel like work and just
walk outside, trip over a sidewalk, and there you go.
You're set for the next ten years.
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eighty six or usually talkback feature on the ihout I
Heart Radio app. So hard, so hard to do this
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job when you can't speak clearly. All right, So yesterday
Big rockets in Washington Trumps taking over the Metropolitan Police Department. Washington,
d C has had an extraordinary crime rate, and not
only the murder rate, but just at crime in general.
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It's kind of like Los Angeles. There's certain Los Angeles neighborhoods.
They got tons of holmeless people. They have roving gangs
and criminals, and they have a city council made up
of vegetables who have made it impossible to put any
of the violent criminals away for any length of time
if they happen to be teenagers, and which, by the way,
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is the only thing that at the moment Trump can't fix,
is these local laws or these state laws that allow
teenagers to even kill people without getting a serious sentence.
It's it's it's this idiocy and this insanity of city
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council members. It's happened in New York, it's happened in Chicago,
here in Los Angeles and Washington, d C. But let's
just focus on Washington, d C. Because there's always a
predictable arc to these stories. Trump comes on and says,
you know, Washington is a hellscape. Crime is through the roof,
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blah blah blah. He's going to take it over. And then, well,
you know, here's the response from the progressives, and the
news made it. Well, actually that's incorrect. Crime is actually
down on twenty seven percent, and even with start at
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the beginning. Crime exploded in Washington D C. In twenty twenty,
as it did in most of the big cities, and
in Washington they had four really really bad years from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty three. Finally got so bad
they had to give in. Eventually, people start getting so
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angry and so fed up that a government will go, okay, okay,
let's calm the peasants down here. Fine, we'll arrest some people.
You know, they think, they think in Washington, d C.
It's it's a small number of criminals that caused sixty
to seventy percent of the crimes. I remember. I remember
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seeing FBI statistics maybe twenty years ago, had had the
same proportion. They said that like six percent of the
criminals commit seventy percent of the of the offenses. There
is a select group of hardcore violent psychotics. If you
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just get rid of those people, the crime will fall
by seventy percent. And that's exactly the group that city
council's here in La in California and Washington, d C.
Should ye. They won't do that. They won't do that.
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They don't think the government has the right to put
anybody behind bars. They don't think there's any crime that
can be committed by a juvenile that should result in
long prison terms. So all these gangsters running the streets,
these goons, these thugs, these people who basically grew up
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without parents, they all band together on the streets. Some
of them are like twelve years old and they go
running around and they just randomly attack people like that
government employee. That kid who worked for Doge got all beaten,
bloodied up. They do this for sport at night. And
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you always get these these these jackasses in the media
and these jackasses public officials who start quoting statistics. I'll
tell you statistics. This stuff gets under reported. The Metropolitan
Police Department in Washington, d C. On July eighteenth, probably
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didn't hear this story, confirmed that a police commander named
Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in May
because Pulliam had filed a complaint against an assistant chief
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and accused them of deliberately falsifying crime data. The union
is claiming police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data
to make it up here that violent crime has fallen
considerably compared to last year. That you have a police
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commander who screws with the statistics, puts out false statistics,
and somebody ratted him out deliberately falsifying crime data he was.
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William Is, the former commander of the third District in Washington,
was placed on leave with pay, told he was under
investigation for questionable changes to crime data. Union officials said
there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics in Washington.
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The union chairman Greg Pemberton described what's done. When our
members respond to the scene of a felony offense where
there's a victim claiming a felony occurred, there inevitably will
be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up
and direct these members to take a report for a
lesser offense. So instead of taking a report for a
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shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they'll order that
the officer take a report for theft, or it's a
report for an injured person to take it to the hospital,
or an assault charge, which is not the same as
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the original felony that the criminals should be involved with.
All right, So I understand here they're talking about a
systemic issue in the Washington Police Department where lieutenants or
captains show up at the scene of a crime and
take over the investigation and decide to downgrade whatever happened.
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And somebody ratted them out, and that's why the crime
statistics are phoning because the police are under a lot
of pressure from the from the insane city Council to
lie about the crime rate, and so they do because
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what are they going to do? So they do. I
know this goes on in Los Angeles. It was a
story a few years back in the LA Times, same thing.
LAPD was manipulating the crime rate numbers. I mean, this
is the way business is conducted. Progressives cannot afford to
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admit that their policies are disastrous, so they need people
that they can fire to get on board and say, Okay,
well we'll screw it the statistics. And then they need,
like the Los Angeles Times to repeat the false statistics.
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That's how the game works. When we come back, let
me tell you part two. What's going on in Washington,
d C. About one of the loudest voices against Trump
right now, angry that he's taken over the police department,
is a guy named Treyon White who's facing federal bribery charges.
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And even after he got kicked off the city council
by other council members, the voters in his district put
him back in office. He's the guy shouting the loudest
about Trump.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Right now, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
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Speaker 1 (29:44):
There's a lot of squealing going on in Washington, d C.
And I wish so bad Trump would find an excuse
to declare an emergency here and take over the city
of Los Angeles. Just take over the government. I mean,
enough of this garbage, noth of the seventy thousand homeless people,
and enough with all the criminals. I just their way
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hasn't worked. It's a failure. Nobody seems to want to
force them out of office. So maybe we need an
outsider to bulldoze his way through LA because this is
just ridiculous that we have to live like this in Washington,
d C. Here's why he has to take over the
police department. The loudest critic of Trump over this is
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a guy named Treyon White. Treyon White was a councilman
and early this year, actually in twenty twenty four, he
was arrested charged with accepting or agreeing to accept one
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hundred and fifty six thousand dollars in bribes. One hundred
and fifty six thousand dollars in bribes. That happened in
August of twenty four and his trials scheduled for January
twenty twenty six. Now the city council booted him out.
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They voted to expel him in February, but he ran
in the special election in July. He was allowed to
run because he hadn't been convicted of the federal felony yet,
and he won. He won. The voters in his district
put him back in office, even though he's facing federal
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trial for taking one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars
in broads And it's just. And the thing is, you
may say, well, it's their district. You know, they got
the right to vote, but he's one of the votes
that has made it impossible to put teenage violent felons
in jail. You see, say his vote affects the entire city.
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His trial, he's pleading not guilty, even though there's video
of him stuffing envelopes filled with cash into his pockets.
But he'd fit in with the La City Council just
Greg wouldn't Heddy that's got actual video of him taking
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envelopes of cash, putting it in his pocket. He's claiming
that he's been unfairly targeted by the FBI. That was
his campaign in July and he won. He's claiming that
we don't need Trump. Washington's leaders are already responsible. A
federal takeover would cripple the city. If you saw the
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crime I'm not gonna waste a lot of time reading
a bunch of numbers on the radio. You saw the
crime numbers in Washington, d C. From twenty twenty to
twenty twenty three, your eyes would fall out. And yet
it's down so in twenty twenty four. But they're still really,
really high. And that's what makes me crazy about the
way news is reported in headlines. It's like crime is
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down in the last it's still extremely high. It's still
the fourth worst murder rate in the nation. Good lord,
Why is everyone so resistant to printing the truth and
putting in the proper context. All these cities need a
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federal takeover, they really do. I I heard somebody carrying
on about, Oh, Trump just wants a federal police force. Yeah,
I think so. I think a federal police force to
invade Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington. That'd be
a great start. Because if you're voting for a guy
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who's on video taking one hundred and fifty six thousand
dollars brides, you got to have your vote taken away.
I think start time to start disenfranchising people. All right,
we come back. We're going to talk with Sue Pasco.
She's a journalist out of Pacific Palisades. She's the editor
of Circling the News, which you can read online. Circling
(34:16):
the News. There was an LA County supervisor, Lindsay Horvath,
who did an interview on an LA Times podcast about
rebuilding Altadena in the Palisades after the fire. We'll talk
about that coming up with Sue Pasco, and in for
Debor Mark, we got Brigida Diagostino live in the KFI
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I Am six forty and Michael is here because there.
You probably didn't know this. There is a boycott going on.
There's a community stoppage started at midnight. It's by the
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immigrants rights organizations here in Los Angeles and they have
events planned throughout the day into the evening. And you
know what, I heard about it vaguely last week and
forgot about it and didn't notice it today.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, they announced it last week in the wake of
those immigration enforcement actions at the home Depot stores in Westlake,
Van Nys, San Bernardino. Just yesterday there was a home
Depot that was hit in North Hollywood. So they decided
that they needed to get back to the streets. We
haven't seen a lot of immigration enforcement. We haven't seen
a lot of protests since the court order narrowed the
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focus of what the federal immigration agents could could do.
And now it seems to be picking up again on
both sides of that.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And what was the point of this, I mean, this
is about as feeble a protest or just workstop. I
just have to say what work stopped exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, they've asked immigrant workers, maybe a varying legal status,
to not go to work today. And also they've called
for a twenty four hour boycott of some of the
larger businesses that serve folks here like home depot, Target, walmarts,
and fast food restaurants because their position is that these
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are organizations that benefit from immigrant labor, immigrant dollars, but
they're not speaking out in support of them. In fact,
the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights LA also known as
cheer LA, surely and Helica Salas the executive director, that
explains why they're in the streets today.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Those ice agents that want us to hide, that want
us to.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Hide away, we.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Are here because we're courageous people who are willing to
say for our families, fight for our city, and fight
for our nations. So thank you so much, our courageous community.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh, she's got to be a lot of fun at breakfast. WHOA, Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
They're not eating breakfast today, they're not going to those
restaurants today. They're on the boycott list, and so fast
food workers were supposed to not go.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
To work today.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
As of midnight, and then the boycott is supposed to
last for twenty four hours. She was speaking at a
rally at MacArthur Park, and this thing is supposed to
sneak its way through parts of the city all the
way into the evening. Any sense of how many people
didn't show up for work, No, not any numbers directly
related to who may or may not. We know some
people who have spoken to the media on the scene
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of these things have said that they did skip out
on work today. Now I don't know if they made
proper arrangements to do that or if they just went
on strike, but yeah, some people did.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I don't have any exact numbers on that. I
can't imagine there'd be. There's gonna be no effect from this.
This is not exactly gonna stop Trump and Holman here.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If the federal courts couldn't stop what appears to be
the exact type of enforcement that is that you can't
be doing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No, I don't think that this protest will either.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Jorge Mario Cabrera is a spokesperson for CHEERLA, and you're
gonna hear him explain a couple of things here.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They know better, They know that this is a very
peaceful activity, that this is within our rights to let
our officials know that there's a better way to enforce
our laws. In one way or another, they either have
not come out and spoken against these raids or they're
in a way complicitly participating in these actions.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That was a person or a robot.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That was a cheerless spokesperson Orgete Mario Cabrera. The first
part he's saying he doesn't expect immigration agents to show
up at these rallies today in spite of maybe some
abnormally large targets that they might incarcerate Barrow. And the
second was an explanation of why they are targeting these
large corporations. He's just saying that they are not speaking
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up on our behalf and because of that, we are
out here boycotting them.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, it's not really the political climate to do that.
You don't want to get into Trump's sites that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's really at the foundation of this entire argument. We
saw what's happened in Washington, D C.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
This week.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, President Trump didn't like what he was seeing with crime.
Regardless of what statistics have been presented to say, no,
crime is actually down in Washington, D C. And of
course there's some debate over the accuracy of those numbers,
but he did an unpresidented move and sent, you know,
federalized the DC police.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
We's had a whole lot of pushback from the mayor
or the police chief.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Because they're in a different situation than we are here
at Washington, d C is a federal district. They do
have some municipal control, but Congress can strip that away
whenever they want. The question is whether the executive can
do what he did. But yes, there was not as
much pushback from Mayor Muriel Bowser in Washington, d C.
As we saw here in Los Angeles when the National
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Guard was sent in. But because the president is willing
to do what he wants when he wants, I don't
know that any protests would do anything except antagonize them
further and invite further action.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. I don't know. I just find the whole thing
to be silly and it doesn't accomplish it. And you know,
if I was here legally, the last thing I'd be
doing is showing up at an immigration rally. Well that
I don't want to piss off my bosses either. It's
an interesting point. Yeah, you know this is where you
keep your head down and keep moving along and hope
for the.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Best, especially because if the immigration agents do agree at
some point that the court order has to be abided
by that we cannot just go up to people because
we assume they're legal immigrants because they're in place where
illegal immigrants tend to be. They're going to use better
intelligence for more targeted enforcement. I mean, that's clear. And
one way to do that is to find businesses that
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they suspect of hiring people without doing THEE verify appropriately
and then going in that way and making sure the restaurants,
the hotels and all of these businesses that probably do
hire illegal immigrants even if they don't know for sure,
they could be targeted and have these folks.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Not that you'd have the answer to this, but what
occurred to me just reading some analysis because the Trump
crowd put together a briefing to appeal to the Supreme
Court about well, and then that raid happened in the
Home Depot, right the Trojan Horse raid, and they arrested sixteen,
and I thought, well, how many of those sixteen were
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they wrong on? Were they sixteen for sixteen not hitting
illegal aliens? And it is it discrimination when you're right
on every single person you pick up, not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But what we know is the federal government will often
tell us after the fact, h three or four of
these folks or more, depending on how large the arrest
group is, had serious criminal records. Rapist, d multiple DUIs,
armed robberies, murderers, those sorts of things. In this case,
I believe they had six that had criminal records. But again,
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we don't know what the intelligence was, We don't know
what the impetus was right for that stop, and if
it was out of compliance with the court order, you
can bet that it will be used as evidence.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Six out of the sixteen had a criminal record. That's
a pretty good hit rate, that's more than twenty five percent. Yeah,
but did they haven't been picking up any citizens by
mistake or even Green cardholders by mistake, anybody with legal status.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
No, they have, at least that's been the argument from
some folks. You know, it's very difficult to determine the status,
especially because it's a sensitive topic that you know, you're
a liminitous.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I just figured if it was if there was an
American citizen picked up in one of these big races,
you have had claims of folks who say they've caught
our dad, they've caught our brother, they caught our son
and he has documentary that he is either a citizen
or is here lawfully. So it has happened, and that's
when they get released.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Usually ideal or no, that's right, they are supposed to
be released, but it does take take a court to
evaluate that. What you will see today with this community
stoppage that I know you're excited about, is they started
with this take Back our Park rally at MacArthur Park.
This was the scene take it I KNOWHOI which it
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would be cleaned up, but they go ahead, so they
started with their take back our Park. This has been
the scene of some strange immigration activity. We saw that
weird horseback display earlier in the summer that did not
involve any enforcement action, just a present a big showcase.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was a big show.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
They had their rally at ten o'clock and then they
have they have since marched down to the La County
Board of Supervisors meeting that's going on currently at five o'clock.
They're going to a rally at overa Street and to
El Pueblo and then they're going to march over to
the Federal detention center at six o'clock. They'll have a
vigil at seven fifteen, so they're going to be busy
all day. And there have been modest protests every day
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outside these detention centers. I don't know if you're aware
of the La Music Festival.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Well, I've heard of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
This is the code word on social media for the
immigration protests. Now it's I'm going to the La Music Festival. Oh,
I see, And that's that's that's their new slangognito not
so secret apparently. I mean it's out there online and
then you look at the video and that doesn't look
like a music festival to me.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Is there an La Music Festival? I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's not cool, you know, well, and I have to
go upstairs and ask the FMS.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But for us, no, I have no idea. That's why
they have down here in the base on the fourth floor,
the uncool people. All right, Michael, thank you for coming
on My Pleasures News. And uh, we we've got because
I'm just sitting down and getting everything together when we
come back. How about this the let me get this
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math right. The amount of money that the city of
La pays out in lawsuits has gone up eightfold. It
used to be thirty five million in six now it's
two hundred and eighty six million. This is people suing
the city of Los Angeles and getting these massive settlements.
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Tell you about it. We come back.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Just had Michael Monks on telling us about I who knew? Right?
Did you know what this was going on today? Is
a legal alien community work stoppage. That's that's what's supposed
to be going on. Those those those immigration groups that
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take our tax money, like Churla Churla thirty four million
dollars in tax money they got from the state. Good lord,
they were they're the ones who helped facilitate the riot.
They're back in action trying to get illegal aliens to
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not show up for work, and they're trying to organize
a boycott against home depot, target Walmart and fast food restaurants.
What the hell? How many how many illegal aliens are
actually going I mean, I haven't seen the video. I'd
be curious to see this. Maybe there's a lot. I
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don't know, but boy, if you're here illegally, and you
go to a demonstration that's rigged by an organization that's
taking American tax money to facilitate the protest. Boy, that's
that's gaul. That is really nerve.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
See, I'd be more ruthless than Trump at home, and
I would definitely have done a raid at the rally because,
like I was saying, when they did the Trojan Horse raid, right,
it was sixteen guys they got at home depot, I
bet you they were sixteen for sixteen there when it
comes to illegal aliens. So how's that stereotyping? How's that discrimination?
They were right? I don't know what methods they're using,
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but they're right on with them. They're correct. Why else
would you be there standing in the parking lot. Legal
citizens don't do that. Of course they don't do that.
It's a ridiculous way to run your life and earn
a living. Who would do that? So the I mean,
you go work for a real construction company. Certainly there's
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plenty of construction companies in action right now, especially on
the West Side. So I don't I don't I think
I'd be going up to these I'd be applying every
construction company in southern California right now because they've got
so much work that they've got to do. No need
to stand at a home depot near MacArthur Park of
all places. Jeez, and this is all like it's weird.
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A midnight fast food worker strike near MacArthur Park. Who
the hell is going out for a cheeseburger at MacArthur
Park at midnight? Why would you do that? That's a
good place to take the family. Yeah, kids, let's all
go to MacArthur Park. There's a Burger King. What kind
of a fast food strike? Is that? Who you're hurting?
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And then they have a coffee and breakfast at five am,
a take back our park coffee and break Honestly, are
these things really drawing a crowd that is feeble, that
is silly a week and I wouldn't care, except Charla
my tax money. I'm paying for the coffee and breakfast.
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I'm paying for the midnight at Burger King work stoppage.
I'm paying for all this, so are you? Yea, here's
another thing you're paying for. La is compulsively settling lawsuits
for for in total, hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
They've got They've got a city attorney called Heidi Feldstein
hyphen Soto or is it Heidi Soto Feldstein or is
it Soto Heidi Feldt. I don't know what it is.
She's just she's this thing, and she's signing off on
lawsuits left and right. In two thousand and six, two
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thousand and six, city at La paid thirty five million
dollars in liability claims. You know what, this year is
going to be minimum two hundred and eighty six million,
two one hundred and eighty six million dollars. That is
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at least seven times as much as it was twenty
years ago. And for what to settle lawsuits? We're bankrupt
and we're going bankrupt because Heidi Feldstein Soto is giving
away hundreds of millions of dollars to anybody who bitches
and complaints. I don't know what their problem is. I
guess they're tripping on sidewalks. Maybe a couple of criminals
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got beat a little too hard by the police. You know,
I didn't really care anymore about all this stuff. Two
hundred and eighty six million dollars. By the way, the
roads around my neighborhood are disastrous. My wife and I
were driving around this morning, and it was like being
on a rickety wooden roller coaster from the from the
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nineteen seventies. The roads are a disaster in Los Angeles.
They're not spending any money on paving the roads. But wow,
two hundred and eighty six million for every jackass who
files a lawsuit. Heidi Feldstein Soto is that her name,
he Soto Felstein. I don't know what order that name
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is in. I know there's hyphens and things. Just shoveling
our money out the door. You go to work, I
go to work, ends up in her office. She's got
her big money shovel and she opens the door, shovels
it out into the hallway, and there's just a line
of people with grievances and claims and fake injuries, and oh,
whate is me? Oh I suffered, Oh I fell? Oh,
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for God's sakes, what a culture we have here. There's
something called the Los Angeles City Claims Board. On May
the fifth, they had a meeting to settle eleven lawsuits.
Two weeks before that, they had a meeting to settle
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forty other lawsuits. Wait before that, in other sessions twenty
so right, there. It's seventy one lawsuits as of early
May seventy one. The money comes not from the city
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departments responsible for the liability costs. Well, it's like like
the Bureau of a Bureau of City Streets should be
responsible for the streets of the sidewalks. Somebody trips cuts
their knee, they got one hundred and seventy thousand dollars
(17:41):
for that. Well, the money should come from the streets Bureau,
and it does it. It comes from the general fund.
Property taxes thirty five percent of that revenue, and then
it's also sales taxes, business utility, all kinds of taxes,
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and that's more than seventy percent of the income for
the general fund. And they and these lawsuit claims eat
up a huge amount and nobody's doing anything. First of all,
you could like solve whatever legitimate issues are behind these claims.
You could actually pay the road fix the sidewalks. You
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could do that and take it out of that department's budget.
In fact, take it out of the salary of the
people responsible. Imagine if the guy in charge of scheduling
sidewalk repair had to he zeroed out his paycheck for
a few weeks Betsy, he's got crews all over now,
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and they'll be fixing the sidewalks, and they'll skip over
their their poured break every day at lunch, or their
stripper party break in the after noon. Betcha they will
if the guy running the department got his paycheck vacuumed.
According to Kenneth Mahea, who's a socialist, is the LA
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City Controller. He said they're going to do an audit
of how the city manages their risk management. He says
liability payouts are a major reason that the city is
in a fiscal emergency. Behind each payout is an example
of the city government failing to serve and meet the
expectations of its constituents. It is just a total disaster
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inside the carried Bass administration, a total freaking disaster. Every department,
every facet in a Los Angeles government is a complete failure. Here.
They had a billion dollar deficit that they had to
fix most recently, and they're blowing out a quarter of
a billion dollars just on lawsuit settlements. It's on a
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more than five hundred percent in two decades, more than
five hundred percent your money. You know, I guess you know.
In La if you don't feel like work and just
walk outside, trip over a sidewalk, and there you go.
You're set for the next ten years.
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eighty six or usually talkback feature on the ihout I
Heart Radio app. So hard, so hard to do this
(20:47):
job when you can't speak clearly. All right, So yesterday
Big rockets in Washington Trumps taking over the Metropolitan Police Department. Washington,
d C has had an extraordinary crime rate, and not
only the murder rate, but just at crime in general.
(21:09):
It's kind of like Los Angeles. There's certain Los Angeles neighborhoods.
They got tons of holmeless people. They have roving gangs
and criminals, and they have a city council made up
of vegetables who have made it impossible to put any
of the violent criminals away for any length of time
if they happen to be teenagers, and which, by the way,
(21:33):
is the only thing that at the moment Trump can't fix,
is these local laws or these state laws that allow
teenagers to even kill people without getting a serious sentence.
It's it's it's this idiocy and this insanity of city
(21:58):
council members. It's happened in New York, it's happened in Chicago,
here in Los Angeles and Washington, d C. But let's
just focus on Washington, d C. Because there's always a
predictable arc to these stories. Trump comes on and says,
you know, Washington is a hellscape. Crime is through the roof,
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blah blah blah. He's going to take it over. And then, well,
you know, here's the response from the progressives, and the
news made it. Well, actually that's incorrect. Crime is actually
down on twenty seven percent, and even with start at
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the beginning. Crime exploded in Washington D C. In twenty twenty,
as it did in most of the big cities, and
in Washington they had four really really bad years from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty three. Finally got so bad
they had to give in. Eventually, people start getting so
(23:01):
angry and so fed up that a government will go, okay, okay,
let's calm the peasants down here. Fine, we'll arrest some people.
You know, they think, they think in Washington, d C.
It's it's a small number of criminals that caused sixty
to seventy percent of the crimes. I remember. I remember
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seeing FBI statistics maybe twenty years ago, had had the
same proportion. They said that like six percent of the
criminals commit seventy percent of the of the offenses. There
is a select group of hardcore violent psychotics. If you
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just get rid of those people, the crime will fall
by seventy percent. And that's exactly the group that city
council's here in La in California and Washington, d C.
Should ye. They won't do that. They won't do that.
(24:07):
They don't think the government has the right to put
anybody behind bars. They don't think there's any crime that
can be committed by a juvenile that should result in
long prison terms. So all these gangsters running the streets,
these goons, these thugs, these people who basically grew up
(24:30):
without parents, they all band together on the streets. Some
of them are like twelve years old and they go
running around and they just randomly attack people like that
government employee. That kid who worked for Doge got all beaten,
bloodied up. They do this for sport at night. And
(24:56):
you always get these these these jackasses in the media
and these jackasses public officials who start quoting statistics. I'll
tell you statistics. This stuff gets under reported. The Metropolitan
Police Department in Washington, d C. On July eighteenth, probably
(25:17):
didn't hear this story, confirmed that a police commander named
Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in May
because Pulliam had filed a complaint against an assistant chief
(25:39):
and accused them of deliberately falsifying crime data. The union
is claiming police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data
to make it up here that violent crime has fallen
considerably compared to last year. That you have a police
(26:03):
commander who screws with the statistics, puts out false statistics,
and somebody ratted him out deliberately falsifying crime data he was.
(26:26):
William Is, the former commander of the third District in Washington,
was placed on leave with pay, told he was under
investigation for questionable changes to crime data. Union officials said
there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics in Washington.
(26:47):
The union chairman Greg Pemberton described what's done. When our
members respond to the scene of a felony offense where
there's a victim claiming a felony occurred, there inevitably will
be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up
and direct these members to take a report for a
lesser offense. So instead of taking a report for a
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shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they'll order that
the officer take a report for theft, or it's a
report for an injured person to take it to the hospital,
or an assault charge, which is not the same as
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the original felony that the criminals should be involved with.
All right, So I understand here they're talking about a
systemic issue in the Washington Police Department where lieutenants or
captains show up at the scene of a crime and
take over the investigation and decide to downgrade whatever happened.
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And somebody ratted them out, and that's why the crime
statistics are phoning because the police are under a lot
of pressure from the from the insane city Council to
lie about the crime rate, and so they do because
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what are they going to do? So they do. I
know this goes on in Los Angeles. It was a
story a few years back in the LA Times, same thing.
LAPD was manipulating the crime rate numbers. I mean, this
is the way business is conducted. Progressives cannot afford to
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admit that their policies are disastrous, so they need people
that they can fire to get on board and say, Okay,
well we'll screw it the statistics. And then they need,
like the Los Angeles Times to repeat the false statistics.
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That's how the game works. When we come back, let
me tell you part two. What's going on in Washington,
d C. About one of the loudest voices against Trump
right now, angry that he's taken over the police department,
is a guy named Treyon White who's facing federal bribery charges.
(29:22):
And even after he got kicked off the city council
by other council members, the voters in his district put
him back in office. He's the guy shouting the loudest
about Trump.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Right now, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
There's a lot of squealing going on in Washington, d C.
And I wish so bad Trump would find an excuse
to declare an emergency here and take over the city
of Los Angeles. Just take over the government. I mean,
enough of this garbage, noth of the seventy thousand homeless people,
and enough with all the criminals. I just their way
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hasn't worked. It's a failure. Nobody seems to want to
force them out of office. So maybe we need an
outsider to bulldoze his way through LA because this is
just ridiculous that we have to live like this in Washington,
d C. Here's why he has to take over the
police department. The loudest critic of Trump over this is
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a guy named Treyon White. Treyon White was a councilman
and early this year, actually in twenty twenty four, he
was arrested charged with accepting or agreeing to accept one
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hundred and fifty six thousand dollars in bribes. One hundred
and fifty six thousand dollars in bribes. That happened in
August of twenty four and his trials scheduled for January
twenty twenty six. Now the city council booted him out.
(31:13):
They voted to expel him in February, but he ran
in the special election in July. He was allowed to
run because he hadn't been convicted of the federal felony yet,
and he won. He won. The voters in his district
put him back in office, even though he's facing federal
(31:36):
trial for taking one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars
in broads And it's just. And the thing is, you
may say, well, it's their district. You know, they got
the right to vote, but he's one of the votes
that has made it impossible to put teenage violent felons
in jail. You see, say his vote affects the entire city.
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His trial, he's pleading not guilty, even though there's video
of him stuffing envelopes filled with cash into his pockets.
But he'd fit in with the La City Council just
Greg wouldn't Heddy that's got actual video of him taking
(32:25):
envelopes of cash, putting it in his pocket. He's claiming
that he's been unfairly targeted by the FBI. That was
his campaign in July and he won. He's claiming that
we don't need Trump. Washington's leaders are already responsible. A
federal takeover would cripple the city. If you saw the
(32:48):
crime I'm not gonna waste a lot of time reading
a bunch of numbers on the radio. You saw the
crime numbers in Washington, d C. From twenty twenty to
twenty twenty three, your eyes would fall out. And yet
it's down so in twenty twenty four. But they're still really,
really high. And that's what makes me crazy about the
way news is reported in headlines. It's like crime is
(33:09):
down in the last it's still extremely high. It's still
the fourth worst murder rate in the nation. Good lord,
Why is everyone so resistant to printing the truth and
putting in the proper context. All these cities need a
(33:32):
federal takeover, they really do. I I heard somebody carrying
on about, Oh, Trump just wants a federal police force. Yeah,
I think so. I think a federal police force to
invade Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington. That'd be
a great start. Because if you're voting for a guy
(33:53):
who's on video taking one hundred and fifty six thousand
dollars brides, you got to have your vote taken away.
I think start time to start disenfranchising people. All right,
we come back. We're going to talk with Sue Pasco.
She's a journalist out of Pacific Palisades. She's the editor
of Circling the News, which you can read online. Circling
(34:16):
the News. There was an LA County supervisor, Lindsay Horvath,
who did an interview on an LA Times podcast about
rebuilding Altadena in the Palisades after the fire. We'll talk
about that coming up with Sue Pasco, and in for
Debor Mark, we got Brigida Diagostino live in the KFI
(34:39):
twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
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