June 26, 2024 • 33 mins
The homeless man who attacked three women in Santa Monica has been identified. 11 firefighters hurt in explosion after responding to a homeless encampment in the Sepulveda Basin.
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Okay, Now, yesterday, at this time we were telling you
about the three women who were attacked by a homeless guy,
some psycho vagrant and in Santa Monica on the beach
just a little bit north of the pier. And you know,
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now the beach has been invaded, by the way by
a lot of strange vagrants, a lot of dangerous, scary
people in Santa Monica. The city and the city council there,
the mayor, who have jurisdiction over the beach will not
do anything about it. So yesterday we almost had the
worst case scenario where one of these crazy vagrants attacked
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not one, not two, not it was three women, three
women in a matter of minutes. We played a clip
of one of the women describing what happened.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Today.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
KTLA Channel five has a report on who this guy
is and it turns out he's a sex offender, a
registered sex offender. He's on Californian's California's Megan's Law website
and we looked him up and he is there. His
name is jo Wan j A W A N and
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Joan interesting spelling. Dwayne Garnett listen to this report on
KTLA five Carlos Soceta.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He had a hold of my neck a couple times,
and I I've never seen somebody so devoid of humanity
in my life.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Jenna Wolker is being called a hero after she stepped
in to save a seventeen year old girl's life as
she was brutally attacked while lying on the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
And I heard her scream and I just pure instinct
ran over told the dude to get off of her.
He basically just ignored my existence till I got physical
with him. I pushed him off of her.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Jenna tackled a suspect to free the teen, but in return,
she became the focus of the man's vicious rage.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He did try to pull my pants to the side,
my boxers to the side, that kind of indicated it,
and him biting my ear almost clean off like he
he sung his teeth in.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Jenna was able to snap this picture of her attacker.
You can see part of his face and r He
has been identified by police as thirty one year old
Juwan Duayane Garnett. He is a registered sex offender with
a profile on the Megan's Law website. Once Jenna freed herself,
the assailant allegedly moved on to a third victim. Police
a Garnett then attempted to drown an elderly woman who
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was walking on the waterline. That's when lifeguards and police
took over.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Sixty to seventy percent of our arrests in any given
year are of homeless individuals. It's obviously something that we
deal with year in and year out. That's been consistent
for many years now.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Jenna is homeless herself and says the transient community often
has to rely on one another to stay safe. She
recalls seeing the suspect the night before asking around for drugs.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I do have a nice group of men who keep
me safe. And if it weren't for other kind homeless
people out here, other people like myself, I probably would
have been already in that predicament myself, which is why
I jump forward.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now police have beefed up security here a law the strand.
As for the suspect, he was booked on a multiple charges,
including attempted murder. You schedule to appear in court tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Wow, there's so much in there, some of which I
didn't expect. I had read the report, but there was
other items in there. So the woman one of the
victims who saved the first victim because she was in
the middle of getting a beating. She's homeless herself, and
she does drugs with a group of guys who normally
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offer her protection. And she sounds pretty tough and she
was able to go and rescue the first woman being attacked.
Then Jenna was the second woman being attacked, and she
got punched in the face and almost had her ear
bitten off. And then this guy, Juwan Dwayne Garnett went
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after a third woman and tried to drown her. Now
I just knew instinctively hmm that this guy must have
had a record, he must be up to no good.
And wouldn't you know it, he is on the Megan's
Law website and he's five foot six, one hundred and
sixty pounds, black hair, he is black. And the dis
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his offense it was assault with intent to commit a
specified sex offense. So what that is is not specified,
but it was enough, I guess to get him on
the on the Megan's Law website and there's a photo
of him, shirtless, bug eyed, crazy person and what was it?
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There was an officer there. Yeah, Santa Monica police officer says,
what two thirds of the people that they have to
arrest are are homeless people? Why, somebody explained to me,
why why does the Santa Monica mayor and city council
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allow this to go on? I asked this yesterday. I
gave out their names. I'm gonna do that again. I'm
really fascinated that they get up every morning and they
must know that the cops two thirds of the time
are dealing with homeless people, that there is a lot
of trouble on the streets of Santa Monica and at
the beaches, and why Why don't.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They stop it?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Why I don't I don't, I really don't get it.
The mayor is Phil Brock, and you should go to
the website. It's smgov dot net and it's the Santa
Monica City Council. Even if you're not in Santa Monica.
This really is fascinating. The other council people are the
Mayor pro tem, Lena Negrete and Gleam Davis. And she's
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supposed to be a piece of where Christine Para Jesse's
wick Caroline Torres, And they collectively have a city overrun
with violent criminal vagrants, drugged up staggering around. And here's
one guy going after three women at the same time.
Could have killed any of them or all of them.
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He's quite aggressive. He had he had tackled the first one,
he punched the second one, and almost bitter ear off
third one. He tried to drown. I don't know what
he was on. And he's a sex offender and is
I don't know what his what year his conviction was, well,
twenty twenty two. He got a risk assessment that twenty
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twenty two is the Gascon era. So did Gascon let
this guy out after a sex offense. And now he's
roaming the Santa Monica Beach taking on three women at once,
and I have the risk assessment here and his score
is three. Now I didn't have time, and I'm gonna
looked this up to in the commercial break. What does
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that mean? A three score for risk? Say, I don't
know if that's high or lower?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But he went after three three women on the beach,
all in one shot. And I can't find any reaction
from anybody in government to say that they're gonna authorize
the police to start arresting these guys and put them
putting them away. I mean, I am personally interested in
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this because my wife and I we walk and bike
ride on the beach and on that bike path through
that area all the time. When I looked at the video,
I recognized that whole stretch. It's just north of sainta
Monica Pier. So how does a guy like Jiwan Garnett,
Jiwan Dwayne Garnett, how's he left to be loose all
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over the beach?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I mean, these these.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Council members, they're getting this mayor, they're getting paid every day,
police are getting paid every day.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
This is exactly the kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Who ought to be locked up certainly ought to be
tossed off the beach, so he can't threaten three women
and danger three women. Talk more we come back. Let
me see, I'll find the risk assessment scale.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I mean, obviously a three I would assume would be
high given what he did allegendly.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, maybe it was too low. The risk assessment should
have been at the top of the chart.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Well, what I'm saying is if it's a three and
that's considered low, somebody totally screwed up because he allegedly
attacked all these people.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, it should.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Have been high, Right, it should have It should have
been yeah, because I mean, how can they do a
risk assessment if these people are taking crazy drugs, Right,
you get meth, you become very aggressive and violent. But
this risk assessment helps decide whether they're going to be
released or not from any kind of incarceration they're involved in. Right,
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we'll talk more about this when we come back.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
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Speaker 2 (10:09):
We are going through the risk assessment of a particular
sex offender named Jowan Duwayne Garnett, thirty one years old,
and he was the guy who attacked three different women
just north of Santa Monica Pier, just south of the
California Incline on the beach in Santa Monica, tried to
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drown one woman, was beating up a second. Then a
third woman intervened and got punched in the face herself
and almost had her ear bitten off.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And this is one guy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And I knew for sure this guy had a record,
and he does, but we only have a little piece
of it. And that's he's on the Megan's Law website
assault with intent to commit a specified sex offense. Now again,
why is he loose on the beach, homeless? Most likely
on drugs, sex offender? And he's he went after three
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women in a matter of minutes, So why why is
he out.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So on the Megan's Low website.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And they don't give you a lot of information, but
they have something called the static ninety nine are risk
assessment tool.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You're gonna love this.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Based on statistics, their age, how many years since they
were last convicted, they are given a risk assessment number.
And it doesn't seem to be based on their individual capability.
It's just been based on an overall group analysis. I
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don't know if that makes any sense, and if it doesn't,
I don't think it does make any sense going through
this for example, Well, you can have a risk assessment
score of minus three, three or minus two and you
are a very low risk minus one or zero below
average risk. If you're at one average risk, two three
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average risk, I don't know why they separate the categories.
Then four and five is above average. Then six through
tel twelve is well above average.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Well, what's just a plain an all three?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
A three is average risk? Now what is the average risk? Well,
eight percent chance that a sex offender based on his
background eight percent chance that he commits another.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Sex crime in eight.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Percent chance, that's what they think. If they put you
at level three, they say you have an eight percent chance.
That means out of twelve guys that they put at
level three, one of the twelve is going to do
something bad. If that's the spectrum they base the side
other guys in his group, based on his age, the
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offense he committed, how long it's been since the conviction, generally,
because they have some charts here, and this stuff is
hard to explain on the radio. But the older you
get and the longer it's been since you were last caught,
the less likely you are to commit another sex offense. Basically,
as your testosterone fades and you get older, you get
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less interested in doing this, you're less aggressive. I mean
to me, I would just get out the big razor
and do the quick chop.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right on site.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There, Like, if you have a score of ten, you
have a fifty three percent chance of.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Recidivism. Fifty three percent, Well, you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Be let out. But this implies that these people are
let out. How else would they come up with the
fifty three percent risk? This is crazy? How about Jess
lock them up in a sex offenders prison. Make it
easy here? I mean, this goes on and on with
numbers and charge.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Who does this?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I mean, who is in charge of the risk and
analyzing risks and all that?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
This is from the Megan's Law website and it's the
risk assessment instrument to predict the risk of violent reoffense.
It's used, it's scored by sex offender treatment professionals during
probation or parole, and he's used to guide decisions and
treatment and while the offender is on parole or probation.
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Now what is not explained here is when he was
arrested assault with intent to commit a specified sex offense.
What was the sex offense? What was the story? Is
it something that you and I hear it. We'd go,
oh my god, lock him up, but they go, oh,
he'll be okay, and we think he's rehabilitated.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
And did they know that he was going to be homeless?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wow, that's a good question, did think? I mean, this
guy must have been whacked out on drugs. You look
at his eyes from this mug shot. Hey shirtless here.
This might have been the mug shot from his old
offense because he was one of these hoodie characters on
the beach. The I mean, this looks like to me
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my instinct sexual statistical mumbo jumpo, just nonsense. And he
shouldn't have been let out.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't know if we'll ever get the name of
the officers or the sexual analysts who let this guy out,
but they ought to go to prison too.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
What do you got so yesterday? Is Ray Lopez, by
the way, Ray Lopez producer.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Yeah, and you were asking Santa Monica, Phil Brock, the mayor, Yeah,
how could they allow violent predators of roam to beaches
and attack women.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He heard that and he's coming on tomorrow. Oh he is.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Oh good, we'll see, we'll see three pm tomorrow. Phild Rock,
mayor of Santa Monica, answer the question right right.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I'd be happy to talk with him. He's been on
the show before, and I just I'm always upfront about this.
It's like, my wife and I go to Santa Monica
quite a bit because we live near it, and some
of their trouble spills over towards our neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Do you want to.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Borrow my stun gun next time you go?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, see, that's what it's gotten to, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean I did get my wife some mace to spray,
although it's more likely she'll.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Use it on me. But it's like, why do we
have to do this?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I mean, we've gone to that place in Santa Monica,
this area, you know, fifteen years since we moved in
that region. Why do we have to do this now?
Why do I have to have my head on a swivel.
We're always doing We're always doing risk assessment. We're going
on the beach and we're trying to figure out, Okay,
this guy's passed out.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
He looks half dead. He's not going to come after us.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Not to mention how expensive it is to live in
Santa Monica.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, well, the root problem is the people who live
inside those expensive homes. This is what they this is
what they vote for. This I don't this is what
they put up with. I don't know how they do
it or why they do it, but it's scary there.
And we went to the Santa Monica place to go
shopping on Saturday and it's it's zombie land out in
the streets. And it's clear memory. Five years ago, none
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of this was going on. I'd say twenty nineteen, pre COVID,
pre riots, pre lockdowns, twenty nineteen was like the last
good year in California. And well, we'll talk to Phil
Brock tomorrow. I mean, certainly everybody's been talking about how
terrible Santa Monica has has gotten all for, you know,
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for all these years, and nobody does anything about it,
and they could.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Beverly Hills is great.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Man, there's just stuff going on all over. We can't
keep up with it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We're going to talk with Richie Greenberg next hour, just
after two o'clock. Richie is heavily involved in politics in
San Francisco, but not in the traditional San Francisco way,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
He's a frequent critic.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
He's going to tell us everything he knows about the
Oakland mayor cheng foul, this kook. She's not only under recall,
her house got rated by the FBI some kind of
corruption investigation involving a waste recycling company that maybe was
laundering money that ended up in her campaign. There's not
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a whole lot of detail, but she got raided by
the FBI sort of the guy from the waste company.
Richie Greenberg is going to tell us more. She is
under a recall vote because Oakland has completely self destructive.
The crime is so high and so crazy, and what
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a horrible social experiment. This all has been.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
After three o'clock Rick Caruso, who should be mayor, but
not enough people were convinced they actually thought Karen bast
was going to do something about homelessness. Well, if you
thought that, you're very wrong. However, he is endorsing Nathan
Hackman for District Attorney. Hawkman up against George Gascone, and
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I would love to find out if Gascone had anything
to do with letting that sickoh out who attacked three
women on the Santa Monica beach. I mean, the date
on his last evaluation was twenty twenty two. I don't
know when he committed the crime. I don't know when
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he was let out of prison. I don't know if
he even went to prison. But if you go to
Megan's Law website, the guy's date of a risk assessment
is twenty twenty two, So Gascone must have had something
to do with that. I don't know how you're a
sex offender and you get to roam the beach and
you attack three women in a day. I don't know
how the city of Santa Monica allows this sort of thing.
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And all I can tell you is, you go to
Manhattan Beach, this is not going on. You go to
Beverly Hills, this is not going on. Go to Malibu,
this is not going on. Why is it going on
in Santa Monica? When are they going to stop it now?
I mentioned Karen bass is a failure at managing this
homeless crisis? Is this the worst story we talked about
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this yesterday, and like the Santa Monica beach story, I'm
waiting to find out more and we're not getting more,
and I don't know who to go to.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But you have eleven firefighters are hurt.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yesterday they went over to the pulvit of Basin Recreation
area West Burbank Boulevard and there's some homeless encampment that's
been there a while again and why Karen Bess didn't
have it removed. And the firefighters run there and things
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start exploding and one guy's one firefighter's ear was torn
off and had to be reattached. He had serious injuries.
Ten others had minor injuries. Well, two stories involving the homeless,
both involving ears. Guy in Santa Monica tried to bite
one woman's ear off. Here, this firefighter's ear was torn
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off and needed to be reattached because in the force
of the explosion, how can you have homeless people with
bombs grenades?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What did they have there?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
And you know, the union representing the firefighters there, The
union's pissed off and is criticizing the city's response to
the homelessness problem.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
They should be I heard we're trying to get the
union leader on because I heard that clip and Blake's
report earlier. So we've been trying to track the union
leader down. We've talked with him before, and I believe
maybe somebody could check on this. I think Blake said
that the fire department records one hundred and eighty two
calls a day from homeless people or calls involving homeless people.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Let me see if I can.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I mean, that sounds crazy, so maybe I misheard that,
but I was looking up other stories on the internet
in recent years, and it is a tremendous amount of
homeless calls or homeless involved calls. Not to sound like
a bureaucrat. The only person I see speaking out on
this it's Tracy Park Again. She's a councilwoman on the
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West Side, my councilwoman, and she said, the crisis of misguided,
ineffective policies is affecting our entire community, including our first responders.
That's why my motions to regulate our v encampments, enhance
protections around critical infrastructure, and keep encampments out of high
fire severity zones are so important. All right, let's go
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through all the violation that Karen pass allowed that encampment
to be at the Supulvita Basin. First of all, it's
a park and recreation area. It was near ball fields.
I know, I've been there too. It is fire season
and they've had fires that burn a lot of acreage
because the grasses go dry quickly once the heat starts.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
And this happens every year.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So why do you let a homeless encampment and they
start fires to cook? They have propane tanks. In fact,
when the fire department showed up and this is an encina,
they thought, oh, it must be a propane tank and
it wasn't. I don't know if they use a grill
with lighter fluid. They must use something. Off of these encampments.
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They steal electricity. There's a ball field there. Maybe they
plugged into the electricity for the ball field.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Again, try to get information, very difficult. But what was
it that exploded? If you had a cop going through there,
let's say once a day, and he sees these people
and says, no, you can't camp here. This is public
land and children play here and it's fire season. Take
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your tents and your propane tanks and your lighter fluid
and your grenades, your bombs.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I think at the bomb squad.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I have the president of the United Firefighters of La
Freddy Escobar. Do you want to hear?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, he's the guy. He's the guy we're trying to
He's the guy. So here here is what he has
to say.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
In twenty twenty three, the LAFD responded to more than
sixty six thousand emergency incidents related to the homeless population,
an average of one hundred and eighty two calls per day.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's it, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
All right, how does anybody who lifts and pay taxes
in La County? You have sixty six thousand homeless calls
going to the La Fire Department. This is just the city, right,
he's with the city, he's not in the county. Sixty
six one hundred and eighty to a day. Well, how
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nuts is that? And this has been going on for
years now and Karen Bass does nothing. You actually have
a mayor who said she declared a state of emergency
and she was going to be all over this. Well,
the first year of her emergency, there's sixty six thousand
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calls to the fire department over homeless issues, one hundred
and eighty to a day.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
The hell is going on now? You've got bombs.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Exploding in the faces of a fireman who are trying
to put out a fire at a park where kids
are supposed to be playing. I I mean, he's complete anarchy.
Last I heard, she was, you know, traveling homeless conference.
So is the mayor of Santa font Monica homeless conference? Yes, yes,
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Marabas is gonna speak at a mayor's conference in a
homelessness round tip.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
That's all they do instead.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Of going over to the camp and say, guys, party's over,
out of here, you're going you want mental health treatment?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
They should be.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Forced into mental health treatment. They should be forced into
drug treatment, forced into alcohol treatment, forced forced forced against
their will, or go to jail. Or we are putting
you on the homeless bus and we are driving you
to the desert. Take you out the slab city by
the Salton Sea. It's the only way, all right. Coming
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up after two o'clock, Richie Greenberg about the insanity up
up in Oakland, the mayor getting recalled and getting rated
by the FBI. After three o'clock, Rick Caruso, and he's
endorsing Nathan Hackman to replace George Gascon, so we hit
the war has many fronts to it.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app coming up after two o'clock.
Richie Greenberg. And he is the founder of the chess
Abodeine recall up in San Francisco and that was successful.
So he knows Bay Area politics and Bay Area recalls.
And right now the Oakland mayor Shang Thal, and she
is presiding over an absolute disaster of a city between
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all the violence that's going on, people getting murdered, and
lots of robberies, lots of theft going on, and a
corruption scandal. The FBI raided her house, something to do
with a recycling waste recycling company laundering money. She actually
went crazy yesterday at a press conference, started screaming for
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ten minutes, and after that her lawyer and one of
her top eight quick So I don't know they elected
a crazy person up in Oakland, but that seems to
be common. Now, pardon me a little bit of a
detour here. We were just talking about this incredible story
which is not getting even ten percent of the attention
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it should. That you had eleven firemen in Los Angeles
get injured, one of them very seriously. His ear got
torn off when when some things exploded while they were
going through a homeless encampment responding to a fired ensino
at the Subpulvita.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Basin, which is a park area.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And I'm looking for information because the union leader is
saying that LA Fire Department gets sixty six thousand calls
a year emergency calls from homeless people or about homeless people.
That's one hundred and eighty two a day. And that
number stuck in my head this morning. One hundred and
eighty two.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
What day?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So I'm gone on Google trying to find other stories
connected to this, and I found something, and this is
class This is actually from March. I missed it, and
I think that's part of the point here. The LA
Fire Department wanted in March to end a pilot program
that sends mental health workers to non emergency calls. This
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was a whole run since the George Floyd stuff. Right,
no more police, no more fire, send mental health people,
send ambassadors.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
They're unarmed.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And apparently after just a few months in March, they
filed a report that said forget this idea, it doesn't work.
The idea was a therapeutic van would be sent a
van with a psychiatric response team instead of fire department
paramedics to handle nine to one one calls involving patients
(29:56):
who were having non violent mental health crisis. They said
it sound in theory, but not in practice because the
workers lacked the training and were unqualified to perform medical
assessments or provide emergency medical services. They were from the
Department of Medical Department of Mental Health, so they sent
mental health professionals into these vans to show up when
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a crazy person is freaking out, except they didn't know
what to do. They didn't have the training, they couldn't
do any assessments, so there was no benefit to the
fire department. Last year, fewer than four patients a day
met the narrow criteria established for the therapy van to
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transport the crazy person out if you follow that, but
only four times a day did the patient meet the
criteria to be taken away by the therapy van, and
it cost four million dollars. They were to operate twenty
four hours a day, seven days a week, and this
is the thing. These things end up failing. And they
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hardly get any coverage, and only three months later, do
you know, we find out what's going on here. I
don't know if this story maybe was published on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm not sure. Maybe maybe I was off. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But you hear about these pilot programs and these new
cool ideas. We're gonna have the ambassadors, We're gonna have
therapists show up, mental health professionals, not police.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Not Now, you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You have to respect the the uh intelligence and expertise
and training of a police officer or a fireman or
a firefighter. You have to uh. They are not people
who work at desks. They don't fill out assessment forms.
They have to react and take control of a situation
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very quickly, in real time. There's no replacing that. There's
no ambassadors with shiny vests to fix this. What you
ought to do is stop allowing homeless people, by the
tens of thousands to create mayhem. How could you have
a city where sixty six thousand times the phone rings
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and a crazy person is having a problem, mentally ill,
drug addict sixty six thousand This is what our fire
department does all day. And you know they show up
at a real fire and andsino and what do you know,
homeless encampment, more crazy people and there's bombs going off.
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And the next day it's as if it ever happened.
That's the thing in this city with this media. The
next day it's as if it never happened. Oh, eleven
firefighters got hurt, homeless people had bombs.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, all the way.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Santa Monica Beach, three women got seriously attacked by a
crazy homeless person. No, it didn't have Oh, a sex
offender on Megan's Lawless, that was yesterday, it didn't happen. Well,
we're going to keep after these two stories because they happened.
And today alone, there's one hundred and eighty two other
stories being called into the fire department, just in La City,
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not the county, not Orange County or anywhere else, just
in the city. This is one hundred and eighty two
of these stories. Are we come back. Another insane asylum
is Oakland, and they got an Oakland mayor, sheng Tho,
who is under recall and also had her house rated
by the FBI.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Not a good week.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
We're gonna talk with Richie Greenberg. He was the founder
of the Chessabodeine recall, and he knows what's going on
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Okay, Now, yesterday, at this time we were telling you
about the three women who were attacked by a homeless guy,
some psycho vagrant and in Santa Monica on the beach
just a little bit north of the pier. And you know,
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now the beach has been invaded, by the way by
a lot of strange vagrants, a lot of dangerous, scary
people in Santa Monica. The city and the city council there,
the mayor, who have jurisdiction over the beach will not
do anything about it. So yesterday we almost had the
worst case scenario where one of these crazy vagrants attacked
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not one, not two, not it was three women, three
women in a matter of minutes. We played a clip
of one of the women describing what happened.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Today.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
KTLA Channel five has a report on who this guy
is and it turns out he's a sex offender, a
registered sex offender. He's on Californian's California's Megan's Law website
and we looked him up and he is there. His
name is jo Wan j A W A N and
(01:56):
Joan interesting spelling. Dwayne Garnett listen to this report on
KTLA five Carlos Soceta.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He had a hold of my neck a couple times,
and I I've never seen somebody so devoid of humanity
in my life.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Jenna Wolker is being called a hero after she stepped
in to save a seventeen year old girl's life as
she was brutally attacked while lying on the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
And I heard her scream and I just pure instinct
ran over told the dude to get off of her.
He basically just ignored my existence till I got physical
with him. I pushed him off of her.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Jenna tackled a suspect to free the teen, but in return,
she became the focus of the man's vicious rage.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He did try to pull my pants to the side,
my boxers to the side, that kind of indicated it,
and him biting my ear almost clean off like he
he sung his teeth in.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Jenna was able to snap this picture of her attacker.
You can see part of his face and r He
has been identified by police as thirty one year old
Juwan Duayane Garnett. He is a registered sex offender with
a profile on the Megan's Law website. Once Jenna freed herself,
the assailant allegedly moved on to a third victim. Police
a Garnett then attempted to drown an elderly woman who
(03:17):
was walking on the waterline. That's when lifeguards and police
took over.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Sixty to seventy percent of our arrests in any given
year are of homeless individuals. It's obviously something that we
deal with year in and year out. That's been consistent
for many years now.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Jenna is homeless herself and says the transient community often
has to rely on one another to stay safe. She
recalls seeing the suspect the night before asking around for drugs.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I do have a nice group of men who keep
me safe. And if it weren't for other kind homeless
people out here, other people like myself, I probably would
have been already in that predicament myself, which is why
I jump forward.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now police have beefed up security here a law the strand.
As for the suspect, he was booked on a multiple charges,
including attempted murder. You schedule to appear in court tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Wow, there's so much in there, some of which I
didn't expect. I had read the report, but there was
other items in there. So the woman one of the
victims who saved the first victim because she was in
the middle of getting a beating. She's homeless herself, and
she does drugs with a group of guys who normally
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offer her protection. And she sounds pretty tough and she
was able to go and rescue the first woman being attacked.
Then Jenna was the second woman being attacked, and she
got punched in the face and almost had her ear
bitten off. And then this guy, Juwan Dwayne Garnett went
(04:53):
after a third woman and tried to drown her. Now
I just knew instinctively hmm that this guy must have
had a record, he must be up to no good.
And wouldn't you know it, he is on the Megan's
Law website and he's five foot six, one hundred and
sixty pounds, black hair, he is black. And the dis
(05:20):
his offense it was assault with intent to commit a
specified sex offense. So what that is is not specified,
but it was enough, I guess to get him on
the on the Megan's Law website and there's a photo
of him, shirtless, bug eyed, crazy person and what was it?
(05:47):
There was an officer there. Yeah, Santa Monica police officer says,
what two thirds of the people that they have to
arrest are are homeless people? Why, somebody explained to me,
why why does the Santa Monica mayor and city council
(06:09):
allow this to go on? I asked this yesterday. I
gave out their names. I'm gonna do that again. I'm
really fascinated that they get up every morning and they
must know that the cops two thirds of the time
are dealing with homeless people, that there is a lot
of trouble on the streets of Santa Monica and at
the beaches, and why Why don't.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They stop it?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Why I don't I don't, I really don't get it.
The mayor is Phil Brock, and you should go to
the website. It's smgov dot net and it's the Santa
Monica City Council. Even if you're not in Santa Monica.
This really is fascinating. The other council people are the
Mayor pro tem, Lena Negrete and Gleam Davis. And she's
(06:55):
supposed to be a piece of where Christine Para Jesse's
wick Caroline Torres, And they collectively have a city overrun
with violent criminal vagrants, drugged up staggering around. And here's
one guy going after three women at the same time.
Could have killed any of them or all of them.
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He's quite aggressive. He had he had tackled the first one,
he punched the second one, and almost bitter ear off
third one. He tried to drown. I don't know what
he was on. And he's a sex offender and is
I don't know what his what year his conviction was, well,
twenty twenty two. He got a risk assessment that twenty
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twenty two is the Gascon era. So did Gascon let
this guy out after a sex offense. And now he's
roaming the Santa Monica Beach taking on three women at once,
and I have the risk assessment here and his score
is three. Now I didn't have time, and I'm gonna
looked this up to in the commercial break. What does
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that mean? A three score for risk? Say, I don't
know if that's high or lower?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But he went after three three women on the beach,
all in one shot. And I can't find any reaction
from anybody in government to say that they're gonna authorize
the police to start arresting these guys and put them
putting them away. I mean, I am personally interested in
(08:30):
this because my wife and I we walk and bike
ride on the beach and on that bike path through
that area all the time. When I looked at the video,
I recognized that whole stretch. It's just north of sainta
Monica Pier. So how does a guy like Jiwan Garnett,
Jiwan Dwayne Garnett, how's he left to be loose all
(08:54):
over the beach?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I mean, these these.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Council members, they're getting this mayor, they're getting paid every day,
police are getting paid every day.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
This is exactly the kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Who ought to be locked up certainly ought to be
tossed off the beach, so he can't threaten three women
and danger three women. Talk more we come back. Let
me see, I'll find the risk assessment scale.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I mean, obviously a three I would assume would be
high given what he did allegendly.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, maybe it was too low. The risk assessment should
have been at the top of the chart.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Well, what I'm saying is if it's a three and
that's considered low, somebody totally screwed up because he allegedly
attacked all these people.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, it should.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Have been high, Right, it should have It should have
been yeah, because I mean, how can they do a
risk assessment if these people are taking crazy drugs, Right,
you get meth, you become very aggressive and violent. But
this risk assessment helps decide whether they're going to be
released or not from any kind of incarceration they're involved in. Right,
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we'll talk more about this when we come back.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
We are going through the risk assessment of a particular
sex offender named Jowan Duwayne Garnett, thirty one years old,
and he was the guy who attacked three different women
just north of Santa Monica Pier, just south of the
California Incline on the beach in Santa Monica, tried to
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drown one woman, was beating up a second. Then a
third woman intervened and got punched in the face herself
and almost had her ear bitten off.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And this is one guy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And I knew for sure this guy had a record,
and he does, but we only have a little piece
of it. And that's he's on the Megan's Law website
assault with intent to commit a specified sex offense. Now again,
why is he loose on the beach, homeless? Most likely
on drugs, sex offender? And he's he went after three
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women in a matter of minutes, So why why is
he out.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So on the Megan's Low website.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And they don't give you a lot of information, but
they have something called the static ninety nine are risk
assessment tool.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You're gonna love this.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Based on statistics, their age, how many years since they
were last convicted, they are given a risk assessment number.
And it doesn't seem to be based on their individual capability.
It's just been based on an overall group analysis. I
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don't know if that makes any sense, and if it doesn't,
I don't think it does make any sense going through
this for example, Well, you can have a risk assessment
score of minus three, three or minus two and you
are a very low risk minus one or zero below
average risk. If you're at one average risk, two three
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average risk, I don't know why they separate the categories.
Then four and five is above average. Then six through
tel twelve is well above average.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Well, what's just a plain an all three?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
A three is average risk? Now what is the average risk? Well,
eight percent chance that a sex offender based on his
background eight percent chance that he commits another.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Sex crime in eight.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Percent chance, that's what they think. If they put you
at level three, they say you have an eight percent chance.
That means out of twelve guys that they put at
level three, one of the twelve is going to do
something bad. If that's the spectrum they base the side
other guys in his group, based on his age, the
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offense he committed, how long it's been since the conviction, generally,
because they have some charts here, and this stuff is
hard to explain on the radio. But the older you
get and the longer it's been since you were last caught,
the less likely you are to commit another sex offense. Basically,
as your testosterone fades and you get older, you get
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less interested in doing this, you're less aggressive. I mean
to me, I would just get out the big razor
and do the quick chop.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right on site.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There, Like, if you have a score of ten, you
have a fifty three percent chance of.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Recidivism. Fifty three percent, Well, you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Be let out. But this implies that these people are
let out. How else would they come up with the
fifty three percent risk? This is crazy? How about Jess
lock them up in a sex offenders prison. Make it
easy here? I mean, this goes on and on with
numbers and charge.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Who does this?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I mean, who is in charge of the risk and
analyzing risks and all that?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
This is from the Megan's Law website and it's the
risk assessment instrument to predict the risk of violent reoffense.
It's used, it's scored by sex offender treatment professionals during
probation or parole, and he's used to guide decisions and
treatment and while the offender is on parole or probation.
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Now what is not explained here is when he was
arrested assault with intent to commit a specified sex offense.
What was the sex offense? What was the story? Is
it something that you and I hear it. We'd go,
oh my god, lock him up, but they go, oh,
he'll be okay, and we think he's rehabilitated.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
And did they know that he was going to be homeless?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wow, that's a good question, did think? I mean, this
guy must have been whacked out on drugs. You look
at his eyes from this mug shot. Hey shirtless here.
This might have been the mug shot from his old
offense because he was one of these hoodie characters on
the beach. The I mean, this looks like to me
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my instinct sexual statistical mumbo jumpo, just nonsense. And he
shouldn't have been let out.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't know if we'll ever get the name of
the officers or the sexual analysts who let this guy out,
but they ought to go to prison too.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
What do you got so yesterday? Is Ray Lopez, by
the way, Ray Lopez producer.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Yeah, and you were asking Santa Monica, Phil Brock, the mayor, Yeah,
how could they allow violent predators of roam to beaches
and attack women.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He heard that and he's coming on tomorrow. Oh he is.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Oh good, we'll see, we'll see three pm tomorrow. Phild Rock,
mayor of Santa Monica, answer the question right right.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I'd be happy to talk with him. He's been on
the show before, and I just I'm always upfront about this.
It's like, my wife and I go to Santa Monica
quite a bit because we live near it, and some
of their trouble spills over towards our neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Do you want to.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Borrow my stun gun next time you go?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, see, that's what it's gotten to, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean I did get my wife some mace to spray,
although it's more likely she'll.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Use it on me. But it's like, why do we
have to do this?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I mean, we've gone to that place in Santa Monica,
this area, you know, fifteen years since we moved in
that region. Why do we have to do this now?
Why do I have to have my head on a swivel.
We're always doing We're always doing risk assessment. We're going
on the beach and we're trying to figure out, Okay,
this guy's passed out.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
He looks half dead. He's not going to come after us.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Not to mention how expensive it is to live in
Santa Monica.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, well, the root problem is the people who live
inside those expensive homes. This is what they this is
what they vote for. This I don't this is what
they put up with. I don't know how they do
it or why they do it, but it's scary there.
And we went to the Santa Monica place to go
shopping on Saturday and it's it's zombie land out in
the streets. And it's clear memory. Five years ago, none
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of this was going on. I'd say twenty nineteen, pre COVID,
pre riots, pre lockdowns, twenty nineteen was like the last
good year in California. And well, we'll talk to Phil
Brock tomorrow. I mean, certainly everybody's been talking about how
terrible Santa Monica has has gotten all for, you know,
(17:44):
for all these years, and nobody does anything about it,
and they could.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Beverly Hills is great.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Man, there's just stuff going on all over. We can't
keep up with it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We're going to talk with Richie Greenberg next hour, just
after two o'clock. Richie is heavily involved in politics in
San Francisco, but not in the traditional San Francisco way,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
He's a frequent critic.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
He's going to tell us everything he knows about the
Oakland mayor cheng foul, this kook. She's not only under recall,
her house got rated by the FBI some kind of
corruption investigation involving a waste recycling company that maybe was
laundering money that ended up in her campaign. There's not
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a whole lot of detail, but she got raided by
the FBI sort of the guy from the waste company.
Richie Greenberg is going to tell us more. She is
under a recall vote because Oakland has completely self destructive.
The crime is so high and so crazy, and what
(18:59):
a horrible social experiment. This all has been.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
After three o'clock Rick Caruso, who should be mayor, but
not enough people were convinced they actually thought Karen bast
was going to do something about homelessness. Well, if you
thought that, you're very wrong. However, he is endorsing Nathan
Hackman for District Attorney. Hawkman up against George Gascone, and
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I would love to find out if Gascone had anything
to do with letting that sickoh out who attacked three
women on the Santa Monica beach. I mean, the date
on his last evaluation was twenty twenty two. I don't
know when he committed the crime. I don't know when
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he was let out of prison. I don't know if
he even went to prison. But if you go to
Megan's Law website, the guy's date of a risk assessment
is twenty twenty two, So Gascone must have had something
to do with that. I don't know how you're a
sex offender and you get to roam the beach and
you attack three women in a day. I don't know
how the city of Santa Monica allows this sort of thing.
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And all I can tell you is, you go to
Manhattan Beach, this is not going on. You go to
Beverly Hills, this is not going on. Go to Malibu,
this is not going on. Why is it going on
in Santa Monica? When are they going to stop it now?
I mentioned Karen bass is a failure at managing this
homeless crisis? Is this the worst story we talked about
(20:32):
this yesterday, and like the Santa Monica beach story, I'm
waiting to find out more and we're not getting more,
and I don't know who to go to.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But you have eleven firefighters are hurt.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yesterday they went over to the pulvit of Basin Recreation
area West Burbank Boulevard and there's some homeless encampment that's
been there a while again and why Karen Bess didn't
have it removed. And the firefighters run there and things
(21:08):
start exploding and one guy's one firefighter's ear was torn
off and had to be reattached. He had serious injuries.
Ten others had minor injuries. Well, two stories involving the homeless,
both involving ears. Guy in Santa Monica tried to bite
one woman's ear off. Here, this firefighter's ear was torn
(21:32):
off and needed to be reattached because in the force
of the explosion, how can you have homeless people with
bombs grenades?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What did they have there?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
And you know, the union representing the firefighters there, The
union's pissed off and is criticizing the city's response to
the homelessness problem.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
They should be I heard we're trying to get the
union leader on because I heard that clip and Blake's
report earlier. So we've been trying to track the union
leader down. We've talked with him before, and I believe
maybe somebody could check on this. I think Blake said
that the fire department records one hundred and eighty two
calls a day from homeless people or calls involving homeless people.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Let me see if I can.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I mean, that sounds crazy, so maybe I misheard that,
but I was looking up other stories on the internet
in recent years, and it is a tremendous amount of
homeless calls or homeless involved calls. Not to sound like
a bureaucrat. The only person I see speaking out on
this it's Tracy Park Again. She's a councilwoman on the
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West Side, my councilwoman, and she said, the crisis of misguided,
ineffective policies is affecting our entire community, including our first responders.
That's why my motions to regulate our v encampments, enhance
protections around critical infrastructure, and keep encampments out of high
fire severity zones are so important. All right, let's go
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through all the violation that Karen pass allowed that encampment
to be at the Supulvita Basin. First of all, it's
a park and recreation area. It was near ball fields.
I know, I've been there too. It is fire season
and they've had fires that burn a lot of acreage
because the grasses go dry quickly once the heat starts.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
And this happens every year.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So why do you let a homeless encampment and they
start fires to cook? They have propane tanks. In fact,
when the fire department showed up and this is an encina,
they thought, oh, it must be a propane tank and
it wasn't. I don't know if they use a grill
with lighter fluid. They must use something. Off of these encampments.
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They steal electricity. There's a ball field there. Maybe they
plugged into the electricity for the ball field.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Again, try to get information, very difficult. But what was
it that exploded? If you had a cop going through there,
let's say once a day, and he sees these people
and says, no, you can't camp here. This is public
land and children play here and it's fire season. Take
(24:16):
your tents and your propane tanks and your lighter fluid
and your grenades, your bombs.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I think at the bomb squad.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I have the president of the United Firefighters of La
Freddy Escobar. Do you want to hear?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, he's the guy. He's the guy we're trying to
He's the guy. So here here is what he has
to say.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
In twenty twenty three, the LAFD responded to more than
sixty six thousand emergency incidents related to the homeless population,
an average of one hundred and eighty two calls per day.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's it, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
All right, how does anybody who lifts and pay taxes
in La County? You have sixty six thousand homeless calls
going to the La Fire Department. This is just the city, right,
he's with the city, he's not in the county. Sixty
six one hundred and eighty to a day. Well, how
(25:12):
nuts is that? And this has been going on for
years now and Karen Bass does nothing. You actually have
a mayor who said she declared a state of emergency
and she was going to be all over this. Well,
the first year of her emergency, there's sixty six thousand
(25:34):
calls to the fire department over homeless issues, one hundred
and eighty to a day.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
The hell is going on now? You've got bombs.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Exploding in the faces of a fireman who are trying
to put out a fire at a park where kids
are supposed to be playing. I I mean, he's complete anarchy.
Last I heard, she was, you know, traveling homeless conference.
So is the mayor of Santa font Monica homeless conference? Yes, yes,
(26:04):
Marabas is gonna speak at a mayor's conference in a
homelessness round tip.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
That's all they do instead.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Of going over to the camp and say, guys, party's over,
out of here, you're going you want mental health treatment?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
They should be.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Forced into mental health treatment. They should be forced into
drug treatment, forced into alcohol treatment, forced forced forced against
their will, or go to jail. Or we are putting
you on the homeless bus and we are driving you
to the desert. Take you out the slab city by
the Salton Sea. It's the only way, all right. Coming
(26:40):
up after two o'clock, Richie Greenberg about the insanity up
up in Oakland, the mayor getting recalled and getting rated
by the FBI. After three o'clock, Rick Caruso, and he's
endorsing Nathan Hackman to replace George Gascon, so we hit
the war has many fronts to it.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app coming up after two o'clock.
Richie Greenberg. And he is the founder of the chess
Abodeine recall up in San Francisco and that was successful.
So he knows Bay Area politics and Bay Area recalls.
And right now the Oakland mayor Shang Thal, and she
is presiding over an absolute disaster of a city between
(27:33):
all the violence that's going on, people getting murdered, and
lots of robberies, lots of theft going on, and a
corruption scandal. The FBI raided her house, something to do
with a recycling waste recycling company laundering money. She actually
went crazy yesterday at a press conference, started screaming for
(27:56):
ten minutes, and after that her lawyer and one of
her top eight quick So I don't know they elected
a crazy person up in Oakland, but that seems to
be common. Now, pardon me a little bit of a
detour here. We were just talking about this incredible story
which is not getting even ten percent of the attention
(28:18):
it should. That you had eleven firemen in Los Angeles
get injured, one of them very seriously. His ear got
torn off when when some things exploded while they were
going through a homeless encampment responding to a fired ensino
at the Subpulvita.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Basin, which is a park area.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And I'm looking for information because the union leader is
saying that LA Fire Department gets sixty six thousand calls
a year emergency calls from homeless people or about homeless people.
That's one hundred and eighty two a day. And that
number stuck in my head this morning. One hundred and
eighty two.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
What day?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So I'm gone on Google trying to find other stories
connected to this, and I found something, and this is
class This is actually from March. I missed it, and
I think that's part of the point here. The LA
Fire Department wanted in March to end a pilot program
that sends mental health workers to non emergency calls. This
(29:22):
was a whole run since the George Floyd stuff. Right,
no more police, no more fire, send mental health people,
send ambassadors.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
They're unarmed.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And apparently after just a few months in March, they
filed a report that said forget this idea, it doesn't work.
The idea was a therapeutic van would be sent a
van with a psychiatric response team instead of fire department
paramedics to handle nine to one one calls involving patients
(29:56):
who were having non violent mental health crisis. They said
it sound in theory, but not in practice because the
workers lacked the training and were unqualified to perform medical
assessments or provide emergency medical services. They were from the
Department of Medical Department of Mental Health, so they sent
mental health professionals into these vans to show up when
(30:19):
a crazy person is freaking out, except they didn't know
what to do. They didn't have the training, they couldn't
do any assessments, so there was no benefit to the
fire department. Last year, fewer than four patients a day
met the narrow criteria established for the therapy van to
(30:41):
transport the crazy person out if you follow that, but
only four times a day did the patient meet the
criteria to be taken away by the therapy van, and
it cost four million dollars. They were to operate twenty
four hours a day, seven days a week, and this
is the thing. These things end up failing. And they
(31:01):
hardly get any coverage, and only three months later, do
you know, we find out what's going on here. I
don't know if this story maybe was published on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm not sure. Maybe maybe I was off. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But you hear about these pilot programs and these new
cool ideas. We're gonna have the ambassadors, We're gonna have
therapists show up, mental health professionals, not police.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Not Now, you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You have to respect the the uh intelligence and expertise
and training of a police officer or a fireman or
a firefighter. You have to uh. They are not people
who work at desks. They don't fill out assessment forms.
They have to react and take control of a situation
(31:46):
very quickly, in real time. There's no replacing that. There's
no ambassadors with shiny vests to fix this. What you
ought to do is stop allowing homeless people, by the
tens of thousands to create mayhem. How could you have
a city where sixty six thousand times the phone rings
(32:07):
and a crazy person is having a problem, mentally ill,
drug addict sixty six thousand This is what our fire
department does all day. And you know they show up
at a real fire and andsino and what do you know,
homeless encampment, more crazy people and there's bombs going off.
(32:27):
And the next day it's as if it ever happened.
That's the thing in this city with this media. The
next day it's as if it never happened. Oh, eleven
firefighters got hurt, homeless people had bombs.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, all the way.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Santa Monica Beach, three women got seriously attacked by a
crazy homeless person. No, it didn't have Oh, a sex
offender on Megan's Lawless, that was yesterday, it didn't happen. Well,
we're going to keep after these two stories because they happened.
And today alone, there's one hundred and eighty two other
stories being called into the fire department, just in La City,
(33:02):
not the county, not Orange County or anywhere else, just
in the city. This is one hundred and eighty two
of these stories. Are we come back. Another insane asylum
is Oakland, and they got an Oakland mayor, sheng Tho,
who is under recall and also had her house rated
by the FBI.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Not a good week.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
We're gonna talk with Richie Greenberg. He was the founder
of the Chessabodeine recall, and he knows what's going on
in San Francisco. Deborah Mark Live CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
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