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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kooner Report
Weekend edition w RKO, the voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Trump says, bring back the funny farm because we can't
have people with serious mental illness just walking around. Is
he right? Should we be reopening this state insane asylums
six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
six one seven two sixty six sixty eight sixty eight.
This is Sandy shack In for Jeff Cooner. And yes, yes,
(00:32):
I told you Jeff would be back today. H And
he wanted me to relate to everybody his most sincere apologies,
and wanted me to tell you what was going on,
and that is that Jeff's bus accident that he had
in Croatia was worse than we thought, and he's getting
(00:54):
great medical care, absolutely top notch medical care. But it
looks like he he fractured a number of ribs in
the accident, and in order to keep him quiet so
he can heal, they've medicated the hell out of him.
So he is not in any condition to be before
a microphone. He is at home under the loving administrations
(01:17):
of doctor Grace and his family, and he is fast
on his way to recovery. But he wanted me to
give you his apologies and say if he could be
in front of the microphone, he would be, but it
would not be anybody's benefit to have an extremely medicated
Jeff Coooner on the air. So he will be fingers crossed,
(01:40):
and it looks like he's healing very quickly. He will
be back with us next Monday, So you have me
for the rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And I know I.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Am a poor substitution for Jeff Cooner, but I will
do my best for you. And thank you to everybody
who has sent in their kind wishes for his faster cover.
He I can't tell you how much he appreciates that.
He really truly does. He's very touched and thank you
to everybody. And I'm pretty sure it's the last time
(02:09):
he's going to be in a bust in Croatia. So
he'll be back on Monday. But until then, let's talk
about what's going on here.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And I want to.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Get back to the funny farms. President Trump was speaking
to Reagan Reese, who is a reporter for The Daily Caller,
and they were doing an interview regarding the success of
the crackdown on crime in Washington, d C. Which led
to a question about whether he would be open to
the government reopening insane asylums to institutionalize mentally ill individuals.
(02:45):
So there's no audio of this. It was a it
was a you know, a verbal it was a verbal
print interview. And so, but there is a transcript of
what he said, and this is the transcript when he
asked about reopening the insane asylums. Who said, yep, I would. Well,
they used to have them, and you never saw people
(03:06):
like we had. You know, they used to have them.
And what happened is states like New York and California
that had them. New York had a lot of them.
They released them all into society because they couldn't afford it.
You know, it's massively expensive. But we had they were
all over New York. I remember when I was growing up, Creedmore.
They had a place Creedmore. They had a lot of them,
Bellevue and they were closed by a certain governor.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And I remember when they did.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was a long time ago, and I said, they
didn't release these people, and they did. They released them
into society. And that's what you have. It's rough it's
a rough situation. And the reporter pressed President Trump on
how soon he might look into this option, and his
(03:49):
response was is at a big thing or people thinking
about it? And the reporter said yes, and he said,
because you can't have these people walking around and.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Asked what do you do with them?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And he said, well, they're dangerous, They're very dangerous, and
they can live to be, you know, eighty five years old.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So President Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is made these comments after he made good on another
campaign promise last month, and that's when he signed the
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets Executive Order, which
aimed to restore public order to cities and remove homeless
individuals from the streets by enforcing specific rules like no
(04:30):
urban camping, no urban squatting, no loitering. You know, there
was a bunch of rules like that, and according to
the White House report, the number of individuals living on
the streets in the US on a single night during
the last year of the Biden administration was over a
quarter million, the highest ever recorded, and according to the
(04:52):
White House, the overwhelming majority of those individuals were addicted
to drugs and had a mental health condition, or possibly
both of those situations were occurring. So this idea of
opening the insane asylums is really part and parcel of
(05:12):
his broader approach to combating crime, and you can't argue
with his success so far. DC is now close to
being a crime free zone. And that statement is according
to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, who said, a big thumbs
up to what's been happening in DC cut number nine, Please, Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
MPD has been able to do in this city. The
most significant thing that we are highlighting today is the
(06:03):
area of crime that was most troubling for us in
twenty twenty three. Now we have driven it down over
the last years. But for carjackings, the difference between this period,
this twenty day period of this federal surge and last
year represents a eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings in
(06:28):
Washington DC. We know that when carjackings go down, when
the use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery
go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer. So this
surge has been important to us.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So it has worked out really well for DC and
Mayor Bowser went even further yesterday when she issued an
executive order directing the Metropolitan Police Department to work and
cooperate with federal law enforcement indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It was in a.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Press release that released from her office. The press release says,
the Mayor's order continues the work of this Safe and
Beautiful Emergency Operations Center in managing the district's response to
the Safe and Beautiful Task Force, which was established by
President Trump. And she posted on X today, I issued
(07:24):
Mayor's Order twenty twenty five ninety to provide the pathway
forward beyond the presidential emergency. So she's not waiting for
Congress to say sure they can stay. She's saying I
want them to stay. So this has been a huge success.
So along with the crime push, the White House has
also enacted a zero tolerance homelessness plan. And this was
(07:47):
not a new out of the blue idea from President
Trump during his presidential campaign, the last one in twenty
twenty four, he posted a short video on the campaign
website specifically outlining a problem with crazy people on the street.
(08:09):
Cut fifty one, Please Mike.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Our once great cities have become unlivable, unsanitary nightmares surrendered
to the homeless, the drug addicted, and the violent and
dangerously deranged. We're making many suffer for the whims of
a deeply unwell few, and they are unwell. Indeed, the
(08:33):
homeless have no right to turn every park and sidewalk
into a place for them to squat and do drugs.
Americans should not have to step over piles of needles
and waste as they walk down a street a beautiful city,
or at least once beautiful city, because they've changed so
much over the last ten years. Our first consideration should
(08:57):
be the rights and safety of the hardworking law body
citizens who make our society function.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So that was the platform that he ran on, making
the streets one of them, making the streets safe again,
dealing with criminals, and dealing with the insane, the crazy
people that were wandering around ever since they closed the
State a Saint asylums many years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So that so his.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Plan when he when he was running for office included,
you know the band, the thing we've already seen on
the executive order, the banning of the urban camping and
returning people to mental institutions where they belong now. According
to his critics at the time, during the campaign, people
like NPR, you know, and Democrats and the left say
(09:44):
that the law and order approach has been tried and
it failed.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's what the naysayers were saying during President Trump's campaign.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Failed.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Really just you know, for the hell of it, let's
look back in the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
They were saying law and order failed. It has.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The National Guard failed to assist in law and order
in DC. You know, MPR was saying that can't work.
You know, that's not going to work. And now we
have the exact example that it did work.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It has worked in DC so much so that died
in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Democrat Mayor Bowser, a Trump hater, said yes, please, can
I have some more? I need you to stay. This
is great, this is working out well for us.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Does that give you.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
An added push to think, well, if he was right
about the crime and the National Guard helping with a crime,
maybe he's right about the insane asylums as well. Does
that make you more or less likely to support the
reopening of the insane asylums? And I'm going to make
that the pole question for today, which is sponsored by
(10:58):
Mario's Quality Roofing side windows. You can take it at
the Cooner Report on x or WRKOS slash Cooner and
the poll question is should we reopen state insane asylums?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You're locked into Boston's bulldozer, The Kooner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kooner Report
Weekend edition w RKO, the voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Trump says, bring back the funny farm because we can't
have people with serious mental illness just walking around. Is
he right? Should we be reopening this state insane asylums
six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
six one seven two sixty six sixty eight sixty eight.
This is Sandy shack In for Jeff Cooner. And yes, yes,
(00:32):
I told you Jeff would be back today. H And
he wanted me to relate to everybody his most sincere apologies,
and wanted me to tell you what was going on,
and that is that Jeff's bus accident that he had
in Croatia was worse than we thought, and he's getting
(00:54):
great medical care, absolutely top notch medical care. But it
looks like he he fractured a number of ribs in
the accident, and in order to keep him quiet so
he can heal, they've medicated the hell out of him.
So he is not in any condition to be before
a microphone. He is at home under the loving administrations
(01:17):
of doctor Grace and his family, and he is fast
on his way to recovery. But he wanted me to
give you his apologies and say if he could be
in front of the microphone, he would be, but it
would not be anybody's benefit to have an extremely medicated
Jeff Coooner on the air. So he will be fingers crossed,
(01:40):
and it looks like he's healing very quickly. He will
be back with us next Monday, So you have me
for the rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And I know I.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Am a poor substitution for Jeff Cooner, but I will
do my best for you. And thank you to everybody
who has sent in their kind wishes for his faster cover.
He I can't tell you how much he appreciates that.
He really truly does. He's very touched and thank you
to everybody. And I'm pretty sure it's the last time
(02:09):
he's going to be in a bust in Croatia. So
he'll be back on Monday. But until then, let's talk
about what's going on here.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And I want to.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Get back to the funny farms. President Trump was speaking
to Reagan Reese, who is a reporter for The Daily Caller,
and they were doing an interview regarding the success of
the crackdown on crime in Washington, d C. Which led
to a question about whether he would be open to
the government reopening insane asylums to institutionalize mentally ill individuals.
(02:45):
So there's no audio of this. It was a it
was a you know, a verbal it was a verbal
print interview. And so, but there is a transcript of
what he said, and this is the transcript when he
asked about reopening the insane asylums. Who said, yep, I would. Well,
they used to have them, and you never saw people
(03:06):
like we had. You know, they used to have them.
And what happened is states like New York and California
that had them. New York had a lot of them.
They released them all into society because they couldn't afford it.
You know, it's massively expensive. But we had they were
all over New York. I remember when I was growing up, Creedmore.
They had a place Creedmore. They had a lot of them,
Bellevue and they were closed by a certain governor.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And I remember when they did.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was a long time ago, and I said, they
didn't release these people, and they did. They released them
into society. And that's what you have. It's rough it's
a rough situation. And the reporter pressed President Trump on
how soon he might look into this option, and his
(03:49):
response was is at a big thing or people thinking
about it? And the reporter said yes, and he said,
because you can't have these people walking around and.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Asked what do you do with them?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And he said, well, they're dangerous, They're very dangerous, and
they can live to be, you know, eighty five years old.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So President Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is made these comments after he made good on another
campaign promise last month, and that's when he signed the
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets Executive Order, which
aimed to restore public order to cities and remove homeless
individuals from the streets by enforcing specific rules like no
(04:30):
urban camping, no urban squatting, no loitering. You know, there
was a bunch of rules like that, and according to
the White House report, the number of individuals living on
the streets in the US on a single night during
the last year of the Biden administration was over a
quarter million, the highest ever recorded, and according to the
(04:52):
White House, the overwhelming majority of those individuals were addicted
to drugs and had a mental health condition, or possibly
both of those situations were occurring. So this idea of
opening the insane asylums is really part and parcel of
(05:12):
his broader approach to combating crime, and you can't argue
with his success so far. DC is now close to
being a crime free zone. And that statement is according
to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, who said, a big thumbs
up to what's been happening in DC cut number nine, Please, Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
MPD has been able to do in this city. The
most significant thing that we are highlighting today is the
(06:03):
area of crime that was most troubling for us in
twenty twenty three. Now we have driven it down over
the last years. But for carjackings, the difference between this period,
this twenty day period of this federal surge and last
year represents a eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings in
(06:28):
Washington DC. We know that when carjackings go down, when
the use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery
go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer. So this
surge has been important to us.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So it has worked out really well for DC and
Mayor Bowser went even further yesterday when she issued an
executive order directing the Metropolitan Police Department to work and
cooperate with federal law enforcement indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It was in a.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Press release that released from her office. The press release says,
the Mayor's order continues the work of this Safe and
Beautiful Emergency Operations Center in managing the district's response to
the Safe and Beautiful Task Force, which was established by
President Trump. And she posted on X today, I issued
(07:24):
Mayor's Order twenty twenty five ninety to provide the pathway
forward beyond the presidential emergency. So she's not waiting for
Congress to say sure they can stay. She's saying I
want them to stay. So this has been a huge success.
So along with the crime push, the White House has
also enacted a zero tolerance homelessness plan. And this was
(07:47):
not a new out of the blue idea from President
Trump during his presidential campaign, the last one in twenty
twenty four, he posted a short video on the campaign
website specifically outlining a problem with crazy people on the street.
(08:09):
Cut fifty one, Please Mike.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Our once great cities have become unlivable, unsanitary nightmares surrendered
to the homeless, the drug addicted, and the violent and
dangerously deranged. We're making many suffer for the whims of
a deeply unwell few, and they are unwell. Indeed, the
(08:33):
homeless have no right to turn every park and sidewalk
into a place for them to squat and do drugs.
Americans should not have to step over piles of needles
and waste as they walk down a street a beautiful city,
or at least once beautiful city, because they've changed so
much over the last ten years. Our first consideration should
(08:57):
be the rights and safety of the hardworking law body
citizens who make our society function.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So that was the platform that he ran on, making
the streets one of them, making the streets safe again,
dealing with criminals, and dealing with the insane, the crazy
people that were wandering around ever since they closed the
State a Saint asylums many years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So that so his.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Plan when he when he was running for office included,
you know the band, the thing we've already seen on
the executive order, the banning of the urban camping and
returning people to mental institutions where they belong now. According
to his critics at the time, during the campaign, people
like NPR, you know, and Democrats and the left say
(09:44):
that the law and order approach has been tried and
it failed.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's what the naysayers were saying during President Trump's campaign.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Failed.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Really just you know, for the hell of it, let's
look back in the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
They were saying law and order failed. It has.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The National Guard failed to assist in law and order
in DC. You know, MPR was saying that can't work.
You know, that's not going to work. And now we
have the exact example that it did work.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It has worked in DC so much so that died
in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Democrat Mayor Bowser, a Trump hater, said yes, please, can
I have some more? I need you to stay. This
is great, this is working out well for us.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Does that give you.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
An added push to think, well, if he was right
about the crime and the National Guard helping with a crime,
maybe he's right about the insane asylums as well. Does
that make you more or less likely to support the
reopening of the insane asylums? And I'm going to make
that the pole question for today, which is sponsored by
(10:58):
Mario's Quality Roofing side windows. You can take it at
the Cooner Report on x or WRKOS slash Cooner and
the poll question is should we reopen state insane asylums?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You're locked into Boston's bulldozer, The Kooner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
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