Vickie Paladino, New York City Council member Interview

Mendte in the Morning talks to Vickie Paladino about the Democratic policies of NYC and the issues with them.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to Vicki Palladino. New York City Council represents
District nineteen of Northeast Queens. She is the minority whip
in the City Council. And Vicky, I have so much
to talk to you about. I want to start off
with the push to get rid of this gang database

(00:21):
that the New York City Police Department uses. Why is
every democratic policy? It seems like every time they have
a push for law and order, it is pro criminal.
It's something that helps criminals and not helps the rest
of it. I don't understand how they keep getting re

(00:42):
elected with bail reform, sanctuary cities, and now this.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Good morning Larry. Yeah, it's wind bottling to say the least.
You know, it's a position that they take. I don't
understand why, and that's a very difficult thing to try
to blame. Since we had this hearing, and I want
to thank, you know, my officers that were there, my
chiefs that were there to listen to this bs that

(01:11):
they were throwing around. Let me be clear here, what
I learned at me at the meeting this past week
on Monday was that the database is only for adults.
You only stay in the gang database for three years
as an adult. Three years, so it's not this life
long you know, ads will you have to carry through

(01:34):
your life. However, if you commit a violent crimer felony
in any way, shape or form, and you do it
within those three years, they could arrest you, all right.
So what they did was the database they just purged. Okay, oh,
but three ninety two adults were removed, which left just

(01:58):
under six hundred and eighty two people on the gang database.
With juveniles, they're only on the gang database for two
years unless they commit some sort of violent crime. So
when you ask why, I wish I could answer that
question for you. They try to make it racially motivated.

(02:22):
And I guess in some cases you could say it's
not motivated by race. It just happens to be a
particular race at a particular time. But everybody, you know,
right now, there's a vital tool that they are going
to strip our police officers of. Once again, we lost
three thousand cops three thousand comps last year and they've

(02:47):
either retired or they left early. And do you know
that they are now giving the police tests instead of
once a year, Larry, once a month, ridiculous because we
cannot replenish our police force fast enough.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's unbelievable. It's done. But I get it. I understand
that you have a city council, not you, but you
have a city council which every time they talk about police,
it's anti cop. Every time they talk about crime, it's
pro criminal. I just don't understand this. I don't understand
it at all. But I'm glad you're there fighting the

(03:29):
good fight. Let's talk about congestion pricing if we can.
We thought it was going to go away. What's happened
all of a sudden. We're in limbo. Nothing's happening right now.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, it seems like the governor took a step with
two backs. It's her rampage last week, doesn't it. Yeah,
that's funny. Okay, So this will be her third step
back from congestion pricing. The first time was when she
yanked it, you know, because it was a political year
last year, and you know, she says we're going to

(04:04):
we're not going to put congestion pricing into place. Anybody
with half a brain knew she was lying, and half
a brain everybody knew that it was a political tactic.
Of hers, and of course she was all the apparatus
are in place, all they need to do. Literally Larry's
flipper switch and congestion pricing goes back. Then last week
it was all about the mayor and her power grab

(04:28):
and what she was going to do, and it was
war with Trump. I've never heard Hokal speak so so
furiously and with so much passion than she did last week.
And defend New Yorkers. You know she's going to defend us. Well,
she knows damn well, she's not defending anybody here in
New York City. I don't know what she does upstate

(04:48):
because she's got her prison guard, you know, her correction
officers on strike. She's got forty seven prison prisons that
she is going to have taken over by the National Guard.
She's got a that's so big of soup that's boiling
over it put out. So how pulling back on this
funny thing, she had to meet with President Trump. President

(05:10):
Trump met with her last week, as he did with
other governors, and she simmered down again. So sixty six billion,
which is the federal investment into New York City or
New York State, I should say, was going to be
pulled by Trump. All of a sudden, Kathy Hope, Wow,
she gets quiet. All of a sudden, Kathy gets quiet again.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
But the cameras are still on. But the cameras are
all still on. What are they going to go off?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
They they are still on. She's still at war. But
let's let's see what actually happens here. Because Trump is
going to move forward with everything that Trump has promised
to do. And when he said he's doing away with
congestion pricing, she could stomp her feet and shake her
head and point her finger all she wants congestion price.

(06:00):
He is gonna be gone. And that's it. And these
little temper tantrums that we're watching all these democrats throw
because they simply do not know what to do. I
find a lot of fun. So it's nice to be
on the winning side of things of common sense. All
about common sense, Larry.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, Except it sounds like that registry is going to
go away, the gang based registry. They still have some
power over those type of things, and that's that is
just so frustrating. You talk about the police officers all retiring,
you just point to things like this, This is why
they're retiring. This is why you have a police problem. Vicki,
it's always a pleasure to talk to you. Please, I'll

(06:41):
talk to you again next week. Vicky Palladino, New York
City Council, very much, Larry