December 14, 2025 • 33 mins
Michael finds a Powerball ticket on the ground (seriously!) - is it ethical to keep it?; Mayor Bass kicks off her reelection campaign as City Hall squabbles over giving more money to the LAPD.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
Knew So happy to be with you on this Saturday night,
A very busy Saturday night for news and some unfortunate
tragedies taking place in this country and overseas as well.
We'll start with what has happened in Syria. This is
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a serious situation that has involved a couple of our
service member. President Donald Trump says there will be serious
retaliation after two US service members and one American civilian
were killed in an attack in Syria. The US has
blamed this attack on the Islamic State, Trump says Sirius
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President was devastated, and Trump also stressed that Syria was
fighting alongside US troops here, so we're saying this was
not a Syrian government operation. This was an attack by terrorist. Now,
these two service members who were killed were members of
the National Guard out of Iowa, and that's according to
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the Associated Press, who spoke to a person who was
briefed on this situation but spoke only on the condition
of anonymity. US Central Command has said three service members
were also wounded in this ambush. Saturday by a loan
Islamic state member in Central Syria. Trump says that these
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three seemed to be doing pretty well. The US military
said that gunman was killed. Meanwhile, Stateside, we go to
Rhode Island, where there was an attack at an IVY
League campus in this country, and investigators are still searching
for a shooter who killed at least two people and
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wounded eight others at Brown University today. This was during
final exams on this IVY League campus. Officers are still
hunting through camp building, sifting through trash cans. And this
happened about three hours ago, so this I mean like
three hours after that shooting. They were still sifting around.
There was a report that came out that a suspect
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had been apprehended, but that was later recanted, so they
are still looking for someone. Police in Providence say this
suspect is a man who was just wearing dark clothing
and last scene leaving an engineering building in campus where
the shooting happened. The mayor in Providence says a shelter
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in place is an effect for that area, and people
living near the campus are encouraged to stay inside or
not return home until it is lifted, so we continue
to follow those stories and a lot of local stuff
as well, because it's just it's Saturdays can often be
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difficult when it comes to news gathering. We just talked
about what happened during the week, but this is one
of those rare Saturdays where a lot is going on,
including tragedy, and we will continue to follow that and
bring you any updates that happened to come across over
the course of the next couple of hours here at
KFI AM six forty. A lot of folks around the
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state and around the country are probably also talking about Powerball,
because this thing, for the fourteenth time, has reached a
jackpot of a billion dollars, and that is a significant sum.
It seems to be happening more routinely. It's the second
time it has happened this year. I know that we
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had a drawing just a few months ago. We were
here live on the air holding tickets hoping that we
might have the winning numbers, but we didn't. So I
know that Tiffany Hobbs, who preceded me here on KFI
had a lot to say about the power Ball, and
so did you who were listening, offering up what you
would do if you win this jackpot. I want to
offer a different perspective and get your feedback on this
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through the iHeartRadio app and that talk back button, because
I want to pose a bit of an ethical question,
a situation of real life, one that I experienced last Saturday. Now,
the jackpot just hit a billion last Saturday, it was
still significantly high, well into the hundreds of millions, so
we were thinking about getting some tickets. My family was
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in town. Mom aunt Nanny, and that's my grandmother. She
turned ninety and they came out from Kentucky to visit
me here in La Spouse, and I took them to
the Grove and it was a great beautiful day. The
grove is an iconic, you know, Los Angeles destination. We
were having a good time at Nanny wanted to ride
the trolley at the grove, very touristy, kind of a
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short thing, cute. I didn't need it, but Nanny was
here ninetieth birthday. We decided to get on this train,
all five of us, and we take it to the
other end of the grove where it stops and then
you disembark. But they give you the option if you
want to take it back to where you started. You
can get back on the train. Well, I mean I
didn't want to do that, but Nanny did. Nanny wanted
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to get back on the train and go back to
the other side of the grove. So the spouas and
my aunt went to get coffee, and my mom and
I were going to join Nanny on the train. As
we're stepping back up on the train at the grove,
I see something out of the corner of my eye
and my mother notices it too. I look at it,
We look at her. She looks down and she picks
it up. It's a lottery ticket. We take our seat
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on the train at the grove and we examine this ticket.
It is five quick Pick powerball lottery numbers for that
night's drawing. And what are you supposed to do? I mean,
immediately you think, God, this is something out of a movie, right,
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because obviously we are now holding the winning ticket. We
are leaving the grove with a lot more money than
we came here with because we found so someone else's
ticket on the ground for that night's drawing. What do
you do in that situation? We didn't want to cause
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a scene and like, hold it up. Because this ticket
was not signed, there was no way to prove whose
ticket this was. So we held on to it and
we talked and thought, well, let's you see what happens.
So what happened? What do you think happens? That night,
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we were back in downtown Los Angeles, sitting in Pershing
Square watching the skating rink that they've got going on
there for the holidays, and I pulled up the live
Powerball drawing on the phone and we're sitting there waiting
to confirm that we are clearly America's newest multi millionaires.
We found this magic ticket at the Grove Alas, as
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you now know, because the jackpot has only risen, we
did not win, but it was a very exciting day.
But we kicked around all of the possibilities of how
we should handle this. What will the lottery want to
know about this ticket? What type of effort should we
put in. I'll tell you what I concluded, and then
I want to hear from you. My conclusion was the
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lottery knows where this ticket was purchased, and if it
was a gas station or convenience store or some other
type of retailer, you have to assume they probably have
surveillance camera. They would be able to pinpoint the moment
that this ticket was sold in and probably at least
find an image of the person who bought it, verifying
that maybe they were also at the grove that day.
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They In other words, they would be able to find
the person whose ticket that was. But I don't know
what that means for us as the holder of the ticket.
Are we finders keepers situation? My feelings on this is
I would want the ticket purchaser to be found, but
I'd want something in return. I mean, that was a
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lot of money. So what do you think? What would
you do? Which you just hope for the best and
hope no questions are asked and you get all the money,
which you want to find the recipient of this ticket?
Would you expect to kick back? Open up the iHeartRadio app,
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click on that talkback button and let me know how
you feel. Will play some of your comments throughout the
next hour. A lot of information to get to Elie
Mayor Karen Bass officially kicked off her re election campaign
today in downtown Los Angeles. We'll talk about that. Meanwhile,
a city councilman in Los Angeles is possibly facing a hefty,
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hefty fine, and these two figures. Mayor Bass and Councilman
John Lee just played significant roles in a heated debate
at LA City Hall just yesterday about funding the La
Police Department. We'll get into that whole mess about how
the police department went forward with hires they were not
authorized or budgeted to make, and what happened yesterday in
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that conversation. As Michael Monks Reports continues, you're.
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Listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
A reminder if you want to weigh in on the
ethical question, I posed a real life experience from me
about the power ball after I found a ticket on
the ground at the grove. What are you do in
that situation? What's expected of you and what do you
want in return? If you do the right thing and
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track down the person who purchased it. Open up the
iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button and we'll get
to some of your comments momentarily. As this hour continues,
Elliemher Karen Bass is running for reelection. We knew that,
but her campaign, the re election campaign started today with
a rally in downtown Los Angeles. She has promised to
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make Los Angeles safer and more affordable, and she has
positioned herself as the candidate who will take on the
Trump administration. This is just a couple of days after
the third anniversary in which Bass was sworn in as
the Mayor of Los Angeles. So she kicked off her
campaign just today, surrounded by supporters at La Trade Technical
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College Culinary Arts event space, she says, quote, this is
just overwhelming. I have to tell you, my heart is
so full. This is so powerful and means so much
to me because this has been a hell of a year.
And ain't that the truth? When you think back to January,
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La Mayor Bass was representing the United States on what
I guess you could characterize as a diplomatic mission to
Ghana in Africa. There was a change in leadership in
that African country. President Biden, before he left office, asked
Mayor Bass to represent the US at that event, and
she did. And we all know what happened while she
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was in Africa. The Santa Ana wins blew in and
lit this place on fire, the Palisades fire, which happened
of course within the city of Los Angeles was absolutely devastating.
The neighborhood is gone, and she started to pay a
pretty significant price politically for that. A lot of questions
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about why would you go to Ghana when these forecasts
were ripe with danger before you left. In the aftermath
of that event, she has tried to position herself as
someone who is quote cutting red tape to make the
rebuilding process in the Palisades smoother. She fired LAFD chief
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Kristen Crowley because she did not like the response of
the fire department to that fire. But her political fortunes
really started to shift back in her favor. I would
say when the Trump administration ramped up its immigration enforcement
efforts here in southern California, because it's not a popular
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policy with most people here according to polling. And she
has stood with illegal immigrants and worked to find ways
to support illegal immigrants here along with LA County supervisors.
In the LA City Council, she has challenged and a
couple of times the city has been victorious in court
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against the Trump administration on issues related to immigration enforcement.
So now she has a foe. Of course, President Trump
is not wildly popular in Los Angeles County, This was
an area that former Vice President Kamala Harris won easily
in the twenty twenty four election. So this was a
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bit of a political gift. So you can't count out
Karen Bass in her re election campaign. It seemed a
little rocky for her earlier in the year because of
the situation, the tragedy and the devastation related to the
Palisades fire. You just can't count her out. She's running
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against former LA School Superintendent Austin Butner. He has stepped
in and he has been very active in his campaign.
He is trying to make the case against Karen Bass.
The elephant in the room and the candidate not in
the race, of course, is developer Rick Caruso, guy behind
the Grove Sorts of developments. His entering of the race
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could make it a three way competitive, very seriously competitive
race that might not be decided in the primary, which
is not far off. Mayor Bass today touted what she
called her accomplishment, namely this executive order She put out
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that the City Council has since codified into law that
would permanently streamline affordable housing projects. She cited two year
reductions in street homelessness, saying that her signature program Inside
Safe is deserving of a lot of credit for that,
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but she will be able to be hit politically on
the cost of that program and the fact that the
data about homeless population is collected by an organization called
the La Homeless Services Authority, which has been not just
criticized on KFIAM six forty or in the halls of
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city Hall or LA County's building. It's been in court
that this is not a forthcoming agency and that's why
the county has decided to leave it entire in the
City of Los Angeles is trying to figure out what
it's going to do now. This was an organization, an
agency that was co governed by the county and the
city and now appears to be in a permanent transition
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or obsolescence. The mayor says that the city has reduced
crime as well. We'll talk more about that coming up,
because she has been very pro LAPD in recent months,
especially in the context of the arrival of the Olympic
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Games in twenty twenty eight and the World Cup next year.
The LAPD contends it needs many more officers. Mayor supports
that idea, and that became a fight at City Hall
just yesterday. That's next. But first, one of the guys
you'll hear from in that debate was City Councilman John Lee,
who also supports the mayor's position on funding the Los
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Angeles Police Department. But it has been determined that he
repeatedly violated the city's gift laws back in twenty sixteen
and twenty seventeen by accepting free items while away in
Las Vegas, as well as at multiple restaurants in LA
This is from a judge. Administrative law Judge g lan
Zeng issued this fifty nine page proposed decision that will
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ultimately be reviewed by the city's Ethics Commission. It concluded
that Lee committed two counts of violating a law governing
the size of gifts a city official can receive, and
three counts of violating a law requiring that such gifts
be publicly disclosed. That's according to reporting from The La Times.
John Lee is from the San Fernando Valley. He replaced
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council member Mitch Englander. John Lee was chief of staff
to Councilman Englander. Englander ended up being accused by federal
prosecutors of accepting fifteen thousand dollars in cash from a
businessman lying to the FBI obstructing their investigation into that
Vegas trip, and ultimately pleaded guilty to a single count
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of providing false information to the FBI, and he was
sentenced to fourteen months in prison. Now here's what will happen.
The five member LA City Ethics Commission will make it
a termination next week, deciding both the number of violations
Lee committed in any financial penalties, It could be in
the tens of thousands of dollars. But we'll hear from
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Councilman Lee next in the context of why LA should
have more police officers, why did the LAPD move to
higher officers they were not authorized or budgeted to hire,
and what happened at city Hall yesterday as the city
council split over this issue. That's next. As Michael Monks
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Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KA News.
This was a crazy day yesterday at Los Angeles City Hall,
and it's the culmination of a series of crazy events
that I really as the guy who pays attention to
your local government. On behalf of KFI AM six forty
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and all of you who listen. It's shocking at how
poorly governed everything is. I'm not trying to take a
shot at any particular politician, but it just seems that
the flow of things is off. I've often said to
folks here behind the scenes that La just seems ungovernable.
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Everyone goes rogue, everyone lives in their silos. The various
parts of Los Angeles are so very different from each other,
with all of these different needs. It's a sprawling, large
city with different types of populations living on different types
of topographies, and there are four million people into it
all across, and whether it's homelessness or wildfires or city
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budget issues, there doesn't seem to be the focus necessary
to address any of those situations comprehensively. And this issue
that we are about to talk about is prime example.
Number One. You heard us talk in the past few
days if you listened during the week about the LAPD
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saying it needs more than four million dollars immediately or
it will not be hiring a January recruiting class. But
the thing is they weren't authorized to do that to
begin with. Before we get into the city Hall stuff
from yesterday. I want to take you back to a
conversation from just a few months ago when the LAPD
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showed up at a city council budget committee and shocked
its members.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The budget assumed hiring two forty. We are the hiring
plan assume as we would hire four ten through the end.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Hang on. That is a representative from the LAPD telling
the members of the budget committee that, yes, the budget
you approved was for us to hire two hundred and
fifty new officers, but we're hiring four hundred and ten.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
But that's not what was approved in the budget.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's Councilwoman Katie Rslavsky. That's correct.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The budget assumed hiring two forty.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
So we know because we adopted it and it was
voted on by the council and signed by the mayor
that the twenty five to twenty six adopted budget authorized
two hundred and forty police officers, with the potential of
hiring up to four hundred and eighty officers contingent upon
available funding. I'm wondering what funding sources have been identified
to support hiring additional officers.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
So that was months ago, and the answer to Councilwoman
Yaroslovsky's question is none, even as of yesterday. What happened
when the budget was being crafted and it had a
billion dollar deficit and sixteen hundred city employed, including hundreds
in LAPED, we're facing layoffs. The mayor made a compromise
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with the members of council, apparently something that Councilman Yarslovsky
says she learned about in a press release, that the
mayor would work with council leadership like Council President Marquise
Harris Dawson, to find the funding for those additional officers.
Go ahead and say just two fifty for now, but
we will find the funding somewhere for four hundred and ten.
That never happened. The LAPED moved to do it anyway.
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Here's more from that budget committee meeting from just a
few months ago. I think the simple question is what
money is it?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And if it hasn't been identified, who.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Are we firing. That's Councilman Tim Ocoscar that is currently
on payroll to.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Cover this, And at what point are we going to
be real about what is happening? And at what point
does the chair of Personnel tell the Director of the
personnel department to stop hiring new officers or start firing
other people.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
So my office has not identified additional funds for that purpose.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
City Administrator Matt Zabo.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
As of today, as of thet the report in front
of you, of course, projects significant overspending and still with
identified solutions, a gap of eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Still, even as they try to figure out how to
pay for it, there's still a significant gap. The city
is broke, it's only getting worse. The city's financial outlook
is only getting worse. They've made it worse by voting
to completely renovate and expand the downtown Convention Center. That's
going to cost them likely eighty million dollars, possibly two
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hundred million dollars or more every year for the next
thirty years. That was money that wasn't even needed in
the last budget, and it was very difficult to get
the last budget, and now they've just made it more
difficult on themselves. Meanwhile, departments are just allocating themselves millions
of dollars without permission. So what happened since the LAPD
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has again, let me just be clear, whether the LAPD
needs these officers. I think they've made the case I
think if you're a resident of Los Angeles, you understand
that the question is, I mean, do we follow procedures
or not. Mayor Bass put out a letter on Wednesday
late Wednesday to the City Council saying public safety is
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the most important service that the City of Los Angeles
can provide, and she urged the City Council to prioritize
the safety of Angelinos and allocate four point four million
dollars for the LAPD to hire four hundred and ten
officers for this fiscal year. Later that afternoon, LAPD Chief
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Jim McDonnell had a news conference.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
And without an immediate allocation of four point four million dollars,
will be forced to halt new hiring in January of
twenty twenty six. So we'd have to stop the hiring
of new officers. This is not just a budget issue,
it's a public safety crisis.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
This in action will mean the following.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
No new recruits will enter the academy in January. And
for background, we run an academy. We start begin a
new one each month. It's a six month academy, and
then we graduate them and they go into the field.
From that point, fewer officer officers will mean longer shifts,
increased over time, and a greater strain on all of
our personnel. LAPD's staffing will drop to eighty three hundred officers,
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our lowest level in three decades.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Okay, it sounds like a serious issue. They want to
hire these officers, but they have not been budgeted for.
So now the City Council has to rush to get
this item on the agenda because meeting Friday is the
the last one that scheduled for this month, which means
for the rest of the year. So they've got to
figure out whether they're going to put four point four
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million dollars into the LAPD to cover all of these
additional recruits that were not paid for. Councilwoman Yarreslavsky, again
chairperson of the City Council Budget Committee, spoke on the
floor and offered an alternative situation.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
What concerns me is the framing that unless we decide
everything today, responsible hiring becomes impossible, or that it's somehow
the fault of this council for not acting, and that
is false. What this false urgency seeks to do is
force this body into a rush budget decision without analysis
or consensus. We cannot keep doing this. This is no
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way to run a city. We're here having this conversation
today because the required work didn't happen sooner, and we're
stuck holding the bag.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Councilman John Lee spoke in favor of giving the LAPD
the entire amount.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Bass through Executive Director
of fourteen, the city has modern guys and streamlined LAPD
recruitment to improve processing times and strengthened outreach. It has
finally given us a solid foundation for hiring, and we
cannot afford to go backwards. I don't care what anyone
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says here, this does affect more having more police officers
on our streets. I respectfully urge your yes vote on
my amendment and know on council Member Orsovsky's so we
can continue rebuilding the ranks and delivering the level of
service that I believe our Angelinos expect and deserve.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Ultimately, Councilman Yaroslavsky prevailed. The LAPEDD didn't leave empty handed,
but they didn't get everything they wanted. Basically, the city
Council proved one million dollars to allow for January and
February recruiting classes. But they've also directed the LAPD and
the city administrator to come back in January and figure
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out how to pay for the rest. And you know
that we'll continue to follow it up. Next, what do
you do if you found a powerball ticket on the
ground like I did. That's next on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI
News finishing things up this eight o'clock hour. When you
think where we are in this year, December thirteenth, does
the year feel like it went by quickly? It's almost
one year since those tragic events here in Southern California
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in early January.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Running from fire, entire neighborhoods and lives lost. Winter turned
to some in Southern California in twenty twenty five, only
seven days into the new year, what is normally Southern
California's rainy season erupted into fire. Incredible ninety mile per
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hour Santa Ana winds and a lack of brain fuel
of fire.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Storm, I think the whole town is going to go.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Two of the most destructive fires broke out nearly simultaneously
in different areas of southern California, they would tax resources.
The Palisades Fire near Malibu and the Eton Fire near
the community of Altadena.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Our hearts are breaking for you and we stand with you.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
The angry flames when racing through heavily populated areas, residents
struggled to get out, some could not. At least thirty
one people died in the flames. Over sixteen thousand buildings
were wiped out.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
It was in Gulf of Flames.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
It was so much scary, like Stone ab Sinews, Los Angeles,
and we hear at KFI are working on a one
year retrospective on those fires that you'll hear early next year.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, it is almost time for that one billion dollar
powerball drawing. I guess it's right around eight o'clock our
time when that happens. I mentioned at the top of
the show that I had a bit of an ethical
dilemma a week ago. It ultimately didn't matter because we
didn't win. Obviously, the jackpot has only grown at a
very interesting situation. While my family was visiting from Kentucky.
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We were at the grove last Saturday and found a
powerball ticket on the little trolley at the grove and
didn't really know what to do about it. We kept it,
we took it home and we watched the drawing, thinking,
oh wow, this is this is cinematic, right, this is Hollywood.
We find the ticket on the ground, we're clearly winning.
And then whose ticket was this? Will the lottery know?
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Will they want to know? Do we want to know?
I concluded, yes, I want to know. I want to
know who's too purchased that ticket, and I want to
make sure that they get the ticket. And then I
also want to make sure that they get me a
significant chunk of those weddings. That's where I was. I asked,
where would you be? And so some of you did
open up that iHeartRadio app and click on that talkback
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button and shared your thoughts. Let's hear from Randy Hey,
Michael enjoying the show as always.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
And uh, I think the answer to your question for
the lottery has already been decided. Wasn't it earlier this
year or was it last year? When the one point
five billion dollar the guy was claiming the ticket was stolen.
There was a dispute and it went to the ticket
holder it went to the person that was actually holding
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the ticket, and it was a kind of a family feud,
if I remember it, that was an uncle that it
claimed that the nephew.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
See, I think that might. I didn't get you off there.
The app gives you just thirty seconds, Randy, so it
stops recording after a while. But you know this, this
isn't even a family dispute over who had the ticket.
It's similar. I suppose a stranger to me purchased this
ticket and it fell out of their pocket or their
purse or something, and it landed on the trolley at
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the grove and we picked it up. So I mean,
it's kind of a finder's keeper's thing maybe, but there
may be some rules that the lottery would have to enforce.
My assumption is that they know where this lottery ticket
was purchased, and I bet, through surveillance cameras, we'd be
able to pinpoint at least an image of who made
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the purchase, and then we'd be able to find them.
And I would have felt bad if we didn't at
least make that effort. Let's hear from Jay, all right.
Speaker 11 (31:34):
Yeah, I don't know it was an ethical question. I
don't even know the legality on that law. But look,
whichever the way the wind blows, it blew your way
that day to maybe just pick up your happiness for
thinking about that for a hot.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Minute finding that lottery ticket.
Speaker 11 (31:52):
Yeah, and then the mode you were in. But anyways,
that's totally finders keepers to me, you know, especially at
the grove.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
All right, thank you, Jay Preston. I and my family
was the same way. They were like, this is ours,
this is absolutely ours. We had to call my dad
back in Kentucky wasn't out here. We're like, what do you?
What do we do? It is like finders keepers, finders keepers?
All right, let's hear from Dirk.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, two options with that power ball ticket. You can
either toss it in the trash and continue to live
down there at skid Row, or you can put it
in your wallet and possibly move down here to Orange County.
Every good night.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
What a great night that would be. Indeed, Dirk, thank you.
I live in the Fashion district, wish is skid Row adjacent?
Skid Row's behind my property line. But I can see it,
and I can smell it, and I can hear it.
It ain't great and Orange County's beautiful of course, got
down to Disney's California adventure just last week. Always love
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my visits to Orange County. Thanks everybody who participated in that,
and thank you so much for listening this hour. Next hour,
a lot of great reviews coming up. A tough one
to start the hour. A woman whose family lost their
home in the Altadena fire, the Eton fire, and also
their business in one of the other fires. We don't
talk about the Sunset Fire, and I'll talk. We'll start
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the hour with that, and then we will move into
why LA has been deemed la At the nation's number
one judicial hellhole. That's the official term that this organization
has given us because of the large sums of money
jurors awards. So if you don't win the power ball,
just sue somebody in La County and you might be
walking out with bags of cash. There's also a huge
merger that is looming in Hollywood, and it will affect you,
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whether you pay attention to the business side of the
industry or not. You are a consumer of content and
we're going to talk about how that might affect you
in our next hour of Michael Monks reports
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This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
Knew So happy to be with you on this Saturday night,
A very busy Saturday night for news and some unfortunate
tragedies taking place in this country and overseas as well.
We'll start with what has happened in Syria. This is
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a serious situation that has involved a couple of our
service member. President Donald Trump says there will be serious
retaliation after two US service members and one American civilian
were killed in an attack in Syria. The US has
blamed this attack on the Islamic State, Trump says Sirius
(00:49):
President was devastated, and Trump also stressed that Syria was
fighting alongside US troops here, so we're saying this was
not a Syrian government operation. This was an attack by terrorist. Now,
these two service members who were killed were members of
the National Guard out of Iowa, and that's according to
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the Associated Press, who spoke to a person who was
briefed on this situation but spoke only on the condition
of anonymity. US Central Command has said three service members
were also wounded in this ambush. Saturday by a loan
Islamic state member in Central Syria. Trump says that these
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three seemed to be doing pretty well. The US military
said that gunman was killed. Meanwhile, Stateside, we go to
Rhode Island, where there was an attack at an IVY
League campus in this country, and investigators are still searching
for a shooter who killed at least two people and
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wounded eight others at Brown University today. This was during
final exams on this IVY League campus. Officers are still
hunting through camp building, sifting through trash cans. And this
happened about three hours ago, so this I mean like
three hours after that shooting. They were still sifting around.
There was a report that came out that a suspect
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had been apprehended, but that was later recanted, so they
are still looking for someone. Police in Providence say this
suspect is a man who was just wearing dark clothing
and last scene leaving an engineering building in campus where
the shooting happened. The mayor in Providence says a shelter
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in place is an effect for that area, and people
living near the campus are encouraged to stay inside or
not return home until it is lifted, so we continue
to follow those stories and a lot of local stuff
as well, because it's just it's Saturdays can often be
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difficult when it comes to news gathering. We just talked
about what happened during the week, but this is one
of those rare Saturdays where a lot is going on,
including tragedy, and we will continue to follow that and
bring you any updates that happened to come across over
the course of the next couple of hours here at
KFI AM six forty. A lot of folks around the
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state and around the country are probably also talking about Powerball,
because this thing, for the fourteenth time, has reached a
jackpot of a billion dollars, and that is a significant sum.
It seems to be happening more routinely. It's the second
time it has happened this year. I know that we
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had a drawing just a few months ago. We were
here live on the air holding tickets hoping that we
might have the winning numbers, but we didn't. So I
know that Tiffany Hobbs, who preceded me here on KFI
had a lot to say about the power Ball, and
so did you who were listening, offering up what you
would do if you win this jackpot. I want to
offer a different perspective and get your feedback on this
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through the iHeartRadio app and that talk back button, because
I want to pose a bit of an ethical question,
a situation of real life, one that I experienced last Saturday. Now,
the jackpot just hit a billion last Saturday, it was
still significantly high, well into the hundreds of millions, so
we were thinking about getting some tickets. My family was
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in town. Mom aunt Nanny, and that's my grandmother. She
turned ninety and they came out from Kentucky to visit
me here in La Spouse, and I took them to
the Grove and it was a great beautiful day. The
grove is an iconic, you know, Los Angeles destination. We
were having a good time at Nanny wanted to ride
the trolley at the grove, very touristy, kind of a
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short thing, cute. I didn't need it, but Nanny was
here ninetieth birthday. We decided to get on this train,
all five of us, and we take it to the
other end of the grove where it stops and then
you disembark. But they give you the option if you
want to take it back to where you started. You
can get back on the train. Well, I mean I
didn't want to do that, but Nanny did. Nanny wanted
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to get back on the train and go back to
the other side of the grove. So the spouas and
my aunt went to get coffee, and my mom and
I were going to join Nanny on the train. As
we're stepping back up on the train at the grove,
I see something out of the corner of my eye
and my mother notices it too. I look at it,
We look at her. She looks down and she picks
it up. It's a lottery ticket. We take our seat
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on the train at the grove and we examine this ticket.
It is five quick Pick powerball lottery numbers for that
night's drawing. And what are you supposed to do? I mean,
immediately you think, God, this is something out of a movie, right,
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because obviously we are now holding the winning ticket. We
are leaving the grove with a lot more money than
we came here with because we found so someone else's
ticket on the ground for that night's drawing. What do
you do in that situation? We didn't want to cause
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a scene and like, hold it up. Because this ticket
was not signed, there was no way to prove whose
ticket this was. So we held on to it and
we talked and thought, well, let's you see what happens.
So what happened? What do you think happens? That night,
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we were back in downtown Los Angeles, sitting in Pershing
Square watching the skating rink that they've got going on
there for the holidays, and I pulled up the live
Powerball drawing on the phone and we're sitting there waiting
to confirm that we are clearly America's newest multi millionaires.
We found this magic ticket at the Grove Alas, as
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you now know, because the jackpot has only risen, we
did not win, but it was a very exciting day.
But we kicked around all of the possibilities of how
we should handle this. What will the lottery want to
know about this ticket? What type of effort should we
put in. I'll tell you what I concluded, and then
I want to hear from you. My conclusion was the
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lottery knows where this ticket was purchased, and if it
was a gas station or convenience store or some other
type of retailer, you have to assume they probably have
surveillance camera. They would be able to pinpoint the moment
that this ticket was sold in and probably at least
find an image of the person who bought it, verifying
that maybe they were also at the grove that day.
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They In other words, they would be able to find
the person whose ticket that was. But I don't know
what that means for us as the holder of the ticket.
Are we finders keepers situation? My feelings on this is
I would want the ticket purchaser to be found, but
I'd want something in return. I mean, that was a
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lot of money. So what do you think? What would
you do? Which you just hope for the best and
hope no questions are asked and you get all the money,
which you want to find the recipient of this ticket?
Would you expect to kick back? Open up the iHeartRadio app,
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click on that talkback button and let me know how
you feel. Will play some of your comments throughout the
next hour. A lot of information to get to Elie
Mayor Karen Bass officially kicked off her re election campaign
today in downtown Los Angeles. We'll talk about that. Meanwhile,
a city councilman in Los Angeles is possibly facing a hefty,
(08:38):
hefty fine, and these two figures. Mayor Bass and Councilman
John Lee just played significant roles in a heated debate
at LA City Hall just yesterday about funding the La
Police Department. We'll get into that whole mess about how
the police department went forward with hires they were not
authorized or budgeted to make, and what happened yesterday in
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that conversation. As Michael Monks Reports continues, you're.
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Listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
A reminder if you want to weigh in on the
ethical question, I posed a real life experience from me
about the power ball after I found a ticket on
the ground at the grove. What are you do in
that situation? What's expected of you and what do you
want in return? If you do the right thing and
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track down the person who purchased it. Open up the
iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button and we'll get
to some of your comments momentarily. As this hour continues,
Elliemher Karen Bass is running for reelection. We knew that,
but her campaign, the re election campaign started today with
a rally in downtown Los Angeles. She has promised to
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make Los Angeles safer and more affordable, and she has
positioned herself as the candidate who will take on the
Trump administration. This is just a couple of days after
the third anniversary in which Bass was sworn in as
the Mayor of Los Angeles. So she kicked off her
campaign just today, surrounded by supporters at La Trade Technical
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College Culinary Arts event space, she says, quote, this is
just overwhelming. I have to tell you, my heart is
so full. This is so powerful and means so much
to me because this has been a hell of a year.
And ain't that the truth? When you think back to January,
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La Mayor Bass was representing the United States on what
I guess you could characterize as a diplomatic mission to
Ghana in Africa. There was a change in leadership in
that African country. President Biden, before he left office, asked
Mayor Bass to represent the US at that event, and
she did. And we all know what happened while she
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was in Africa. The Santa Ana wins blew in and
lit this place on fire, the Palisades fire, which happened
of course within the city of Los Angeles was absolutely devastating.
The neighborhood is gone, and she started to pay a
pretty significant price politically for that. A lot of questions
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about why would you go to Ghana when these forecasts
were ripe with danger before you left. In the aftermath
of that event, she has tried to position herself as
someone who is quote cutting red tape to make the
rebuilding process in the Palisades smoother. She fired LAFD chief
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Kristen Crowley because she did not like the response of
the fire department to that fire. But her political fortunes
really started to shift back in her favor. I would
say when the Trump administration ramped up its immigration enforcement
efforts here in southern California, because it's not a popular
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policy with most people here according to polling. And she
has stood with illegal immigrants and worked to find ways
to support illegal immigrants here along with LA County supervisors.
In the LA City Council, she has challenged and a
couple of times the city has been victorious in court
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against the Trump administration on issues related to immigration enforcement.
So now she has a foe. Of course, President Trump
is not wildly popular in Los Angeles County, This was
an area that former Vice President Kamala Harris won easily
in the twenty twenty four election. So this was a
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bit of a political gift. So you can't count out
Karen Bass in her re election campaign. It seemed a
little rocky for her earlier in the year because of
the situation, the tragedy and the devastation related to the
Palisades fire. You just can't count her out. She's running
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against former LA School Superintendent Austin Butner. He has stepped
in and he has been very active in his campaign.
He is trying to make the case against Karen Bass.
The elephant in the room and the candidate not in
the race, of course, is developer Rick Caruso, guy behind
the Grove Sorts of developments. His entering of the race
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could make it a three way competitive, very seriously competitive
race that might not be decided in the primary, which
is not far off. Mayor Bass today touted what she
called her accomplishment, namely this executive order She put out
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that the City Council has since codified into law that
would permanently streamline affordable housing projects. She cited two year
reductions in street homelessness, saying that her signature program Inside
Safe is deserving of a lot of credit for that,
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but she will be able to be hit politically on
the cost of that program and the fact that the
data about homeless population is collected by an organization called
the La Homeless Services Authority, which has been not just
criticized on KFIAM six forty or in the halls of
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city Hall or LA County's building. It's been in court
that this is not a forthcoming agency and that's why
the county has decided to leave it entire in the
City of Los Angeles is trying to figure out what
it's going to do now. This was an organization, an
agency that was co governed by the county and the
city and now appears to be in a permanent transition
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or obsolescence. The mayor says that the city has reduced
crime as well. We'll talk more about that coming up,
because she has been very pro LAPD in recent months,
especially in the context of the arrival of the Olympic
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Games in twenty twenty eight and the World Cup next year.
The LAPD contends it needs many more officers. Mayor supports
that idea, and that became a fight at City Hall
just yesterday. That's next. But first, one of the guys
you'll hear from in that debate was City Councilman John Lee,
who also supports the mayor's position on funding the Los
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Angeles Police Department. But it has been determined that he
repeatedly violated the city's gift laws back in twenty sixteen
and twenty seventeen by accepting free items while away in
Las Vegas, as well as at multiple restaurants in LA
This is from a judge. Administrative law Judge g lan
Zeng issued this fifty nine page proposed decision that will
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ultimately be reviewed by the city's Ethics Commission. It concluded
that Lee committed two counts of violating a law governing
the size of gifts a city official can receive, and
three counts of violating a law requiring that such gifts
be publicly disclosed. That's according to reporting from The La Times.
John Lee is from the San Fernando Valley. He replaced
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council member Mitch Englander. John Lee was chief of staff
to Councilman Englander. Englander ended up being accused by federal
prosecutors of accepting fifteen thousand dollars in cash from a
businessman lying to the FBI obstructing their investigation into that
Vegas trip, and ultimately pleaded guilty to a single count
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of providing false information to the FBI, and he was
sentenced to fourteen months in prison. Now here's what will happen.
The five member LA City Ethics Commission will make it
a termination next week, deciding both the number of violations
Lee committed in any financial penalties, It could be in
the tens of thousands of dollars. But we'll hear from
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Councilman Lee next in the context of why LA should
have more police officers, why did the LAPD move to
higher officers they were not authorized or budgeted to hire,
and what happened at city Hall yesterday as the city
council split over this issue. That's next. As Michael Monks
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Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KA News.
This was a crazy day yesterday at Los Angeles City Hall,
and it's the culmination of a series of crazy events
that I really as the guy who pays attention to
your local government. On behalf of KFI AM six forty
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and all of you who listen. It's shocking at how
poorly governed everything is. I'm not trying to take a
shot at any particular politician, but it just seems that
the flow of things is off. I've often said to
folks here behind the scenes that La just seems ungovernable.
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Everyone goes rogue, everyone lives in their silos. The various
parts of Los Angeles are so very different from each other,
with all of these different needs. It's a sprawling, large
city with different types of populations living on different types
of topographies, and there are four million people into it
all across, and whether it's homelessness or wildfires or city
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budget issues, there doesn't seem to be the focus necessary
to address any of those situations comprehensively. And this issue
that we are about to talk about is prime example.
Number One. You heard us talk in the past few
days if you listened during the week about the LAPD
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saying it needs more than four million dollars immediately or
it will not be hiring a January recruiting class. But
the thing is they weren't authorized to do that to
begin with. Before we get into the city Hall stuff
from yesterday. I want to take you back to a
conversation from just a few months ago when the LAPD
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showed up at a city council budget committee and shocked
its members.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The budget assumed hiring two forty. We are the hiring
plan assume as we would hire four ten through the end.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Hang on. That is a representative from the LAPD telling
the members of the budget committee that, yes, the budget
you approved was for us to hire two hundred and
fifty new officers, but we're hiring four hundred and ten.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
But that's not what was approved in the budget.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's Councilwoman Katie Rslavsky. That's correct.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The budget assumed hiring two forty.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
So we know because we adopted it and it was
voted on by the council and signed by the mayor
that the twenty five to twenty six adopted budget authorized
two hundred and forty police officers, with the potential of
hiring up to four hundred and eighty officers contingent upon
available funding. I'm wondering what funding sources have been identified
to support hiring additional officers.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
So that was months ago, and the answer to Councilwoman
Yaroslovsky's question is none, even as of yesterday. What happened
when the budget was being crafted and it had a
billion dollar deficit and sixteen hundred city employed, including hundreds
in LAPED, we're facing layoffs. The mayor made a compromise
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with the members of council, apparently something that Councilman Yarslovsky
says she learned about in a press release, that the
mayor would work with council leadership like Council President Marquise
Harris Dawson, to find the funding for those additional officers.
Go ahead and say just two fifty for now, but
we will find the funding somewhere for four hundred and ten.
That never happened. The LAPED moved to do it anyway.
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Here's more from that budget committee meeting from just a
few months ago. I think the simple question is what
money is it?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And if it hasn't been identified, who.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Are we firing. That's Councilman Tim Ocoscar that is currently
on payroll to.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Cover this, And at what point are we going to
be real about what is happening? And at what point
does the chair of Personnel tell the Director of the
personnel department to stop hiring new officers or start firing
other people.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
So my office has not identified additional funds for that purpose.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
City Administrator Matt Zabo.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
As of today, as of thet the report in front
of you, of course, projects significant overspending and still with
identified solutions, a gap of eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Still, even as they try to figure out how to
pay for it, there's still a significant gap. The city
is broke, it's only getting worse. The city's financial outlook
is only getting worse. They've made it worse by voting
to completely renovate and expand the downtown Convention Center. That's
going to cost them likely eighty million dollars, possibly two
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hundred million dollars or more every year for the next
thirty years. That was money that wasn't even needed in
the last budget, and it was very difficult to get
the last budget, and now they've just made it more
difficult on themselves. Meanwhile, departments are just allocating themselves millions
of dollars without permission. So what happened since the LAPD
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has again, let me just be clear, whether the LAPD
needs these officers. I think they've made the case I
think if you're a resident of Los Angeles, you understand
that the question is, I mean, do we follow procedures
or not. Mayor Bass put out a letter on Wednesday
late Wednesday to the City Council saying public safety is
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the most important service that the City of Los Angeles
can provide, and she urged the City Council to prioritize
the safety of Angelinos and allocate four point four million
dollars for the LAPD to hire four hundred and ten
officers for this fiscal year. Later that afternoon, LAPD Chief
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Jim McDonnell had a news conference.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
And without an immediate allocation of four point four million dollars,
will be forced to halt new hiring in January of
twenty twenty six. So we'd have to stop the hiring
of new officers. This is not just a budget issue,
it's a public safety crisis.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
This in action will mean the following.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
No new recruits will enter the academy in January. And
for background, we run an academy. We start begin a
new one each month. It's a six month academy, and
then we graduate them and they go into the field.
From that point, fewer officer officers will mean longer shifts,
increased over time, and a greater strain on all of
our personnel. LAPD's staffing will drop to eighty three hundred officers,
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our lowest level in three decades.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Okay, it sounds like a serious issue. They want to
hire these officers, but they have not been budgeted for.
So now the City Council has to rush to get
this item on the agenda because meeting Friday is the
the last one that scheduled for this month, which means
for the rest of the year. So they've got to
figure out whether they're going to put four point four
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million dollars into the LAPD to cover all of these
additional recruits that were not paid for. Councilwoman Yarreslavsky, again
chairperson of the City Council Budget Committee, spoke on the
floor and offered an alternative situation.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
What concerns me is the framing that unless we decide
everything today, responsible hiring becomes impossible, or that it's somehow
the fault of this council for not acting, and that
is false. What this false urgency seeks to do is
force this body into a rush budget decision without analysis
or consensus. We cannot keep doing this. This is no
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way to run a city. We're here having this conversation
today because the required work didn't happen sooner, and we're
stuck holding the bag.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Councilman John Lee spoke in favor of giving the LAPD
the entire amount.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Bass through Executive Director
of fourteen, the city has modern guys and streamlined LAPD
recruitment to improve processing times and strengthened outreach. It has
finally given us a solid foundation for hiring, and we
cannot afford to go backwards. I don't care what anyone
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says here, this does affect more having more police officers
on our streets. I respectfully urge your yes vote on
my amendment and know on council Member Orsovsky's so we
can continue rebuilding the ranks and delivering the level of
service that I believe our Angelinos expect and deserve.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Ultimately, Councilman Yaroslavsky prevailed. The LAPEDD didn't leave empty handed,
but they didn't get everything they wanted. Basically, the city
Council proved one million dollars to allow for January and
February recruiting classes. But they've also directed the LAPD and
the city administrator to come back in January and figure
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out how to pay for the rest. And you know
that we'll continue to follow it up. Next, what do
you do if you found a powerball ticket on the
ground like I did. That's next on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI
News finishing things up this eight o'clock hour. When you
think where we are in this year, December thirteenth, does
the year feel like it went by quickly? It's almost
one year since those tragic events here in Southern California
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in early January.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Running from fire, entire neighborhoods and lives lost. Winter turned
to some in Southern California in twenty twenty five, only
seven days into the new year, what is normally Southern
California's rainy season erupted into fire. Incredible ninety mile per
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hour Santa Ana winds and a lack of brain fuel
of fire.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Storm, I think the whole town is going to go.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Two of the most destructive fires broke out nearly simultaneously
in different areas of southern California, they would tax resources.
The Palisades Fire near Malibu and the Eton Fire near
the community of Altadena.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Our hearts are breaking for you and we stand with you.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
The angry flames when racing through heavily populated areas, residents
struggled to get out, some could not. At least thirty
one people died in the flames. Over sixteen thousand buildings
were wiped out.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
It was in Gulf of Flames.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
It was so much scary, like Stone ab Sinews, Los Angeles,
and we hear at KFI are working on a one
year retrospective on those fires that you'll hear early next year.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, it is almost time for that one billion dollar
powerball drawing. I guess it's right around eight o'clock our
time when that happens. I mentioned at the top of
the show that I had a bit of an ethical
dilemma a week ago. It ultimately didn't matter because we
didn't win. Obviously, the jackpot has only grown at a
very interesting situation. While my family was visiting from Kentucky.
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We were at the grove last Saturday and found a
powerball ticket on the little trolley at the grove and
didn't really know what to do about it. We kept it,
we took it home and we watched the drawing, thinking,
oh wow, this is this is cinematic, right, this is Hollywood.
We find the ticket on the ground, we're clearly winning.
And then whose ticket was this? Will the lottery know?
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Will they want to know? Do we want to know?
I concluded, yes, I want to know. I want to
know who's too purchased that ticket, and I want to
make sure that they get the ticket. And then I
also want to make sure that they get me a
significant chunk of those weddings. That's where I was. I asked,
where would you be? And so some of you did
open up that iHeartRadio app and click on that talkback
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button and shared your thoughts. Let's hear from Randy Hey,
Michael enjoying the show as always.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
And uh, I think the answer to your question for
the lottery has already been decided. Wasn't it earlier this
year or was it last year? When the one point
five billion dollar the guy was claiming the ticket was stolen.
There was a dispute and it went to the ticket
holder it went to the person that was actually holding
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the ticket, and it was a kind of a family feud,
if I remember it, that was an uncle that it
claimed that the nephew.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
See, I think that might. I didn't get you off there.
The app gives you just thirty seconds, Randy, so it
stops recording after a while. But you know this, this
isn't even a family dispute over who had the ticket.
It's similar. I suppose a stranger to me purchased this
ticket and it fell out of their pocket or their
purse or something, and it landed on the trolley at
(31:05):
the grove and we picked it up. So I mean,
it's kind of a finder's keeper's thing maybe, but there
may be some rules that the lottery would have to enforce.
My assumption is that they know where this lottery ticket
was purchased, and I bet, through surveillance cameras, we'd be
able to pinpoint at least an image of who made
(31:26):
the purchase, and then we'd be able to find them.
And I would have felt bad if we didn't at
least make that effort. Let's hear from Jay, all right.
Speaker 11 (31:34):
Yeah, I don't know it was an ethical question. I
don't even know the legality on that law. But look,
whichever the way the wind blows, it blew your way
that day to maybe just pick up your happiness for
thinking about that for a hot.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Minute finding that lottery ticket.
Speaker 11 (31:52):
Yeah, and then the mode you were in. But anyways,
that's totally finders keepers to me, you know, especially at
the grove.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
All right, thank you, Jay Preston. I and my family
was the same way. They were like, this is ours,
this is absolutely ours. We had to call my dad
back in Kentucky wasn't out here. We're like, what do you?
What do we do? It is like finders keepers, finders keepers?
All right, let's hear from Dirk.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, two options with that power ball ticket. You can
either toss it in the trash and continue to live
down there at skid Row, or you can put it
in your wallet and possibly move down here to Orange County.
Every good night.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
What a great night that would be. Indeed, Dirk, thank you.
I live in the Fashion district, wish is skid Row adjacent?
Skid Row's behind my property line. But I can see it,
and I can smell it, and I can hear it.
It ain't great and Orange County's beautiful of course, got
down to Disney's California adventure just last week. Always love
(32:52):
my visits to Orange County. Thanks everybody who participated in that,
and thank you so much for listening this hour. Next hour,
a lot of great reviews coming up. A tough one
to start the hour. A woman whose family lost their
home in the Altadena fire, the Eton fire, and also
their business in one of the other fires. We don't
talk about the Sunset Fire, and I'll talk. We'll start
(33:12):
the hour with that, and then we will move into
why LA has been deemed la At the nation's number
one judicial hellhole. That's the official term that this organization
has given us because of the large sums of money
jurors awards. So if you don't win the power ball,
just sue somebody in La County and you might be
walking out with bags of cash. There's also a huge
merger that is looming in Hollywood, and it will affect you,
(33:37):
whether you pay attention to the business side of the
industry or not. You are a consumer of content and
we're going to talk about how that might affect you
in our next hour of Michael Monks reports
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