August 6, 2026 • 34 mins
Hour 3 - Santa Ana’s move to test speed cameras in racing hotspots, and the growing debate in Sacramento and Washington over license-plate reader surveillance. We’ll also examine a scandalous $1.6M payout to an L.A. homeless provider CEO who lives in Hawaii, and how a county program for people with serious mental illness is finally gaining traction. Tune in for accountability, policy clashes, and the human stories behind the headlines.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Monks and Maryl hosted by Michael Monks and
Chris Merrill. This is Monks and Meryll on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey guys, it's Mike and the Inland Empire. Story about
bald eagles. I had an uncle in Michigan who was
a game ward and I walked to his house one
day and he was actually eating.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
A bald eagle.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You can't do that, that's that's protected. And he goes,
I know, I go, well, what does it taste like?
He said, spotted out.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hold, that's not funny. You know. I don't think bald
eagles look tasty. No, but owls have some stuff eat
on them. Okay, that is Michael Monks for all of
you to think I don't like. And I'm the one
that goes home and follows pet videos. I've never seen
an owl in the wild, but I've seen plenty of videos. No, no, no,
not at all. I haven't and I think they're interesting.
(00:55):
And I love that you grew up in Kentucky and
so people assume that you're the you're the redneck. Yeah,
I'm an inner city hood rat. You totally are, yeah, right,
And then I grew up a very rural area. Well,
wasn't surprise any of us. You know, got your shirt
tucked into your jeans. What's supposed to be worn. Monks
(01:15):
and Merril KF I am six forty more stimulating talk.
I'm Chris Merril. He's the disheveled, untucked Michael Monks on
demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app. To follow us on
the social media's at Monks and Merril. At Monks and Merril.
We did get this. I love it when people call
in with news reports, but I'd love this.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Hey, they're Monks and Meryl. Speaking of the things not
doing well in Los Angeles City.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
With the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
There's another water main break today in the Hollywood Hills.
Water running down the road. Oh about twelve fifteen this afternoon,
KTLA five was shown it live overhead. Okao care have
a good day.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They love their watermean break. They send helicopters at the
water main breaks. That is great. I don't even have
gas money. They got gas money for helicopters and water
main breaks. I mean, the city is breaking. The watermean
thing has been going on for a long time and
it's not going to do. You think we're just paying
a lot of attention to it now because of the
big one in who I think that is a big
reason that we're doing it now. But this was a
(02:11):
story a decade ago. We were covering some watermean breaks
and we went, how bad is this going to be?
And we said, the water means are all one hundred
years old. It's it's not going to get better. This
is going to be a constant story that we're going
to be dealing with for probably the rest of our careers,
which could be you know, maybe the next two weeks.
Here's something that's going to make Chris Merrill mad, hopefully
not so mad that he goes out on a killing
(02:32):
spree in the woods later. But you're not a big
fan of using security cameras to prevent no stop crime. Now,
you want criminals to be able to do what they
want to do in a clandestine manner. Is that right?
Is that a fair characterization of your position? Not exactly.
The Santa Ana City Council was voted four to two
to ask state lawmakers for permission to join California's automated
(02:54):
speed camera pilot. Okay, no cameras have been approved, no
camera's bought yet, but it's Dacramento agrees the Orange County
Capital could deploy cameras on dangerous corridors, photographed the rear
plates of vehicles traveling at least eleven miles per hour
over the limit, and then they would mail civil citations
to those registered owners. Well, I didn't get the ticket, Okay, yeah,
(03:19):
I didn't pay it. But we are now telling you
that you got one. The evidence it's on camera, right,
but you mailed it to me. I didn't get them, okay,
But how where are you now telling me that you
didn't If if I'm the city telling you, if we're
doing a little improv here, you're you're the disgruntled guy
who got the ticket. I didn't get the city official
you're coming to me. You're claiming I got a ticket,
but I never got one of my mailbox. I'm sorry.
(03:40):
There appears to be a mix up that you didn't
receive the ticket that we sent you. But we've retained
the evidence that proves you broke the law. I'm happy
to rewrite the ticket for you. And since you're here,
why don't you go ahead and pay? Why do you
smell like raccoon? Dead raccoon? Hey, speeding Gonzales Eileen, Yes,
their third race. Remark of Speedy Gonzales, I think didn't
(04:03):
they remove him? Yes, because of racism? No, yeah they did,
they did. Yeah, and I'd be careful lamenting that just
because he has just because he has a I think
now I think that the appropriation of the cousin, I mean,
Speedy had a cousin.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Who was.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I think it was because I think it's because they
were doing the voice. Okay, so I'm old enough. Who
wasn't racist when I was a kid? Uh so, Speedy,
when you get your ticket, doesn't the cop make you
sign the bottom of your your speeding ticket?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's been a while. Yeah, they always come up and
they go sp I've seen people on real ticket like you.
It's been a while, but I don't forget these things.
Of course, then again, I don't you. You probably are
able to just kind of bat your eyelashes and twenty
years ago, maybe stop it. Don't make me compliment you
in the air. I don't like to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Here's what. Here's the thing. I've seen some of these
TikTok videos where the officer says you need to sign
the ticket, and I'm not signing that. I wasn't speeding,
and he goes, look, you can take it up in court.
You just need to sign that you received it. I'm
not signing anything. Does that work?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It never works? Okay, So why are you trying it?
Because at least if you mail me the ticket, unless
it's certified, there's no evidence that I received that ticket. Okay,
But there is evidence that you sped. It doesn't matter
if I was not notified. That's my problem. I don't
like that there's cameras everywhere because he likes to abuse
(05:33):
animals in peace. The technology has reduced speeding elsewhere, but
a twelve camera system in Santa Ana could cost as
much as two million dollars to launch. It's not cheap,
and then another one and a half million to two
million dollars each year. But the city will always say,
think of all the money we're going to make on fines.
It's a money making venture. It's not about safety. It's
(05:53):
about bringing in dollars. But if it does add to
safety or penalizing people who make things unsafe? And why
am I paying traffic cops, let's reduce the size of force.
Are you paying Santa Ana Traffic com No? But whatever City.
I'm fighting for Santa and you no, I know what
you mean, But I mean, is there a specific Santa
Ancient Santa and Santan's Santa Anui's Santa. I'm fighting for them. Yeah,
(06:20):
why are they paying for traffic cops? If if they're
gonna use cameras instead? They said, well we don't have
enough cops. Well that sounds like a management problem. Well
so they need more revenue. Here's a way to get it. Uh,
maybe what's the issue to begin with? Okay, if you
haven't you budgeted for it, it's not even that much.
What is it? What is the core? Uh? What is it?
(06:42):
What is the core purpose of government? If not? Public
safety is one of their top issues. Infrastructure of public
safety are the two core principles of government? So what
if I'm arguing that this enhances public safety? But if
I'm arguing, what are you spending money on that you
didn't spend on public safety? What almost sounds like you
have a public debate about it, and they have and
(07:03):
my side one in a four to two vote at
city Hall. I know you just love that surveillance And
here's how it would work if you get caught going
eleven to fifteen miles over the limit, it's only a
fifty dollars penalty, a double dat because they're not actually
enforcing it. They're making that penalty so low that you'll
just say it's not worth my effort. I'm going to
pay it. Sixteen to twenty five miles over two hundred dollars.
If you're going twenty six miles per hour or more,
(07:24):
that's five. What are the processing fees? Because that's where
California gets you. It's like you're testing and driving is
it's like a seventy five dollars ticket, but by the
time you're done, it's four to fifty. Yeah. Santa Ana
is struggling financially. They've already made a bunch of cuts
to balance their budget. Some members of council support this concept,
but they do say the city may not be able
to afford it without outside funding. So if you're already
(07:45):
making cuts and then they're saying, yeah, you could add
this potential revenue generator, regardless of your feelings about it,
Hey it we will also need another two million dollars
you get it running, and then maybe two million each
year to continue it, So it might not be worth
it on the other side of it. I got another story.
You are just gonna love. You are gonna eat this up.
You're gonna say, I think this is great. Santa Anna
(08:07):
is looking at these cameras that are photographing your car.
If you're spitting flot cameras going much further. They're recording
where millions of vehicles have been, and then they give
police a searchable map. Michael loves this. That technology has
solved murders. It's true. It's found missing people. It's true.
It's also helped other people stalk ex girlfriends, ex wives,
and other women hundreds of times. Michael doesn't care about women.
(08:28):
That's next. KFI AM six forty we live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio Web. You're listening to Monks and Merrill on
demand from KFI AM six forty. More stimulating talk. That
was that auto play I had ESPN open. I was
looking for a baseball scores today. I just hate that
auto play stuff. I do too, prive me nuts. I
(08:49):
do sound like a grumpy old man yelling at the clouds.
But knock that off. Knock it off. Lawmakers here in
California are considering a piece of legislation known as Senate
Bill ten to thirteen. I'm at Hew Police store search
and share automated license plate reader data. And this comes
as the LAPD has allowed its flock safety contract to
(09:10):
expire over unresolved concerns about privacy, data ownership, and outside access.
If you could join the program, I just stopped looking
at pages. Good news. Dodgers didn't lose today. Well, they've
lost six in a row. I think the day off,
I don't know. I go back and look at the schedule,
but I get are they even playing today? That's what
I'm saying. I think they have the day off. But
(09:30):
I again, I go back and look at the schedule,
but I get a Popeye's commercial. You don't you can
just do it on Oh don't you have bing? Aren't
you a big fan of it?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Bing?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I thought I would go to and patronize a Disney
Studios product, but I guess not. LA Dodgers play the
Arizona Diamondbacks tomorrow at six forty in the evening. Yeah,
Ban says they played tomorrow at six forty. Do you
have anything to say about the legislation that you made? Hey,
Monks and Merrow.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's Andrew from Santahna.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The proper term is santanos. All right, I like that. Okay,
that's a sexy one. I think I agree. That's my favorite.
Would you demonem? Demonem is you know, the which you
refer to someone when they're being from a place.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Hey, what's up Monks and Merrow talking about racism? I
don't think speedy old silence is racism. I'm Mexican American.
We're all Mexican here in my whole block, and we
missed speedy gon silence.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Whoever said that? Why would they think that's Mexican? I
mean racist? Crazy man?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yeah, this is so stupid or you know, nobody thinks,
No Mexican thinks speedy go silence is basis.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
On the contrary, we like the Actually producer Richie justised
me for it. He is, well, I think what producer
Richie is. Also, I believe Mexican American says you refer
to Eileen Gonzalezzales who she is? Are you Mexican? You're
Mexican American? Yeah that's true. So how many how many
(11:10):
actional the racist things have I said today? Four? Yeah? Okay,
it's three now. I mean if you called me slow
poke Rodriguez. Well that was what your name is not Rodriguez.
What it's not about. What he did was he took
your Mexican last name and associated it with the only
Mexican character that he could name and and just apply.
We were talking about speeding cameras, which, by the way,
(11:33):
I was right about it.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Hey, there are a couple of things. First of all,
it's got to get a picture of your face, otherwise
you weren't driving that car with somebody else, and you
can't remember who you loaned it to.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And Two, if you take it to court, you have
the right to face your accuser and ask questions.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Cameras can't quite do that.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
So yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's my issue. I'm being written a ticket by the machines.
This is his or William as it gets. And now
you've got the flock cameras. And as I've mentioned before,
I am not a fan, and I understand the upsides
to them. I get it. They've been used to track
stolen vehicles, to catch murderers, that kind of stuff. But
I don't know if you saw the news that came
out this week. There's also been more than fifty instances
of rogue officers accessing the cameras in order to track
(12:16):
down ex wives, ex girlfriends, follow their kids, whatever else.
It is. And one of the things I've read today
and I don't even remember where I saw it, but
I thought it was really good. I don't think it
even had to do with this, but it talked about
when you design a system, you don't design a system
assuming that everyone is on the up and up that's
going to use this system. You have to design a
(12:36):
system that is going to protect people from the worst
users of the system. In other words, we entrust police officers,
but that doesn't mean we need to give every officer
complete access to anybody's whereabouts at any given time, because
we also know there are bad apples. That's fair. Thank you.
I think that's the first piece of credit you've given
(12:58):
me today, and I appreciate that you're very attracted, pretty
nice to me trying to distance myself from your racist
and abborrent views. Three times, not four times, only three times,
twenty five percent reduction in merritle racism. Well done. So
can any other show claim that not currently? Thank you?
There is a privacy concern that is no longer theoretical
with some of these cameras. The Washington Post identified at
(13:19):
least fifty officers who have been accused. To your point,
I just said that, yeah, are charged with misusing licensed
plate readers. So I mean Mount California is looking to
put in restrictions on the data as well. So you've
got speed cameras recording your violations, You've got flot cameras
that are recording where you go. Speed cameras. Speed cameras
are just at one place, right, The flot cameras are
an interconnected system. And I want you to think about
(13:41):
something else. Another piece of news that just came out today,
and that is that Meta is the latest AI company
to have their AI breach the parameters and at another AI.
That's scary. So now what happens when all of a sudden,
you've got chat, GPT, and you've got Anthropic, and you've
got Meta, and they're all hacking into these systems. In
the past, you used to have to be somebody who's
really good hacking in order to hack a system. Now
(14:02):
you just have to be able to type in a
command on your AI to hack into a system. And
now anybody can get your location, not just a law
enforcement officers but anybody will now have access to this
when they hack the systems. No, you've convinced me. I
don't think I have. Let's no, I'm not. But you're
making some valid points. You absolutely are making some valid points.
I mean, the AI component is for consideration because we're
(14:23):
going to talk about it on our weekend show. More
monks and merrill about coding and how it used to
be a pejorative. You know, you might thought somebody who
lost their job right will let you learn how to code,
because you would always have a job coding. And that's
not true anymore. No, because the AI is really coming
for that job first. And to know that they're so
(14:43):
good at it they're hacking man, that is scary. One
of the things that concerns me about these flog cameras too,
is I don't doubt that the cameras in the location
tracking has been used to stop crimes. They have that.
You don't have to feel that way. It not to
stop crimes, rather to turn to catch catch criminals. And
we can't prove what's been deterred that any deterrent system,
(15:05):
you can't actually prove how effective it is. You just
make assumptions based on one number versus the next year's numbers.
I saw Deterred and running and Canyon. I really like that.
I'm not laughing because the boss told me not to
laugh at your poo poo jokes, but I really thought
that was funny. Here's the other issue that I'm having
(15:26):
with this is that some of these cameras have been
used for not just stalking ex girlfriends and things like that.
That's scary. There have been cases that have involved searches
for an abortion clinic, and so you've got, for instance,
Texas was trying to track people down that were leaving
the state of Texas to come to California and have
an abortion. Yeah, it's another tool that's in their belt
(15:47):
to try to stop these We're not just talking about
murders and things like that. We're talking about things that
are legal in some states, but in another state says
you can't go to that state to do it legally. Now,
imagine if somebody was tracking you from po Dunk, Kentucky
to whatever state wherever you were going to buy your
drugs where it was legal. Now you got a camera
following you around to try to try to make sure
that they catch you for that. How would they know
(16:08):
my intent? Well, they saw you on one camera coming
across the border right out of the shop. Yeah, but
unless it tracked me, it wouldn't know what I did.
Have you not been paying attention to what they do?
They track where you're going. Flot camera A says you
were here at this time, Flot camera B says you
were here at this time, point A, point B. Mean
they tell you how fast you're traveling. You're telling me
(16:30):
they're going if I live in a state that doesn't
have legal cannabis, correct, and I'm driving across the border
to a state that does, Yes, and then I'm coming
back home, which is technically a crime. Yes, to transport
the drugs across the border. Yes. Did they know that
I went to the dispensary, Yeah, there's a flot camera
right outside of it. Because a lot of people like
you who just love George orwell you thought nineteen eighty
(16:52):
four was an instruction manual, they're following you all over
the place doing something that you think should be legal.
They disagree that, Go make some calls. Yeah, you're gonna
have to start cover some evidence real fast. Anyway, California
is trying to put some restrictions on that, which I
hope they do. I wish they would just restrict the
whole stupid thing. That doesn't I want crime salt. Please
(17:14):
don't get me wrong. Did you see that? Just to
help clear some innocent people before we run?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Though?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I mean it's had some I love that too. Yeah.
Tustin police here in Soko said that a license plate
information helped them rule out one apparent suspect and a murder,
and it helped identify another man who was arrested near
the Mexican border. Did you also see it? So put
that in your pipe and smoking? Was it? I hit
one of them that since it was a ridiculous number.
There was a ridiculous number of like false readings. I
(17:41):
don't have the number for me. I don't want to
quote it. I had that story somewhere. Well, I got
a big number for you. No, that's not a joke.
It's more on the homeless scam in southern California. Oh,
it's just that ceo that oh God lives in Hawaii.
But as the CEO of a homeless organization in La
Edwards County. What a good gig this is? Wait until
(18:03):
you hear how much she was being paid to do
nothing and accomplish nothing. That is next on Monks and
Merril kf I AM six forty. We are alive everywhere
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(18:25):
including the horrible racist things Michael said earlier in the
show today and to flect acclivity toward animal abuse real
quick here to put a cap on the discussion about
the cameras. It's always this argument you have.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Nothing to hide, thin flock. Cameras are great. They help
solve crime. They help solve crime. They help solve crime.
Say it again, God, this is why I don't listen
to this show.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, this is why. Okay, let me ask you something.
Why do we have a Fourth Amendment? Not to get
all philosophical on you, do we have a fourth Amendment?
The founders thought it was important. Why if I haven't
committed a crime, then why am I worried about somebody
searching seizure? Yeah? Why am I worried about somebody searching
for my car. If I haven't committed a crime. Why
(19:11):
am I worried about somebody coming into my house if
I haven't committed a crime. Well, they can't just search
your car for no reason. They have to have some
sort of either a warrant, suspicions aid, what are you hiding?
There's no reason for a Fourth Amendment if you haven't
if you haven't done anything wrong. I don't think you
fully read the Fourth Amendment. I have, I do, and
I also have read up on these flock cameras. Jesse,
(19:34):
can you get the fife playing? Please? I need a
good fife for this, uh patriot over here? Who is
that you went to music school? Do you have a
master's degree in music? Get the fife? Pull up a fife. Unbelievable.
I don't want to hear Merril talk about the Fourth
Amendment again without the fife underscore. Get his tri color hat,
(19:54):
tri corner hat out of the the laundry as well,
thank you, Jesse. I think it's a tri corn hat.
Try corner so Roseville police, God, I love a good fife.
Roseville police say that seventy one percent of their license
plate alerts were misread by Flock's machine learning software. That
(20:18):
means that seventy one percent of the cars that they
identified had not done anything wrong. And yet we're still
under suspicion. And for what?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
For what?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Because you've got nothing to worry about if you haven't
committed any crime. Do you have something to worry about?
Do you have any dead possums in your trunk that
you're trying to take across the order rug trafficker? Let's
talk about something that should be a crime. The homeless
industrial complex in southern California. There's an organization called You know,
we always talk about lossa right, but loss is just
(20:51):
the head of the monster, okay, And those tentacles branch
out to all kinds of different little groups. The seventeen
thirty six Family Crisis Center, and it paid it CEO
Carol Atakoff more than one point six million dollars in
compensation across two tax filings. Holy crap, that includes around
eight hundred and twenty four thousand dollars attributed to unused
(21:13):
vacation accumulated over forty years. Wait a minute, she hadn't
taken a vacation forty years. Allegedly. This is a reporting
out of the La Times the payout, they say, may
not violate California law because earned vacation does count as wages.
I mean we would get that too, it's in contracts. Okay,
does your charity not have a cap on vacation time? Here, bingo,
(21:34):
we have to use ours or you start getting penalized.
But if you leave with like a week or two,
you do cash that out forty years worth. The paper's
characterization is that the troubling part is that the board
that oversees this organization allowed one executive to accumulate an
unlimited liability capping vacation accural for other employees, and then
(21:56):
they declined to disclose the records. And not only that
the CEO. Are you telling me that that CEO worked
every single day for forty years straight? Or is it
the CEO so they have CEO time now. I'm sure
when the business was early, they were probably put in
seventy eighty hour weeks. I know how small businesses work. Sure,
I get that you started a business. You know what
startup is like. Those weeks are unending, they're brutal, but
(22:19):
after you get the machine rolling a little bit. In
this case, they were getting these government contracts are you
telling me the CEO wasn't taken off for a nice
martini lunch. Well, would you have to take a vacation though,
if you live in Hawaii, And if you live in Hawaii, believable.
So she doesn't even live here. So she's running the nonprofit.
(22:40):
She's the CEO who's quote unquote running the nonprofit from
her home in Hawaii and ends up pocketing this amount
of money. The organization itself gets about fifteen million dollars
in annual revenue. She got ten percent of that. And
how much of that comes from you? Ninety four percent
comes from government funded grants. She typically makes four hundred
(23:00):
a year. That's not unusual for these nonprofits that are
part of this industrial homeless complex that accomplish absolutely nothing
except to enrich these executives. So she us no accountability
on that four hundred thousand dollars. It's shot up in
twenty twenty three, she said to The Times. The salary
didn't jump like that. That's a quote. Oh no, didn't jump.
It was simply a matter of reducing a crude vacation
(23:22):
liability on the books and paying it out. So she
makes four hundred thousand dollars a year. She's got all
this vacation time, which is shady as hell, but let's
suppose it's even realistic. Okay, what does the rest of
the board make. Well, the board doesn't really make a
whole lot. I usually it's voluntary. But the second thing
did get compensated here the board, the board did. The
(23:43):
board president has served for twenty five years. That's not
a paid gigo. You're on the board of a nonprofit,
the homeless industrial complex thing, it's voluntary. Okay, So how
much should he be making? Zero? He said that he
over the course of twenty five years, was making between
thirty grand and ninety seven thousand dollars. Was he also
(24:03):
doing is he clocking in? No, he's not an employee.
He's just on the board and he's making that a
year or that's the total over thirty years he's been
paid annually. So third somewhere between thirty and ninety ninety
seven to five, Yeah, almost one hundred. Yeah, it's a scam.
They get fifteen million dollars in revenue, this group does.
They've been around for fifty years. The Family Crisis Center.
Fifteen million dollars in revenue. Guess where that comes? From
(24:26):
you and me. I just said, exactly, government funded grant
for crisis hot lines, domestic shelters and programs to help
homeless people. And they got sixteen facilities in Ella in
Orange County. And fairness, they made sure that the board
president and the CEO had homes, big, nice homes. In fact,
Adlekoff the CEO, she's had a primary residence on the
Big Island of Hawaii for at least eleven years. Primary residence,
(24:50):
not a second home, okay that she flies off to
and enjoys a little bit of vacation with the family
around the holidays. Primary home. Okay. So the system is working,
it's keeping her. She apparently she had left California in
two thousand and two and they asked her to stay
on as CEO. I mean, this is even before work
(25:10):
from home became like the predominant. Yeah, we weren't even
all that back. We still called it telecomuting. You couldn't
do zoom meetings in two thousand and two. I mean,
I guess we had a little bit of Skype, but
it wasn't great. No, not no too really, yeah, I
think we were still doing ICQ. That's when my wife
and I started first dating online using chat? Can we
(25:32):
get the fight? Get the five playing again while you
tell a story about how you met your wife. It
was a cold January teeth. She was telecommuting from home.
He was working in Omaha. She found that irresistible. Yeah,
I had to get a taste of Nebraska. She loved that.
(25:55):
This is just another in the latest round of shocking
discoveries of how much people get paid to keep people homeless.
I don't like your attitude, and so I am going
to provide you with a good homeless story, A good one. Yeah,
all right, Tom, got a good one. Sorry, First, first.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
This, you know I don't Laura and Hardy, Martin, Lewis, Mutton, Jeff.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Let me and share the steering Rodgers, Torrival and teen.
I could go on and on, but no team.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Has anything on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Oh, Chris, also sign me on.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Hi Chris, thank you so much. I appreciate that. I
also love your your knowledge of blood Villian duos. That's fantastic. Yeah,
very cool. We appreciate that very much. All right, So
you agree you want money in the system spent on
getting people help right, Help the homeless people, not just
these ridiculous nonproducts. I would like the money to not
just go to CEOs. There is a mechanism to force
people who are out of their minds into a system
(26:56):
of assistance. Is it working. We'll find out more about
the care Court. You're listening to Monks and Meryl from
kf I am six available anywhere on the Iart radio app.
Monks and Meryll. It must be Monks tomorrow, Chris out,
Jesse's gone long. They were quick on that suspension today. Yeah,
you deserved it, and I also filled out there. I
(27:19):
feel pretty good because at one point you said I
was I had four racisms today. One had to be reduced. Uh,
and then you committed one as well, so it's three
to one. I didn't commit one. I corrected one. No,
you committed one. Thank you. She was the victim who
let the woman speak. What all right?
Speaker 7 (27:37):
We's going to be dead air from twelve to three
tomorrow and the show's never sent me now And happy
birthday again to Michelle Cube, our executive producer has to
put up with all of this.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
There's something called care court. Yes, I'm a fair court.
I like this and it's four homeless people because we
just didn't have a lot of stuff for that sort
of thing, and it gives families, clinicians, first responders, others
a civil court process for connecting people with serious psychotic
disorders ok to treatment, which is a nice way of saying,
(28:10):
there's a crazy guy screaming at the moon on my street,
and now the police can say, Okay, well we're going
to take you into custody and we're going to drop
you off at care court. In the old days, we
call that an asylum sort of yeah, you would take
them bet an asylum, and the old days care courts
basically says you can stay in the asylum. Yeah yeah,
(28:32):
scream here, young man, kind of come on in here
and screen. It just hadn't been used a whole lot
in La County, but now it sounds like we're starting
to catch on. I think I'm going to give you
credit for this. I think people listen to your internment
camp idea. Yeah, and they thought not quite ready to
go full nineteen thirties Germany on them, but maybe halfway there. Okay.
(28:55):
Germany had concentration camps that led to executions, which were
millions of Jewish people. What your proposal was, I'm just
ingesting internment camps just like the Japanese had during World
War Two, so it's more American nineteen forties. Yes, okay,
exactly now, the Japanese hadn't done anything wrong the Japanese
Americans that was a very very dark chapter in our history,
(29:15):
in American history. Whereas the homeless people, the drug addicts,
the mental health people, they are committing crimes on a
daily basis and making it unlivable. So I wouldn't mind
putting them in a nice little facility against them. The
trouble is, the care court doesn't actually create a guaranteed housing.
YEA mandates that they get behavioral health treatment, medication support,
case management, substance abuse treatment, social services, and a housing plan.
(29:36):
But if they're living on the street and they're not
already getting these things, what does another mandate have to do?
What are you gonna give? You can't solve homelessness with paperwork.
Write that down. I feel like that's a good quote.
You don't win friends with salad. No, don't ruin my quote.
You don't win, You can't. You don't win friends with salad.
You can't solve homelessness with paperwork. You don't get that reference.
(30:00):
It's an old Simpsons anyway, oh, I thought it was
Larry David this plan talking about housing plans for the
mental health folks they're picking up off the street, the
roosters who are screaming. Ever going to have a housing plan?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
These are people that you there are so many of them,
Like you see some who are having a breakdown, or
some people were very high like that can be cleaned up.
That is a person who might be able to get
some counseling, may get some help and could recover and
come back from the brink. It's very few. It's very few.
If you see a few, even in Pasadena, I see
(30:37):
them all the time. Choje your pictures. I have no
idea what was going on this morning, but at five
thirty there were sirens all over the place in the
metro station. Yea yeah, And you see these folks, and
you know there's this is the population that makes up
the homeless count that we're talking about. Right, They're never
going to live in housing again. I would bet nine
out of ten of them will never live in housing again.
(31:01):
And until the local leaders start to take that seriously,
we're never going to solve this problem because we will
continue to spend billions of dollars, you deal with them,
You put them in a termitent camp, and then what
well you're saying ternment camp, I might say asylum or
mental health facility, whatever you want to call it, just
keep feeding. At some point you're going to say, oh,
our asylum is full, it's time to start cleaning people
(31:21):
out of here. And then all of a sudden you
turn into you and the possums, you and the porcupines
drowning them in the bucket. No, I'm too humane for that. No, Unfortunately,
we're going to be paying for this either way. I
would just rather pay for it less expensively and more effectively.
Start treating these folks for the problems that they really have,
which are mental in drug addiction, and they're never stop
(31:41):
giving the money CEOs who live in Hawaii. Bingo yeah,
bingo yeah. Start spending the money on these types of
facilities that offer actual care to people who need it,
with the understanding, with the recognition that these folks will
never live on their own again, and get them a
harsh takee on homelessness. But I don't think there's enough
(32:02):
that isn't Nope, stop telling me you can't get tents
off the streets until we build, you know, twenty story
condos at eight hundred thousand dollars a unit. Stop telling
me this stuff, because these are not the people who
will be living in that. Stop we spend so much
time worrying about the folks on the street and how
we can treat them better while ignoring the lack of
(32:26):
quality of life that so many of the rest of
us have. Because this problem exists because they take up
so much of our funding, because they take up so
much of our environment, because they set so many fires
and do so many crimes. Somebody in a tent on
the street is not exactly a quality of living situation either.
But there are too many politicians that want to leave
the folks there because they think that's their right. It
is their right to block your business, it is their
(32:48):
right to block your kid's path to school. When they
just set up their tents wherever they want, park yourrvs,
park yourvs wherever you want, do your drugs in the
middle of the street. For all I care is what
they that's that's their perspective. Get these camps gone. Michael
hates our v's. I hate broken down, disgusting, our vs,
(33:09):
full of homeless drug addicts and crazy. Give you a
chance to one one thousand dollars coming up here and
about twenty five minutes the godfather have talked. John Cobalts
got to a one thousand dollars givoying nationwide contest. Give
you a chance to win that. Tomorrow we're gonna just
talk about zoning for three hours, so I hope everybody
will be here for class. Bring your notebooks. If you
(33:30):
haven't heard about setbacks, you're gonna want to listen to
mon Setbacks are important and if we could amend some
of the setbacks, we could. You know, we can't even
talk about what are you doing to Moore? Oh man?
You know I love talking about Metro and that's for real.
And I'm wondering if you folks who say you will
never get on it would change your mind if Metro
promised to pay you hundreds of dollars, that's actually happening.
(33:51):
We're gonna have Metro join us to talk about it.
La County trying to prepare for the next big earthquake.
We're gonna talk a bit about that. And you think
way Moo's are bad, I do. Wait till you meet
their cousin Zis who could be coming. I've met l
Brandon him in Vegas. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Okay,
it's a monk's technology months on your own. Well, you've
(34:12):
been ignoring it and all my pitches all week. I'm
gonna do it myself because tomorrow I get to do
whatever I want. Well, it's gonna be scary. Yes, they're
starting at noon Monks and Merrill minus the Merril tomorrow noonish.
The godfather of talk radio, the Great John Cobbel, steps
into the padded room next KFI AM six forty live
everywhere in the Iheard Radio app. Chickens are Birds TOOFI
(34:34):
on demand. You've been listening to Monks and Merrill. Here
the show live weekdays from noon to three on kf
I AM six forty at anytime on demand on the
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This is Monks and Maryl hosted by Michael Monks and
Chris Merrill. This is Monks and Meryll on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey guys, it's Mike and the Inland Empire. Story about
bald eagles. I had an uncle in Michigan who was
a game ward and I walked to his house one
day and he was actually eating.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
A bald eagle.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You can't do that, that's that's protected. And he goes,
I know, I go, well, what does it taste like?
He said, spotted out.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hold, that's not funny. You know. I don't think bald
eagles look tasty. No, but owls have some stuff eat
on them. Okay, that is Michael Monks for all of
you to think I don't like. And I'm the one
that goes home and follows pet videos. I've never seen
an owl in the wild, but I've seen plenty of videos. No, no, no,
not at all. I haven't and I think they're interesting.
(00:55):
And I love that you grew up in Kentucky and
so people assume that you're the you're the redneck. Yeah,
I'm an inner city hood rat. You totally are, yeah, right,
And then I grew up a very rural area. Well,
wasn't surprise any of us. You know, got your shirt
tucked into your jeans. What's supposed to be worn. Monks
(01:15):
and Merril KF I am six forty more stimulating talk.
I'm Chris Merril. He's the disheveled, untucked Michael Monks on
demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app. To follow us on
the social media's at Monks and Merril. At Monks and Merril.
We did get this. I love it when people call
in with news reports, but I'd love this.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Hey, they're Monks and Meryl. Speaking of the things not
doing well in Los Angeles City.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
With the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
There's another water main break today in the Hollywood Hills.
Water running down the road. Oh about twelve fifteen this afternoon,
KTLA five was shown it live overhead. Okao care have
a good day.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They love their watermean break. They send helicopters at the
water main breaks. That is great. I don't even have
gas money. They got gas money for helicopters and water
main breaks. I mean, the city is breaking. The watermean
thing has been going on for a long time and
it's not going to do. You think we're just paying
a lot of attention to it now because of the
big one in who I think that is a big
reason that we're doing it now. But this was a
(02:11):
story a decade ago. We were covering some watermean breaks
and we went, how bad is this going to be?
And we said, the water means are all one hundred
years old. It's it's not going to get better. This
is going to be a constant story that we're going
to be dealing with for probably the rest of our careers,
which could be you know, maybe the next two weeks.
Here's something that's going to make Chris Merrill mad, hopefully
not so mad that he goes out on a killing
(02:32):
spree in the woods later. But you're not a big
fan of using security cameras to prevent no stop crime. Now,
you want criminals to be able to do what they
want to do in a clandestine manner. Is that right?
Is that a fair characterization of your position? Not exactly.
The Santa Ana City Council was voted four to two
to ask state lawmakers for permission to join California's automated
(02:54):
speed camera pilot. Okay, no cameras have been approved, no
camera's bought yet, but it's Dacramento agrees the Orange County
Capital could deploy cameras on dangerous corridors, photographed the rear
plates of vehicles traveling at least eleven miles per hour
over the limit, and then they would mail civil citations
to those registered owners. Well, I didn't get the ticket, Okay, yeah,
(03:19):
I didn't pay it. But we are now telling you
that you got one. The evidence it's on camera, right,
but you mailed it to me. I didn't get them, okay,
But how where are you now telling me that you
didn't If if I'm the city telling you, if we're
doing a little improv here, you're you're the disgruntled guy
who got the ticket. I didn't get the city official
you're coming to me. You're claiming I got a ticket,
but I never got one of my mailbox. I'm sorry.
(03:40):
There appears to be a mix up that you didn't
receive the ticket that we sent you. But we've retained
the evidence that proves you broke the law. I'm happy
to rewrite the ticket for you. And since you're here,
why don't you go ahead and pay? Why do you
smell like raccoon? Dead raccoon? Hey, speeding Gonzales Eileen, Yes,
their third race. Remark of Speedy Gonzales, I think didn't
(04:03):
they remove him? Yes, because of racism? No, yeah they did,
they did. Yeah, and I'd be careful lamenting that just
because he has just because he has a I think
now I think that the appropriation of the cousin, I mean,
Speedy had a cousin.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Who was.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I think it was because I think it's because they
were doing the voice. Okay, so I'm old enough. Who
wasn't racist when I was a kid? Uh so, Speedy,
when you get your ticket, doesn't the cop make you
sign the bottom of your your speeding ticket?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's been a while. Yeah, they always come up and
they go sp I've seen people on real ticket like you.
It's been a while, but I don't forget these things.
Of course, then again, I don't you. You probably are
able to just kind of bat your eyelashes and twenty
years ago, maybe stop it. Don't make me compliment you
in the air. I don't like to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Here's what. Here's the thing. I've seen some of these
TikTok videos where the officer says you need to sign
the ticket, and I'm not signing that. I wasn't speeding,
and he goes, look, you can take it up in court.
You just need to sign that you received it. I'm
not signing anything. Does that work?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It never works? Okay, So why are you trying it?
Because at least if you mail me the ticket, unless
it's certified, there's no evidence that I received that ticket. Okay,
But there is evidence that you sped. It doesn't matter
if I was not notified. That's my problem. I don't
like that there's cameras everywhere because he likes to abuse
(05:33):
animals in peace. The technology has reduced speeding elsewhere, but
a twelve camera system in Santa Ana could cost as
much as two million dollars to launch. It's not cheap,
and then another one and a half million to two
million dollars each year. But the city will always say,
think of all the money we're going to make on fines.
It's a money making venture. It's not about safety. It's
(05:53):
about bringing in dollars. But if it does add to
safety or penalizing people who make things unsafe? And why
am I paying traffic cops, let's reduce the size of force.
Are you paying Santa Ana Traffic com No? But whatever City.
I'm fighting for Santa and you no, I know what
you mean, But I mean, is there a specific Santa
Ancient Santa and Santan's Santa Anui's Santa. I'm fighting for them. Yeah,
(06:20):
why are they paying for traffic cops? If if they're
gonna use cameras instead? They said, well we don't have
enough cops. Well that sounds like a management problem. Well
so they need more revenue. Here's a way to get it. Uh,
maybe what's the issue to begin with? Okay, if you
haven't you budgeted for it, it's not even that much.
What is it? What is the core? Uh? What is it?
(06:42):
What is the core purpose of government? If not? Public
safety is one of their top issues. Infrastructure of public
safety are the two core principles of government? So what
if I'm arguing that this enhances public safety? But if
I'm arguing, what are you spending money on that you
didn't spend on public safety? What almost sounds like you
have a public debate about it, and they have and
(07:03):
my side one in a four to two vote at
city Hall. I know you just love that surveillance And
here's how it would work if you get caught going
eleven to fifteen miles over the limit, it's only a
fifty dollars penalty, a double dat because they're not actually
enforcing it. They're making that penalty so low that you'll
just say it's not worth my effort. I'm going to
pay it. Sixteen to twenty five miles over two hundred dollars.
If you're going twenty six miles per hour or more,
(07:24):
that's five. What are the processing fees? Because that's where
California gets you. It's like you're testing and driving is
it's like a seventy five dollars ticket, but by the
time you're done, it's four to fifty. Yeah. Santa Ana
is struggling financially. They've already made a bunch of cuts
to balance their budget. Some members of council support this concept,
but they do say the city may not be able
to afford it without outside funding. So if you're already
(07:45):
making cuts and then they're saying, yeah, you could add
this potential revenue generator, regardless of your feelings about it,
Hey it we will also need another two million dollars
you get it running, and then maybe two million each
year to continue it, So it might not be worth
it on the other side of it. I got another story.
You are just gonna love. You are gonna eat this up.
You're gonna say, I think this is great. Santa Anna
(08:07):
is looking at these cameras that are photographing your car.
If you're spitting flot cameras going much further. They're recording
where millions of vehicles have been, and then they give
police a searchable map. Michael loves this. That technology has
solved murders. It's true. It's found missing people. It's true.
It's also helped other people stalk ex girlfriends, ex wives,
and other women hundreds of times. Michael doesn't care about women.
(08:28):
That's next. KFI AM six forty we live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio Web. You're listening to Monks and Merrill on
demand from KFI AM six forty. More stimulating talk. That
was that auto play I had ESPN open. I was
looking for a baseball scores today. I just hate that
auto play stuff. I do too, prive me nuts. I
(08:49):
do sound like a grumpy old man yelling at the clouds.
But knock that off. Knock it off. Lawmakers here in
California are considering a piece of legislation known as Senate
Bill ten to thirteen. I'm at Hew Police store search
and share automated license plate reader data. And this comes
as the LAPD has allowed its flock safety contract to
(09:10):
expire over unresolved concerns about privacy, data ownership, and outside access.
If you could join the program, I just stopped looking
at pages. Good news. Dodgers didn't lose today. Well, they've
lost six in a row. I think the day off,
I don't know. I go back and look at the schedule,
but I get are they even playing today? That's what
I'm saying. I think they have the day off. But
(09:30):
I again, I go back and look at the schedule,
but I get a Popeye's commercial. You don't you can
just do it on Oh don't you have bing? Aren't
you a big fan of it?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Bing?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I thought I would go to and patronize a Disney
Studios product, but I guess not. LA Dodgers play the
Arizona Diamondbacks tomorrow at six forty in the evening. Yeah,
Ban says they played tomorrow at six forty. Do you
have anything to say about the legislation that you made? Hey,
Monks and Merrow.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's Andrew from Santahna.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The proper term is santanos. All right, I like that. Okay,
that's a sexy one. I think I agree. That's my favorite.
Would you demonem? Demonem is you know, the which you
refer to someone when they're being from a place.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Hey, what's up Monks and Merrow talking about racism? I
don't think speedy old silence is racism. I'm Mexican American.
We're all Mexican here in my whole block, and we
missed speedy gon silence.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Whoever said that? Why would they think that's Mexican? I
mean racist? Crazy man?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yeah, this is so stupid or you know, nobody thinks,
No Mexican thinks speedy go silence is basis.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
On the contrary, we like the Actually producer Richie justised
me for it. He is, well, I think what producer
Richie is. Also, I believe Mexican American says you refer
to Eileen Gonzalezzales who she is? Are you Mexican? You're
Mexican American? Yeah that's true. So how many how many
(11:10):
actional the racist things have I said today? Four? Yeah? Okay,
it's three now. I mean if you called me slow
poke Rodriguez. Well that was what your name is not Rodriguez.
What it's not about. What he did was he took
your Mexican last name and associated it with the only
Mexican character that he could name and and just apply.
We were talking about speeding cameras, which, by the way,
(11:33):
I was right about it.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Hey, there are a couple of things. First of all,
it's got to get a picture of your face, otherwise
you weren't driving that car with somebody else, and you
can't remember who you loaned it to.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And Two, if you take it to court, you have
the right to face your accuser and ask questions.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Cameras can't quite do that.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
So yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's my issue. I'm being written a ticket by the machines.
This is his or William as it gets. And now
you've got the flock cameras. And as I've mentioned before,
I am not a fan, and I understand the upsides
to them. I get it. They've been used to track
stolen vehicles, to catch murderers, that kind of stuff. But
I don't know if you saw the news that came
out this week. There's also been more than fifty instances
of rogue officers accessing the cameras in order to track
(12:16):
down ex wives, ex girlfriends, follow their kids, whatever else.
It is. And one of the things I've read today
and I don't even remember where I saw it, but
I thought it was really good. I don't think it
even had to do with this, but it talked about
when you design a system, you don't design a system
assuming that everyone is on the up and up that's
going to use this system. You have to design a
(12:36):
system that is going to protect people from the worst
users of the system. In other words, we entrust police officers,
but that doesn't mean we need to give every officer
complete access to anybody's whereabouts at any given time, because
we also know there are bad apples. That's fair. Thank you.
I think that's the first piece of credit you've given
(12:58):
me today, and I appreciate that you're very attracted, pretty
nice to me trying to distance myself from your racist
and abborrent views. Three times, not four times, only three times,
twenty five percent reduction in merritle racism. Well done. So
can any other show claim that not currently? Thank you?
There is a privacy concern that is no longer theoretical
with some of these cameras. The Washington Post identified at
(13:19):
least fifty officers who have been accused. To your point,
I just said that, yeah, are charged with misusing licensed
plate readers. So I mean Mount California is looking to
put in restrictions on the data as well. So you've
got speed cameras recording your violations, You've got flot cameras
that are recording where you go. Speed cameras. Speed cameras
are just at one place, right, The flot cameras are
an interconnected system. And I want you to think about
(13:41):
something else. Another piece of news that just came out today,
and that is that Meta is the latest AI company
to have their AI breach the parameters and at another AI.
That's scary. So now what happens when all of a sudden,
you've got chat, GPT, and you've got Anthropic, and you've
got Meta, and they're all hacking into these systems. In
the past, you used to have to be somebody who's
really good hacking in order to hack a system. Now
(14:02):
you just have to be able to type in a
command on your AI to hack into a system. And
now anybody can get your location, not just a law
enforcement officers but anybody will now have access to this
when they hack the systems. No, you've convinced me. I
don't think I have. Let's no, I'm not. But you're
making some valid points. You absolutely are making some valid points.
I mean, the AI component is for consideration because we're
(14:23):
going to talk about it on our weekend show. More
monks and merrill about coding and how it used to
be a pejorative. You know, you might thought somebody who
lost their job right will let you learn how to code,
because you would always have a job coding. And that's
not true anymore. No, because the AI is really coming
for that job first. And to know that they're so
(14:43):
good at it they're hacking man, that is scary. One
of the things that concerns me about these flog cameras too,
is I don't doubt that the cameras in the location
tracking has been used to stop crimes. They have that.
You don't have to feel that way. It not to
stop crimes, rather to turn to catch catch criminals. And
we can't prove what's been deterred that any deterrent system,
(15:05):
you can't actually prove how effective it is. You just
make assumptions based on one number versus the next year's numbers.
I saw Deterred and running and Canyon. I really like that.
I'm not laughing because the boss told me not to
laugh at your poo poo jokes, but I really thought
that was funny. Here's the other issue that I'm having
(15:26):
with this is that some of these cameras have been
used for not just stalking ex girlfriends and things like that.
That's scary. There have been cases that have involved searches
for an abortion clinic, and so you've got, for instance,
Texas was trying to track people down that were leaving
the state of Texas to come to California and have
an abortion. Yeah, it's another tool that's in their belt
(15:47):
to try to stop these We're not just talking about
murders and things like that. We're talking about things that
are legal in some states, but in another state says
you can't go to that state to do it legally. Now,
imagine if somebody was tracking you from po Dunk, Kentucky
to whatever state wherever you were going to buy your
drugs where it was legal. Now you got a camera
following you around to try to try to make sure
that they catch you for that. How would they know
(16:08):
my intent? Well, they saw you on one camera coming
across the border right out of the shop. Yeah, but
unless it tracked me, it wouldn't know what I did.
Have you not been paying attention to what they do?
They track where you're going. Flot camera A says you
were here at this time, Flot camera B says you
were here at this time, point A, point B. Mean
they tell you how fast you're traveling. You're telling me
(16:30):
they're going if I live in a state that doesn't
have legal cannabis, correct, and I'm driving across the border
to a state that does, Yes, and then I'm coming
back home, which is technically a crime. Yes, to transport
the drugs across the border. Yes. Did they know that
I went to the dispensary, Yeah, there's a flot camera
right outside of it. Because a lot of people like
you who just love George orwell you thought nineteen eighty
(16:52):
four was an instruction manual, they're following you all over
the place doing something that you think should be legal.
They disagree that, Go make some calls. Yeah, you're gonna
have to start cover some evidence real fast. Anyway, California
is trying to put some restrictions on that, which I
hope they do. I wish they would just restrict the
whole stupid thing. That doesn't I want crime salt. Please
(17:14):
don't get me wrong. Did you see that? Just to
help clear some innocent people before we run?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Though?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I mean it's had some I love that too. Yeah.
Tustin police here in Soko said that a license plate
information helped them rule out one apparent suspect and a murder,
and it helped identify another man who was arrested near
the Mexican border. Did you also see it? So put
that in your pipe and smoking? Was it? I hit
one of them that since it was a ridiculous number.
There was a ridiculous number of like false readings. I
(17:41):
don't have the number for me. I don't want to
quote it. I had that story somewhere. Well, I got
a big number for you. No, that's not a joke.
It's more on the homeless scam in southern California. Oh,
it's just that ceo that oh God lives in Hawaii.
But as the CEO of a homeless organization in La
Edwards County. What a good gig this is? Wait until
(18:03):
you hear how much she was being paid to do
nothing and accomplish nothing. That is next on Monks and
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(18:25):
including the horrible racist things Michael said earlier in the
show today and to flect acclivity toward animal abuse real
quick here to put a cap on the discussion about
the cameras. It's always this argument you have.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Nothing to hide, thin flock. Cameras are great. They help
solve crime. They help solve crime. They help solve crime.
Say it again, God, this is why I don't listen
to this show.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, this is why. Okay, let me ask you something.
Why do we have a Fourth Amendment? Not to get
all philosophical on you, do we have a fourth Amendment?
The founders thought it was important. Why if I haven't
committed a crime, then why am I worried about somebody
searching seizure? Yeah? Why am I worried about somebody searching
for my car. If I haven't committed a crime. Why
(19:11):
am I worried about somebody coming into my house if
I haven't committed a crime. Well, they can't just search
your car for no reason. They have to have some
sort of either a warrant, suspicions aid, what are you hiding?
There's no reason for a Fourth Amendment if you haven't
if you haven't done anything wrong. I don't think you
fully read the Fourth Amendment. I have, I do, and
I also have read up on these flock cameras. Jesse,
(19:34):
can you get the fife playing? Please? I need a
good fife for this, uh patriot over here? Who is
that you went to music school? Do you have a
master's degree in music? Get the fife? Pull up a fife. Unbelievable.
I don't want to hear Merril talk about the Fourth
Amendment again without the fife underscore. Get his tri color hat,
(19:54):
tri corner hat out of the the laundry as well,
thank you, Jesse. I think it's a tri corn hat.
Try corner so Roseville police, God, I love a good fife.
Roseville police say that seventy one percent of their license
plate alerts were misread by Flock's machine learning software. That
(20:18):
means that seventy one percent of the cars that they
identified had not done anything wrong. And yet we're still
under suspicion. And for what?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
For what?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Because you've got nothing to worry about if you haven't
committed any crime. Do you have something to worry about?
Do you have any dead possums in your trunk that
you're trying to take across the order rug trafficker? Let's
talk about something that should be a crime. The homeless
industrial complex in southern California. There's an organization called You know,
we always talk about lossa right, but loss is just
(20:51):
the head of the monster, okay, And those tentacles branch
out to all kinds of different little groups. The seventeen
thirty six Family Crisis Center, and it paid it CEO
Carol Atakoff more than one point six million dollars in
compensation across two tax filings. Holy crap, that includes around
eight hundred and twenty four thousand dollars attributed to unused
(21:13):
vacation accumulated over forty years. Wait a minute, she hadn't
taken a vacation forty years. Allegedly. This is a reporting
out of the La Times the payout, they say, may
not violate California law because earned vacation does count as wages.
I mean we would get that too, it's in contracts. Okay,
does your charity not have a cap on vacation time? Here, bingo,
(21:34):
we have to use ours or you start getting penalized.
But if you leave with like a week or two,
you do cash that out forty years worth. The paper's
characterization is that the troubling part is that the board
that oversees this organization allowed one executive to accumulate an
unlimited liability capping vacation accural for other employees, and then
(21:56):
they declined to disclose the records. And not only that
the CEO. Are you telling me that that CEO worked
every single day for forty years straight? Or is it
the CEO so they have CEO time now. I'm sure
when the business was early, they were probably put in
seventy eighty hour weeks. I know how small businesses work. Sure,
I get that you started a business. You know what
startup is like. Those weeks are unending, they're brutal, but
(22:19):
after you get the machine rolling a little bit. In
this case, they were getting these government contracts are you
telling me the CEO wasn't taken off for a nice
martini lunch. Well, would you have to take a vacation though,
if you live in Hawaii, And if you live in Hawaii, believable.
So she doesn't even live here. So she's running the nonprofit.
(22:40):
She's the CEO who's quote unquote running the nonprofit from
her home in Hawaii and ends up pocketing this amount
of money. The organization itself gets about fifteen million dollars
in annual revenue. She got ten percent of that. And
how much of that comes from you? Ninety four percent
comes from government funded grants. She typically makes four hundred
(23:00):
a year. That's not unusual for these nonprofits that are
part of this industrial homeless complex that accomplish absolutely nothing
except to enrich these executives. So she us no accountability
on that four hundred thousand dollars. It's shot up in
twenty twenty three, she said to The Times. The salary
didn't jump like that. That's a quote. Oh no, didn't jump.
It was simply a matter of reducing a crude vacation
(23:22):
liability on the books and paying it out. So she
makes four hundred thousand dollars a year. She's got all
this vacation time, which is shady as hell, but let's
suppose it's even realistic. Okay, what does the rest of
the board make. Well, the board doesn't really make a
whole lot. I usually it's voluntary. But the second thing
did get compensated here the board, the board did. The
(23:43):
board president has served for twenty five years. That's not
a paid gigo. You're on the board of a nonprofit,
the homeless industrial complex thing, it's voluntary. Okay, So how
much should he be making? Zero? He said that he
over the course of twenty five years, was making between
thirty grand and ninety seven thousand dollars. Was he also
(24:03):
doing is he clocking in? No, he's not an employee.
He's just on the board and he's making that a
year or that's the total over thirty years he's been
paid annually. So third somewhere between thirty and ninety ninety
seven to five, Yeah, almost one hundred. Yeah, it's a scam.
They get fifteen million dollars in revenue, this group does.
They've been around for fifty years. The Family Crisis Center.
Fifteen million dollars in revenue. Guess where that comes? From
(24:26):
you and me. I just said, exactly, government funded grant
for crisis hot lines, domestic shelters and programs to help
homeless people. And they got sixteen facilities in Ella in
Orange County. And fairness, they made sure that the board
president and the CEO had homes, big, nice homes. In fact,
Adlekoff the CEO, she's had a primary residence on the
Big Island of Hawaii for at least eleven years. Primary residence,
(24:50):
not a second home, okay that she flies off to
and enjoys a little bit of vacation with the family
around the holidays. Primary home. Okay. So the system is working,
it's keeping her. She apparently she had left California in
two thousand and two and they asked her to stay
on as CEO. I mean, this is even before work
(25:10):
from home became like the predominant. Yeah, we weren't even
all that back. We still called it telecomuting. You couldn't
do zoom meetings in two thousand and two. I mean,
I guess we had a little bit of Skype, but
it wasn't great. No, not no too really, yeah, I
think we were still doing ICQ. That's when my wife
and I started first dating online using chat? Can we
(25:32):
get the fight? Get the five playing again while you
tell a story about how you met your wife. It
was a cold January teeth. She was telecommuting from home.
He was working in Omaha. She found that irresistible. Yeah,
I had to get a taste of Nebraska. She loved that.
(25:55):
This is just another in the latest round of shocking
discoveries of how much people get paid to keep people homeless.
I don't like your attitude, and so I am going
to provide you with a good homeless story, A good one. Yeah,
all right, Tom, got a good one. Sorry, First, first.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
This, you know I don't Laura and Hardy, Martin, Lewis, Mutton, Jeff.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Let me and share the steering Rodgers, Torrival and teen.
I could go on and on, but no team.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Has anything on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Oh, Chris, also sign me on.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Hi Chris, thank you so much. I appreciate that. I
also love your your knowledge of blood Villian duos. That's fantastic. Yeah,
very cool. We appreciate that very much. All right, So
you agree you want money in the system spent on
getting people help right, Help the homeless people, not just
these ridiculous nonproducts. I would like the money to not
just go to CEOs. There is a mechanism to force
people who are out of their minds into a system
(26:56):
of assistance. Is it working. We'll find out more about
the care Court. You're listening to Monks and Meryl from
kf I am six available anywhere on the Iart radio app.
Monks and Meryll. It must be Monks tomorrow, Chris out,
Jesse's gone long. They were quick on that suspension today. Yeah,
you deserved it, and I also filled out there. I
(27:19):
feel pretty good because at one point you said I
was I had four racisms today. One had to be reduced. Uh,
and then you committed one as well, so it's three
to one. I didn't commit one. I corrected one. No,
you committed one. Thank you. She was the victim who
let the woman speak. What all right?
Speaker 7 (27:37):
We's going to be dead air from twelve to three
tomorrow and the show's never sent me now And happy
birthday again to Michelle Cube, our executive producer has to
put up with all of this.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
There's something called care court. Yes, I'm a fair court.
I like this and it's four homeless people because we
just didn't have a lot of stuff for that sort
of thing, and it gives families, clinicians, first responders, others
a civil court process for connecting people with serious psychotic
disorders ok to treatment, which is a nice way of saying,
(28:10):
there's a crazy guy screaming at the moon on my street,
and now the police can say, Okay, well we're going
to take you into custody and we're going to drop
you off at care court. In the old days, we
call that an asylum sort of yeah, you would take
them bet an asylum, and the old days care courts
basically says you can stay in the asylum. Yeah yeah,
(28:32):
scream here, young man, kind of come on in here
and screen. It just hadn't been used a whole lot
in La County, but now it sounds like we're starting
to catch on. I think I'm going to give you
credit for this. I think people listen to your internment
camp idea. Yeah, and they thought not quite ready to
go full nineteen thirties Germany on them, but maybe halfway there. Okay.
(28:55):
Germany had concentration camps that led to executions, which were
millions of Jewish people. What your proposal was, I'm just
ingesting internment camps just like the Japanese had during World
War Two, so it's more American nineteen forties. Yes, okay,
exactly now, the Japanese hadn't done anything wrong the Japanese
Americans that was a very very dark chapter in our history,
(29:15):
in American history. Whereas the homeless people, the drug addicts,
the mental health people, they are committing crimes on a
daily basis and making it unlivable. So I wouldn't mind
putting them in a nice little facility against them. The
trouble is, the care court doesn't actually create a guaranteed housing.
YEA mandates that they get behavioral health treatment, medication support,
case management, substance abuse treatment, social services, and a housing plan.
(29:36):
But if they're living on the street and they're not
already getting these things, what does another mandate have to do?
What are you gonna give? You can't solve homelessness with paperwork.
Write that down. I feel like that's a good quote.
You don't win friends with salad. No, don't ruin my quote.
You don't win, You can't. You don't win friends with salad.
You can't solve homelessness with paperwork. You don't get that reference.
(30:00):
It's an old Simpsons anyway, oh, I thought it was
Larry David this plan talking about housing plans for the
mental health folks they're picking up off the street, the
roosters who are screaming. Ever going to have a housing plan?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
These are people that you there are so many of them,
Like you see some who are having a breakdown, or
some people were very high like that can be cleaned up.
That is a person who might be able to get
some counseling, may get some help and could recover and
come back from the brink. It's very few. It's very few.
If you see a few, even in Pasadena, I see
(30:37):
them all the time. Choje your pictures. I have no
idea what was going on this morning, but at five
thirty there were sirens all over the place in the
metro station. Yea yeah, And you see these folks, and
you know there's this is the population that makes up
the homeless count that we're talking about. Right, They're never
going to live in housing again. I would bet nine
out of ten of them will never live in housing again.
(31:01):
And until the local leaders start to take that seriously,
we're never going to solve this problem because we will
continue to spend billions of dollars, you deal with them,
You put them in a termitent camp, and then what
well you're saying ternment camp, I might say asylum or
mental health facility, whatever you want to call it, just
keep feeding. At some point you're going to say, oh,
our asylum is full, it's time to start cleaning people
(31:21):
out of here. And then all of a sudden you
turn into you and the possums, you and the porcupines
drowning them in the bucket. No, I'm too humane for that. No, Unfortunately,
we're going to be paying for this either way. I
would just rather pay for it less expensively and more effectively.
Start treating these folks for the problems that they really have,
which are mental in drug addiction, and they're never stop
(31:41):
giving the money CEOs who live in Hawaii. Bingo yeah,
bingo yeah. Start spending the money on these types of
facilities that offer actual care to people who need it,
with the understanding, with the recognition that these folks will
never live on their own again, and get them a
harsh takee on homelessness. But I don't think there's enough
(32:02):
that isn't Nope, stop telling me you can't get tents
off the streets until we build, you know, twenty story
condos at eight hundred thousand dollars a unit. Stop telling
me this stuff, because these are not the people who
will be living in that. Stop we spend so much
time worrying about the folks on the street and how
we can treat them better while ignoring the lack of
(32:26):
quality of life that so many of the rest of
us have. Because this problem exists because they take up
so much of our funding, because they take up so
much of our environment, because they set so many fires
and do so many crimes. Somebody in a tent on
the street is not exactly a quality of living situation either.
But there are too many politicians that want to leave
the folks there because they think that's their right. It
is their right to block your business, it is their
(32:48):
right to block your kid's path to school. When they
just set up their tents wherever they want, park yourrvs,
park yourvs wherever you want, do your drugs in the
middle of the street. For all I care is what
they that's that's their perspective. Get these camps gone. Michael
hates our v's. I hate broken down, disgusting, our vs,
(33:09):
full of homeless drug addicts and crazy. Give you a
chance to one one thousand dollars coming up here and
about twenty five minutes the godfather have talked. John Cobalts
got to a one thousand dollars givoying nationwide contest. Give
you a chance to win that. Tomorrow we're gonna just
talk about zoning for three hours, so I hope everybody
will be here for class. Bring your notebooks. If you
(33:30):
haven't heard about setbacks, you're gonna want to listen to
mon Setbacks are important and if we could amend some
of the setbacks, we could. You know, we can't even
talk about what are you doing to Moore? Oh man?
You know I love talking about Metro and that's for real.
And I'm wondering if you folks who say you will
never get on it would change your mind if Metro
promised to pay you hundreds of dollars, that's actually happening.
(33:51):
We're gonna have Metro join us to talk about it.
La County trying to prepare for the next big earthquake.
We're gonna talk a bit about that. And you think
way Moo's are bad, I do. Wait till you meet
their cousin Zis who could be coming. I've met l
Brandon him in Vegas. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Okay,
it's a monk's technology months on your own. Well, you've
(34:12):
been ignoring it and all my pitches all week. I'm
gonna do it myself because tomorrow I get to do
whatever I want. Well, it's gonna be scary. Yes, they're
starting at noon Monks and Merrill minus the Merril tomorrow noonish.
The godfather of talk radio, the Great John Cobbel, steps
into the padded room next KFI AM six forty live
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