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GUEST – LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton: 8 sentenced for roles in flash-mob robberies across SoCal 

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It's KFI Am sixty and you're listeningto the Conway Show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app Hot Dog. All right, we are. We have a pack
show today. We have Deputy ChiefAlan Hamilton from the LAPD. We're gonna
talk to him in a second.He's wandering his way up the halls right

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Dean Dog segment and that's gonna becool. Painting today. Painting is a
big deal. Your old buddy doctorRay Kasherry from COVID years remember, he
came on with us every night fortwo or three hours some nights to try
to talk us off the ledge whenit comes to COVID. He'll be on

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cars than anybody. So I'm gladyou guys got the push notification. That
is a great deal. And soeverybody listening right now, if you got
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Alan Hamilton, how are you,sir? Nice to see him,
man, how you been? Let'sflip his mic on here there you going?
Nice to say it? Man?Yeah? Is this mike on?
Is that on? There we go? Is that on? Yeah? There

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we go? How about now herewe go? All right? There we
go? Dig dog with you,buddy. I really appreciate you coming by.
I know we gave you the optionof doing it on the phone,
and you said, now what youwant to come in person to sniff around
here and see if everybody's on theup and up and see what's going on
here. I get that, butthis is a big deal. These smash
and grabbers have been affecting a lotof people for a long time. And

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did you finally get your guys?Well, you know, Tim, we
got some of them, okay,and we're gonna continue to look for the
other ones. I'll tell you thatwe have a great partner in the Attorney
General's office. You know, I'mgonna give a shout out to Rob Bonta
and his people. They have donea phenomenal job and assisting us in this
prosecution. And I think what's importantis I said in the press conference,

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it's important that people understand that there'sgonna be a penalty for these types of
activities, especially these individuals that we'reengaging in violence. You know, we
have a car jacking, we haveviolent acts against people that are just trying
to conduct retail business in the cityand in the region. We're just not
going to tolerate it. Right.That's fantastic because you know the robbery is

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going on in Sena right now.I grew up in and around that area.
Those people are petrified of what's happeningin that area. I know that
you have the mounted police out there, you're trying to put a lid on
that boiling pod. But those peoplemove down to that part of the valley
principally to stay away from crap likethis. So I'm going to talk about
a couple of things that we've donethe Los Angeles Police Department Number one.

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Quite often, you know, youdon't really see all of the activity,
but I'm telling people right now,behind the curtain, there are things that
are happening. For instance, wediscussed it today with our leadership team and
we've decided that our Commercial Crimes andDivision is going to take over this investigation,
so downtown is involved. Now,we have our partners in the region

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who are also going to assist us, and we're we're on the ground now.
We're going to be paying specific attentionto that in Sino Tarzana area,
as you know that area is nearand dear to my heart, sure I
understand the concern of the community regardingthis this recent uptick in burgeries, and
we are on it. We aregoing to address it. We're going to
identify who is involved, and weare going to arrest him and we were

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going to prosecute him. You know, I saw one overnight on Tampa.
You're very familiar with that area Tampa, just south of Ventura Boulevard, where
four guys tried to or three guystried to break him home, and there
was also a getaway driver. Andthen it was a guy sleeping in his
camper or his motor home whatever itwas, I couldn't tell. And he's
the one that shined the flash lighton him and they high tailed it out

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of the area. But but youknow, but a guy who lives in
that area shouldn't have to do that. You shouldn't have to sleep in a
motor home to try to protect hisstreet. I do understand that that you
know, lapd as is on,you know, running thin. What is
the ideal number of officers sworn officerswhen you're a chief or if you're chief,

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and I think you will be,what is the number you would like
to have? And what is itnow? Well, so number one,
let me address the elephant in theroom. I will not be able to
discuss the chief of police selection becauseI have no information I write a Chief
of police selection, that's a confidentialprocess. But I will say this,
the number of police officers that wehave right now, we're at about eighty

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eight ten and that is not sufficientto police a city of four million plus
people. We have a few specialevents coming up too. I don't know
if you heard right, but thiscity. People don't know this. It
goes from Chats where the sam pedroit does. It's a long way,
huge, it's a lot, andwe're doing I think we're doing some outstanding
police work. And I give allof that credit to our hard working officers

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that are on the streets, bootson the ground out here doing the actual
work, prowling around those alleys attwo o'clock in the morning where no one
else is willing to go. Theydo a phenomenal job with the resources we
have, but we need more.I think let's reference back to some of
the historical numbers that have been thrownout there. When Chief Bratton came in,
who's a good you know, agood friend of mine, a great
leader, he said he was startingat fifteen thousand. Wow, that was

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back in the early two points.He had fifteen thousand. He was looking
at fifteen thousand for the Los AngelesPolice Department based on his experience in Boston
and New York and the city hasonly grown since then. The city has
grown. So not only has thecity grown, but just for instance,
if you look at the San FernambaValley, where there were once agricultural areas,
where there were once fills, wherethere were once empty lots, now

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we're seeing multi level residential apartment buildings. I mean, people are living there.
They need to be policed. Wesee big malls popping up, we
see business and industry coming in,and that's great, but someone has to
police it and keep it safe.I think even recently, I think you
saw a police commission former president andnow he's left the commission, but a

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commissioner Briggs, he started at twelvethousand, five hundred, you know,
I mean, those are the numbersof people that are in the know,
that looked at where Los Angeles wasand decided these were the baseline numbers where
we need for safety. Now Idon't know where that number, actually,
you know, exists where we cansay where we need to be. I
can tell you where it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist in eighty eight ten,

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right, And you know the cityof New York. New York City
has more people but much smaller footprint, and they have thirty seven thousand cops.
Their their footprint is much smaller thanours. Now they're built up.
I will give you that they arebuilt up, but the five boroughs are
policed by, like you said,thirty seven thousand change plus civilians. Wow.

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Man, that's unbelievable. Why canyou stay with us? Absolutely?
All right, Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton'swith us. We'll talk more about the
smash and grab. We'll also talkabout one of the presidential candidates said that
more cops on the street is notthe safe way to go. I'm glad
you have an opinion on that aswell. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from KFI AM. Itis The Conway Show. We continue here

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hopefully got the push notification with ourbeautiful app, the iHeart Radio app and
joining us from LAPD is Alan Hamilton. He is a Deputy chief And I
didn't know this, and I andI'm ashamed that I don't know this because
I we text each other a coupleof times a week, you know,
at least you know, four orfive six times a month, and I

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didn't know that you were the chiefof all detectives. That's my new role.
I've gone city wide now as opposedto just being in the valley.
And I have a job. It'sit's a great job. It's been busy
lately. Sure, I'm trying notto make it a growth industry, but
we are. We are trying to, you know, crack some of these

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larger cases. Unfortunately, quite oftenour heart working detectors are out there making
great progress, but we can't alwaysshare all the information with the public in
real time. I can assure everyoneof this though. We have some of
the finest detectives, some of themost well trained, and some of the
most hardest working investigators on the LosAngeles Police Department. And I will say

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and I will say this, eventhough we're small in numbers, we are
quite a force to be reckoned with, especially when the call goes out for
help. I mean, on someof our major cases, I'm turning away
help because we're getting a crush ofinvestigators that are chopping at the bit to
help us. And it's not alwaysthe big, sexy, you know,

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out in the open public case.Quite often it's the one that we're quietly
working behind the scenes, where peoplejust want to chip in and provide some
justice for those victims provide some finalityfor that family, and they want to
help make this a safer community.So sure, we don't get the opportunity
to handle things right up front,when patrol is there and we're working things
right up front, but the communityneeds to know that we're working on the

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back end and that we're aggressively investigatingthese cases to bring justice to our victims.
I was listening to what one ofthe two presidential candidates, Kamala Harris,
and she said, more cops ina neighborhood doesn't make it safer.
I disagree with that. I imagineyou have an opinion. Well, so

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I'm not going to address I'm anon political Okay, all right, but
let's say somebody said, and it'snot just her, A lot of people
have said more cops don't make itsafer. I think that's exactly the opposite.
Yeah, it certainly is not her. I think there's a sentiment out
there now. So let's let's let'sdo this. Let's put out a poll.
Let's find out which LA community wantsfewer cops. Okay. I'd love

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to see lists, Okay, butI get it it's going to be a
very short list. That's right,that's exactly right. I think that if
you were to ask on balance,any community that is serviced by the Los
Angeles Police Department that hasn't established relationshipwith their community officers that works with them
bringing solutions to public safety issues ina community. I don't think there's assumed

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comediyan in Los Angeles that's going tosay I want fewer laped officers. I
think you're right. How many detectivesare there with LA what's that number?
So right now we're at about fourteenhundred to sixteen LA, just kind of
depending, and they're spread throughout thecity, so you have the geographic divisions.
I've got roughly uh, you know, I've got a few hundred under
under my wing over in detective Bureau. I think we've got investigators that are

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working internal affairs, okay, workingvice working some undercover assignments that you know,
we're we don't even acknowledge that theyexist. So but they're all investigators.
Okay. But by simple deduction youcould and you don't have to do
on the air, because I don'twant you to, you know, to
alienate anybody, but you probably knowand have a couple of names in your
mind, who are the best detectivesat LAPD. You've worked with them before.

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I can say, in my shortnear thirty five years on the department,
we and now don't forget to him. I know we've talked about this
before. I've trained statewide, I'vereally trained people from all over the country.
I've kind of seen what's out there. And I Am not going to
sit here and put LAPD above everyoneelse, but I would tell you that
there are individuals and teams on theLos Ange Police Department that would make any

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police agency prout. And you andyou, probably without naming people, you
know the people who are the bestdetectives in LAPD, like the people you
turn to on big cases. Oh, I definitely have them in my contact
list. And and on the otherend of that, you probably know the
dumbest guy, the dumbest detective.Let's just say that there are some detectives
that need to enhance training. Thatwould be me right, I'd be like,

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okay, Well, even for theones within that needed help, get
it. I get it to usas leaders to provide them. I get
it. We were at Frank Lunz'shouse about four years ago. Is that
pre COVID. It was wow whenwe were there, and you were kind
enough to invite me to the LAPDChristmas party. It was at Frank Lunz's
house, which is a mutual friendof ours. And you said, you're
on call all the time. Youdon't get a break. And I said

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to you, I was sitting atyour table, I'm sitting next to you
or eating and and I said,well, how do you respond to a
call if you know you've had acouple of drinks and then you get the
call, you remember your response.I do remember my respot. I don't
drink, that's right, So Idon't have that problem. I've never drink.
That's that. See. I justassumed that, you know, the
cops drink and smoke and they andthey're like, you know, and that's

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the type, that's how they lettheir stress out. So you know,
it's funny. I I try todo the exercise thing. I don't drink.
I've never drank, I've never smoked. I have no problem buying people
drinks, driving you know, peoplehome that have been drinking, and all
that other good stuff. I havenothing against alcohol. I just chose not
to drink. Get it smoking,I chose not to smoke because I don't

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like to smell. It's just personalthing. Might you pick it up both
up after you retire drinking and smoking? You know, I say, there's
a better than average chance that oneof my sons will eventually twist my arm
and make me have a drink withthem, and so I will run out
of excuses the day I retire,and I don't know, maybe in my
retirement right before. We have noguest son right now? Can you stay

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another segment? Absolutely? Oh,you're the best? All right? Alan
Hamilton's with us. I didn't knowthis. He is the chief of detectives
at LAPD. And what's weird isone of my other good friends I've known
since I was thirteen, Chris Pitcher. He preceded you, he did.
So what are the odds that Ithat I have a very good friend who
I have played hockey with since Iwas you know, in sixth grade or

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fifth grade? And then the guywho replaces him is a guy I've known
for twenty years or more. Crazy. That's unbelievable, man, oh man,
I really hope that, you know, if anything, anything happens,
I could catch a little break likea parking ticket or a jaywalking ticket,
something like that. Man, Ineed a buy back. We might have

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to double down on your parking ticket. I need a buy back from these
guys. No breaks in LA allright, we are live in l LAPD
Deputy Chief and in charge of alldetectives. The Chief of all Detectives is
whether us Alan Hamilton will come backand talk more about lap the flash mobs,
where the city is going, howwe're preparing for the Olympics. It's

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only four short years away. We'renext, so we got to get all
those answers. You're listening to TimConway Junior on demand from KFI Am six
forty. We're gonna be a liveremote tomorrow in Huntington Beach. Hope you
can stop by two hundred Main Street, Bjay's Restaurant and brew House. It's
going to be an awesome event.It all starts tomorrow at four pm two

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hundred Main Street right there in HuntingtonBeach. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton is
with us. The King of allDetectives is what he calls himself. I
believe right is that Correy put histhere you go blue button right there?
Not in this lifetime but there areno detectives in LAPD higher than you.

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I would be the main person regardingthe detective work. That's right, that's
right. They all work under you. Correct, that's right. I know
you don't like to sit and putit that way, but that's how it
is. You're part of the teamand you report to the chief, report
to the director, who reports directlyto the chief. Yeah, okay,
all right. So the Olympics arecoming up, that's going to be a

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big deal. I imagine you guyshave already started working on it. We
have. We have a team onthe ground in Paris right now. They're
working closely with Finch authorities. Weare developing our game plan as we have
been for quite some time. Wehave a team in place that is working
on identifying how we're going to coordinatethat. They're working with LA twenty eight.
They're looking at the current infrastructure,how we're going to secure it,

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how we're going to make it safe, how we're going to coordinate with outside
governmental agencies. When all the dignitaries, athletes, etc. Come in,
Coaches, trainers, all the otherthings that travel with the Olympics. We're
looking at where people will be housed, how we're going to do the transportation.
We're looking at all of those thingswith of course in mind the world
could sometimes be a not so niceneighborhood. So we're working closely with our

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federal partners, our state partners,and we're going to devise and develop a
professional plan that is going to getguarantee a safe Olympics good for the city
in twenty twenty eight. And Iimagine the LA Sheriff's departments could they have
a big hand in it as well. So they've been great partners. They
also have staff on the ground inParis as well. We're going to be
working hand in hand with them aswell as some of our other partners in

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New region, and we're going tomake sure that everyone has a good experience.
Now I can't vouch for the art, so the art is going to
you know, that comes from theInternational Olympic Committee, is going to be
something that's separate from us. Butin terms of the safety and security of
these games, we're kind of tryingto make these the safest games in the
history of the Olympics. And that'sfantastic. Just real quickly. I know

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there was a Chief Darryl Gates.You know, I used to live out
near when Edca and I heard amillion cop cars all night long. And
you know, I'm in Tarzanaho.Used to hearing maybe one or two and
I maybe three or four, butfive or six helicopters and one after another.
And I could tell when these copsare flying because you can hear the

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car's bottom out as they're flying aroundthe valley. And I said to my
wife, something big is going on. Well, that was the night that
Randy Simmons was killed Randall Simmons orRandy Simmons, and he was the first
guy in the history of SWAT tobe killed in the line of duty.
That was a big deal. Yeah, yeah, you know, Randy is
a great guy. He provided us. I had training from Randy back in

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the day. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So back when he was
in SWAT, he used to teachentries for a lot of the other units,
and I was in one of thespecialized units where we had training from
Randy and some of the other SWATmembers. He's always, you know,
a little bit of a jokester tome because I saw him kind of clowning
around with the guys and gals.But a great guy. I remember I

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was in school in San Diego whenthat happened over on Wellby Way, A
very tragic day for this department.He was loved by everyone and he was
a master of his craft. Hewent nationwide, really worldwide, teaching principles
of SWAT de escalation before de escalationwas a thing. And he also had
as a beautiful, very smart,very funny wife. Yes, well she's

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great that as well. Yes,And you know, I pray for the
family all the time. And youknow, that was a really big loss
for this department, not just becausehe works, what because of who he
was as a person, all hiswork in the community. You know a
lot of people don't know that hewas in the ministry involved trying to get
people back on track. You know, this was something that was very important
that a lot of people don't knowabout Randy. He was definitely about steering

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people away from the negative influences inlife and trying to help even hardcore inmates
get back on track. His thingwas, if we can help him get
back on track, then I don'thave to deal with him as a police
officer, right, And I thinka lot of that has rubbed off on
you I know that you do thatas well. You don't talk about you
don't publicize it, but you alsoare very involved with that as well,
getting people back on track. Yeah, and you know, I can only

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hope to be a giant like Randywas. But I've been involved in this
turning gang members lives around since Iwas in high school. I think that's
such an overlooked component. People don'treally realize the work the Los Ange Police
Department does in the background, workingwith the Mayor's Grid Office, working with
the Staffinata Valley Coalition, non gangs, trying to turn people's lives around.

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We're in the room monthly, justfor instance, so I know the public
doesn't know about this. We're inthe room with people that are working intervention
in diversion, having real discussions officers, community workers, face to face,
talking about what solutions will keep ourkids off the streets, out of trouble
and put them on the successful pathfor life. And there's no better place

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and no better person to do itin LA than you because you were born
and raised right here, I think, in South Los Angeles. I was
literally born right there in Manchester,Vermont in South Los Angeles, lived there
went to school in Englewood. Thishas been my this has been my home
from Earth, and I right nowam very concerned about the direction of some

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of our youth because little known fact, the Los ange Police Department is the
big st after school program in thecity of Los Angeles. We have great
programs. We've got three hundred kidswrestling over into Penging Division. We've got
kids doing boxing up in Foothill atHolland Beck. We've got the La Rams,
the wats Rams, we got LincolnHeights football teams. We've got all
these things going, and the public, the general public doesn't know the dedication.

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Some of these officers spend their ownhours coaching sports, coaching dancing Folklodia
coole. I mean, we've gotall these things going, and we keep
that machine going even with our eightyone hundred officers. Imagine if we had
ten thousand, Yeah, that wouldbe great. All Right, we come
back. Can you stay one moresegment? One hundred? Pay? All
right? Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton iswith us. Video came out yesterday Lapdia
officer punching a guy in the face. I want to ask you about back.

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Talk about it. Okay, you'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty tomorrow atfour pm. At this hour we will
be inside of Bjay's Restaurant and brewHouse, so hope to see you there
in Huntington Beach, two hundred MainStreet, and that'll go on from fortal

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seven pm tomorrow. LAPD Deputy ChiefAlan Hamilton is with us and we've had
some We've seen video of an LAPDofficer punching a suspect in the phase while
he's handcuffed. What do you think, Well, at this point, our
Forced Investigation Division is going to takethat investigation over. I know in a

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first appearance it could be problematic withouta doubt, but I think what we
need to do is let the investigationgo forward and if we find that someone
who's violated policy, the law,etc. This department will take action up
to an including termination if that isthe case. But if it's the case
where we look at the entire investigation, we look at the rest of the

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video, we look at the factsbehind the case. If it's determined that
it was within policy in the law, then there may be some discipline.
It may not result in termination,but we have to see what happens during
the investigation. More video coming out, I'm pretty sure there will be.
And in addition to that, we'regoing to do a through investigation. Neither
one of the officers, to myknowledge, are currently working the field,

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so they'll be they will not behaving public contact. We're going to conduct
a swift investigation and we're going tolet the facts determine what should happen,
and we're going to make a ananalysis of course, if something did go
wrong, of how we can improveand we're going to make sure that if
there were shortcomings that they're addressed.All right, and you'll come back when

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it happens, and if you cancome on the air and explain what happened,
that'd be great. Yeah. Soonce it's investigated, whatever that period
of time, I'll be happy toaddress the facts of the investigation. Okay,
we have a lot of events comingup in Los Angeles. We have
the World Cup, we've got SuperBowl, We've got all the awards shows
that are continuing, we have theOlympics coming up, we've got two elections

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coming up, and LA not onlyis you know at eighty eight hundred,
and it would be nicer if itwas at fifteen thousand. But now you
have to think, if Kamala Harrisbecomes president, she's in Los Angeles all
the time. That's another you know, obligation for you guys. Sure,
so as a candidate, as theleading Democratic candidate, there are going to

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be incidents and requirements for her safety. And then if she were to become
the president of the United States,then that is an additional layer where we're
going to have to assist our USSecret Service partners and our federal partners and
ensuring the safety and not only ofher, but obviously her entire family.
If the second Gentleman becomes the firstGentleman of the United States, then that

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is an additional you know, securityneed. And you know, I think
we're ready to take on any challengethat's necessary. But it just adds another
layer to the complexity of the cityof Los Angeles. Sure, and I
what I always say is we're hiring, I mean key for qualified candidates to
come on this department and be thatchange that everyone wants. Much beside the

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salary, you know, the startingsalary right now is about eighty six thousand
dollars. Really, yeah, soit's not bad. Yeah, And then
once you get out of the academy, you're in six figures right there.
I heard that Torrance is having sucha tough time recruiting officers. They're giving
one hundred thousand dollars signing bonus.So there are a number of agencies in
the Southern California region that are doingsigning bonuses one hundred thousand dollars. Though

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one hundred thousand dollars, there aresome that are doing seventy thousand. There
are some that are giving house downpayments. There are some that are doing
some other things. But let mesay this though about Los Angeles PD,
there's only one LPED. There's onlyone big blue that's right. We have
people coming from some of those organizationsthat are offering those bonuses and offering a
lot of benefits to come over tous because they look at the overall package.

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They look at what we have tooffer, and it's appealing in the
law enforcement world. You know,we now have a prevailing wage, so
we're we're right in there with thebig boys in terms of pay. We
have great benefits. We have thebest military package in Southern California. For
all you vets out there, they'relistening. Give LAPD a hard look because

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we truly value our military officers.When we bring people from the military and
they become officers on the LAPD,we truly take care of them up to
and including them getting their full paywhen they're deployed on behalf of the United
States of America. Is that right? Absolutely. A lot of other agencies
they'll tell you they love you,and but they won't make you. They'll
tell you they love you, butwe're not going to give you the green.

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LAPD is going to give you thegreen. So all those military members
out there, they're looking for thatsecond career, we're here for you.
I've never heard of that. Idon't know any other agency that does that.
That's great, it is very thereare very few agencies that will make
your pay full because don't forget ifyou're a detective. Let's just say,
for instance, real fast, ifyou're a detective and you're working for LAPD
in your reserve right and you getcalled up and you get deployed. So

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now you're deployed away from your family, away from your career. You've got
to worry about that family that youleft behind while you're serving this country.
The Los Ange Police Department is goingto make you whole, and we're going
to pay every pity of your salaryto make sure that we make up the
difference between your military pay, yourdeployment pay, and which you make on
this department. And that is alot of money. For a lot of
our older beds who have stayed reserveso that they can answer that calling and

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defend this country. We make themhole. That is terrific. I hope
you come back with us, AndI know you can't talk about anything in
the chief area, and so I'mnot going to put you on the spot,
but I will say that if Iwere to pick one human being in
this country to lead the entire nation'spolice force, I'd pick you. I've

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never met a guy so dedicated andso honest and so hard working in my
life, and yet when it comestime to protect people, you're always the
first guy there. I always seeyou on television. You're always on the
scene, and you've taken your entireprivate life and put it into your public
life and given a billion times moreback than what you've gotten out of it.

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And I can't thank you enough.Thank you, Jim. You're the
best man can I say one thingreally fast, yeap oh, shout out.
I want to give a shout outto all the LAPD officers that are
out there in this heat, inthis climate doing the job making it safe.
They are the two heroes I justwork here. The folks, the
men and women that are on theground with their feet on the ground,

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with their boots out there again goingin those dark alleys, asking those radio
calls, doing the hard work.They deserve thanks every time you see them
in. My request for the publicis that when you see an lap officer
out there working, you think thatthat's right. You thank them for making
this community safe, for all thehard work that they're doing. I've always
been a big supporter, even throughthe thin years. You know, got
a lot of crap, but Inever wavered. Man. I always said,

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these guys who show up when you'repetrified, you call the cops and
they show up, they don't chargeyou any money, and they find you
know, the guy trying to breakinto your house. It is an un
believable job. Have to do itin this city with the you know,
as many you know idiots as yourun into It's unbelievable. I really appreciate
you coming by, Stay safe andplease come back. We'll talk soon.

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Okay, thank you, Deputy ChiefAlan Hamilton, what a guy. We're
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