July 10, 2025 • 23 mins
(July 10, 2025)
As L.A. reels, the White House sees ‘grand success’ in crackdown tactics with no end in sight. California wants new education requirements for police officers. Will this make it more difficult to recruit? The Trevor Project suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ youth may soon go silent.
As L.A. reels, the White House sees ‘grand success’ in crackdown tactics with no end in sight. California wants new education requirements for police officers. Will this make it more difficult to recruit? The Trevor Project suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ youth may soon go silent.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bill Handle here on a very hot Thursday, July tenth,
and some really horrible news coming out of Texas. Well,
we figure that because so many people are missing. Death
count is officially now what one hundred and twenty dead
and one hundred and sixty missing after those floods, and
unfortunately it's no longer a rescue mission. It is now
(00:31):
recovery and that's a heartbreaker. And so many kids who
died to along, you know the Guadalupe.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
River where there are so many of those summer camps.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Now the immigration pickups, I mean, the White House is
actually doubling down. Ice is doubling down in picking up
supposedly for the most part, is true, certainly illegal migrants.
Originally the plan was to and it was advertised that
(01:03):
the pickups these raids, we're gonna go after felons, bad people,
people who have already were convicted or had violated deportation orders.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, it turns out that has changed.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It is now anybody who is here illegally, and we're
talking eleven million people, and the Trump administration has now
said straight out we're going after everybody who is here
and is an illegal migrant now and the politics of
all this, even though the majority of Americans, and by
(01:40):
a substantial margin, think that ICE has gone too far.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
They may agree with.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Deporting illegal migrants, especially to criminal types, but they've gone
way too far in sweeping up virtually everybody and anybody
in their path. And a lot of people who are
not have any kind of criminal record are being swept
up and deported.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, there's no issue. The law allows them to.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Be deported because of their legal status or illegal status.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Here is the political side of this.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The Trump administration sees this as a big success, huge success.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
MAGA supporters.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
For some reason, Trump has been able to convince while
he's able to convince any MAGA supporter of anything, I mean,
Trump can convince his supporters that gravity doesn't exist and
when they get out of bed, they float to the
ceiling if he says that, but has been.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Able to.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Somehow convince a lot of Americans that immigration illegal immigration
is one of the most dangerous things that have ever
happened in the United States. He has ascribed it as
an invasion. He has described it as going to war
against an invading force. He basically has compared this to
(03:10):
Pearl Harbor, and it may even be worse. This is
one of the worst problems now. I mean really, granted,
illegal immigration is a problem, but is it the problem.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's like the transgender business.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Come on, really, this is one of the big issues
in this country and herein lies a problem. One of
my complaints against the president. And everybody knows where I
sit that I'm not a huge fan. I'm not a
fan at all of Trump, but so much of what
he does is not governing this country. It's simply about
(03:48):
political politics and optics. And look at who he has
appointed to head agencies, people that are either incompetent, have
no credentials, have no experience.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
All that. The one requirement is loyalty. That's it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'm gonna do a story later on about Robert Kennedy
and what's going on with that and how he is
now hiring people who are outright skeptics of global warming.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You go to the governmental website and put in global
warming as a search word. There used to be all
kinds of information. None of that exists anymore. Global warming
has been eliminated as a topic in the US government websites.
(04:43):
I mean, it is so crazy, it's beyond belief. So
when you look at what's going on, and particularly here
in Los Angeles, why because Los Angeles is the poster child.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
This is the center of the fight over immigration.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is the state of California suing the Trump administration
over what it's doing, calling these pickups unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The Trump administration is.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Suing California saying what California is doing is illegal and
unconstitutional and not helping ICE or in uh not well yeah,
and not helping ICE pick up illegal migrants protecting quote
and that's in quotes illegal migrants. And the lawsuits are flying,
and the politics are insane. Fair to say, California, particularly
(05:31):
southern California and the Bay Area hate Trump. Trump hates California.
And so look and the mag of people hate California.
You go to the you go to the South and
mentioned California. Man, they'll rip into you live in California.
You're a horrible human being by definition. And so the
(05:54):
politics of this, it's going to keep on going. Now
do you really think and this is I believe this,
how much of this is real?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Belief? Well, I will give you this. I do believe.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Donald Trump thinks that immigration is this big of an issue.
I think he does believe that it is an invasion
of this country that is destroying the country.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And how many people believe that?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know, even let me ask you this, even if
you are against illegal migration and you are in favor
of deporting those that are here illegally.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Is this Pearl Harbor okay? To be a cop or
not to be? That is a question.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And ever since George Floyd was murdered in twenty twenty,
and this went on all over the country, what California
lawmakers want to do is raise education standards for incoming
law enforcement officers.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Here we are five years later, still being debated.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
In twenty twenty, there was an assembly person Reggie joined Sawyer. Yeah,
that's right, that's the name, introduced a bill would have
required cop cops prospective cops eighteen to twenty five had
to earn a bachelor's degree before entering the police force.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Who at eighteen has a bachelor's degree?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And why Well, because there's a body of research and
a growing body that says college educated law enforcement officers
tend to use less force and exercise better decision making
executive function. Well, that was revised because it was considered
as way too restrictive by law enforcement and labor, and
(07:46):
so in an updated version signed into law the following year,
the minimum age of a police officer had to be
twenty one years old, and the legislature asked.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Local police and school officials.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To create recommendations for a new higher education requirements. Okay,
this year, assimilarly, Member Jackie Irwin introduced a new bill
to establish those education standers based on the recommendations.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But law enforcement is saying, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Ah, doesn't work because starting in twenty thirty one, Now
that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
In twenty thirty one, that's when this starts come on.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The new law would require incoming officers to get either
a policing certificate, an associate's degree, or a bachelor's degree.
There are some exe exceptions within thirty six months of
graduating a police academy, for example, so you don't need
a bachelor's creates a law Enforcement Recruitment task Force to
(08:51):
identify recruit candidates for law enforcement throughout the state, and
they have to have them. You cannot be it's people
do not want to be police officers anymore. Even though
in certain jurisdictions the pay is astronomical.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Do you know if you go to.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The highway patrol, the pay approaches the starting pay approaches
six figures re signing. Both bonuses are insane. Now, there
are other law enforcement agencies where cops make no money
at all. Rural agencies where a cop makes thirty five
thousand dollars a year, and there are three of them.
It's Maybury and don Nottts is the assistant police chief
(09:33):
and the car is a nineteen eighty three Nova that
you're driving around the police car. But big agencies, you
bet LAPD can't get enough cops.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They can't. And I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You a reason for it. And it's a good reason,
and I back this up completely. First of all, you
have cops that are retiring like crazy, either they're aging out,
they're retiring or figuring out some medical reason to bail out.
You have a real shortage of new cops coming in.
(10:08):
And I think one of the reasons is and I
think you still LAPD all you need is a high
school degree to become a cop.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Their standards have not been lowered, particularly it's still hard
as hell to be a police officer, psychological testing like crazy.
For those of you that are thinking of becoming cops,
let me give you a piece of advice. If you
sit in front of the police psychologists and you're being
(10:40):
interviewed and you want to be a cop, do not
say I like to kill people, that's why I want
to be a cop. Do not say that. You want
to say, you know what, I'd rather not. I'd rather
be calm and collected, and I want to de escalate
and I don't want any kind of altercation.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And then on the way out of the.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Building, then you go back to I like to kill people,
that's why I want to be a cop. So the
standards are still pretty high, thank goodness. So it is
not easy, but here are the new rules. A new
officer has the option of attaining a professional policing certificate.
(11:28):
I don't know where you get policing certificates.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Junior colleges.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I guess you can take there's criminal justice degrees, but
that's not a policing certificate, and that's from an accredited
college university. No curriculum has been adopted yet, so no
one knows what.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
The hell that's about.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And LA Sheriff Robert Luna wrote in a letter to
one of the state senators that the sheriff's office admitted
once required all applicants to have a bachelor's degree, but
that requirement was short live because there was an immediate
decline in applicants by fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So here is the quote.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I talked to a cop a few months ago about
who wants to retire.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I mean, he's done with that, and he said, Bill,
let me explain something.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
When I go to let's say, an active shooter situation,
I've got two choices. I can go ahead and shoot
my gun, wound him or kill him. And I've bought
myself administrative leave, hearings obviously, investigations, and a lawsuit by
the family or by him if he survives. Automatically, I'm
(12:43):
looking at a political I'm looking at an administrative nightmare.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So I either choose that or I don't shoot and
I get killed.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Those are my choices. I'm out of here, and I
think there's a lot of truth to that. I mean,
maybe a little hyperbolic, but I think there's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Truth to that.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
All right now, this morning we were talking about and
Neil brought up the subject of LGBTQ plus folks living
in the United States, particular here in southern California, and
we were discussing the trans issue, the transathlete issue that
(13:26):
has become such a national, huge thing of men who
become women, who then engage in competitive sports as women
and they win because they used to be men.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And we went on and talked about that, and.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I turned to Heather and I said, how many people
actually in California, these trans people that are engaged in
competitive sports?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And she said, less than ten. Less than ten people
we're talking about, and it's become an insane issue for
some reason.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Look at the politics. Well, obviously, look at the politics.
So less than ten is the number that we're given.
So that becomes really a non issue other than optics
and politics. But I'll tell you it is a real
issue optics in politics, and that is among the young people,
(14:20):
the youth, the teenagers who are LGBTQ plus and commit
suicide at a rate four times of the national average.
This is an issue because we're talking hundreds of thousands,
(14:41):
if not millions, of gay and lesbian and trans, etc.
People who are super depressed. And look what we where
we have come. We used to and I'm talking about
we societally, we used to look at gay people. It
was criminal. It was actually criminal. Men used to go
(15:03):
and women, but women were rarely caught. Men used to
go to prison when caught engaging in gay sex in
a gay nightclub where they met. The cops would rate
it and people would go to prison. We have gone
from that to accepting.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Queer.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And they use the word queer really good, really smart
the gay community because they were called queer pejoratively. They
took that on themselves and took the word queer as
a badge of honor. Damn right, word queer. So now
it's appropriate to call them queer. It was a very
smart pr move, by the way. And so we went
(15:48):
from their perverted, their disgusting, they are criminals, to.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Accepting the gay community. Hey, no, Bill, you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Go back to the seventies and you have Stonewall in
New York, and they might have the black cat here
in Los Angeles, a very simple black cat might have
been predated Stonewall here in Los Angeles where there were raids.
I mean, you talk about the raids now with the
legal aliens. Go back and they looked identical.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Oh yeah, the raids of the police and people were
being and of course you're talking about people whose sole
crime was being gay, that was it, and engaging in
gay sex criminal, I.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Mean, completely nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And so we've come to the point where we accepted
homosexuality as part of who we are. And I don't know,
ten percent or whatever the Americans refer to themselves as
either gay or buy or trans or fluid or I mean,
there's a fifty terms now for people who you know,
(17:01):
pan sexual, pot sexual, skillet sexual, Dutch, oven, schual sexual,
I don't even know. The point is that we went
from we thought they were perverted to we've accepted homosexuality
(17:24):
is part of a society. And now we're going back
the other way. Now they're perverts again. Now there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
With them again.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Right, God did not make Adam and Steve. God made
Adam and Eve, which is like ludicrous, and unfortunately a
good part of this country is looking at homosexuality back
again as perverse and horrible. And so what I want
to do is talk about a project called the Trevor Project.
(18:01):
And the Trevor Project is a lifeline if you will,
where you have gay youth who call or lgbt youth
call for help by the hundreds of thousands. This isn't
ten people trying to be in sports and competitive sports.
This is hundreds of thousands of people. And what happened
(18:22):
to the Trevor Park Project was federally funded for the
most part, funding has been yanked.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
What a shocker.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Looking at the LGBTQ society in a very different way
with this administration where the Biden administration, and there's a
lot was wrong with the Biden administration, But one of
the things that I like about democratic administrations and liberal
Democrats is accepting homosexuality is simply.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Part of our philosophy, part of our life. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
As I said, the LGPTQ youth plus youth four times
a national average of suicides. So the Trevor Project is
a project.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It's telephone, is what it is. A telephone project.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Launched in twenty twenty two, and where we talked about
less than ten transgender athletes competing in competitive sorts in California.
Since it launched in twenty twenty two, more than one
point three million young Americans struggling with a mental health
(19:34):
crisis Dial to nine eight eight suicide and crisis lifeline,
lifeline and they press three and they're connected with a
specialist train to deal with the gay issues. The Trevor
Projects is largest of seven LGBTQ plus contractors, and the
(19:55):
contractors this organization is funded by the federal government.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They've just yanked the funding.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
We're not going to pay to have young gay youth
who are looking at the possibility of suicide and dealing
with their position in society. Now. I don't know if
you know many gay people. I do, and growing up
coming out of the closet is super difficult.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I mean, it's a tough way to go. And this
was a haven or still is.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I mean there's some private donations, but two hundred counselors
that are part of.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
It have been yanked.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
They can't pay for them anymore, and they're scrambling how
do we deal with this? The nationwide calls on dealing
with depression of being gay they figured this year going
to top seven hundred thousand, up from six hundred thousand
last year.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I have a hard time with this, I really do.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
The politics of what's going on today is just horrific.
Twenty twenty four survey found that in California, thirty five
percent of LGBTQ plus young people seriously consider taking their lives.
Thirty five percent thought of suicide, eleven percent had attempted suicide.
(21:30):
And in another chapter of Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy being
completely crazy and out of his mind, here's what the
decision to stop working with the Trevor project. This was
what the White House said, or Robert F. Kennedy said.
(21:52):
And I'm going to quote, while the President supports the
nine to ninety eight suicide and Crisis Lifeline, in general,
we don't want to isolate different demographics and polarize the country.
In other words, we don't want to accept LGBTQ people as.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
People. Basically, we don't want to polarize.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We want to put them in the general population, and
we want to is we don't want to isolate different demographics.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Well, guess what, they're already isolated.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They're gay, they're queer, they're depressed because society has changed
its view and they're going back to being somehow wrong
in what they do and their feelings and who they
are attracted to. And we're back to your perverse. You're
doing it against God's will. We don't want to isolate
(22:55):
different demographics and polarize our country.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
So yankink the funding.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Of the Trevor Project. It's pretty depressing, isn't it. Okay
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bill Handle here on a very hot Thursday, July tenth,
and some really horrible news coming out of Texas. Well,
we figure that because so many people are missing. Death
count is officially now what one hundred and twenty dead
and one hundred and sixty missing after those floods, and
unfortunately it's no longer a rescue mission. It is now
(00:31):
recovery and that's a heartbreaker. And so many kids who
died to along, you know the Guadalupe.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
River where there are so many of those summer camps.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Now the immigration pickups, I mean, the White House is
actually doubling down. Ice is doubling down in picking up
supposedly for the most part, is true, certainly illegal migrants.
Originally the plan was to and it was advertised that
(01:03):
the pickups these raids, we're gonna go after felons, bad people,
people who have already were convicted or had violated deportation orders.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, it turns out that has changed.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It is now anybody who is here illegally, and we're
talking eleven million people, and the Trump administration has now
said straight out we're going after everybody who is here
and is an illegal migrant now and the politics of
all this, even though the majority of Americans, and by
(01:40):
a substantial margin, think that ICE has gone too far.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
They may agree with.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Deporting illegal migrants, especially to criminal types, but they've gone
way too far in sweeping up virtually everybody and anybody
in their path. And a lot of people who are
not have any kind of criminal record are being swept
up and deported.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, there's no issue. The law allows them to.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Be deported because of their legal status or illegal status.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Here is the political side of this.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The Trump administration sees this as a big success, huge success.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
MAGA supporters.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
For some reason, Trump has been able to convince while
he's able to convince any MAGA supporter of anything, I mean,
Trump can convince his supporters that gravity doesn't exist and
when they get out of bed, they float to the
ceiling if he says that, but has been.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Able to.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Somehow convince a lot of Americans that immigration illegal immigration
is one of the most dangerous things that have ever
happened in the United States. He has ascribed it as
an invasion. He has described it as going to war
against an invading force. He basically has compared this to
(03:10):
Pearl Harbor, and it may even be worse. This is
one of the worst problems now. I mean really, granted,
illegal immigration is a problem, but is it the problem.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's like the transgender business.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Come on, really, this is one of the big issues
in this country and herein lies a problem. One of
my complaints against the president. And everybody knows where I
sit that I'm not a huge fan. I'm not a
fan at all of Trump, but so much of what
he does is not governing this country. It's simply about
(03:48):
political politics and optics. And look at who he has
appointed to head agencies, people that are either incompetent, have
no credentials, have no experience.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
All that. The one requirement is loyalty. That's it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'm gonna do a story later on about Robert Kennedy
and what's going on with that and how he is
now hiring people who are outright skeptics of global warming.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You go to the governmental website and put in global
warming as a search word. There used to be all
kinds of information. None of that exists anymore. Global warming
has been eliminated as a topic in the US government websites.
(04:43):
I mean, it is so crazy, it's beyond belief. So
when you look at what's going on, and particularly here
in Los Angeles, why because Los Angeles is the poster child.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
This is the center of the fight over immigration.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is the state of California suing the Trump administration
over what it's doing, calling these pickups unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The Trump administration is.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Suing California saying what California is doing is illegal and
unconstitutional and not helping ICE or in uh not well yeah,
and not helping ICE pick up illegal migrants protecting quote
and that's in quotes illegal migrants. And the lawsuits are flying,
and the politics are insane. Fair to say, California, particularly
(05:31):
southern California and the Bay Area hate Trump. Trump hates California.
And so look and the mag of people hate California.
You go to the you go to the South and
mentioned California. Man, they'll rip into you live in California.
You're a horrible human being by definition. And so the
(05:54):
politics of this, it's going to keep on going. Now
do you really think and this is I believe this,
how much of this is real?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Belief? Well, I will give you this. I do believe.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Donald Trump thinks that immigration is this big of an issue.
I think he does believe that it is an invasion
of this country that is destroying the country.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And how many people believe that?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know, even let me ask you this, even if
you are against illegal migration and you are in favor
of deporting those that are here illegally.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Is this Pearl Harbor okay? To be a cop or
not to be? That is a question.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And ever since George Floyd was murdered in twenty twenty,
and this went on all over the country, what California
lawmakers want to do is raise education standards for incoming
law enforcement officers.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Here we are five years later, still being debated.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
In twenty twenty, there was an assembly person Reggie joined Sawyer. Yeah,
that's right, that's the name, introduced a bill would have
required cop cops prospective cops eighteen to twenty five had
to earn a bachelor's degree before entering the police force.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Who at eighteen has a bachelor's degree?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And why Well, because there's a body of research and
a growing body that says college educated law enforcement officers
tend to use less force and exercise better decision making
executive function. Well, that was revised because it was considered
as way too restrictive by law enforcement and labor, and
(07:46):
so in an updated version signed into law the following year,
the minimum age of a police officer had to be
twenty one years old, and the legislature asked.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Local police and school officials.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To create recommendations for a new higher education requirements. Okay,
this year, assimilarly, Member Jackie Irwin introduced a new bill
to establish those education standers based on the recommendations.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But law enforcement is saying, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Ah, doesn't work because starting in twenty thirty one, Now
that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
In twenty thirty one, that's when this starts come on.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The new law would require incoming officers to get either
a policing certificate, an associate's degree, or a bachelor's degree.
There are some exe exceptions within thirty six months of
graduating a police academy, for example, so you don't need
a bachelor's creates a law Enforcement Recruitment task Force to
(08:51):
identify recruit candidates for law enforcement throughout the state, and
they have to have them. You cannot be it's people
do not want to be police officers anymore. Even though
in certain jurisdictions the pay is astronomical.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Do you know if you go to.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The highway patrol, the pay approaches the starting pay approaches
six figures re signing. Both bonuses are insane. Now, there
are other law enforcement agencies where cops make no money
at all. Rural agencies where a cop makes thirty five
thousand dollars a year, and there are three of them.
It's Maybury and don Nottts is the assistant police chief
(09:33):
and the car is a nineteen eighty three Nova that
you're driving around the police car. But big agencies, you
bet LAPD can't get enough cops.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They can't. And I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You a reason for it. And it's a good reason,
and I back this up completely. First of all, you
have cops that are retiring like crazy, either they're aging out,
they're retiring or figuring out some medical reason to bail out.
You have a real shortage of new cops coming in.
(10:08):
And I think one of the reasons is and I
think you still LAPD all you need is a high
school degree to become a cop.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Their standards have not been lowered, particularly it's still hard
as hell to be a police officer, psychological testing like crazy.
For those of you that are thinking of becoming cops,
let me give you a piece of advice. If you
sit in front of the police psychologists and you're being
(10:40):
interviewed and you want to be a cop, do not
say I like to kill people, that's why I want
to be a cop. Do not say that. You want
to say, you know what, I'd rather not. I'd rather
be calm and collected, and I want to de escalate
and I don't want any kind of altercation.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And then on the way out of the.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Building, then you go back to I like to kill people,
that's why I want to be a cop. So the
standards are still pretty high, thank goodness. So it is
not easy, but here are the new rules. A new
officer has the option of attaining a professional policing certificate.
(11:28):
I don't know where you get policing certificates.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Junior colleges.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I guess you can take there's criminal justice degrees, but
that's not a policing certificate, and that's from an accredited
college university. No curriculum has been adopted yet, so no
one knows what.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
The hell that's about.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And LA Sheriff Robert Luna wrote in a letter to
one of the state senators that the sheriff's office admitted
once required all applicants to have a bachelor's degree, but
that requirement was short live because there was an immediate
decline in applicants by fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So here is the quote.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I talked to a cop a few months ago about
who wants to retire.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I mean, he's done with that, and he said, Bill,
let me explain something.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
When I go to let's say, an active shooter situation,
I've got two choices. I can go ahead and shoot
my gun, wound him or kill him. And I've bought
myself administrative leave, hearings obviously, investigations, and a lawsuit by
the family or by him if he survives. Automatically, I'm
(12:43):
looking at a political I'm looking at an administrative nightmare.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So I either choose that or I don't shoot and
I get killed.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Those are my choices. I'm out of here, and I
think there's a lot of truth to that. I mean,
maybe a little hyperbolic, but I think there's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Truth to that.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
All right now, this morning we were talking about and
Neil brought up the subject of LGBTQ plus folks living
in the United States, particular here in southern California, and
we were discussing the trans issue, the transathlete issue that
(13:26):
has become such a national, huge thing of men who
become women, who then engage in competitive sports as women
and they win because they used to be men.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And we went on and talked about that, and.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I turned to Heather and I said, how many people
actually in California, these trans people that are engaged in
competitive sports?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And she said, less than ten. Less than ten people
we're talking about, and it's become an insane issue for
some reason.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Look at the politics. Well, obviously, look at the politics.
So less than ten is the number that we're given.
So that becomes really a non issue other than optics
and politics. But I'll tell you it is a real
issue optics in politics, and that is among the young people,
(14:20):
the youth, the teenagers who are LGBTQ plus and commit
suicide at a rate four times of the national average.
This is an issue because we're talking hundreds of thousands,
(14:41):
if not millions, of gay and lesbian and trans, etc.
People who are super depressed. And look what we where
we have come. We used to and I'm talking about
we societally, we used to look at gay people. It
was criminal. It was actually criminal. Men used to go
(15:03):
and women, but women were rarely caught. Men used to
go to prison when caught engaging in gay sex in
a gay nightclub where they met. The cops would rate
it and people would go to prison. We have gone
from that to accepting.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Queer.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And they use the word queer really good, really smart
the gay community because they were called queer pejoratively. They
took that on themselves and took the word queer as
a badge of honor. Damn right, word queer. So now
it's appropriate to call them queer. It was a very
smart pr move, by the way. And so we went
(15:48):
from their perverted, their disgusting, they are criminals, to.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Accepting the gay community. Hey, no, Bill, you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Go back to the seventies and you have Stonewall in
New York, and they might have the black cat here
in Los Angeles, a very simple black cat might have
been predated Stonewall here in Los Angeles where there were raids.
I mean, you talk about the raids now with the
legal aliens. Go back and they looked identical.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Oh yeah, the raids of the police and people were
being and of course you're talking about people whose sole
crime was being gay, that was it, and engaging in
gay sex criminal, I.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Mean, completely nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And so we've come to the point where we accepted
homosexuality as part of who we are. And I don't know,
ten percent or whatever the Americans refer to themselves as
either gay or buy or trans or fluid or I mean,
there's a fifty terms now for people who you know,
(17:01):
pan sexual, pot sexual, skillet sexual, Dutch, oven, schual sexual,
I don't even know. The point is that we went
from we thought they were perverted to we've accepted homosexuality
(17:24):
is part of a society. And now we're going back
the other way. Now they're perverts again. Now there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
With them again.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Right, God did not make Adam and Steve. God made
Adam and Eve, which is like ludicrous, and unfortunately a
good part of this country is looking at homosexuality back
again as perverse and horrible. And so what I want
to do is talk about a project called the Trevor Project.
(18:01):
And the Trevor Project is a lifeline if you will,
where you have gay youth who call or lgbt youth
call for help by the hundreds of thousands. This isn't
ten people trying to be in sports and competitive sports.
This is hundreds of thousands of people. And what happened
(18:22):
to the Trevor Park Project was federally funded for the
most part, funding has been yanked.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
What a shocker.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Looking at the LGBTQ society in a very different way
with this administration where the Biden administration, and there's a
lot was wrong with the Biden administration, But one of
the things that I like about democratic administrations and liberal
Democrats is accepting homosexuality is simply.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Part of our philosophy, part of our life. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
As I said, the LGPTQ youth plus youth four times
a national average of suicides. So the Trevor Project is
a project.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It's telephone, is what it is. A telephone project.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Launched in twenty twenty two, and where we talked about
less than ten transgender athletes competing in competitive sorts in California.
Since it launched in twenty twenty two, more than one
point three million young Americans struggling with a mental health
(19:34):
crisis Dial to nine eight eight suicide and crisis lifeline,
lifeline and they press three and they're connected with a
specialist train to deal with the gay issues. The Trevor
Projects is largest of seven LGBTQ plus contractors, and the
(19:55):
contractors this organization is funded by the federal government.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They've just yanked the funding.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
We're not going to pay to have young gay youth
who are looking at the possibility of suicide and dealing
with their position in society. Now. I don't know if
you know many gay people. I do, and growing up
coming out of the closet is super difficult.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I mean, it's a tough way to go. And this
was a haven or still is.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I mean there's some private donations, but two hundred counselors
that are part of.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
It have been yanked.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
They can't pay for them anymore, and they're scrambling how
do we deal with this? The nationwide calls on dealing
with depression of being gay they figured this year going
to top seven hundred thousand, up from six hundred thousand
last year.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I have a hard time with this, I really do.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
The politics of what's going on today is just horrific.
Twenty twenty four survey found that in California, thirty five
percent of LGBTQ plus young people seriously consider taking their lives.
Thirty five percent thought of suicide, eleven percent had attempted suicide.
(21:30):
And in another chapter of Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy being
completely crazy and out of his mind, here's what the
decision to stop working with the Trevor project. This was
what the White House said, or Robert F. Kennedy said.
(21:52):
And I'm going to quote, while the President supports the
nine to ninety eight suicide and Crisis Lifeline, in general,
we don't want to isolate different demographics and polarize the country.
In other words, we don't want to accept LGBTQ people as.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
People. Basically, we don't want to polarize.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We want to put them in the general population, and
we want to is we don't want to isolate different demographics.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Well, guess what, they're already isolated.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They're gay, they're queer, they're depressed because society has changed
its view and they're going back to being somehow wrong
in what they do and their feelings and who they
are attracted to. And we're back to your perverse. You're
doing it against God's will. We don't want to isolate
(22:55):
different demographics and polarize our country.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
So yankink the funding.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Of the Trevor Project. It's pretty depressing, isn't it. Okay
kf I am six point forty.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
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