LAPD Officer Involved Shootings Data | Koreatown Parking Protest

(Sept 10, 2025)
Newsom declares California under siege in State of the State. LAPD touts 2024 police shootings dropped; officers firing is way up this year. A Koreatown Parking Protest: Tenants stage sit-in to protest loss of parking to make way for ADUs.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Bill Handle kind of cut out early because he wasn't

(00:23):
feeling well, so he went back to go nappy nap.
You've got me throughout the rest of the day with
the morning crew, and hopefully he'll be back tomorrow because
he goes on a freaking vacation at the end of
the week. A bunch of words I want to call him,
but I won't. A couple of things that are going
on in the news right now trending. You've got Elon

(00:46):
Musk is on the verge of losing his World's Richest
person title. The Larry Ellison, the Oracle co founder. His
wealth jumped about seventy billion to three sixty four bill
after Oracle had this strong earnings report yesterday night, so
putting him very much in striking distance of Musk's net

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worth of three hundred and eighty four billion. This is
all according to Bloomberg Billionaires Indexed Seems and nopkno's still
note on there, all right. Newsom pushed back. He gave
his State of the State marking the one hundred and
seventy fifth anniversary of California's statehood. Did it in written form,

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and it was his letter to us, we the people
here in California. So I know, we were all excited
to hear what's going on in California. It's nice to
hear from local politicians and what's going on that affects
us specifically as Californians. And we didn't get a whole

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lot of that because nobody focuses on what's in front
one of them. Everybody focuses on the national stage, especially
when you are a politician here in California. It seems
so latest State of the State message gab came out,
took a bold stance, if you will, not just doing

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the typical celebration of accomplishments, and he did that, but
also firing back at what he called the federal government
ongoing attacks on California. Talk about hyperbole. Everybody is always
leaning on Trump about being hyperbolic, you know, a siege
and all these different things. Well, you know, right now,

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gav Is transitioning. He's transitioning into Trump. He's trying very
much to be Trump esque. So he says, under Donald Trump,
all hell is breaking loose in California. Didn't give the
traditional speech, as I said, He shared his message in
letter and video. So not only did this mark the

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one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of California statehood, yeah us.
He stayed away strangely enough of using Trump's name, But
we all know who he's talking about. So it makes
it even more awkward because as you go through this,
it's like, we know who you're talking about. If you're

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gonna dance around the I don't know orange elephant in
the room, go ahead and just say his name. He
referred to the federal government a lot under Trump as
having an unhinged obsession with California, not mentioning that he
too has an unhinged obsession with Trump. He says that

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they've been targeting the state. Well, it's been dealing with
huge challenges like wildfires, protests, immigration issues again stuff he's
not doing anything about. So in the letter, he puts
it this way, California is being threatened by the federal
administration that tears down public service services, punishes global allies,

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and ignores the rule of law. He criticized the continued
to criticize the administration for rolling back environmental protections, militarizing
responses to protests, and trying to bully California's business, businesses
and universities. I will tell you no one is less

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of a friend to business than California. Period. You can't
put that on the federal government. Locally, we treat businesses
like crap. I have a friend who owns, you know,
multiple businesses in LA and they once told me, I

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wish LA would just come to me and say we
don't want business here instead of making me jump through
all the hoops. So all these different federal pressures coming
at Newsom, poor Newsom. He says that California is still resilient.
His examples of federal onslought dealt with these points. Defunding

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the high speed rail project. Listen, whether you voted for
that or not, we all know that it's garbage. It's
not going anywhere, It's never going to go anywhere. It's
a huge money pit. He went on to say, rolling
back the gas powered car sales ban, which is asinine.
We don't have the infrastructure. EV sales were going down

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because there's nowhere to charge them. Suing the state over
its transgender sports law. Hey, even people like me that is,
you know, all for love and support of the LGBTQ
plus community, there are some concerns and things that don't

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your anti trans or that your anti LGBTQ plus concerns
just means, hey, this throws a wrench in this system.
We have to figure it out. Suspending funding to UCLA
over civil rights investigation. UCLA dealt with the anti semitism

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on campus horribly, and rather than talking about that, you
push it onto Trump. And that's that's the issue. You
have our leadership in California in this case, Governor Newsom,
not talking about the budget deficits, not talking about homelessness,

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not talking about the high cost of living, not talking
about real crime, not just numbers, real crime, Not talking
about the fact that both sides, whether you have an
R or D after your name, have crapped on immigrants
by not protecting them. And the same with the homeless.

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To turn your face and look the other way and
ignore a problem is not helping. And that's what's being
done with homelessness and that's what's being done with illegal immigration,
and so good people or people that need help are
being mistreated because both sides don't give a rat's ass

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and they're not doing anything about it. But he doesn't
mention that, doesn't mention anything that actually affects us here
in southern California or in northern California and beyond. He
only focuses on the national stage. And I'm telling you,
whether it is climate change, whether it is these any

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national issue. When any local politician focuses on these things,
I know they're full of crap because you can't judge
those things the same way. Fill the damn potholes, get
the schools up to par bring down crime. These are
your issues. But he didn't focus on those things. He
focuses on Trump because nobody learns from the stupidity that

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was done last time. To put Trump into office basically
is by playing his game and focusing on him. LAPD information.
The LAPD says police shootings went down in twenty twenty four,
but here's the rub. They're already up again in twenty

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twenty five. It's what you get with the system of
always looking backwards. I suppose is now you say they
went down, now they've gone back up. So the Los
Angeles Police Department recently shared a report. It shows that
the police shootings dropped slightly in twenty twenty four. So
officers shot twenty nine people in twenty twenty and that

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was down from thirty four people in twenty twenty three.
So officials said this shows some progress and reducing how
often police used aslie deadly force. However, as I said,
trends reversing in twenty twenty five. So far, with just
under nine months into the year, officers have already opened
fire at least thirty one times more than all of

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last year. So we're already head of the game. Yeah. Us.
The mental health issues are huge in Los Angeles, They're
huge everywhere. We do not know what to do with
the mentally deranged, the mentally needy, the whatever you want
to call them. The fact is, when you hear about
what was it in North Carolina, Amy is at where

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the stabbing on the transit, the public transit went down
with the Ukrainian refugee. Yeah refugee, thanks you. She moved
here like three years ago to get away from the war. Yeah,
well that doesn't work out either. So those are more
signs of how mental health and the use of forth

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force can be needed at times. We just it's still
something we don't know what to do.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
So can I interject on that for a second, Because
I have a friend who has a son who is
mentally impaired. He's like schizophrenic or something like that, and
she has tried several times to get him, because he's
an adult, to get him some sort of help, and
he says he doesn't want it, so they won't do anything.

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So even though like this woman, the Ukrainian woman, or
the guy who's accused of killing her, he has family
members who said he should be institutionalized, he shouldn't be
on the streets. He's been arrested a dozen times, he
attacked his sister, all this stuff, and there's nothing that
anyone can do about it, because if they don't want
to be they don't want to check themselves in, they

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don't have to.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
And yeah, voluntary system. Yeah, it's the same with social
work for the most part, it's a voluntary system unless
a judge jumps in and gives a warrant. And our
system is, you know, you can't have those that are
mentally impaired by definition make the decisions about their mental impairment.

(11:21):
Excellent point, Amy, because that is the reality we're living in.
You know what. I want to get more into this
in the LAPD going over its report on shootings officer
involved shootings. So we'll come back with more of that.
So go nowhere, Nil Savedra and the morning crew. This morning,
Bill's not feeling well. Did he use the term explosive diarrhea?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
He did not?

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Okay, I thought I might have heard that, But whatever's
going on? Leakage? Did he say leakage? Kind of feel
like there was was the term Oily used? It doesn't matter.
The fact is he's tully whatever, and we're here to
take care of things. A lot more to get into.

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I want to give you some numbers about LAPD shootings
that might surprise you, maybe not. So let's see what
we're going into right now. We have a couple of
things trending. I want to tell you about. One of
those things is that the FAA issued a safety alert
just yesterday about warning airlines about the fire risks posed

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by lithium batteries. We've all known this for a while
that there's issues, but you've got batteries in you know,
cell phones, your laptops, e cigarettes, all of these things,
hearing aids even and that they can malfunction and they
may ignect fire. So that is a story we're following
as well. Back to the story of the report from

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the LAPD about shootings going down. The bummer about being
past tense is that, you know, because they look at
twenty twenty four and they put it up again twenty
twenty three, and here we are in twenty twenty five. Right,
so you had twenty nine people shot in twenty twenty four,

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which is down from thirty four people shot in twenty
twenty three. However, we're nine months into twenty twenty five
and cops have opened fire thirty one time, so that's
more of all of last year. So it's kind of
hard to look backwards and then go, hey, let's do
a victory lap for twenty twenty four, and now in
twenty twenty five we've got this issues. Mental health plays

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a big concern. Obviously, You've got more and more reports
of officers and I feel for them having to go
into situations with mental illness. That is not their job.
Their job is to serve and protect and that means
that if they see an issue and it's a problem

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to other people or to the individual themselves, there can
be deadly force involved. And I think that it's a
horrible place to put law enforcement to have to make
those decisions or split second decisions when we live in
a state that basically leaves it up to the person

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with the mental issues to get help because we have
no help for them. And it's all voluntary. So there's
you know, civil rights activists are going to come out,
They're going to be you know, hey, this minorities are
getting hit and these types of things. Well, let's break
that down. Who was actually involved in the shootings. The

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report broke down who these folks were. About fifty five
percent of people shot by police in twenty twenty four,
we're Latino, and you know, it makes sense the makeup
of Los Angeles, around twenty one percent we're black and

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twenty one percent were white. I point that out because
think of it this way. You hear so much about
law enforcement and African Americans. When you look at these
numbers and I realized it's one year, it's the same

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as white, and it's half less than half of Latinos
that were shot. Interestingly enough, then you have three percent
that were Asian. Over half the officers that fired their
weapons in twenty twenty four were Latino. But that's going

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back again to the overall makeup of the department as
a whole. Eleven officers were injured in shootings in twenty
twenty four. That was up from eight the year before.
These are tough situations, are law enforcement. Gosh, you know,
ben Bulb. It's like the amount of cops we have

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is not enough. Gee, that was eloquent, So we're having issues.
This is one of the reasons why I was annoyed
that Mayor Bass was ready to put LAPD on a
security assignment for former Vice President Kamala Harris. We don't
even have enough to take care of things as it

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is now. So key stats here. LAPD officers fired almost
twice as many bullets in twenty twenty four compared to
twenty twenty. Of course, we are on lockdown over ten
rounds per shooting on average. The use of less lethal
force tasers being back that type of thing slightly decreased

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from fifteen hundred and three cases in twenty twenty three
to fourteen hundred and fifty one. In twenty twenty four,
there were fewer shootings involving people with knives or sharp weapons,
which has been a focus on the department. And I
got to tell you, I did study weapon weabinry, certain
weaponry and a blade or a certain melee weapons as well.

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Somebody can slice your neck open at a distance, you know,
close that distance more quickly than you think, you know.
Brian suits and I had a conversation one time and
what he would do when people said that He'd hold
a sharpie and he'd take the cap off, and he said,

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try and stop me from marking your neck. It's much
more difficult than you think. So I think cops get
a bum rap when it comes to the edged weapon debate.
So the big picture here is shootings rose again. That's
that's reality. So yay twenty twenty four, Oh no, twenty

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twenty five, that's how we're going to wrap it up.
All right, stuff going on in the world right now.
Poland's military reported today that shot down Russian drones. Those
drones apparently entered their airspace during an attack on Ukraine.
That's a bad thing. Why well, Poland is NATO member

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and if if they fly over their territory and had
to shoot them down, you know, attack on one as
an attack on all. We'll see how that plays out
back locally here Korea Town. If you've lived in LA
for any length of time, La proper, you know that
parking sucks. It just does. So in Koreatown there's a

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situation brewing. You've got tenants of a twenty two unit
apartment building and they're pissed rightly. So I think they're
protesting because their landlord is taking away their parking spots
to build extra small homes. Of course, we know the
term ADUs accessory dwelling units. I always thought it was

(18:56):
additional dwelling units, but there you have it. So these
new units, they're meant to help with the housing crisis
and are legal under new California law. So this is
a state law that is allowing this. At this point,
the tenants say the parking in their neighborhood already sucks,

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because it does everywhere in LA, especially at night. Now.
KFI used to be at sixth the Nard Moore in
K Town, and I'm not far from K Town. My
home is not far from K Town. It's horrible. Some
of the worst parking in La is in Koreatown, not
to mention, although it's getting better, Koreatown has a good

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amount of crime and if you can find an apartment,
and I've known many lovely lady who have apartments there
and always want parking because of the fact that it
helps you get from point A to point B more quickly,
get to your home, and get home safer, especially at nine.

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So these folks feel blindsided, rightly so, saying that the
landlord never properly gave them a heads up, didn't tell
them about the construction, even though they had already gotten
permits and everything was already approved, they didn't know about it.
So the landlord property management company argue that they're following

(20:27):
the law, and they probably are, and that turning unused
space into housing is necessary in a crowded city like
La Okay. I get that everyone wants to say we
have a housing crisis crisis here, but maybe we have
too many people. That's the problem. Maybe that's the crisis,
is that we're full. Yeah, no, maybe we have a

(20:54):
parking crisis. I don't know why we have to continue
and how to house everybody in Los Angeles is if
there's a right to live here or anywhere for that matter.
So the landlord has, you know, tried to do some things.
The parliaments are approved, and then they offered tenants two

(21:15):
hundred bucks a month in credit for losing their parking
but tendants are saying, hey, that credit's not gonna last.
It doesn't make up for the safety and the convenience
of having a reserved parking spot. You've got older, maybe
disabled tenants. The change could mean that they can't get
around anymore. It's not easy to go out and to

(21:36):
do things as it was in the past. Some renters
are even worried about losing this long time amenity and
that it breaks the agreement in their eyes, and they
see this as a bad precedent. You can't blame them,
so like if it was part of them, imagine going

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to get the apartment and part of what you made
that choice on was having this parking space and now
it's gone. So despite reaching out to the city, of
course and the leaders therein you've got different housing agencies,
the tenants have gone everywhere they can, they've got zero luck.

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So basically they are protesting by hanging out in that
garage to keep things from moving forward. Local council member
Heather Hutt said she doesn't support this kind of change
being decided at the state level without any community input.
But meanwhile, you've got some tenants that are preparing to

(22:42):
leave if things move forward those that can. Others like
longtime resident Tom Skiles, are just frustrated. They're right in
the middle of it, and they feel their rights are
being ignored. No one came and consulted them, gave them
any hit heads up, and everybody seems to agree that

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LA needs more housing. I get it, but the tenants
say it shouldn't come at the cost of their basic needs, safe,
reliable parking and the things that they decided to move
in that location for. So we keep using these excuses
to help those that don't have at the uh, I

(23:28):
don't know at the you know, moving in on the
rights of those that already have. It's the weirdest thing.
It's like, Hey, these people need housing, so we're going
to screw you out of something for your housing. It's like, well,
I need housing too, and I need to park my car,
and with more housing comes the need for more parking.

(23:51):
Trust me, I live in an area where they're tearing
down one hundred plus year old houses that are beautiful
to put in eight units cracker boxes and that just
means more cars parking on the street for the most part.
All right, more crap going down in LA that doesn't

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make sense. Neil Savedra and the morning crew. Bill's not
feeling well, so he is down and out for the day.
Should be back tomorrow, we hope. But much to get to.
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