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July 30, 2025 9 mins

Longtime private Investigator and security expert Nils Grevalius has his views on LA's homeless, mental illness, the NY Shooter's motives, and why he likes Trump's plan to help localities put the mentally into treatment hospitals.

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(00:06):
A real gumshoe is on the line. Nils Gravalius is a private
investigator in Los Angeles. He's been following the shooting
a little bit, so we'll grab his insights.
But we're also going to be talking about Trump's new
executive order, which will empower states to pick up
homeless and ship them off into mental institutions.
And Nils has some thoughts aboutthat.
Welcome to the program, Sir, from Los Angeles, my own, my old

(00:29):
stomping grounds. Let's talk about the shooter and
what your insight is being a private investigator.
We should mention a private investigator, a private
detective. And that's been his career.
So I've not I don't think I've talked to a gumshoot before.
So it's good to have you on. Well, I'm.
I'm very pleased to be on your show, Mr. Shane Tamara.

(00:53):
He grew up in metropolitan Los Angeles, was a standout all
player in the West San Fernando Valley and then kind of fell off
the map after that. And he may have had brain
injury, but I think the the nature of this thing suggests

(01:14):
there's more to it. I also a mental illness arising
of high grade cannabis use Cannabis psychosis with other
form of paranoid schizophrenia. Mr. Watkins.
Now, what is that? Is it because of some element
that's in marijuana? And nowadays they're making it

(01:34):
pretty potent, aren't they? They are making it quite potent
and people with any kind of a predisposition toward family
history, that sort of thing, arevery prone to falling into
schizoaffective disorder from high grade cannabis use or
paranoid schizophrenia. And once somebody falls into

(01:57):
that, it, it, it can be treated,but they're never the, the brain
chemistry is never the same again.
The people who say that cannabisis harmless are fools.
We this is perfectly demonstrated.
I've had three missing persons cases in the last 12 months, all
involving kokosis. People who were otherwise normal

(02:21):
on Monday and on Tuesday went completely off the rails.
One of them was found booked as a Jane Doe into a hospital in
another county. Even know her name and she was a
scientific research graduate student.
That's amazing. Do you think this is driving my
Because look, this is a giant social experiment now for the

(02:44):
last 10 years, legalized cannabis in certain states.
People know how to get, it's easier to get than it's ever
been. Do you think this is what's
driving a lot of the drug addiction in the homeless?
It sounds like an obvious question, but has anybody
connected the dots? And you live in an LA, It's not
the same place as it used to be.There's homeless everywhere,

(03:04):
right? Yeah, I I'm not going to call
them homeless. That's that that that puts me in
a in an abusive relationship with the English language.
Mr. Watkins bums, winos, Dings, crazies, junkies, derelicts,
whatever. To use the term homeless is to

(03:27):
buy into the idea that they played no role in what became of
them. So I won't do that.
But what I will say is that quote, UN quote, homeless is
money is cryptocurrency for for California Democrats, the
Newsome donors, the Karen Bass donors, the Bunko Jerry donors

(03:48):
line their pockets with this, with this money.
And our population of derelicts grows and grows and grows.
And what what President Trump isdoing is he's forcing A
clarification under the law and he's putting government county
officials and mayors on notice that they can either actually do

(04:10):
something with the services thatthey have or, or have problems
from him. And the ambiguity in the law is
going to get sweated out. Trump has done this with the
birthright citizenship. He's done it with deportations
of DACA, etcetera. So now he's going to do it with
the quote UN quote, homeless situation.

(04:31):
Now here in here in Los Angeles,I think we have 75,000 men and
women living on the streets, under railroad trestles, in the
landscaping, along the freeways.And when Democrats want to do
something with Californians, they, they don't hesitate.

(04:52):
I'll give you a great example. During the, during the COVID
pandemic or, or pandemic or or whatever you want to call it,
they, they moved heaven and earth.
They ordered people to stay home, to wear masks, to stay,
stay away from each other. They're not engaging
recreational activities. And they had every authority

(05:13):
under excellent law that they wanted.
They didn't have to change the law to claim they had the
authority to do that. But now when it comes to doing
something with derelicts, they claim that they're powerless,
that there's nothing baked into the law to make that allows them
to do anything about anyone at any time, which I think is
garbage. Men and women are suffering

(05:35):
without consequences, they'll continue to suffer.
The the best way to shrink your homeless problem is to
ruthlessly enforce trespass, larceny, public intoxication,
possession of drugs, dealing drugs, charges, short term
incarceration, and offers of help.

(05:58):
And the people who won't take their help just can't be helped.
And the ones who will take the help will change.
So you don't necessarily see this as a bad thing of a of a
having, because we know that Ronald Reagan sort of closed all
that down. You don't see anything wrong
with with rounding people up andand making them go somewhere

(06:19):
where they're kind of away from the people.
You don't think that could be abused?
Well, it'll be, it'll be be abused to around the clock in
order to make Los Angeles good for the Olympics, Mr. Watkins.
And they'll break the law over and over and over again.
And there'll be no consequence for it because, you know,
nothing will happen as the result.

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What I think is the way to go about it is to enforce the laws
we already have. We're not enforcing them.
This is a constant consequence Free State.
The only thing that's really illegal in California is beating
up crossdressers. Interesting.
We're talking with Niels Gravalius.
He's a private investigator. He's got a resume that's

(07:03):
envious. He knows a thing or two about
this. I don't.
I know we don't have a lot of time, but I do want to have you
back and I want to have you backsoon.
And talk about Adam Schiff. Why be delighted?
Because there's a lot to it. I'd.
Be delighted. Yeah, because.
I'd be delighted. Based on your experience, and
we've only got about a minute, Nils, what are you, what's your

(07:25):
assessment of the Epstein case? What do you think they're trying
to hide? Well, they're trying to hide
that it was an intelligence operation, Mr. Watkins being
operated probably jointly by theCIA and another agency, maybe
Mia 6, maybe Mossad. And they turned it from a
criminal investigation at the FBI into a counterintelligence

(07:48):
operation to impound the files to keep them away from Pam Bondi
and Dan Bongino. That's what's going on.
It's just like what they did with the Crossfire Hurricane
material. When John Durham went to work,
they hit 90% of the evidence. Are you shocked that that is
occurring or it has occurred at that level of executive

(08:08):
government? No, no, that they that they
inventory city, they maintain aninventory of official secrets
that they can used for future extortion or political
bargaining. That that sort of has been going
on quite a while. And I have some theories on
this. I'm, I'm a former
counterintelligence agent and I can talk a bit, but you know,

(08:29):
I'm not going to violate secrets, secrecy or the
espionage or any of that. But I can give you some
contextual things on this, Mr. Watkins.
And I'm going to get it from you, too.
And I'm going to be out there inCalifornia for a little while.
I'm, I'm hoping. Do you drink beer?
Well, it depends. It depends.

(08:49):
Depends on how large your breasts are, Mr. Watkins and I
Let me know when you're in town and I'll and I'll make sure that
you and I collide some. That would be nice.
That would be wonderful. By the way, Gravalius Security
Investigations, Nils Gravalius, it's good to have you here on
America TODAY and we thank you and we'll be in touch very soon.

(09:11):
Appreciate that. So cheers, man.
Cheers to you. All right, great, great.
That's our second time we've hadhim on and we're going to have
him back on. I want to get the skinny on Adam
Schiff. Oh, you didn't hear about that.
Oh, yeah. He's possibly facing mortgage
fraud. Isn't that interesting?
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