May 17, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on Mayor Bass’ revised stance regarding safety on LA Metro…PLUS - Supervisor Holly Mitchell joins the program to preview her “community symposium on ending illegal street takeovers and racing” (Saturday, May 18th, 8:30am - 4pm, at the Compton College Multi-Purpose Room) - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Kf I am six forty yes laterwith Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. We have ahuge, huge show tonight. There's so
much going on in southern California,LA and Orange County. We have a
few metro updates. We'll get tothat in just a moment. I'll be
joined at the bottom of the hourby Supervisor Ella County Supervisor Holly Mitchell,
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who represents the second district. We'regoing to talk about a new community event
coming up this Saturday regarding street takeoversand also street racing, and I'll probably
get her thoughts on the metro aswell as there's some overlap as far as
the discussion of crime, property crimeand more. Supervisor Holly Mitchell will join
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me at the bottom of the hourand so much more. But I'm kind
of disappointed. I heard that therewas some precipitation in the air in the
offing and in your future, andMark Ronner told me nothing about it.
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Oh, thank you for that.It's been a while. Appreciate it.
Yeah, I see some moisture inyour future. Mom, my future,
not your future, just my future. Well, we're focusing on you.
We're gonna We're due for some patchydrizzle tomorrow night, and then it's gonna
come back on Sunday night and lastthrough midweek. So you're gonna rain all
over my weekend, all over youryour protective force field going do you any
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goods? Just my weekend, notyour weekend, not Robin's weekend, who's
in for Stefan, not to Wallaceweekend, but my you specifically, the
weather gods are targeting you. I'mindoor person. It's not gonna affect me
one way or the other. Well, I'd like to get out at least
on the weekend, and you domy errands. It's not mean. I'm
not an outdoorsy person. I'm notgoing to go camping at Joshua Tree like
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I did when I was a kid. As always in these situations, I
recommend you just go stand outside.I feel attacked. No, I don't
feel like you're wishing ill weather uponme. Heaven forbid. No, No,
total respect and deference on my endhere. How could you perceive anything
different because you're Mark Ronner. Ohoh that's right. Anyway, text me
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from outdoors when when you're when you'regetting a little damp, it'll be good
you're really slow on the uptick,though. If I were to text you
in the middle of the day,you may not see it until the evening.
That is true. I'm not thebest texter on the planet. I
preferred the Earth when we had notexting whatsoever. Sometimes you'll text me back
and I have no idea to whatyou're referring. You would text me earlier
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in the week, I'm a TVshow that we were both watching, Oh
yeah, Tokyo Vice, and Ihad finished it four or five days before
you did. I mentally had movedon from that portion of our conversation Oh
yeah, And they do text melater days later saying, oh it was
it finished? How you could everwanted to finish? You something about something
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about the finish being very satisfying,and I guess outside of context, you
could have assumed just about anything fromthat. Thank goodness, I did not
delete the previous text thread, orI would have felt like, is this
a me too? Moment? Ithink at the very least you should have
been happy with me for having avery satisfying finish something. How do want
to have you and happy endings inthe same conversation. Okay, I didn't
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say happy endings. Right then youdrew me into that, and so when
I get called into the office toexplain happy ending talk on the public airway,
this is completely on you. Completely. All right, let's change the
subject. We do have some seriousbusiness at hand. I know there have
been reports. I heard Michael Krooschertalk about this shooting which took place either
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on a metro bus neuro metro bus, but details are scant, so I'm
holding back until we know more definitively. We don't want to misrepresent what did
happen. And although I would justjump at the chance to pin something else
on Metro, this is not oneof those times. It may turn out
to be exactly that. But untilwe know that it's exactly that, I'm
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going to proceed with caution, justso you know what I know. This
is ABC seven. I want tosay about fifteen minutes ago, breaking news.
Right now, this is going onin commerce. There. You see
a metro bus and this has happenedagain. We're getting reports of violence on
that bus. Somebody was shot aroundfive o'clock this afternoon. The victim was
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taken off the bus and transport tothe hospital. We don't know that person's
condition or the circumstances around the shooting. We do see a great deal of
blood inside that bus when you pushin. Nevertheless, this is now an
LA Sheriff's Transit Services Bureau investigation.They are looking into this. But keep
in mind, just this morning,the sheriff had a press conference about the
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violence on a metro system, sayingshe's going to serge security and security officers
on trains, on buses, ontransit stops. But you see the need
for it. This is a constantstory about the violence on a metro system
and this is yet another example ofthat. It absolutely is. Again,
it's one of our top stories rightnow, that upticking crime on the La
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Metro. It's forcing Mayor Karen Bassto take action. And we'll talk about
Mayor Bass's comments in the next segment. But it was unclear at this point
whether the shooting originated outside the bus, shooting into the bus, or whether
the shooting was on the bus.We knew that the victim was on the
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bus, but we don't know ifthe shooting was connected to events on the
bus. Trying to get more clarityon that, and that's the most that
we know right now. And aswe find out more, we'll pass it
on to you when we come back. We'll get into what Mayor Bass has
had to say. She's had achange of heart about whether La Metro is
safe. And she was a partof a number of speakers today at this
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press conference, and they offered amotion which is going to be forwarded next
week during the Metro Board of Directorsmeeting about making some changes updating security and
increasing police presence in every facet ofMetro. And I do know from other
conversations that this is not unanimously supported, and that's part of the reason why
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they had this press conference to getit out there so they can get some
public support behind it. We'll talkabout it next. You're listening to Later
with Moe Kelly on demand from KFIAM six forty. And it seems LA's
Mayor, Karen Bass, has hada change of heart. I don't know
why. Now she sees what youand I see. I don't know why
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she says now what you and Ihave been saying that Metro is unsafe.
I made a big to do abouther previous remarks where she said that she
felt that Metro is safe. Nowshe's done a point eighty and maybe we
should applaud her for finally getting hereto Wala and I were having a conversation
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and we were saying collectively that thiswas the perfect example of leading from behind.
You can't lead on this issue whenyou're last in recognizing the issue.
But Mayor Baths is here. Thankgoodness, thank you Jesus. As they
said, she's here. Welcome tothe party, Mayor Bass. Just in
case you don't remember what she hadto say previously and now presently, First
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you're going to hear what she saidfor her budget announcement about a week or
and a half or so ago,and then what she said today when asked
directly about the state of Metro.My message to the community is Metro is
safe after everything that's happened recently.Do you still feel the same way?
No, I do not feel thesame way. Do we hear that right?
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Did we hear that right? Mymessage to the community is Metro is
safe everything that's happened recently. Doyou still feel the same way? No,
I do not feel the same way. That's not It was during an
unrelated news conference this morning that MayorKaren Bass addressed the pressing issue saying for
the first time that she did notthink the La Metro was safe, saying
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for the first time in May oftwenty twenty four that she did not think
that Metro was safe safe. Here'sthat unrelated press conference in which Mayor Bass,
other Metro Board of directors Catherine Barger, Supervisor Barger, Supervisor Han Advisor
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Solisee Nigerian all had their collective sayabout what they wanted Metro to do.
They forwarded a motion. I willread that to you in just a moment.
But here is Mayor Bass at thispress conference, and let me begin
by being absolutely unequivocally clear. Thespike in violent crime on Metro that we
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have recently seen against operators and writershas been absolutely unacceptable, and I know
that all of my colleagues here todaywould agree. Yesterday, as chair of
the Board of Metro, I directedan immediate surge of law enforcement personnel on
Metro buses, on railcars and instations to address this spike. Today,
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we are following that action with amotion to work to make work all Angelin
knows our riders and our operators feelsafe on our system. This motion will
increase the daily planned deployment of publicsafety personnel on Metro and direct public safety
personnel to be physically present on busesand trains and proactively patrol areas as well.
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The motion will also establish a unifiedcommand led by Metros Systems, System
Security and Law Enforcement Department, withrepresentation from all public safety resources, and
work to ensure that cellular service isenabled and working at all underground Metro rail
stations. See that's key. Iremember when I was writing Metro you get
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down in the tunnels, you wouldnot have any type of sale service.
Your phone was a brick at thatpoint. It was a safety issue,
it was an opening. It wasa vulnerability because if something were happening,
you couldn't call nine one one ifyour literal life depended on it on the
platforms and during transit throughout the railsystem. And the importance of this is
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so passengers, if they need tocan get help immediately. I want to
thank my fellow directors as well asour CEO, Stephanie Wiggins, for working
on this important issue. So ourmessage to Los Angeles is clear. We
have already acted the requests of Metroto increase personnel. Happened yesterday. The
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motion that we are talking about todaywill be introduced and discussed at Metro's board
meeting next week. But given whathas happened on the trains and the buses,
we did not want to wait fora meeting next week. We wanted
to act immediately because we understand thatour number one job is for Angelino's across
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La County to feel safe. IfI understand it correctly, the meeting is
next week. The motion was revealedtoday. The meeting is next week.
Nothing can happen before next week.But she said they've already acted. Let
me just read this motion real quick, which was forwarded today, and if
I have time, I'll try toask Supervisor Holly Mitchell about it. At
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the bottom of the hour, itsays, quote recently, our system has
endured in uptick in violence and crime. Law enforcement agencies are reporting a rise
in crime, resulting in increased arrestsand citations for trespassing, narcotics, and
weapons possession, as Metro ridership continuesto increase to pre pandemic levels, reaching
more than nine hundred and fifty thousandweekday writers in March twenty twenty four,
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YadA YadA, YadA, blah blahblah, the increase in crime threatens to
derail our goal of exceeding one pointtwo million weekday writers. I guess that's
most important, and it goes on. While Metro and IT security partners have
taken many steps to improve safety,we must do more to ensure the safety
of our writers and employees across thesystem. Here's the motion. We therefore
move the Board to direct the CEOto increase the daily planned deployment of public
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safety personnel, adjusting deployment to focuson the rail cars, buses and stations
with the highest incidents of crime andpublic safety issues so that writers in frontline
employees feel safe. Direct public safetypersonnel including LAPD, l A Sheriff's Department,
Long Beach Police Department and Metro Transitsecurity officers to be physically present on
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buses and trains. Direct public safetypersonnel to proactively walk through railcars and ride
buses. I'm skimming through this.Establish a unified command led by Metro System
Security and Law Enforcement Department, withrepresentation from all public safety resources. Ensure
that cellular service is enabled and workingat all underground Metro rail stations, on
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the platforms and during transit throughout therail system. There's a lot more to
that, but those are the highlightsof it. It's a motion, and
the reason why they're doing the motionis because there is not unanimity on the
metro Board. Not everyone agrees.How do I know, Because they're putting
forward a motion and they're putting itout to the public so they can have
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public support when they actually present itnext week. Not everyone on metro Board
agrees with these particular and specific measures, including increasing the visual police presence.
I think the thing that bothers memost is the tone of this press conference.
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It almost seems to say that wesaw this and we took action immediately,
and they're really playing it as they'replaying as if they're being proactive as
this, they're being practical, likewe're not gonna let this happen. We've
been talking about this, literally forover a year on this show. I'm
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confused. I know I'm not confused. I know we've been talking about it
this long. I know this fora fact. I'm just playing the audio
and I'm reading the motion they're gonnamove for this next week. Joining us
next at the bottom of the hour, Supervisor Holly Mitchell, representing the second
District. There is a new communitymeeting which is going to be this Saturday
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at Compton College addressing street takeovers andstreet racing, and I think that's part
and parcel of the larger discussion ofproperty crime and crime more generally in LA
County. We'll get into that nextwith Supervisor Holly Mitchell with Kelly on six.
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. The La County Second Supervisorial District
stretches from the South Bay to Koreatown. It also includes portions of twelve cities
and twenty two unincorporated communities, includingCarson, Compton, Culver City, El
Segundo, Guardina, Hawthorne, HermosaBeach, Inglewood, Lawndale, portions of
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La Manhattan Beach and Verdondo Beach.This Saturday, you can join the County
of Los Angeles for a community eventon ending illegal street takeovers and racing.
The County is bringing together representatives workingon this issue and to share perspectives,
brainstorm solutions, and create recommendations forending illegal street racing and takeovers. The
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event is free, Say it withme, free and open to all residents.
LA County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, whorepresents the second district and also is
my supervisor, has helped spearhead thiseffort, and it's my pleasure to welcome
her on later with Mo Kelly supervisorMitchell. Nice to have you on this
program this evening. How you doing, Mo, I'm great, Thank you
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for having me. I look forwardto coming back. The issue of street
takeovers and street racing, they're notnew. Neither is our seeming inability to
effectively address and prevent them. Whatdo you see as some of the chief
obstacles here? You know, Mo, You're right, it is not new.
However, I do the street racingisn't new. I'm a third generation
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Native Angelino. I grew up,as many generations did, with street racing.
Street takeovers, I think is anew wer phenomena which is complicated by
social media and the fact that peoplewho choose to participate can through social media
and through their phones and through theirdevice that everybody has at their disposal,
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identify a location, get there,track law enforcement, and disperse in many
instances before law enforcement gets there.So I think that there is a new
element that is complicating our ability towrap our arms around the situation. It's
incredibly dangerous and the things I justmentioned make it difficult. Something else that
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I think is new, because likeyou, I've been here, my family's
been here for multi generations. Streettakeovers have also led to other acts of
crime related to local businesses on occasion, including smashing grabs. I mentioned that
because street takeovers are just one aspectof the larger discussion of property crime in
La County. Have street takeovers becomea growing problem as we've talked about over
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the past year or so, orhas it decreased or stabilized. And that's
a really good question, and Ithink it depends on your perspective. My
constituents, largely those who live inunincorporated communities, Compton residents. This is
an issue that Compton Mayor Emma Sharifhas really leaned in on. Probably feel
that they haven't diminished yet. WhenI have conversations with our sheriff, Sheriff
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Luna, you know, he's identifiedstrategies that the task force that's been created
have been able to implement. Iknow my staff working with constituents, working
with Department of Public Works on infrastructuresolutions. You know, the street takeovers
are great and really big wide boulevards, and there are a lot of those
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in the second District, and soPublic Works has been able to implement a
number of strategies to make those areasless attractive. So I think it depends
on your vantage point. I know, residents, if you're awaken at two
in the morning by the sound ofbut you feel like it's not getting any
better. Yet. When we lookat the data, we look at the
incidents, we look at the newtools that law enforcement is using, and
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our infrastructure tools, I think thatwe are getting better. We're talking about
the community Symposium on ending illegal streettakeovers and Racing, which will be from
eight thirty am to four pm thisSaturday, May eighteenth at Compton College in
the Multipurpose Room. Attendees are encouragedto register first. How can people since
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it is a free event and theyhave to register, how can they be
part of this? What do yourecommend to be part of this? Well,
I really want people to show up, you know MO. As a
public servant, I take my jobvery seriously. I just do. It
is also a community issue. Weneed community members to work collaboratively with government
to help us identify solutions. Peoplewho live in community who witness it and
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people who sometimes know the young peoplewho are participating in these in street racing
and takeovers need to come to thetable and help us identify solutions, identify
target areas, hot pocket areas whereit's happening, and come up with solutions.
So we're encouraging This is our secondtown hall. The first one was
wonderfully successful. We're partnering with lawenforcement. We're partnering with nonprofit organizations,
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many of whom who have unfortunately cometogether and organized because of tragedy. Raymond
Olivares is the example who was killedin West Ranchel, Juminus as a result
of street racing. He was crossingthe street trying to get to his own
house. I met his sister ata community meeting and we've been working together.
She started a nonprofit working with others. So it's everybody coming together trying
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to identify from the community of solutionsthat will reduce this. So we encourage
people to come, and we justasked you to register so we know how
many people are coming, and youcan do that at my website Mitchell dot
La County dot gov. I canimagine because I've been to some of these
community style events. I know thateven though on the sheet it says they're
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going to be gathering for this issue, any number of other issues may be
broached and raised. What are youhearing from members of the community representing the
second district that are on top ofpeople's minds. You are absolutely right,
and we're open to that. Weengage very regularly. I have an amazing
team of constituent Services staff who areout in community every day, really on
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my behalf, and so we hearabout our houseless family, friends and neighbors,
and MO I frame it that waybecause you know, we know that
there are people like you and Iwho grew up in LA, who live
in LA who need our help,who either can't afford the rent, who
are suffering from substance use disorder ormental health, or who are victims of
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domestic violence. There are any variousreasons that lead people to houselessness. So
we hear about that. So we'retalking about the R and B encampments and
how we create a balance where weprovide safe, humane housing for people who
need it, as well as honorhomeowners and tenants and property owners who are
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suffering with you know, RVs takingup all the space in their community.
We hear about public safety. Youknow, I'm on the Metro board.
There's lots of conversation about what wedo to create safe environments and communities for
all of us, and all ofus define safety in different ways. That's
a great point to pause, becausewhen we come back, I want to
get into Metro. My guest rightnow is La County Supervisor Holly Mitchell,
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who represents the second District here inLa County. More with Supervisor Mitchell in
just a moment this Later with moKelly caf I AM six forty. We
are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Later with mo Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty. I'm right in the middle of a
conversation about La County with La CountySupervisor Holly Mitchell, who represents the second
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District supervis Metro. Let's pick upjust where we left off. You mentioned
how La Metro is a subject thatpeople will broach in these community meetings,
which is no real surprise. Butlet me take it to a personal place
for me. There was a womanwho was stabbed very recently at Vermont and
one oh five Freeway, which isliterally less than a mile from my house.
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I passed that elevator and Metro stopevery single day, so this is
personal for me. Let me askyou, as an elected official, are
we making any headway? I knowthat there was a finance and budget meeting
yesterday, but I didn't hear anythingpositive come out of it. Are we
missing something as far as where Metrois headed? No pun intended. I
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appreciate the question, and you knowI'm very active Metro board member. I
chaired the Operations Committee, and thisis an issue that Metro has addressed really
head on since I joined the boardin twenty twenty one. We have a
Peace Sack Committee comprised of Metro riterswho have been working on developing policies to
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redefine safety. The Metro Board willcontinue to have conversations about how we stand
up in infrastructure that provides safety forour bus operators as well as our patrons.
Ridership is up on our buses topre pandemic levels. That's a good
thing. I represent a constituency whorely on Metro to get to school and
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work and doctor's appointment, so itis important that we create a safe environment
and when we look worldwide, thenumber one kind of indicator of safety and
public transit is people taking public transit, and so we want to make sure
that people feel safe so they willride it more. Because the more eyes
that are on our public transit,the safer it is. It's how we
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define safety. There are segments ofmy community who don't feel safer when there
are more armed law enforcement present.We have a hishy of disproportionate arrests and
people being ticketed for fer evasion.You know, black and brown people and
poor people have suffered at the handsof law enforcement. We can't forget that
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we have a million boardings a dayand while this current rash of stabbings and
our bus operators is very troubling,there are a million boardings of day mo
and so overall I want the generalpublic to know that it is our system.
We are working every day to makeit safe, clean, affordable and
reliable so people will ride it.We've got the Olympics coming in twenty twenty
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eight, FIFA in twenty twenty six. We have got to get out of
our cars for a variety of reasons. I'm on the AQMD board and air
quality in South la and the seconddistrict is some of the poorous in the
country. And so you know,my commitment to public transportation is to address
all those issues for my constituents,fast, affordable, reliable transfer. Intation
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that you also feel safe and comfortablewriting ridership may be up. But I
think there is a point of contentionbecause we hear in the news the rational
stabbings, which you acknowledge. Butalso I know that Mayor Bass has said
that the Metro Board and correcting ifI'm wrong, police, that the Metro
Board is going to introduce a motionfor more police on Metro. Is Mayor
Bass as chair of the Metro Boardof Directors in step with the rest of
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the board when it comes to Metro. Where when it comes to law enforcement
and its presence on Metro, that'sa really good question. I think we'll
see when she brings that motion forward, we'll see what the vote of the
board is. You know, Iwas very proud to partner with former Counselman
Bonden to create the Ambassador program.You'll see hundreds of Metro staff and these
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bright green shirts. They're not lawenforcement, but they are additional eyes and
ears on the system. They havetelephone communication with security, so they can
call for help, but they alsocan report the other things people experience on
Metro, escalators that don't work,fights on buses, so they are there
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again as an additional tool in thetoolkit. We've got contracts with law enforcement,
we've got private security, we havethe Ambassador. So from my perspective,
the safety protocol is not just oneanswer. It's creating a system where
all of these pieces are working collaborativelyto create a safer experience. I spoke
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with Supervisor Barger last week and shewas very honest and transparent about her reticence
to ride Metro by herself. Inthe interest of full disclosure, I have
been very critical of Metro in thesense of the environment there, and I
wasn't sure whether the ambassador program wasadding to the safety quotion. You are
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saying that it is a holistic approach, it's not one thing, it's a
number of things. And get thesencident that there is some disagreement as far
as how La County Board Supervisors shouldmove forward on Metro. Is that fair
to say, Well, it's notjust the La County Board of Supervisors.
Metro has a full board, thefive supervisors serve on it, but we
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serve on it with others mayors andcity council people and other elected representatives.
I think it's perhaps a different perspectiveof how you define safety. I have
a constituency who show up consistently whotalk about disproportionality in terms of the experience
of black and brown people, blackand brown young man writing Metro, the
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highest incidents of arrest for Fairybasi,and a variety of things. So that's
why the PASAC Committee was so important, because it's actual writers who came together,
who meet regularly and still are helpingus shape the policy around what safety
should look like from a variety ofperspectives, but primarily from those who actually
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ride the system, who are publictransit dependent. I think it's very important
that their perspective be included as wedevelop policies that will govern them. We
created policies that are holding our publicsafety contractors accountable to bias free policing.
That's very important to me given thelens I have as a black woman,
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given the fact that I have transitdependent family members, a twenty three year
old son and an eighty five yearold second cousin, and I hear directly
also from them their experiences in writingpublic transit. Yes. Do you when
you hear from your twenty three yearold son or eighty five year old mother,
do they feel confident and secure andsafe writing Metro as it is right
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now? Yes? And they alsoacknowledge things they witness and see, much
of which MO are things we're experiencingon the streets in our communities every day.
Substance use disorder. You know,the number of lives saved by the
ambassadors and in the month of Februaryalone was staggering. They are carrying narcan,
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and so we are seeing unhoused.Our issue with the unhoused riding the
trains and busses to the end ofthe line. Why because MO, they
have nowhere to go. So Metrohas stepped up in a meaningful way,
working with our nonprofit organizations who areassisting our unhoused to try to transition people
out of public transit into housing.So many of the challenges Metro is facing
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isn't based on being a transit agency. People experiencing mental illness that sometimes lead
to these acts of violence, substanceuse disorder in our trains and on our
buses as well as the unhoused.Those are societal issues that we're all wrappling
with. Well, Supervisor Mitchell willonly let us end where I ended with
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Supervisor Barker, I asked her,and I will ask you now. So
what's the good news? Oh?I see good news every day day.
Mo. We are housing people moreand more every day again. Bus ridership
is up. We are building andexpanding. We will before you and I
transition mode. We will be ableto take public transit to Lax reliably,
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hopefully from every corner of this countMe too, Me too. We will
be able to go to event setso far and take a train and transition
that last mile because mayor Bus isworking very hard to get that last mile.
We are growing and expanding as acounty of you know, approaching eleven
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million people. That's not chop liver. But we are about to be on
the world stage with all these eventsI talked about, and metro building housing,
creating services for people who are experiencingin the middle of a mental health
crisis through our care courts, throughexpanding our mental health beds. We are
working diligently every day to provide theservices and resources LA County residents need and
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I believe deserve. She is LACounty Supervisor Holly Mitchell. Don't forget The
community Symposium on ending illegal street takeoversand racing will be Saturday, eight thirty
to four pm at Compton College.Be sure to check that out and attend
and lend your voice, Supervisor Mitchell, It's been a pleasure. We've met
in person on a couple of occasions, but this is our first conversation on
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there, and this is not goingto be the last, that much,
I'm sure. Thank you for comingon tonight, Thank you for having me.
I look forward to coming back.KFI AM six forty We're live everywhere
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Kf I am six forty yes laterwith Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. We have ahuge, huge show tonight. There's so
much going on in southern California,LA and Orange County. We have a
few metro updates. We'll get tothat in just a moment. I'll be
joined at the bottom of the hourby Supervisor Ella County Supervisor Holly Mitchell,
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who represents the second district. We'regoing to talk about a new community event
coming up this Saturday regarding street takeoversand also street racing, and I'll probably
get her thoughts on the metro aswell as there's some overlap as far as
the discussion of crime, property crimeand more. Supervisor Holly Mitchell will join
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me at the bottom of the hourand so much more. But I'm kind
of disappointed. I heard that therewas some precipitation in the air in the
offing and in your future, andMark Ronner told me nothing about it.
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Oh, thank you for that.It's been a while. Appreciate it.
Yeah, I see some moisture inyour future. Mom, my future,
not your future, just my future. Well, we're focusing on you.
We're gonna We're due for some patchydrizzle tomorrow night, and then it's gonna
come back on Sunday night and lastthrough midweek. So you're gonna rain all
over my weekend, all over youryour protective force field going do you any
(01:48):
goods? Just my weekend, notyour weekend, not Robin's weekend, who's
in for Stefan, not to Wallaceweekend, but my you specifically, the
weather gods are targeting you. I'mindoor person. It's not gonna affect me
one way or the other. Well, I'd like to get out at least
on the weekend, and you domy errands. It's not mean. I'm
not an outdoorsy person. I'm notgoing to go camping at Joshua Tree like
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I did when I was a kid. As always in these situations, I
recommend you just go stand outside.I feel attacked. No, I don't
feel like you're wishing ill weather uponme. Heaven forbid. No, No,
total respect and deference on my endhere. How could you perceive anything
different because you're Mark Ronner. Ohoh that's right. Anyway, text me
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from outdoors when when you're when you'regetting a little damp, it'll be good
you're really slow on the uptick,though. If I were to text you
in the middle of the day,you may not see it until the evening.
That is true. I'm not thebest texter on the planet. I
preferred the Earth when we had notexting whatsoever. Sometimes you'll text me back
and I have no idea to whatyou're referring. You would text me earlier
(02:59):
in the week, I'm a TVshow that we were both watching, Oh
yeah, Tokyo Vice, and Ihad finished it four or five days before
you did. I mentally had movedon from that portion of our conversation Oh
yeah, And they do text melater days later saying, oh it was
it finished? How you could everwanted to finish? You something about something
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about the finish being very satisfying,and I guess outside of context, you
could have assumed just about anything fromthat. Thank goodness, I did not
delete the previous text thread, orI would have felt like, is this
a me too? Moment? Ithink at the very least you should have
been happy with me for having avery satisfying finish something. How do want
to have you and happy endings inthe same conversation. Okay, I didn't
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say happy endings. Right then youdrew me into that, and so when
I get called into the office toexplain happy ending talk on the public airway,
this is completely on you. Completely. All right, let's change the
subject. We do have some seriousbusiness at hand. I know there have
been reports. I heard Michael Krooschertalk about this shooting which took place either
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on a metro bus neuro metro bus, but details are scant, so I'm
holding back until we know more definitively. We don't want to misrepresent what did
happen. And although I would justjump at the chance to pin something else
on Metro, this is not oneof those times. It may turn out
to be exactly that. But untilwe know that it's exactly that, I'm
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going to proceed with caution, justso you know what I know. This
is ABC seven. I want tosay about fifteen minutes ago, breaking news.
Right now, this is going onin commerce. There. You see
a metro bus and this has happenedagain. We're getting reports of violence on
that bus. Somebody was shot aroundfive o'clock this afternoon. The victim was
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taken off the bus and transport tothe hospital. We don't know that person's
condition or the circumstances around the shooting. We do see a great deal of
blood inside that bus when you pushin. Nevertheless, this is now an
LA Sheriff's Transit Services Bureau investigation.They are looking into this. But keep
in mind, just this morning,the sheriff had a press conference about the
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violence on a metro system, sayingshe's going to serge security and security officers
on trains, on buses, ontransit stops. But you see the need
for it. This is a constantstory about the violence on a metro system
and this is yet another example ofthat. It absolutely is. Again,
it's one of our top stories rightnow, that upticking crime on the La
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Metro. It's forcing Mayor Karen Bassto take action. And we'll talk about
Mayor Bass's comments in the next segment. But it was unclear at this point
whether the shooting originated outside the bus, shooting into the bus, or whether
the shooting was on the bus.We knew that the victim was on the
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bus, but we don't know ifthe shooting was connected to events on the
bus. Trying to get more clarityon that, and that's the most that
we know right now. And aswe find out more, we'll pass it
on to you when we come back. We'll get into what Mayor Bass has
had to say. She's had achange of heart about whether La Metro is
safe. And she was a partof a number of speakers today at this
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press conference, and they offered amotion which is going to be forwarded next
week during the Metro Board of Directorsmeeting about making some changes updating security and
increasing police presence in every facet ofMetro. And I do know from other
conversations that this is not unanimously supported, and that's part of the reason why
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they had this press conference to getit out there so they can get some
public support behind it. We'll talkabout it next. You're listening to Later
with Moe Kelly on demand from KFIAM six forty. And it seems LA's
Mayor, Karen Bass, has hada change of heart. I don't know
why. Now she sees what youand I see. I don't know why
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she says now what you and Ihave been saying that Metro is unsafe.
I made a big to do abouther previous remarks where she said that she
felt that Metro is safe. Nowshe's done a point eighty and maybe we
should applaud her for finally getting hereto Wala and I were having a conversation
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and we were saying collectively that thiswas the perfect example of leading from behind.
You can't lead on this issue whenyou're last in recognizing the issue.
But Mayor Baths is here. Thankgoodness, thank you Jesus. As they
said, she's here. Welcome tothe party, Mayor Bass. Just in
case you don't remember what she hadto say previously and now presently, First
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you're going to hear what she saidfor her budget announcement about a week or
and a half or so ago,and then what she said today when asked
directly about the state of Metro.My message to the community is Metro is
safe after everything that's happened recently.Do you still feel the same way?
No, I do not feel thesame way. Do we hear that right?
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Did we hear that right? Mymessage to the community is Metro is
safe everything that's happened recently. Doyou still feel the same way? No,
I do not feel the same way. That's not It was during an
unrelated news conference this morning that MayorKaren Bass addressed the pressing issue saying for
the first time that she did notthink the La Metro was safe, saying
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for the first time in May oftwenty twenty four that she did not think
that Metro was safe safe. Here'sthat unrelated press conference in which Mayor Bass,
other Metro Board of directors Catherine Barger, Supervisor Barger, Supervisor Han Advisor
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Solisee Nigerian all had their collective sayabout what they wanted Metro to do.
They forwarded a motion. I willread that to you in just a moment.
But here is Mayor Bass at thispress conference, and let me begin
by being absolutely unequivocally clear. Thespike in violent crime on Metro that we
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have recently seen against operators and writershas been absolutely unacceptable, and I know
that all of my colleagues here todaywould agree. Yesterday, as chair of
the Board of Metro, I directedan immediate surge of law enforcement personnel on
Metro buses, on railcars and instations to address this spike. Today,
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we are following that action with amotion to work to make work all Angelin
knows our riders and our operators feelsafe on our system. This motion will
increase the daily planned deployment of publicsafety personnel on Metro and direct public safety
personnel to be physically present on busesand trains and proactively patrol areas as well.
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The motion will also establish a unifiedcommand led by Metros Systems, System
Security and Law Enforcement Department, withrepresentation from all public safety resources, and
work to ensure that cellular service isenabled and working at all underground Metro rail
stations. See that's key. Iremember when I was writing Metro you get
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down in the tunnels, you wouldnot have any type of sale service.
Your phone was a brick at thatpoint. It was a safety issue,
it was an opening. It wasa vulnerability because if something were happening,
you couldn't call nine one one ifyour literal life depended on it on the
platforms and during transit throughout the railsystem. And the importance of this is
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so passengers, if they need tocan get help immediately. I want to
thank my fellow directors as well asour CEO, Stephanie Wiggins, for working
on this important issue. So ourmessage to Los Angeles is clear. We
have already acted the requests of Metroto increase personnel. Happened yesterday. The
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motion that we are talking about todaywill be introduced and discussed at Metro's board
meeting next week. But given whathas happened on the trains and the buses,
we did not want to wait fora meeting next week. We wanted
to act immediately because we understand thatour number one job is for Angelino's across
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La County to feel safe. IfI understand it correctly, the meeting is
next week. The motion was revealedtoday. The meeting is next week.
Nothing can happen before next week.But she said they've already acted. Let
me just read this motion real quick, which was forwarded today, and if
I have time, I'll try toask Supervisor Holly Mitchell about it. At
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the bottom of the hour, itsays, quote recently, our system has
endured in uptick in violence and crime. Law enforcement agencies are reporting a rise
in crime, resulting in increased arrestsand citations for trespassing, narcotics, and
weapons possession, as Metro ridership continuesto increase to pre pandemic levels, reaching
more than nine hundred and fifty thousandweekday writers in March twenty twenty four,
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YadA YadA, YadA, blah blahblah, the increase in crime threatens to
derail our goal of exceeding one pointtwo million weekday writers. I guess that's
most important, and it goes on. While Metro and IT security partners have
taken many steps to improve safety,we must do more to ensure the safety
of our writers and employees across thesystem. Here's the motion. We therefore
move the Board to direct the CEOto increase the daily planned deployment of public
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safety personnel, adjusting deployment to focuson the rail cars, buses and stations
with the highest incidents of crime andpublic safety issues so that writers in frontline
employees feel safe. Direct public safetypersonnel including LAPD, l A Sheriff's Department,
Long Beach Police Department and Metro Transitsecurity officers to be physically present on
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buses and trains. Direct public safetypersonnel to proactively walk through railcars and ride
buses. I'm skimming through this.Establish a unified command led by Metro System
Security and Law Enforcement Department, withrepresentation from all public safety resources. Ensure
that cellular service is enabled and workingat all underground Metro rail stations, on
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the platforms and during transit throughout therail system. There's a lot more to
that, but those are the highlightsof it. It's a motion, and
the reason why they're doing the motionis because there is not unanimity on the
metro Board. Not everyone agrees.How do I know, Because they're putting
forward a motion and they're putting itout to the public so they can have
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public support when they actually present itnext week. Not everyone on metro Board
agrees with these particular and specific measures, including increasing the visual police presence.
I think the thing that bothers memost is the tone of this press conference.
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It almost seems to say that wesaw this and we took action immediately,
and they're really playing it as they'replaying as if they're being proactive as
this, they're being practical, likewe're not gonna let this happen. We've
been talking about this, literally forover a year on this show. I'm
(14:39):
confused. I know I'm not confused. I know we've been talking about it
this long. I know this fora fact. I'm just playing the audio
and I'm reading the motion they're gonnamove for this next week. Joining us
next at the bottom of the hour, Supervisor Holly Mitchell, representing the second
District. There is a new communitymeeting which is going to be this Saturday
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at Compton College addressing street takeovers andstreet racing, and I think that's part
and parcel of the larger discussion ofproperty crime and crime more generally in LA
County. We'll get into that nextwith Supervisor Holly Mitchell with Kelly on six.
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. The La County Second Supervisorial District
stretches from the South Bay to Koreatown. It also includes portions of twelve cities
and twenty two unincorporated communities, includingCarson, Compton, Culver City, El
Segundo, Guardina, Hawthorne, HermosaBeach, Inglewood, Lawndale, portions of
(15:46):
La Manhattan Beach and Verdondo Beach.This Saturday, you can join the County
of Los Angeles for a community eventon ending illegal street takeovers and racing.
The County is bringing together representatives workingon this issue and to share perspectives,
brainstorm solutions, and create recommendations forending illegal street racing and takeovers. The
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event is free, Say it withme, free and open to all residents.
LA County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, whorepresents the second district and also is
my supervisor, has helped spearhead thiseffort, and it's my pleasure to welcome
her on later with Mo Kelly supervisorMitchell. Nice to have you on this
program this evening. How you doing, Mo, I'm great, Thank you
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for having me. I look forwardto coming back. The issue of street
takeovers and street racing, they're notnew. Neither is our seeming inability to
effectively address and prevent them. Whatdo you see as some of the chief
obstacles here? You know, Mo, You're right, it is not new.
However, I do the street racingisn't new. I'm a third generation
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Native Angelino. I grew up,as many generations did, with street racing.
Street takeovers, I think is anew wer phenomena which is complicated by
social media and the fact that peoplewho choose to participate can through social media
and through their phones and through theirdevice that everybody has at their disposal,
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identify a location, get there,track law enforcement, and disperse in many
instances before law enforcement gets there.So I think that there is a new
element that is complicating our ability towrap our arms around the situation. It's
incredibly dangerous and the things I justmentioned make it difficult. Something else that
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I think is new, because likeyou, I've been here, my family's
been here for multi generations. Streettakeovers have also led to other acts of
crime related to local businesses on occasion, including smashing grabs. I mentioned that
because street takeovers are just one aspectof the larger discussion of property crime in
La County. Have street takeovers becomea growing problem as we've talked about over
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the past year or so, orhas it decreased or stabilized. And that's
a really good question, and Ithink it depends on your perspective. My
constituents, largely those who live inunincorporated communities, Compton residents. This is
an issue that Compton Mayor Emma Sharifhas really leaned in on. Probably feel
that they haven't diminished yet. WhenI have conversations with our sheriff, Sheriff
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Luna, you know, he's identifiedstrategies that the task force that's been created
have been able to implement. Iknow my staff working with constituents, working
with Department of Public Works on infrastructuresolutions. You know, the street takeovers
are great and really big wide boulevards, and there are a lot of those
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in the second District, and soPublic Works has been able to implement a
number of strategies to make those areasless attractive. So I think it depends
on your vantage point. I know, residents, if you're awaken at two
in the morning by the sound ofbut you feel like it's not getting any
better. Yet. When we lookat the data, we look at the
incidents, we look at the newtools that law enforcement is using, and
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our infrastructure tools, I think thatwe are getting better. We're talking about
the community Symposium on ending illegal streettakeovers and Racing, which will be from
eight thirty am to four pm thisSaturday, May eighteenth at Compton College in
the Multipurpose Room. Attendees are encouragedto register first. How can people since
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it is a free event and theyhave to register, how can they be
part of this? What do yourecommend to be part of this? Well,
I really want people to show up, you know MO. As a
public servant, I take my jobvery seriously. I just do. It
is also a community issue. Weneed community members to work collaboratively with government
to help us identify solutions. Peoplewho live in community who witness it and
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people who sometimes know the young peoplewho are participating in these in street racing
and takeovers need to come to thetable and help us identify solutions, identify
target areas, hot pocket areas whereit's happening, and come up with solutions.
So we're encouraging This is our secondtown hall. The first one was
wonderfully successful. We're partnering with lawenforcement. We're partnering with nonprofit organizations,
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many of whom who have unfortunately cometogether and organized because of tragedy. Raymond
Olivares is the example who was killedin West Ranchel, Juminus as a result
of street racing. He was crossingthe street trying to get to his own
house. I met his sister ata community meeting and we've been working together.
She started a nonprofit working with others. So it's everybody coming together trying
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to identify from the community of solutionsthat will reduce this. So we encourage
people to come, and we justasked you to register so we know how
many people are coming, and youcan do that at my website Mitchell dot
La County dot gov. I canimagine because I've been to some of these
community style events. I know thateven though on the sheet it says they're
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going to be gathering for this issue, any number of other issues may be
broached and raised. What are youhearing from members of the community representing the
second district that are on top ofpeople's minds. You are absolutely right,
and we're open to that. Weengage very regularly. I have an amazing
team of constituent Services staff who areout in community every day, really on
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my behalf, and so we hearabout our houseless family, friends and neighbors,
and MO I frame it that waybecause you know, we know that
there are people like you and Iwho grew up in LA, who live
in LA who need our help,who either can't afford the rent, who
are suffering from substance use disorder ormental health, or who are victims of
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domestic violence. There are any variousreasons that lead people to houselessness. So
we hear about that. So we'retalking about the R and B encampments and
how we create a balance where weprovide safe, humane housing for people who
need it, as well as honorhomeowners and tenants and property owners who are
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suffering with you know, RVs takingup all the space in their community.
We hear about public safety. Youknow, I'm on the Metro board.
There's lots of conversation about what wedo to create safe environments and communities for
all of us, and all ofus define safety in different ways. That's
a great point to pause, becausewhen we come back, I want to
get into Metro. My guest rightnow is La County Supervisor Holly Mitchell,
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who represents the second District here inLa County. More with Supervisor Mitchell in
just a moment this Later with moKelly caf I AM six forty. We
are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Later with mo Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty. I'm right in the middle of a
conversation about La County with La CountySupervisor Holly Mitchell, who represents the second
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District supervis Metro. Let's pick upjust where we left off. You mentioned
how La Metro is a subject thatpeople will broach in these community meetings,
which is no real surprise. Butlet me take it to a personal place
for me. There was a womanwho was stabbed very recently at Vermont and
one oh five Freeway, which isliterally less than a mile from my house.
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I passed that elevator and Metro stopevery single day, so this is
personal for me. Let me askyou, as an elected official, are
we making any headway? I knowthat there was a finance and budget meeting
yesterday, but I didn't hear anythingpositive come out of it. Are we
missing something as far as where Metrois headed? No pun intended. I
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appreciate the question, and you knowI'm very active Metro board member. I
chaired the Operations Committee, and thisis an issue that Metro has addressed really
head on since I joined the boardin twenty twenty one. We have a
Peace Sack Committee comprised of Metro riterswho have been working on developing policies to
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redefine safety. The Metro Board willcontinue to have conversations about how we stand
up in infrastructure that provides safety forour bus operators as well as our patrons.
Ridership is up on our buses topre pandemic levels. That's a good
thing. I represent a constituency whorely on Metro to get to school and
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work and doctor's appointment, so itis important that we create a safe environment
and when we look worldwide, thenumber one kind of indicator of safety and
public transit is people taking public transit, and so we want to make sure
that people feel safe so they willride it more. Because the more eyes
that are on our public transit,the safer it is. It's how we
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define safety. There are segments ofmy community who don't feel safer when there
are more armed law enforcement present.We have a hishy of disproportionate arrests and
people being ticketed for fer evasion.You know, black and brown people and
poor people have suffered at the handsof law enforcement. We can't forget that
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we have a million boardings a dayand while this current rash of stabbings and
our bus operators is very troubling,there are a million boardings of day mo
and so overall I want the generalpublic to know that it is our system.
We are working every day to makeit safe, clean, affordable and
reliable so people will ride it.We've got the Olympics coming in twenty twenty
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eight, FIFA in twenty twenty six. We have got to get out of
our cars for a variety of reasons. I'm on the AQMD board and air
quality in South la and the seconddistrict is some of the poorous in the
country. And so you know,my commitment to public transportation is to address
all those issues for my constituents,fast, affordable, reliable transfer. Intation
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that you also feel safe and comfortablewriting ridership may be up. But I
think there is a point of contentionbecause we hear in the news the rational
stabbings, which you acknowledge. Butalso I know that Mayor Bass has said
that the Metro Board and correcting ifI'm wrong, police, that the Metro
Board is going to introduce a motionfor more police on Metro. Is Mayor
Bass as chair of the Metro Boardof Directors in step with the rest of
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the board when it comes to Metro. Where when it comes to law enforcement
and its presence on Metro, that'sa really good question. I think we'll
see when she brings that motion forward, we'll see what the vote of the
board is. You know, Iwas very proud to partner with former Counselman
Bonden to create the Ambassador program.You'll see hundreds of Metro staff and these
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bright green shirts. They're not lawenforcement, but they are additional eyes and
ears on the system. They havetelephone communication with security, so they can
call for help, but they alsocan report the other things people experience on
Metro, escalators that don't work,fights on buses, so they are there
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again as an additional tool in thetoolkit. We've got contracts with law enforcement,
we've got private security, we havethe Ambassador. So from my perspective,
the safety protocol is not just oneanswer. It's creating a system where
all of these pieces are working collaborativelyto create a safer experience. I spoke
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with Supervisor Barger last week and shewas very honest and transparent about her reticence
to ride Metro by herself. Inthe interest of full disclosure, I have
been very critical of Metro in thesense of the environment there, and I
wasn't sure whether the ambassador program wasadding to the safety quotion. You are
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saying that it is a holistic approach, it's not one thing, it's a
number of things. And get thesencident that there is some disagreement as far
as how La County Board Supervisors shouldmove forward on Metro. Is that fair
to say, Well, it's notjust the La County Board of Supervisors.
Metro has a full board, thefive supervisors serve on it, but we
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serve on it with others mayors andcity council people and other elected representatives.
I think it's perhaps a different perspectiveof how you define safety. I have
a constituency who show up consistently whotalk about disproportionality in terms of the experience
of black and brown people, blackand brown young man writing Metro, the
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highest incidents of arrest for Fairybasi,and a variety of things. So that's
why the PASAC Committee was so important, because it's actual writers who came together,
who meet regularly and still are helpingus shape the policy around what safety
should look like from a variety ofperspectives, but primarily from those who actually
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ride the system, who are publictransit dependent. I think it's very important
that their perspective be included as wedevelop policies that will govern them. We
created policies that are holding our publicsafety contractors accountable to bias free policing.
That's very important to me given thelens I have as a black woman,
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given the fact that I have transitdependent family members, a twenty three year
old son and an eighty five yearold second cousin, and I hear directly
also from them their experiences in writingpublic transit. Yes. Do you when
you hear from your twenty three yearold son or eighty five year old mother,
do they feel confident and secure andsafe writing Metro as it is right
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now? Yes? And they alsoacknowledge things they witness and see, much
of which MO are things we're experiencingon the streets in our communities every day.
Substance use disorder. You know,the number of lives saved by the
ambassadors and in the month of Februaryalone was staggering. They are carrying narcan,
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and so we are seeing unhoused.Our issue with the unhoused riding the
trains and busses to the end ofthe line. Why because MO, they
have nowhere to go. So Metrohas stepped up in a meaningful way,
working with our nonprofit organizations who areassisting our unhoused to try to transition people
out of public transit into housing.So many of the challenges Metro is facing
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isn't based on being a transit agency. People experiencing mental illness that sometimes lead
to these acts of violence, substanceuse disorder in our trains and on our
buses as well as the unhoused.Those are societal issues that we're all wrappling
with. Well, Supervisor Mitchell willonly let us end where I ended with
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Supervisor Barker, I asked her,and I will ask you now. So
what's the good news? Oh?I see good news every day day.
Mo. We are housing people moreand more every day again. Bus ridership
is up. We are building andexpanding. We will before you and I
transition mode. We will be ableto take public transit to Lax reliably,
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hopefully from every corner of this countMe too, Me too. We will
be able to go to event setso far and take a train and transition
that last mile because mayor Bus isworking very hard to get that last mile.
We are growing and expanding as acounty of you know, approaching eleven
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million people. That's not chop liver. But we are about to be on
the world stage with all these eventsI talked about, and metro building housing,
creating services for people who are experiencingin the middle of a mental health
crisis through our care courts, throughexpanding our mental health beds. We are
working diligently every day to provide theservices and resources LA County residents need and
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I believe deserve. She is LACounty Supervisor Holly Mitchell. Don't forget The
community Symposium on ending illegal street takeoversand racing will be Saturday, eight thirty
to four pm at Compton College.Be sure to check that out and attend
and lend your voice, Supervisor Mitchell, It's been a pleasure. We've met
in person on a couple of occasions, but this is our first conversation on
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there, and this is not goingto be the last, that much,
I'm sure. Thank you for comingon tonight, Thank you for having me.
I look forward to coming back.KFI AM six forty We're live everywhere
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