The Idiotic New Narratives Rationalizing Crime

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Episode Transcript

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Time to bury the tired narrative,tired narrative and uncover these stories not typically
heard, but stories that need tobe heard, right or wrong, life
or death. This isn't your typicallaw show. This is Big Angry Law

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with Charles, Big Angry Adams onkPr Z nine to now Charles Adams.
Wel good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's meet Charles Adams, finally doing
a new show after not being onthere for a while. My decision,

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well, not my decision. I'vejust been overwhelmed with work and there are
as always a whole bunch of storiesthat h that I find a bit mind
boggling, mind bottling, even becauseit's insane. You know. They're out
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There isan effort to reduce police inter out responses

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from two hundred thousand a year tofifty thousand a year, and they're doing
that not by fighting crime and lockingup criminals, but instead by just not
responding to christ take away today,Yes, Susan, residents of the city
will see a major change in theway police respond. They will no longer

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respond to calls that aren't considered inprogress emergency that means calls like criminal mischief,
theft, harassment, and most burglaryalarms will all be handled by an
enhanced telephone reporting unit That means residentswill file a police report over the phone,
officers will not respond unless it's anemergency. Also, between the hours
of three am and seven am,there will be no officers at any of

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the six stations throughout the city.Call boxes that link directly to nine one
one have been in for people touse in case of an emergency, and
during the overnight shift there will beas few as twenty officers to cover the
entire city. The chief said today, the data supports that, yes,
it's enough to cover Desire City inthose hours when we have eight percent of

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the time people are calling. I'mconfident in the decisions that we make that
it impacts this bureau in the cityin a much better way than we have
in the past. Now. TheChief also acknowledging today that some of these
changes are due to staffing shortages.He's down to seven hundred and forty officers,
well below the eight fifty they wouldlike to have now coming up new

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at five residence, City Council andthe Police Union all weighing in on these
big changes that begin Monday. Okay, let's talk about this insanity and we'll
move on to other insanity. Sohow do you make crime seem like it's
dropping, well, actually having noimpact on crime? Will you tell the

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citizens, don't bother to call us, We're not going to do anything.
And who does that impact the worst? Well, and impacts poor citizens?
You say, well, how well? Crime is racially and socioeconomically homogenous,
and upper middle class Americans will reportburglars and thefts and vandalism, not because

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they think the police will do anythingabout it, and they are far more
responsive to wealthier neighborhoods, but notbecause they think there'll be a consequence,
but because they need it to makea claim on their insurance policy. But
of course they won't do it ifit's not worth the effort, because the
claim is going to be too deminimous, too small to pursue. So crime

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disappears while it's still occurring. Andhow so, Well, people that don't
have the insurance, people that needthe most protection, people that are struggling
in this country, Well, they'rebeing told, well, what's the point.
Police aren't gonna investigate they're not gonnatry to stop the criminals. Hey,

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burglary alarms, y'all catch that littlesnippet. Cops are gonna it's gonna
be an enhanced telephone response to burglaryalarms. Wy, don't you just tell
criminals, hey, y'all, we'renot coming, go steal whatever you want.
Could you imagine your burglar alarm goesoff, you hear someone downstairs,

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you call one. There's only twentyofficers on the street, twenty total in
a city the size of Pittsburgh.When I was an officer at South Houston,
not a very big seat, lotsof crime, not a very big
city, we would, you know, fully staffed. We were five or
six on nights. Sometimes we're runningthree or four when it's slow. There's

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a couple of times that I towere two whenever, you know, multiple
people called in sick and then someonehad to do something or what and it
was insane. But twenty for acity the size of Pittsburgh, that's nuts.
Unmanned police stations, you can't evenlet's say someone's chasing you in your

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car and you drive to the policestation, you drive to sanctuary. Typically,
bad guys would say you're coming upon a police station, it's time
to turn around. Not in Pittsburghanymore. Nope, in Pittsburgh, they
say the cops aren't there anyway,They ain't there to help you. It's

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very similar to Austin, where youcan't go to the police station to make
a report anymore. Go to apolice station, No one's gonna help you.
It's crazed and all of this isdesigned to do less while expecting the
American public to pay more for lessservices. And they're pushing this notion that

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you should only call the police ifyou're about to die. Well, that's
not why we pay taxes. That'snot the function of law enforcement. The
function of law enforcement is supposed tobe to wte crime. Now really it's
just to write tickets, to generaterevenue and engage in prohibition because that pads
the stats without having to do anyreal damn work. But it's crazy,

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and there's this collusive narrative between thefar left progressives and and mind you again,
I can criticize republics all day,they're not running stuff in big cities
that they're not running this country rightnow, and those that are have made
a decision a decision to abandon workingAmerican people to crime, and they're doing

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They're doing the same thing Joe Bydid at the beginning of its prenesy.
We said basically said I'm not goingto deport anybody for the first ninety days,
and then he's, oh, well, I mean people already here.
But of course that didn't resonate inLatin America or around the world. It's
an iStream clip of people from Belaruswaiting to walk into Texas this morning,

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healthy men, soldier grade men,insane. But the media is in collusion
with the Democrats to paint this portraitthat crime is going down as we all
see it. Spiralonic are just likethe alleged recovery and the economy despite inflation,

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still being insane, and that insanitybeing used as a vehicle to keep
interest rates to hide. So it'sjust wrapping the fist of the government around
our necks. But this new we'rejust not going to respond to crime nonsense.
It's going to lead to a lotof death and it's absolutely crazy.

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This is big angry lock on ktr C ninety teen. I have a
rib by morning up from Signing Town. Everything that I got is just what

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I've got on. When that signis high in that Texas guy, I'll
be bucket at the county fair Ihave by morning, I have a riddle,
I'll be there. They took mySadden and here's to broke my leg

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any Saturfay lost my wife and agirlfriend somewhere, I'll be looking veryl for
can I hold that judge. I'ma Riddlemorian. I'm a riddle zone by

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what country music the roaldeo is andfull of fact. But you know what
We're talking about crime tonight, andI want to take you to New York
City. We'll go to DC maybethe next segment. But I want to
talk about these soft on crime policiesmixed with the decision and I've talked about

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it here to make most big citiesin this country sanctuary cities, which means
criminals that are also illegal immigrants shouldnot expect any consequence for their mouthfeasance and
will most certainly not be deported.Ten years ago, a man came from

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an unknown place in the Caribbean andillegally entered this country. His name is
Edward Johnson. Now Edward Johnson hasbeen an incredibly prolific criminal. There are
twenty three arrests, many of themviolent assaults, gun possession. They're on

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his record. Another forty two thathave been sealed. Let's do the math.
That's sixty five arrests and what doeshe do? Why are we talking
about him? Well, the focusappears to be attacking women in hospitals,

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hospital where nurses doctors. One womanhas been attacked by him twice twice and
yet nothing. Chelsea Mora uh Latina, New Yorker, a thirty two years

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of age. There are photos ofher with bleeding inside of her eye.
She's been diagnosed with PTSD. Hebegan attacking her when he was there,
you know, like illegal entrants tendto do in the emergency room seeking medical
care. What was she doing sohorrible to him that led him to punch

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her in the face. Well,she was taking his blood pressure. He
has attacked staff at this hospital timeand time again after entering the hospital seeking
healthcare. Moros got to say,it's pretty disheartening to find out that he

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was illegally here in this country andthat he's been given so many chances.
That seems to be a severe problemin New York City. I think these
soft on crime laws that are beingimplemented aren't helping us like citizens of New
York, and aren't helping healthcare staffand dealing with these types of criminals.

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I think that she was giving thisinterview in the context of her employment.
She is being far too generous withboth the City of New York and mister
Johnson. He had arrested back intwenty nineteen for punching a forty five year
old female medical doctor, also strikinga sixty one year old nurse at another

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hospital. At another hospital, SaintBarnabas with a nurse that had only been
working for two months, struck herpunster in the eye, apparently just hours,

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just hours after attacking another employee,another nurse. His liest sentence that
I can see is his eight months. This man is homeless and violent,
in a drain on the social welfareprograms and medical services of New York,

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And you wonder what on earth ishe contributing, Why on earth is he
still in this country. One ofthose victims lost twenty pounds after he attacked
her, not once, but twice, two different occasions. Because she lives

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in terror that it's going to happenagain. Her mother was quota saying,
I'm afraid my daughter will become thenext Lake in Riley. The victims said,
I'm afraid every day at work everyday. This is someone getting up
and going to work every day andliving in fear because our government's not doing
because the progressive mouthpieces of society wouldrather claim that somehow we're doing the best

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for society by keeping the worst ofthe world here with no consequences. I
was saying, it's infuriating that hekeeps doing this to healthcare workers, especially
women, and then is let go. They had him in cussing multiple times.
So why is he being let goto attack other people, other healthcare

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workers? And it's all a salutenonsense. And this is what happens when
you listen to the crazy, unhingedwho don't think there should be rules if
you check the right boxes. Thesame people that are advocating for a former
president to spend decade to die inprison don't want any actual criminals to go.

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There was some interesting articles today abouthis valet testifying about moving boxes and
people on Twitter just absolutely melting downand frankly, who cares again not a
Trump guy, don't support him?Not a fan, not a fan of
Biden either. I think I'm goingwith the young Kennedy. It's older than

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me. But I just, Imean, we live in this absolute clown
world where we are told the badguys are good guys and that are fears
are unwarranted, and that we shouldexpect no justice, but we're not told
it out right right the people forcefeeding these policies down our throats and don't

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have the guts to actually say,hey, yeah, I just I don't
think your victimization matters. No,it's all restorative justice. No one is
illegal on stolen land. Nonsense,when the truth is that we pay taxes
and participate in this collectivist endeavor ofAmerican society because there is supposed to be

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rules, There are supposed to becontracts that are reciprocated. And right now,
the people that control the perse springpurse strings, springs per springs of
major media platforms are pushing a narrativethat is, let's abolish prisons, let's

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abolish consequence, and let's just teachthe bad people to be better. Now.
Make no mistake, I think peopledo that stupid things when they're young,
and they deserve a second chance thatsometimes the government gets it wrong.

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But right now, what the governmentis getting wrong, it's telling people,
hey, they're really you know,don't worry about Oh, you commit a
robbery, man, maybe we'll prosecuteyou for shoplifty. Maybe here in Houston,
it's craze. The stories of theabandonment of solvable serious criminal cases by
HPD because they were allegedly too understaffedis absolutely insane. The fact that the

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mayor hasn't fired Troy Finner is absolutelyand I'm wondering. I wonder why he's
not getting fired. We'll be back. You're listening, listening, it's a
big angry law. On KPRC ninefifteen, her telephone rang about a cord
or not. She heard his voiceon the other in the line. She

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wondered what was wrong this time.She never knew what his calls my brain.
With a cowboy like him, itcould be anything. She always expected
to be the worst in the backof her Mindy, he said, it's

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cold out here and I'm all alone. Didn't make the short go again,
and I'm coming home. I knowI've been over it too long. I
never got a chance to ride acome. You know, if you haven't

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heard George Straight's story. His bigbreak was actually the Houston Rodeo last minute
cancelation. This young guy from outsideSan Tone got called up for the big
show by the time you get andkilled it and a legend was made hands

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the greatest country and Western performer ofall time. I will take no.
I mean, there are other peopleI actually enjoy more, Keith Widley,
Steve Earl, but George's absolutely Imean, Garth a close second. And

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at Garth I cannot stand. Hegets on my damn last night, got
a cool now baby, and Idon't think this is crazy, but George
is the king. Damn. Allright, let's back when country music was
great. Let's get to it.And I want to talk. I want
to go to the Washington Post.You know. I like to say all
the media is colluding with the butthat just sounds like Alex Jone's craziness.

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But let's let's let's listen to alittle of that collusion. This is from
Maura Judkiss. Maura has won someJames Beards for her style and food reporting.
She's much celebrated and went to Ibelieve George Washington married to a lawyer
fancy fancy Maura Judkiss, and we'regonna talk about our article. The headline

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the zombie CVS a late capitalism horrorstory. Right there, she's saying,
this is talking about cvs in theDC area that with the the it was
open, but the shells were almostbare, and if you went outside,
people were selling crap on the streetsthat they had stolen from that CVS.
But she discounts it as a latecapitalism horror story because of course that's all

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she wants you. Capitalism has todie. We have to have communism or
socialism, despite the fact that neitherhave ever, ever, ever worked.
And I don't think, unlike manyConservatives, of which I am not one,
I do not think social welfare programsare socialism or capitalism. I think,
especially with his budget, Joe Biden'sjust announts he's going a little bit

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crazy with it. But I findthat our government, both Democrats and Republicans,
do far too much corporate welfare andfar too much pork barrel spending to
have any impact. And really,if we just we love to say the
word universal, like universal basic income, but it's not really universal. Universal
healthcare, not really universal. It'sjust for people that don't want to work,
People don't want to lay around ontheir ass and do nothing. Oh

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yeah, hey universal daycare, Wellnot if you have a job. Right.
In fact, we're gonna make itcost more for you if you have
a job, because we're going totake up a bunch of the spaces with
our universal where we're just giving daycareto people that want to lay around,
set on their asses and do nothing. Late capitalism war story. But here's
the sub headline. This is thereal quicker. How one Washington drug store

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got spun by the culture Wars intoa symbol for America's shoplifting panic. Y'all
are panicking. It's insane, y'allare panicking. There's no theft crisis in
this country. They said it wasforty five billion. It was only thirty
five billion last year. You're panicking. Yes, yes, stores are closing,

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but that's just because of racism,not because of the lack of profitability,
you racists. It's insane. It'sinsane, this narrative pushing nonsense.
America's shop event spun by the cultureWars. Let's translate that right wing mouthpieces

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lying to y'all about crime. Youknow, was lying to you about crime
and then they, you know,the many radio pundits on the right,
just get up in a lot andfear mark every damn day. But the
problem is everyone is being pushed toradicalize voices like Alex Jones, one of
my favorites, just because the UKdon't think his career is forgivable for what

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he did to Sandy Hook parents.I don't care if he got everything else
right. I don't think you bounceback from that, because it's awful and
evil. But people listen to theAlex Joneses of the world because they realize
they're being lied to by those thatare supposed to be telling them the truth,

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like the Washington Post and suggesting thatwe're just in this this absurd panic
about crime because of culture wars.It's nonsense. It has been like this

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since at least October, when thelegend of the empty cvs of Washington began
to spread beyond the district's borders.It became a horror story of late capitalism.
Tales were told on social media andin the comments section of local news
stories, and they were full ofspooky scenes in jump scares. But the

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thing about scary stories is that theymetastasized with each retailing, so by the
time it got to the New YorkPost and then the conservative British tabloids and
then Twitter accounts with names including numberone deplorable, the empty cvs had somehow
become a stand in for all thatis wrong with American cities and liberals and
liberal democracy. In twenty twenty four, she begins this by decrying the financial

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underpinnings of our democracy capitalism. Youcan't have a democracy in communism. It
doesn't happen. Socialism is always reducedto fascism. Capitalism. And although you
know, Citizens United really kind ofscrewed the pooch on our democracy by letting
corporations pour unlimited day and super packsand all that poor unlimited dollars into buying

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politicians in America. It was wrong. It was a bad decision by the
Supreme Court. It can't be reconciledwith the First Amendment. It's disgusting.
If you look at the framer's intent, they would be horrified, our founding
fathers to be horrified. So no, they conservatives get crap wrong all the
time. But even this busted formof democracy, it's a republic. It's

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a representative. It's still a democracy, idiots, they're not mutually exclusive,
but it's still better than fascism arisingfrom socialism, or totalitarianism or authoritarianism were
arising from communism. But judakus alllate stage capitalism. That's just the hope.

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Oh it's all going to end.It's gonna be okay for me because
I'm part of the intelligency and I'llbe living behind a wall looking at all
you poor people suffer while we roundup the conservatives, while also talking about
conservatives rounding us up. But weknow what it's crazed. In the meantime,

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the zombie CBS kept filling prescriptions deadbut somehow still shuffling along until Thursday
when corporate shut it down. UnLess, this article should be about the
pharmaceutical desert created by the failure topolice theft crimes, by the violent crimes
that are downstreamed by the failure topolice theft crimes. But instead, oh,

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you know what's coming on next door? The social media site where neighbors
go to ask whether fireworks or gunshots, because in DC gunshots are never gunshots.
They're just all fireworks. They're crazy, those crazy caarings talking about a
next door in fact, she uses. Of course she does. Let's continue
the paragraph. The state of theCVS has become a consistent topic, one

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that usually devolved into people calling eachother thugs or karens, it's insane.
It's insane that the focus of thisarticle is not, Hey, we've got
this pharmaceutical desert created by the favorof the police to stop theft crime and
in failure to have consequences for thebad people of America. No, no,

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miss Tudkas decided to lecture us usunreasonable karens thinking that public safety is
important in access to retail and pharmaceuticalbusinesses are important. And you know,
hey, Boston has lost a lotof pharmacies too. And well they just
decided it was Walgreens being racist,not Walgreens. And hey, we have
too much crime. We can't beopened Pittsburgh. Not Oh, well,

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crime's gonna go away because we're justgonna put our hands over our eyes,
our thumbs in our ears, andwe're not gonna pay any attention to any
of it. And then we're gonnasay crimes reduced. And yet no,
you would think it's the Washington Post. They're journalists well, you would think,
right, You would think that theWashington Post would be having none of

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this, none of this. Infact, you'd think they would be be
writing stories about how and what needsto be done to ensure that elderly people
in this portion of DC have accessto life saving medications, that people have
access to retail stores that aren't gougingthem. Also, the CBS does couch

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a bit, but there's none ofthat. And miss Judicus, I love
this. I love this as America, as this sticky fingered nation built on
stolen land, and its current moralpanic is about shoplifting. She has licked.
Jesus Christ will be back, big, angry low with trolls, Adams

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continuous. If you lieve me,I won't miss you, and I won't
every take your back. Girl.You memory won't ever want me because I

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don't love you. Now you buythat I got some shrine property Arousso from
my front boat you can see,let's see, I got some shrine propertyross.

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If you buy that off, throwall right. We're gonna stick with
this. And there was some othertopics, but I can't let go of
this unhinged article from more Judkiss inthe Washington Post lecturing America about being concerned

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about crime. This greatest paragraph everwritten by a despicaled the dishonest child of
wealth privilege that went to a privateuniversity and works in the dying industry of
journalism. And why is it dying? Because people are applauded and awarded for

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writing crap like this. America isa sticky fingered nation built on stolen land,
and its core current moral panic isabout shoplifting. What the sentence says
is, how dare us? It'snot speaking everyone, it's just speaking to
the whites. How dare y'all?How dare y'all be concerned with theft?

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You stole this country? That's absolutelythe meaning. And it's absolutely unhinged that
it was printed on paper and publishedon their website and pushed around the world.

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It's absolutely crazy. But the datais murky. Theft has gotten worse
in some cities, but better thanothers. The only places in big cities
in this country where theft has gottenbetter is places, I mean like in

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Florida. They still police crime evenin the big cities, not as much
but more so than the rest ofthis country. But in places that they've
effectively convinced the population should just notcall. And that's here in Houston.
Business don't call for shopleting. Iknow no one's going to show the hell
up, no one's going to doanything about it, So why even bother?

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Just let the bad guys win andpass the costs on us. And
of course our dollars are worth lessbecause the government keeps printing them to do
things like, I don't know,house and feed people that come into this
country illegally while not housing and feedingAmericans. But hey, it's crazy,
it's crazy. The data is murky. It's either underreported or over exaggerated,

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depending on whether you're asking a corporationor a bureaucracy. All of this is
designed to tell America that they arebeing irrational because they're worried about crime.

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First, there are the economic factorstriggering human need, joblessness, inflation,
a slow recovery from the pandemic.Here we have more saying, well,
you know, they're stealing, butthey have to the economy's triggered human need.
Of course they're not stealing. Thisisn't they Misser rob and Jean Valjean

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stealing bread, feed a child orwas she born yet? And was she
actually this child, I don't remember, it's been a minute. It's not
a starving man stealing something. Ofcourse, then he steal again the sun.
I don't remember. Not for me, they miss rob, not for

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you know. I'm more of acat's gota. I hate cats, do
I'm kidding. I do like musicaltheater sometimes, but anyhow, it is
not okay. Just what's are off. Also been changed as to how police
officers do their jobs. Quote adearth and active policing, as Perry puts
it. Now Perry is identified asCarlo Perry, the co chairman of the

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Advisory Neighborhood Commissions one, a committeeon public safety. So the place that's
losing their cvs a dearth in policing, as Perry puts it, that started
in the pandemic, combined with effortsto use alternative forms of crime deterrent.
It's not alternative forms of crime.Crime deterrent means we're deterring crime. And

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we can use all the colorful nonsenselanguage about restorative justice and all this,
but no, what we're doing iswe're telling people it's okay, if you
get caught stealing your you're probably notgonna get any trouble, it's well worth
the risk and steal stuff you canresell for cash, so you can then
buy the stuff you want. Andif you steal enough, well the closes.

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But then maybe maybe you just gofind another store to steal from.
And ultimately those suckers, those suckersactually paying for stuff, well they can
pay the added cost of doing businesswith their dollars that are worthless because Biden
keeps printing money. But let's makeno mistake, Trump printed a lot of
damn money when he was president too. I think they are number one and

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two for spending and Obama close third, and then it drops off like cliff
before Obama. I mean, weare bankrupting this country. Our credit rating
was reduced I think today, maybelast Friday. I don't remember when I
read that story. I read thesestories every day and then don't end up
doing radio because I get too busydoing other stuff. It's nuts, it's

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insane, it's crazy, and whaton earth, what absolutely on earth is
wrong with the Washington Post for puttingout this think piece on why Americans have
absolutely no right to be offended bytheft, because, of course, this

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country was built on stolen land.At some point we have to absolutely stop
accepting it. We have to demandthe citizens of Pittsburgh should be in the

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street marching about the decision to greatlyreduce police services in an effort to have
police respond seventy five percent less.I can't read this woman anymore. But
let's let's go to the flip side. Let's talk about bad policing. Here's

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a headline. A woman spent amonth in jail because the police mistook drive
spaghettio residue on a spoon for methbefore crime lab tests finally realized their era.
That's a Florida woman arrested for methamphetamine twenty three years old because a
cop suspected her of having meth onher spoon and it was literally spaghettio sauce.

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She was locked up for a month, no coordinates or no bond.
She considered admitting that she committed thecrime just so she could get out of
jail. Huge economic impact on herlife, and was she went. She
was a passenger in a car andthe spoon was sitting near her. Wasn't

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even her damn spoon. I mean, it's why are cops doing that and
not arresting people for theft, notinvestigating rapes. I have been antagonistic and
trying to convince America to a manin the war on drugs, drugs and

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tax the hell out of them fortwenty five years. Twenty four years.
I really got crazy about ending thisdrug war advocacy, not ending my advocacy,
but ending it through advocacy, whichhasn't gotten very far or anywhere at
all, because this crap is stillhappening, and in fact, instead the

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profiteers, the race profiteers, theI mean, it's just disgusting. You
know, all the mansions that BlackLives Matter bought for thinking spaces. We
need this mansions. We can talkabout stuff and think about generational genetic traumas.

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I'm absolutely keyed up time. I'msorry, I've just been irritated.
I've been consuming all these stories aboutcrime in America and just reading this woman's
lecture to us. Thank you allfor listening. Stop taking it, start
going to city hall, start demandingpolice, police