Passing the LA Train Blame

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I saw where weird Bond villain l A d A.
George Gascon is accusing that is saying that Union Pacific
even following the story right all the train robberies in
in l A where they empty in the box cars
and throwing the boxes and goods they don't want all
over the tracks and it's just crazy. And Gavin Noose

(00:20):
Lenny went down there said it looked like the Third
World where Gascon. Well, Gascon is saying, Yeah, it's a
Union Pacific's fault for not doing a better job of
knocking up your trees. That's a pretty good What the
hell is that accent, George Gascon impersonation. Yeah, it's as
if it's as if Coming with the Frog had been
born in Romania. That's the way I try to remember that,

(00:43):
George Goscon, you can't prosecute your way out of this
desperation anyway. That's pretty good. He's saying up Union Union
Pacific needs to do a better job of locking its trains. Yeah,
that's the problem. Three years ago we're getting the trains robbed.
That's incredible, no kidding, no kidding anyway. Secondly, uh breaking

(01:09):
over Christmas, just heard about this, Uh forty l A
County vehicles were broken into and their catalytic converters snatched
forty of them dollars worth of loss. As crime is
now legal, But just keep pursuing the same policies, I'm
sure it'll work out fine. Uh And on that topic,
I was reading with interest a couple of pieces in

(01:30):
the New York Post today about Eric Adams, the new
mayor of New York, his his anti crime plans, and
it's pretty interesting. Number one, he's revolving the anti crime
squads that are going to go into all the roughest
crime ridden neighborhoods and make sure people aren't carrying guns

(01:51):
one way or to other. And there's a lot of
detail to this, and I'm not sure how much we
want to get into it. How are they going to
do that? He swears that they will. Are they gonna
stop in frisk them, Well, probably not. But he promised
to reinstate a lot of the stuff buelled to blaggio,
uh ended, including the anti crime patrols. They'll be deployed

(02:13):
to thirty violence rack police precincts within three weeks. Blah
blah blah blah blah. Um. I'm sorry skipping ahead, the
mayor makes much of the fact that the NYPD confiscated
six thousand illegal guns last year and has collected three
fifty more since January one, and he says he's just

(02:37):
got make sure that's incredible. Oh yeah, yeah, And and
then this editorial in the Post makes the point, and
it's true. Here's the thing. New York was a Washington
llegal guns in the eighties and nineties, and then all
of a sudden it wasn't. And that was because vigorous
anti gun law enforcement, stiff penalties suddenly made it too
dangerous for criminals to carry, and so they largely stopped

(02:59):
doing it. Obviously, you've got to protect everybody's Fourth Amendment rights.
You cannot be stopping people in a free society and
patting them down unless they consent to it. And I
realized that can get a little squishy. But it worked before,
and it saved how many hundreds of lives, the people

(03:19):
who might have gotten murdered who didn't, particularly black lives
that I'm told repeatedly matter, Well, how many he's moving
on the problem. It'll be great to watch it and
really interesting to see if it works well. How many
good things happen with an illegal gun. Why do you
have an illegal gun. I've never needed an illegal gun,
So you've you've stopped on any number of the awful

(03:43):
situations by confiscating an illegal gun. Well, I would suggest
that if on l A, like on San Francisco like,
although that's changing too to some extent, Uh, the entire government,
the justice system is in favor of enforcing laws and

(04:03):
punishing people who break them, and everybody's working together on that,
then you create space to make sure everybody's civil liberties
are observed. There's no brutality, there are no illegal searches
and seizures, there's no dirty cops, there's no false prosecutions.
If everybody's pulling together and has that goal of enforcing

(04:24):
the law, then you have room to make sure it's
been it's done right. But if you let crime run
willy nilly and you just have blood running in the streets,
well forget that other stuff that that just creates more ugliness.