August 20, 2024 • 22 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A special report on the ongoing robberies plaguing 7-Eleven convenience stores with KFI Reporter Blake Troli AND a look at the clearing of homeless encampments in the city of Long Beach in a special report with KFI Reporter Kris Adler…PLUS - The top 10 cities for working women in California - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Then you know if you've been listening to this show.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We have been covering the extensive and repeated robberies of
seven eleven convenience stores. But this time, this most recent
incident has come with a twists where thieves hit three
seven Eleven stores in about twenty minutes on bicycles. And
this is just hours after Governor Newsom signed the smash
(00:28):
and grab bills. And joining me right now to make
some sense of this, if at all possible, is cafi's
own Blake trolley Blake good evening to you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
What the hell is going on? And what should we
make of these seven eleven robberies or at least the
latest ones.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, first and foremost, apparently these thieves don't read cal
matters because they didn't know that sentencing enhancements were just
enacted for smashing grabs as Governor news Some sign that
slew of bills. But yeah, just reverting to last Friday.
The first robbery happened on Sunday where more than twenty
people on bikes broke a window, stole a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Then took off. A short time later.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
A similar robbery happened at a different seven to eleven,
this time on Santa Monica, and there was also a
third robbery on Hawthorne. However, interestingly, the LAPD could not
confirm whether the robbers at that third location took off
on bikes. That said, all of this happened within a
half hour. All of this happened within a three mile zone. Again,
these stores all within three miles of each other. Now
(01:27):
I think you know, I know, you've been covering the
angle of seven eleven's being targeted. But also driver was
attacked near La Live. He said there was a big
group of teens on bikes. He tries to drive around them.
One of them throws a bottle at his car, so
he gets out, and when he gets out, the kids
start beating him up. He suffered a broken leg. They
(01:48):
damaged his car. This was all caught on video. Some
of these kids were jumping on the hood of his car,
smashing his windshield, ransacking his car. He says, they stole phones,
his wallet, credit cards. I even use one of those
stolen credit cards. So I think what we're really seeing
right now is a possible new trend of crime being
committed by kids riding bikes throughout LA.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't know what we can do to change criminals
from being criminals, but to your point, this is an escalation.
I would think before we saw the smashing grabs and
there wasn't really an interaction with people or security guards
for the most part. Now we're seeing violence being turned
on the people. What do you think happens now as
(02:34):
far as civilians and people just taking things into their
own hands.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, i'd say as a crime trend, I think it's
in this really weird bubble right now where it hasn't
become a complete crime trend. It's certainly bubbling up, and
I think it's certainly something that's catching the eyes of officials.
We'll go to this audio I have here MO. This
is city Councilman Kevin DeLeon. He represents downtown. So while
these recent seven elevens were not in his district, that
(03:01):
driver was, and we talked about some of his concerns
with this possible new crime trend.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
It's not a good trend. You know, these young folks
need to be more productive.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
How much how much concerned you have your own district?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I mean with the man that was you know, taken
out of his well, he steps out of his car,
but then nonetheless he's jumped. What is your reaction now,
are you asking the LAPD to look into these kids
on bite?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, listen, you know we're we're we're seeing this trend grow.
You know, we're gonna speak with LAPD when it comes
to young folks, we always want to deal with in
a very constructive way to make sure that we give
him real opportunities to succeed first and foremost. But I
don't like this trend. I can say this very clearly.
(03:45):
I don't like groups of you know, bicyclists overwhelming you know,
whether it be you know, drivers, whether it be convenience
store operators. We're seeing last year when we stopped this trend,
we've seen last year a number of individuals overwhelmed jewelry
(04:05):
district shops, security guards. I can be able to stop them,
security guards being paid minimum wage. She's not gonna put
these or her life at risk, you know, to stop those.
But we put a more physical presence of LAPD officers
in downtown LA and as a result, we have really
shut down brazen takeover heists of jewelry stores in downtown LA.
(04:27):
So we're gonna have to look where this trend goes,
working with LAPD and community leaders, and hopefully we can
diminish this because it's not a good look for Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I know you did this with copper wire. Is a
task force possibly on the table.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
That's that won't be a little premature. Obviously with copper wire,
theft we saw somebody was real because you see the
evidence of you know, communities are left in the dark.
We'll revisit that if the trend keeps ticking.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Utworks Blake, I got to ask the question, made fun
of it, and I've you know, mentioned it, but I'm
curious about your thoughts about it. There's only one common
thread through all of these robberies. It's not bicycles, it's
not smashing grab per se. It's always seven eleven. I
mean always seven eleven. Has there been any discussion as
(05:19):
far as why that particular convenience store is getting hit repeatedly?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
No, you know, there hasn't really been any official conversation
at least that I'm aware of, with seven eleven. But
I will tell you Mo that when that prop thirty
six or when proposition thirty six officially qualified for the ballot,
and I forget exactly the number that he gave me.
There was an owner of a bunch of seven elevens
around LA and what he was describing to me was
(05:46):
not even just smashing grabs. He just said every single
day he was dealing with people, a lot of homeless
people in the light, coming in, stealing items and walking out.
I go to a seven eleven here in downtown LA
where I'm at right now, all the time, and they
constantly they have a security guard there. This guy looks
like he could be a club bouncer, and he's there,
you know, kicking people out that are trying to steal snacks.
(06:09):
So seven elevens are definitely getting hit hard, and I
wonder if the conversation from officials will soon become why
seven eleven?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Well?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
From here, we know that La has a crime problem.
When I say La, that's La City and also La County.
We know that Mayor Bass spoke earlier today at the
DNC She will return to La tomorrow. Do we know
if the mayor has said anything publicly or even privately
on this issue.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
To the best of your knowledge, so the.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Best of my knowledge. No, but that said she could
come out with a statement. I mean, yeah, she's got
her hands tied obviously delivering, you know, for the DNC today.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, we'll continue to watch this story. Blake Trolly. Thank
you so much for covering this story. You know that
I've been talking about this story and it just keeps
on happening. So I guess that means we're going to
have to keep on covering. And thank you so much for.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What you do. Blake. All right, thanks both. It's Later
with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we
come back, we'll talk to cafi's own Chris Adler, who
was in Long Beach earlier today and following that homeless
encampment clearing out which was happening at a number of
Long Beach parks and that comes on the heels of
the Gavin Newsom executive order, so we'll talk to her
about that next.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And you probably know by now that Long Beach has
officially started beginning to clear out homeless encampments, as promised
after repeated threats from Governor Gavin Newsom to withhold money
from cities which don't comply with his recently issued executive order. Now,
from what I understand, is supposed to focus on problem
(07:55):
areas like public parks. But cafi's own Chris Adler has
the story and the latest.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Chris is good to talk to you. How are you
this evening?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Hey, Mo, I'm well, Thank you so much, and you're right.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
I was out there this morning at Gumbiner Park where
they started clearing out. They cleared out that all the
homeless people.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Living in that camp. Tense.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
The homeless people that were at Gumbiner, they cleared them
out pretty quickly. They put up a chain link fence
right after, and I mean within within an hour, a
chain link fence was up and a sign on the
fence saying no trespassing. So not only can the homeless
not return to this park, but people in the public
can also aren't allowed to go to the park. I
(08:36):
spoke with one guy who teaches kids to skateboard at
that park. He said he was devastated, but he said
it also needed to happen because homeless people were taking
their pants down, they were doing drugs in front of
the kids.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
And this is a place where they volunteered to teach.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
These kids how to skateboard, and it was really a
bad environment. He said, he's devastated that they'll have to
relocate for the time being, but it was you know,
the city is trying to, what they say, go after
the problematic camps outside of libraries, parks, near schools. They
want to get it away from the public, but especially kids.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Mo do we know since this fence has been erected.
I know that is a short term solution, but long term,
what are they planning to do well.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I spoke with the city's homelessness Bureau manager and he
says they've been going out prior to clearing out these camps,
they had been going out talking to the homeless, trying
to find them resources, trying to get them housed. So
they said before the camps the camps were cleared out,
they had been talking with them and working with them
(09:42):
to see where they can put them shelters.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
There's definitely a shortage of shelters.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
There's not enough room for everybody, but the manager says,
you know, we're.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Working to find places for them.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
And when I was there earlier this morning, there was
a homeless woman camped out on the corner of the
street on the street from Gumbiner, had all of her
stuff with her and she was just sitting there and
I interviewed her and she said, you know, I've been
living in Gumbinner for three months. The city has come out,
They've asked me, you know, to help me with resources,
(10:13):
and tried to find me places to go. She goes,
I don't want to go. She's like, I'm addicted to drugs.
I'm addicted to homelessness. And she said, I don't want
to leave, and she said it's really sad, but she
said it needed to happen, that it might be a
wake up call for some of the homeless people living
in the area.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
She said it needed to happen to her.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Okay, let's take her as an example. I'm quite sure
there are more people just like her who are, to
use your words, addicted to homelessness, addicted to drugs, who
are comfortable in whatever environment that they're living. Has long
Beach expressed to you any type of plan or desire
to deal with those individuals who invariably are going to
come back the first moment.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
They can, right, And so the manager with this morning,
when I asked him about that, he says, well, we're
working diligently to try to find these people places to go.
The Supreme Court ruling says that the governments can now criminalize,
meaning arrest and cite these people who don't clear out,
But Long Beach itself says and Mayor Rex Richardson says,
(11:13):
these people are not going to.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Automatically be cited.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
They're not going to automatically be arrested without having committed
crimes before. And so if they hadn't, if they haven't
done anything that warrants and arrest other than being outside
on the sidewalk or sleeping on the sidewalks, they may
not arrest them or cite them.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Moh And again this goes back to.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Governor news some threatening to withhold funding to these cities
if they don't comply. And so it looks like they
kind of got in geared here after these threats. But
if they're out of the parks and they're out of
the libraries, and they find other places to live, and
the city doesn't arrest them or cite them because they
haven't committed vicious or violent crimes. Then does that go
(11:55):
now go back to Governor new Some's threats and will
he not fund the cities because of that? And that's
the question here most that's the.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Great question, and that was my next question, because cities
are going to have to thread this needle where they
are complying with the executive action. They are clearing the
homelessness encampments, but it's still the fundamental questions about the
people after the fact. And my concern is just a
person who lives very close to Long Beach and I
have relatives who live in Long Beach. I'm worried about
(12:23):
the angry homeless person, rightly or wrongly, who comes back
and feels that you've moved their home and now they're
more belligerent and now more likely to commit an act
of violence or defiance.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's my concern, And I don't know what happens.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Then, Yes, the homelessness encampment is gone, but I don't
know if we've actually dealt with the actual issue. You
mentioned citations and arrests, but I don't know what do
we have to You know, we're gonna wait.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
For sab I know, and you know what mo and
Long Beach. Long Beach is riddled with homelessness.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It is riddled. It's everywhere. It's rampant.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
There are it's in the promenade, the libraries, around churches
and schools, and it is everywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
So the city, you know, people in the city have
been fed up.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
We've seen people be attacked by the homeless, like you said, violent,
viciously attack people who have almost been who have been
sexually assaulted by the homeless.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
But the city says it's going to take kind of
a softer approach. They're not. They're trying to help them gently.
Let's find you a place to live, how can we
help with your health care.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
They're bringing them mobile showers, helping them get vital records,
and you know, this is what they say. They're coming
to them mobilely where they're at so they don't have
to go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
They're looking for them.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
They said they've been to they've been doing that since
before the cleanup.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
But it's a more gentle approach.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
They're not trying to arrest and cite people, kick them out,
and you know, they really want to try to make
it as seamless as possible to benefit the community and
the homeless. But like you said, they're this isn't going
to you know, this isn't a there's no simple one
way answer to this.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
And if they move from one park to another or
go to another curb or another.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Street, they're still sleeping on the streets. And Governor Newsom
is not going to like that. He's said it multiple times,
multiple threats. And so it'll be interesting to see what
Long Beach does when when some of these homeless people
refuse to get off the streets and get off drugs
and refuse to refuse the resources.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
There's what happened today, and I wonder what this park
will look like four or five months from now. Chris Adler,
thank you for staying on top of this story. And
I'm quite sure we'll talk again about this in the future.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
No, it's Later with mo Kelly ca if I AM
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Speaker 1 (14:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (14:52):
According to Checker C H E C k R, which
is a background check organization, I guess they, you know,
do verification of previous employment, that kind of stuff. The
top ten cities for working women, And they combined five
different metrics, number of women in the workforce, women in
(15:15):
management positions, women's salaries, wage gap between women and men,
and women's unemployment rate. So this is how they came
up with those these rankings. I'm getting ready to share
with you the top ten cities for working women. All right,
here we go. Here is number ten Oxnard. It's kind
(15:44):
of random. It doesn't seem like it's that big of
a city to begin with. But here's number nine of
the top ten California cities for working women.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My heart in San Francisco. How did you get the
rights to a Tony Bennett recording?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Right? It's indistinguishable, sounds like it's hand right exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Fly me to the moon, all right? Number eight, Good.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Old Los Angeles. The top ten cities in California for
working women. Los Angeles came in at number eight. Number
seven Stockton. But who the hell wants to live in Stockton?
What is in Stockton? Are you saying that Stockton is
(16:45):
a better city than la when it comes to unemployment
for women? Well, that's what they're saying. That's what the
list says. And it can't be wrong. Pcker ch e
kr r rah. They forgot the last e.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So it's like grainder.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Yeah, okay, I mean, what's they gotta have something in common?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
M hmm okay.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Coming in at number six, River Tucky, don't tell me
Riverside is never mind take it with a gran salt.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
What kind of occupations are we specifying? We're talking never
I can't say that. I mean, let's just keep moving.
Number five.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Of the top ten cities in California for working women.
Number five is Sacramento. Man, but I'm saying, who wants
to live in Sacramento. I've been that there's really nothing
in Sacramento. Crickets, it's dead. Number four, hit it?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Do you know the way to say?
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Sad Josey, Saint Joseph number four in the list of
the top ten cities in California for working women, according
to Checker, and no one has any idea what the
hell checker is checkr They should have done a background
check on their own spelling, and you can explain that.
(18:22):
Sus Ray sus coming in at number three, San Diego.
I believe that I believe that there's enough going on
down there where. Yeah, I believe San Diego.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Well, the parameters they've laid out are so vague, I
believe whatever they said.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Well, no, it's for salaries, unemployment rates, and the number
of women in management positions. So that's kind of how
the ranking is. Like, are there a lot of women
in management positions?
Speaker 8 (18:53):
You know?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
What is the unemployment rate for women in these markets?
And what is the salary? This is what this is
based on.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you said like you didn't know what the word was?
Was the salary? You had to sound it out for him.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
That's what I want to put it a little emphasis on.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, I love condescension. It's perfect.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Number three, San Diego. Number two. Hal's no Baker's Field.
Hal's no.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I know people in Bakersfield are listening right now, but
it's Baker's Field. Yeah, no, Bakersfield, don't. It's Baker's Field.
What do you go to Bakersfield for? Has anyone actually
ever chosen to go to Bakersfield? Like intentionally, has in
got in the car, set the GPS and like move
(19:49):
their whole house to Bakersfield.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Kevin McCarthy fan club gatherings, right, all three of them.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You said it and coming in at number one of
the top ten cities in California for working women according
to Checker, not check Her, but Checker c H E
C k R that nobody's ever heard of. Ain't no way,
(20:32):
ain't no way on God's green Earth. Is anyone going
to Fresno for anything?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, no, okay, no, Fresno the number one city in
California for working women according to Checker.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Okay, Now, there is some controversy why behind Checker. Checker
is a background app, and there some controversy surrounding Checker
because background reports from Checker have not only been inaccurate,
causing workers to lose job opportunities or lose jobs, but
frequent reports of violence, rape, and robbery from ride share
(21:15):
and delivery drivers have passed Checkers background checks. And that
is some of the calls of the headlines from Checker.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So Checker has a checkered past, checkered.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Pass, to say the least, So they may be setting
these women up.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh come on, you.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Suck what it's I find it ironic that the company
responsible for background checks and also releases this list of
the top ten cities for working women has issues with rape.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, some of the people that are not checking.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
It's not Checker themselves, but they're just like they're like yeah,
they're like sure, yeah, you could go even though you
just got out of prison for sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah you can be a ride shair driver. Sure thing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Checker only has one job, one job, and they can't
even get that right.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh, I wonder if they've been acting yet. That's coming.
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Then you know if you've been listening to this show.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We have been covering the extensive and repeated robberies of
seven eleven convenience stores. But this time, this most recent
incident has come with a twists where thieves hit three
seven Eleven stores in about twenty minutes on bicycles. And
this is just hours after Governor Newsom signed the smash
(00:28):
and grab bills. And joining me right now to make
some sense of this, if at all possible, is cafi's
own Blake trolley Blake good evening to you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
What the hell is going on? And what should we
make of these seven eleven robberies or at least the
latest ones.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, first and foremost, apparently these thieves don't read cal
matters because they didn't know that sentencing enhancements were just
enacted for smashing grabs as Governor news Some sign that
slew of bills. But yeah, just reverting to last Friday.
The first robbery happened on Sunday where more than twenty
people on bikes broke a window, stole a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Then took off. A short time later.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
A similar robbery happened at a different seven to eleven,
this time on Santa Monica, and there was also a
third robbery on Hawthorne. However, interestingly, the LAPD could not
confirm whether the robbers at that third location took off
on bikes. That said, all of this happened within a
half hour. All of this happened within a three mile zone. Again,
these stores all within three miles of each other. Now
(01:27):
I think you know, I know, you've been covering the
angle of seven eleven's being targeted. But also driver was
attacked near La Live. He said there was a big
group of teens on bikes. He tries to drive around them.
One of them throws a bottle at his car, so
he gets out, and when he gets out, the kids
start beating him up. He suffered a broken leg. They
(01:48):
damaged his car. This was all caught on video. Some
of these kids were jumping on the hood of his car,
smashing his windshield, ransacking his car. He says, they stole phones,
his wallet, credit cards. I even use one of those
stolen credit cards. So I think what we're really seeing
right now is a possible new trend of crime being
committed by kids riding bikes throughout LA.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't know what we can do to change criminals
from being criminals, but to your point, this is an escalation.
I would think before we saw the smashing grabs and
there wasn't really an interaction with people or security guards
for the most part. Now we're seeing violence being turned
on the people. What do you think happens now as
(02:34):
far as civilians and people just taking things into their
own hands.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, i'd say as a crime trend, I think it's
in this really weird bubble right now where it hasn't
become a complete crime trend. It's certainly bubbling up, and
I think it's certainly something that's catching the eyes of officials.
We'll go to this audio I have here MO. This
is city Councilman Kevin DeLeon. He represents downtown. So while
these recent seven elevens were not in his district, that
(03:01):
driver was, and we talked about some of his concerns
with this possible new crime trend.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
It's not a good trend. You know, these young folks
need to be more productive.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
How much how much concerned you have your own district?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I mean with the man that was you know, taken
out of his well, he steps out of his car,
but then nonetheless he's jumped. What is your reaction now,
are you asking the LAPD to look into these kids
on bite?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, listen, you know we're we're we're seeing this trend grow.
You know, we're gonna speak with LAPD when it comes
to young folks, we always want to deal with in
a very constructive way to make sure that we give
him real opportunities to succeed first and foremost. But I
don't like this trend. I can say this very clearly.
(03:45):
I don't like groups of you know, bicyclists overwhelming you know,
whether it be you know, drivers, whether it be convenience
store operators. We're seeing last year when we stopped this trend,
we've seen last year a number of individuals overwhelmed jewelry
(04:05):
district shops, security guards. I can be able to stop them,
security guards being paid minimum wage. She's not gonna put
these or her life at risk, you know, to stop those.
But we put a more physical presence of LAPD officers
in downtown LA and as a result, we have really
shut down brazen takeover heists of jewelry stores in downtown LA.
(04:27):
So we're gonna have to look where this trend goes,
working with LAPD and community leaders, and hopefully we can
diminish this because it's not a good look for Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I know you did this with copper wire. Is a
task force possibly on the table.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
That's that won't be a little premature. Obviously with copper wire,
theft we saw somebody was real because you see the
evidence of you know, communities are left in the dark.
We'll revisit that if the trend keeps ticking.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Utworks Blake, I got to ask the question, made fun
of it, and I've you know, mentioned it, but I'm
curious about your thoughts about it. There's only one common
thread through all of these robberies. It's not bicycles, it's
not smashing grab per se. It's always seven eleven. I
mean always seven eleven. Has there been any discussion as
(05:19):
far as why that particular convenience store is getting hit repeatedly?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
No, you know, there hasn't really been any official conversation
at least that I'm aware of, with seven eleven. But
I will tell you Mo that when that prop thirty
six or when proposition thirty six officially qualified for the ballot,
and I forget exactly the number that he gave me.
There was an owner of a bunch of seven elevens
around LA and what he was describing to me was
(05:46):
not even just smashing grabs. He just said every single
day he was dealing with people, a lot of homeless
people in the light, coming in, stealing items and walking out.
I go to a seven eleven here in downtown LA
where I'm at right now, all the time, and they
constantly they have a security guard there. This guy looks
like he could be a club bouncer, and he's there,
you know, kicking people out that are trying to steal snacks.
(06:09):
So seven elevens are definitely getting hit hard, and I
wonder if the conversation from officials will soon become why
seven eleven?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Well?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
From here, we know that La has a crime problem.
When I say La, that's La City and also La County.
We know that Mayor Bass spoke earlier today at the
DNC She will return to La tomorrow. Do we know
if the mayor has said anything publicly or even privately
on this issue.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
To the best of your knowledge, so the.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Best of my knowledge. No, but that said she could
come out with a statement. I mean, yeah, she's got
her hands tied obviously delivering, you know, for the DNC today.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, we'll continue to watch this story. Blake Trolly. Thank
you so much for covering this story. You know that
I've been talking about this story and it just keeps
on happening. So I guess that means we're going to
have to keep on covering. And thank you so much for.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What you do. Blake. All right, thanks both. It's Later
with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we
come back, we'll talk to cafi's own Chris Adler, who
was in Long Beach earlier today and following that homeless
encampment clearing out which was happening at a number of
Long Beach parks and that comes on the heels of
the Gavin Newsom executive order, so we'll talk to her
about that next.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And you probably know by now that Long Beach has
officially started beginning to clear out homeless encampments, as promised
after repeated threats from Governor Gavin Newsom to withhold money
from cities which don't comply with his recently issued executive order. Now,
from what I understand, is supposed to focus on problem
(07:55):
areas like public parks. But cafi's own Chris Adler has
the story and the latest.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Chris is good to talk to you. How are you
this evening?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Hey, Mo, I'm well, Thank you so much, and you're right.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
I was out there this morning at Gumbiner Park where
they started clearing out. They cleared out that all the
homeless people.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Living in that camp. Tense.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
The homeless people that were at Gumbiner, they cleared them
out pretty quickly. They put up a chain link fence
right after, and I mean within within an hour, a
chain link fence was up and a sign on the
fence saying no trespassing. So not only can the homeless
not return to this park, but people in the public
can also aren't allowed to go to the park. I
(08:36):
spoke with one guy who teaches kids to skateboard at
that park. He said he was devastated, but he said
it also needed to happen because homeless people were taking
their pants down, they were doing drugs in front of
the kids.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
And this is a place where they volunteered to teach.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
These kids how to skateboard, and it was really a
bad environment. He said, he's devastated that they'll have to
relocate for the time being, but it was you know,
the city is trying to, what they say, go after
the problematic camps outside of libraries, parks, near schools. They
want to get it away from the public, but especially kids.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Mo do we know since this fence has been erected.
I know that is a short term solution, but long term,
what are they planning to do well.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I spoke with the city's homelessness Bureau manager and he
says they've been going out prior to clearing out these camps,
they had been going out talking to the homeless, trying
to find them resources, trying to get them housed. So
they said before the camps the camps were cleared out,
they had been talking with them and working with them
(09:42):
to see where they can put them shelters.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
There's definitely a shortage of shelters.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
There's not enough room for everybody, but the manager says,
you know, we're.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Working to find places for them.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
And when I was there earlier this morning, there was
a homeless woman camped out on the corner of the
street on the street from Gumbiner, had all of her
stuff with her and she was just sitting there and
I interviewed her and she said, you know, I've been
living in Gumbinner for three months. The city has come out,
They've asked me, you know, to help me with resources,
(10:13):
and tried to find me places to go. She goes,
I don't want to go. She's like, I'm addicted to drugs.
I'm addicted to homelessness. And she said, I don't want
to leave, and she said it's really sad, but she
said it needed to happen, that it might be a
wake up call for some of the homeless people living
in the area.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
She said it needed to happen to her.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Okay, let's take her as an example. I'm quite sure
there are more people just like her who are, to
use your words, addicted to homelessness, addicted to drugs, who
are comfortable in whatever environment that they're living. Has long
Beach expressed to you any type of plan or desire
to deal with those individuals who invariably are going to
come back the first moment.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
They can, right, And so the manager with this morning,
when I asked him about that, he says, well, we're
working diligently to try to find these people places to go.
The Supreme Court ruling says that the governments can now criminalize,
meaning arrest and cite these people who don't clear out,
But Long Beach itself says and Mayor Rex Richardson says,
(11:13):
these people are not going to.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Automatically be cited.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
They're not going to automatically be arrested without having committed
crimes before. And so if they hadn't, if they haven't
done anything that warrants and arrest other than being outside
on the sidewalk or sleeping on the sidewalks, they may
not arrest them or cite them.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Moh And again this goes back to.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Governor news some threatening to withhold funding to these cities
if they don't comply. And so it looks like they
kind of got in geared here after these threats. But
if they're out of the parks and they're out of
the libraries, and they find other places to live, and
the city doesn't arrest them or cite them because they
haven't committed vicious or violent crimes. Then does that go
(11:55):
now go back to Governor new Some's threats and will
he not fund the cities because of that? And that's
the question here most that's the.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Great question, and that was my next question, because cities
are going to have to thread this needle where they
are complying with the executive action. They are clearing the
homelessness encampments, but it's still the fundamental questions about the
people after the fact. And my concern is just a
person who lives very close to Long Beach and I
have relatives who live in Long Beach. I'm worried about
(12:23):
the angry homeless person, rightly or wrongly, who comes back
and feels that you've moved their home and now they're
more belligerent and now more likely to commit an act
of violence or defiance.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's my concern, And I don't know what happens.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Then, Yes, the homelessness encampment is gone, but I don't
know if we've actually dealt with the actual issue. You
mentioned citations and arrests, but I don't know what do
we have to You know, we're gonna wait.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
For sab I know, and you know what mo and
Long Beach. Long Beach is riddled with homelessness.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It is riddled. It's everywhere. It's rampant.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
There are it's in the promenade, the libraries, around churches
and schools, and it is everywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
So the city, you know, people in the city have
been fed up.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
We've seen people be attacked by the homeless, like you said, violent,
viciously attack people who have almost been who have been
sexually assaulted by the homeless.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
But the city says it's going to take kind of
a softer approach. They're not. They're trying to help them gently.
Let's find you a place to live, how can we
help with your health care.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
They're bringing them mobile showers, helping them get vital records,
and you know, this is what they say. They're coming
to them mobilely where they're at so they don't have
to go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
They're looking for them.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
They said they've been to they've been doing that since
before the cleanup.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
But it's a more gentle approach.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
They're not trying to arrest and cite people, kick them out,
and you know, they really want to try to make
it as seamless as possible to benefit the community and
the homeless. But like you said, they're this isn't going
to you know, this isn't a there's no simple one
way answer to this.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
And if they move from one park to another or
go to another curb or another.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Street, they're still sleeping on the streets. And Governor Newsom
is not going to like that. He's said it multiple times,
multiple threats. And so it'll be interesting to see what
Long Beach does when when some of these homeless people
refuse to get off the streets and get off drugs
and refuse to refuse the resources.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
There's what happened today, and I wonder what this park
will look like four or five months from now. Chris Adler,
thank you for staying on top of this story. And
I'm quite sure we'll talk again about this in the future.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
No, it's Later with mo Kelly ca if I AM
six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (14:52):
According to Checker C H E C k R, which
is a background check organization, I guess they, you know,
do verification of previous employment, that kind of stuff. The
top ten cities for working women, And they combined five
different metrics, number of women in the workforce, women in
(15:15):
management positions, women's salaries, wage gap between women and men,
and women's unemployment rate. So this is how they came
up with those these rankings. I'm getting ready to share
with you the top ten cities for working women. All right,
here we go. Here is number ten Oxnard. It's kind
(15:44):
of random. It doesn't seem like it's that big of
a city to begin with. But here's number nine of
the top ten California cities for working women.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My heart in San Francisco. How did you get the
rights to a Tony Bennett recording?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Right? It's indistinguishable, sounds like it's hand right exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Fly me to the moon, all right? Number eight, Good.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Old Los Angeles. The top ten cities in California for
working women. Los Angeles came in at number eight. Number
seven Stockton. But who the hell wants to live in Stockton?
What is in Stockton? Are you saying that Stockton is
(16:45):
a better city than la when it comes to unemployment
for women? Well, that's what they're saying. That's what the
list says. And it can't be wrong. Pcker ch e
kr r rah. They forgot the last e.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So it's like grainder.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Yeah, okay, I mean, what's they gotta have something in common?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
M hmm okay.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Coming in at number six, River Tucky, don't tell me
Riverside is never mind take it with a gran salt.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
What kind of occupations are we specifying? We're talking never
I can't say that. I mean, let's just keep moving.
Number five.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Of the top ten cities in California for working women.
Number five is Sacramento. Man, but I'm saying, who wants
to live in Sacramento. I've been that there's really nothing
in Sacramento. Crickets, it's dead. Number four, hit it?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Do you know the way to say?
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Sad Josey, Saint Joseph number four in the list of
the top ten cities in California for working women, according
to Checker, and no one has any idea what the
hell checker is checkr They should have done a background
check on their own spelling, and you can explain that.
(18:22):
Sus Ray sus coming in at number three, San Diego.
I believe that I believe that there's enough going on
down there where. Yeah, I believe San Diego.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Well, the parameters they've laid out are so vague, I
believe whatever they said.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Well, no, it's for salaries, unemployment rates, and the number
of women in management positions. So that's kind of how
the ranking is. Like, are there a lot of women
in management positions?
Speaker 8 (18:53):
You know?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
What is the unemployment rate for women in these markets?
And what is the salary? This is what this is
based on.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you said like you didn't know what the word was?
Was the salary? You had to sound it out for him.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
That's what I want to put it a little emphasis on.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, I love condescension. It's perfect.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Number three, San Diego. Number two. Hal's no Baker's Field.
Hal's no.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I know people in Bakersfield are listening right now, but
it's Baker's Field. Yeah, no, Bakersfield, don't. It's Baker's Field.
What do you go to Bakersfield for? Has anyone actually
ever chosen to go to Bakersfield? Like intentionally, has in
got in the car, set the GPS and like move
(19:49):
their whole house to Bakersfield.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Kevin McCarthy fan club gatherings, right, all three of them.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You said it and coming in at number one of
the top ten cities in California for working women according
to Checker, not check Her, but Checker c H E
C k R that nobody's ever heard of. Ain't no way,
(20:32):
ain't no way on God's green Earth. Is anyone going
to Fresno for anything?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, no, okay, no, Fresno the number one city in
California for working women according to Checker.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Okay, Now, there is some controversy why behind Checker. Checker
is a background app, and there some controversy surrounding Checker
because background reports from Checker have not only been inaccurate,
causing workers to lose job opportunities or lose jobs, but
frequent reports of violence, rape, and robbery from ride share
(21:15):
and delivery drivers have passed Checkers background checks. And that
is some of the calls of the headlines from Checker.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So Checker has a checkered past, checkered.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Pass, to say the least, So they may be setting
these women up.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh come on, you.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Suck what it's I find it ironic that the company
responsible for background checks and also releases this list of
the top ten cities for working women has issues with rape.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, some of the people that are not checking.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
It's not Checker themselves, but they're just like they're like yeah,
they're like sure, yeah, you could go even though you
just got out of prison for sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah you can be a ride shair driver. Sure thing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Checker only has one job, one job, and they can't
even get that right.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh, I wonder if they've been acting yet. That's coming.
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