November 9, 2024 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the growing concern in Southern California communities regarding the use of drones in law enforcement AND the sordid history of Mater Dei High School awarding undeserved USC scholarships to the children of wealthy parents…PLUS – A look at the “top 10 most dangerous cities in California” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Y'all need to stop lying. Stop lying. It's later with
Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I
was driving in today and I was listening to KFI
and I love my station, but y'all need to stop lying.
I was listening to the traffic reports and they were
telling us about an accident here or slow down there,
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and I said, you need to stop lying. Just say
it's bad all the way around. I was listening to
Pedro Moreno right now, and he was telling us about
how it was a little slow here, or there was
an accident there. You know, normal traffic. There was nothing
normal about what's going on on today. Nothing normal. I
was talking to Tuala. He almost got into a fight
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with someone. And I know Mark Runner, Hey what what?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Did he pop the trunk? I'll let him tell the story.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But yes, oh, look somem's in the air today.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And it took me literally two hours to get to
work today. I don't know what was going on. I
didn't take the surface streets today. I took the freeways
and it was god awful. And so when I'm listening
to KFI and I'm looking at my GPS, and I said,
stop lying, stop lying. We weren't moving and I wasn't
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hearing that from people like Pedro Moreno, Okay, I lost
a lot of respect for Pedro. Today he'll be devastated.
Usually I can depend on Pedro, but not tonight because
he told us about two or three things he should
have said. The issue is horrible out there. Save yourself.
Why you can get off the freeways, get off the highways,
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stop driving, just walk the rest of the way. That
would have been more honest. Okay, Twalli, you're in the studio, yes,
and you had a nation to yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Look uh mode. You can attest that I'm rather rather
brown skinned here. My ride was white knuckled the entire
way in Literally I almost died. There is an individual
that was on the one eighteen that was literally trying
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to take people's lives. If you are driving that black Bentley,
I'm talking about you zipping in and out, and at
one point he got next to me, I'm like, you
know what I said. You know the other day Moe said,
you see someone crazy on the road, just let him
go by. I tried to like move over a little
bit and say like, hey, I'm gonna move over because
he was trying to get in between cars against the motorcycle,
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literally trying to go in between cars like a motorcycle.
I'm like, this is a Bentley, a Bentley. I start
to scoot over a little bit. The car that's on
my left side moves out of the way. This guy
gets right next to me and starts kind of like
swerving like he's gonna come into my lane, Like I
need you to move all the way out of my way.
I'm like, oh my, I'm and I'm in my window
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and I'm screaming. I'm like, at this point, I did
not give him a runner, but I did.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I did go back.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I went back to Mo Kelly's youth, and I'm I'm
shamed to admit I was literally saying.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Paul, you get off the free right again, let's go.
I was hot because he was trying to kill me.
He takes off, zipping in and out of Okay, on down,
So you know it was a black Bentley. Did you
get a license plate?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I couldn't sell because he was rad I could see
anything else like that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, it's somebody in a Bentley. Though they're entitled to
do whatever they want. Those are our betters. I'm sure
it's probably connected. I'm driving a Bentley, You're not get
out of my way exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
If Pedro reports a bent was in a deadly wreck
and the driver just went through the window, I would say,
mm hm, you know what I think.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Pedro Moreno needs to break his ass on the air
right now and answer for himself. Let me see if
I can raise him. Pedro, are you there? Hey, Hey,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Mo?
Speaker 6 (04:21):
What?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I totally just walked into something I already know. Okay.
The guys have been commiserating for most of the week
how bad traffic was to bring you up to speed.
And when I was driving in today it was a
harrowing journey. It took me about two hours, no exaggeration,
to drive twenty two miles the one ten north to
the five to the one thirty four. And I was
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listening to the CAFI all the way in, and I
was listening to the various traffic reports, inclusive of your
most recent one. Would you give us some information about
a slow down here or a stall there, you know,
an accident there? And I said, we need to tell
the truth to the CAFI listeners that there is no
good place on any freeway anywhere in southern California. We
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need to stop this misinformation, this disinformation. We need to
stop this Russian propaganda and get to the truth. Yes,
what have you to say for yourself, young man? No,
I agree.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I mean, I mean, depending on where you're at, especially
La County, there is no good place to die period. No.
I mean you might get away with some areas of
like Orange County, maybe the toll roads, but other than that,
everywhere's pretty bad in southern California.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay. I have postulated that traffic is exceptionally bad this
week because we've made the switchover back to standard time,
and because of that, people are leaving work earlier, getting
on the road, and clogging up the freeways to highways
and byways. In your professional opinion, don't you agree with
(05:58):
me and I'm right? Do you just want to hear
that you're right?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, no, No, I know I'm right. I just need
you to reaffirm that I'm right. I just need you
know out sign that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I've noticed that pattern this week too. I don't know,
I mean, because I'm one of those people too. Apparently
I just don't do well driving in the dark. So
maybe some people like are the same way. But no,
I definitely see like there's been like an uptick with
the traffic this week, maybe just because people haven't gotten
used to, you know, less sunlight earlier. But other than that, yeah,
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anywhere you go dark light, it's going to be bad.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I just have one request before I let you go,
because I know you need to get ready for your
next traffic report, which is going to be come up
in like maybe six minutes something like that. Yes, sir, okay.
All I ask is you just forego all the pleasantries,
disregard all the specifics, and just say the issues bad everywhere.
Just say that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And I have one more suggestion, Pedro, if you could
start a new mark, a new way of categorizing days
as how many fingers you're gonna give, Like today's a
today's a three middle finger traffic day in La I.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Think trying to get a fire.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
No no, no, I think listeners would appreciate that because
it's transparent and it's truthful, and it's news they can
use as the as the saying goes, it's a today.
For me, it was just a one finger day, but
for Tuala it was a trunk day.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I see you want me to read between the lines there,
Mark got it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, no, no, he's he's being very specific. It's pretty on
the nose, actually.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Pedro, thank you for what you do, Thank you for
trying to keep all of us safe. But just go
ahead and tell the truth now going forward? Can we
agree on that? Sure, man? And we're off for a
Friday night.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
This report brought to you by Caltrans Clean California dot
com and from the Southern California Toyota Dealers Traffic Center.
Let's go places. We got to crash on the one
oh one in Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
That's heading southbound at Melrose Avenue.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
As Moe would say, ish is bad.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
A crash there has the left lane blocked, so it's
a busy ride from Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Shout out to Pedro Moreno, you're one of the family.
Now welcome. There is an ongoing to debate. It's a
legitimate debate regarding law enforcement and the use of drones.
Proponents of law enforcement using drone technology will tell you that, hey,
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it helps protect officers from going into dangerous situations in
which they do not have eyes or a clear understanding
of the threat which maybe directly in front of them.
Opponents of law enforcement using drone technology will say that
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it is an abusive power, or can be an abusive power,
and it can be an abuse or an invasion of
privacy and an abuse of the Fourth Amendment. I'm here
to tell you that both things can be true. There
is no argument against the idea of drone technology protecting
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officers and when used in a correct way, can make
the public safer. In some cities, like in Anaheim, a
call will go into nine one to one and the
drone will go out before police can even get in
the car, and they can get some advance warning, advance information,
and officers are better prepared, better informed, and as a
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function of that, better protected before rushing into a situation.
But then there are cities like Beverly Hills which will
have standing drone surveillance. Now I get it you, I
don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you're in public.
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But there is a conversation to be had whether standing
drone surveillance and understand that drones can look into your backyard,
drones can look into your house, Whether they're trying to
do that or not. It's a conversation to be had
as to where that line is.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
He's armed, he committed a crime, and he's in a
position of advantage. Basically, he won't get out of the car.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
In Anaheim, Corona, police use a drone to keep eyes
on an armed man in a car on the ninety
one freeway.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
There's like, I don't know, there's like people fighting the
bath house where I is in Fullerton.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
A drone beat officers to this home and gave them
a timely warning.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Mail has a what looks like a AK forty seven fan,
so I told him to hold off.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
There is no threat to the other person.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And in Fountain Valley, Irvine, police had a training exercise
that involved sending a drone indoors to look for a
barricaded suspect.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
One of the advantages of drones is it allows us
to remain at a safer distance while sending in eyes
to be able to figure out the situation.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
The common threat in all of those scenarios is that
the drone use was in response to an emergency situation.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I think most people can accept that. I think most
people would be an agreement that if it helps protect
officers and then by extension, protects communities and citizenry, we'd
support that. But there's another side to it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But what's going on in Beverly Hills is next level.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
At the entrance to our cities, we have big signboards
and say welcome to Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Police drone and use that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
In addition to the roughly twenty five hundred surveillance cameras
throughout the city that are monitored here at the police
Department's real time Watch Center, Beverly Hills also employs pilots
who fly a drone from the watch center to actively
patrol the city twelve hours a day, seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week. If you're
in the city of Beverly Hills, it is fair to
assume that you are maybe not directly under surveillance, but
you're within the net of the surveillance technology. And I
know some may say, well, if you're not doing anything illegal,
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what difference should it make. This is about the principle,
because if you're under surveillance and it's not just surveilling
what is going on, I would assume it's not just
surveilling what is going on on Rodeo or somewhere on
like Little Santa Monica or just the business district. I'm
quite sure it's probably surveillance of the wider era, including
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residential that would concern me, whether I'm a resident of
Beverly Hills or not.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Lieutenant Todd Withers oversees the program.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
And they can fly it remotely to any call for service,
any suspicious activity, and then we can go and check
out critical infrastructure as will maintain security.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So whether you're here on Rodeo Drive or somewhere else
in Beverly Hills, it's quite possible a police drone could
be up above keeping an eye on you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I always say when I go out in public, I
assume that there is a camera either on me or
I'm within the view of a camera. I'm within the
field of vision of a camera. We've talked about the
buses which will have the funt camera which will ticket
you if you happen to be illegally parked in a
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bus lane. Well, just know that there's video on that
camera which is going to be inclusive of other things
more than just the cars which are parked in the
bus lane. I assume I'm on camera. I assume when
I'm going down the freeway that I am on somebody's
camera or like maybe the fast track laying camera. That's
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my assumption, not that it's going to change my behavior,
but I always want to be cognizant of it. And
we're going to have to really struggle to find some
sort of balance because it's only been moving in one direction.
We've only been moving in the direction of more surveillance,
and in a post nine to eleven world, that shouldn't
surprise anyone. We've had extensive debates about the Patriot Act
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as far as when our freedoms end legally in the
United States, what can be done to supposedly, and this
is my cynicism coming out, supposedly done to protect us.
I don't believe that all of this surveillance is about protection.
I believe some of this surveillance is about control for
lack of a better word. But just know that this
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is the surveillance that we know about, not the surveillance
that we don't know about. I didn't know until today
that Beverly Hills had standing surveillance via a drone technology
twelve hours a day, seven days a week. What's it
going to be in a year? It's Later with Mo
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Kelly KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And there
has been more bad news for the University of Southern California. No,
I'm not talking about the football team, well at least
not tonight. But by now you probably saw the article
which was in the La Times highlighting Well, I thought
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we all kind of knew this, but to see it
in print, to see the specifics, to have a high
school named, in particular, to know that there was this
pipeline of undeserving high school students who were funneled into
USC largely because their parents were donors to a certain degree,
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donated enough money. We kind of knew that was going on,
but to have it see, just to have it thrown
in our faces, I don't know, it makes it seem
just a little bit worse. Modern Day High School was
building a new campus parking structure and asked Santa Anna
for one point eight million for related street improvements, modern
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day you probably know elite private school annual tuition and
fees north of fifteen thousand dollars per student, and the
student body comes from Data Point, Laguna Beach, other well
to do areas. Now, I use that as a starting
point to let you know how much money is flowing
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through modern day and the families of those who would
have their children go to modern day USC now has
admitted that children of university donors, potential donors, and other
prominent people through a route intended for top tier sports recruits.
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They're using these so called sports recruits to have the
children of modern day donors attend USC who could not
get in on their own merits. And to really boil
it down, this is how it works. Quiit pro quote,
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that's how it works. That's it. I give you money,
you give me a slot for my kid to attend USC.
And it was done under the pretense of a walk
on athlete. Well, if you don't follow sports, like Mark
Ronner a walk on athlete, and I'm kidding because he
knows a little something about sports, I'd just like to
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needle him every once in a while to make sure he's listening. No,
get it out of your system. It's been a long week.
Go ahead, I've only got a couple hours to go.
A walk on athlete, let's say you're going to USC, UCLA, CAL, Polypomona,
somewhere where they have sports. You're not good enough to
qualify for a scholarship. You're just maybe a regular student
attending school there. Most schools will give you the chance
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to walk on, where you'll probably get a tryout with
a coach or two and they say, oh, you got
a little talent, We'll let you practice with the team.
You're not getting a scholarship, but it's a way that
you can be with the at the university for academic purposes.
And since there's scholarship limit limitations, you can have students
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be admitted to the school with walk on status, where
in theory they would participate in all the activities with
the team, and if they performed well enough as a
walk on, the coach could decide to give that person.
Won't call it an athlete, that person a scholarship a
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later year. In this instance, there was never any intention
of these walk on students to actually be part of
the team. What I mean by the team is could
be the rowing team, could be the tennis team, the field, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, whatever,
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just so the kids could be admitted to USC all
because their parents are wealthy donors connected to school like
modern day made a sizable donation, maybe got a building
named after them on the campus of USC. And it
was a funnel which was going on for many years
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of modern day students to USC. This is part and
parcel of the Varsity Blues scandal, but it had been
going on for quite some time, and this was also
connected to the larger debate of the meritocracy idea of
higher education. How affirmative action is bad, But this was
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going on forever, long before, long before anyone had ever
heard the words affirmative action. Or you had legacy admissions
where because your daddy or mother attended us well, preference
was given to the children of those alumni. More times
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than not, they took spots and weren't necessarily deserving on
their own merits. If you think that this is only
going on at USC and only students at modern day
were benefiting from it, you are a fool. This is
going on at most major universities because there was a
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way to get money to the university encourage donations to
the university and also help their profile as far as
recruiting other donors. If you think it's only usc and
you think it's only modern day, you are a fool
and how interesting. And I would almost say it's kisman
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coincidence that this story in the La Times broke almost
simultaneous to the resignation and retirement, if you will, future
retirement of university president Carolyn Fault.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Carol Foult announcing with us.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm sorry, Carol Fault, Let's get the name right. Carol
Fault is announcing her retirement under the specter of this scandal.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Carol Foult announcing with a statement that she will be
ending her career as president of the University of Southern
California in July, at the end of the academic year.
She's the twelfth president in the history of the university.
It's now up to the Board of Directors to find someone.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Else, who's going to have.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
To figure out a way to find a national search.
We can only assume someone to be the next president
of a school which has had its share of problems.
Keep in mind, Carol Fult was ascended to that position
because Max Nikias, the previous president had to leave as
a result of a number of scandals relating to the USC,
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including the Varsity Blues scandal and of course, the incident
involving the gynecologist at USC Carol Fult once again in
her final months as president of USC.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Let me be absolutely clear, what was going on with
these modern day students was fraud. They were receiving preferred
walk on status to allegedly be on sports teams at
the university because of their supposed athletic merits. It's fraud.
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That's why people went to jail because of the Varsity
Blue scandal. It's just not new. It's always gone on,
and everybody knew that it was going on, but no
one ever did anything about it until maybe a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
No, I don't know why you hate America with such
a fury, because I'll have you know that not only
is this the American way, but we've had actual US
presidents benefit from this arrangement. And George W. Bush, I'm
I'm not going to say any names. That's on you.
I will say it because I don't want to upset anybody.
But it's not just him.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
No, no, no, no, it is not just him. If
you do your homework, you can find the long list
of the vims who benefited from this practice. Not that
I'm saying the world should be fair, but this is
fraud and this has gone on for quite some time.
And if we want to have this argument about who
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should be admitted to college and what criteria should be
a part of that equation, money should not mo in
the United States. Money is merit. Oh, I know, I know,
I'm just pollyanna Ish and you know I'm just eternal optimists.
Maybe that's it. Time to sit down with Uncle Mark
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for the money talk. Yeah, yeah, son, let me tell
you about the birds and the bees and how money
rules the world. It's later with mo Kelly. When we
come back. We want to tell you about the ten
most dangerous cities in California for twenty twenty four. Is
La number one or number two? You'll find out in
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just a moment.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
And let's talk about the ten most dangerous cities in
California for twenty twenty four. We always talk about crime here.
We talk about crime in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
So the only question honestly to consider is whether Los Angeles,
the city of Los Angeles, is number one or number
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two on this list. Let's get to it. Coming in
at number ten, Modesto and the only reason they have
crime in Modesto is because there's nothing else to do.
If you've ever been in Modesto, there's nothing else to do.
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I'm not even sure they have a strip club to
you know, distract men for a few hours each night.
The best man of my wedding from Modesto. I know Modesto.
There's nothing in Modesto. I'm not even sure that you
can find a liquor store Modesto. That's some deprivation there.
It's probably a liquor store, but it's probably a bad one.
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Thirty two point ninety eight crimes per one thousand people.
Coming in at number nine, Inglewood always up to no good.
Thirty five point seventy two crimes for one thousand people.
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And that's like my if I step out my door,
I'm basically in Inglewood's. It's accurate. It's accurate, it's accurate.
I'm not gonna let them lie. Might be surprising, is
not a little bit higher. Well, no, right, you know
what it will get there. And I'll tell you why.
The influx of money from the different stadiums, Arena stadium
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in Arena, like you have more more people going to
Inglewood because of so Far, because of into It Dome,
because of Kia Form, because of the YouTube theater they're there.
Will be more crime in Inglewood because there are more money.
There's more money, there's more potential targets, there's more nightlife
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than anywhere. Where you have a vibrant nightlife, you're likely
to have more crime, or at least that's what I'm
going to tell myself. Number eight, Richmond, California, located in
the East Bay. That's probably right. Yeah, thirty seven point
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thirty three per one thousand, high number of violent incidents.
Safety is a primary concern for many who live there.
I'm quite sure it's a primary concern for everyone who
lives everywhere. Number seven and this is kind of surprising
to me, And I'll tell you why. Compton seven. Compton
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is a hell of a lot different and a hell
of a lot better than it was twenty five years ago.
It is completely different from the stereotype of what Compton
was in the late nineties. It's a completely different demographic.
There is far more urban renewal which has been going
on in the city in recent years. So I'm kind
of surprised to see Compton still on this list of
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the ten most dangerous cities in California. Gentrified, is that
what you're saying. No, I wouldn't say gentrifried yet. No,
it's mostly Latino now, when in the nineties it was
mostly black. The neighborhoods have changed, the ethnography of the
neighborhoods has changed. I would say the economic outlook of
the city has changed. I've driven through it many times
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in recent years. It's better than it was thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But the violence is on the outskirts, and it's high
on the outskirts where a lot of people have a
lot of families moved in. But the violence of gangs
and things that have been pushed towards the outskirts of Compton,
of the CPT.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
What were you going to say? I was just gonna say, Yeah,
when I was doing uber and I would drive through there,
aesthetics of it are completely different from what I remember
growing up. Yeah, Compton into number seven, number six, Stockton
out in the Central Valley. I don't know too much
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about Stockton, and I've probably driven through it, but I
don't know. I can't say, oh yeah, it deserves to
be on the list. I have never had any reason
to go to Stockton. I've had reason to drive through Stockton,
but never stayed there, you know, never did any drugs there,
never tried to to. I don't know hire a stripper there.
So I don't have any point of reference. It's Modesta adjacent,
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it is, it is. But I think of Modesto is
just you know, sorry, modesto, just trashy, just you know, garbage.
If we can call Puerto Rico garbage, I can call
them Modesto garbage, all right, So don't get angry, get
over it.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
So I mean imagine Stoctor's like Modesto, but with the
strip club that you said Medesta there were, yeah there
we got, yes, yeah. And the liquor store, and the
liquor store a decent one, decent yes.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm not talking about those liquor stores where that don't
have the small little bottles at the counter. You got
to have the small bottles, like the sample sizes, the
hotel size. Yeah, for work that too. That too. But
that's how I judge my liquor stores. It's like, are
you serious or not? They need to have that whole
wall of liquor behind the cash register, and they need
to have the small bottles up on the counter. In
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the way that you go to a grocery store. You
pick up some candy bars in the concession line and
in the cashier line, you need to have the little
bottles the impulse spies. Yeah, correct, coming in at number five,
But Laho forty two point six y five violent crimes
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per one thousand people. It's North Bay, so you know,
North Bay not doing too well on the crime thing.
Number four, sand Bernussippi forty three point seventy nine per
one thousand. We can break fifty. Come on, no, oh no,
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we'll get there. It's just look, we just need to
find out where La is on this list. Coming in
at number three, Fresno, that kind of surprises me. At
forty four point twenty nine violent crimes for one thousand people. Yeah,
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because Fresno is actually one of California's largest cities. But
I don't think of I don't think of Fresno as urban.
I think of it as more rural because we were
kind of close to Fresnoe when we went to Visalia
for producer Keana's wedding. It's like right there. I don't
think of it as you know, urban, but I guess.
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So coming in at number two, is it La? No,
it's Baker's Field? Okay, So we drove through Bakersfield. Yes,
and you can see that it is pretty crime. You know,
it's interesting and I'm gonna make a political statement for
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as crime written that bakers Field is. You never heard
anyone try to blame Kevin McCarthy. Don't talk to me
about civics. I know that a federal representative has nothing
to do with local crime, but people always want to
talk about Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco. It's weird because
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San Francisco's not on this list, but Bakersfield is forty
six zero point fifty five per one thousand people come
and get at number one. Is it La California Ia?
I'm not even gonna use the trumpets this time. It
is Oakland. Oakland is the most dangerous city in California.
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There is Lam on this list. La is not on
this list. La is not in the top ten for
all of the crime that is said to be happening La.
This is quote unquote violent crime. So that's the only
I'm worried about the violent crime. What are we talking about?
LA is not on the list of the top ten
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most dangerous cities, Wow, Number one Oakland, two, Bakersfield three,
Fresno for San Bernissippi five, Lelejo, six, Stockton seven, Compton, eight, Richmond,
nine ingle Wood and number ten Modesto. LA is nowhere
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to be found. So pound for pound, square mile for
square mile, LA is not one of the top violent
or most dangerous cities in California. For twenty twenty four,
yes later with Mo Kelly k if I AM six
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Y'all need to stop lying. Stop lying. It's later with
Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I
was driving in today and I was listening to KFI
and I love my station, but y'all need to stop lying.
I was listening to the traffic reports and they were
telling us about an accident here or slow down there,
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and I said, you need to stop lying. Just say
it's bad all the way around. I was listening to
Pedro Moreno right now, and he was telling us about
how it was a little slow here, or there was
an accident there. You know, normal traffic. There was nothing
normal about what's going on on today. Nothing normal. I
was talking to Tuala. He almost got into a fight
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with someone. And I know Mark Runner, Hey what what?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Did he pop the trunk? I'll let him tell the story.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But yes, oh, look somem's in the air today.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And it took me literally two hours to get to
work today. I don't know what was going on. I
didn't take the surface streets today. I took the freeways
and it was god awful. And so when I'm listening
to KFI and I'm looking at my GPS, and I said,
stop lying, stop lying. We weren't moving and I wasn't
(01:39):
hearing that from people like Pedro Moreno, Okay, I lost
a lot of respect for Pedro. Today he'll be devastated.
Usually I can depend on Pedro, but not tonight because
he told us about two or three things he should
have said. The issue is horrible out there. Save yourself.
Why you can get off the freeways, get off the highways,
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stop driving, just walk the rest of the way. That
would have been more honest. Okay, Twalli, you're in the studio, yes,
and you had a nation to yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Look uh mode. You can attest that I'm rather rather
brown skinned here. My ride was white knuckled the entire
way in Literally I almost died. There is an individual
that was on the one eighteen that was literally trying
(02:28):
to take people's lives. If you are driving that black Bentley,
I'm talking about you zipping in and out, and at
one point he got next to me, I'm like, you
know what I said. You know the other day Moe said,
you see someone crazy on the road, just let him
go by. I tried to like move over a little
bit and say like, hey, I'm gonna move over because
he was trying to get in between cars against the motorcycle,
(02:50):
literally trying to go in between cars like a motorcycle.
I'm like, this is a Bentley, a Bentley. I start
to scoot over a little bit. The car that's on
my left side moves out of the way. This guy
gets right next to me and starts kind of like
swerving like he's gonna come into my lane, Like I
need you to move all the way out of my way.
I'm like, oh my, I'm and I'm in my window
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and I'm screaming. I'm like, at this point, I did
not give him a runner, but I did.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I did go back.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I went back to Mo Kelly's youth, and I'm I'm
shamed to admit I was literally saying.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Paul, you get off the free right again, let's go.
I was hot because he was trying to kill me.
He takes off, zipping in and out of Okay, on down,
So you know it was a black Bentley. Did you
get a license plate?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I couldn't sell because he was rad I could see
anything else like that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, it's somebody in a Bentley. Though they're entitled to
do whatever they want. Those are our betters. I'm sure
it's probably connected. I'm driving a Bentley, You're not get
out of my way exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
If Pedro reports a bent was in a deadly wreck
and the driver just went through the window, I would say,
mm hm, you know what I think.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Pedro Moreno needs to break his ass on the air
right now and answer for himself. Let me see if
I can raise him. Pedro, are you there? Hey, Hey,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Mo?
Speaker 6 (04:21):
What?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I totally just walked into something I already know. Okay.
The guys have been commiserating for most of the week
how bad traffic was to bring you up to speed.
And when I was driving in today it was a
harrowing journey. It took me about two hours, no exaggeration,
to drive twenty two miles the one ten north to
the five to the one thirty four. And I was
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listening to the CAFI all the way in, and I
was listening to the various traffic reports, inclusive of your
most recent one. Would you give us some information about
a slow down here or a stall there, you know,
an accident there? And I said, we need to tell
the truth to the CAFI listeners that there is no
good place on any freeway anywhere in southern California. We
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need to stop this misinformation, this disinformation. We need to
stop this Russian propaganda and get to the truth. Yes,
what have you to say for yourself, young man? No,
I agree.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I mean, I mean, depending on where you're at, especially
La County, there is no good place to die period. No.
I mean you might get away with some areas of
like Orange County, maybe the toll roads, but other than that,
everywhere's pretty bad in southern California.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay. I have postulated that traffic is exceptionally bad this
week because we've made the switchover back to standard time,
and because of that, people are leaving work earlier, getting
on the road, and clogging up the freeways to highways
and byways. In your professional opinion, don't you agree with
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me and I'm right? Do you just want to hear
that you're right?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, no, No, I know I'm right. I just need
you to reaffirm that I'm right. I just need you
know out sign that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I've noticed that pattern this week too. I don't know,
I mean, because I'm one of those people too. Apparently
I just don't do well driving in the dark. So
maybe some people like are the same way. But no,
I definitely see like there's been like an uptick with
the traffic this week, maybe just because people haven't gotten
used to, you know, less sunlight earlier. But other than that, yeah,
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anywhere you go dark light, it's going to be bad.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I just have one request before I let you go,
because I know you need to get ready for your
next traffic report, which is going to be come up
in like maybe six minutes something like that. Yes, sir, okay.
All I ask is you just forego all the pleasantries,
disregard all the specifics, and just say the issues bad everywhere.
Just say that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And I have one more suggestion, Pedro, if you could
start a new mark, a new way of categorizing days
as how many fingers you're gonna give, Like today's a
today's a three middle finger traffic day in La I.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Think trying to get a fire.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
No no, no, I think listeners would appreciate that because
it's transparent and it's truthful, and it's news they can
use as the as the saying goes, it's a today.
For me, it was just a one finger day, but
for Tuala it was a trunk day.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I see you want me to read between the lines there,
Mark got it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, no, no, he's he's being very specific. It's pretty on
the nose, actually.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Pedro, thank you for what you do, Thank you for
trying to keep all of us safe. But just go
ahead and tell the truth now going forward? Can we
agree on that? Sure, man? And we're off for a
Friday night.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
This report brought to you by Caltrans Clean California dot
com and from the Southern California Toyota Dealers Traffic Center.
Let's go places. We got to crash on the one
oh one in Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
That's heading southbound at Melrose Avenue.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
As Moe would say, ish is bad.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
A crash there has the left lane blocked, so it's
a busy ride from Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Shout out to Pedro Moreno, you're one of the family.
Now welcome. There is an ongoing to debate. It's a
legitimate debate regarding law enforcement and the use of drones.
Proponents of law enforcement using drone technology will tell you that, hey,
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it helps protect officers from going into dangerous situations in
which they do not have eyes or a clear understanding
of the threat which maybe directly in front of them.
Opponents of law enforcement using drone technology will say that
(08:56):
it is an abusive power, or can be an abusive power,
and it can be an abuse or an invasion of
privacy and an abuse of the Fourth Amendment. I'm here
to tell you that both things can be true. There
is no argument against the idea of drone technology protecting
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officers and when used in a correct way, can make
the public safer. In some cities, like in Anaheim, a
call will go into nine one to one and the
drone will go out before police can even get in
the car, and they can get some advance warning, advance information,
and officers are better prepared, better informed, and as a
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function of that, better protected before rushing into a situation.
But then there are cities like Beverly Hills which will
have standing drone surveillance. Now I get it you, I
don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you're in public.
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But there is a conversation to be had whether standing
drone surveillance and understand that drones can look into your backyard,
drones can look into your house, Whether they're trying to
do that or not. It's a conversation to be had
as to where that line is.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
He's armed, he committed a crime, and he's in a
position of advantage. Basically, he won't get out of the car.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
In Anaheim, Corona, police use a drone to keep eyes
on an armed man in a car on the ninety
one freeway.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
There's like, I don't know, there's like people fighting the
bath house where I is in Fullerton.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
A drone beat officers to this home and gave them
a timely warning.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Mail has a what looks like a AK forty seven fan,
so I told him to hold off.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
There is no threat to the other person.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And in Fountain Valley, Irvine, police had a training exercise
that involved sending a drone indoors to look for a
barricaded suspect.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
One of the advantages of drones is it allows us
to remain at a safer distance while sending in eyes
to be able to figure out the situation.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
The common threat in all of those scenarios is that
the drone use was in response to an emergency situation.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I think most people can accept that. I think most
people would be an agreement that if it helps protect
officers and then by extension, protects communities and citizenry, we'd
support that. But there's another side to it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But what's going on in Beverly Hills is next level.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
At the entrance to our cities, we have big signboards
and say welcome to Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Police drone and use that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
In addition to the roughly twenty five hundred surveillance cameras
throughout the city that are monitored here at the police
Department's real time Watch Center, Beverly Hills also employs pilots
who fly a drone from the watch center to actively
patrol the city twelve hours a day, seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week. If you're
in the city of Beverly Hills, it is fair to
assume that you are maybe not directly under surveillance, but
you're within the net of the surveillance technology. And I
know some may say, well, if you're not doing anything illegal,
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what difference should it make. This is about the principle,
because if you're under surveillance and it's not just surveilling
what is going on, I would assume it's not just
surveilling what is going on on Rodeo or somewhere on
like Little Santa Monica or just the business district. I'm
quite sure it's probably surveillance of the wider era, including
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residential that would concern me, whether I'm a resident of
Beverly Hills or not.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Lieutenant Todd Withers oversees the program.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
And they can fly it remotely to any call for service,
any suspicious activity, and then we can go and check
out critical infrastructure as will maintain security.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So whether you're here on Rodeo Drive or somewhere else
in Beverly Hills, it's quite possible a police drone could
be up above keeping an eye on you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I always say when I go out in public, I
assume that there is a camera either on me or
I'm within the view of a camera. I'm within the
field of vision of a camera. We've talked about the
buses which will have the funt camera which will ticket
you if you happen to be illegally parked in a
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bus lane. Well, just know that there's video on that
camera which is going to be inclusive of other things
more than just the cars which are parked in the
bus lane. I assume I'm on camera. I assume when
I'm going down the freeway that I am on somebody's
camera or like maybe the fast track laying camera. That's
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my assumption, not that it's going to change my behavior,
but I always want to be cognizant of it. And
we're going to have to really struggle to find some
sort of balance because it's only been moving in one direction.
We've only been moving in the direction of more surveillance,
and in a post nine to eleven world, that shouldn't
surprise anyone. We've had extensive debates about the Patriot Act
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as far as when our freedoms end legally in the
United States, what can be done to supposedly, and this
is my cynicism coming out, supposedly done to protect us.
I don't believe that all of this surveillance is about protection.
I believe some of this surveillance is about control for
lack of a better word. But just know that this
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is the surveillance that we know about, not the surveillance
that we don't know about. I didn't know until today
that Beverly Hills had standing surveillance via a drone technology
twelve hours a day, seven days a week. What's it
going to be in a year? It's Later with Mo
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Kelly KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (15:37):
Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And there
has been more bad news for the University of Southern California. No,
I'm not talking about the football team, well at least
not tonight. But by now you probably saw the article
which was in the La Times highlighting Well, I thought
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we all kind of knew this, but to see it
in print, to see the specifics, to have a high
school named, in particular, to know that there was this
pipeline of undeserving high school students who were funneled into
USC largely because their parents were donors to a certain degree,
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donated enough money. We kind of knew that was going on,
but to have it see, just to have it thrown
in our faces, I don't know, it makes it seem
just a little bit worse. Modern Day High School was
building a new campus parking structure and asked Santa Anna
for one point eight million for related street improvements, modern
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day you probably know elite private school annual tuition and
fees north of fifteen thousand dollars per student, and the
student body comes from Data Point, Laguna Beach, other well
to do areas. Now, I use that as a starting
point to let you know how much money is flowing
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through modern day and the families of those who would
have their children go to modern day USC now has
admitted that children of university donors, potential donors, and other
prominent people through a route intended for top tier sports recruits.
(17:26):
They're using these so called sports recruits to have the
children of modern day donors attend USC who could not
get in on their own merits. And to really boil
it down, this is how it works. Quiit pro quote,
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that's how it works. That's it. I give you money,
you give me a slot for my kid to attend USC.
And it was done under the pretense of a walk
on athlete. Well, if you don't follow sports, like Mark
Ronner a walk on athlete, and I'm kidding because he
knows a little something about sports, I'd just like to
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needle him every once in a while to make sure he's listening. No,
get it out of your system. It's been a long week.
Go ahead, I've only got a couple hours to go.
A walk on athlete, let's say you're going to USC, UCLA, CAL, Polypomona,
somewhere where they have sports. You're not good enough to
qualify for a scholarship. You're just maybe a regular student
attending school there. Most schools will give you the chance
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to walk on, where you'll probably get a tryout with
a coach or two and they say, oh, you got
a little talent, We'll let you practice with the team.
You're not getting a scholarship, but it's a way that
you can be with the at the university for academic purposes.
And since there's scholarship limit limitations, you can have students
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be admitted to the school with walk on status, where
in theory they would participate in all the activities with
the team, and if they performed well enough as a
walk on, the coach could decide to give that person.
Won't call it an athlete, that person a scholarship a
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later year. In this instance, there was never any intention
of these walk on students to actually be part of
the team. What I mean by the team is could
be the rowing team, could be the tennis team, the field, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, whatever,
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just so the kids could be admitted to USC all
because their parents are wealthy donors connected to school like
modern day made a sizable donation, maybe got a building
named after them on the campus of USC. And it
was a funnel which was going on for many years
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of modern day students to USC. This is part and
parcel of the Varsity Blues scandal, but it had been
going on for quite some time, and this was also
connected to the larger debate of the meritocracy idea of
higher education. How affirmative action is bad, But this was
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going on forever, long before, long before anyone had ever
heard the words affirmative action. Or you had legacy admissions
where because your daddy or mother attended us well, preference
was given to the children of those alumni. More times
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than not, they took spots and weren't necessarily deserving on
their own merits. If you think that this is only
going on at USC and only students at modern day
were benefiting from it, you are a fool. This is
going on at most major universities because there was a
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way to get money to the university encourage donations to
the university and also help their profile as far as
recruiting other donors. If you think it's only usc and
you think it's only modern day, you are a fool
and how interesting. And I would almost say it's kisman
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coincidence that this story in the La Times broke almost
simultaneous to the resignation and retirement, if you will, future
retirement of university president Carolyn Fault.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Carol Foult announcing with us.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm sorry, Carol Fault, Let's get the name right. Carol
Fault is announcing her retirement under the specter of this scandal.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Carol Foult announcing with a statement that she will be
ending her career as president of the University of Southern
California in July, at the end of the academic year.
She's the twelfth president in the history of the university.
It's now up to the Board of Directors to find someone.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Else, who's going to have.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
To figure out a way to find a national search.
We can only assume someone to be the next president
of a school which has had its share of problems.
Keep in mind, Carol Fult was ascended to that position
because Max Nikias, the previous president had to leave as
a result of a number of scandals relating to the USC,
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including the Varsity Blues scandal and of course, the incident
involving the gynecologist at USC Carol Fult once again in
her final months as president of USC.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Let me be absolutely clear, what was going on with
these modern day students was fraud. They were receiving preferred
walk on status to allegedly be on sports teams at
the university because of their supposed athletic merits. It's fraud.
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That's why people went to jail because of the Varsity
Blue scandal. It's just not new. It's always gone on,
and everybody knew that it was going on, but no
one ever did anything about it until maybe a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
No, I don't know why you hate America with such
a fury, because I'll have you know that not only
is this the American way, but we've had actual US
presidents benefit from this arrangement. And George W. Bush, I'm
I'm not going to say any names. That's on you.
I will say it because I don't want to upset anybody.
But it's not just him.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
No, no, no, no, it is not just him. If
you do your homework, you can find the long list
of the vims who benefited from this practice. Not that
I'm saying the world should be fair, but this is
fraud and this has gone on for quite some time.
And if we want to have this argument about who
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should be admitted to college and what criteria should be
a part of that equation, money should not mo in
the United States. Money is merit. Oh, I know, I know,
I'm just pollyanna Ish and you know I'm just eternal optimists.
Maybe that's it. Time to sit down with Uncle Mark
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for the money talk. Yeah, yeah, son, let me tell
you about the birds and the bees and how money
rules the world. It's later with mo Kelly. When we
come back. We want to tell you about the ten
most dangerous cities in California for twenty twenty four. Is
La number one or number two? You'll find out in
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just a moment.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
And let's talk about the ten most dangerous cities in
California for twenty twenty four. We always talk about crime here.
We talk about crime in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
So the only question honestly to consider is whether Los Angeles,
the city of Los Angeles, is number one or number
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two on this list. Let's get to it. Coming in
at number ten, Modesto and the only reason they have
crime in Modesto is because there's nothing else to do.
If you've ever been in Modesto, there's nothing else to do.
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I'm not even sure they have a strip club to
you know, distract men for a few hours each night.
The best man of my wedding from Modesto. I know Modesto.
There's nothing in Modesto. I'm not even sure that you
can find a liquor store Modesto. That's some deprivation there.
It's probably a liquor store, but it's probably a bad one.
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Thirty two point ninety eight crimes per one thousand people.
Coming in at number nine, Inglewood always up to no good.
Thirty five point seventy two crimes for one thousand people.
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And that's like my if I step out my door,
I'm basically in Inglewood's. It's accurate. It's accurate, it's accurate.
I'm not gonna let them lie. Might be surprising, is
not a little bit higher. Well, no, right, you know
what it will get there. And I'll tell you why.
The influx of money from the different stadiums, Arena stadium
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in Arena, like you have more more people going to
Inglewood because of so Far, because of into It Dome,
because of Kia Form, because of the YouTube theater they're there.
Will be more crime in Inglewood because there are more money.
There's more money, there's more potential targets, there's more nightlife
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than anywhere. Where you have a vibrant nightlife, you're likely
to have more crime, or at least that's what I'm
going to tell myself. Number eight, Richmond, California, located in
the East Bay. That's probably right. Yeah, thirty seven point
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thirty three per one thousand, high number of violent incidents.
Safety is a primary concern for many who live there.
I'm quite sure it's a primary concern for everyone who
lives everywhere. Number seven and this is kind of surprising
to me, And I'll tell you why. Compton seven. Compton
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is a hell of a lot different and a hell
of a lot better than it was twenty five years ago.
It is completely different from the stereotype of what Compton
was in the late nineties. It's a completely different demographic.
There is far more urban renewal which has been going
on in the city in recent years. So I'm kind
of surprised to see Compton still on this list of
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the ten most dangerous cities in California. Gentrified, is that
what you're saying. No, I wouldn't say gentrifried yet. No,
it's mostly Latino now, when in the nineties it was
mostly black. The neighborhoods have changed, the ethnography of the
neighborhoods has changed. I would say the economic outlook of
the city has changed. I've driven through it many times
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in recent years. It's better than it was thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But the violence is on the outskirts, and it's high
on the outskirts where a lot of people have a
lot of families moved in. But the violence of gangs
and things that have been pushed towards the outskirts of Compton,
of the CPT.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
What were you going to say? I was just gonna say, Yeah,
when I was doing uber and I would drive through there,
aesthetics of it are completely different from what I remember
growing up. Yeah, Compton into number seven, number six, Stockton
out in the Central Valley. I don't know too much
(29:17):
about Stockton, and I've probably driven through it, but I
don't know. I can't say, oh yeah, it deserves to
be on the list. I have never had any reason
to go to Stockton. I've had reason to drive through Stockton,
but never stayed there, you know, never did any drugs there,
never tried to to. I don't know hire a stripper there.
So I don't have any point of reference. It's Modesta adjacent,
(29:40):
it is, it is. But I think of Modesto is
just you know, sorry, modesto, just trashy, just you know, garbage.
If we can call Puerto Rico garbage, I can call
them Modesto garbage, all right, So don't get angry, get
over it.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
So I mean imagine Stoctor's like Modesto, but with the
strip club that you said Medesta there were, yeah there
we got, yes, yeah. And the liquor store, and the
liquor store a decent one, decent yes.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm not talking about those liquor stores where that don't
have the small little bottles at the counter. You got
to have the small bottles, like the sample sizes, the
hotel size. Yeah, for work that too. That too. But
that's how I judge my liquor stores. It's like, are
you serious or not? They need to have that whole
wall of liquor behind the cash register, and they need
to have the small bottles up on the counter. In
(30:24):
the way that you go to a grocery store. You
pick up some candy bars in the concession line and
in the cashier line, you need to have the little
bottles the impulse spies. Yeah, correct, coming in at number five,
But Laho forty two point six y five violent crimes
(30:47):
per one thousand people. It's North Bay, so you know,
North Bay not doing too well on the crime thing.
Number four, sand Bernussippi forty three point seventy nine per
one thousand. We can break fifty. Come on, no, oh no,
(31:09):
we'll get there. It's just look, we just need to
find out where La is on this list. Coming in
at number three, Fresno, that kind of surprises me. At
forty four point twenty nine violent crimes for one thousand people. Yeah,
(31:29):
because Fresno is actually one of California's largest cities. But
I don't think of I don't think of Fresno as urban.
I think of it as more rural because we were
kind of close to Fresnoe when we went to Visalia
for producer Keana's wedding. It's like right there. I don't
think of it as you know, urban, but I guess.
(31:51):
So coming in at number two, is it La? No,
it's Baker's Field? Okay, So we drove through Bakersfield. Yes,
and you can see that it is pretty crime. You know,
it's interesting and I'm gonna make a political statement for
(32:14):
as crime written that bakers Field is. You never heard
anyone try to blame Kevin McCarthy. Don't talk to me
about civics. I know that a federal representative has nothing
to do with local crime, but people always want to
talk about Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco. It's weird because
(32:35):
San Francisco's not on this list, but Bakersfield is forty
six zero point fifty five per one thousand people come
and get at number one. Is it La California Ia?
I'm not even gonna use the trumpets this time. It
is Oakland. Oakland is the most dangerous city in California.
(33:04):
There is Lam on this list. La is not on
this list. La is not in the top ten for
all of the crime that is said to be happening La.
This is quote unquote violent crime. So that's the only
I'm worried about the violent crime. What are we talking about?
LA is not on the list of the top ten
(33:27):
most dangerous cities, Wow, Number one Oakland, two, Bakersfield three,
Fresno for San Bernissippi five, Lelejo, six, Stockton seven, Compton, eight, Richmond,
nine ingle Wood and number ten Modesto. LA is nowhere
(33:48):
to be found. So pound for pound, square mile for
square mile, LA is not one of the top violent
or most dangerous cities in California. For twenty twenty four,
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