January 29, 2026 • 32 mins
California has everything—top farmers, tech geniuses, world-class creatives, and the best coastline on earth—so how did we end up broke and begging for more money? Tim Conway Jr. unpacks whether you actually need to be political to survive in politics, why police, fire departments, and businesses keep leaving the state, and how radical mismanagement may have derailed it all. Michael Monks joins the conversation with a reality check on violent crime trends in L.A. County, a fascinating 100-year-old time capsule reveal, and one truly jaw-dropping Orange County crime story you won’t believe.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM
six for it is the Conway Show, it is Thursday,
and Thursday is the new Friday here in southern California.
And I know that because when I come into the
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parking lot here at thirty four hundred West Olive, the
only day that I have to park on the second
or third floor is Thursday. Every other day I can
park wherever I want, but Thursday is the one day
that everybody shows up. And I think it has to
do with companies have a I don't know if it's
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a rule or if it's just with the unions. Like
if you have a union job, you work as a firefighter,
or you work for the city or for the state,
and you have four days on, three days off, Thursday
is one of the days you have to work. For
most union members and most union jobs city, state, local, county.
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And I think that's also with the private sector. They
don't want you to take a four day weekend. So
if you're if you're a ford on three off, Thursday
is one of the days you have to work. And
Thursday it means they freeways are jammed, the parking lots
are jammed. Everybody's doing something on Thursday, and Friday loosens up.
Friday is you know, is no longer the busiest day
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of the week.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
All right, let's you know.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't like talking about politics much because I'm not
going to convince you to vote one way. You're not
going to convince me to vote one way, and it's
just you know, banging heads into each other. But I
will say that the next governor of the state of
California would be much better off. If you don't like
what Trump's doing here in California, the next governor would
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be much better off. To say, I don't agree with Trump,
but I'm friends with Trump. I'm on a friendly basis
with Trump because you get Trump to do a lot
more for your state, your city, and your county if
you don't fight him. If you fight Trump, you lose
everybody that I can think of who's gone to battle
with Donald Trump has lost everybody, Republicans, Democrats, independents, actors, actresses, singers,
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you know. Ask all these people what it's like, you know,
Kathy Griffin or Stephen Colbert. It's exhausting, and he always
seems to win. So the better way to go twenty
is that way sound effects. We need more sound effects.
The better way to go is like Mayor Fry in
Minneapolis or Governor Walls of Minnesota, where you call the guy,
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you have a lengthy conversation that's not filled with insults,
and you say, this is the problem here, this is
what we'd like to do.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Also, that.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Mayor of New York, Mandonnie, he's also on the boards
where he went to Washington and he met with Donald Trump,
and he's on a friendly basis with Donald Trump. That
doesn't mean you have to do anything that Donald Trump
wants you to do. It's just if you're on a
friendly basis with him and you and you compliment him
and treat him nice, that's when the money rolls in.
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And what this state needs more than anything is cash.
We're broke, the state's broke, the county's broke, most of
the cities are broke. And there's a hell of a
lot of money in Washington, d c. That's ready to
come to California. And the best way to get Donald
Trump to do what you don't want him to do
anymore is to sit in the same room with him
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or sit on the phone with him and talk about
it as opposed to launching insults on social media.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And the next governor of the state of California needs
to be on a friendly basis with Donald Trump. You
don't have to do everything Donald Trump asked you to
do or anything, but you've got to be on a
friendly basis with him because we need that federal checkbook.
We need the funeral money coming to California cuz we're broke.
We're broke in a big way, in a way that
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you wouldn't imagine. LAPD broke, City of La broke, everybody
is broke. I've read an article about LAPD. Buddy of
mine who's in LAPD sent it to me, and this
is going to be devastating for the World Cup, the Olympics,
the Super Bowl and moving on, because the City of
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La is taking away their bloodline, taking away their oxygen,
which is overtime. Overtime cops, firefighters, you know, sheriff's deputies.
They all make or break their family's budget with overtime.
They work overtime and they need that overtime pay. And
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if that goes away. You're going to see a lot
of cops, a lot of firefighters moving out of state
and taking their expertise and their experience to another state,
and it's going to devastate California LAPD. I think they're
around eighty four hundred sworn officers right now. They want
to be at nine thousand. Ideally they want to be
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at ten or eleven thousand. But they're going to add
I think four hundred more officers this year, but seven
hundred and fifty are going to retire, and so it's
a losing baddle. And so the way to keep these
guys around, these guys and gals at LAPD, the Sheriff's Department,
La County Fire, La City Fire, Orange County Fire is money.
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We need more money. And I know it's astonishing to
people listening right now. How could this state be broke?
We have the smartest people in the world up at
Silicon Valley, the smartest people in the world up at
Meta and Google and Twitter, and all the people that
work at these oracle all these places up in Northern
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California have the smartest people that we produce in the
United States all live in Northern California. Okay, Now, let's
move south to southern California. We have the most creative
people in the world that are in the sound of
my voice right now in Hollywood, writers, directors, producers, actors, actresses, singers.
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We have the best quality of both those worlds. The
smartest people in the world or in Northern California. The
most creative people world in the world are in Southern California.
We also have the greatest land to farm in the
United States in the Central Valley. They just need water.
We have the greatest farmers in the world in the
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Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It's huge.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The Central Valley is bigger than most states. And we
can produce the best fruits, the best vegetables, grape rice,
grape nuts. We have everything that we can produce in
the Central Valley. Okay, we got those three things going
for us, right, Smartest people in the world Northern California,
most creative people in the world in Southern California, Hollywood
in Southern California, and the greatest land to to raise
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crops in Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
We move on.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We have the greatest coastline in the world. The greatest coastline.
If you take a ride from San Diego all the
way up past northern California, all the way up to
the Oregon border, you will be shocked by how beautiful
this coast is. We also have tourism. People love coming
to California. They love it. We have money coming into California.
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Tourists coming into California. They can't wait to be here
and see Hollywood. It still is charming for a lot
of people. They still want to see it. Okay, that's
another group. We also have billionaire businessmen. We have the
most billionaires in the country in California.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So if we have all those things, the smartest people,
the most creative people, the greatest land, the greatest coast,
wealthy people, tourism, why are we broke? Why don't we
have any money? The state doesn't have any money, the
counties don't have any money, and the cities don't have
any money. How the hell did that happen? Well, if
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there's only one or two possibilities, radical mismanagement that's a
strong possibility, or theft mismanagement to the point where you
can go to jail over it, and that's probably happening
as well. People stealing our money without us even knowing
about it. I think that whole you know, you know,
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bullet train has been a disaster for California. If you
took the bullet train and just and that never existed,
you would solve the homeless problem overnight. You could give
every homeless person in California four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars if we didn't build that train. So what I'm saying,
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and I hope somebody's listening, the next governor of the
State of California, you don't have to love, true, you
don't have to even do what he says, but you
can't fight him. If you fight him, you lose. And
if you lose, we all lose. Forty million people are
gonna go down with you. In the state of California.
There's a boatload of money thirty eight billion dollars it's
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waiting to be given to the State of California for
fire relief, for all kinds of things, and that money
needs to come to California, and it comes through being
cordial with the President of the United States. If you
fight him, it's great for your Twitter, it's great for
social media, but we all get screwed, all of us.
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So it's a it's a great tip. It's not mine.
A friend of mine talked to me this morning and
and it's and it's his idea. But even if you're
you know, a staunch Democrat and you hate Donald Trump,
now is not the time you're going to take forty
million people down with you again. You can still, you know,
push back on him, but it's but it can't be
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a battle, because you're you will lose the fight. Trump
doesn't lose fights ever. I remember the last time he
fought somebody and he lost. He beats district attorneys, he
beats actors, actresses, when athletes go at him, when late
night talk show hosts go after him, when politicians go
after him. Ask all the Republicans that voted against him
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and went after him in the last two elections.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
They're all home, all of them, every single one of them.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So there's just a tip where you may save California.
I hope it could. I hope it could, because this
is the most beautiful state in the world. I was
born and raised here. My dad came here in the fifties.
My mom came here in the fifties. I was born
and raised here on I'm a first generation California. The
second member of our family. My sister was first, the
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second member of our family that was born right here
in California. And it's a great, great state. It just
needs to be fixed, and we can do it. We
can do it, but the director will go right now
is not working.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
We're broke.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Monk says with us you both, I am doing well.
Good to be with you. Thousand dollars. That's a big deal.
It's nice. Yeah, you're you're not You're we're ineligible unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You know, my mom is a huge radio contest champion,
wins back in Cincinnati all the times that runs. So
when I would, you know, I was in and out
of TV and radio, anytime I worked for a place
like iHeart that had malts, she would, you know, she
would support me and be happy that I had a job.
But to know she was ineligible for the contests, right, yeah,
she won tons.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Right, I bet you. Well, you're a little younger than
I am.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Were you a big box top guy sending away for
stuff in the mail? That probably is after your time? Yeah, Crozier,
you probably were where you collect like fourteen you know
apple Jack's box you send away for a toy. Yeah,
and it's always six to eight weeks for deliver time,
a lifetime to get crap in the mail. All right,
let's talk about violent crime in LA. It's down, it's
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apparently down. The LAPED is out today with their annual
report and this is where they share the data of
all of the various crimes. And the one that Chief
McDonald really wanted to hit hard today was the murder rate,
the homicide rate. It is now at its lowest point
since nineteen fifty nine. Wow, Now that is a mathematical
equation we'll have to discuss it is. The murder rate
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is five point nine per one hundred thousand people in
Los Angeles. Yeah, so how many were there two hundred
and thirty murders in twenty twenty five, And that's down
nineteen percent from the two hundred and eighty four that
were reported the year before. And Chief McDonald says that's
a good thing, by the way, such for the two thirty,
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the two hundred and thirty, certainly, and Chief McDonald's said
that as much. In fact, here's more of what he
had to say, okay.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A reduction in homicide means fewer families experiencing that devastating
loss and fewer communities living with the lasting trauma that
violence creates. This decline did not happen by chance. It
reflects the focused and deliberative work by the men and
women of the LAPD, including targeted violence reduction strategies, intelligence
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led policing, and CompStat driven deployment.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So he is crediting his end the departments leadership and
execution of their plan in reducing this number. He says
that we've worked with what we've got and we are
seeing results. I know Jim McDonald personally. He is a
great cop. He's a great chief. He's at Long Beach
and he ran the Sheriff's department for a while and
now he runs LAPED. For his first year. To have
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that murder rate equal that of nineteen fifty nine is incredible.
Think about what that number represents, two hundred and thirty.
You've been here a long time, yes, what I'll just
give you the year. Okay, the highest year ever an LAPD.
Let me guess the number. Eleven hundred.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, that's right on the dot. Is that right? Can
you guess the year.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I would say that was in the nineteen seventies. It
was ninety three, ninety three. I know, wish by the way,
seems recent, but I'm sad to report to everyone that
was actually thirty three years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh that's incredible, isn't that horrible?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Nineteen ninety three? Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So so nineteen ninety three, by the way, the last
year a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Is that right? Yeah, they've had a drought. Okay, a drought.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
They created the game and they can't get a Stanley
Cup back over that board. Once America get wait till
we get our hands on soccer, that's right. Once we
figure out soccer, it's over. But that's that's an incredible
stat And and you know it's not just Los Angeles,
it's nationwide. The murder rate is way down. And the
reason why it's important, monks, and don't have to tell
you because you're a smart guy, But when you have
a murder in your family, it doesn't affect the guy
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who was just a guy that was murdered. It affects
their friends, their family, their relationships, it affects their coworkers,
and everybody slows down. In life, especially the immediate family,
and that has a ripple effect on society. It does
raise an interesting point though this data, because we've also
talked to you and I on this program about the
LAPD budget situation. They're desire to hire more officers, the
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budget constraints at city Hall that are preventing them from
hiring all of that. Well, on one side, the chief
has to say, hey, we don't have enough resources. On
the other side, he's out there today saying with the
resources we have, crime is, we're doing a really good job.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
In law.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
They've also launched the drone as a first responder of
program and they have some results of that. It now
provides coverage in fifteen of the department's twenty one areas,
and since July of last year, there have been nearly
eighteen hundred flights of these drones being deployed about twenty
three times a day, sent out to seven hundred and
fifty four incidents, and they say in one hundred and
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thirty five of those cases, the calls for service were
resis before officers had to arrive.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
So is that right.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You're finding ways to fight crime or respond to other
emergencies in more efficient and less expensive ways. I think
that the chief is doing a great job. But I
think the secret that nobody mentions very often. I tried
to on this show. But the key for LAPD to
have reduced that murder rate like that is a guy
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named Alan Hamilton. He's the best cop I've ever met
my life, and he is the head of all detectives
right now, the chief of detectives. And he is a
no nonsense guy who always gets his guy and I've
known him for about I don't know, maybe fifteen years,
and a really solid guy who really, you know, constantly
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encourages people to join the LA Police Department and encourages
the cops and the detectives that are already with LAPD
to really do a great job. He's a great motive
a Chief. McDonald also credited his officers, including the leadership, Yeah,
like detect to our chief, deputy Deputy Chief Hamilton, because
they solved a significant number of the murders from last year.
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There weren't many that were left gun answered, and they
were able to solve older murder cases as well.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, kick ass job. All right, do you want to
talk about the time capsule real quick?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, Well, I mean, you know, a you're up against
the news break. It's no big deal. I mean, if
you need me, you want to hang back, I can
hang Okay, listen, here's the deal. LA Public Library downtown
LA turns one hundred years old. That building they opened
up the time capsule. Oh, we got to talk about this, okay,
all right? Was there a McDonald's in there? There was
another time capsule in it? I'm not kidding. So typical
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of La. Yeah, what was in there? Just an empty
time capsule in the time caps There was a time
capsule in the timecaps All right, let's say what year
was it buried? Nineteen twenty five? Okay, nineteen twenty five
or one hundred years. Let's find out what was in it?
All right. Monks is with us every Saturday eight to
ten pm right here on KFI.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Michael Monks is with us, and we talked about the
crime rate being way down, and that's a great sign
for Los Angeles. It's great to walk around and know
that you have less of a chance of being wiped
out by some chef. But the second story, the b
story that you want to talk about is this time
capsule in the library. The central library building in downtown
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Los Angeles is celebrating its centennial. So it opened, I
guess one hundred years ago, but before they finished building it,
and right at the start of construction of this building
back in nineteen twenty five, the people who were operating
the LA Library put a time capsule.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
In the cornerstone. And that's not unusual.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
People do that for schools and that sort of thing,
and then at some point in the future you're supposed
to get in there and get the time capsule out.
The interesting thing about this time capsule is that they
knew this thing existed. There were minutes, the notes taken
at a meeting from a library board meeting back in
nineteen twenty five that even told them what to expect
to find inside of it, where was it and everything.
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Problem was, there were no details on how to get it.
So this cornerstone is, of course the first piece of
block that they put down in the beautiful downtown library building,
and the capsule is inside of it. They couldn't go
through the front because it would damage this historic block.
You don't want to do that, do you? Know how
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they were able to get into it. They had to
go inside to the men's room and drill behind the
urinals to come from the back, and they did find
the capsule. Wow, it was in terrific condition. So they
very very intricately were able to cut it open. It
was a custom made copper box that they sealed this stuff,
and now inside was a lot of stuff typical of
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a time capsule, pictures, newspapers from that day, photos from
older library buildings and their locations from around the area,
mostly in downtown LA. At that point, there was a
directory that they made a note in the presentation today
to say all of the employees are listed in this
from the library, the the city librarian to custodial staff,
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because everyone who was part of the library at that
time wanted to be remembered. And it's just an interesting
feeling to think that was those people communicating with us directly.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
It's almost eerie.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It is odd because that was meant to be communicated
to us at this time, and they thought of it
one hundred year. They're all dead, right, they're all gone,
But it would be interesting to know that your great
great grandfather is on that list completely. One of the
guy's name was Doc Doc Cookery. You don't have names
like that anymore. But you said they also found a
time capsule within the timecast. Part of this story to
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me was that they said inside the time capsule was
a times capsule. It's like a Russian doll of time
capsules today. And this time capsule was from eighteen eighty one.
And the building that was previously on that site, which
was known as the Normal School, and that is a
pretty typical name from that era for schools that later
became universities. That Normal School became a school in Westwood
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known as UCLA.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Is that right? Yeah? So UCLA used to be downtown exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
The origins can be traced to downtown and inside the
eighteen eighty one time capsule they had more newspapers in
English and Spanish and French. So this was a diverse
community for a long time. There was a card that
noticed that noted the population of La at that day,
which was just over eleven thousand.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Wow. Is that right? Also credible?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
There were mementos from the funeral of President Garfield. Is
that there were representatives from LA who had gone and
brought these things back, including a piece of moss and
some of the black you know memorials, right, you know,
but there is so much You're from, you know, Kentucky,
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and you know this, A lot of the homes like
where my grandparents lived outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Sugar and Falls, Ohio.
Their home was built twenty years before Abraham Lincoln was president.
In other parts of the country that were more densely
populated than California much earlier, still have a lot of that.
I mean, New York City is a great example. They
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have very old stuff. But yeah, Ohio, Kentucky too. If
you go to Lexington or Louisville, you will see homes
that are two hundred years old right at this point,
two hundred years old and beautiful and beautifully kept. And
why I love old buildings like that, And I live
in an old building in downtown LA I like the
thought that a lot has happened here, A lot of
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people's lives has started and ended right here. But what
was cool about today in the time capsule is that
direct communication. This was something that was meant to be
read by this generation on this date. You know, I'm
glad you said that because I thought about this today.
The home that we live in Burbank was built the
same year that The Wizard of Oz came out, and
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I thought, you know, there's been probably nine or ten
families live in that house. There'll be forty families after me.
But it's odd to think of the families that were
there before you and the families in the future in
that same space.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
It's an amazing thought. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I mean, look, there are a lot of beautiful new houses,
and people should get the house that makes them happy.
That's absolutely right. But there is something special about knowing
you are sharing a space that has other stories that
are deeply attached to think about how important a home
is to a family, Oh yeah, and the memories that
are developed there. Even after the kids move away to
other homes, that house will always mean something to them.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And you live in a building that used to be
a hat factory.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
That was a hat factory in the fashion district, and
now it is it's four or five pretty good sized,
five story, six and seven story buildings that are now
loft apartments. And so I get to go home every
day and sleep and eat and rest and watch TV,
play with the cats, and a place where you know
some industrial worker one hundred and twenty years ago was
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going every day to earn a couple pennies.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Are there old pictures?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There are you know in my building we've got a
We've got a food court and a pizza hut and
all those types of things in your building.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah underneath.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, it's a really cool thing.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's it's nice and there are old photos from that
era of the workers. And there are still a lot
of the infrastructure. I don't know what these this machinery
ever did, but it's still there. It's just built into
that's a part of us to create the aesthetic. If
I had a pizza hut in our building, that would
be the end of me. We will do it every
You know, that's funny because I order it and I
have an account because I can order it from upstairs
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and then walk down and get it. They give you rewards,
and I was getting all these rewards and I have
no idea if we had free pizza for three weeks.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Is that directly below you? I mean you can smell
the pizza being made. Luckily, we don't smell it all
the time. There's a there's a pizza hut, there is
a Thai restaurant that's very popular. And then there is
like this U I want to say, Hawaiian Filipino Fusion
restaurant that's also well known. And there's a convenience store.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
But there's a Pizza Hut in your building. Yeah, on
the property.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's incredible. Yeah, I want to live there. Is it
open a midnight one o'clock?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
They're open late? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, so anytime that we get the munchies, the personal
pan pizza after midnight is the best.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
What a gift.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, it's just enough to get you over, to get
you through to breakfast. They have come and clutch for
us many times when we've been too lazy to figure
out anything else. I got to get involved with the
rewards too, because every time they asked me, do you
have a phone breber and I always say no, yeah,
you don't want to give it, but if you order online,
you have to put your information in so you have
an account. I had no idea I was getting Hut rewards.
I had like eight hundred Hut points. I love that
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Pizza Hut. All right, they should be an advertiser. Here,
coming to you live from the Pizza Hut studio in
Burbank thank you, sir. Eight to ten pm on Saturday. Yeah,
after the Crest report. That's fan Tiffany Hobbs, Michael Monk's reports.
Sephany Hobbs is fantastic. I get to see her every week.
It's a great legal All.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Right, we're live. Thank you, Michael Bongs. Everybody.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
We have some news stories here to get to you. Also,
the crime data crime LAC's the lowest homicide rate since
nineteen fifty nine. That is something to celebrate. You know,
we don't often get great news like that, but as
you're driving around Los Angeles or maybe walking to at night.
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I can't stress this enough. I know we did a
story with Michael Munks, but people have to know that
this town is much safer than it was a year ago,
a year ago, and that is due to a terrifica
police work. What else could it be? You know, murderers
just don't decide to stop murdering. They're either being caught
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or hunted by LAPD, or they're in jail, or they've
left because LAPD is on their case and they've vanished.
But that's a great stat for LAPD Lois since nineteen
sixty years.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Chief Jim McDonald says that twenty twenty five marked a
year of progress when it comes to lowering crime across
the city, and that's backed by lower homicide rates and
fewer shooting victims. But there are also areas of improvement
that are needed, according to the chief. He says areas
like homeless related crimes and traffic crashes that are deadly
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taking one hundred of year lives every year.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Let's take it to the video now and tell you
about this.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
LAPED leader say, twenty twenty five ended with two hundred
and thirty homicides, the city's lowest total since nineteen sixty six.
That's fifty four fewer homicide victims than in twenty twenty four,
a nineteen percent decline there. The report also showing fewer
people impacted by gun violence across the city, with shooting
victims down from nine hundred and eighty one the year
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before to eight hundred and ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
That's an eight percent drop.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
And when it comes to solving cases, the department's citywide
case clearance rate is listed at one hundred and one percent.
LAPD says that includes seventy six homicides from prior years
that were cleared out in twenty twenty five. Chief McDonald
puts some of these numbers into context here today while
praising the partnership between the community and law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
All right, here's Chief Jim McDonald. LAPD.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Two hundred and thirty homicides is two hundred and thirty
two many. But I go back to nineteen ninety three,
a high we had almost eleven hundred homicides in the
city of La So the reduction there of seventy five
plus percent is something we should be celebrating and building on.
And I think too often the community doesn't appreciate the
partnership that we enjoy with them and the impact that
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that has on crime and the success that we can
see as a result. So public safety is a team
sport and we need everybody to be on the team.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Whatever you think of Mayor Baz, whether it's her choice
or not, and you have to think that she's the
one that ultimately makes the decision. Putting Jim McDonald at
the top of that LAPD is probably the best decision
she's made since she's been mayor of the City of LA.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
That report also laying out what's still driving violence across
LA and where LAPD says it needs to improve. Homeless
related homicides rose to sixty one. That's a twenty percent
increase there. Gang related homicides were listed at one hundred cases,
down about four percent. On traffic safety, LAPD reports two
hundred and ninety fatal traffic crashes in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
That's a decline from the year before.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Those are all great stats, so LA turning it around
crime wise. However, in Orange County, we've got a pretty
disturbing story coming out of Orange County. A stripper accused
of decapitating her fifty five year old boyfriend.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Yeah, this is a case with some disturbing details. A
twenty three year old Anaheim woman has been arrested, accused
of beheading her boyfriend and then fleeing the country.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
However, she was caught last week.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Let's show you a picture of the woman we're talking about,
the suspect in this case. She's been identified as Alisa
lera twenty three years old of Anaheim. We're told she
was working as a stripper when she met a man,
a fifty five year old man Enrique Gonzalez Carba Hall.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They got into a dating room relationship.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Bad move, bad move.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
They dated for a couple of months, but in August
some people got worried.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Apparently they hadn't seen seen him for a while.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
They went to check on him, found that he had
been killed. Police now believed that the killer was his
girlfriend who we showed you there, Alisa Lera, but she
had left for Mexico again.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
This happened in August.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
This was at a home at an apartment on La
Palma in Anaheim. So Anaheim police started working with the
Orange County District Attorney's Office and other agencies, including the FBI.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And she's coming back everybody, So if you're a fan
of the stripper, she's coming home.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
To locate the suspect. They found her recently in Mexico.
They believe she fled there right after the killing. She
was brought back last week and now will face charges.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Mm I like to see what that look is like,
being on the run twenty three with that kind of
anger that will wear and tear on.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
You, allegedly killing her boyfriend and beheading him in the process,
cutting off his head.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yes, cutting off his head. There's a lot of anger
that comes along with that. After you kill somebody and
then you cut their head off, it's top level of anger.
You can't get hired in.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That during the murder. We'll have more on this.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
We just spoke to a spokesperson here at the Orange
County District Attorney's Office.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
You know, whatever, have you ever been like cut off
on the freeway and you have that rage in you
where you just want to you know, you want to
just you know, you feel it and you rage, and
you know you're honk a horn and you're angry as
hell for like ten seconds, you know, maybe fifteen seconds,
and then you calm down. This woman probably lived at
that level her entire life, or you know, how ever
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along she was dating this guy. But man, oh man,
the anger that comes along with that is.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Off the charts about this case. We'll have more on
that coming up next hour. But this woman now in
custod to be accused of killing her boyfriend. That's it
for now. In Santa Anna, I'm Chip Yost. We'll send
it back to.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Chip Yost with kt LA. Oh boy, what his story
coming out of Orange County? All right, We're live on
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six for it is the Conway Show, it is Thursday,
and Thursday is the new Friday here in southern California.
And I know that because when I come into the
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parking lot here at thirty four hundred West Olive, the
only day that I have to park on the second
or third floor is Thursday. Every other day I can
park wherever I want, but Thursday is the one day
that everybody shows up. And I think it has to
do with companies have a I don't know if it's
(00:43):
a rule or if it's just with the unions. Like
if you have a union job, you work as a firefighter,
or you work for the city or for the state,
and you have four days on, three days off, Thursday
is one of the days you have to work. For
most union members and most union jobs city, state, local, county.
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And I think that's also with the private sector. They
don't want you to take a four day weekend. So
if you're if you're a ford on three off, Thursday
is one of the days you have to work. And
Thursday it means they freeways are jammed, the parking lots
are jammed. Everybody's doing something on Thursday, and Friday loosens up.
Friday is you know, is no longer the busiest day
(01:25):
of the week.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
All right, let's you know.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't like talking about politics much because I'm not
going to convince you to vote one way. You're not
going to convince me to vote one way, and it's
just you know, banging heads into each other. But I
will say that the next governor of the state of
California would be much better off. If you don't like
what Trump's doing here in California, the next governor would
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be much better off. To say, I don't agree with Trump,
but I'm friends with Trump. I'm on a friendly basis
with Trump because you get Trump to do a lot
more for your state, your city, and your county if
you don't fight him. If you fight Trump, you lose
everybody that I can think of who's gone to battle
with Donald Trump has lost everybody, Republicans, Democrats, independents, actors, actresses, singers,
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you know. Ask all these people what it's like, you know,
Kathy Griffin or Stephen Colbert. It's exhausting, and he always
seems to win. So the better way to go twenty
is that way sound effects. We need more sound effects.
The better way to go is like Mayor Fry in
Minneapolis or Governor Walls of Minnesota, where you call the guy,
(02:43):
you have a lengthy conversation that's not filled with insults,
and you say, this is the problem here, this is
what we'd like to do.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Also, that.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Mayor of New York, Mandonnie, he's also on the boards
where he went to Washington and he met with Donald Trump,
and he's on a friendly basis with Donald Trump. That
doesn't mean you have to do anything that Donald Trump
wants you to do. It's just if you're on a
friendly basis with him and you and you compliment him
and treat him nice, that's when the money rolls in.
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And what this state needs more than anything is cash.
We're broke, the state's broke, the county's broke, most of
the cities are broke. And there's a hell of a
lot of money in Washington, d c. That's ready to
come to California. And the best way to get Donald
Trump to do what you don't want him to do
anymore is to sit in the same room with him
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or sit on the phone with him and talk about
it as opposed to launching insults on social media.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And the next governor of the state of California needs
to be on a friendly basis with Donald Trump. You
don't have to do everything Donald Trump asked you to
do or anything, but you've got to be on a
friendly basis with him because we need that federal checkbook.
We need the funeral money coming to California cuz we're broke.
We're broke in a big way, in a way that
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you wouldn't imagine. LAPD broke, City of La broke, everybody
is broke. I've read an article about LAPD. Buddy of
mine who's in LAPD sent it to me, and this
is going to be devastating for the World Cup, the Olympics,
the Super Bowl and moving on, because the City of
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La is taking away their bloodline, taking away their oxygen,
which is overtime. Overtime cops, firefighters, you know, sheriff's deputies.
They all make or break their family's budget with overtime.
They work overtime and they need that overtime pay. And
(04:49):
if that goes away. You're going to see a lot
of cops, a lot of firefighters moving out of state
and taking their expertise and their experience to another state,
and it's going to devastate California LAPD. I think they're
around eighty four hundred sworn officers right now. They want
to be at nine thousand. Ideally they want to be
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at ten or eleven thousand. But they're going to add
I think four hundred more officers this year, but seven
hundred and fifty are going to retire, and so it's
a losing baddle. And so the way to keep these
guys around, these guys and gals at LAPD, the Sheriff's Department,
La County Fire, La City Fire, Orange County Fire is money.
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We need more money. And I know it's astonishing to
people listening right now. How could this state be broke?
We have the smartest people in the world up at
Silicon Valley, the smartest people in the world up at
Meta and Google and Twitter, and all the people that
work at these oracle all these places up in Northern
(05:53):
California have the smartest people that we produce in the
United States all live in Northern California. Okay, Now, let's
move south to southern California. We have the most creative
people in the world that are in the sound of
my voice right now in Hollywood, writers, directors, producers, actors, actresses, singers.
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We have the best quality of both those worlds. The
smartest people in the world or in Northern California. The
most creative people world in the world are in Southern California.
We also have the greatest land to farm in the
United States in the Central Valley. They just need water.
We have the greatest farmers in the world in the
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Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It's huge.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The Central Valley is bigger than most states. And we
can produce the best fruits, the best vegetables, grape rice,
grape nuts. We have everything that we can produce in
the Central Valley. Okay, we got those three things going
for us, right, Smartest people in the world Northern California,
most creative people in the world in Southern California, Hollywood
in Southern California, and the greatest land to to raise
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crops in Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
We move on.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We have the greatest coastline in the world. The greatest coastline.
If you take a ride from San Diego all the
way up past northern California, all the way up to
the Oregon border, you will be shocked by how beautiful
this coast is. We also have tourism. People love coming
to California. They love it. We have money coming into California.
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Tourists coming into California. They can't wait to be here
and see Hollywood. It still is charming for a lot
of people. They still want to see it. Okay, that's
another group. We also have billionaire businessmen. We have the
most billionaires in the country in California.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So if we have all those things, the smartest people,
the most creative people, the greatest land, the greatest coast,
wealthy people, tourism, why are we broke? Why don't we
have any money? The state doesn't have any money, the
counties don't have any money, and the cities don't have
any money. How the hell did that happen? Well, if
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there's only one or two possibilities, radical mismanagement that's a
strong possibility, or theft mismanagement to the point where you
can go to jail over it, and that's probably happening
as well. People stealing our money without us even knowing
about it. I think that whole you know, you know,
(08:33):
bullet train has been a disaster for California. If you
took the bullet train and just and that never existed,
you would solve the homeless problem overnight. You could give
every homeless person in California four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars if we didn't build that train. So what I'm saying,
(08:54):
and I hope somebody's listening, the next governor of the
State of California, you don't have to love, true, you
don't have to even do what he says, but you
can't fight him. If you fight him, you lose. And
if you lose, we all lose. Forty million people are
gonna go down with you. In the state of California.
There's a boatload of money thirty eight billion dollars it's
(09:16):
waiting to be given to the State of California for
fire relief, for all kinds of things, and that money
needs to come to California, and it comes through being
cordial with the President of the United States. If you
fight him, it's great for your Twitter, it's great for
social media, but we all get screwed, all of us.
(09:37):
So it's a it's a great tip. It's not mine.
A friend of mine talked to me this morning and
and it's and it's his idea. But even if you're
you know, a staunch Democrat and you hate Donald Trump,
now is not the time you're going to take forty
million people down with you again. You can still, you know,
push back on him, but it's but it can't be
(09:58):
a battle, because you're you will lose the fight. Trump
doesn't lose fights ever. I remember the last time he
fought somebody and he lost. He beats district attorneys, he
beats actors, actresses, when athletes go at him, when late
night talk show hosts go after him, when politicians go
after him. Ask all the Republicans that voted against him
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and went after him in the last two elections.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
They're all home, all of them, every single one of them.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So there's just a tip where you may save California.
I hope it could. I hope it could, because this
is the most beautiful state in the world. I was
born and raised here. My dad came here in the fifties.
My mom came here in the fifties. I was born
and raised here on I'm a first generation California. The
second member of our family. My sister was first, the
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second member of our family that was born right here
in California. And it's a great, great state. It just
needs to be fixed, and we can do it. We
can do it, but the director will go right now
is not working.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
We're broke.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Monk says with us you both, I am doing well.
Good to be with you. Thousand dollars. That's a big deal.
It's nice. Yeah, you're you're not You're we're ineligible unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You know, my mom is a huge radio contest champion,
wins back in Cincinnati all the times that runs. So
when I would, you know, I was in and out
of TV and radio, anytime I worked for a place
like iHeart that had malts, she would, you know, she
would support me and be happy that I had a job.
But to know she was ineligible for the contests, right, yeah,
she won tons.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Right, I bet you. Well, you're a little younger than
I am.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Were you a big box top guy sending away for
stuff in the mail? That probably is after your time? Yeah, Crozier,
you probably were where you collect like fourteen you know
apple Jack's box you send away for a toy. Yeah,
and it's always six to eight weeks for deliver time,
a lifetime to get crap in the mail. All right,
let's talk about violent crime in LA. It's down, it's
(12:09):
apparently down. The LAPED is out today with their annual
report and this is where they share the data of
all of the various crimes. And the one that Chief
McDonald really wanted to hit hard today was the murder rate,
the homicide rate. It is now at its lowest point
since nineteen fifty nine. Wow, Now that is a mathematical
equation we'll have to discuss it is. The murder rate
(12:31):
is five point nine per one hundred thousand people in
Los Angeles. Yeah, so how many were there two hundred
and thirty murders in twenty twenty five, And that's down
nineteen percent from the two hundred and eighty four that
were reported the year before. And Chief McDonald says that's
a good thing, by the way, such for the two thirty,
(12:52):
the two hundred and thirty, certainly, and Chief McDonald's said
that as much. In fact, here's more of what he
had to say, okay.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A reduction in homicide means fewer families experiencing that devastating
loss and fewer communities living with the lasting trauma that
violence creates. This decline did not happen by chance. It
reflects the focused and deliberative work by the men and
women of the LAPD, including targeted violence reduction strategies, intelligence
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led policing, and CompStat driven deployment.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So he is crediting his end the departments leadership and
execution of their plan in reducing this number. He says
that we've worked with what we've got and we are
seeing results. I know Jim McDonald personally. He is a
great cop. He's a great chief. He's at Long Beach
and he ran the Sheriff's department for a while and
now he runs LAPED. For his first year. To have
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that murder rate equal that of nineteen fifty nine is incredible.
Think about what that number represents, two hundred and thirty.
You've been here a long time, yes, what I'll just
give you the year. Okay, the highest year ever an LAPD.
Let me guess the number. Eleven hundred.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, that's right on the dot. Is that right? Can
you guess the year.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I would say that was in the nineteen seventies. It
was ninety three, ninety three. I know, wish by the way,
seems recent, but I'm sad to report to everyone that
was actually thirty three years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh that's incredible, isn't that horrible?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Nineteen ninety three? Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So so nineteen ninety three, by the way, the last
year a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Is that right? Yeah, they've had a drought. Okay, a drought.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
They created the game and they can't get a Stanley
Cup back over that board. Once America get wait till
we get our hands on soccer, that's right. Once we
figure out soccer, it's over. But that's that's an incredible
stat And and you know it's not just Los Angeles,
it's nationwide. The murder rate is way down. And the
reason why it's important, monks, and don't have to tell
you because you're a smart guy, But when you have
a murder in your family, it doesn't affect the guy
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who was just a guy that was murdered. It affects
their friends, their family, their relationships, it affects their coworkers,
and everybody slows down. In life, especially the immediate family,
and that has a ripple effect on society. It does
raise an interesting point though this data, because we've also
talked to you and I on this program about the
LAPD budget situation. They're desire to hire more officers, the
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budget constraints at city Hall that are preventing them from
hiring all of that. Well, on one side, the chief
has to say, hey, we don't have enough resources. On
the other side, he's out there today saying with the
resources we have, crime is, we're doing a really good job.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
In law.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
They've also launched the drone as a first responder of
program and they have some results of that. It now
provides coverage in fifteen of the department's twenty one areas,
and since July of last year, there have been nearly
eighteen hundred flights of these drones being deployed about twenty
three times a day, sent out to seven hundred and
fifty four incidents, and they say in one hundred and
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thirty five of those cases, the calls for service were
resis before officers had to arrive.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
So is that right.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You're finding ways to fight crime or respond to other
emergencies in more efficient and less expensive ways. I think
that the chief is doing a great job. But I
think the secret that nobody mentions very often. I tried
to on this show. But the key for LAPD to
have reduced that murder rate like that is a guy
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named Alan Hamilton. He's the best cop I've ever met
my life, and he is the head of all detectives
right now, the chief of detectives. And he is a
no nonsense guy who always gets his guy and I've
known him for about I don't know, maybe fifteen years,
and a really solid guy who really, you know, constantly
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encourages people to join the LA Police Department and encourages
the cops and the detectives that are already with LAPD
to really do a great job. He's a great motive
a Chief. McDonald also credited his officers, including the leadership, Yeah,
like detect to our chief, deputy Deputy Chief Hamilton, because
they solved a significant number of the murders from last year.
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There weren't many that were left gun answered, and they
were able to solve older murder cases as well.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, kick ass job. All right, do you want to
talk about the time capsule real quick?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, Well, I mean, you know, a you're up against
the news break. It's no big deal. I mean, if
you need me, you want to hang back, I can
hang Okay, listen, here's the deal. LA Public Library downtown
LA turns one hundred years old. That building they opened
up the time capsule. Oh, we got to talk about this, okay,
all right? Was there a McDonald's in there? There was
another time capsule in it? I'm not kidding. So typical
(17:38):
of La. Yeah, what was in there? Just an empty
time capsule in the time caps There was a time
capsule in the timecaps All right, let's say what year
was it buried? Nineteen twenty five? Okay, nineteen twenty five
or one hundred years. Let's find out what was in it?
All right. Monks is with us every Saturday eight to
ten pm right here on KFI.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Michael Monks is with us, and we talked about the
crime rate being way down, and that's a great sign
for Los Angeles. It's great to walk around and know
that you have less of a chance of being wiped
out by some chef. But the second story, the b
story that you want to talk about is this time
capsule in the library. The central library building in downtown
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Los Angeles is celebrating its centennial. So it opened, I
guess one hundred years ago, but before they finished building it,
and right at the start of construction of this building
back in nineteen twenty five, the people who were operating
the LA Library put a time capsule.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
In the cornerstone. And that's not unusual.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
People do that for schools and that sort of thing,
and then at some point in the future you're supposed
to get in there and get the time capsule out.
The interesting thing about this time capsule is that they
knew this thing existed. There were minutes, the notes taken
at a meeting from a library board meeting back in
nineteen twenty five that even told them what to expect
to find inside of it, where was it and everything.
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Problem was, there were no details on how to get it.
So this cornerstone is, of course the first piece of
block that they put down in the beautiful downtown library building,
and the capsule is inside of it. They couldn't go
through the front because it would damage this historic block.
You don't want to do that, do you? Know how
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they were able to get into it. They had to
go inside to the men's room and drill behind the
urinals to come from the back, and they did find
the capsule. Wow, it was in terrific condition. So they
very very intricately were able to cut it open. It
was a custom made copper box that they sealed this stuff,
and now inside was a lot of stuff typical of
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a time capsule, pictures, newspapers from that day, photos from
older library buildings and their locations from around the area,
mostly in downtown LA. At that point, there was a
directory that they made a note in the presentation today
to say all of the employees are listed in this
from the library, the the city librarian to custodial staff,
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because everyone who was part of the library at that
time wanted to be remembered. And it's just an interesting
feeling to think that was those people communicating with us directly.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
It's almost eerie.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It is odd because that was meant to be communicated
to us at this time, and they thought of it
one hundred year. They're all dead, right, they're all gone,
But it would be interesting to know that your great
great grandfather is on that list completely. One of the
guy's name was Doc Doc Cookery. You don't have names
like that anymore. But you said they also found a
time capsule within the timecast. Part of this story to
(20:35):
me was that they said inside the time capsule was
a times capsule. It's like a Russian doll of time
capsules today. And this time capsule was from eighteen eighty one.
And the building that was previously on that site, which
was known as the Normal School, and that is a
pretty typical name from that era for schools that later
became universities. That Normal School became a school in Westwood
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known as UCLA.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Is that right? Yeah? So UCLA used to be downtown exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
The origins can be traced to downtown and inside the
eighteen eighty one time capsule they had more newspapers in
English and Spanish and French. So this was a diverse
community for a long time. There was a card that
noticed that noted the population of La at that day,
which was just over eleven thousand.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Wow. Is that right? Also credible?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
There were mementos from the funeral of President Garfield. Is
that there were representatives from LA who had gone and
brought these things back, including a piece of moss and
some of the black you know memorials, right, you know,
but there is so much You're from, you know, Kentucky,
(21:41):
and you know this, A lot of the homes like
where my grandparents lived outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Sugar and Falls, Ohio.
Their home was built twenty years before Abraham Lincoln was president.
In other parts of the country that were more densely
populated than California much earlier, still have a lot of that.
I mean, New York City is a great example. They
(22:02):
have very old stuff. But yeah, Ohio, Kentucky too. If
you go to Lexington or Louisville, you will see homes
that are two hundred years old right at this point,
two hundred years old and beautiful and beautifully kept. And
why I love old buildings like that, And I live
in an old building in downtown LA I like the
thought that a lot has happened here, A lot of
(22:22):
people's lives has started and ended right here. But what
was cool about today in the time capsule is that
direct communication. This was something that was meant to be
read by this generation on this date. You know, I'm
glad you said that because I thought about this today.
The home that we live in Burbank was built the
same year that The Wizard of Oz came out, and
(22:45):
I thought, you know, there's been probably nine or ten
families live in that house. There'll be forty families after me.
But it's odd to think of the families that were
there before you and the families in the future in
that same space.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
It's an amazing thought. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I mean, look, there are a lot of beautiful new houses,
and people should get the house that makes them happy.
That's absolutely right. But there is something special about knowing
you are sharing a space that has other stories that
are deeply attached to think about how important a home
is to a family, Oh yeah, and the memories that
are developed there. Even after the kids move away to
other homes, that house will always mean something to them.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And you live in a building that used to be
a hat factory.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
That was a hat factory in the fashion district, and
now it is it's four or five pretty good sized,
five story, six and seven story buildings that are now
loft apartments. And so I get to go home every
day and sleep and eat and rest and watch TV,
play with the cats, and a place where you know
some industrial worker one hundred and twenty years ago was
(23:44):
going every day to earn a couple pennies.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Are there old pictures?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There are you know in my building we've got a
We've got a food court and a pizza hut and
all those types of things in your building.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah underneath.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, it's a really cool thing.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's it's nice and there are old photos from that
era of the workers. And there are still a lot
of the infrastructure. I don't know what these this machinery
ever did, but it's still there. It's just built into
that's a part of us to create the aesthetic. If
I had a pizza hut in our building, that would
be the end of me. We will do it every
You know, that's funny because I order it and I
have an account because I can order it from upstairs
(24:15):
and then walk down and get it. They give you rewards,
and I was getting all these rewards and I have
no idea if we had free pizza for three weeks.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Is that directly below you? I mean you can smell
the pizza being made. Luckily, we don't smell it all
the time. There's a there's a pizza hut, there is
a Thai restaurant that's very popular. And then there is
like this U I want to say, Hawaiian Filipino Fusion
restaurant that's also well known. And there's a convenience store.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
But there's a Pizza Hut in your building. Yeah, on
the property.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's incredible. Yeah, I want to live there. Is it
open a midnight one o'clock?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
They're open late? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, so anytime that we get the munchies, the personal
pan pizza after midnight is the best.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
What a gift.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, it's just enough to get you over, to get
you through to breakfast. They have come and clutch for
us many times when we've been too lazy to figure
out anything else. I got to get involved with the
rewards too, because every time they asked me, do you
have a phone breber and I always say no, yeah,
you don't want to give it, but if you order online,
you have to put your information in so you have
an account. I had no idea I was getting Hut rewards.
I had like eight hundred Hut points. I love that
(25:14):
Pizza Hut. All right, they should be an advertiser. Here,
coming to you live from the Pizza Hut studio in
Burbank thank you, sir. Eight to ten pm on Saturday. Yeah,
after the Crest report. That's fan Tiffany Hobbs, Michael Monk's reports.
Sephany Hobbs is fantastic. I get to see her every week.
It's a great legal All.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Right, we're live. Thank you, Michael Bongs. Everybody.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
We have some news stories here to get to you. Also,
the crime data crime LAC's the lowest homicide rate since
nineteen fifty nine. That is something to celebrate. You know,
we don't often get great news like that, but as
you're driving around Los Angeles or maybe walking to at night.
(26:01):
I can't stress this enough. I know we did a
story with Michael Munks, but people have to know that
this town is much safer than it was a year ago,
a year ago, and that is due to a terrifica
police work. What else could it be? You know, murderers
just don't decide to stop murdering. They're either being caught
(26:23):
or hunted by LAPD, or they're in jail, or they've
left because LAPD is on their case and they've vanished.
But that's a great stat for LAPD Lois since nineteen
sixty years.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Chief Jim McDonald says that twenty twenty five marked a
year of progress when it comes to lowering crime across
the city, and that's backed by lower homicide rates and
fewer shooting victims. But there are also areas of improvement
that are needed, according to the chief. He says areas
like homeless related crimes and traffic crashes that are deadly
(26:59):
taking one hundred of year lives every year.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Let's take it to the video now and tell you
about this.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
LAPED leader say, twenty twenty five ended with two hundred
and thirty homicides, the city's lowest total since nineteen sixty six.
That's fifty four fewer homicide victims than in twenty twenty four,
a nineteen percent decline there. The report also showing fewer
people impacted by gun violence across the city, with shooting
victims down from nine hundred and eighty one the year
(27:27):
before to eight hundred and ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
That's an eight percent drop.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
And when it comes to solving cases, the department's citywide
case clearance rate is listed at one hundred and one percent.
LAPD says that includes seventy six homicides from prior years
that were cleared out in twenty twenty five. Chief McDonald
puts some of these numbers into context here today while
praising the partnership between the community and law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
All right, here's Chief Jim McDonald. LAPD.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Two hundred and thirty homicides is two hundred and thirty
two many. But I go back to nineteen ninety three,
a high we had almost eleven hundred homicides in the
city of La So the reduction there of seventy five
plus percent is something we should be celebrating and building on.
And I think too often the community doesn't appreciate the
partnership that we enjoy with them and the impact that
(28:16):
that has on crime and the success that we can
see as a result. So public safety is a team
sport and we need everybody to be on the team.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Whatever you think of Mayor Baz, whether it's her choice
or not, and you have to think that she's the
one that ultimately makes the decision. Putting Jim McDonald at
the top of that LAPD is probably the best decision
she's made since she's been mayor of the City of LA.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
That report also laying out what's still driving violence across
LA and where LAPD says it needs to improve. Homeless
related homicides rose to sixty one. That's a twenty percent
increase there. Gang related homicides were listed at one hundred cases,
down about four percent. On traffic safety, LAPD reports two
hundred and ninety fatal traffic crashes in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
That's a decline from the year before.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Those are all great stats, so LA turning it around
crime wise. However, in Orange County, we've got a pretty
disturbing story coming out of Orange County. A stripper accused
of decapitating her fifty five year old boyfriend.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Yeah, this is a case with some disturbing details. A
twenty three year old Anaheim woman has been arrested, accused
of beheading her boyfriend and then fleeing the country.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
However, she was caught last week.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Let's show you a picture of the woman we're talking about,
the suspect in this case. She's been identified as Alisa
lera twenty three years old of Anaheim. We're told she
was working as a stripper when she met a man,
a fifty five year old man Enrique Gonzalez Carba Hall.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They got into a dating room relationship.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Bad move, bad move.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
They dated for a couple of months, but in August
some people got worried.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Apparently they hadn't seen seen him for a while.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
They went to check on him, found that he had
been killed. Police now believed that the killer was his
girlfriend who we showed you there, Alisa Lera, but she
had left for Mexico again.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
This happened in August.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
This was at a home at an apartment on La
Palma in Anaheim. So Anaheim police started working with the
Orange County District Attorney's Office and other agencies, including the FBI.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And she's coming back everybody, So if you're a fan
of the stripper, she's coming home.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
To locate the suspect. They found her recently in Mexico.
They believe she fled there right after the killing. She
was brought back last week and now will face charges.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Mm I like to see what that look is like,
being on the run twenty three with that kind of
anger that will wear and tear on.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
You, allegedly killing her boyfriend and beheading him in the process,
cutting off his head.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yes, cutting off his head. There's a lot of anger
that comes along with that. After you kill somebody and
then you cut their head off, it's top level of anger.
You can't get hired in.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That during the murder. We'll have more on this.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
We just spoke to a spokesperson here at the Orange
County District Attorney's Office.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
You know, whatever, have you ever been like cut off
on the freeway and you have that rage in you
where you just want to you know, you want to
just you know, you feel it and you rage, and
you know you're honk a horn and you're angry as
hell for like ten seconds, you know, maybe fifteen seconds,
and then you calm down. This woman probably lived at
that level her entire life, or you know, how ever
(31:45):
along she was dating this guy. But man, oh man,
the anger that comes along with that is.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Off the charts about this case. We'll have more on
that coming up next hour. But this woman now in
custod to be accused of killing her boyfriend. That's it
for now. In Santa Anna, I'm Chip Yost. We'll send
it back to.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Chip Yost with kt LA. Oh boy, what his story
coming out of Orange County? All right, We're live on
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