March 17, 2025 • 35 mins
On St. Patrick’s Day, Tim Conway Jr. leads with sobering news about a San Bernardino sheriff’s deputy murdered during a pursuit, then lightens the mood by unpacking the wild world of cruise‑ship drama. KFI’s Michael Monks joins to challenge a new report showing a drop in LA crime — questioning why statistics don’t match how safe Angelenos feel — before Tim wraps the hour with nostalgic memories of seeing Foghat live at Morongo.
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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 sixty.
It is The Conway Show. It is a happy Saint
Patrick's Day, by the way, for a lot of people
out there, but a horrible, horrible thanks Saint Patrick's day
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for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. They lost one
of their own today in a police pursuit. It's the
lead story on all the TV news stations two for five, seven, nine, eleven.
It was a police pursuit that happened in Victorville, and
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it happened early, well, not early this morning, earlier this morning.
Sam Berndino County deputy was killed after its patrol vehicle
slammed into a poll while chasing an auto theft suspect
in Victorville on Monday. Well, I don't know if the
if the guide driving the car knows this or not.
But instead of just going to jail and spending a
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couple of days cooling your heels because you ran away
from the cops, now you're looking at the death of
that officer and potentially the rest of your life in prison,
which is also another good reason not to run from
the cops, Because most people run from the cops. They
get out in a couple days, they have a story
to tell and maybe they do it again. But when
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a deputy is killed, that's going to be a wrap
on a lot of things in your life, including your freedom.
And so I don't know. I imagine Sam Bernardino prosecutes this
to the max. I know in Los Angeles they didn't
used to. I think they do now in LA as well.
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But I know in Sam Bernardino, in the lan Empire,
they all come together. They support the cops out there,
A lot of people out there support the cops, and
they are going to charge this person with the death
of that deputy. Deputies received a call of a possible
stolen vehicle shortly before eleven am. That suspect vehicle was
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spotted by a deputy during the on duty in Victorville
at the Victorville City Station, and the chase ensued. During
that pursuit, a deputy was involved in a crash where
his patrol car crashed into a bystander vehicle and then
slammed into a light pole. The patrol vehicle was split
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in half through the significant significant force of the crash.
The deputy was critically injured in that collision and then
died at the scene.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Usually they can, you know, the cops can pick him
up and take him the hospital and a lot of
times save his life. So that had to be beyond
significant injuries. It must have just been horrible. Vehicles from
multiple law enforcement agencies escorted the deputy body in a
solemn procession across local freeways to the San Bordino County
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Coroner's office, and we were just we were watching Channel five.
They're carrying that live. But it's a really bad day.
Saint Patrick's Day is a big day for cops. There's
a lot of Irish tradition in law enforcement work and
a very heavy heart for people in sam Bernardino today
to lose one of their own. I'm sure he lived
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out there. I'm sure he had a family out there,
and it's a really, really bad, bad scene. All right,
let's try to get as much information as we can
how this all happened and what's next. We've got a
lot of reports on this here, a lot of them
think you put up the computer, thanks Bob.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You know, the.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Destruction of that deputy's vehicle was just extremely violent. It
was split in half, and we do know that that
deputy has died. We did see moments ago a procession.
Before we show that, though, I want to show you
what it looks like out here, so it's kind of
cleared out just a little bit. We do see investigators here.
There was a heavy police presence earlier. But let's take
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a look at some of the live shots of that
procession that is.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Underway right now.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Those deputies and you know, several agencies from other law
enforcement around this area came in. They all descended onto
this area to be able to take that deputy out
with the corner and that's where they started leading that
deputy out and when they started leading him out, but
we saw several vehicles, we saw a motorcade and all
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of them now transporting that deputy out. We did hear
that the sheriff is going to be meeting with the
deputy's family. Extremely somber for that deputy and his family
and what they're going to be going through over the
next days and you know months. So a very tragic
incident here, but we are learning a lot more details
about what happened.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Let's take a listen to one of.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
The sheriffs spokespeople who tell us that this will stemmed
from a pursuit earlier.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
At around eleven am this morning.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Victorville City deputies were in pursuit of a stolen vehicle.
One of those deputies was involved in a traffic collision
on Elevado Road and Seneca Road in Victorville. That deputy
suffered major injuries and unfortunately succumbed to his injuries at
the scene.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What we know right.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Now is one other vehicle was involved with a female
driver in no passengers. That female was walking around the
scene and she was transported to a nearby hospital to
be checked out. Right now, we don't know the extent
of her injuries.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Or how she using now.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Look at this video from earlier, skyfive was ever overhead,
which gives us a clearer picture of the scene. Again,
you could see that deputy's vehicle. It was completely split
in half. And you know, we're still at that intersection,
that same intersection. Parts of it have been cleared, but
we have seen investigators outre We're told that the deputy
was chasing the driver of a stolen vehicle, as you heard,
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who failed to stop Eventually that person was arrested, but
that deputy collided with another vehicle at the intersection. It
happened around eleven am. A spokesperson for the department couldn't
say if his lights and sirens were on. That will
all be part of that investigation. We did, however, speak
to one man who came to the scene. He told
us off camera that his sister in law was driving
the black sedan that the deputy collided with, and she is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
In the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He says, she's getting x rays done right now, but
he wasn't aware of the injuries that she has.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's still very early on.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
But he seemed to be shaken up as well. That's
one of his family members. He says that she was
extremely shaken up. You know, she got out of the car.
Luckily she was able to do so, but again she
was transported to the hospital, as you heard from that spokesperson,
and then you know, once we got on scene, we
saw this extremely heavy police presence and the wreckage still
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at that intersection. There were several neighbors who came out
because there are some home homes in this area a community.
With some of those neighbors coming out, one of those
women we spoke to who tells us you know, she
heard the helicopters take to listen to what she had
to say.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I've never seen nothing like that out here before. But
I have heard police flying down the street. I have
herlicotter's flying around all the time, but something like.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
That, I have never seen nothing like that right there
all right now.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That impact of that crash was so strong that we
saw so cal Edison out here as well, working on
some of those power lines. Again, this all stemmed from
a pursuit. We do know that person was taken into custody.
Deputies say that it was a stolen vehicle. They were
trying to pull that person over. The person never stopped
and that's when that pursuit began and then eventually ended
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with this crash at this intersection right behind us. We
will continue to follow this because the Sheriff's Department has
not identified this deputy just yet, but we do know
that the sheriff will be reaching out and speaking to
the deputy's family. I know it's going to be a
very different situation for them. We did see that procession underway.
It's still happening right now, and we'll continue to follow
this for the very leadst That's the very latest from Victorville.
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I'm Shelby Nelson KTL A five News.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, and then we have also Chip Yost was
at the Coroner's office and very very sad, sad scene
out there in San Bernardino today. Chip yos with Channel five.
I know he's probably pretty moved by this.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
We're outside the San Bernardino County Coroner's office. You can
see a lot of the officers and deputies who showed
up here to honor that deputy are getting ready to leave. Now,
let's take a live shot from Sky five HD above.
You can just see.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
All the cars, the troll cars.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Fire department was here a little bit earlier, put a
big American flag up for that shriff's deputy for the
procession bring his body back here to the Coroner's office.
Let's take a look now at some video Sky five
shot earlier of the procession. This is the procession bringing
the sheriff's deputy from Victorville to the Coroner's office here
in Samno. It's about a forty five minute drive. Officers
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from different departments joined in honoring this procession. As the
procession went by, this deputy who lost his life in
the line of duty earlier today around eleven am. It
happened in Victorville. Let's take a look now at some
video from the scene. This is Victorville near Elevado and
Seneca around eleven am this morning. We're told that a
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sheriff Sanberdanineo County Sheriff's deputy was involved in a pursuit
when a crash happened. Don't know all the details about
the crash at this point, but it looked like the
patrol car from some of the video may have been
split into The deputy was pronounced dead at the scene there.
We do understand that there was also another car involved
that had a woman insight of it. Here's more on
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that part of the story from one of the lieutenants
with the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
One other vehicle was involved with a female driver and
no passengers. That female was walking around the scene.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, so we're gonna have any more information on this.
We will have this for you. But San Bernardino is
a very difficult county to patrol. It is massive. It's
bigger than some states. If you were to take the
city of West Hollywood, and put it into San Bernardino.
You could literally put thousands of West Hollywoods into San Bernardino.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's how big it is.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I think it's I think it's ten thousand times bigger.
If I'm not if my math is right, it's twenty
thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Twenty thousand and.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
What is it to West Hollywood is one point nine
square miles, So it's ten thousand, five hundred and twenty
six times bigger. Ten You can take ten thousand, five
hundred West Hollywoods and put them into Sam Bernardino. So
it's massive. I mean, I croze. I know you live
steps away from San Bernardino, don't you?
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Could you see it from your house?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Like one hundred feet man sign?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And so if somebody was a San Bernardino Sheriff's deputy,
they would be covering ten feet from your house and
or one hundred fift from your house in Claremont, sure,
all the way to Parker, Arizona. Yeah, And so speeds
are extremely fast. These guys have guys and gals have
to get to places. Sometimes they are an hour away
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from where they are Code three with lights and sirens.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Code three, they're an hour away.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Sam Brindio is huge and so you do get a
lot of speeds in sanm Borndino when these cops are
flying around. I don't know if that I played a
part of it or not, but if we have any
more information, it's a very sad Saint Patrick's day. The
Irish have a long history of law enforcement and they
lost one of their own today, So if you're in
San Bernardino, please be aware of that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Cops are going to be on edge today.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know it's time to show the registration, show the
license and a little courtesy. They are on edge today.
It's Conway Show. We're live on KFIFI Am six four.
It's Conway Show. Any more information on the officer that
passed away in San Bernardino, the deputy, we will have
that for you immediately here on KFI, so keep with us.
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We'll have more information on name and how it happened
and what's next and the service and everything. But if
you're just tuning in, a deputy in sam Bordino and
involved in the high speed chase, I got into a
violin crash and died at the scene. So we'll have
updates all day long. It's sort of a sad deal.
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I found out over the weekend that a buddy of
mine did. I've known for a long time and then
we sort of lost touch. And you know, every once
in a while, you know, he reaches out and says
Merry Christmas or Happy Birthday, and I do the same
with his family.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He moved to Ohio and he he.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Got sick and he passed away, and I didn't know,
and his wife never told me. And you know, it's
one of those friends that you know, you're sort of
close with for a while. Then you know, when you
moved to Ohio, there wasn't social media back then, you
sort of lose contact a little with people. Now you
can get now, you can keep in touch with everybody
all year round, twenty four hours a day, seven days
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a week. And I wish I had that back then,
because I probably would have kept up with him. But
I remember going to Las Vegas with him and he
did one of those and he was a great guy,
just you know, a funny guy. But I remember him
coming down to the pool. I remember it very distinctly.
We were at Mandalay Bay and he comes down to
the pool and he's wearing those you know, how how
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guys were sunglasses normally, you know, these put them on
their on their face. And then clouds came and it
got really cloudy and dark, and there was a storm,
you know, one of those summer storms, off and in distance,
and he took his sunglasses off and he put him
on the back of his head like it was like
he was seeing backward, you know, he put him on
the back of his hat and so facing backwards instead
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of just putting him on a table. And I and
we with the rest of my bodies were like, hey, buddy,
can you not do that. He's like, what do you mean?
I was like, Oh, that's kind of a douchey look,
you know. And then it's hard to talk to gals
when when you look like that. You know, I think
people make fun of you for doing that. You know,
that was back in the in the eighties. You know,
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I don't know what it's like now, even a hip
thing to do now or not. And then you know,
back then it was before cell phones. So I remember
very distinctly there was a girl wearing a you of
H shirt. I think it was like during spring break,
and we're trying to figure out whether it's from University
of Hawaii or University of Houston, because he wanted to
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we'll go up and talk to her, but he want
the wrong age. And so we were trying to like
look at them and analyze are these Houston gals or
these Hawaiian gals? And they're big bone gals, so we
went with we want Houston, you know, And and I
remember him saying to another to me, he goes, hey,
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you of h You think it's Houston or Hawaii? And
I said, very quietly to him, very quietly, I said,
or maybe a third option, it's a University of Hormel, right,
And I said it to him. I didn't say it
to anybody else. I said it to him. Check behind me.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hears it. She hears it, and she lights me up. Right,
did you just hear what he said? Do you hear
what this white kid?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And she went off on She called me Auschwitz boy.
She goes you see what this Auschwitz boy just said?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
She goes you skinny white mf. And then she went
at berserk on me, and and I'm like, ah not.
I was saying, it's my buddy. I was saying it
there and she absolute lit me up to the point
where we were. I was walking later in the casino
that night and I ran into her and she yelled
it out Againwitz.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Boy, Yeah, there's Auschwitz boy.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'm like, oh, man, I know it's tough to walk
around with that the you know that moniker.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
They have a good time walking around with that name.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm like, oh, I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
To make this go away.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And then the next day in the pool, uh, we
we get down there, she's not around, and I'll be like, okay,
the coast is clear.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Here she comes spots me eh Auschwitz boy.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And I'm like, I said, guys, we gotta change hotels.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I can't make this go away.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And but but he passed away, and he was, you know,
the funny guy. And you know, life is short, and
all of a sudden, a guy that you knew passes away,
and you missed the good times.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You only think about the good times, you know. Hey,
I got a question, Krozer. Are you a cruise guy.
You've been on a cruise?
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Yeah, been on a few, three or four.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I got you know, we're thinking about cruise, going on
a cruise, and my wife and I, my daughter and
her friends might go with us, or they might go
with parents of one of her other friends. But I
want to ask you a quick cruise question. When you
go on a cruise, you I think you hook up
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with a group of guys or couples or other gals, right,
and you sort of have your own area of the pool,
you know, that you go to all the time, and.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
The people that you didn't already know.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
People you met on the cruise.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Yeah, you can kind of do that.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
I generally, I've gone where it's just been me and
me and my wife, and then I've gone where it's
been a group of us. Okay, but you can you
can play a solitude game.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
But the opportunity absolutely exactly like you say, is there
for you know, kind of clicking in with certain groups
of people and kind of and staying in one place.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But here's my question though.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
If let's say you hook up with like three or
four other couples and you all meet in the same
area the pol You drink together, you tell stories, you
watch each other crap, you know, when you go to
the room to uh, you know, put sunscreen on or whatever.
And then one day you're not with that group, You're
over with another group, does the other group look down
and you're like, Oh, that guy's a little snobby for us.
You know, he's moved groups. He's on the other side
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of the pool. Now with those people.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
You're always gonna have that, and you're always have some
of those people.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Right, but you're always gonna run in if you have
like a you know, like a situation like on when
you get a thousand people on a square block. You know,
for two weeks in the sun, you're gonna have situations.
And when you have a situation with somebody, guy, gal, whatever,
you're gonna run into them almost every day for the
next two weeks. You know, you have a situation with
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a guy in a target parking lot, you'll never see
him again. You know, he's gone, he's back to Victorville,
You're back to Burbank, you're at Claremont, he's in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Never see him again.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
But you have a situation with somebody and cruise, you're
gonna see him again and again and again and again
and again.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
That's why I'm always fascinated by the people that you know,
you see videos or whatever, and people that are total
b holes that are in a closed environment like that,
because it's not like they're going away.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And it's never it's not a shock that that's their
first blow up, you know, with another couple, another.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Guy or another gal.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Yeah, believe them, Yeah, I believe like that's who they are.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's why I'm totally mystified why a holes go on cruises,
Because they're gonna blow up at somebody. You know, they're
gonna get inunder somebody skin or somebody's gonna their skin.
They're gonna be there's a blow up and then bang
cabin for two weeks.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
If you're not somebody that can sort of hold your water.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You have to yeah, yeah, because and because if you
make that mistake and you blow up and then they
blow up.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now you got to avoid them for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Right, That's hard to do when you're traveling, you know,
a thousand people on a square block.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
You go up by the by the lido deck. You
want to go, I'm good, I got a book right here.
Stay in the cabin.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, I have seen you blow up.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You blew up to this morning with another couple, this
afternoon with another couple. I'm staying in this cabin until
we get to Long Beach. Yeah, but we're in Chile.
I know, I know, I know, I got twenty one
more days I'll be here. That's that would be my
problem with the cruising, you know, just always try to
figure out, you know, that's going on.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
That's the same issue that Jen and I have with like,
you know, if we move where we're gonna go get
in one of those little communities and like if it's
if it's sort of an hoa or whatever, you know,
who you're gonna get next to, you're gonna because you
better be careful because you could be stuck with them
for the rest of your life.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
And then what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Right, And you've got to figure out who's the idiot
in the hoa, you know, because you want to just
warm up to the first guy you see because he
could be the problem guy, right, and he puts on
a good face for you, Yes, but he's suing everybody.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Everybody else looks at you like, oh.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, always friends with him, always probably like him.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
I don't even know the guy you never recover.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, I believe all right, It's Saint Patrick's Day. Happy
Saint Patrick's Day. Were live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 11 (20:59):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
KFI AM six forty, It's Conway Show. Michael Monks is
with us and we're talking about crime and again, if
you're just tuning him, the very sad story we covered
at the top of the hour at four o'clock, a
San Borndino deputy has lost his life, his or her life.
We're not sure yet. They they haven't put the name
out yet in a radical car crash. So we'll have
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that for you as soon as we get it. Michael
Monks is covering LAPD for us. Monks, Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
How you Bob, Good afternoon. Always a pleasure to be
on KFI. Kim.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Hey, So what's going on?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The overall crime in the city of Los Angeles went
down in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Yeah, and just about every category. It looks like it's
safe to go outside. Tim, you can lead the studio.
That's good news, hi, you. It looks like everything is
trending in the right direction. Look, it's still too much, right,
it's a lot of Wait.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
A minute, are you also saying that home robberies and
breaking in stores are down?
Speaker 10 (22:06):
I'm not saying it. Mayor Bass and LAPD chiefs Jim
McDonald's are saying it, and they said so on the record.
This morning, they released the numbers from twenty twenty four
and they compare them to twenty twenty three, and they
say they're down. And I know you're curious about burglaries,
because goodness knows, we've heard about spikes in certain places
like the Valley and every night they've been hit really hard.
But overall, burglaries in the city were down in twenty
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twenty four compared to the year before by more than
a thousand, almost eleven hundred in fact.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
But you know, I'm a big fan of LAPD Jim
McDonald I'm big fan of his.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I just don't believe that's that.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Well. Look, these are the numbers that they've provided. They're
using this year a new data collection. Ah, they say
that this is better, but this is the National Incident
Based Reporting System nib rs R nighbors, and this is
bringing the department in line with a now national reporting standards.
So it is a little bit different than the way
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they've reported these numbers in the past. There was no
indication that the numbers are flubbed or misleading in any way.
They just simply say that there were more than a
thousand fewer burglaries in twenty twenty four than there weren't
in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Well, look, I mean without having been on the scene
of all of them, it's hard to dispute. We'd have
to do an extensive records request and review to confirm
all of this. But you know, the chief, and would
the chief stand up and say this without what I
think was disappointing, was any strong explanation for why, Because
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this is a police department that has been very open.
Chief included saying, look, we don't have enough officers, right
I mean, we'd like to have ten thousand officers. We've
got about eighty six hundred right now. So with fewer
officers than they want, crime is trending back downwards. And
I couldn't quite figure out how they square that. It
seems that they are attributing a lot of it to
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some community intervention, maybe preventing crimes before they start by
having more social workers and Metro ambassadors and those types
of organizations.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I see.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
So this is just the city of Los Angeles. It's
not the surrounding areas.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
Yeah, it's the city of La Proper. This is the
LAPD and mayor of Bass who spoke. They were at
the Hollandeck Police station in Boyle Heights today. They chose
that police station because even in that small area, they
saw a sixty five percent decrease in murders. There were
forty in that area in twenty twenty three and just
fourteen last year. So they are seeing decreases all over
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the city.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Okay, I believe that there might.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You know, murders are hard to you know, to hide
when it comes to crime. But you know, people if
they have their house broken into, they don't always call
the cops. Or if their store is getting broken into,
the cops always don't show up. You know, they figure
s through it. I'll just do the repairs myself. Why
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get involved. I have a hard time believing that break
ins and home robberies are down. And I know you
say that there's a new way that they're reporting these.
How come there's a new way that they're reporting was
the old way not working or accurate.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
There's a new national standard for reporting crime. It involves
the national groups like the FBI, and so they transitioned
over to this national incident based reporting system, and they
say the new system is able to capture data on
all of the offenses within a single incident. So let's
say you got busted at the racetrack and you did
more than one crime. It's able to tie all of
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those together and put them in the appropriate categories for
proper review. It also includes victim and offender demographics, their relationships,
whether weapons are involved. It has what they call enhanced
crime analysis, and they say it's a more accurate way
to report this stuff. So police departments all across the
country are moving towards the system now. It's it's difficult
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to say crime is down when you feel unsafe, And
that was a question I asked of the mayor, Like,
I know you can't quantify people's feelings, but it's dark outside,
the street lights are out all over. You've got lunatics
in a lot of ways on the streets or in
the trains. What are you going to do about that?
And that's where she emphasized those community groups that are
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out there trying to work. It's Copper Theft task Force,
it's it's those community interventionists like social workers who are
being dispatched to some calls, and she even cited Metro
ambassadors as people who are helping lower crime in the city.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Right, I'm not again, Michael Lunches with us from KFI.
I'm not blaming the cops. The cops have a difficult job.
You know, at one point in twenty twenty, they took
one hundred and fifty million dollars out of their budget,
and you get a lot of people retiring, a lot
of people that don't want to go into law enforcement anymore,
especially in LA And when you do have you know,
when you say hey, we're recruiting and you get one
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hundred people to sign up.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I was talking to.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
The chief last week or two weeks ago, and he
said they only really accept five out of every hundred applicants.
It's a very very difficult job. And it's and it's
very difficult to go from being a civilian onto the LAPD.
It's it's a really it's an impossible it's a nearly impossible,
you know, route to.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Get there because they are strict, which is great, But.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't know, I just I have a feeling that
you know, that that it's that I don't get a
sense that crime is down because every day, every day,
we report home break ins and break ins and stores
and restaurants.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
Again, we're talking down in terms of percentages we still have.
I don't think anyone would say we've got just the
right amount of crime. Right, it's still too much. When
we say burglaries are down. We still had more than
fourteen thousand of them this year, but that is more
than a thousand fewer than we had the year before.
And you're also right about the struggles with recruitment. They're
spending a lot of money on recruitment. They're trying to
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bolster their ranks. But you've got retirements, You've got a
few people coming in, and like you noted, a lot
of people want to be cops. Record applications are coming in.
Some of these folks get arrested during the process because
they have outstanding warrants. Yeah, no, foolish.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They sign they sign up for they want to be LAPD.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
They sign up and they do a background check and
they have open fellon wards, or.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
They're out of shape to the point to where they're
obese and they can't do the job. So you've got
physical constraints, or you have other departments that might pick
them off because other departments need officers too, and they
might have better pay, better benefits, and maybe it's afer environment.
Even so, there's a lot of factors here.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
There you go, buddy, appreciate you coming on, and we'll
catch you back.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
At the station.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Always a pleasure, can there you go, Michael Monks, you
got munks man, there, he goes.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Look, I believe that homicides are down and shooting victims
have decreased by nineteen percent.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'll accept that, but.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I don't know about overall crime. It just seems like
it's it's out there a lot. There's a lot of
it going on, But I don't know. Maybe the merit
knows more than we do. All Right, we're live on
KIM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
If I am six.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Forty Conway show AI bad news in San Bornandino. An
officer was killed and in pursuit. If we have the
officer's name or any more information, we will have that
for you.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
That's a horrible story.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We did that at the top of the hour at
four o'clock, but I'm sure there'll be updates at five
six and throughout the evening it was reading the Marongo
commercial and I can't believe fog Hat is going to
be there. Fog Hat was one of the groups that
I would sit around with my student with buddies in
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over the summer. My mom would go to Canada for
the summer and I have cousins, uncles, aunts, everybody's related
up there. And me and my my buddy, Tim Brestland,
Tommy Dalton, Doug Kerr was there, Rick Wilson, Jerry Dalton,
guy named Skoink, how about that for a name. And
we'd literally go to Tim Brestland's house and we'd sit
(30:25):
in his room and his room was like, you know,
eight feet by three feet, you know, it's tiny. We'd
sit in his room and we'd listen to whole albums
and fog Hat was one of them, and we'd listen
to literally he got the new fog Hat album and
we sat there and listened to the entire album.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
We weren't even stoned or drunk.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
We just sat there like goofballs and listened to the
album and then talked about it and then like next
you know, then next week he would get another album
to play that.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
We'd talk about. That was a lot to do when
we were kids.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But now, Krozer, I think that day's over where kids
get together and listen to an old whole album.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Did you do that when you were younger?
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
My god, with but buddies.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, back of the day, because I
used to go and back then you could actually go
to a concert and be fairly young at the time
because oh yeah, sure, they costs like seven. I saw
Ozzy Osbourne back in the day and I was twelve thirteen.
Oh that's great, yeah, just with me and my buddies.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
But this reminds me so much of sitting around uh
Ario with my cousins and my uncle, my friends in Aria,
which a little tiny town directly north of Cleveland on
the eerie shore of Canada, and we'd sit around and
I remember that that was the very first time I
heard this song.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
From Foghat slow Down. I don't know if we could
have slowed down anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We were sitting around a guy's room in the summer.
Everybody's out in the lake, you know, body surfing or
swimming or sailing or whatever, and just you know, five
idiots sitting in this room listening a fog hat.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
That's a that's one of those bands.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
You don't realize how many songs you know from them,
like full for the City and I just want to
make love to you.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
I just remember that song. I didn't even realize it
was fog Hat when I was looking it up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 8 (32:17):
That's fog Hat.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And so they're gonna be at Marongo on May twenty third,
and that's gonna be a cool deal.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, and and.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And we so we'd sit around, we listened to the album,
and then when the song would stop, you pull the needle.
It wasn't videos we're watching the videos. We're just listening
to albums. And my buddy would take the needle off
and go, hey, you guys think it's gonna be a hit.
And we all said that was gonna be a hit.
Slow Ride. We're like, yeah, buddy, that's gonna be a hit.
That's beautid. And we weren't even no pills, no shots,
(32:47):
no booze, nothing. We're just like twelve or thirteen listening
to albums. Yeah, and I think that those days are over.
I absolutely did that back then.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
And then cassette started to come in a little bit
so you could make your own customer.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Yeah, albums that you had.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So yeah, remember we used to record it off the radio.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
Yeah, oh yeah. You had to wait.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
Yeah, you had to wait till they came up, and
you had to hold your like when a song was
going to end. You were hoping your song was gonna
come up, and you held that pause and then court
at the same time, you let go that pause because
he needed to beginning of it, and you.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Hope to god the DJ did not top all the song.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
They always did every time aways there.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Was probably themselves too that they could hit that post.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I set up a friend of mine, a girl named
Amy Poole, with another friend of mine, and because they're
both single at the time, and he was in radio.
He was a radio guy and he played music on
the radio. And I didn't know this about him, by
the way, So I set her up. She was a
good friend of mine. He's a good friend of mine.
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I set them up. She goes out with him, and
she calls me from a French restaurant about about an
hour in to the date and she goes, you got
to come get me here. I'm going to kill you. Huh,
I said, what, She goes, this guy you hooked me
up with? Is at a French restaurant and he just
ordered in French. This guy's a real douchebag, she said.
(34:16):
Plus she was calling from a paper. She was calling
me from a payphone at a French restaurant. Unli cienagain,
and then you know what, she also said. She said,
on the way over here, he played himself talking up
songs on the radio.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
What I'm like, Oh no, Diddy? Really yeah? Madonna next
on Q one O.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Three said, I'm sorry, I didn't see that coming at all. Baby.
I'll pick you up in ten minutes. I picked her up.
She punched me in the face, literally took her purse,
hit me in the face and then punched me in
the face. Just I can't believe you set me up
with this guy, I said, I didn't see this coming.
I'm sorry. I won't do that again. I rely On
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 11 (35:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM sixty.
It is The Conway Show. It is a happy Saint
Patrick's Day, by the way, for a lot of people
out there, but a horrible, horrible thanks Saint Patrick's day
(00:25):
for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. They lost one
of their own today in a police pursuit. It's the
lead story on all the TV news stations two for five, seven, nine, eleven.
It was a police pursuit that happened in Victorville, and
(00:45):
it happened early, well, not early this morning, earlier this morning.
Sam Berndino County deputy was killed after its patrol vehicle
slammed into a poll while chasing an auto theft suspect
in Victorville on Monday. Well, I don't know if the
if the guide driving the car knows this or not.
But instead of just going to jail and spending a
(01:07):
couple of days cooling your heels because you ran away
from the cops, now you're looking at the death of
that officer and potentially the rest of your life in prison,
which is also another good reason not to run from
the cops, Because most people run from the cops. They
get out in a couple days, they have a story
to tell and maybe they do it again. But when
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a deputy is killed, that's going to be a wrap
on a lot of things in your life, including your freedom.
And so I don't know. I imagine Sam Bernardino prosecutes this
to the max. I know in Los Angeles they didn't
used to. I think they do now in LA as well.
(01:50):
But I know in Sam Bernardino, in the lan Empire,
they all come together. They support the cops out there,
A lot of people out there support the cops, and
they are going to charge this person with the death
of that deputy. Deputies received a call of a possible
stolen vehicle shortly before eleven am. That suspect vehicle was
(02:12):
spotted by a deputy during the on duty in Victorville
at the Victorville City Station, and the chase ensued. During
that pursuit, a deputy was involved in a crash where
his patrol car crashed into a bystander vehicle and then
slammed into a light pole. The patrol vehicle was split
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in half through the significant significant force of the crash.
The deputy was critically injured in that collision and then
died at the scene.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Usually they can, you know, the cops can pick him
up and take him the hospital and a lot of
times save his life. So that had to be beyond
significant injuries. It must have just been horrible. Vehicles from
multiple law enforcement agencies escorted the deputy body in a
solemn procession across local freeways to the San Bordino County
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Coroner's office, and we were just we were watching Channel five.
They're carrying that live. But it's a really bad day.
Saint Patrick's Day is a big day for cops. There's
a lot of Irish tradition in law enforcement work and
a very heavy heart for people in sam Bernardino today
to lose one of their own. I'm sure he lived
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out there. I'm sure he had a family out there,
and it's a really, really bad, bad scene. All right,
let's try to get as much information as we can
how this all happened and what's next. We've got a
lot of reports on this here, a lot of them
think you put up the computer, thanks Bob.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You know, the.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Destruction of that deputy's vehicle was just extremely violent. It
was split in half, and we do know that that
deputy has died. We did see moments ago a procession.
Before we show that, though, I want to show you
what it looks like out here, so it's kind of
cleared out just a little bit. We do see investigators here.
There was a heavy police presence earlier. But let's take
(04:08):
a look at some of the live shots of that
procession that is.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Underway right now.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Those deputies and you know, several agencies from other law
enforcement around this area came in. They all descended onto
this area to be able to take that deputy out
with the corner and that's where they started leading that
deputy out and when they started leading him out, but
we saw several vehicles, we saw a motorcade and all
(04:32):
of them now transporting that deputy out. We did hear
that the sheriff is going to be meeting with the
deputy's family. Extremely somber for that deputy and his family
and what they're going to be going through over the
next days and you know months. So a very tragic
incident here, but we are learning a lot more details
about what happened.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Let's take a listen to one of.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
The sheriffs spokespeople who tell us that this will stemmed
from a pursuit earlier.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
At around eleven am this morning.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Victorville City deputies were in pursuit of a stolen vehicle.
One of those deputies was involved in a traffic collision
on Elevado Road and Seneca Road in Victorville. That deputy
suffered major injuries and unfortunately succumbed to his injuries at
the scene.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What we know right.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Now is one other vehicle was involved with a female
driver in no passengers. That female was walking around the
scene and she was transported to a nearby hospital to
be checked out. Right now, we don't know the extent
of her injuries.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Or how she using now.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Look at this video from earlier, skyfive was ever overhead,
which gives us a clearer picture of the scene. Again,
you could see that deputy's vehicle. It was completely split
in half. And you know, we're still at that intersection,
that same intersection. Parts of it have been cleared, but
we have seen investigators outre We're told that the deputy
was chasing the driver of a stolen vehicle, as you heard,
(06:04):
who failed to stop Eventually that person was arrested, but
that deputy collided with another vehicle at the intersection. It
happened around eleven am. A spokesperson for the department couldn't
say if his lights and sirens were on. That will
all be part of that investigation. We did, however, speak
to one man who came to the scene. He told
us off camera that his sister in law was driving
the black sedan that the deputy collided with, and she is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
In the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He says, she's getting x rays done right now, but
he wasn't aware of the injuries that she has.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's still very early on.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
But he seemed to be shaken up as well. That's
one of his family members. He says that she was
extremely shaken up. You know, she got out of the car.
Luckily she was able to do so, but again she
was transported to the hospital, as you heard from that spokesperson,
and then you know, once we got on scene, we
saw this extremely heavy police presence and the wreckage still
(06:56):
at that intersection. There were several neighbors who came out
because there are some home homes in this area a community.
With some of those neighbors coming out, one of those
women we spoke to who tells us you know, she
heard the helicopters take to listen to what she had
to say.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I've never seen nothing like that out here before. But
I have heard police flying down the street. I have
herlicotter's flying around all the time, but something like.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
That, I have never seen nothing like that right there
all right now.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That impact of that crash was so strong that we
saw so cal Edison out here as well, working on
some of those power lines. Again, this all stemmed from
a pursuit. We do know that person was taken into custody.
Deputies say that it was a stolen vehicle. They were
trying to pull that person over. The person never stopped
and that's when that pursuit began and then eventually ended
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with this crash at this intersection right behind us. We
will continue to follow this because the Sheriff's Department has
not identified this deputy just yet, but we do know
that the sheriff will be reaching out and speaking to
the deputy's family. I know it's going to be a
very different situation for them. We did see that procession underway.
It's still happening right now, and we'll continue to follow
this for the very leadst That's the very latest from Victorville.
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I'm Shelby Nelson KTL A five News.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, and then we have also Chip Yost was
at the Coroner's office and very very sad, sad scene
out there in San Bernardino today. Chip yos with Channel five.
I know he's probably pretty moved by this.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
We're outside the San Bernardino County Coroner's office. You can
see a lot of the officers and deputies who showed
up here to honor that deputy are getting ready to leave. Now,
let's take a live shot from Sky five HD above.
You can just see.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
All the cars, the troll cars.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Fire department was here a little bit earlier, put a
big American flag up for that shriff's deputy for the
procession bring his body back here to the Coroner's office.
Let's take a look now at some video Sky five
shot earlier of the procession. This is the procession bringing
the sheriff's deputy from Victorville to the Coroner's office here
in Samno. It's about a forty five minute drive. Officers
(09:03):
from different departments joined in honoring this procession. As the
procession went by, this deputy who lost his life in
the line of duty earlier today around eleven am. It
happened in Victorville. Let's take a look now at some
video from the scene. This is Victorville near Elevado and
Seneca around eleven am this morning. We're told that a
(09:23):
sheriff Sanberdanineo County Sheriff's deputy was involved in a pursuit
when a crash happened. Don't know all the details about
the crash at this point, but it looked like the
patrol car from some of the video may have been
split into The deputy was pronounced dead at the scene there.
We do understand that there was also another car involved
that had a woman insight of it. Here's more on
(09:45):
that part of the story from one of the lieutenants
with the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
One other vehicle was involved with a female driver and
no passengers. That female was walking around the scene.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, so we're gonna have any more information on this.
We will have this for you. But San Bernardino is
a very difficult county to patrol. It is massive. It's
bigger than some states. If you were to take the
city of West Hollywood, and put it into San Bernardino.
You could literally put thousands of West Hollywoods into San Bernardino.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's how big it is.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I think it's I think it's ten thousand times bigger.
If I'm not if my math is right, it's twenty
thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Twenty thousand and.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
What is it to West Hollywood is one point nine
square miles, So it's ten thousand, five hundred and twenty
six times bigger. Ten You can take ten thousand, five
hundred West Hollywoods and put them into Sam Bernardino. So
it's massive. I mean, I croze. I know you live
steps away from San Bernardino, don't you?
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Could you see it from your house?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Like one hundred feet man sign?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And so if somebody was a San Bernardino Sheriff's deputy,
they would be covering ten feet from your house and
or one hundred fift from your house in Claremont, sure,
all the way to Parker, Arizona. Yeah, And so speeds
are extremely fast. These guys have guys and gals have
to get to places. Sometimes they are an hour away
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from where they are Code three with lights and sirens.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Code three, they're an hour away.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Sam Brindio is huge and so you do get a
lot of speeds in sanm Borndino when these cops are
flying around. I don't know if that I played a
part of it or not, but if we have any
more information, it's a very sad Saint Patrick's day. The
Irish have a long history of law enforcement and they
lost one of their own today, So if you're in
San Bernardino, please be aware of that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Cops are going to be on edge today.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know it's time to show the registration, show the
license and a little courtesy. They are on edge today.
It's Conway Show. We're live on KFIFI Am six four.
It's Conway Show. Any more information on the officer that
passed away in San Bernardino, the deputy, we will have
that for you immediately here on KFI, so keep with us.
(12:17):
We'll have more information on name and how it happened
and what's next and the service and everything. But if
you're just tuning in, a deputy in sam Bordino and
involved in the high speed chase, I got into a
violin crash and died at the scene. So we'll have
updates all day long. It's sort of a sad deal.
(12:39):
I found out over the weekend that a buddy of
mine did. I've known for a long time and then
we sort of lost touch. And you know, every once
in a while, you know, he reaches out and says
Merry Christmas or Happy Birthday, and I do the same
with his family.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He moved to Ohio and he he.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Got sick and he passed away, and I didn't know,
and his wife never told me. And you know, it's
one of those friends that you know, you're sort of
close with for a while. Then you know, when you
moved to Ohio, there wasn't social media back then, you
sort of lose contact a little with people. Now you
can get now, you can keep in touch with everybody
all year round, twenty four hours a day, seven days
(13:18):
a week. And I wish I had that back then,
because I probably would have kept up with him. But
I remember going to Las Vegas with him and he
did one of those and he was a great guy,
just you know, a funny guy. But I remember him
coming down to the pool. I remember it very distinctly.
We were at Mandalay Bay and he comes down to
the pool and he's wearing those you know, how how
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guys were sunglasses normally, you know, these put them on
their on their face. And then clouds came and it
got really cloudy and dark, and there was a storm,
you know, one of those summer storms, off and in distance,
and he took his sunglasses off and he put him
on the back of his head like it was like
he was seeing backward, you know, he put him on
the back of his hat and so facing backwards instead
(14:03):
of just putting him on a table. And I and
we with the rest of my bodies were like, hey, buddy,
can you not do that. He's like, what do you mean?
I was like, Oh, that's kind of a douchey look,
you know. And then it's hard to talk to gals
when when you look like that. You know, I think
people make fun of you for doing that. You know,
that was back in the in the eighties. You know,
(14:25):
I don't know what it's like now, even a hip
thing to do now or not. And then you know,
back then it was before cell phones. So I remember
very distinctly there was a girl wearing a you of
H shirt. I think it was like during spring break,
and we're trying to figure out whether it's from University
of Hawaii or University of Houston, because he wanted to
(14:45):
we'll go up and talk to her, but he want
the wrong age. And so we were trying to like
look at them and analyze are these Houston gals or
these Hawaiian gals? And they're big bone gals, so we
went with we want Houston, you know, And and I
remember him saying to another to me, he goes, hey,
(15:09):
you of h You think it's Houston or Hawaii? And
I said, very quietly to him, very quietly, I said,
or maybe a third option, it's a University of Hormel, right,
And I said it to him. I didn't say it
to anybody else. I said it to him. Check behind me.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hears it. She hears it, and she lights me up. Right,
did you just hear what he said? Do you hear
what this white kid?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And she went off on She called me Auschwitz boy.
She goes you see what this Auschwitz boy just said?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
She goes you skinny white mf. And then she went
at berserk on me, and and I'm like, ah not.
I was saying, it's my buddy. I was saying it
there and she absolute lit me up to the point
where we were. I was walking later in the casino
that night and I ran into her and she yelled
it out Againwitz.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Boy, Yeah, there's Auschwitz boy.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'm like, oh, man, I know it's tough to walk
around with that the you know that moniker.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
They have a good time walking around with that name.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm like, oh, I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
To make this go away.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And then the next day in the pool, uh, we
we get down there, she's not around, and I'll be like, okay,
the coast is clear.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Here she comes spots me eh Auschwitz boy.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And I'm like, I said, guys, we gotta change hotels.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I can't make this go away.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And but but he passed away, and he was, you know,
the funny guy. And you know, life is short, and
all of a sudden, a guy that you knew passes away,
and you missed the good times.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You only think about the good times, you know. Hey,
I got a question, Krozer. Are you a cruise guy.
You've been on a cruise?
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Yeah, been on a few, three or four.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I got you know, we're thinking about cruise, going on
a cruise, and my wife and I, my daughter and
her friends might go with us, or they might go
with parents of one of her other friends. But I
want to ask you a quick cruise question. When you
go on a cruise, you I think you hook up
(17:20):
with a group of guys or couples or other gals, right,
and you sort of have your own area of the pool,
you know, that you go to all the time, and.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
The people that you didn't already know.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
People you met on the cruise.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Yeah, you can kind of do that.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
I generally, I've gone where it's just been me and
me and my wife, and then I've gone where it's
been a group of us. Okay, but you can you
can play a solitude game.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
But the opportunity absolutely exactly like you say, is there
for you know, kind of clicking in with certain groups
of people and kind of and staying in one place.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But here's my question though.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
If let's say you hook up with like three or
four other couples and you all meet in the same
area the pol You drink together, you tell stories, you
watch each other crap, you know, when you go to
the room to uh, you know, put sunscreen on or whatever.
And then one day you're not with that group, You're
over with another group, does the other group look down
and you're like, Oh, that guy's a little snobby for us.
You know, he's moved groups. He's on the other side
(18:17):
of the pool. Now with those people.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
You're always gonna have that, and you're always have some
of those people.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Right, but you're always gonna run in if you have
like a you know, like a situation like on when
you get a thousand people on a square block. You know,
for two weeks in the sun, you're gonna have situations.
And when you have a situation with somebody, guy, gal, whatever,
you're gonna run into them almost every day for the
next two weeks. You know, you have a situation with
(18:43):
a guy in a target parking lot, you'll never see
him again. You know, he's gone, he's back to Victorville,
You're back to Burbank, you're at Claremont, he's in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Never see him again.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
But you have a situation with somebody and cruise, you're
gonna see him again and again and again and again
and again.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
That's why I'm always fascinated by the people that you know,
you see videos or whatever, and people that are total
b holes that are in a closed environment like that,
because it's not like they're going away.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And it's never it's not a shock that that's their
first blow up, you know, with another couple, another.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Guy or another gal.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Yeah, believe them, Yeah, I believe like that's who they are.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's why I'm totally mystified why a holes go on cruises,
Because they're gonna blow up at somebody. You know, they're
gonna get inunder somebody skin or somebody's gonna their skin.
They're gonna be there's a blow up and then bang
cabin for two weeks.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
If you're not somebody that can sort of hold your water.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You have to yeah, yeah, because and because if you
make that mistake and you blow up and then they
blow up.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now you got to avoid them for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Right, That's hard to do when you're traveling, you know,
a thousand people on a square block.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
You go up by the by the lido deck. You
want to go, I'm good, I got a book right here.
Stay in the cabin.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, I have seen you blow up.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You blew up to this morning with another couple, this
afternoon with another couple. I'm staying in this cabin until
we get to Long Beach. Yeah, but we're in Chile.
I know, I know, I know, I got twenty one
more days I'll be here. That's that would be my
problem with the cruising, you know, just always try to
figure out, you know, that's going on.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
That's the same issue that Jen and I have with like,
you know, if we move where we're gonna go get
in one of those little communities and like if it's
if it's sort of an hoa or whatever, you know,
who you're gonna get next to, you're gonna because you
better be careful because you could be stuck with them
for the rest of your life.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
And then what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Right, And you've got to figure out who's the idiot
in the hoa, you know, because you want to just
warm up to the first guy you see because he
could be the problem guy, right, and he puts on
a good face for you, Yes, but he's suing everybody.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Everybody else looks at you like, oh.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, always friends with him, always probably like him.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
I don't even know the guy you never recover.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, I believe all right, It's Saint Patrick's Day. Happy
Saint Patrick's Day. Were live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 11 (20:59):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
KFI AM six forty, It's Conway Show. Michael Monks is
with us and we're talking about crime and again, if
you're just tuning him, the very sad story we covered
at the top of the hour at four o'clock, a
San Borndino deputy has lost his life, his or her life.
We're not sure yet. They they haven't put the name
out yet in a radical car crash. So we'll have
(21:30):
that for you as soon as we get it. Michael
Monks is covering LAPD for us. Monks, Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
How you Bob, Good afternoon. Always a pleasure to be
on KFI. Kim.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Hey, So what's going on?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The overall crime in the city of Los Angeles went
down in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Yeah, and just about every category. It looks like it's
safe to go outside. Tim, you can lead the studio.
That's good news, hi, you. It looks like everything is
trending in the right direction. Look, it's still too much, right,
it's a lot of Wait.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
A minute, are you also saying that home robberies and
breaking in stores are down?
Speaker 10 (22:06):
I'm not saying it. Mayor Bass and LAPD chiefs Jim
McDonald's are saying it, and they said so on the record.
This morning, they released the numbers from twenty twenty four
and they compare them to twenty twenty three, and they
say they're down. And I know you're curious about burglaries,
because goodness knows, we've heard about spikes in certain places
like the Valley and every night they've been hit really hard.
But overall, burglaries in the city were down in twenty
(22:28):
twenty four compared to the year before by more than
a thousand, almost eleven hundred in fact.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
But you know, I'm a big fan of LAPD Jim
McDonald I'm big fan of his.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I just don't believe that's that.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Well. Look, these are the numbers that they've provided. They're
using this year a new data collection. Ah, they say
that this is better, but this is the National Incident
Based Reporting System nib rs R nighbors, and this is
bringing the department in line with a now national reporting standards.
So it is a little bit different than the way
(23:03):
they've reported these numbers in the past. There was no
indication that the numbers are flubbed or misleading in any way.
They just simply say that there were more than a
thousand fewer burglaries in twenty twenty four than there weren't
in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Well, look, I mean without having been on the scene
of all of them, it's hard to dispute. We'd have
to do an extensive records request and review to confirm
all of this. But you know, the chief, and would
the chief stand up and say this without what I
think was disappointing, was any strong explanation for why, Because
(23:43):
this is a police department that has been very open.
Chief included saying, look, we don't have enough officers, right
I mean, we'd like to have ten thousand officers. We've
got about eighty six hundred right now. So with fewer
officers than they want, crime is trending back downwards. And
I couldn't quite figure out how they square that. It
seems that they are attributing a lot of it to
(24:06):
some community intervention, maybe preventing crimes before they start by
having more social workers and Metro ambassadors and those types
of organizations.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I see.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
So this is just the city of Los Angeles. It's
not the surrounding areas.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
Yeah, it's the city of La Proper. This is the
LAPD and mayor of Bass who spoke. They were at
the Hollandeck Police station in Boyle Heights today. They chose
that police station because even in that small area, they
saw a sixty five percent decrease in murders. There were
forty in that area in twenty twenty three and just
fourteen last year. So they are seeing decreases all over
(24:41):
the city.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Okay, I believe that there might.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You know, murders are hard to you know, to hide
when it comes to crime. But you know, people if
they have their house broken into, they don't always call
the cops. Or if their store is getting broken into,
the cops always don't show up. You know, they figure
s through it. I'll just do the repairs myself. Why
(25:04):
get involved. I have a hard time believing that break
ins and home robberies are down. And I know you
say that there's a new way that they're reporting these.
How come there's a new way that they're reporting was
the old way not working or accurate.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
There's a new national standard for reporting crime. It involves
the national groups like the FBI, and so they transitioned
over to this national incident based reporting system, and they
say the new system is able to capture data on
all of the offenses within a single incident. So let's
say you got busted at the racetrack and you did
more than one crime. It's able to tie all of
(25:45):
those together and put them in the appropriate categories for
proper review. It also includes victim and offender demographics, their relationships,
whether weapons are involved. It has what they call enhanced
crime analysis, and they say it's a more accurate way
to report this stuff. So police departments all across the
country are moving towards the system now. It's it's difficult
(26:07):
to say crime is down when you feel unsafe, And
that was a question I asked of the mayor, Like,
I know you can't quantify people's feelings, but it's dark outside,
the street lights are out all over. You've got lunatics
in a lot of ways on the streets or in
the trains. What are you going to do about that?
And that's where she emphasized those community groups that are
(26:29):
out there trying to work. It's Copper Theft task Force,
it's it's those community interventionists like social workers who are
being dispatched to some calls, and she even cited Metro
ambassadors as people who are helping lower crime in the city.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Right, I'm not again, Michael Lunches with us from KFI.
I'm not blaming the cops. The cops have a difficult job.
You know, at one point in twenty twenty, they took
one hundred and fifty million dollars out of their budget,
and you get a lot of people retiring, a lot
of people that don't want to go into law enforcement anymore,
especially in LA And when you do have you know,
when you say hey, we're recruiting and you get one
(27:06):
hundred people to sign up.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I was talking to.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
The chief last week or two weeks ago, and he
said they only really accept five out of every hundred applicants.
It's a very very difficult job. And it's and it's
very difficult to go from being a civilian onto the LAPD.
It's it's a really it's an impossible it's a nearly impossible,
you know, route to.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Get there because they are strict, which is great, But.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't know, I just I have a feeling that
you know, that that it's that I don't get a
sense that crime is down because every day, every day,
we report home break ins and break ins and stores
and restaurants.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
Again, we're talking down in terms of percentages we still have.
I don't think anyone would say we've got just the
right amount of crime. Right, it's still too much. When
we say burglaries are down. We still had more than
fourteen thousand of them this year, but that is more
than a thousand fewer than we had the year before.
And you're also right about the struggles with recruitment. They're
spending a lot of money on recruitment. They're trying to
(28:08):
bolster their ranks. But you've got retirements, You've got a
few people coming in, and like you noted, a lot
of people want to be cops. Record applications are coming in.
Some of these folks get arrested during the process because
they have outstanding warrants. Yeah, no, foolish.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They sign they sign up for they want to be LAPD.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
They sign up and they do a background check and
they have open fellon wards, or.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
They're out of shape to the point to where they're
obese and they can't do the job. So you've got
physical constraints, or you have other departments that might pick
them off because other departments need officers too, and they
might have better pay, better benefits, and maybe it's afer environment.
Even so, there's a lot of factors here.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
There you go, buddy, appreciate you coming on, and we'll
catch you back.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
At the station.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Always a pleasure, can there you go, Michael Monks, you
got munks man, there, he goes.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Look, I believe that homicides are down and shooting victims
have decreased by nineteen percent.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'll accept that, but.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I don't know about overall crime. It just seems like
it's it's out there a lot. There's a lot of
it going on, But I don't know. Maybe the merit
knows more than we do. All Right, we're live on
KIM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
If I am six.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Forty Conway show AI bad news in San Bornandino. An
officer was killed and in pursuit. If we have the
officer's name or any more information, we will have that
for you.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
That's a horrible story.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We did that at the top of the hour at
four o'clock, but I'm sure there'll be updates at five
six and throughout the evening it was reading the Marongo
commercial and I can't believe fog Hat is going to
be there. Fog Hat was one of the groups that
I would sit around with my student with buddies in
(30:02):
over the summer. My mom would go to Canada for
the summer and I have cousins, uncles, aunts, everybody's related
up there. And me and my my buddy, Tim Brestland,
Tommy Dalton, Doug Kerr was there, Rick Wilson, Jerry Dalton,
guy named Skoink, how about that for a name. And
we'd literally go to Tim Brestland's house and we'd sit
(30:25):
in his room and his room was like, you know,
eight feet by three feet, you know, it's tiny. We'd
sit in his room and we'd listen to whole albums
and fog Hat was one of them, and we'd listen
to literally he got the new fog Hat album and
we sat there and listened to the entire album.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
We weren't even stoned or drunk.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
We just sat there like goofballs and listened to the
album and then talked about it and then like next
you know, then next week he would get another album
to play that.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
We'd talk about. That was a lot to do when
we were kids.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But now, Krozer, I think that day's over where kids
get together and listen to an old whole album.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Did you do that when you were younger?
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
My god, with but buddies.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, back of the day, because I
used to go and back then you could actually go
to a concert and be fairly young at the time
because oh yeah, sure, they costs like seven. I saw
Ozzy Osbourne back in the day and I was twelve thirteen.
Oh that's great, yeah, just with me and my buddies.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
But this reminds me so much of sitting around uh
Ario with my cousins and my uncle, my friends in Aria,
which a little tiny town directly north of Cleveland on
the eerie shore of Canada, and we'd sit around and
I remember that that was the very first time I
heard this song.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
From Foghat slow Down. I don't know if we could
have slowed down anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We were sitting around a guy's room in the summer.
Everybody's out in the lake, you know, body surfing or
swimming or sailing or whatever, and just you know, five
idiots sitting in this room listening a fog hat.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
That's a that's one of those bands.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
You don't realize how many songs you know from them,
like full for the City and I just want to
make love to you.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
I just remember that song. I didn't even realize it
was fog Hat when I was looking it up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 8 (32:17):
That's fog Hat.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And so they're gonna be at Marongo on May twenty third,
and that's gonna be a cool deal.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, and and.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And we so we'd sit around, we listened to the album,
and then when the song would stop, you pull the needle.
It wasn't videos we're watching the videos. We're just listening
to albums. And my buddy would take the needle off
and go, hey, you guys think it's gonna be a hit.
And we all said that was gonna be a hit.
Slow Ride. We're like, yeah, buddy, that's gonna be a hit.
That's beautid. And we weren't even no pills, no shots,
(32:47):
no booze, nothing. We're just like twelve or thirteen listening
to albums. Yeah, and I think that those days are over.
I absolutely did that back then.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
And then cassette started to come in a little bit
so you could make your own customer.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Yeah, albums that you had.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So yeah, remember we used to record it off the radio.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
Yeah, oh yeah. You had to wait.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
Yeah, you had to wait till they came up, and
you had to hold your like when a song was
going to end. You were hoping your song was gonna
come up, and you held that pause and then court
at the same time, you let go that pause because
he needed to beginning of it, and you.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Hope to god the DJ did not top all the song.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
They always did every time aways there.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Was probably themselves too that they could hit that post.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I set up a friend of mine, a girl named
Amy Poole, with another friend of mine, and because they're
both single at the time, and he was in radio.
He was a radio guy and he played music on
the radio. And I didn't know this about him, by
the way, So I set her up. She was a
good friend of mine. He's a good friend of mine.
(33:50):
I set them up. She goes out with him, and
she calls me from a French restaurant about about an
hour in to the date and she goes, you got
to come get me here. I'm going to kill you. Huh,
I said, what, She goes, this guy you hooked me
up with? Is at a French restaurant and he just
ordered in French. This guy's a real douchebag, she said.
(34:16):
Plus she was calling from a paper. She was calling
me from a payphone at a French restaurant. Unli cienagain,
and then you know what, she also said. She said,
on the way over here, he played himself talking up
songs on the radio.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
What I'm like, Oh no, Diddy? Really yeah? Madonna next
on Q one O.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Three said, I'm sorry, I didn't see that coming at all. Baby.
I'll pick you up in ten minutes. I picked her up.
She punched me in the face, literally took her purse,
hit me in the face and then punched me in
the face. Just I can't believe you set me up
with this guy, I said, I didn't see this coming.
I'm sorry. I won't do that again. I rely On
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