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October 20, 2025 31 mins
 A Studio City homeowner thwarts a home burglary in progress. LAPD Officer Jason Jacobson joins the show to discuss California’s new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom banning the sale of new Glocks. He shares insights on LAPD’s Mounted Platoon — the unit that patrols on horseback for crime prevention and community outreach — and wraps up with expert advice on the safest, most effective firearms for home defense. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demaya from KFI
AM sixty.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI AM six. It is The Conway Show, all right.
Crime continues in southern California. I know you know you're
tired of hearing about it. But if you live in
Studio City, Tarzanah, Sherman Oaks, you live in the Valley,
maybe you live in Arcadia, it's we've got to tell
you about it because you have to be aware that

(00:30):
it's going on Studio City, home burglary attempt.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Okay, is this news from last year?

Speaker 4 (00:36):
No? No?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Is it news from I don't know, five years ago. No,
it's brand new. It happens all the time, and this
one's in Studio City, beautiful area, very expensive homes, and
every single night we hear about something going on in
the area, whether a home invasion or store gets robbed,

(01:00):
somebody gets carjacked, and people are, you know, at their
wits end. They don't know what to do. You spend
two or three million dollars for a house. That's why
you spend that kind of money for a house, to
stay away from this kind of crap in life. And
when it hunts you down and finds you in these
expensive homes, then why didn't you just get an apartment

(01:20):
on I don't know, Kester and Sherman Way. I apologize
that people live on Kester and Sherman Way. That I
constantly used that as an area where there's a lot
of guns and a lot of islands.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I don't know if there is.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It just sounds like, you know, a guy might be
able to buy something in that area illegally.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Anyway, let's get back to Studio City.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Let's get the home burglary attempt here foiled by the
homeowner this time.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Very rarely does this happen.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
The criminals apparently thought this house was empty.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
But guess what.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
The husband was working in his small office space in
the backyard. He was actually on a zoom call when
his copewter camera showed the intruders right behind him.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Wow, that's something you see in a movie where guys
on a zoom and on his zoom the camera pops
up in the burglars behind him.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
The San Fernando Valley has become a hotspot for home breakings,
no kidding. Studio City was recently the scene of a
close call caught on camera. A dark colored four door
BMW with tinted windows and no plates pulls up to
a home along Clump Avenue on Tuesday, October fourteenth, around
three point forty five pm. Three hooded, masked figures emerge

(02:40):
and creep up to their target, entering through a side walkway.
Surveillance cameras capture the intruders as they enter a patio,
peering through glass doors and windows, but very quickly their
criminal intentions are foiled by a surprise in the backyard.
They have the guy working in his office, one of
the homeowners, tucked away in his detached office. He startled

(03:03):
the trio, shouting for others to call for help.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
He's the guy. It sounds like a dog, this.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Guy Viverian Settling.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
He's yelling call nine one one. He's talking to the dog.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Does the dog respond after he's yelling at the dog
to call nine one one?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, dog's pretty bright.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
Varian Settling, especially for my husband because he was the
one obviously that was home.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
I had just left with our daughter.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
So oh that's scary. You know, you got a young
daughter at home.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
He got the dad at home alone with his dog,
and these people are trying to break in and steal
your stuff.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
So Yeah, he was the one that confronted the burglars.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
He didn't realize his wife and daughter had just left
and was actually shouting for them to call nine nine one,
believing they were still home.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh this guy much have been scared to death because
he thought maybe his wife and daughter were going to
get it from these four guys.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Leah Young is convinced the bad guys were staking out
her property and believed the house was unoccupied when they
decided to strike. She explains they were about to use
a concrete block to smash through her daughter's bedroom window.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh my god, how scary is this? This this part
of La the San Fernando Valley. They have got to
get this together.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Block to smash through her daughter's bedroom window. When her
husband interrupted their violent plans, We had my.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
Husband right there, really close, and that's where my husband
came running out of his office and said hey, yeah
he said, and they didn't hear him with the first yell,
and then he yelled what.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
The police did? Stay the call.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
So if you see a car without.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
Plates, legally you're not allowed to drive around without license plates,
So right there, that's kind of a red flag.

Speaker 7 (05:10):
It's really scary. It's really scary out there. But I
think what's really important is that if home owners get
to know each other and so people keep.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
A little I don't know if that's.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Going to do it.

Speaker 7 (05:22):
Home owners get to know each other.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, I don't know if these guys are afraid of
homeowners that are friendly with.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
One another, and so people keep a lookout and people
are aware of what's going on. So the minute something happens,
we contact each other.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yes, and also the police, of course, great advice. Anyone
with information in this case should contact the LAPD. Live
in Studio City, Chris Wolfe KTLA five News.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's crazy out there, It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
And then this couple in Arcadia, they have a jewelry
store and that was raw.

Speaker 8 (05:57):
This is a devastating loss for these owners. When you
look inside this jewelry store, there is nothing left. Christmas
came early for the thief who broke into L and
Z Jewelry and Arcadia.

Speaker 9 (06:08):
When the morning when I open the door, I cannot
believe everything is gone.

Speaker 8 (06:13):
They say it happens Saturday. Look around, nearly every case
and display is empty. All of their valuable pieces of
gold and diamonds were swiped, they hunk and pay pay
believe the crooks somehow broke in through the roof of
their building. A wall is also badly damaged near a safe.
The burglars snatched everything inside. The perpetrator also disabled the

(06:34):
store's internet.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
They are really professional. After they got in this room,
they break the alarm system.

Speaker 8 (06:41):
The owners say they'll keep the store open to sell
costume jewelry while police investigate the crime. The owners now
have to figure out how they'll survive and they're under insured,
and how to refund customers who made payments on jewelry
that was stolen by the thief.

Speaker 9 (06:55):
I'll ask them why you do that. We're working so hard.
It's easy to take our take everything from us.

Speaker 8 (07:03):
The owners want other businesses to be aware of what
happened to them so they can take precaution to pull you.
ABC seven Hi Witness s News.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Arcadia very safe community, so is Studio City. But these
guys don't care. They'll come in and try to grab
your stuff.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
What.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I don't know how to prevent it either, I don't know.
I mean they do everything right.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
You get cameras, you get alarm system, you got a dog,
maybe you got a gun, and they'll still try to
slide in and take your stuff.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
What a city.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
All right, We're live on KFI AM six story. When
we come back, we're going to talk to a gun
expert from LAPD. The glock was just banned in the
state of California. So we'll ask him why that has happened.
Why they're blocking and making one handgun out of all
the handguns that are available. The glock is now illegal

(07:52):
to I think, to own and to sell in the
state of California.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
We'll come back, we'll talk to him. He works for LAPD.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
He is a gun expert with the LAPD, and so
we'll ask him what's going on.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Five.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
We're live on KFI AM six forty. KFI AM six forty.
It is the Conway Show. We're keeping an eye on
the Blue Jays and the Seattle's here, the Mariners, and
I think it's.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Still zero zero in this game. It's game seven.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
So if whoever wins this game is going to play
the Dodgers on Friday in.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
The World Series. World Series.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
So we'll tell you the score by the end of
the program, maybe not by I don't know, eight o'clock
or so. We'll know who is going to be in
the World series.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
All right.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
A friend of mine who's with lapd and he did
a helped me out on a thing that I really
needed a hand. He was often nice to do that.
His name is Jason Jacobson. Welcome, buddy, Hi you good, Jim,
Nice to see you man.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
How long are you both?

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Lapdy? Three years? And thing done with you? Timmy dang
dong with you, dude.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I imagine you live like everybody either in seem Valley
or Valencia, Yeah, Valley, Oh, Santa Clarita, Okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
I always I always.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wondered why somebody would try to rob a house in
see Me Valley or Valencia Santa Clarita because every other
house is a cop or a fireman.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
It would seem so. But there are people with that
poor life decisions.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's right, and you walk into them every day, you know, Like, like,
when I come to work, I'm dealing with some of
the most pleasant people I've ever met my life. Sharon Pellio,
Sammy on the Board, Tonight, Crozier, Angel Martinez, you know,
Richie and and all these guys who you know, I
really enjoy being around. But when you go to work,

(09:45):
you're dealing with life's big as day holes almost all.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Day a lot of times. Yeah, yes, and not people
in the best time of their life, the best part
of your year.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Right, So it's got to take a toll on on you.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
You know, it does if you let it. Yeah, you know,
you gotta differentiate and as you can't let the job
consume you. Right, it does take a toll, But you
got to decompress and realize that you are catching people
at the it is maybe one of the lowest moments
that are alive for the least of the moment's lowest
moment of the day or their year. No one likes
to getting pulled over. No one likes getting arrested. It

(10:20):
doesn't define them as a person, you know, Right, But yeah,
you do hear the angst of those situations and you
can't take it personal.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, and and and you're right though, I'm glad you
have the compassion for people, you know, it's it is
a human being. They may have been, you know, great
for forty years, they've had one bad day and they
run into you, right, all right, you're a gun expert.
You didn't grow up really with guns, but you become
an expert.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
You were in the army.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
I was for what what? How long? I was in
the third Ranger Battalion, beginning in ninety three till just
ninety seven?

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Are you with the Rangers?

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Wow, that's a big deal.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
It was. It was a great, great deal. Hurt my knee.
I do it all over again. Great amount of training,
greatest free de Corps, great specialized training. Love my Rangers.
Good for you. What year did you get in ninety three?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
So that was Mogadishu or just after.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
All of a sudd they went down with black armed down?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Really? Yeah? How that went down? I know it was
in basic training.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh my god, you could have been involved with that.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah, I had gone in earlier.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
That was the war where when the Rangers got onto
the Marines got onto the shore, CNN was waiting for him.
They had they had reporters there before the Rangers got
in and the Marines.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Wow is what what's the difference between Rangers and Marines.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Uh, there's a difference. I mean Rangers were trained for
all types of stuff. We've got air for you had seizures,
We've got all sorts of disciplines that we deal with.
Marines are a general. All uh sent them in and
they're going anywhere doing anything?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Are they the first ones in? Still anywhere?

Speaker 4 (11:57):
A lot of times? Yes?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Is the Rangers?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
And I apologize I don't know this, I should, But
is the Rangers the top the elite of the army.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Now there's a special operations community. You've got Special Forces Delta,
you got Rangers, get Air Force Pair, commandos, get your
coast Guard.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Nobody seems to talk about want to talk Mandos. Nobody
wants to talk about Delta. It's always hard to get
information out of it.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well, they're supposed to not exist. Still okay, but those
guys are badass.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, that is pretty crazy. Are you still friends with
people you met in the army? I feel yeah, I
bet huh Yeah, yeah, that's a really tight knick group,
it is.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
All right, let's get into guns.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Your governor, Governor Newsom has banned the glock. Is that
is it banned just for for sale? Or if you
have one, do you have to turn a.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
New all right? So yeah, if you have one so far,
as I've discerned so far, you're kind of grandfathered. But
going forth there'll be no sales into California. And the
rationale is, for years there's been a they call a
glock switch, and so there's a backplate on any glock
that you take off to disassemble the upper components of

(13:10):
the upper receiver, take your fire, pin, tube, fire, and pin,
et cetera for cleaning, and by inserting this switch, it
defeats the trigger mechanism to instead of going semi automatic
where you get one bullet with one press, you could
just pull the trigger back and the gun's going to
continue firing until the magazine is expanded.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
And I asked you earlier how many rounds and a clip?
And you stood up and you said, it's a magazine.
You call it a clip. Again, you're laud to here,
and I'm like, wow, it's got serious. How many what's
the largest magazine you can put into a clock?

Speaker 4 (13:46):
I've seen one hundred round drums or ninety round drums.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
But after one hundred rounds, isn't that gun on fire?

Speaker 4 (13:52):
It won't be. It won't be on fire, but it
will be hot. I tell you, after shooting three thirty
two round magazines, it's very hot. And we'll quench it
into a five gallon bucket of water just to cool
it down for the next guy.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Can you use it after you submerge it?

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a very durable weapon. The
glocks are made well, they're not the most accurate. I
mean they call for about a three three and a
half inch accuracy of twenty five yards, so compared to
other weapons like nineteen eleven's they're not quite as accurate
at a distance, but they definitely function. I've had one
in our one of our courses of fire. The trigger

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started feeling really sloppy midway through, and I continued through.
But when I got home, this is some of the
gun all the way and the one of the trigger
pins that went all the way through the gun was
broken in three different pieces. Oh wow, but the gun
still ran. Right.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
What is the standard issue for LAPD when it comes
to guns?

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Right now, they're issuing in the FN five oh nine.
It's a similar palmer struck, a fired pistol.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
FN fiveh nine. Yeah, and do you have to buy
that yourself?

Speaker 4 (14:55):
No, No, that's issue to the recruits. And also, I
just learned this not too long. They're also issuing a optic,
the red dot optic on the gun. Oh really, which
in the past, when we started having the optic ready pistols,
the recruits of the option to put up the money
for the red dot optic if they wanted to, and
if they didn't, they would continue to carry the weapon

(15:15):
with iron sights. But now the department's giving it to
them all in the same go.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Is the red dot? Is that the the dot that's
projected on the target.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
It's not projected on the target, but it's basically look,
you're looking through a screen with a dot on it. Okay,
So imagine this. If you're looking through a typical handgun,
your your line, your rear sights into your front site,
and you're focusing on your front site, so your target,
in contrast, is going to be blurred because your ice
can only target or focus on one thing at one time,

(15:45):
So your rear sight's a little focused or out of focus,
and your target's out of focus. But now with the
red dot, you're looking at your target and all you're
doing is bringing a little screen up and putting that
red dot over what you're looking at.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay, and do they and they make you guys pay
for that extra equipment.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
That used to be the case, but now they're actually
issuing that to the recruits, they are.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh real academy? Is that expensive they can be?

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, I ween when to come back. I'm gonna tell
you a story because I'm fascinated. I don't know much
about guns, but I'd like to talk to guys who
know it, especially guys who are in the Rangers. I'm
sure you were trained on a whole host of weapons
with the Rangers. I was, yeah, yeah, what's the biggest
gun you've ever shot?

Speaker 4 (16:28):
The fifty cal BMG and the actually the probably the Mt.
The mad Deuce fifty caliber. Our belted fifty cal on
top of our arsovs were part of the best one. Really. Yeah, wow?

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Did you serve any any arenas or or you sort
of got in too late for Mogadishu and.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
I fell into peacetime and that was where I was at.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Did you travel with the with the Rangers?

Speaker 4 (16:51):
We went to Belgium? Oh really, the Belgian there Perkmando's course.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
And I didn't hear I didn't hear any war breaking
out between ninety three in ninety six in Belgium.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
You did a good job, well, squashed them all, took
care of that, all those really aggressive Belgians.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
All right, Well we come back. Jason Jacobson's with us.
We're gonna talk more about guns. I got a gun
story for you here, and I want more. We'll pick
your brain about what the good handgun is or shotgun,
if you want to protect your home, what cops use,
what you use, the whole deal.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
You have.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Extensive training with LAPD, and you train other officers, then
I do, yeah, and you show them you know what
to do.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
We've run our slug shotgun courses, our tactical rifle courses.
I teach our in service divisions for their annual shooting days.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
I heard that women LAPD women officers are better shots
than the guys.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
A lot of times they are they've never shot around
in their life, and a lot of times they come
out well better, you know, because they're actually listening to
what we're putting down and they do extremely well.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
I think my wife is probably a better shot that
I am, because see, the only time I, you know,
ever futs around with my guns is what I'm drinking.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
So is it bets?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
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Speaker 4 (19:10):
Officially police officer two plus two my motor officer?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
All right, two plus two. Oh, so you grew up
driving motors riding motorcycles?

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Then just recently wait recently, yeah, you never rode a
bike before?

Speaker 4 (19:21):
No, I'm the old guy in the bike.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Now, oh that's wild, right, I mean, did you wipe
out a couple of times when you first started in.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
The school, a couple of cartwheels a little bit, did you? Okay?

Speaker 3 (19:30):
What made you want to get on a motorcycle?

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Right? The bikes for them, it just appealed to me
after a while. And they've got a lot more of
expensive freedom as far as where they're going about doing
their business. And we all seen the the problems we
all incur in traffic with people are cutting off for
other people and driving in wrong lanes and what have you.
And they where's a cop and you need one? And
that's right. I'm able to get out there and see
a lot of that stuff and take action, whereas I

(19:55):
couldn't so easily in a patrol car. As I'm responding
to a call, I.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Have a friend who was with LAPD. He started on
a bike and finished on a bike. Never wanted to
climb the ladder because that's why he got into it,
and he enjoyed every day of.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
It absolutely the same way. You know, I got late
in my career, but I've had a supervisor say I'm
doing your rating, do you want me to recommend you
promote the sergeant to detect different like don't bother. I'm
in my everytimeing spot right now. That's great.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I'm gonna tell you a quick story.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Tell me what LAPD's policy is, and I'll tell you
what Burbank's policy was. But I bought a gun right
before COVID and I had it in the car with me,
and I went to the bank. I was going to
deposit a check. And I went to the bank and
there was like twenty five people in lines right before Thanksgiving,
and so I said, I'll wait, I'll you know, I'll
sit in my car, and I futs around.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
So I'm in my car.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I got my gun with me, and I started loading
rounds into the magazine, just to fill up two magazines.
And an Burbank cop pulls next to me on a
bike and parks next to me. So I put my
jacket over the gun and he walks into the bank.
And I asked a friend of mine who's on Burbank Police.
I said, I told what I did, and he said, buddy,

(21:07):
you're lucky you didn't get shot. You must be the
dumbest guy in Burbank. I said, what's Burbank's policy? If
they saw me doing that, And he said, Burbank's policy
is that everybody leaves you alone, they bring in swat,
they arrest you, and then you pay for the swat.
At the end, you're going to jail for a long
time because.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
You were the guy that's watched rob the bank. He said.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
He said, so you thought loading a magazine in the
parking lot of a bank is the way to go?
And I said yeah, and he goes, He goes, I
don't even know if I could be friends with you anymore,
because you're going to end it is not going to
end well with you. Yeah, but that was a it
was an unbelievable lud. I thought I was just doing
something innocent, but I guess not.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
So.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I have my daughter when she was thirteen years old,
she was one of her friends. She was a friend,
he said, about five or six really close friends. And
she said, I'm gonna go sleep at my friend's house.
And I said, no, you're not, because I've not met
the parents, and you're not sleeping over there until I
meet the parents. And she's like, oh, you know this
like you know, throwback to the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
This, you know, old man, that's my dad. So I
go over.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
To to the house. I walk up with my daughter
like it's nineteen sixty two, you know, and knock on
the door and I like, hey, I want to meet
the parents before my daughter sleeps over. The guy who
opens the door full LAPD uniform and his wife is
also LAPD. I felt safer with my daughter there than

(22:35):
I did when she was at home. And that's a touchdown,
you know. And when I when I and they're both,
I think ones in mounted and the other. And the
wife works with nine to one one in dispatch, but
he works in the mounted division, which I heard, I think,
just you know, just from you. I'd never knew this before.
That's fully privately monetized.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, there is zero public funding to the medical tune
and it's been that way as far as they know
since its exception.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
How do they get the money for the horses and
the feed and the storm and everything.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Private donations only.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Everything's private donations everything, wow, from the feed to the
veterinary care, to the trailers, you.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Name it, whatever involves the whatever it takes on to
doing the horses, it's all privately funded.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I love that. I hope that never goes away. I
love when the mounted cops are out there.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
They are impressive and they do a very good job.
And Crockett, sorry crockatrol situations they do great with They
can go you know, off terrain a little bit and
do some other stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
But and those horses are so trained. They are I mean, god,
there's you know, there's like smoke bombs going off next
to them during the riots and they never flinch.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
No, they're they're very well trained and they can be
very used, very effectively.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
It seems like the horse knows the difference between a
good guy and a bad guy.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
You think, I think it's a is that what he does?
All right?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
When we come back, can you stay with us for
one more second? I want to ask you what you
recommend or if you recommend that people in Los Angeles
have a gun in their house and what type of gun?
When we come back, so I think about that, and
then if you and if you want to just lie
to us, you can do that as well.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
All right, it's conways show.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Jacob Jacobs, Jason Jacobson is with us. He's with LAPD.
Knows a lot about guns, and we'll come back. We'll
tell you which gun he recommends or if he recommends
you have a gun in the house for your protection.
It's Conway Show. We're live on KFI KFI Am sixty.
It is the Conway Show. There's a lot of crime
in southern California. And we have a Jason Jacobson with us.

(24:42):
He's with LAPD. He teaches la PD officers. Is just
LAPD or officers from other agencies or just a LAPD
the blue one there? Yeah, and you teach them firearms? Yes,
and and you hope that all of these guys can shoot.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
We get them there eventually.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, all right, So when how often do LAPD officers
have to go into into training and shootings once a year.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Twice a year, generally every other month? Oh really? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
And is that on their own time, dime or own time?

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Nope, it's not during duty time. They get provided the
mL for it.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
And where is it out here in the valley.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
We get a location in the valley, get our Allegian
Park facility downtown.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Okay, what if you were recommending, you know, a family
to have a gun to protect their homes. First of all,
do most LAPD officers recommend you have a gun at home?

Speaker 4 (25:40):
As far as I know the people that I associate with. Yes, yeah,
and yeah, if you have a family with kids, we
strongly suggest having a firearm because you can have all
the gates, locks, alarms, security lights, et cetera. If someone's
intent on busting in your door at two am, the

(26:01):
cops can't get there quick enough to deter them from
what they're trying to do.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
What's that saying that when every second counts?

Speaker 4 (26:08):
What was that saying when seconds count the police are
only minutes away?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, and that's probably true.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
It is true.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know, even like Code three up into the hills
of in Sino or Studio Hills, is you know, five
to ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
And you figured the time to putting in a nine
one one call, the time for them to put it
out to us, time for the officer to respond. But
it's a long amount of time when someone's in the
process of kicking in your front door.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
And that officer when he gets that call, he may
be on another call. Anyway.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Well, yeah, they mean they're gonna be broken free from it,
but yeah, you don't know how long it's gonna take
to get from wherever they were coming from.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Right, and then when they get there, they got to
be cautious too when they arrive on you know their surroundings, right.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
And so I also supplement that if you do our
firearm owner and you do have something like that happen,
you need to be cautious that as well. You don't
be running out of the house with a hang gun
or a shotgun your arms saying hey, right, help me police,
because we're going to see somebody with a gun. Right.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
And that happened off the one thirty four freeway right
where I remember what band it was. It was the
wife of one of the you know band members, and
she came out with a gun and had an exchange
with the cops. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Do you recommend that
people have a handgun or a shotgun in?

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Then ounce personally, I recommend a shotgun doesn't require as
finant of training. And I was done you earlier. You
wrecked the shotgun. And I don't care what language you speak,
you're going to understand what that sound means. Right, Yeah,
everyone knows you're more than likely if you've got a
couple of brain cells working together, you're gonna split. Right.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
A friend of mine, you probably know him, Alan Hamilton,
he's the chief detective.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
He said.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
He gave me a stat that obviously, you know, he's
one of the most honest guys I think I've ever met.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
In my life.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Thirty eight percent of home robberies the the a holes
come right through the front a front door that's on locked.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's incredible.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, I'm not sure the percentages.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
But your door loll.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
That do leave doors unlocked, surprisingly, but also the rear
sliders are a huge target. You got a massive sliding
glass door window in the back and you could put
a bar across the bottom so they can't manually open it,
but it's very easy to chuck a rock through. So
it's it's one of those things. It's kind of a
weak point in your in your residence.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I got into a little bit of trouble when I
was doing an award show for la PD and Chief
Beck was, oh it was he was retiring, and Chris
Pitcher was there. He was the chief of Detectives before
Alan Hamilton took over. And so I'm at the at
the dinner and I said that Chief Beck knew that

(28:46):
I did the commercials for Mike Thompson RV. And he
said that him and his wife wanted to buy an
RV and see the world, And I said, oh, did
you want to start first with the valley? He didn't
have a He laughed, but I think he was still pissed.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
If you live in the value, you get that, that's right.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, but I think he was you know, he laughed,
but I think you know, he wanted to take me
out and you know, punch me in the face.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Hey, what's funny.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I appreciate you coming in.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Jason Jacobsen a ranger with the with the US it
was United States Army, right, sir, the United States?

Speaker 3 (29:26):
And then with LAPD for twenty.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Almost twenty three years?

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Twenty three years and then you're going to retire?

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Is it the drop or draw program? What is it
called drop?

Speaker 9 (29:35):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (29:35):
They still do that? Yep?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
So the last five years that you're with LAPD there's
something where they you know, they enhance your salary or whatever.
But you can only stay on then five years and
then that you're done.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
But but aren't a lot of the.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Guys and and and gals who have a lot of
experience aren't they leaving lap D?

Speaker 4 (29:55):
A lot of ma are and uh, I guess just
in the retirement even in the drop where the amount
of money gets bigger each year, So in the fourth
and fifth year that monetary money gets bigger and good.
A lot of guys are only doing two or three
years and then they're leaving.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Oh wow, so they just they're done.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
But you know what, every one of you guys, all
the men and women on LAPD, you deserve every dime
of your pension everyfing day.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
You know, the stuff you have to see, the stuff
you had to do, The crap you guys get from
local press, the crap you get from people you know
protesting you and yelling, you know, crap in your face
all the time. It's disgusting and I don't know when
that started.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
But man, you.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Guys have a hell of a gig here in La.
Appreciate you coming by.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
I'm a pleasure to be here.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Thanks for having me, and be safe out there and
tell your brothers and sisters. I said, cheers and ding dong,
yeah dig dog again. All right, we're live on k
IF I AM say for it. Thanks man, I appreciate
how you got it. Conway Show on demand on the
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(31:03):
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