March 27, 2024 • 59 mins
All football jokes aside; Pittsburgh’s rapid criminal incline, societal decline and ideas of “New Policing” are examined thru a series of articles and current events that signal a coming hellish Megacity One “utopia”… or… a precursor to the magnificent flaming collapse of modern America, and maybe human kind.
Featured Sources:https://triblive.com/local/theres-nowhere-to-go-pittsburgh-clears-homeless-camp/
https://www.wtae.com/article/downtown-pittsburgh-office-residential-tax-break/60168214#:~:text=Wilson%20is%20proposing%20legislation%20to,by%202028%2C%22%20Wilson%20said.
https://joinouramerica.org/new-report-shows-alarming-rise-in-crime-in-pittsburgh/
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2024/03/03/pittsburgh-police-changes-staffing-safety-shifts-wellness-scirotto/stories/202403010078
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-police-chief-larry-scirotto-pushes-back-against-criticisms/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-national-extreme-risk-protection-order-resource-center
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Featured Sources:https://triblive.com/local/theres-nowhere-to-go-pittsburgh-clears-homeless-camp/
https://www.wtae.com/article/downtown-pittsburgh-office-residential-tax-break/60168214#:~:text=Wilson%20is%20proposing%20legislation%20to,by%202028%2C%22%20Wilson%20said.
https://joinouramerica.org/new-report-shows-alarming-rise-in-crime-in-pittsburgh/
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2024/03/03/pittsburgh-police-changes-staffing-safety-shifts-wellness-scirotto/stories/202403010078
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-police-chief-larry-scirotto-pushes-back-against-criticisms/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-national-extreme-risk-protection-order-resource-center
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In the dark shadows, in thewhite cold. Fearlessly, we search for
knowledge new and old. We drinkthe strong spirits and read the ancient tongs.
The order of the Abercast. Weare the brave and the bold,
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The Abercast a cold history, conspiracyand violence. Welcome to the Abercast.
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I'm your host, John Towers.We are recording here far below I don't
know, subterranean bunker underneath the StigmataStudios, Independent Comic book Company, the
steel buckle of the Rust Belt.What is turning out to be ground zero
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for the fall of Western civilization?And that's kind of what we're gonna talking
about this evening. We're gonna takea break on the Biblical prophecy. This
is a Wednesday show, so Ican kind of do what I want,
you know what I mean, Andthen we're gonna start talking about eclipses.
We get right back on track,but I wanted just to talk about you
know, we've been talking about likethe end of Western civilization, and then
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we started talking about some of thereasons. It's so fucking cool, you
know, to quote Jim Morrison,the West is the best, The West
is the best. Maybe I shouldn'thave used that quote because the rest of
it is get here and we'll dothe rest. So I have the mother's
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milk here, I got my gingyhod mixed up. And we're gonna be
talking about Pittsburgh ground zero. SoPittsburgh. I don't have any of the
stats ahead of in front of me. It's a smaller big city or a
medium sized city. We're gonna learna lot about it going forward. So
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a lot of these things I know, and just I can feel in my
bones because I live here. Ican see the goddamn city from my window.
Like the first thing we're gonna betalking about are homeless encampments, So
I don't know if that's what we'resupposed to call them, places where people
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who are experiencing homelessness sleep. Ie. There's like seven or ten fucking
places all around the city that allof a sudden, all these grungy tents
and shit are popped up, andnow you gotta worry about all that.
You gotta worry about getting from pointA to point B, and uh,
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you know, you're drawling across.It's like it's like a zombie movie.
They're all jang. If you're lucky, it's like one of the slow zombie
movies. All right, so thisis coming from one of our local newspapers
here called The trib the Tribune Review. I guess I don't know. I
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cannot believe people still fucking read newspapers. So this is called It's by a
guy named Justin Lavouchi. There's nowhereto go Pittsburgh's Pittsburgh clears out the homeless
camps. Four homeless Pittsburgh stood Tuesdayafternoon near tents at the wedge of land
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where Grant Street meets Fort pitt Boulevardand said they didn't know what comes next.
When was this written November seventh?Yeah, well they didn't tear it
down. I've been by here andit's just recently and all this shit still
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here. City officials announced last weekthat they were tearing down downtown homeless encampment
and posted warning signs ordering those livingon First Avenue to the west of Grant
Street to vacate. Outreach workers hadgiven quote credible offers of housing unquote to
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everyone living in the encampments, saidMaria Montano, a spokesperson for Mayor Ed
Ganey. So we're gonna be talkinga lot about another mayor later that mayor's
name is Bill Padudo. He's adope anyhow, So our new mayor is
ed Gainey Downtown Encampment maor feet fromthe site that officials were working to clear.
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Several homeless men on Tuesday said thatthey were told to relocate, but
received no offers of help or housing. The men asked not to be named.
All the shelters are full, there'snowhere to go. There's thing set
up. One of the individuals,a man of his forties, It said
to be living for a year alongGrant Avenue in the mon Wharf parking lot.
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There's no help and we have noclue what to do. So this
is a tragic story. And thesepeople. So when I was growing up
my formative years, as they say, you know there, you just assumed
that there was something wrong with ahomeless person. They had some kind of
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mental thing, addiction, something alongthose lines, some sort of insurmountable problem.
But nowadays it's not like that atall. The divide is here,
the divide the middle class is gone. The divide is here. I recently
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saw a clip of Tempole talking aboutand he's talking about how you have people
who can't afford rent or food andgroceries and their fucking home insurance, fucking
god damn it. And then yougo to a casino and there's a guy
dropping five grand like it's like,it's like, it's nothing. The divide
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is here. Not only is adivide here. We're gonna be talking about
this later, but the divide ishere. Uh, lawlessness is here.
There's no one to help you,and you're not even able to help yourself.
That's the whole show. If you'relooking for a positive, upbeat program,
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go watch something, go listen tosomething, something else. This one
is Uh, it is rough.You will own nothing. You're gonna be
happy. These guys don't know anythingin there. They're not so happy about
it. Homelessness is increase in AlleghenyCounty. As of me, there were
about nine hundred homeless people living inAlleghany County and estimated one hundred and fifty
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of them unsheltered, according to theAlleghany Department the Alleghany County What is this
Department of Human Service officials. Datafrom February twenty twenty two showed that the
county had about eight one hundred andeighty homeless where last winter we had about
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one hundred and five were unsheltered.Officials from Second Avenue Commons, a year
round downtown shelter that way to Gotrip that is filled to capacity soon after
it opened last year, did notrespond Tuesday afternoon to a requested comment.
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Tents that have been removed by middayTuesday from parts of First Avenue nearby at
P and C First Side Center officebuilding, workers on their lunch break chatted
on cell phones. Around two pointthirty three tenths remained along Grant Street between
First Avenue and Fortmit Boulevard. Fourmore were located on the grassy wedge.
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Where was Where was? Jfk Onthe one of the homeless men had said
officials need to do more to addresshomeless individuals underlying problems with drug addiction and
their struggles defined affordable housing. Theman, who appeared to be in his
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thirties, kept busy Tuesday afternoon byfilling black trash bags with discarded food items
and empty soda bottles, and hesaid his plans to sleep Tuesday night.
He plans to sleep Tuesday night atPoint State Park. They just move you
along and put you in another spot. He said, I don't like that
they were judged by how I don'tlike that they that we are judged by
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how we live. We are stillhuman. A second man said he found
a place to stay but was checkingon his brother. The two had lost
their mother during a drug overdose,and he declined to elaborate. Officials are
moving problems instead of addressing them,Like I said, this place is back
already from November. I have anotherarticle pulled up here. It's I don't
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think it's gonna let me read itthough, and I'm not registering. As
foreclosures risks rise, Nearly half ofdowntown Pittsburgh office space will be empty in
four years, So that was like, I kind of feel like, hey,
you did that to yourself with allyour crazy COVID bullshit. But now
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they're dealing with the fact that allthat tax revenue is gonna is going away.
It's going away. There's fucking potholesfucking everywhere, there's no cops to
be found. But yet we're stillMy taxes are going up, these real
estate commercial real estate taxes are goingdown. So I'm not gonna register to
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the fucking Postcazette to read this article. So here on to the next one.
This is from w t AE dotcom local news. Tax break proposed
to encourage conversions of Downtown Pittsburgh officebuildings to residential This is we my neighborhood.
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There's actually it's not commercial location obviously, but it's a old middle school
I think, or maybe maybe evenin elementary school that they turn into condos.
They look wonderful from the outside.But this is how they're trying to
answer the tax question. Downtown Pittsburgh, rising office vacancies are dropping, property
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tax revenues are creating a looming financialcrisis for the city government. Downtown is
in serious financial trouble after the COVIDnineteen pandemic. The demands for commercial office
space have dropped significantly. The councilmanBobby Wilson, who has proposed of addressing
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this problem because Downtown right now isin crisis and is projected to get worse.
More downtown office owners are winning thechallenges of their property tax assessment.
That trend is expected to grow,which would bring a body blow of lower
tax revenues for the city, whichget a quarter of the real estate tax
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revenue from downtown. Wilson is proposinglegislation to give tax breaks to those who
convert office space into residential space.It will be introduced this week. Nearly
thirty eight percent of the office spacestands vacant thirty eight percent already, and
the number is projected to get worse. Upwards of almost fifty percent of the
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space will be vacant by twenty eight. Councilwoman eric Annakatt Strausenberg said, we
as a city cannot afford to letdowntown fail permanently. Diminish tax revenues from
our central business district would severely restrictthe quality and frequency of the services we
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provide in all of our ninety neighborhoods. Make a little note of that the
proposed expanded ten year tax break orabatement would be on the added value of
the converted properties. So I'd wagerto say, if this is happening here,
it's happening in other middle sized cities, especially those who embraced BLM and
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defund the police as fucking hardcore asPittsburgh's did, Because that is gonna tie
the defund the police thing specific He'sgoing to tie into this. It's going
to be the bow. We're notreally the bow, like the shitty tape
that you put while you're to holdthe wrapping paper while you try to wrestle
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the bow. We need a varietyof tools in our toolbox to be able
to revitalize Downtown and support conversions commercialproperty to fit the needs for the future.
Stephanie Pashman, CEO of Allegheny Conferenceon the community development For our employees,
our residents, our neighborhoods, andour visitors, it is a vital
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not just to the vibrancy of Pittsburgh, but to our greater region. Wilson
has business and labor leaders lining upon the same side in support of this
proposal. Downtown is in trouble.It's being overrun by zombies looking for quarters.
We can't run from that. Thelaw Urn plan shows the commitment from
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the men and women and the leadersup on this stage, said Darren Kelly,
president of Alleghany FIAT Central Labor Council. Sam Williamson. I don't know
they're gonna pack these buildings with whoWho's gonna wanna live down downtown? I
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mean work. There's no work downthere, Like factory workers aren't gonna live
downtown. There's no fucking factories inPittsburgh anymore. Where are they gonna You're
gonna have a bunch of security guardsliving down there, because then they're just
gonna go and watch these empty fuckingbuildings all day long. We are you
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gonna have young profess living there?What are they gonna be? Professionals at
the buildings are? I don't knowtheir thing? And they might as well
just turn them into giant fucking likeputt putt golf courses some of them.
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What we're trying to do here isa tax abatement for people who are interested
in investing in downtown, basically savingdowntown and maintaining its tax base. Jeremy
Waldrup, president of the President andCEO Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, said this program
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will play a pivotal role and theycontinued economic recovery while building a more vibrant
and residential community in downtown Pittsburgh.You know what this reminds me of.
It reminds me a Judge Dread,not the soilestor Stolen movie, and not
even the New War one. I'mtalking about the comic books man, where
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it's really at the O G twothousand a d. They lived, They
all lived in these megacities and thisis you know you hear talk about.
Really the problem nowadays are people thatlive in the country, white rural,
white rage. I heard someone saythe other day, you know, we
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got to get those people out ofthe country move into the city to live
in these fucking shitty apartment buildings.We got to just tighten them all up,
just like Mega City one, MegaCity one. Here we go.
The goal right now is to probablygo from seven thousand residents living in downtown
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to fifteen. They're gonna more thandouble it. They think. There are
already several projects ready to go thatneed to pencil out their numbers for the
City of Pittsburgh to be a partnerin all of that. The forty four
story Gulf Tower on Seventh Avenue,is there one office building site looking for
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partial conversion into residential uses. I'mactually quite familiar with the Golf Tower,
and I could have swore that thereare already apartments in there. Parts of
at least one lobby look pretty oras a dential, looks like like mister
Pitt's lobby. You know what I'mtalking about? Do you know what I'm
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talking about? That might be anold reference. I don't know the plan
is definitely to convert to a hoteland apartments, but the numbers of each
are still in flexi. Larry Walsh, chief operating officer principal of Rugby Realty
Company, responded to Pittsburgh Action Newsfor via email quote, In fact,
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without the passage of state's proposed legislation, the project would be put on indefinite
hold and we would start the processof emptying the building. As of today,
the building is approximately fifty percent occupied. Olga George Mayor, Ed Gainey's
press secretary emailed this statement on behalfof the Gainey administration. While no tool
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is the answer, the administration issupportive of bringing additional resources to bear and
for the stabilization and growth of DowntownPittsburgh. The further stabilization and growth of
Downtown Pittsburgh. We just said thatit's not growing. They're actually taking drastic
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measures to try to make it grow. It's not gonna work, lash Well,
I mean, obviously at some pointit's gonna work. They're going to
force people to move down there somehow. But the further stabilization we're going to
talk about the stabilization here in alittle bit and growth of downtown Pittsburgh.
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Our work with the Alleghany Conference toconvene a broad base of downtown stakeholders to
develop a holistic action plan it sureswe build a welcoming, safe, and
thriving downtown is evidence of this.Additionally, we are thankful to the URA
and the partnership with the Alleghany Countyand Pittsburgh Public Schools to adopt a tax
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abatement program for downtown across these threetaxing bodies. We look forward to working
with the Councilman Wilson and of allthe city councilmen on improvements that can be
made to the city's tax abatement fordowntown to ensure we are building a Pittsburgh
for all. All right, solet's talk about that stization. This is
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Join Ouramerica dot com. I've neverread this website before, so we're in.
We're going it together. Safer streets, brighter futures. A new report
shows alarming rise in the crime inPittsburgh. This was posted on October eighteenth,
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twenty three, so not so longago. This is gonna be October
eighth, twenty twenty three. Isat October eighteenth, twenty twenty three.
This is gonna be the good olddays. Here in a year, this
article is gonna be the good olddays. This is gonna be when Pittsburgh
was a utopia. That's what they'llsay. Anyways, I'm down for it,
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down for dystopia. No, howwould I say it? Oh?
Another Seinfeld reference, I encourage intruders. Our America's new Crime and Safety Impact
Report shows an alarming rise in crimein Pittsburgh during the major city's Chief Association
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from twenty twenty one to twenty twentytwo. Pittsburgh's on increase and well just
homicides, rapes, and robberies.As of mid twenty twenty three, the
MCCA also reports a year over yearincrease in I don't know, just rapes,
robberies, and aggravated assaults in Pittsburgh. Citizens are rightfully concerned. In
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December twenty twenty two, downtown Pittsburghbusiness owners complained to the Mayor's office.
The Pittsburgh Post Is that covered theevent, writing, downtown is a bit
on edge of these days. Frustrationsover shootings, fighting, panhandling, open
drug dealing boiled over during a recentmeeting between downtown business owners and the merchants
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and top officials within Mayor ed Gainey'sadministration. Some worried about losing commercial or
residential tenants. The situation does notchange. How can they cajole workers back
to the office given anxiety about safetyabout another thredit about losing business businesses or
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restaurants. But many of those attendedthe meetings and others who didn't insist the
city leadership isn't doing enough, particularlyto address issues like aggressive panhandling, fighting
unruly youths. We all know whatthat is a secret code for, and
LORI doing that don't show up incrime stats. From twenty twenty to twenty
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twenty one, Pittsburgh saw in fortysix percent rise in shootings. What's the
big deal? Forty six rise inshooting that left people injured in a similar
percentage jump in homicides. While muchof the nation has experienced dramatic increase in
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murders and other violent crimes, APNews reported in September twenty twenty one,
Pittsburgh has seen a forty six percentrise in shootings that left people injured in
similar percentage jump in homicides over thesame time last year. Why are you
repeating yourself? Why are you repeatingyourself. Perhaps the most alarming statistic to
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neighborhood activists is the number of youngpeople you know, just dying from bullets.
Nearly one third of the city's fortyone homicide victims were teens. I
didn't make it. I didn't wantto make it sound like I was laughing
at that. I apologize. Ijust was laughing at how they said that
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the young people were dying from bullets. That just seems like a really weird
way of saying they got shot.You know what I mean. They're not
dying, They're dying from bullets.Okay. In twenty two, Pittsburgh reached
seventy one homicides. It is thehighest number in a decade. This year,
Pittsburgh has seen a record breaking numberof homicides. On Monday, Pittsburgh
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police responded to a family dollar onBrighton Road, right down the street from
me. I'm giving you guys alltactical informations. You could find my house.
I've mentioned like four things this episode. If you think you got it,
let me know. I'd be interested. Okay, where was I is?
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The highest has been in a decade. Eight years ago. According to
Crime Data Online, there were seventyhomicides within the city. In between twenty
ten and Thursday, there have beenseven hundred seven hundred. According to the
most up to date data from thepolice, sixty percent of the offenders involved
in homicides this year were between fifteenand twenty four. So we don't need
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to ban guns, We just needto ban idiot kids. More than fifty
percent of the victims were within thatsame age group. Clearly something needs to
change. Our America National Director GabrielNadels released the following statement. In Our
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America Crime and Safety Impact Report demonstratesthat we have known for years crime has
gotten significantly worse since before COVID nineteen. You're burying the lead. Let me
editorialize in Our America Crime and SafetyImpact Report demonstrates that we've known for years
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crime has gotten significantly worse since everyonewanted to de fund the police, not
only in places like New York andLos Angeles, but in smaller profile cities
like Tucson, Arizona, Henderson,Nevada, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With this
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report, Our America seeks to showthe public that although the headlines on crime
might be dominated by large cities,it's happening everywhere. High crime rates make
considerably more difficult for people to realizethe American dream Sadly, minority communities in
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particular are the hardest hit by crimerates since they tend to disproportionately suffer from
crime. As it is its incumbenton the state and local governments to establish
and to uphold safe communities for familiesand businesses to succeed. We hope this
report and its recommended solutions can helpfoster save for streets, brighter futures for
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America and across the country. Nextarticle is from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
If it lets me keep going,and so the last one, the last
one about the rising crime jump wasfrom November. Okay, this was published
Sunday, March twenty fourth, twentyfour, two days ago, three days
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ago. As you're listening to this, perhaps changes in the staffing structure in
the Pittsburgh Police are drawing mixed reactions. Chief Larry screetorro Scurato whatever says the
reorganized data driven. Others say thereorganization is data driven. The others say
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results may be quote disastrous unquote Nowyou read you, let me dear listener,
let me read this to you,and you tell me where you fall
on this. The staffing changes areis the reorganization. Is it just good
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old fashioned, you know, policework, data driven or does it sound
like it's disastrous. I can't evenbelieve this is a thing. So New
York's having its own problems with everyoneleaving the commercial properties. They're having a
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problem with illegal immigrants coming in andbeing lodged because New York is some sort
of right to house state or somethingI was reading about. It seems crazy,
like if you just show up andyou say I need someplace to stay,
the city is obligated to give youa place to stay. I'm like,
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oh, whatever, whatever. Butso we don't, I mean we
do. We are have illegal WhyI can't even say that we're having an
man, I'm on a I've starteddown a path I want to turn back.
I'm gonna say we have Spanish speakingmilitary aged men that apparently cannot speak
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English or will not speak English,but they're everywhere. And if you live
in Pittsburgh and you're like, thisguy is full of shit. I don't
know what he's talking about. Justgo to a fucking laundry mat on a
Sunday afternoon and just hang out fora fucking minute or hit Walmart. I
mean it's increasing and I got alot of heat, I mean years ago.
I'm not gonna get down, Okay, the Pittsburgh Bureau of I want
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to get to the point. Holdon, let me do a time check
here before we get all crazy lookingat my Gucci. It's about that time.
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As Pittsburgh Bureau of Police moved quicklyand very publicly last week to reduce
the number of officers on duty duringcertain overnight hours, the question started.
Council members, union officials, residentsand businesses wondered what drove this decision and
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what it will mean for city safetyand for the police force. Larry Scruttle.
Scrotairo points directly to the numbers.He's like, the this is like
moneyball for cops. If he's agood cop, why is it he a
good cop? Significantly fewer major nineto one one calls, referred to as
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as quote priority calls by the Bureaucome during the seven or sorry, the
three am to seven am time frame, which is when the number of officers
on duty in Pittsburgh has been reduced. Data provided to show Postcasette News they
even publish the hours. That's whatI mean. It's like, it's like
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the fucking It's like, I don'tknow, the like every night is a
little purge. We got a littlepurge every night. The numbers drove Chief
Scrotum to reconsider how the department's resourcesare allocated. Whether the decision is successful
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for the department and its officers,as well as the city and its residents,
remain to be determined. The differencein overall staffing, the Chief said,
is really rather negligible. Average night, we'd have of seven officers on
on the road in each zone,so we had like forty two officers generally.
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Chiefs scray t o Rioto told thePost Gazette in an interview late last
week, we cut twelve. Ithink we cut twelve people. These are
not the numbers, Okay, considerhowever. Concerns, however, remained.
City council Woman Teresa Callie Smith saidthe changes have been have a potential to
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become a recipe ripe for disaster.My community will not be happy, said
Collie Smith, whose district includes muchof the West End. They want to
see how it's going to play out. Bob Schwartzenwelder president of the union representing
Pittsburgh police, said the only theidea of only a dozen or so officers
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were cut from the overnight shift isdisingenuous. He claims that in terms of
patrol officers, there are only fourteenor fifteen on duty between three am and
seven am. They're running out ofmanpower very very quickly, and they're getting
very taxed, he said. MisterSchwartzwelder said that in terms of overall police
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numbers, including specialized units, theremight be twenty five to thirty working during
that overnight timeframe, but he saidthose specialized units are tied up doing specialized
work. I think the strategy atthis point is a hope in a prayer
that they can base everyone on data. He said. It may pan out
to be correct, and it maybe disastrous. So let's talk about we
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have an ongoing shortage of officers.Pittsburgh police were dispatched to fifty thousand,
eight hundred and eleven so called prioritycalls in twenty twenty three. Of those,
foury two hundred and seven came betweenthree and seven am. The other
forty six thousand, six hundred andfour came during the other twenty hours.
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So to me, four two hundredand seven priority calls in a year between
three and seven seems like a bigdeal. I mean, I guess you
could wash out calls that in theend aren't priority calls. Like it's reported
kind of as one thing, andwhen you get there, it's kind of
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something that isn't such a big deal. I don't know, it still seems
like a lot. The chief said. About a third of patrol officers worked
overnight when nearly two thirds of thecall volumes between two and two, So
we're running one shift ragged, underresourcing it and over resourcing another. He
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said. That is why I thoughtthis exercise was so important. Last year,
only about eight percent of the prioritycalls were dispatched between three and seven
am, he said. The datathe Bureau provided bears that out priority calls
are considered incidents that are in progress, including shots fired, panic alarms,
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domestic violence, suicide threats, crasheswith injuries, entrapment, robberies, and
burglar alarms. In twenty twenty three, numbers showing fifty eight hundred and eleven
priority calls don't include lower level calls, the kind of that will be likely
to be re routed under a newstructure. It's an answer machine. They
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got an answer machine. Missus CallySmith said that her constituents are nervous about
the changes. The West end wherethey're talking about her constituents are can be
a pretty rough place. They gotthe Pulaski clubs up there. Would you
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include doing away with desk sergeants?Desk sergeants from three to seven am timeframe,
there are the officers who work thedesks in the zone stations overnight,
the chief said. Not many peoplehave a need to come to one of
the stations during those hours. Maybeonce or twice a year, he estimated,
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But it's your dude, yeah,like I okay. They understand that
there's a police shortage. Why whyis there a police shortage. We'll get
to it, missus Calli Smith saidof her community, but they will want
to know what we're doing to increasethose numbers. The bureau's unemployment numbers sat
at about seven hundred and forty officerslast week, down from the eight hundred
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and thirty the eight hundred and thirtyfive who were working at the start of
twenty twenty three, and even furtherdown from the full complement of nine hundred.
The ongoing shortfall led city officials tolower the number of officers budgeted for
the twenty twenty four eight hundred andfifty and set of the traditional nine hundred.
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The city hasn't seen a full complimentin years, and his resignations and
retirement continue to far outpace new recruits. A class of about two dozen recruits
will graduate this week. Just undertwo hundred are eligible to retire this year
two dozen to two hundred. That'sa ratio. Bro Miss Cally Smiths said
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she too is nervous about and notjust about the changes advertising the strategy alerts
not just the well meaning citizens,but also the criminals. I think that
might be the most important part ofthis whole article. David Defasio, a
defense attorney at the University of Pittsburghprofessor said, somebody who's committing and deliberate
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crime might make a choice of whento commit that crime. Now, yeah,
that's the gist of it, David, thank you, But he added
the passage of time and incoming datacan help make modifications if needed. There
will be exceptions, they say.Chief Scrodeo, who was hired to lead
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the bureau last year, is alsochanging the types of calls his officers respond
to, and he said, thetelephone reporting unit will answer answer calls like
parking complaints. Okay, so ifthey're answering calls like parking complaints, who's
answering them? Like, who's goingto the calls lost cell phones and wallets.
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I'll tell you what. In thisday and age, a lost cell
phone is a big fucking deal.And like the last two hundred thousand years,
a lost wallet, it is abig deal to somebody, to the
person who lost it. And thecrimes aren't actively happening. They're not,
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So what's the implication of that.If they're not actively happening, no one's
investigating them. It's a difference betweencoming home to find that somebody stole your
lawnmower and somebody's actively stealing your lawnmowerfrom you, he said, So I
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might be down with this. Ithis is weird because I hate baseball,
but I am a fan of moneyball. I think it's the number cruncher in
me and I'm not very good atmath, so maybe that has something to
do with it. But if theyhad like a QRF, like in the
middle of the city, a quickreaction force if they had a cute like
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a maybe not a swat team,maybe something a little bit more dialed down.
But if they had like a squadof dudes that could just fill in
the gaps when needed, if needed, you know, pay them, I
don't know, put them on callor something whatever I mean, and the
cops go on call, like therehas to be. So when you're on
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call, you're on call. Inthis QRF situation. You got a little
weapons racked here, you got somevehicles lined up, you got your GPS's
and your laptops for your cars.And if something crazy happens, you guys
can be the quick reaction for us. That might be a good idea.
They might want to. Hey,if you guys know, Chief Administrator,
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scrot them, turn them on tothis idea. What we're trying to do
is not create the rules for exceptions, but there will be exceptions, the
Chief said, and when there arewill meet the needs of the community.
Elizabeth p Inger, Director of theCitizen the City Citizen Police Review Board total
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board members last the only time wouldtell if the changes were for the better.
Well, thank you for that dazzlinginsight, missus printing gers. The
problem is that the police are notinitiating the calls. Those are people.
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She said that the people calling nineone one and asking for some kind of
help. So now that translates intoan efficient and effective use of enforcement power
and contrast to the caretaking toll thatthe police have. What's going to take
a while to determine. Chief Scrotumcontends that these changes will mean officers will
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actually be more engaged in their community. I see cops. I don't know.
I'm not gonna stir any shit.I'm sorry. I'm friends with some
cops, so whatever. Okay.With that being said, I'm gonna move
on. I think we get thegist of this. A lot of people
think that this is going to bebullshit, and a lot of people think
that this is going to be areally good idea. So I'm just gonna
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take a little bit from this.Pittsburgh's police chief pushes back against criticisms of
sweeping redeployment March nineteenth, twenty twentyfour. This is from CBS News Pittsburgh
Dateline. Due to Pittsburgh Katika.Since redeploying staff for the Pittsburgh Bureau of
Police, Chief Larry Scurrito has heardthe allegations and denies them all. Sitting
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down for the first time since orderingthe changes, the chiefs told Katika TV
that he his reorganization is enhancing publicsafety and the wellness of his officers.
Since his swearing in ceremony ten monthsago, this guy has been tasked with
doing more with less, so he'semployed data analytics. He's the Billy Bean
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of policing or he's the father ofthe perk. We've been talking about this
since the day they hired me,said, I don't just think people realize
we'd actually execute it. The sweetbeing redeployment changes when officers work and how
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they work now responding only to priorityin progress emergency calls like shootings, robberies,
and referring non emergencies like harassment andtheft to a phone reporting unit.
I wonder what would happen if theysaw that my car wasn't inspected. Right
now, I get pulled over byone of these goddamn city cops. I'm
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gonna be like, yo, bro, I don't know, I don't know
what I would say. I don'thave anything funny line. I'm sorry.
So despite a new class of grads. This is from the post Gazette.
Pittsburgh police staffing woes mirror a nationaltrend the twenty four new officers. We
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heard about these guys article or twoago. As shifts are made to staffing
instructure and the department struggles nationwide.This guy's got a big fucking head.
Man. I'm looking at these guys. They look like they're all white guys,
and some of them are obviously chubby. I mean, they're cops,
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but pot kettle black. Oh no, I'm not a cop. I'm a
little chubby. They come to thebureau Bureau at a tumultuous time. Chief
Larry has been at the helm ofthe department for less than a year.
Fallout from the twenty twenty one deathof Jim Rodgers after a violent arrest continues,
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and they join a force that islosing officers far faster than it recruits
them. None of this has beenlost on the graduates as they head into
the twelve weeks of field training.I feel like they need more. I
feel like there should be more training. Bline, being a police officer is
not just a job. The recruitclass president Robert Redmond told his classmates at
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a graduation ceremony Wednesday, night.It is a solemn responsibility. We must
trample the rights of everyone we canfind. So my wife occasionally nowadays listens
to the Pittsburgh Police scanner. Shehas an app for it so she can
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listen to it on her phone.And we were listening to it one time
and this cop gets on his netand he's like, hey, civilian,
just give me a passport that theyfound. So I have this passport,
I'm gonna go ahead and run itfor warrants. That's a true story.
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Someone fucking did that. All right, So I'm gonna move I'm gonna move
on. I'm gonna move on.I'm gonna take a brief interlude here.
Oh yeah, brief interlude. Actually, I'm gonna take an interlude, all
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right. Back from the interlude.WHOA So. In July of twenty twenty
one, a man, a rampantliar and plagiarist Google search it named Joe
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Biden, who happens to be thePresident of the United States. Currently put
an asterisk next to that if youwant, I have a feeling we're gonna
be We're visiting that fact and sometimesin the future, if I had my
feature topic link page up on thewebsite, you would see that the would
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be a whole block of episodes specificallyabout Joe Biden. I have. I
can't remember the names of them.One of them is the Nietzschean Nietschean time
loop of Joe Biden. Anyhow,Joe Biden said this in July of twenty
twenty one. You need to haveweapons to take on the government. You
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need f fifteens and maybe some nuclearweapons. So he was talking about his
own citizens. He was talking aboutcitizens in the United States of America,
and he threatened to use fighter jetsand maybe nuclear weapons against them. So
I you know, I didn't playthis clip because I don't I'm missing my
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wire. If you've been keeping upwith current events, you know I'm rusty
from my multiple months off before gettingstarted back again, so I need to
track down some equipment. Apparently,I didn't play this clip not only because
I don't have a wire, butbecause I think a lot of people get
(50:12):
mileage out of how weak he is. He sounds weak, So I just
wanted to hit that with you,the actual words spoken by a normal fucking
human being right now. You canput an asterisk next to that too,
if you want. You need tohave weapons, man like like when I
had when I fought corn Pop,I had a piece of a chain,
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all right. You need to haveweapons to take on the government. You
need a fifteen's and maybe some nuclearweapons. So he said this during a
White House speech to outline his planto combat gun violence. In the same
speech, he also falsely claimed thatthere has always been limits on the Second
Amendment. The Second Amendment literally saysthere are no limits, is right there
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at the beginning, Shall make nolaws, all right? So why are
we transferring transitioning from a shithole likePittsburgh in its current state of being flushed
down the toilet to what Joe Bidensaid in twenty twenty one about how you
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have to have weapons to take onthe government. Well, here it is
a giant budget just got passed,like over trillion bucks, just got passed
on Saturday, and yeah, thenthis was released. This is reading right
off of all fucking places, theOffice of Public Affairs, the US Department
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of Justice. The Justice Department launchesa National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.
Well that's a mouthful, doctor Towers. What is this? The Justice
Department launches a National Extreme Risk ProtectionOrder or the IRPO Resource Center or the
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center which will provide training and technicalassistance to law enforcements, prosecutors, attorneys,
judges, clinicians, victim services,social service providers, community organizations,
and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementinglaws designed to keep guns out of the
(52:36):
hands of people who pose a threatto themselves or others. Well, I
mean, do you how do youwant to get started? There's a lot
here. I'll get started. I'llstart now, end right here. Gee,
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okay, I'm going to start andend right here. Law enforcement officials,
prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victims services, social service providers,
community organizations, behavioral health professionals don'timplement laws. They don't write laws,
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they don't design laws, they don'timplement them. I guess you could
say that law enforcement officials implement lawslike they carry them out, or they
don't whatever. I'm not a bootliquor. So none of those people are
legislators, congress people, senators,state house people. None of those people
(53:52):
actually write or implement pass sign Noneof those people make laws. This is
an official document, okay, Soall those people are now implementing laws designed
(54:13):
to keep guns out of the handsof people who pose a threat to themselves
or others. So like cartels,how many social service providers are visiting and
reporting on cartels? I don't know? Is this is this gonna uh?
(54:36):
Is this going to also include likeATF members who harassed citizens uh for uh
knocking on doors and asking to seetheir weapons and their papers? Please back
to this. The launch of theNational Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will
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provide our partners across the country withvaluable resources to keep firearms out of the
hands of individuals who pose a threatto themselves and others, says Attorney General
Merit Merit Garland. The establishment ofthe center is the latest example of the
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Justice Department's work to use every toolprovided by the landmark bipartisans Safer Communities Act
to protect communities from gun violence.So they're gonna be talking to like gang
members and stuff. They're gonna beuh, they're gonna be reporting on like
gang gang members or does it soundmore likely that they're going to be targeting,
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you know, through the veight,through the VA veterans who have PTSD,
veterans who are having mental health problemsor or something like that. But
remember remember if you want to fightthe government, you're gonna need n F
fifteen and maybe some nuclear weapons.But since we got you right here,
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and since obviously you're plagued by wrongthink, you have so many like personal
problems, you can't possibly make thesedeterminations for yourself. I think that I
should take all your guns away fromyou. And I'm sure there's people out
there that are like, what's thebig deal, It's just a gun.
Well, I don't know. Idon't see it your way. I see
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it a different way. I seeit a different way. Where our cities,
our homes are being invaded by homelesspeople, there's illegal immigrants, I
guess, invading my laundromat and myWalmart. It might not be such a
(56:58):
big deal because the police are notresponding to calls anymore. It might not
be such a big deal because youknow, police are not responding to your
calls anymore. I mean, yeah, yeah, So I mean there's that.
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I don't know why else. Imean, the police aren't responding to
your calls anymore. If I hadthat wire to connect to do the min
max and I would have queued upWelcome to the Terrandome right there where the
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I'm your host, John Towers.We are recording here far below I don't
know, subterranean bunker underneath the StigmataStudios, Independent Comic book Company, the
steel buckle of the Rust Belt.What is turning out to be ground zero
(01:45):
for the fall of Western civilization?And that's kind of what we're gonna talking
about this evening. We're gonna takea break on the Biblical prophecy. This
is a Wednesday show, so Ican kind of do what I want,
you know what I mean, Andthen we're gonna start talking about eclipses.
We get right back on track,but I wanted just to talk about you
know, we've been talking about likethe end of Western civilization, and then
(02:12):
we started talking about some of thereasons. It's so fucking cool, you
know, to quote Jim Morrison,the West is the best, The West
is the best. Maybe I shouldn'thave used that quote because the rest of
it is get here and we'll dothe rest. So I have the mother's
(02:39):
milk here, I got my gingyhod mixed up. And we're gonna be
talking about Pittsburgh ground zero. SoPittsburgh. I don't have any of the
stats ahead of in front of me. It's a smaller big city or a
medium sized city. We're gonna learna lot about it going forward. So
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a lot of these things I know, and just I can feel in my
bones because I live here. Ican see the goddamn city from my window.
Like the first thing we're gonna betalking about are homeless encampments, So
I don't know if that's what we'resupposed to call them, places where people
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who are experiencing homelessness sleep. Ie. There's like seven or ten fucking
places all around the city that allof a sudden, all these grungy tents
and shit are popped up, andnow you gotta worry about all that.
You gotta worry about getting from pointA to point B, and uh,
(03:50):
you know, you're drawling across.It's like it's like a zombie movie.
They're all jang. If you're lucky, it's like one of the slow zombie
movies. All right, so thisis coming from one of our local newspapers
here called The trib the Tribune Review. I guess I don't know. I
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cannot believe people still fucking read newspapers. So this is called It's by a
guy named Justin Lavouchi. There's nowhereto go Pittsburgh's Pittsburgh clears out the homeless
camps. Four homeless Pittsburgh stood Tuesdayafternoon near tents at the wedge of land
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where Grant Street meets Fort pitt Boulevardand said they didn't know what comes next.
When was this written November seventh?Yeah, well they didn't tear it
down. I've been by here andit's just recently and all this shit still
(04:59):
here. City officials announced last weekthat they were tearing down downtown homeless encampment
and posted warning signs ordering those livingon First Avenue to the west of Grant
Street to vacate. Outreach workers hadgiven quote credible offers of housing unquote to
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everyone living in the encampments, saidMaria Montano, a spokesperson for Mayor Ed
Ganey. So we're gonna be talkinga lot about another mayor later that mayor's
name is Bill Padudo. He's adope anyhow, So our new mayor is
ed Gainey Downtown Encampment maor feet fromthe site that officials were working to clear.
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Several homeless men on Tuesday said thatthey were told to relocate, but
received no offers of help or housing. The men asked not to be named.
All the shelters are full, there'snowhere to go. There's thing set
up. One of the individuals,a man of his forties, It said
to be living for a year alongGrant Avenue in the mon Wharf parking lot.
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There's no help and we have noclue what to do. So this
is a tragic story. And thesepeople. So when I was growing up
my formative years, as they say, you know there, you just assumed
that there was something wrong with ahomeless person. They had some kind of
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mental thing, addiction, something alongthose lines, some sort of insurmountable problem.
But nowadays it's not like that atall. The divide is here,
the divide the middle class is gone. The divide is here. I recently
(06:56):
saw a clip of Tempole talking aboutand he's talking about how you have people
who can't afford rent or food andgroceries and their fucking home insurance, fucking
god damn it. And then yougo to a casino and there's a guy
dropping five grand like it's like,it's like, it's nothing. The divide
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is here. Not only is adivide here. We're gonna be talking about
this later, but the divide ishere. Uh, lawlessness is here.
There's no one to help you,and you're not even able to help yourself.
That's the whole show. If you'relooking for a positive, upbeat program,
(07:40):
go watch something, go listen tosomething, something else. This one
is Uh, it is rough.You will own nothing. You're gonna be
happy. These guys don't know anythingin there. They're not so happy about
it. Homelessness is increase in AlleghenyCounty. As of me, there were
about nine hundred homeless people living inAlleghany County and estimated one hundred and fifty
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of them unsheltered, according to theAlleghany Department the Alleghany County What is this
Department of Human Service officials. Datafrom February twenty twenty two showed that the
county had about eight one hundred andeighty homeless where last winter we had about
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one hundred and five were unsheltered.Officials from Second Avenue Commons, a year
round downtown shelter that way to Gotrip that is filled to capacity soon after
it opened last year, did notrespond Tuesday afternoon to a requested comment.
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Tents that have been removed by middayTuesday from parts of First Avenue nearby at
P and C First Side Center officebuilding, workers on their lunch break chatted
on cell phones. Around two pointthirty three tenths remained along Grant Street between
First Avenue and Fortmit Boulevard. Fourmore were located on the grassy wedge.
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Where was Where was? Jfk Onthe one of the homeless men had said
officials need to do more to addresshomeless individuals underlying problems with drug addiction and
their struggles defined affordable housing. Theman, who appeared to be in his
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thirties, kept busy Tuesday afternoon byfilling black trash bags with discarded food items
and empty soda bottles, and hesaid his plans to sleep Tuesday night.
He plans to sleep Tuesday night atPoint State Park. They just move you
along and put you in another spot. He said, I don't like that
they were judged by how I don'tlike that they that we are judged by
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how we live. We are stillhuman. A second man said he found
a place to stay but was checkingon his brother. The two had lost
their mother during a drug overdose,and he declined to elaborate. Officials are
moving problems instead of addressing them,Like I said, this place is back
already from November. I have anotherarticle pulled up here. It's I don't
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think it's gonna let me read itthough, and I'm not registering. As
foreclosures risks rise, Nearly half ofdowntown Pittsburgh office space will be empty in
four years, So that was like, I kind of feel like, hey,
you did that to yourself with allyour crazy COVID bullshit. But now
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they're dealing with the fact that allthat tax revenue is gonna is going away.
It's going away. There's fucking potholesfucking everywhere, there's no cops to
be found. But yet we're stillMy taxes are going up, these real
estate commercial real estate taxes are goingdown. So I'm not gonna register to
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the fucking Postcazette to read this article. So here on to the next one.
This is from w t AE dotcom local news. Tax break proposed
to encourage conversions of Downtown Pittsburgh officebuildings to residential This is we my neighborhood.
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There's actually it's not commercial location obviously, but it's a old middle school
I think, or maybe maybe evenin elementary school that they turn into condos.
They look wonderful from the outside.But this is how they're trying to
answer the tax question. Downtown Pittsburgh, rising office vacancies are dropping, property
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tax revenues are creating a looming financialcrisis for the city government. Downtown is
in serious financial trouble after the COVIDnineteen pandemic. The demands for commercial office
space have dropped significantly. The councilmanBobby Wilson, who has proposed of addressing
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this problem because Downtown right now isin crisis and is projected to get worse.
More downtown office owners are winning thechallenges of their property tax assessment.
That trend is expected to grow,which would bring a body blow of lower
tax revenues for the city, whichget a quarter of the real estate tax
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revenue from downtown. Wilson is proposinglegislation to give tax breaks to those who
convert office space into residential space.It will be introduced this week. Nearly
thirty eight percent of the office spacestands vacant thirty eight percent already, and
the number is projected to get worse. Upwards of almost fifty percent of the
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space will be vacant by twenty eight. Councilwoman eric Annakatt Strausenberg said, we
as a city cannot afford to letdowntown fail permanently. Diminish tax revenues from
our central business district would severely restrictthe quality and frequency of the services we
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provide in all of our ninety neighborhoods. Make a little note of that the
proposed expanded ten year tax break orabatement would be on the added value of
the converted properties. So I'd wagerto say, if this is happening here,
it's happening in other middle sized cities, especially those who embraced BLM and
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defund the police as fucking hardcore asPittsburgh's did, Because that is gonna tie
the defund the police thing specific He'sgoing to tie into this. It's going
to be the bow. We're notreally the bow, like the shitty tape
that you put while you're to holdthe wrapping paper while you try to wrestle
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the bow. We need a varietyof tools in our toolbox to be able
to revitalize Downtown and support conversions commercialproperty to fit the needs for the future.
Stephanie Pashman, CEO of Allegheny Conferenceon the community development For our employees,
our residents, our neighborhoods, andour visitors, it is a vital
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not just to the vibrancy of Pittsburgh, but to our greater region. Wilson
has business and labor leaders lining upon the same side in support of this
proposal. Downtown is in trouble.It's being overrun by zombies looking for quarters.
We can't run from that. Thelaw Urn plan shows the commitment from
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the men and women and the leadersup on this stage, said Darren Kelly,
president of Alleghany FIAT Central Labor Council. Sam Williamson. I don't know
they're gonna pack these buildings with whoWho's gonna wanna live down downtown? I
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mean work. There's no work downthere, Like factory workers aren't gonna live
downtown. There's no fucking factories inPittsburgh anymore. Where are they gonna You're
gonna have a bunch of security guardsliving down there, because then they're just
gonna go and watch these empty fuckingbuildings all day long. We are you
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gonna have young profess living there?What are they gonna be? Professionals at
the buildings are? I don't knowtheir thing? And they might as well
just turn them into giant fucking likeputt putt golf courses some of them.
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What we're trying to do here isa tax abatement for people who are interested
in investing in downtown, basically savingdowntown and maintaining its tax base. Jeremy
Waldrup, president of the President andCEO Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, said this program
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will play a pivotal role and theycontinued economic recovery while building a more vibrant
and residential community in downtown Pittsburgh.You know what this reminds me of.
It reminds me a Judge Dread,not the soilestor Stolen movie, and not
even the New War one. I'mtalking about the comic books man, where
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it's really at the O G twothousand a d. They lived, They
all lived in these megacities and thisis you know you hear talk about.
Really the problem nowadays are people thatlive in the country, white rural,
white rage. I heard someone saythe other day, you know, we
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got to get those people out ofthe country move into the city to live
in these fucking shitty apartment buildings.We got to just tighten them all up,
just like Mega City one, MegaCity one. Here we go.
The goal right now is to probablygo from seven thousand residents living in downtown
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to fifteen. They're gonna more thandouble it. They think. There are
already several projects ready to go thatneed to pencil out their numbers for the
City of Pittsburgh to be a partnerin all of that. The forty four
story Gulf Tower on Seventh Avenue,is there one office building site looking for
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partial conversion into residential uses. I'mactually quite familiar with the Golf Tower,
and I could have swore that thereare already apartments in there. Parts of
at least one lobby look pretty oras a dential, looks like like mister
Pitt's lobby. You know what I'mtalking about? Do you know what I'm
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talking about? That might be anold reference. I don't know the plan
is definitely to convert to a hoteland apartments, but the numbers of each
are still in flexi. Larry Walsh, chief operating officer principal of Rugby Realty
Company, responded to Pittsburgh Action Newsfor via email quote, In fact,
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without the passage of state's proposed legislation, the project would be put on indefinite
hold and we would start the processof emptying the building. As of today,
the building is approximately fifty percent occupied. Olga George Mayor, Ed Gainey's
press secretary emailed this statement on behalfof the Gainey administration. While no tool
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is the answer, the administration issupportive of bringing additional resources to bear and
for the stabilization and growth of DowntownPittsburgh. The further stabilization and growth of
Downtown Pittsburgh. We just said thatit's not growing. They're actually taking drastic
(19:37):
measures to try to make it grow. It's not gonna work, lash Well,
I mean, obviously at some pointit's gonna work. They're going to
force people to move down there somehow. But the further stabilization we're going to
talk about the stabilization here in alittle bit and growth of downtown Pittsburgh.
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Our work with the Alleghany Conference toconvene a broad base of downtown stakeholders to
develop a holistic action plan it sureswe build a welcoming, safe, and
thriving downtown is evidence of this.Additionally, we are thankful to the URA
and the partnership with the Alleghany Countyand Pittsburgh Public Schools to adopt a tax
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abatement program for downtown across these threetaxing bodies. We look forward to working
with the Councilman Wilson and of allthe city councilmen on improvements that can be
made to the city's tax abatement fordowntown to ensure we are building a Pittsburgh
for all. All right, solet's talk about that stization. This is
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We're going it together. Safer streets, brighter futures. A new report
shows alarming rise in the crime inPittsburgh. This was posted on October eighteenth,
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twenty three, so not so longago. This is gonna be October
eighth, twenty twenty three. Isat October eighteenth, twenty twenty three.
This is gonna be the good olddays. Here in a year, this
article is gonna be the good olddays. This is gonna be when Pittsburgh
was a utopia. That's what they'llsay. Anyways, I'm down for it,
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down for dystopia. No, howwould I say it? Oh?
Another Seinfeld reference, I encourage intruders. Our America's new Crime and Safety Impact
Report shows an alarming rise in crimein Pittsburgh during the major city's Chief Association
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from twenty twenty one to twenty twentytwo. Pittsburgh's on increase and well just
homicides, rapes, and robberies.As of mid twenty twenty three, the
MCCA also reports a year over yearincrease in I don't know, just rapes,
robberies, and aggravated assaults in Pittsburgh. Citizens are rightfully concerned. In
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December twenty twenty two, downtown Pittsburghbusiness owners complained to the Mayor's office.
The Pittsburgh Post Is that covered theevent, writing, downtown is a bit
on edge of these days. Frustrationsover shootings, fighting, panhandling, open
drug dealing boiled over during a recentmeeting between downtown business owners and the merchants
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and top officials within Mayor ed Gainey'sadministration. Some worried about losing commercial or
residential tenants. The situation does notchange. How can they cajole workers back
to the office given anxiety about safetyabout another thredit about losing business businesses or
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restaurants. But many of those attendedthe meetings and others who didn't insist the
city leadership isn't doing enough, particularlyto address issues like aggressive panhandling, fighting
unruly youths. We all know whatthat is a secret code for, and
LORI doing that don't show up incrime stats. From twenty twenty to twenty
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twenty one, Pittsburgh saw in fortysix percent rise in shootings. What's the
big deal? Forty six rise inshooting that left people injured in a similar
percentage jump in homicides. While muchof the nation has experienced dramatic increase in
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murders and other violent crimes, APNews reported in September twenty twenty one,
Pittsburgh has seen a forty six percentrise in shootings that left people injured in
similar percentage jump in homicides over thesame time last year. Why are you
repeating yourself? Why are you repeatingyourself. Perhaps the most alarming statistic to
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neighborhood activists is the number of youngpeople you know, just dying from bullets.
Nearly one third of the city's fortyone homicide victims were teens. I
didn't make it. I didn't wantto make it sound like I was laughing
at that. I apologize. Ijust was laughing at how they said that
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the young people were dying from bullets. That just seems like a really weird
way of saying they got shot.You know what I mean. They're not
dying, They're dying from bullets.Okay. In twenty two, Pittsburgh reached
seventy one homicides. It is thehighest number in a decade. This year,
Pittsburgh has seen a record breaking numberof homicides. On Monday, Pittsburgh
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police responded to a family dollar onBrighton Road, right down the street from
me. I'm giving you guys alltactical informations. You could find my house.
I've mentioned like four things this episode. If you think you got it,
let me know. I'd be interested. Okay, where was I is?
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The highest has been in a decade. Eight years ago. According to
Crime Data Online, there were seventyhomicides within the city. In between twenty
ten and Thursday, there have beenseven hundred seven hundred. According to the
most up to date data from thepolice, sixty percent of the offenders involved
in homicides this year were between fifteenand twenty four. So we don't need
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to ban guns, We just needto ban idiot kids. More than fifty
percent of the victims were within thatsame age group. Clearly something needs to
change. Our America National Director GabrielNadels released the following statement. In Our
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America Crime and Safety Impact Report demonstratesthat we have known for years crime has
gotten significantly worse since before COVID nineteen. You're burying the lead. Let me
editorialize in Our America Crime and SafetyImpact Report demonstrates that we've known for years
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crime has gotten significantly worse since everyonewanted to de fund the police, not
only in places like New York andLos Angeles, but in smaller profile cities
like Tucson, Arizona, Henderson,Nevada, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With this
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report, Our America seeks to showthe public that although the headlines on crime
might be dominated by large cities,it's happening everywhere. High crime rates make
considerably more difficult for people to realizethe American dream Sadly, minority communities in
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particular are the hardest hit by crimerates since they tend to disproportionately suffer from
crime. As it is its incumbenton the state and local governments to establish
and to uphold safe communities for familiesand businesses to succeed. We hope this
report and its recommended solutions can helpfoster save for streets, brighter futures for
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America and across the country. Nextarticle is from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
If it lets me keep going,and so the last one, the last
one about the rising crime jump wasfrom November. Okay, this was published
Sunday, March twenty fourth, twentyfour, two days ago, three days
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ago. As you're listening to this, perhaps changes in the staffing structure in
the Pittsburgh Police are drawing mixed reactions. Chief Larry screetorro Scurato whatever says the
reorganized data driven. Others say thereorganization is data driven. The others say
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results may be quote disastrous unquote Nowyou read you, let me dear listener,
let me read this to you,and you tell me where you fall
on this. The staffing changes areis the reorganization. Is it just good
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old fashioned, you know, policework, data driven or does it sound
like it's disastrous. I can't evenbelieve this is a thing. So New
York's having its own problems with everyoneleaving the commercial properties. They're having a
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problem with illegal immigrants coming in andbeing lodged because New York is some sort
of right to house state or somethingI was reading about. It seems crazy,
like if you just show up andyou say I need someplace to stay,
the city is obligated to give youa place to stay. I'm like,
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oh, whatever, whatever. Butso we don't, I mean we
do. We are have illegal WhyI can't even say that we're having an
man, I'm on a I've starteddown a path I want to turn back.
I'm gonna say we have Spanish speakingmilitary aged men that apparently cannot speak
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English or will not speak English,but they're everywhere. And if you live
in Pittsburgh and you're like, thisguy is full of shit. I don't
know what he's talking about. Justgo to a fucking laundry mat on a
Sunday afternoon and just hang out fora fucking minute or hit Walmart. I
mean it's increasing and I got alot of heat, I mean years ago.
I'm not gonna get down, Okay, the Pittsburgh Bureau of I want
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to get to the point. Holdon, let me do a time check
here before we get all crazy lookingat my Gucci. It's about that time.
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As Pittsburgh Bureau of Police moved quicklyand very publicly last week to reduce
the number of officers on duty duringcertain overnight hours, the question started.
Council members, union officials, residentsand businesses wondered what drove this decision and
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what it will mean for city safetyand for the police force. Larry Scruttle.
Scrotairo points directly to the numbers.He's like, the this is like
moneyball for cops. If he's agood cop, why is it he a
good cop? Significantly fewer major nineto one one calls, referred to as
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as quote priority calls by the Bureaucome during the seven or sorry, the
three am to seven am time frame, which is when the number of officers
on duty in Pittsburgh has been reduced. Data provided to show Postcasette News they
even publish the hours. That's whatI mean. It's like, it's like
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the fucking It's like, I don'tknow, the like every night is a
little purge. We got a littlepurge every night. The numbers drove Chief
Scrotum to reconsider how the department's resourcesare allocated. Whether the decision is successful
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for the department and its officers,as well as the city and its residents,
remain to be determined. The differencein overall staffing, the Chief said,
is really rather negligible. Average night, we'd have of seven officers on
on the road in each zone,so we had like forty two officers generally.
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Chiefs scray t o Rioto told thePost Gazette in an interview late last
week, we cut twelve. Ithink we cut twelve people. These are
not the numbers, Okay, considerhowever. Concerns, however, remained.
City council Woman Teresa Callie Smith saidthe changes have been have a potential to
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become a recipe ripe for disaster.My community will not be happy, said
Collie Smith, whose district includes muchof the West End. They want to
see how it's going to play out. Bob Schwartzenwelder president of the union representing
Pittsburgh police, said the only theidea of only a dozen or so officers
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were cut from the overnight shift isdisingenuous. He claims that in terms of
patrol officers, there are only fourteenor fifteen on duty between three am and
seven am. They're running out ofmanpower very very quickly, and they're getting
very taxed, he said. MisterSchwartzwelder said that in terms of overall police
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numbers, including specialized units, theremight be twenty five to thirty working during
that overnight timeframe, but he saidthose specialized units are tied up doing specialized
work. I think the strategy atthis point is a hope in a prayer
that they can base everyone on data. He said. It may pan out
to be correct, and it maybe disastrous. So let's talk about we
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have an ongoing shortage of officers.Pittsburgh police were dispatched to fifty thousand,
eight hundred and eleven so called prioritycalls in twenty twenty three. Of those,
foury two hundred and seven came betweenthree and seven am. The other
forty six thousand, six hundred andfour came during the other twenty hours.
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So to me, four two hundredand seven priority calls in a year between
three and seven seems like a bigdeal. I mean, I guess you
could wash out calls that in theend aren't priority calls. Like it's reported
kind of as one thing, andwhen you get there, it's kind of
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something that isn't such a big deal. I don't know, it still seems
like a lot. The chief said. About a third of patrol officers worked
overnight when nearly two thirds of thecall volumes between two and two, So
we're running one shift ragged, underresourcing it and over resourcing another. He
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said. That is why I thoughtthis exercise was so important. Last year,
only about eight percent of the prioritycalls were dispatched between three and seven
am, he said. The datathe Bureau provided bears that out priority calls
are considered incidents that are in progress, including shots fired, panic alarms,
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domestic violence, suicide threats, crasheswith injuries, entrapment, robberies, and
burglar alarms. In twenty twenty three, numbers showing fifty eight hundred and eleven
priority calls don't include lower level calls, the kind of that will be likely
to be re routed under a newstructure. It's an answer machine. They
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got an answer machine. Missus CallySmith said that her constituents are nervous about
the changes. The West end wherethey're talking about her constituents are can be
a pretty rough place. They gotthe Pulaski clubs up there. Would you
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include doing away with desk sergeants?Desk sergeants from three to seven am timeframe,
there are the officers who work thedesks in the zone stations overnight,
the chief said. Not many peoplehave a need to come to one of
the stations during those hours. Maybeonce or twice a year, he estimated,
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But it's your dude, yeah,like I okay. They understand that
there's a police shortage. Why whyis there a police shortage. We'll get
to it, missus Calli Smith saidof her community, but they will want
to know what we're doing to increasethose numbers. The bureau's unemployment numbers sat
at about seven hundred and forty officerslast week, down from the eight hundred
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and thirty the eight hundred and thirtyfive who were working at the start of
twenty twenty three, and even furtherdown from the full complement of nine hundred.
The ongoing shortfall led city officials tolower the number of officers budgeted for
the twenty twenty four eight hundred andfifty and set of the traditional nine hundred.
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The city hasn't seen a full complimentin years, and his resignations and
retirement continue to far outpace new recruits. A class of about two dozen recruits
will graduate this week. Just undertwo hundred are eligible to retire this year
two dozen to two hundred. That'sa ratio. Bro Miss Cally Smiths said
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she too is nervous about and notjust about the changes advertising the strategy alerts
not just the well meaning citizens,but also the criminals. I think that
might be the most important part ofthis whole article. David Defasio, a
defense attorney at the University of Pittsburghprofessor said, somebody who's committing and deliberate
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crime might make a choice of whento commit that crime. Now, yeah,
that's the gist of it, David, thank you, But he added
the passage of time and incoming datacan help make modifications if needed. There
will be exceptions, they say.Chief Scrodeo, who was hired to lead
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the bureau last year, is alsochanging the types of calls his officers respond
to, and he said, thetelephone reporting unit will answer answer calls like
parking complaints. Okay, so ifthey're answering calls like parking complaints, who's
answering them? Like, who's goingto the calls lost cell phones and wallets.
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I'll tell you what. In thisday and age, a lost cell
phone is a big fucking deal.And like the last two hundred thousand years,
a lost wallet, it is abig deal to somebody, to the
person who lost it. And thecrimes aren't actively happening. They're not,
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So what's the implication of that.If they're not actively happening, no one's
investigating them. It's a difference betweencoming home to find that somebody stole your
lawnmower and somebody's actively stealing your lawnmowerfrom you, he said, So I
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might be down with this. Ithis is weird because I hate baseball,
but I am a fan of moneyball. I think it's the number cruncher in
me and I'm not very good atmath, so maybe that has something to
do with it. But if theyhad like a QRF, like in the
middle of the city, a quickreaction force if they had a cute like
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a maybe not a swat team,maybe something a little bit more dialed down.
But if they had like a squadof dudes that could just fill in
the gaps when needed, if needed, you know, pay them, I
don't know, put them on callor something whatever I mean, and the
cops go on call, like therehas to be. So when you're on
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call, you're on call. Inthis QRF situation. You got a little
weapons racked here, you got somevehicles lined up, you got your GPS's
and your laptops for your cars.And if something crazy happens, you guys
can be the quick reaction for us. That might be a good idea.
They might want to. Hey,if you guys know, Chief Administrator,
(42:37):
scrot them, turn them on tothis idea. What we're trying to do
is not create the rules for exceptions, but there will be exceptions, the
Chief said, and when there arewill meet the needs of the community.
Elizabeth p Inger, Director of theCitizen the City Citizen Police Review Board total
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board members last the only time wouldtell if the changes were for the better.
Well, thank you for that dazzlinginsight, missus printing gers. The
problem is that the police are notinitiating the calls. Those are people.
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She said that the people calling nineone one and asking for some kind of
help. So now that translates intoan efficient and effective use of enforcement power
and contrast to the caretaking toll thatthe police have. What's going to take
a while to determine. Chief Scrotumcontends that these changes will mean officers will
(43:44):
actually be more engaged in their community. I see cops. I don't know.
I'm not gonna stir any shit.I'm sorry. I'm friends with some
cops, so whatever. Okay.With that being said, I'm gonna move
on. I think we get thegist of this. A lot of people
think that this is going to bebullshit, and a lot of people think
that this is going to be areally good idea. So I'm just gonna
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take a little bit from this.Pittsburgh's police chief pushes back against criticisms of
sweeping redeployment March nineteenth, twenty twentyfour. This is from CBS News Pittsburgh
Dateline. Due to Pittsburgh Katika.Since redeploying staff for the Pittsburgh Bureau of
Police, Chief Larry Scurrito has heardthe allegations and denies them all. Sitting
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down for the first time since orderingthe changes, the chiefs told Katika TV
that he his reorganization is enhancing publicsafety and the wellness of his officers.
Since his swearing in ceremony ten monthsago, this guy has been tasked with
doing more with less, so he'semployed data analytics. He's the Billy Bean
(44:53):
of policing or he's the father ofthe perk. We've been talking about this
since the day they hired me,said, I don't just think people realize
we'd actually execute it. The sweetbeing redeployment changes when officers work and how
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they work now responding only to priorityin progress emergency calls like shootings, robberies,
and referring non emergencies like harassment andtheft to a phone reporting unit.
I wonder what would happen if theysaw that my car wasn't inspected. Right
now, I get pulled over byone of these goddamn city cops. I'm
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gonna be like, yo, bro, I don't know, I don't know
what I would say. I don'thave anything funny line. I'm sorry.
So despite a new class of grads. This is from the post Gazette.
Pittsburgh police staffing woes mirror a nationaltrend the twenty four new officers. We
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heard about these guys article or twoago. As shifts are made to staffing
instructure and the department struggles nationwide.This guy's got a big fucking head.
Man. I'm looking at these guys. They look like they're all white guys,
and some of them are obviously chubby. I mean, they're cops,
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but pot kettle black. Oh no, I'm not a cop. I'm a
little chubby. They come to thebureau Bureau at a tumultuous time. Chief
Larry has been at the helm ofthe department for less than a year.
Fallout from the twenty twenty one deathof Jim Rodgers after a violent arrest continues,
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and they join a force that islosing officers far faster than it recruits
them. None of this has beenlost on the graduates as they head into
the twelve weeks of field training.I feel like they need more. I
feel like there should be more training. Bline, being a police officer is
not just a job. The recruitclass president Robert Redmond told his classmates at
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a graduation ceremony Wednesday, night.It is a solemn responsibility. We must
trample the rights of everyone we canfind. So my wife occasionally nowadays listens
to the Pittsburgh Police scanner. Shehas an app for it so she can
(47:30):
listen to it on her phone.And we were listening to it one time
and this cop gets on his netand he's like, hey, civilian,
just give me a passport that theyfound. So I have this passport,
I'm gonna go ahead and run itfor warrants. That's a true story.
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Someone fucking did that. All right, So I'm gonna move I'm gonna move
on. I'm gonna move on.I'm gonna take a brief interlude here.
Oh yeah, brief interlude. Actually, I'm gonna take an interlude, all
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right. Back from the interlude.WHOA So. In July of twenty twenty
one, a man, a rampantliar and plagiarist Google search it named Joe
(48:39):
Biden, who happens to be thePresident of the United States. Currently put
an asterisk next to that if youwant, I have a feeling we're gonna
be We're visiting that fact and sometimesin the future, if I had my
feature topic link page up on thewebsite, you would see that the would
(49:00):
be a whole block of episodes specificallyabout Joe Biden. I have. I
can't remember the names of them.One of them is the Nietzschean Nietschean time
loop of Joe Biden. Anyhow,Joe Biden said this in July of twenty
twenty one. You need to haveweapons to take on the government. You
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need f fifteens and maybe some nuclearweapons. So he was talking about his
own citizens. He was talking aboutcitizens in the United States of America,
and he threatened to use fighter jetsand maybe nuclear weapons against them. So
I you know, I didn't playthis clip because I don't I'm missing my
(49:52):
wire. If you've been keeping upwith current events, you know I'm rusty
from my multiple months off before gettingstarted back again, so I need to
track down some equipment. Apparently,I didn't play this clip not only because
I don't have a wire, butbecause I think a lot of people get
(50:12):
mileage out of how weak he is. He sounds weak, So I just
wanted to hit that with you,the actual words spoken by a normal fucking
human being right now. You canput an asterisk next to that too,
if you want. You need tohave weapons, man like like when I
had when I fought corn Pop,I had a piece of a chain,
(50:36):
all right. You need to haveweapons to take on the government. You
need a fifteen's and maybe some nuclearweapons. So he said this during a
White House speech to outline his planto combat gun violence. In the same
speech, he also falsely claimed thatthere has always been limits on the Second
Amendment. The Second Amendment literally saysthere are no limits, is right there
(51:00):
at the beginning, Shall make nolaws, all right? So why are
we transferring transitioning from a shithole likePittsburgh in its current state of being flushed
down the toilet to what Joe Bidensaid in twenty twenty one about how you
(51:22):
have to have weapons to take onthe government. Well, here it is
a giant budget just got passed,like over trillion bucks, just got passed
on Saturday, and yeah, thenthis was released. This is reading right
off of all fucking places, theOffice of Public Affairs, the US Department
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of Justice. The Justice Department launchesa National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.
Well that's a mouthful, doctor Towers. What is this? The Justice
Department launches a National Extreme Risk ProtectionOrder or the IRPO Resource Center or the
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center which will provide training and technicalassistance to law enforcements, prosecutors, attorneys,
judges, clinicians, victim services,social service providers, community organizations,
and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementinglaws designed to keep guns out of the
(52:36):
hands of people who pose a threatto themselves or others. Well, I
mean, do you how do youwant to get started? There's a lot
here. I'll get started. I'llstart now, end right here. Gee,
(52:57):
okay, I'm going to start andend right here. Law enforcement officials,
prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victims services, social service providers,
community organizations, behavioral health professionals don'timplement laws. They don't write laws,
(53:21):
they don't design laws, they don'timplement them. I guess you could
say that law enforcement officials implement lawslike they carry them out, or they
don't whatever. I'm not a bootliquor. So none of those people are
legislators, congress people, senators,state house people. None of those people
(53:52):
actually write or implement pass sign Noneof those people make laws. This is
an official document, okay, Soall those people are now implementing laws designed
(54:13):
to keep guns out of the handsof people who pose a threat to themselves
or others. So like cartels,how many social service providers are visiting and
reporting on cartels? I don't know? Is this is this gonna uh?
(54:36):
Is this going to also include likeATF members who harassed citizens uh for uh
knocking on doors and asking to seetheir weapons and their papers? Please back
to this. The launch of theNational Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will
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provide our partners across the country withvaluable resources to keep firearms out of the
hands of individuals who pose a threatto themselves and others, says Attorney General
Merit Merit Garland. The establishment ofthe center is the latest example of the
(55:20):
Justice Department's work to use every toolprovided by the landmark bipartisans Safer Communities Act
to protect communities from gun violence.So they're gonna be talking to like gang
members and stuff. They're gonna beuh, they're gonna be reporting on like
gang gang members or does it soundmore likely that they're going to be targeting,
(55:46):
you know, through the veight,through the VA veterans who have PTSD,
veterans who are having mental health problemsor or something like that. But
remember remember if you want to fightthe government, you're gonna need n F
fifteen and maybe some nuclear weapons.But since we got you right here,
(56:09):
and since obviously you're plagued by wrongthink, you have so many like personal
problems, you can't possibly make thesedeterminations for yourself. I think that I
should take all your guns away fromyou. And I'm sure there's people out
there that are like, what's thebig deal, It's just a gun.
Well, I don't know. Idon't see it your way. I see
(56:34):
it a different way. I seeit a different way. Where our cities,
our homes are being invaded by homelesspeople, there's illegal immigrants, I
guess, invading my laundromat and myWalmart. It might not be such a
(56:58):
big deal because the police are notresponding to calls anymore. It might not
be such a big deal because youknow, police are not responding to your
calls anymore. I mean, yeah, yeah, So I mean there's that.
(57:22):
I don't know why else. Imean, the police aren't responding to
your calls anymore. If I hadthat wire to connect to do the min
max and I would have queued upWelcome to the Terrandome right there where the
(57:46):
last time I said the police aren'tresponding to your calls anymore, it would
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See tune. Next time you hearmy voice, we'll be talking about.
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