CLAY: We’ve been talking a lot about the overall rise in crime and in particular there are 12 American cities that have already hit all-time highs, and a lot of those cities are widely spread across the country. Among them: Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Tucson, Arizona; Portland, Oregon. All these different places.
Yesterday, I believe it was, we played you the clip of the idiot DA in Los Angeles who said, “Crime isn’t really a problem in L.A. except for the murders (laughing) which is like, “Well, buddy, that’s kind of a big deal to worry about the murders.” Well, then the LA police union head came and spoke out. His name is Jamie McBride. We got a couple of clips from him. First of all, he said, “If you’re thinking about visiting L.A., don’t come. We can’t guarantee your safety.” I don’t ever remember hearing a big city police chief ever saying this before. Listen.
MCBRIDE: My message to anybody considering coming to Los Angeles especially during the holiday season is don’t. We can’t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it’s like that movie Purge. You know, instead of 24 hours commit your crime, these bad people have 365 days to commit whatever they want.
CLAY: All right. That’s a crazy thing for an L.A. police chief to be saying, Buck. I mean, he compared it to The Purge!
BUCK: I know for anyone who hasn’t seen it it’s a kind of interesting concept movie, it did very well they’ve made a bunch of spinoffs now you’re in a future dystopian kind of fascistic, I guess, society — and one day a year all crime is legal, and I guess the idea is that it focuses all the violence and bad things into one night and it’s like every man woman and family for themselves, and you just try to hunker down. That’s The Purge.
CLAY: That’s L.A., according to the LAPD union chief. Now, listen to this. We played the idiot DA yesterday saying, “Hey, crime’s not really a problem except for the murders. Well, the LAPD union chief — again, this is Jamie McBride — says, if he could, he would arrest that DA, Gascon, for accessory to murder and that he needs to be recalled. This is crazy stuff, guys, to be occurring in our nation’s second largest city. Listen to this.
MCBRIDE: I’ve been in law enforcement in Los Angeles for 31 years. I haven’t seen crime like this since the mid-nineties. You know, and I heard George Gascon yesterday at his press conference. He’s saying that robberies are down, and some other crimes are down. He’s actually wrong. What’s going on are people are getting robbed at record numbers.
They’re just not reporting it. They live in fear in some parts of the city of Los Angeles, and they’re just not reporting the crimes to the law enforcement. So you can’t say that robberies are down but yet murders are open. It doesn’t happen. If there’s violence when there’s murders, there’s gonna be violence when there’s robberies, and you know what? I put him at fault as the same persons committing these murders. He’s letting them out! If I could, I’d arrest him for accessory to murder.
BUCK: First of all, with his analysis there, he sounds like former NYPD Intelligence Division analyst Buck Sexton yesterday.
CLAY: He said the exact same thing you said yesterday.
BUCK: Right. The reason murders are such an important stat is there’s a body and people care and you can’t hide it, right?
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: Whereas robberies, a lot of ways to fudge the numbers on the other things — and you got these union guys who are speaking on behalf of the rank-and-file in the police department which is why they throw no punches, they do it de Blasio’s record here in New York, too. Clay, the issue here is that that Democrats I think what you’re gonna start to see is they’re gonna be quietly transitioning away from the most insane policies, because otherwise they are heading for wipeouts in the next election cycle in a whole bunch of ways — local, national, state, you name it.
CLAY: I think it was well said yesterday, if I’m not mistaken, Rand Paul, said what he believes is gonna happen based the data he is seeing is — and really we kind of saw it almost happen in New Jersey, states that people don’t even think are in play are going to be in play in 2022. What I’m talking about is nobody was… We all were discussing the situation in Virginia and the fact that Youngkin won.
Nobody was expecting that Phil Murphy, the governor of New Jersey, was almost going to lose. New Jersey is a deep blue state, and it nearly went for a Republican governor in a time when nobody foresaw that happening. That is I think what we’re gonna see a lot more of in 2022. Apologies to everybody out there in L.A. having to deal… Apologies is the wrong word. Condolences for everybody having to deal with this insane leadership from your DA, Gascon.