Juno News - The ‘defund the police’ movement is dead

00:00:00.000 In the State of the Union address last night, U.S. President Joe Biden announced an end to COVID

00:00:04.560 and an end to the defund the police movement. It's time for Canada to follow suit. I'm Candice

00:00:09.540 Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:17.740 So I don't usually cover U.S. politics very closely on this show. I try to focus on Canada

00:00:22.680 and all things Canadian, but the State of the Union address happened last night and there were

00:00:26.760 a couple of really interesting takeaways. So I wanted to focus the show on that, talk about how

00:00:31.460 of course it relates back to Canada. So that's what I'm going to get to on the show today. Before

00:00:35.320 though, I want to talk about something that did happen in Canada remarkably. We hear so often from

00:00:40.240 liberals, from politicians, from people like Justin Trudeau that elections have consequences and that

00:00:45.740 elections provide a mandate for the politicians. So they'll pick one thing that they sit on the

00:00:49.800 campaign trail and then they will declare that they now have a mandate to do that thing that

00:00:54.180 somehow them getting voted in with 32% of the vote means that the Canadian public is okay with

00:00:59.740 them doing that one thing that they said on the campaign trail. Well, right now we are experiencing

00:01:03.300 something that is the exact opposite of that. The liberals have so quickly abandoned one of their

00:01:07.880 pledges that they made during the campaign. And I'm talking about a ban on the sale of real estate

00:01:13.380 to foreigners, to non-resident foreigners. So yesterday, liberal MPs on the Commons Finance

00:01:18.440 Committee rejected a two-year ban on the sale of Canadian residential real estate to foreigners

00:01:23.100 abroad. The Liberal Party, of course, had promised to ban the exact thing during the election campaign

00:01:29.440 in 2021. We're talking about six months ago, the liberals were out there saying that they wanted

00:01:34.040 to stop the sale of real estate to foreigners. Here is a clip of Justin Trudeau saying exactly that.

00:01:40.580 This is from October 24th, 2021. Justin Trudeau promises to put a freeze on foreign home buying

00:01:45.760 to limit speculation by investors living abroad. Here's what that looked like.

00:01:49.800 At the same time, we'll crack down on the predatory speculators that stack the deck against you.

00:01:55.640 So no more blind bidding. No more foreign wealth being parked in homes that people should be living

00:02:02.060 in. Well, fast forward to yesterday and the Finance Committee voted six to five against a

00:02:07.200 conservative motion. They rejected a conservative motion to prohibit the purchase of residential property

00:02:12.040 by non-resident foreigners. The conservatives and interestingly, the New Democrats supported the

00:02:17.340 temporary ban while the Liberal and the Bloc opposed it. So what happened to the whole elections have

00:02:25.000 consequences and we have a mandate to do this stuff? Well, the liberals never meant what they

00:02:29.000 said. They only put that in during the election because the conservatives had a similar plan

00:02:32.880 and they wanted to match the conservatives. They didn't want the conservatives to be able to talk

00:02:36.100 about this. So they just put it out there. Clearly, they had no intention of actually doing this.

00:02:40.380 You cannot trust these liberals to do what they say they're going to do.

00:02:43.900 All right, let's move on and talk about Joe Biden and his State of the Union address last night. So

00:02:49.100 look, I'm not one of those people who watches the Super Bowl. I never watched the sort of award shows,

00:02:53.640 Academy Awards. I'm not interested in any of that stuff. For me, what I like watching is political

00:02:57.260 things, political speeches. The State of the Union is one of my favorites. It is such a spectacle. It is

00:03:02.340 such a show of sort of this odd relationship that Americans have with their president, their political

00:03:08.140 culture. There's so much pomp. It's so ceremonial. It feels almost like a monarchy in a system

00:03:13.880 that outright rejects monarchy. So you see this pageantry of the State of the Union. It's

00:03:18.780 usually really, really entertaining. I will say that last night was not that. It was not the sort

00:03:24.320 of exciting, interesting pageantry of a State of the Union. You know, Biden just doesn't have the

00:03:31.140 showmanship that Trump had. He doesn't have the great oratory skills that Barack Obama had. So

00:03:36.480 compared to like the last 10 years of these things, last night was just an underwhelming,

00:03:40.720 low energy speech. Joe Biden sort of started out strong with some energy. By the end, he had faded.

00:03:46.100 He was hardly making sense. He was, I'll get through some of the gas that he made, but he was

00:03:50.400 just sort of mumbling. And you could see that the Democrats in the audience were giving him lots of

00:03:54.340 applause to try to sort of wake him up and give him some more energy. But really, it was a short

00:03:59.780 speech. These things usually drag on and on and on and last, you know, upwards of an hour. Last night

00:04:04.420 was, I think it came in just under an hour or maybe just around an hour. It was low energy. And

00:04:09.220 typically, the purpose of the State of the Union is for the president to discuss his accomplishments

00:04:14.120 in office, the things that he has done, the things that he's implemented, and talk about the State

00:04:17.720 of the Union. That's why it's called the State of the Union to focus on what he has done. Well,

00:04:21.280 last night, we saw that the first like 15 or 20 minutes were not talking about the United States

00:04:25.500 at all. They were talking about Ukraine and the situation there. I totally understand why Joe Biden

00:04:29.760 would rather talk about that than his own record, because the situation in Russia sort of unifies

00:04:35.160 Americans, or at least there's bipartisan support amongst Republicans and Democrats.

00:04:39.260 They both oppose Russia. They both are in favor and supportive of Ukraine. So that's something

00:04:43.140 that he can kind of use to rally people around him. And then he talked about the things that he

00:04:47.920 wants to accomplish in the future. So not so much the things that he has done, but a look ahead

00:04:52.480 at better days ahead. So it sounded more like a campaign speech, which makes sense, given that it

00:04:57.260 is a midterm year, there will be midterm elections this November. And so Biden started off,

00:05:02.340 like I said, talking about the war, the conflict in Ukraine and focus a lot of his time and efforts

00:05:08.860 talking about that. He had some tough words for Putin. So look, I think that we're at a stage now

00:05:14.180 where it seems like Putin has made a strategic mistake. He seemed to have overestimated his

00:05:18.880 ability to conquer Ukraine quickly. And he wrongly assumed that the international community would not

00:05:23.900 jump in, that they would stay on the sidelines as they did when Russia invaded and took over Georgia

00:05:28.920 in 2008. And when they annexed Crimea, part of Ukraine back in 2014, there was hardly any reaction

00:05:34.700 whatsoever from the international community. So what we're seeing today with lots of sanctions,

00:05:38.660 lots of arms, lots of involvement, everybody kind of rallying around Ukraine, is that Putin was

00:05:44.300 surprised by that. And so Biden talked a lot about that in his speech. So he told Congress that

00:05:49.680 Vladimir Putin had badly misjudged how the West would hit back once he invaded Ukraine. He vowed an

00:05:55.000 unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny. Well, that is very wishful thinking

00:05:59.720 given that most of the world still lives under tyranny and that freedom is the rare exception in human

00:06:04.860 history, including in modern day. But regardless, you know, that's the sort of language that we expect

00:06:09.220 from an American president. Biden said that Putin's war was premeditated and unprovoked. He rejected

00:06:14.660 repeated efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West and NATO wouldn't respond. And he thought he could

00:06:19.840 divide us here at home. Putin was wrong. We are ready. This is the real test. It's going to take

00:06:26.040 time. So let's continue to draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.

00:06:31.060 President Zelensky to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination

00:06:44.120 literally inspires the world. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. 1.00

00:06:50.860 Instead, he met with a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people.

00:07:01.060 He thought the West and NATO wouldn't respond. He thought he could divide us at home in this

00:07:09.760 chamber in this nation. He thought he could divide us in Europe as well. But Putin was wrong.

00:07:16.980 We are ready. We are united. And that's what we did. We stayed united. Throughout our history,

00:07:23.800 we've learned this lesson. When dictators do not pay a price for their aggression,

00:07:29.540 they cause more chaos. And part of these State of the Union addresses is that the president will

00:07:35.240 always invite several guests that will be sitting in the audience. And then throughout the speech,

00:07:38.760 they will mention this guest and the focus of the of the room will will go on to the guests and they'll

00:07:43.400 get a standing ovation. And it's usually sort of inspiring stories, kids, all that kind of stuff.

00:07:47.400 There was a little bit of that. But but the sort of primary guest, the guest of honor, the first

00:07:52.240 guest that Joe Biden looked to and thanked was the Ukrainian ambassador to the US who no surprise

00:07:58.620 received a standing ovation. She was sitting right next to Joe Biden's wife, the First Lady Jill Biden

00:08:04.300 up in the VIP box. And you can see why Joe Biden would want to talk about something other than his

00:08:09.600 own record, something other than his performance at home, because Joe Biden is not viewed favorably by

00:08:14.740 the American public. His approval rating is very, very low. According to a real clear politics

00:08:19.600 average of recent polls, the aggregate 40.6% approve of the job that Joe Biden is doing 54.4%

00:08:28.060 disapproved. That is the lowest it has ever been. I've seen polls as low as 37% approval rating for

00:08:34.220 Joe Biden. And as for his vice president, VP Kamala Harris, her approval rating remarkably is even lower

00:08:39.940 than Joe Biden's. People do not like Kamala Harris, despite all of the sort of celebration and praise

00:08:46.320 that she received for being the first female vice president, the first black vice president. When it

00:08:50.960 comes to her actually personality and her governance and the way that Americans view her, it is very

00:08:55.640 bad. Worse than Joe Biden's 37.5% aggregate average approval rating, according to real clear politics,

00:09:02.420 51% disapproved. So this is not a popular administration at all. And so it is no surprise

00:09:08.380 that they would much prefer to talk about foreign conflicts and things that generally unite Americans

00:09:13.340 as opposed to their own records. And I want to talk a little bit about some of the prominent

00:09:18.540 gaffes. While I'm talking about Ukraine, this was sort of the big one that was circulating 1.00

00:09:21.900 around on social media. Joe Biden talking about Putin, talking about how Putin is circling Kiev with

00:09:28.880 his tanks. And he said that he will never win the hearts and souls of the Iranian people,

00:09:33.600 the Iranian people, Iranian people. He obviously meant to say Ukrainian people. He skipped the,

00:09:38.440 he missed the K there. So here is what that looked like.

00:09:40.960 Putin may circle Kiev with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian 1.00

00:09:46.160 people. He'll never, he'll never extinguish their love of freedom.

00:09:50.520 Now, of course, it's no big deal. He just misspoke a little bit. No big deal. You're

00:09:53.940 reading a speech for an hour long, you're bound to misspeak here or there. I only, I only mention

00:09:58.620 this because if this was George W. Bush, George W. Bush was painted as if he was a complete and utter 0.98

00:10:05.200 fool by the legacy media. They mischaracterized what he said. They took things out of context and 0.98

00:10:09.940 they made him seem like a blundering idiot. And that is the impression that so many Americans 1.00

00:10:14.200 still have today of George W. Bush. It's not true. It's not accurate. It doesn't represent

00:10:18.520 his true character. The period when George W. Bush was president was sort of pre-social media. So we

00:10:23.480 didn't have the opportunity to have, you know, George Bush and Republicans putting out their own

00:10:28.400 narrative and their own side of the story to counteract the deranged media. However, the few gaffes

00:10:34.380 that George W. Bush had really characterize his presidency. And in the minds of so many Americans,

00:10:39.240 he is defined that way. When it comes to a Democrat, when it comes to someone like Joe Biden,

00:10:44.660 when he makes gaffes, the media just doesn't even acknowledge it, doesn't cover it, doesn't

00:10:48.260 put it, put it out there whatsoever. The only people who were talking about this were sort of

00:10:51.920 conservatives on Twitter. We know that if this was George W. Bush, it would be on t-shirts, on mugs,

00:10:57.280 on bumper stickers. It would be a prominent meme in society when it happens to a Democrat. 0.98

00:11:02.740 Nothing to see here. No mention whatsoever. He also had a couple of other sort of odd blunders,

00:11:08.280 I think, when he went off script. This part was not in the released script of the State of the

00:11:13.180 Union. However, this is what he said, that you cannot build a wall high enough to keep a vaccine

00:11:18.620 out. You can't stop the spread of this disease. Here is Joe Biden sounding completely incoherent,

00:11:25.320 not making any sense. Because you can't build a wall high enough to keep out a vaccine. The

00:11:33.880 vaccine can stop the spread of these diseases. He kind of had a mixed metaphor there. I think

00:11:39.960 he thought he was talking about immigration and building a wall, but then he was talking about

00:11:43.600 a vaccine. Didn't really make any sense. Another funny moment, odd moment from the State of the

00:11:48.460 Union last night was Biden was talking about the tragedy that happens to soldiers breathing in toxic

00:11:54.680 smoke. Talking about how we need to treat veterans better, how Americans need to do better when it

00:11:58.740 comes to health care for veterans. Oddly, Nancy Pelosi, who is the Speaker of the House, is behind

00:12:04.740 him. And she just starts getting like giddy and jumping up and clapping when Biden was talking about

00:12:11.580 something very sort of serious and not an applause moment. Here is what that looked like.

00:12:15.960 Now, overall, I thought that the content of Joe Biden's State of the Union address was rather thin.

00:12:31.600 Like I said, he didn't really talk about the accomplishments. He more talked about sort of

00:12:35.020 things that were happening outside of his control and then plans for the future. One of the plans

00:12:39.460 that he kept talking about was how we're going to have a COVID exit strategy. Interestingly, Joe Biden

00:12:45.340 announced his post-COVID plan today, Wednesday, instead of last night during the State of the

00:12:50.320 Union. I don't quite understand why you wouldn't use your national platform to announce your plan,

00:12:54.660 why you would wait till the next morning. But we still saw some positive steps. One of the most

00:12:59.940 striking things about the entire State of the Union was the fact that the CDC had just changed their

00:13:04.260 guidelines just a couple of days ago. New guidance came out from the American CDC, the Center for

00:13:08.860 Disease Control, the people who are in charge of the COVID response, saying that masks are no longer

00:13:13.800 necessary in indoor public spaces. So again, one of the notable things from the State of the Union last

00:13:19.320 night was that the officials were not wearing masks. Unlike in Canada, every time you look at the

00:13:24.600 House of Commons and look at the debates happening in Ottawa, they're always wearing masks unless they're

00:13:28.980 speaking. Well, the United States, Democrats here, Democrats in the US were just as fervently

00:13:34.140 pro-masked as the most pro-masked Canadians. Well, they have moved on. New York, California,

00:13:38.980 Washington, DC have all lifted their mask mandates. And yet here in Canada, we still have the

00:13:44.900 ridiculous spectacle of people wearing masks indoors. So it was great to see that the Americans 1.00

00:13:50.580 have moved past this. I hope Canada will follow suit as well. Aside from the notable fact that they

00:13:56.420 were not wearing masks inside, Biden also called for a reset. He said that we need to stop seeing

00:14:00.840 COVID as a partisan dividing line. So this is according to the Wall Street Journal. They reported this way,

00:14:06.220 they said Biden suggested that the nation was moving into a new phase of the pandemic,

00:14:10.360 calling it a new moment in the fight against COVID-19. Biden pledged to continue to work to

00:14:14.800 vaccinate Americans to take steps to be ready for future variants. He said the US has the tools

00:14:19.280 to keep schools and businesses opened. He did stress, however, that emerging from the pandemic

00:14:24.240 isn't a guarantee and it's still necessary to adhere to public health guidelines and to get

00:14:29.880 vaccinated. He noted that last July, Mr. Biden held a large celebration on the White House's

00:14:34.880 South Lawn and declared the nation was closer than ever to be declaring our independence from

00:14:39.520 this deadly virus. But that comment proved premature as the Delta variant took hold. And

00:14:44.360 of course, the Omicron variant was even more widespread and severe than the Delta variant.

00:14:48.620 Of course, it didn't kill as many people because it wasn't as deadly. And what did we learn from

00:14:53.100 Omicron? We learned that everybody was getting hit with Omicron. It didn't really matter if you were

00:14:56.780 vaccinated or not. Everybody was getting it. Maybe people who were vaccinated didn't have as severe

00:15:01.440 case, but most young people don't have a severe case anyway. And in the midst of all this, there's

00:15:06.360 a new report over at Medscape asking, why are we ignoring infection acquired immunity? So suddenly

00:15:11.720 natural immunity is back on the table, something that we can talk about for so long. Policymakers,

00:15:17.080 especially those on the political left, but generally speaking in Canada, they ignored antibodies

00:15:21.940 derived from natural immunity from COVID infection. In Canada, there is no recognition whatsoever

00:15:27.660 of natural immunity. They are treated the exact same way. So someone who has had COVID recovered

00:15:33.120 and has those natural antibodies is treated the exact same way as a unvaccinated person. Of course,

00:15:38.800 the opposite is true in Europe. This is according to The Hill in Washington, D.C. It says many

00:15:42.400 European countries recognize that immunity due to prior infection is equal to vaccination. So they will

00:15:48.260 treat someone who has recovered from COVID the exact same way as someone who is vaccinated. Well,

00:15:52.780 a new study backs this up and it actually says that if you have natural immunity from COVID,

00:15:56.380 you have 10 times better immunity than just getting the vaccine alone. So again, this is from

00:16:02.440 Medscape. Antibodies derived from natural COVID infection are more abundant and at least 10 times

00:16:09.080 more potent than immunity generated by the vaccine alone. This comes from a study from the Oregon Health

00:16:14.780 and Science University in Portland published on January 25th. Again, Canada just simply doesn't

00:16:19.880 recognize this. I don't understand how the science is different in different parts of the world.

00:16:23.660 How is it that Europe has different science? How is it that Oregon State University or Oregon Health

00:16:27.960 Science University in Portland has different science than we do in Canada? Why is it that the

00:16:33.160 CDC in the U.S. says, you know what, you can go into Congress, you don't have to wear a mask,

00:16:36.880 whereas in the House of Commons, they still have to wear a mask. This is a memo of the rules on in the

00:16:41.440 House of Commons when it comes to masks. It says it is now mandatory for any person, including members

00:16:45.340 of Parliament and their staff, political research employees, administrative employees, members of

00:16:49.100 the Parliament, members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and parliamentary business visitors are

00:16:53.520 required to wear a mask and face coverings in the House of Commons precinct. It's time that we follow suit

00:16:59.480 with our American neighbors, with our friends in the United Kingdom who have gotten rid of all the 1.00

00:17:03.760 restrictions, and European countries get rid of masks, recognize natural immunity. And I know that Alberta

00:17:09.880 and Ontario have already taken these steps, but there's still so many rules on the book. You still have that

00:17:14.960 horrific vaccine passport system in place in British Columbia. It is time that we just move on, 0.98

00:17:20.800 declare that COVID is just something that we are going to live with. And I did see a lot of that from

00:17:25.340 Joe Biden. Just a few days ago, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new mask guidelines.

00:17:32.340 Under the new guidelines, most Americans and most of the country can now go mask free. And based on 0.51

00:17:39.840 projections, based on projection, more of the country will reach a point across that point across the next couple of

00:17:47.680 weeks, a couple of things to note from Joe Biden State of the Union is that he almost sounded like a

00:17:53.020 conservative. He almost sounded like Republican. He talked about immigration and border security. He talked about

00:17:58.100 defunding the police. And I think this is a really important moment. Last night at the State of the Union,

00:18:02.400 Democrat President Joe Biden says that we all agree the answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to fund the

00:18:09.280 police. You can see that he then received a roaring standing ovation from the mostly Democrats in the

00:18:14.800 audience. This is an incredible moment. Here is what that looked like. We should all agree the answer is

00:18:18.640 not to defund the police. It's to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them.

00:18:30.700 Now, Joe Biden was never the type to lead the charge on the defund the police movement. He was never the

00:18:35.600 one out there loudly saying that we have to defund the police. However, his party and the Democrats

00:18:39.980 were the ones that were pushing this movement. Joe Biden himself did make comments talking about how

00:18:44.300 we should redirect funding and how we should fund other things as opposed to the police. But he was

00:18:48.940 never he was never out there saying defund the police. Lots and lots of other prominent Democrats,

00:18:52.960 including his own VP Kamala Harris, were on that team. So here is a little montage of some

00:18:58.020 prominent Democrats saying the exact opposite thing, as Joe Biden said last night in the State of the

00:19:02.520 Union. Mayor Eric Garcetti saying take some of the money from policing about 150 million

00:19:06.900 dollars. I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done. Not only do we need to disinvest

00:19:12.180 for in police, but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. 0.98

00:19:18.200 So yes, defund your butts, defund you. Yes, I support the reallocation of resources

00:19:23.820 from NYPD. We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services.

00:19:31.480 They are talking about reducing the allocation of resources to that department. And I think

00:19:36.760 every single city in this country ought to be thinking about the same thing.

00:19:41.400 Yes, I support the defund movement. I'm for responsible reallocation of resources.

00:19:47.140 And defund the police. I think you do all those other things. You don't need all the money that's

00:19:50.720 going to the police department. So yeah, I mean, the spirit of it, I do support that.

00:19:55.140 Yeah. And you know, a lot of us were asked if we could imagine a future without police back in

00:19:59.060 2017, when we were running for office. And I answered yes to that question.

00:20:03.840 We are going to reduce funding in the police department.

00:20:06.620 And I want to talk about how this relates back to Canada, because like so many prominent social

00:20:10.280 movements, cultural movements that happen in the United States, especially on the progressive

00:20:13.960 political left, they seep into Canada and we see them taking hold. So we had an individual instance

00:20:18.620 of police brutality, a horrible instance caught on film of a man being killed by a police officer

00:20:23.340 in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the summer of 2020. And suddenly it became a big issue in

00:20:28.040 Canada for some reason, even though we have a totally different history, we have a different

00:20:30.920 culture when it comes to the police. However, there were still loud calls throughout Canada

00:20:35.800 to defund our own police in places like Halifax, Montreal, Edmonton, and Toronto. In Edmonton,

00:20:42.900 they unanimously voted in favor of having city administration work with the police to review

00:20:47.860 and develop the strategy for implementing recommendations. So they all jumped on board, even though we

00:20:53.120 don't have the same cultural issues. I can't stress how damaging this is for a society, for a society

00:20:58.560 to say the people who are charged with keeping the peace and making us safe and making us secure,

00:21:03.980 the people who put their life on the line, risk everything every single day to ensure order in

00:21:08.660 our society. Order is the most important thing. You cannot have freedom, you cannot have opportunity,

00:21:13.320 you cannot have justice unless you have that sort of baseline of order and stability and security.

00:21:18.540 And so undermining that principle is so bad for society and for the individuals

00:21:22.820 who work on the front lines, for the people who go out there and are policing, rather than treating

00:21:27.460 these people with the revere and the gratitude that they deserve, treating them like heroes of

00:21:33.000 our society and leaders and the people who keep us all in order. We started treating them like they

00:21:38.280 were criminals, like they were suspect, like they were unworthy. I can't stress how bad that is

00:21:43.100 for society, how terrible it must be for recruitment. Like who in their right mind would want to be a 0.99

00:21:48.060 police in this environment, in this environment where every cop is suspected and accused of being

00:21:52.940 some kind of a criminal. Young people growing up thinking about career path, I can't imagine

00:21:57.740 a lot of young people were signing up and saying, yes, I want to defend my city. I want to be on the

00:22:02.920 front lines, given the way that our society has treated police over the past two years, how it

00:22:07.580 hopped into Canada. Even our own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participated in the spectacle. He did not

00:22:13.080 write call for defunding the police. However, he did go to a BLM rally in the midst of the height of

00:22:18.200 COVID, when COVID was still new, when COVID was still mysterious, when everyone else was told not

00:22:22.660 to gather outside, when churches were banned, when we couldn't even have outdoor gatherings, weddings

00:22:26.700 were banned. And yet, when there was a large Black Lives Matter rally happening in Ottawa, our Prime

00:22:31.840 Minister just skirted all the rules, decided that those rules, it was okay to go against them because

00:22:36.840 the BLM rally was righteous and deserving of attention. So here is our Prime Minister going into the crowd 0.97

00:22:42.860 and taking a knee to what acknowledged police brutality. And I don't know exactly what it

00:22:47.780 means by taking a knee, but signaling that he is on the side of the BLM protesters and the defund the

00:22:54.020 police crowd.

00:22:55.020 So since all that happened, since so many jurisdictions across North America, including those Canadian

00:23:19.640 cities, but many, many U.S. cities followed through and defunded their police and took the initiative,

00:23:25.420 removed funding, redistributed funding. And just to put it simply, the results have been catastrophic.

00:23:30.700 It has been really, really, really bad. The United States has experienced a significant spike in violent

00:23:36.460 crimes, in homicide, in crime in general, in cities across the United States, specifically blue states,

00:23:42.400 places where they did defund the police. I picked Oakland as an example. Interestingly, because this is the

00:23:47.360 area that Kamala Harris used to represent the East Bay of San Francisco, but I could have picked any

00:23:52.720 city. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis. So many of these cities defunded their

00:23:59.060 police or elements of their police. And then in the last year and a half since that happened, they saw a

00:24:04.000 huge spike in crimes. So this is a report from Como News out in Oakland, California. It says,

00:24:08.900 once willing to defund the police, Oakland, California now faces a major violent crime spike.

00:24:13.860 So according to this report, the chances of you being a victim of a violent crime in Oakland,

00:24:17.900 California is one in 77, nearly three times higher than in the state of California. I'll just go

00:24:23.640 through some of the statistics. It's really, really startling. From 2020 to 2021, the total homicides

00:24:29.340 in Oakland have jumped 23%. The increase in armed robberies in Oakland jumped 38% from 2020 to 2021.

00:24:37.920 The chances of you being carjacked, the odds of an armed carjacking instance spiked and grew 78%

00:24:46.340 in that just one year. This is really unbelievable stuff. Oakland's overall violent crime increased by

00:24:51.400 8%. Assaults with a firearm increased by 20%. Shooting into an occupied home or a vehicle, so like a drive-by

00:24:58.400 shooting, increased by 25%. And overall auto burglaries increased 31% over the last year. So really

00:25:06.280 unbelievable stuff. The report looks at a couple of things, including the defund the police movement.

00:25:11.340 Also that the city now releases criminals and inmates with a no cash bail system. So even though

00:25:17.180 people are arrested, they are then quickly released before their court date. So it is, it is a whole mess

00:25:21.920 of things going on out in California. But again, this is happening in cities across the United States

00:25:27.080 and no surprise here in December, 2021. So just two months ago, Oakland city council shift on the

00:25:33.560 police force debate from defund to refund the police. So they are all very much regretting

00:25:38.920 their decisions and they want more money back with policing because lo and behold, when you don't

00:25:44.280 have police, when you tell, when you demonize police officers, when you kick them out of the city, when

00:25:48.560 you remove their funding, when you treat them like dirt, well, guess what happens? Crime spikes. And that

00:25:53.780 is what we are seeing. And to bring it back to Canada, one of the interesting things about the recent

00:25:57.960 trucker convoy and the policing situation in Ottawa were that the leftist voices who were the ones that

00:26:04.120 were calling for defunding the police. They were also the ones who began loudly demanding that the

00:26:09.400 police take more action against the trucker convoy. They were the ones complaining about police inaction,

00:26:14.600 saying that they were allowing this protest to happen. They wanted the police to take more action,

00:26:18.520 to be more vigilant, to be more forceful in removing the peaceful protest in Ottawa. They were the

00:26:23.880 ones loudly cheering on the police when Justin Trudeau invoked the emergency act and the police

00:26:28.120 began using excessive force to remove the unarmed and peaceful protests in Ottawa. They were the ones 1.00

00:26:33.160 who were loudly cheering them on. And then without the slightest sense of their own hypocrisy or the

00:26:38.360 irony, immediately after the protest was removed, some of the anti-trucker protesters and activists went

00:26:44.680 right back to demanding that we defund the police. So this is a post from Rupa Subramana, who is a friend

00:26:51.000 of the program. We had her on the podcast before. She writes this, the hate-free zone came up in

00:26:55.560 response to the Ottawa Freedom Convoy protest because residents of Centretown were petrified of

00:27:00.760 the peaceful protesters. Its founder holds a poster now calling for defunding the police, defund the

00:27:06.840 police, fund real safety. And she says when it was the cops who cleared out the protesters, you can't

00:27:12.040 make this stuff up. So this is from the CBC. It talks, it shows this individual here. His name is Hassan

00:27:18.200 Hussani, one of the organizers of the community rally in Ottawa, stands with a hate-free zone. So

00:27:23.560 he's saying hate-free zone, which I'm going to assume means that he's accusing the truckers of

00:27:29.400 being hateful. And now he's saying that we're in a hate-free zone, so no truckers allowed. And then

00:27:33.480 you can see right there on the top in yellow, it says defund police, fund real safety. These people

00:27:39.160 have no sense of their own hypocrisy and the irony of them now saying that they want to defund the police,

00:27:45.480 even though like two weeks ago they were demanding that the police do more and be more vigilant.

00:27:51.240 Look, the overall point that I want to make with covering the State of the Union address

00:27:55.240 is that Canada can actually learn a lot from President Joe Biden and the moderate tone that

00:27:59.320 he took in his State of the Union address. We can learn a lot from him in terms of moving on from

00:28:03.560 COVID, getting rid of the ridiculous, punitive, cruel mask mandates, especially for little kids in

00:28:09.320 school. It is so unconscionable that we continue to make little kids trying to learn how to speak, 0.95

00:28:13.720 trying to learn how to communicate, trying to learn in general that we make them wear masks when so

00:28:18.280 many of the adults don't have to wear masks in their own environment. And it is time that we all,

00:28:23.080 once and for all, moved on from the divisive and ridiculous idea that we should defund the police.

00:28:28.200 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

Juno News - March 03, 2022

The ‘defund the police’ movement is dead

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