On this episode of the podcast, we talk about crime in Washington, D.C. and why it's not as bad as the statistics say it is. We also talk about AI and whether or not it's a good or bad thing.
00:00:05.000They don't like IP, but then you've got people like Elon Musk and a couple of other guys trying to say that we should basically get rid of IP laws.
00:01:33.000I don't know if that's the well, they also changed, I don't know what it is in D.C., they've changed the definition of violent crime in many cases.
00:02:08.000You have a 17-year-old who could be involved in a gang shooting and then the next year it no longer is.
00:02:11.000So yeah, if you're removing all the crimes committed by people under the age of 18 recently, it's going to have significant effect on the rates.
00:02:20.000Well, they constantly tweak and massage crime statistics.
00:02:23.000I mean, we saw that during COVID, right, where they tried to say, oh, actually, you're like, wait a second, wait a second.
00:02:27.000And then the same thing was that the DOJ stopped recording the race of the perpetrator and the victim, or was it the FBI?
00:02:33.000They used to record those, I mean, up until I believe it was the year 2016 or 2017, where you would know the race of the perpetrator, the race of the victim, and then they stopped if it was interracial crimes.
00:02:43.000Basically, interracial crime is no longer a thing.
00:02:46.000So we had to use studies, for example, that came from the Bay Area, where it was, I think, 83% of all physical crimes were black against Asian, of all physical crimes in the Bay Area.
00:02:56.000So you have to take these sort of micro studies because you can't get these numbers nationally.
00:02:59.000I'd be willing to bet you have the same problem with DC.
00:03:02.000You have a lot of problems with these cities.
00:03:05.000Like, is Daniel Dale basically just making the argument that some crime is acceptable?
00:03:09.000Like some high level of crime, even though it's lower than the higher level of crime the year before is acceptable and we're fine with that.
00:03:16.000Like, what point are they really trying to make here?
00:03:18.000Like, and listen, if he's playing ADHS on this, then great, because he's basically putting Democrats in the position of saying, well, the violent crime is fine.
00:04:16.000Which were also underreported, by the way.
00:04:17.000$2 billion worth in recorded property damage, damages, thousands, many, many, many, many, many thousands of casualties, including both deaths and serious injuries.
00:05:59.000Another attempt to change the subject.
00:06:01.000We don't know, but that hypothesis certainly has to be thought about as we consider why now.
00:06:06.000And one of the things that was striking in that very long press conference was something that the FBI director said.
00:06:13.000Standing there at the podium with the president as he's making this big monumental change to law enforcement, federalizing law enforcement in D.C. and saying it's because of rampant crime rates.
00:06:34.000We are now able to report that the murder rate is on track to be the lowest in U.S. history, in modern recorded U.S. history, thanks to this team behind me in President Trump's priorities.
00:06:54.000Yes, but I mean, this gets back to the- See, this is the thing that that judge is trying to make the point of, is the point that the leftists are making them, they're controlling them to where they can't press charges if it wasn't a bullet hitting somebody.
00:07:05.000They can't press charges if it wasn't somebody dying.
00:07:07.000It's like, just because someone didn't die doesn't mean somebody didn't get fucked.
00:08:04.000And one may argue, if they were so inclined that the people robbing your store in the Bay Area to the tune of $923, whatever it is, feels emboldened and knows that the shopkeeper won't do anything.
00:08:15.000As a matter of fact, it's doing so under the threat of violence, right?
00:08:18.000If you try and stop me, I'm going to get violent.
00:08:44.000It's the implication that you could at some point be held at gunpoint if you were to try and stop me or just let me steal the $995 worth of stuff.
00:09:10.000Well, in this whole scenario right now, he's federalizing the D.C. police.
00:09:14.000Okay, you can maybe take issue with that, but ultimately, look at you know, maybe there's a process legally that they have to go through with this.
00:09:22.000Maybe there's some legitimate questions and concerns there.
00:09:25.000But look at what he's basically saying: like, I'm going to employ the National Guard to help kind of clean this city up and make this a safer place.
00:09:32.000I'm going to federalize the police to make sure that we can take steps to get around what Judge Perino said.
00:10:07.000And essentially, whoever the leader is in the White House, if they control Congress as well, that's the person that you want to do business with because he's going to tell Congress what to do.
00:10:14.000I think our capital should be a beacon for the world.
00:10:18.000I don't think it should be a Potimkin city necessarily.
00:10:20.000I don't think you should get rid of every single rough edge that it has, but I think it should be a beautiful, safe, wonderful place for people to come.
00:10:28.000And look, if you want to be homeless, you got to be homeless somewhere else.
00:10:46.000I remember, you know, where I saw it with people, they'll say, oh, crime is down.
00:10:49.000The first time in my life that I saw was in Louisville, Kentucky, when we did a show there at the club, went to several like Walgreens, CBS.
00:11:41.000About D.C. Why do they, what's the bar they're shooting for?
00:11:44.000Like, tell me, I know you're never going to get rid of it completely, but where is good for you?
00:11:49.000Because I don't think our goods would be the same.
00:11:52.000It's just another example of the left, and you see it with teenagers and you see it with young adults and you see it with them and you see it with the government.
00:12:00.000This goes back to Jordan Peterson saying, make your bed.
00:12:03.000The left, these same people who believe or want to sell you that they can fix the world's climate problem.
00:12:09.000That includes China and India, by the way, by signing on to an agreement and implementing green car, electric cart, and let's not talk about the batteries, policy and renewable resources, things that have proven not to, they want you to believe that they can affect that, but they throw their hands up in their own actual city with a physical problem.
00:12:29.000People who are committing physical acts of violence, vagrancy, destroying the cities, that's just something that progress can't be made.
00:12:38.000But carbon offsets for your flight, but no big gulps, but making sure you can't get an SUV, right?
00:13:07.000It's the same thing with leftists if you're in college, right?
00:13:10.000The conservative is usually working their way through college or going to a trade school or studying an apprenticeship or going to law school.
00:13:18.000The feminist liberal is going to talk about how they need to fix the patriarchy and systemic discrimination, but can't solve their own personal issue of student loans that they took out themselves.
00:13:30.000It always absolves, the left always absolves themselves of the personal accountability, the things they could actually do something about.
00:13:39.000They always have an answer for someone that would require an international agreement and everyone else live in a utopia, of course, of the exact same ideological stripes.
00:14:01.000It's all it's really easy to say this should be fixed.
00:14:03.000This should be fixed when you know that you'll never have skin in that game.
00:14:07.000No, and I mean, you can put band-aids on things.
00:14:09.000Every policy that you, or problem that we've talked about that you just listed and the things that are running through my head, every solution is essentially just a band-aid on the problem, right?
00:14:17.000So homelessness, let's give everybody a home.
00:14:19.000Okay, well, what keeps people from becoming homeless?
00:14:21.000What policies make sure that this stops?
00:14:24.000By the way, that doesn't even work in the first place.
00:17:15.000Like we have to, and listen, I'm not bemoaning the fact that there's somebody asking for something on a street corner for a handout.
00:17:21.000What I'm bemoaning the fact is when I turn under the bridge, I see an encampment that is now a very unsafe place to be for those very people.
00:17:29.000If you're another homeless person, you don't have to go sit on on a street corner and beg for money.
00:17:33.000You just have to beat the crap out of the person who did it later when they're trying to go back to whatever place they call home that night.
00:17:38.000I mean, that's not even that dangerous place.
00:17:40.000Going under a bridge and an overpass and they're under there in the encampment.
00:18:18.000There's a park in the middle, two streets, and it's just all encampment.
00:18:21.000It's now all these people who have, you know, who have built a nice life for themselves, put their kids into a neighborhood that, you know, has a higher tax, not tax break, but a higher tax levy on for the schools.
00:19:25.000Until they do something, until they've actually murdered you in your house, you can't call the police.
00:19:30.000And that harrowing experience, and it would be for a woman with a homeless man who's undoubtedly larger than her and probably on drugs, that wouldn't be registered as any kind of a violent crime.
00:19:47.000I don't remember exactly what they said, but then I had these guys that were lined up on my street corner, big, big open area for them to park next to the park.
00:19:54.000And multiple times I called them, and they're like, you have to call city services.
00:19:58.000You have to call not 411, but 611 or whatever the social social.
00:20:04.000It was like the whole defund the police have the social workers do.
00:21:58.000I had to do a huge workaround to get these people out of my neighborhood.
00:22:02.000Literally, if you did not have a gun, you were completely at their mercy.
00:22:06.000I had, I think this, I had a neighbor who was the worst of the worst.
00:22:10.000I lived in a very nice area of Western Michigan.
00:22:12.000My neighbor was not allowed within whatever, 100 yards of a school because he had a background as a sex offender, lived with his 70-something-year-old mom who used to wave her shaman stick around my backyard.
00:22:44.000He would be taken to jail sometimes around like in the drunk tank to sleep it off.
00:22:50.000I get questioned one time about a special needs neighbor who lives two houses down if I saw anything if this guy had molested this young adult, I should say.
00:23:02.000They would scream at us, scream at me when I would walk down the street, just scream, just scream the cops, like, ah, you know, leave him alone.
00:23:08.000And then one night at 2, 3 in the morning, he's screaming my name at the top of his lungs, drunk at 4.
00:23:14.000And when I came out and said, hey, you know, you need to kind of calm down, stop this.
00:23:21.000The next morning, I woke up with a brick thrown through my car window and him leering at me.
00:25:35.000So here's, Josh, this is my entire point.
00:25:36.000The reason that I started with the homeless people under the bridge or asking for money because it was the most benign thing that I could think of in this conversation that leads to your experience.
00:25:46.000You don't typically start with encampments.
00:25:47.000You start with a policy of, oh, these people are down on their luck.
00:25:50.000Yeah, they need to be able to ask people to maybe get some money, you know, to do this.
00:26:14.000I'm not like, oh, it's bad to look at.
00:26:15.000I'm like, I'm thanking God that through no benefit of my own or nothing that I've done, he has blessed me to not be in a situation where I have to raise my kids around that.
00:26:29.000Because at what point do I have a right as a father, as a as just a person to live in a society where I don't have to worry about going through those areas because we pay taxes.
00:26:42.000But it's these bad policies that just turn out horribly every single time and end up with situations like yours that most Americans right now listening to this go, what?
00:30:54.000It's not just, I don't understand how we allow this.
00:30:56.000South Park is the park that I lived that I lived in, South Park.
00:30:59.000There's a guy, there's like a little community, it's like an Asian heritage community center thing where they do all kinds of stuff, not Asian stuff, but it is primarily run by, I think, South Pacific Asians.
00:31:11.000And they have a little cute little gazebo outside.
00:31:14.000And it's just been taken over by a homeless guy.
00:31:16.000So I was walking my dog, and I don't care.
00:31:26.000Chirp something yelling something at me every Single time, and it probably wasn't directed at me, probably going through some kind of mental crisis.
00:32:05.000Well, the only thing I wanted to do is trying to get some context on the media is going to run with this, that your officers are empowered to do whatever the hell they want.
00:32:12.000And I wanted to try to get some context so I don't pull the clip.
00:32:14.000So if you guys want to see that real quick, or we can wait until tomorrow.
00:33:02.000The context is they're being essentially threatened or spit on or they're doing something to the police officers, not police officers just randomly going and picking people out to be a target of a baton.
00:33:13.000No, the CNN picked whatever the hell they want and they go, oh, now cops are allowed to do whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want.
00:33:44.000And it was just, it was easier to believe, I guess, for a judge or jury, it was easier for them to believe that an officer was being too aggressive or abusing them than it would be to they just were a piece of shit.
00:34:06.000We've seen some where, like, it's a gray area, you know, where he tells the officer that he's a fat piece of shit and to go screw his mother.
00:34:11.000Like, okay, but that doesn't necessarily work getting out of the car.
00:34:13.000But we've never seen what we have been told, like a law-abiding citizen's entire life, top of his class, valedictorian, pulled over and nut stomped for the crime of being black.
00:35:06.000I see many more offensive examples of abuses of power where it's like, you know, someone cycling or something in the wrong lane, like writing up a ticket, you know what I mean?
00:35:12.000Or something for like someone who clearly doesn't deserve it and the cop is on a power trip.
00:35:16.000But I haven't seen the police brutality.
00:35:22.000First chat from Zhao, one, two, three.
00:35:25.000If the management and courts of D.C. have failed, should the residential areas be returned to the respective states and the D.C. courts dissolved?
00:37:57.000And all they're doing is empowering a force, if it ends up being a federal force or a force, in some cases, you know, state troopers, a force National Guard to enforce the law that already exists.
00:38:10.000You have one side that creates loophole after loophole after loophole, not for you, but for the serial offenders.
00:38:17.000And one side is going, low, look, we're going to enforce the law.
00:39:41.000That means someone who knowingly has children and knowingly doesn't get married so that they can collect more checks and does so with the full premeditated plan of never working.
00:39:58.000I'm just going to have kids, no husband, no dad for them, and never work.
00:40:59.000You go and you tell them, hey, look, here's the work program and the whatever, the homeless shelter where you can go and we'll put you in a drug rehabilitation program.
00:41:08.000And if their answer is no, all right, you step aside and the cop comes forward and handcuffs them.
00:44:09.000But my grandfather ran, he was in the Air Force, and they had him running reconnaissance planes over the roof because there were so many snipers in the rooftops.
00:44:16.000So I think if it's an actual situation of unrest, obviously you can send in some kind of federal forces if it's like a riot.
00:44:23.000As far as a city declaring bankruptcy, you can't.
00:46:29.000It's half the city gone and is now green space that you don't allow homeless encampments to be set up in.
00:46:35.000That's what you need because the population is they try and say it's 700,000.
00:46:39.000I would be very surprised if it's half a million.
00:46:41.000This is a city that was a couple million people.
00:46:43.000The population's been cut to less than half.
00:46:46.000It cannot sustain it, but everyone's so busy trying to say, it's coming back and some new government program and program, program, program, program.
00:47:14.000Dude, I was doing some, I was doing some fantasy house hunting after talking with you guys a couple months ago about Chicago, and I was finding just like mansions, dude.
00:48:11.000Final chat from anti-federalist payne.
00:48:14.000How do you justify supporting martial law from an administration that has not enforced second, fourth, and fifth amendment rights to self-defense and defense of property in these same cities?
00:48:35.000It's a little dramatic, but I think the National Guard coming in and stuff like that, I think maybe is what you're...
00:48:45.000And this is different burdens that you would have to meet because of, again, civil unrest.
00:48:50.000In this case, it's just empowering a police force to enforce the laws that are actually on the books and are being violated because of a corrupt system.
00:48:59.000I think you're referring to the National Guard coming in, but that I don't know exactly.
00:49:03.000But the president has the right to be able to call the National Guard in, but is that necessarily declaring martial law?
00:49:08.000I don't necessarily know what they're doing either.
00:49:10.000Like, I know in California they call the National Guard to protect the ICE buildings.
00:49:14.000That's just them standing outside an ice building saying, hey, you're not coming through this.
00:49:17.000Martial law needs to be a new set of laws for the contributing citizen.
00:49:23.000In other words, for the law-abiding citizen.
00:49:24.000Martial law means you are now either there's a curfew or there are checkpoints in other words if you are a law-abiding citizen you're not a homeless vagrant in D.C. This affects your life.
00:49:42.000Do you mean to say that they don't have the right to do this because they haven't been able to, when you say not enforcing the Second Amendment, you mean not by mandate constitutional carry?
00:50:03.000It sounds to me like you're kind of creating a wish list of the things that you want that they haven't done and saying therefore they don't have the authority that they actually have been constitutionally granted.
00:50:12.000And there's a long-standing precedent.
00:50:17.000Unfortunately, that's not where we are right now.
00:50:20.000The courts have allowed states to set their certain laws, which I do think violate the Second Amendment.
00:50:26.000But you think that it would be less of a violation of the constitutional authorities or checks and balances that exist right now for Donald Trump to just go constitutional carry, regardless of what the states and Supreme Court have said.
00:50:37.000You think that would be less of a violation than enabling a police force to enforce the laws in a federally controlled municipality?
00:53:33.000So you just don't believe in any type of incentive for people to better life.
00:53:40.000And you don't believe in any type of limitations.
00:53:43.000You believe that serial criminals currently doing drugs, untested, not working, not seeking any kind of gainful employment, should be able to live on the streets if they so choose and have the taxpayer pay for their Fanta and funions and Doritos in perpetuity for the rest of their life.
00:56:41.000Like, I mean, that is genuinely my stance on most issues at this point.
00:56:45.000Whatever it is they're saying, I pretty much just, my set point is the exact opposite.
00:56:49.000Because there used to be a point, if you look at Bill Clinton, for example, okay, and you could argue about Newt Gingrich, but there was some balancing the budget, right?
00:56:56.000There was some fiscal response, but there were some parts that were tougher on crime.