The Candice Malcolm Show - 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

00:00:04.600 and an end to the defund the police movement. It's time for Canada to follow suit. I'm Candice

00:00:09.560 Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:17.780 So I don't usually cover U.S. politics very closely on this show. I try to focus on Canada

00:00:22.700 and all things Canadian, but the State of the Union address happened last night and there were

00:00:26.780 a couple of really interesting takeaways. So I wanted to focus the show on that, talk about how

00:00:31.500 of course it relates back to Canada. So that's what I'm going to get to on the show today. Before

00:00:35.360 though, I want to talk about something that did happen in Canada. Remarkably, we hear so often

00:00:40.020 from liberals, from politicians, from people like Justin Trudeau, that elections have consequences

00:00:45.140 and that elections provide a mandate for the politicians. So they'll pick one thing that

00:00:49.420 they sit on the campaign trail and then they will declare that they now have a mandate to do that

00:00:53.780 thing that somehow them getting voted in with 32% of the vote means that the Canadian public is okay

00:00:59.560 with them doing that one thing that they said on the campaign trail. Well, right now we are

00:01:02.840 experiencing something that is the exact opposite of that. The liberals have so quickly abandoned one

00:01:07.640 of their pledges that they made during the campaign. And I'm talking about a ban on the sale of real

00:01:13.100 estate to foreigners, to non-resident foreigners. So yesterday, liberal MPs on the Commons Finance

00:01:18.460 Committee rejected a two-year ban on the sale of Canadian residential real estate to foreigners abroad.

00:01:23.640 The liberal party, of course, had promised to ban the exact thing during the election campaign in

00:01:29.780 2021. We're talking about six months ago, the liberals were out there saying that they wanted

00:01:34.080 to stop the sale of real estate to foreigners. Here is a clip of Justin Trudeau saying exactly that.

00:01:40.660 This is from October 24th, 2021. Justin Trudeau promises to put a freeze on foreign home buying

00:01:45.780 to limit speculation by investors living abroad. Here's what that looked like.

00:01:49.820 At the same time, we'll crack down on the predatory speculators that stack the deck against you.

00:01:55.680 So no more blind bidding. No more foreign wealth being parked in homes that people should be living

00:02:02.100 in. Well, fast forward to yesterday and the Finance Committee voted six to five against a

00:02:07.220 conservative motion. They rejected a conservative motion to prohibit the purchase of residential property

00:02:12.080 by non-resident foreigners. The conservatives and interestingly, the New Democrats supported the

00:02:17.360 temporary ban while the liberal and the bloc opposed it. So what happened to the whole elections have

00:02:25.040 consequences and we have a mandate to do this stuff? Well, the liberals never meant what they said.

00:02:29.300 They only put that in during the election because the conservatives had a similar plan

00:02:32.900 and they wanted to match the conservatives. They didn't want the conservatives to be able to talk

00:02:36.140 about this. So they just put it out there. Clearly, they had no intention of actually doing this.

00:02:40.420 You cannot trust these liberals to do what they say they're going to do.

00:02:43.920 All right, let's move on and talk about Joe Biden and his State of the Union address last night. So

00:02:49.120 look, I'm not one of those people who watches the Super Bowl. I never watched the sort of award

00:02:53.320 shows, Academy Awards. I'm not interested in any of that stuff. For me, what I like watching is

00:02:57.060 political things, political speeches. The State of the Union is one of my favorites. It is such a

00:03:01.740 spectacle. It is such a show of sort of this odd relationship that Americans have with their

00:03:07.340 president, their political culture. There's so much pomp. It's so ceremonial. It feels almost like a

00:03:12.460 monarchy in a system that outright rejects monarchy. So you see this pageantry of the State

00:03:18.400 of the Union. It's usually really, really entertaining. I will say that last night was not

00:03:22.600 that. It was not the sort of exciting, interesting pageantry of a State of the Union. You know,

00:03:30.060 Biden just doesn't have the showmanship that Trump had. He doesn't have the great oratory skills

00:03:34.880 that Barack Obama had. So compared to like the last 10 years of these things, last night was just

00:03:39.760 an underwhelming, low energy speech. Joe Biden sort of started out strong with some energy. By the end,

00:03:44.860 he was, he'd faded. He was hardly making sense. He was, I'll get through some of the gas that he

00:03:49.840 made, but he was just sort of mumbling. And you could see that the Democrats in the audience were

00:03:53.660 giving him lots, lots of applause to try to sort of wake him up and give him some more energy. But

00:03:57.980 really, it was a short speech. These things usually drag on and on and on and last, you know,

00:04:03.220 upwards of an hour. Last night was, it was, I think it came in just under an hour or maybe just

00:04:07.000 around an hour. It was, it was low energy. And typically the purpose of the State of the Union

00:04:11.340 is for the president to discuss his accomplishments in office, the things that he has done, the things

00:04:15.880 that he've implemented and talk about the State of the Union. That's why it's called the State of the

00:04:19.120 Union to focus on what he has done. Well, last night we saw that the first like 15 or 20 minutes

00:04:23.840 were not talking about the United States at all. They were talking about Ukraine and the situation

00:04:27.760 there. I totally understand why Joe Biden would rather talk about that than his own record,

00:04:32.160 because the situation in Russia sort of unifies Americans, or at least there's bipartisan support

00:04:37.320 amongst Republicans and Democrats. They both oppose Russia. They both are in favor and supportive

00:04:41.900 of Ukraine. So that's something that he can kind of use to rally people around him. And then,

00:04:46.480 and then he talked about the things that he wants to accomplish in the future. So, so not so much the

00:04:50.380 things that he has done, but a look ahead at better days ahead. So it sounded more like a campaign

00:04:55.340 speech, which makes sense given that it is a midterm year, there will be midterm elections

00:04:59.700 this November. And so Biden started off, like I said, talking about the war, the conflict in Ukraine

00:05:06.660 and focused a lot of his time and efforts talking about that. He had some tough words for Putin. So

00:05:11.780 look, I think that we're at a stage now where it seems like Putin has made a strategic mistake. He

00:05:16.600 seemed to have overestimated his ability to conquer Ukraine quickly. And, and he wrongly assumed that

00:05:22.380 the international community would not jump in, that they would stay on the sidelines as they did

00:05:26.300 when Russia invaded and took over Georgia in 2008. And when they annexed Crimea, part of Ukraine back

00:05:32.220 in 2014, there was hardly any reaction whatsoever from the international community. So what we're

00:05:36.440 seeing today with lots of sanctions, lots of arms, lots of involvement, everybody kind of rallying

00:05:41.660 around Ukraine is that Putin was, was surprised by that. And so Biden talked a lot about that in his

00:05:47.540 speech. So he, he told Congress that Vladimir Putin had badly misjudged how the West would hit back

00:05:52.300 once he invaded Ukraine. He vowed an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over

00:05:57.500 tyranny. Well, that is a very wishful thinking given that most of the world still lives under

00:06:01.740 tyranny and that freedom is the rare exception in human history, including in modern day. But

00:06:06.380 regardless, uh, you know, that's, that's the sort of language that we expect from an American

00:06:09.840 president. Uh, Biden said that Putin's war was premeditated and unprovoked. He rejected repeated

00:06:15.140 efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West and NATO wouldn't respond and he thought he could divide us

00:06:20.280 here at home. Putin was wrong. We are ready. This is the real test. It's going to take time.

00:06:27.240 So let's continue to draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.

00:06:34.680 President Zelensky

00:06:40.600 to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination,

00:06:44.840 literally inspires the world. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll 0.99

00:06:49.880 over. Instead, he met with a mall, a wall of strength. He never anticipated or imagined. He met

00:06:56.920 the Ukrainian people.

00:07:03.720 He thought the West and NATO wouldn't respond. He thought he could divide us at home in this chamber,

00:07:10.120 in this nation. He thought he could divide us in Europe as well. But Putin was wrong. We are ready.

00:07:18.040 We are united. And that's what we did. We stayed united throughout our history. We've learned this

00:07:25.080 lesson. When dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos.

00:07:31.640 And part of these State of the Union addresses is that the president will always invite several

00:07:36.200 guests that will be sitting in the audience. And then throughout the speech, they will mention this

00:07:39.720 guest and the focus of the of the room will will go on to the guests and they'll get a standing

00:07:43.800 ovation. And it's usually sort of inspiring stories, kids, all that kind of stuff. There was a little bit

00:07:48.200 of that. But but the sort of primary guest, the guest of honor, the first guest that Joe Biden

00:07:53.400 looked to and thanked was the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. who, no surprise, received a standing

00:08:00.120 ovation. She was sitting right next to Joe Biden's wife, the first lady, Jill Biden, up in the VIP box.

00:08:05.800 And you can see why Joe Biden would want to talk about something other than his own record,

00:08:10.040 something other than his performance at home, because Joe Biden is not viewed favorably by the

00:08:14.920 American public. His approval rating is very, very low. According to a real clear politics average

00:08:20.120 of recent polls, the aggregate 40.6 percent approve of the job that Joe Biden is doing 54.4 percent

00:08:28.280 disapproved. That is the lowest it has ever been. I've seen polls as low as 37 percent approval rating

00:08:33.960 for Joe Biden. And as for his vice president, VP Kamala Harris, her approval rating remarkably is even

00:08:39.560 lower than Joe Biden's. People do not like Kamala Harris, despite all of the sort of celebration and

00:08:45.960 praise that she received for being the first female vice president, the first black

00:08:49.560 vice president. When it comes to her, actually, personality and her governance and the way that 0.97

00:08:53.960 Americans view her, it is very bad. Worse than Joe Biden's 37.5 percent aggregate average

00:08:59.880 approval rating, according to RealClearPolitics, 51 percent disapproved. So this is not a popular

00:09:05.480 administration at all. And so it is no surprise that they would much prefer to talk about foreign

00:09:10.840 conflicts and things that generally unite Americans as opposed to their own records. And I want to talk a

00:09:16.200 little bit about some of the prominent gas while I'm talking about Ukraine. This was sort of the

00:09:20.840 big one that was circulating around on social media. Joe Biden talking about Putin, talking

00:09:26.440 about how Putin is circling Kiev with his tanks. And he said that he will never win the hearts and

00:09:31.800 souls of the Iranian people, the Iranian people, Iranian people. He obviously meant to say Ukrainian

00:09:36.920 people. He skipped the he missed the K there. So here is what that looked like.

00:09:40.520 Putin may circle Kiev with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people. 0.72

00:09:47.480 He'll never he'll never extinguish their love of freedom.

00:09:50.440 Now, of course, it's no big deal. He just misspoke a little bit. No big deal. You're

00:09:53.880 reading a speech for an hour long. You're bound to misspeak here or there. I only I only mention this

00:09:58.840 because if this was George W. Bush, George W. Bush was painted as if he was a complete and utter fool

00:10:05.400 by the legacy media, they mischaracterized what he said. They took things out of context and they

00:10:09.960 made him seem like a blundering idiot. And that is the impression that so many Americans still have

00:10:14.760 today of George W. Bush. It's not true. It's not accurate. It doesn't represent his true character.

00:10:19.320 The period when George W. Bush was president was sort of pre social media. So we didn't have the

00:10:23.800 opportunity to have, you know, George Bush and Republicans putting out their own narrative and

00:10:28.760 their own side of the story to counteract the deranged media. However, the few gaffes that George W.

00:10:34.840 Bush had really characterize his presidency. And in the minds of so many Americans, he is defined

00:10:40.360 that way. When it comes to a Democrat, when it comes to someone like Joe Biden, when he makes gaffes,

00:10:45.560 the media just doesn't even acknowledge it, doesn't cover it, doesn't put it, put it out there

00:10:49.560 whatsoever. The only people who were talking about this were sort of conservatives on Twitter. We know

00:10:54.040 that if this was George W. Bush, it would be on t-shirts, on mugs, on bumper stickers. It would be a

00:10:59.480 prominent meme in society when it happens to a Democrat. Nothing to see here. No mention

00:11:04.600 whatsoever. He also had a couple of other sort of odd blunders. I think when he went off script,

00:11:09.560 this part was not in the released script of the State of the Union. However, this is what he said,

00:11:15.240 that you cannot build a wall high enough to keep a vaccine out. You can't stop the spread

00:11:21.000 of this disease. Here is Joe Biden sounding completely incoherent, not making any sense.

00:11:26.360 Because you can't build a wall high enough to keep out

00:11:31.400 a vaccine. The vaccine can stop the spread of these diseases.

00:11:38.280 He kind of had a mixed metaphor there. I think he thought he was talking about immigration and

00:11:41.880 building a wall, but then he was talking about a vaccine. Didn't really make any sense. Another

00:11:45.880 funny moment, odd moment from the State of the Union last night was Biden was talking about the

00:11:51.640 tragedy that happens to soldiers breathing in toxic smoke, talking about how we need to treat

00:11:56.120 veterans better, how Americans need to do better when it comes to health care for veterans. Oddly,

00:12:01.000 Nancy Pelosi, who is the Speaker of the House, is behind him. And she just starts getting like

00:12:07.160 giddy and jumping up and clapping when Biden was talking about something very sort of serious and

00:12:13.160 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.

00:12:31.480 Like I said, he didn't really talk about the accomplishments. He more talked about sort of

00:12:34.920 things that were happening outside of his control and then plans for the future. One of the plans

00:12:39.400 that he kept talking about was how we're going to have a COVID exit strategy. Interestingly,

00:12:44.760 Joe Biden announced his post-COVID plan today, Wednesday, instead of last night during the

00:12:49.880 State of the Union. I don't quite understand why you wouldn't use your national platform

00:12:53.640 to announce your plan, why you would wait till the next morning. But we still saw some positive steps.

00:12:59.400 One of the most striking things about the entire State of the Union was the fact that the CDC had

00:13:03.480 just changed their guidelines just a couple of days ago. New guidance came out from the American CDC,

00:13:08.280 the Center for Disease Control, the people who are in charge of the COVID response,

00:13:11.880 saying that masks are no longer necessary in indoor public spaces. So again, one of the notable

00:13:17.800 things from the State of the Union last night was that the officials were not wearing masks. Unlike

00:13:22.200 in Canada, every time you look at the House of Commons and look at the debates happening in Ottawa,

00:13:27.320 they're always wearing masks unless they're speaking. Well, the United States Democrats here,

00:13:31.880 Democrats in the US were just as fervently pro-masked as the most pro-masked Canadians. Well, 0.73

00:13:36.760 they have moved on. New York, California, Washington, D.C. have all lifted their mask mandates. And yet

00:13:43.000 here in Canada, we still have the ridiculous spectacle of people wearing masks indoors. So

00:13:48.920 it was great to see that the Americans have moved past this. I hope Canada will follow suit as well.

00:13:55.080 Aside from the notable fact that they were not wearing masks inside, Biden also called for a reset.

00:13:59.400 He said that we need to stop seeing COVID as a partisan dividing line. So this is according to

00:14:04.200 the Wall Street Journal. They reported this way. They said Biden suggested that the nation was

00:14:08.200 moving into a new phase of the pandemic, calling it a new moment in the fight against COVID-19.

00:14:13.000 Biden pledged to continue to work to vaccinate Americans to take steps to be ready for future

00:14:17.320 variants. He said the US has the tools to keep schools and businesses opened. He did stress,

00:14:22.520 however, that emerging from the pandemic isn't a guarantee and it's still necessary to adhere to public

00:14:27.640 health guidelines and to get vaccinated. He noted that last July, Mr. Biden held a large celebration

00:14:33.960 on the White House's South Lawn and declared the nation was closer than ever to be declaring our

00:14:38.600 independence from this deadly virus. But that comment proved premature as the Delta variant

00:14:43.480 took hold. And of course, the Omicron variant was even more widespread and severe than the Delta

00:14:48.120 variant. Of course, it didn't kill as many people because it wasn't as deadly. And what did we learn

00:14:52.840 from Omicron? We learned that everybody was getting hit with Omicron. It didn't really matter if you were

00:14:56.680 vaccinated or not. Everybody was getting it. Maybe people who were vaccinated didn't have as severe

00:15:01.480 case, but most young people don't have a severe case anyway. And in the midst of all this, there's

00:15:06.280 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,

00:15:16.920 especially those on the political left, but generally speaking in Canada, they ignored antibodies

00:15:21.960 derived from natural immunity from COVID infection. In Canada, there is no recognition whatsoever

00:15:27.720 of natural immunity. They are treated the exact same way. So someone who has had COVID recovered

00:15:33.160 and has those natural antibodies is treated the exact same way as a unvaccinated person. Of course,

00:15:38.680 the opposite is true in Europe. This is according to The Hill in Washington, D.C. It says many European

00:15:43.000 countries recognize that immunity due to prior infection is equal to vaccination. So they will treat

00:15:48.440 someone who has recovered from COVID the exact same way as someone who is vaccinated. Well, a new study backs

00:15:53.480 this up and it actually says that if you have natural immunity from COVID, you have 10 times better

00:15:58.120 immunity than just getting the vaccine alone. So again, this is from Medscape. Antibodies derived from

00:16:04.360 natural COVID infection are more abundant and at least 10 times more potent than immunity generated by

00:16:11.080 the vaccine alone. This comes from a study from the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland,

00:16:16.440 published on January 25th. Again, Canada just simply doesn't recognize this. I don't understand how the

00:16:21.560 science is different in different parts of the world. How is it that Europe has different science?

00:16:25.560 How is it that Oregon State University or Oregon Health Science University in Portland has different

00:16:30.440 science than we do in Canada? Why is it that the CDC in the U.S. says, you know what, you can go into

00:16:35.320 Congress, you don't have to wear a mask, whereas in the House of Commons, they still have to wear a mask.

00:16:38.840 This is a memo of the rules in the House of Commons when it comes to masks. It says it is now mandatory

00:16:43.960 for any person, including members of Parliament and their staff, political research employees,

00:16:47.640 administrative employees, members of Parliament, members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery,

00:16:51.320 and parliamentary business visitors are required to wear a mask and face coverings

00:16:55.960 in the House of Commons precinct. It's time that we follow suit with our American neighbors,

00:17:00.920 with our friends in the United Kingdom who have gotten rid of all the restrictions,

00:17:04.520 and European countries get rid of masks, recognize natural immunity, and I know that Alberta and Ontario

00:17:11.320 have already taken these steps, but there's still so many rules on the book. You still have that

00:17:15.000 horrific vaccine passport system in place in British Columbia. It is time that we just 0.98

00:17:19.960 move on, declare that COVID is just something that we are going to live with, and I did see

00:17:24.280 a lot of that from Joe Biden. Just a few days ago, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention

00:17:30.040 issued a new mask guidelines. Under the new guidelines, most Americans and most of the country

00:17:36.600 can now go mask free. And based on projections, based on projections, more of the country will

00:17:45.080 reach a point across that point across the next couple of weeks. A couple other things to note from

00:17:49.960 Joe Biden's State of the Union is that he almost sounded like a conservative. He almost sounded like

00:17:54.040 a Republican. He talked about immigration and border security. He talked about defunding the police,

00:17:58.840 and I think this is a really important moment. Last night at the State of the Union, Democrat President

00:18:03.880 Joe Biden says that we all agree the answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to fund the

00:18:09.240 police. You can see that he then received a roaring standing ovation from the mostly Democrats

00:18:14.440 in the audience. This is an incredible moment. Here is what that looked like.

00:18:17.240 We should all agree the answer is not to defund the police. It's to fund the police.

00:18:22.440 Now, Joe Biden was never the type to lead the charge on the defund the police movement. He was

00:18:35.080 never the one out there loudly saying that we have to defund the police. However, his party and the

00:18:39.480 Democrats were the ones that were pushing this movement. Joe Biden himself did make comments

00:18:43.640 talking about how we should redirect funding and how we should fund other things as opposed to the

00:18:48.360 police. But he was never he was never out there saying defund the police. Lots and lots of other

00:18:52.040 prominent Democrats, including his own VP Kamala Harris, were on that team. So here is a little

00:18:56.840 montage of some prominent Democrats saying the exact opposite thing, as Joe Biden said last night in

00:19:02.120 the State of the Union.

00:19:02.680 Mayor Eric Garcetti saying take some of the money from policing about 150 million dollars.

00:19:07.240 I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done.

00:19:09.880 Not only do we need to disinvest for in police, but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis

00:19:17.000 Police Department. So yes, defund your butts. Defund you. 1.00

00:19:20.680 Yes, I support the reallocation of resources from NYPD.

00:19:25.800 We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services.

00:19:31.720 They are talking about reducing the allocation of resources to that department. And I think every

00:19:37.240 single city in this country ought to be thinking about the same thing.

00:19:41.240 Yes, I support the defund movement. I'm for responsible reallocation of resources.

00:19:47.000 And defund the police.

00:19:48.120 I think you do all those other things. You don't need all the money that's going

00:19:50.840 in the police department. So yeah, I mean, the spirit of it, I do support them.

00:19:55.000 Yeah. And you know, a lot of us were asked if we could imagine a future without police

00:19:58.600 back in 2017, when we were running for office. And I answered yes to that question.

00:20:03.720 We are going to reduce funding in the police department.

00:20:06.520 And I want to talk about how this relates back to Canada, because like so many prominent social

00:20:10.200 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

00:20:18.200 instance of police brutality, a horrible instance caught on film of a man being killed by a police

00:20:22.920 officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the summer of 2020. And suddenly it became a big issue in

00:20:27.960 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

00:20:36.040 to defund our own police in places like Halifax, Montreal, Edmonton, and Toronto. In Edmonton,

00:20:42.760 they unanimously voted in favor of having city administration work with the police to review

00:20:47.880 and develop the strategy for implementing recommendations. So they all jumped on board,

00:20:52.600 even though we don't have the same cultural issues. I can't stress how damaging this is for

00:20:57.320 society, for society to say the people who are charged with keeping the peace and making us safe and

00:21:02.840 making us secure. The people who put their life on the line risk everything every single day to ensure

00:21:08.120 order in our society. Order is the most important thing. You cannot have freedom, you cannot have

00:21:12.680 opportunity, you cannot have justice unless you have that sort of baseline of order and stability and

00:21:17.800 security. And so undermining that principle is so bad for society and for the individuals who work on

00:21:23.560 the front lines, for the people who go out there and are policing, rather than treating these people

00:21:27.960 with the revere and the gratitude that they deserve. Treating them like heroes of our society and

00:21:33.800 leaders and the people who keep us all in order. We started treating them like they were criminals,

00:21:38.760 like they were suspect, like they were unworthy. I can't stress how bad that is for society,

00:21:44.120 how terrible it must be for recruitment. Who in their right mind would want to be a police in this

00:21:48.760 environment, in this environment where every cop is suspected and accused of being some kind of a

00:21:53.640 criminal. Young people growing up thinking about career path. I can't imagine a lot of young people

00:21:58.840 were signing up and saying, yes, I want to defend my city. I want to be on the front lines, given the

00:22:03.720 way that our society has treated police over the past two years, how it hopped into Canada. Even our

00:22:09.160 own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participated in the spectacle. He did not write call for defunding the

00:22:14.200 police. However, he did go to a BLM rally in the midst of the height of COVID when COVID was still new,

00:22:19.560 when COVID was still mysterious, when everyone else was told not to gather outside,

00:22:23.240 when churches were banned, when we couldn't even have outdoor gatherings, weddings were banned.

00:22:27.400 And yet, when there was a large Black Lives Matter rally happening in Ottawa, our Prime Minister just

00:22:32.360 skirted all the rules, decided that those rules, it was okay to go against them because the BLM

00:22:37.560 rally was righteous and deserving of attention. So here is our Prime Minister going into the crowd

00:22:43.080 and taking a knee to what acknowledged police brutality. And I don't know exactly what it means by

00:22:48.120 taking a knee, but signaling that he is on the side of the BLM protesters and the defund the police

00:22:54.280 crowd.

00:23:02.440 So since all that happened, since so many jurisdictions across North America, including

00:23:19.160 those Canadian cities, but many, many US cities followed through and defunded their police and took

00:23:24.120 the initiative, removed funding, redistributed funding. And just to put it simply, the results have

00:23:29.640 been catastrophic. It has been really, really, really bad. The United States has experienced a

00:23:34.680 significant spike in violent crimes, in homicide, in crime in general, in cities across the United

00:23:40.360 States, specifically blue states, places where they did defund the police. I picked Oakland as an

00:23:45.080 example. Interestingly, because this is the area that Kamala Harris used to represent the East Bay of

00:23:50.840 San Francisco, but I could have picked any city, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles,

00:23:56.200 Minneapolis. So many of these cities defunded their police or elements of their police. And then in the

00:24:01.720 last year and a half, since that happened, they saw a huge spike in crimes. So this is a report from

00:24:06.600 Como news out in Oakland, California. It says once willing to defund the police, Oakland, California now

00:24:11.080 faces a major violent crime spike. So according to this report, the chances of you being a victim of

00:24:16.680 a violent crime in Oakland, California is one in 77, nearly three times higher than in the state of

00:24:22.600 California. I'll just go through some of the statistics is really, really startling from 2020

00:24:27.320 to 2021. The total homicides in Oakland have jumped 23%. The increase in armed robberies in Oakland jumped

00:24:35.000 38% from 2020 to 2021. The chances of you being carjacked, the odds of an armed carjacking instance

00:24:43.720 spiked and grew 78% in that just one year. This is really unbelievable stuff. Oakland's overall violent

00:24:50.520 crime increased by 8%. Assaults with a firearm increased by 20%. Shooting into an occupied home

00:24:57.080 or a vehicle, so like a drive-by shooting increased by 25%. And overall auto burglaries increased 31%

00:25:04.600 over the last year. So really unbelievable stuff. The report looks at a couple of things, including

00:25:09.240 the defund the police movement. Also that the city now releases criminals and inmates with a no-cash

00:25:15.480 bail system. So even though people are arrested, they are then quickly released before their

00:25:19.880 court date. So it is a whole mess of things going on out in California. But again, this is happening

00:25:25.080 in cities across the United States. And no surprise here, in December 2021, so just two months ago,

00:25:31.720 Oakland City Council shift on the police force debate from defund to refund the police. So they

00:25:37.080 are all very much regretting their decisions and they want more money back with policing because

00:25:43.240 lo and behold, when you don't have police, when you demonize police officers, when you kick them out of

00:25:47.880 the city, when you remove their funding, when you treat them like dirt, well guess what happens?

00:25:52.680 Crime spikes and that is what we are seeing. And to bring it back to Canada, one of the interesting

00:25:56.680 things about the recent trucker convoy and the policing situation in Ottawa were that the leftist

00:26:02.520 voices who were the ones that were calling for defunding the police, they were also the ones who began

00:26:08.040 loudly demanding that the police take more action against the trucker convoy. They were the ones complaining

00:26:12.920 about police inaction, saying that they were allowing this protest to happen. They wanted

00:26:17.320 the police to take more action, to be more vigilant, to be more forceful in removing the peaceful protest

00:26:22.520 in Ottawa. They were the ones loudly cheering on the police when Justin Trudeau invoked the emergency

00:26:27.480 act and the police began using excessive force to remove the unarmed and peaceful protests in Ottawa.

00:26:32.600 They were the ones who were loudly cheering them on. And then without the slightest sense of their own

00:26:37.240 hypocrisy or the irony, immediately after the protest was removed, some of the anti-trucker

00:26:42.920 protesters and activists went right back to demanding that we defund the police. So this is a post from

00:26:49.160 Rupa Subramana, who is a friend of the program. We had her on the podcast before. She writes this,

00:26:53.880 the hate-free zone came up in response to the Ottawa Freedom Convoy protest because residents of

00:26:58.920 Centretown were petrified of the peaceful protesters. Its founder holds a poster now calling for defunding

00:27:05.960 the police defund the police, fund real safety. She says, when it was the cops who cleared out

00:27:10.680 the protesters, you can't make this stuff up. So this is from the CBC. It talks, it shows this

00:27:16.440 individual here. His name is Hassan Houssani, one of the organizers of the community rally in Ottawa,

00:27:21.800 stands with a hate-free zone. So he's saying hate-free zone, which I'm going to assume means

00:27:27.640 that he's accusing the truckers of being hateful. And now he's saying that we're in a hate-free zone,

00:27:31.800 so no truckers allowed. And then you can see right there on the top in yellow, it says,

00:27:36.520 defund police, fund real safety. These people have no sense of their own hypocrisy and the irony

00:27:43.320 of them now saying that they want to defund the police, even though like two weeks ago,

00:27:47.640 they were demanding that the police do more and be more vigilant. Look, the overall point that I want

00:27:53.080 to make with covering the State of the Union address is that Canada can actually learn a lot

00:27:57.080 from President Joe Biden and the moderate tone that he took in his State of the Union address.

00:28:01.160 We can learn a lot from him in terms of moving on from COVID, getting rid of the ridiculous,

00:28:06.120 punitive, cruel mask mandates, especially for little kids in school. It is so unconscionable

00:28:10.840 that we continue to make little kids trying to learn how to speak, trying to learn how to communicate,

00:28:15.160 trying to learn in general that we make them wear masks when so many of the adults

00:28:19.160 don't have to wear masks in their own environment. And it is time that we all, once and for all,

00:28:24.040 moved on from the divisive and ridiculous idea that we should defund the police. I'm Candice Malcolm,

00:28:29.080 and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - March 02, 2022

The ‘defund the police’ movement is dead

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