00:00:30.000We go into that, including the problem of guilt in our society and so much more.
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00:04:09.000We're not yet at levels that are late 80s or early 90s levels, but the increase.
00:04:15.000In 29 of 34 major American cities, criminologists observed an increase in homicide rates last year.
00:04:23.000These cities saw a 30% average increase in homicide, the highest single-year percentage change on record.
00:04:30.000For most cities, these rates are just over half of what they were in 1995.
00:04:35.000So again, they're not as bad as they were in the 90s, but we're on pace, and the increase is dramatic.
00:04:42.000Now, this corresponds to an additional 1,268 homicides in the city studies in 2020 versus 2009 in 2019 in just those 34 cities.
00:04:55.000Now, if you take just the largest 60 cities in the country, that's right, the largest 60, police agencies from those cities show a 36% increase in murders over the last year.
00:05:10.000This is new from the New York Police Department.
00:05:14.000In a 28-day period, from March 8th to April 4th of this year, there has been a 95% jump in shootings compared to the same time period last year.
00:05:30.000Now, that might be partially because we were locked down that time of year and people were more afraid of getting the Chinese coronavirus than getting shot.
00:05:38.000I kid you not, that was actually a thing in Chicago, that people were more afraid of getting the virus than getting shot.
00:05:43.000That's why gangbanging went down for 30 days, but they made up for lost time over the summer.
00:05:49.000Richard B. Rosenfeld, a criminologist from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, said the data shows the first half of 2020 was more or less in line with past years, but there was a major change around the middle of last year.
00:07:03.000So just to kind of wrap up, could you summarize the final opinions that you have made in this case?
00:07:11.000I felt that Officer Chauvin's interactions with Mr. Floyd were following his training, following current practices in policing, and were objectively reasonable.
00:08:05.000The point, there's tons of studies on this, that if you're actually trying to persuade people and make them trust you, people are less likely to trust people with beards.
00:08:12.000There's a lot of studies on this that if you run for political office with a beard, you're less likely to win.
00:08:21.000He walks around with a beard all the time.
00:08:22.000I'm just saying that if you're a lawyer defending the most hated man in America and the facts are more complicated than it seems, probably don't have a beard.
00:08:41.000So middle of last year, we saw this massive increase in violent crime.
00:08:46.000Rosenfeld says, quote, the increase tends to occur in nearly every single city at the end of May and the first days of June.
00:08:54.000That's why I connect to the George Floyd news because the George Floyd news, where we don't know if he died of a drug overdose or not, but that guy's testimony, not my words, his words, to Derek Chauvin's use of force was, quote, objectively reasonable.
00:09:10.000Rosenfeld continues by saying, the size and abruptness of the increase are unprecedented.
00:09:17.000Washington Post says that was the timeframe in which the country was convulsed, it's a weird word to use, by protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
00:09:29.000Crime went up dramatically because it was all of a sudden justified to go loot, riot, steal, and burn because of what they believed happened to George Floyd.
00:09:41.000Now, in Washington, D.C., there have been 200 homicides to date, a 20% increase that is in line with national FBI figures.
00:09:51.000Now, why the Washington Post is the authority figure on crime in our country?
00:09:54.000I asked this question of Heather McDonald, and she didn't really have an answer to it.
00:09:58.000I think she agreed with my question, but can we have some other institution of the country please do some crime analysis other than the Washington Post?
00:10:05.000Because I just don't trust anything they publish.
00:10:08.000I'd be happy to talk to anyone about it.
00:10:09.000If someone needs funding for that, I'm happy to raise them money for it.
00:11:24.000Jim Pascoe, the executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, said that during the long-term trend of falling crime rates, which began in the mid-90s, is now showing signs of faltering.
00:11:37.000So now that we have these mass, well-funded movements to attack police officers and justify widespread criminality, we're seeing crime rates go back up.
00:11:49.000It's exactly what happened with Dante Wright.
00:11:51.000The rap songs that Dante Wright listens to, the video games that he was likely exposed to, the movies that he watched, and the culture around him glamorized and glorified resisting arrest.
00:12:26.000The cop, obviously, based on the video, acted improperly.
00:12:31.000But that piece of information is very important.
00:12:33.000Now, we're going to keep on unpacking the bloody 20s and where this is headed and why this is happening because it's actually deeper than just the war on police and the cultural issue that I mentioned.
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00:13:40.000Unfortunately, we're entering a very troubling decade, and how we're able to navigate it remains to be seen.
00:13:48.000I do believe that we are going to have another opportunity, we being reasonable people that actually love our nation and love our home.
00:13:56.000We're about to enter a very violent decade.
00:13:59.000And one of the reasons why is because we have a crisis of purpose.
00:14:05.000A lot of people commit crimes because they're actually looking for purpose.
00:14:13.000I actually think that it's more about purpose and less about material.
00:14:18.000This is a fundamental disagreement that I have with leftists.
00:15:00.000But when you don't have those things, you don't have a job, you do not have camaraderie, you don't have friendship, then people are going to search for purpose in unconventional, unusual, and yes, illegal ways.
00:15:12.000You want to be important in downtown Brooklyn Center, pull out a gun and point it at someone.
00:15:19.000All of a sudden, you're the most important person in the area.
00:15:22.000You went from unimportant to important like that.
00:15:26.000Purpose comes from a Greek word telos.
00:15:31.000Telos is where we get the word telescope, which means out in the distance, your aim, the end result.
00:17:00.000Every major city is seeing an increase in crime, every major city.
00:17:05.000So while we have to be lectured by BLM Incorporated about Dante Wright, a criminal, there have been 162 people shot and killed in Chicago, 735 people shot and wounded, and 897 people total shot with 170 total homicides.
00:17:28.000We just saw the murder rate and the homicide rate go up 34% in major cities, where the previous high was 12%.
00:17:44.000Lack of purpose, lack of direction, people seeking pleasure over truth, people seeing immediate gratification instead of delayed gratification, which is a Western value.
00:17:58.000Heather McDonald talked about that brilliantly on our program.
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00:18:11.000And so what can we actually do about this besides arming yourselves?
00:20:25.000There's a lot of different stories I want to connect to.
00:20:28.000I got a note from a friend asking me, Do you think we have a self-esteem crisis?
00:20:33.000I said, No, I think we have a self-control crisis, and you get self-esteem from self-control.
00:20:39.000That we have an entire country that is about immediate pleasure and seeking pleasure over earned success and delayed gratification.
00:20:49.000That creates miserable people and people that then go engage in crime to either find purpose, self-esteem, or to be able to gratify themselves so they can get resources or material, whether it be looting a store or holding up a store, so they don't have to actually work or earn the success.
00:21:11.000There's a lot of different themes there that I want to unpack.
00:21:14.000I want to get to a couple kind of news of the day and kind of force, kind of go more into what's happening in Minnesota right now.
00:21:23.000And so the Democrat mayor of Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, completely caved the BLM Incorporated.
00:21:29.000BLM Incorporated will be historically known as an organization that said they were for black lives, but their policies and their ideas and their values will directly contribute to tens of thousands more black people being killed.
00:21:46.000And also, building a pretty impressive real estate empire for the people that run it.
00:21:50.000Cut 57, Democrat mayor of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mike Elliott, Playtape.
00:21:57.000And so with people coming to the department expressing their anger and seeing the flag, you know, we don't want the flag to be a flashpoint that, you know, angers people and does that in a way that they're going to come to the department.
00:22:22.000And so we've asked the flag to be removed.
00:22:56.000I don't believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons, you know, every time they're making a traffic stop or engaged in situations that don't necessarily call for weapons.
00:23:18.000So do police officers need firearms or weapons at a traffic stop?
00:23:23.000I'm not going to show the video on the live stream, but if you watched the recent video out of New Mexico of the guy that got pulled over at the AR-15 and he just turns around and murders the cop with an AR-15, yes, police officers need to be armed when they do traffic stops.
00:23:39.000This is not about this whole situation was preventable if Dante Wright decided not to be a criminal.
00:24:21.000What's hilarious is that the white liberals were willingly doing that.
00:24:25.000Is that the white liberals were okay being in the front of the police to go guard the black people.
00:24:31.000And this segues to something I've been wanting to talk about for the last couple of days, and I've been waiting for the right opportunity, which is this idea of guilt.
00:24:39.000I believe that guilt is one of the strongest beliefs that is driving human behavior in our country.
00:24:47.000Whether we realize it or not, the left is dominated by guilt, or at least the people that follow the left.
00:25:08.000But to all of a sudden feel a need to repatriate or redistribute your position or your resources because of that, and then with it society's resources, is immoral.
00:25:22.000Well, if you feel that your position in life is not worthy or not earned, then why wouldn't you want to open the borders to the entire third world?
00:25:34.000Now, mind you, that disregards that your position is probably largely in part because of a sacrifice somebody else made in some other generation so that you might be able to live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:25:50.000I truly believe that our inability to explain the wealth that we have, the position that we have in our country, our inability to communicate our values is this constant guilt-ridden campaign to try to pay penance and assuage ourselves of a knot in the stomach that many upper-middle-class white liberals feel every single day.
00:26:16.000Maybe they didn't sacrifice to be where they are.
00:26:19.000Maybe they didn't actually have to work to go drive around in Range Rovers in Paradise Valley and be able to lecture other people about how good of people they are.
00:26:32.000And we see this in this recent ridiculous advertisement in the New York Times.
00:26:37.000Remember, I read the New York Times, so you don't have to.
00:26:41.000This advertisement in the New York Times says we stand for democracy.
00:26:48.000And it is this double page, full page ad of corporations, people, and even nonprofits that say that they are opposing Georgia's voter law.
00:27:03.000This is a mixture of power-hungry zealots and self-righteous activists, but most importantly, guilt-ridden wealthy people.
00:27:15.000One thing I love about the Christian ethic, and one of the few things I love about Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy is its de-emphasis on guilt.
00:27:28.000I think that if you take the Randian ethic too far, obviously you get to a place of just materialism and self-indulgence.
00:27:36.000However, I do appreciate some of her literature.
00:27:38.000I think the fountain head and atlas shrugged as far as an individual challenging a power structure and what it means to be daring and take risk.
00:27:46.000I really enjoy it from a narrative standpoint.
00:27:48.000I don't endorse it as a worldview, obviously.
00:27:51.000But one thing that Christianity and objectivism has in common, which again, this is a nuanced view that very few people will ever tell you, is that they say, why would you feel guilty for what you have?
00:28:14.000Well, if it was given to you, did that person sacrifice for it?
00:28:17.000Did that person wake up at 5 a.m. and go to bed at midnight so that you might be able to live a good life?
00:28:21.000And what are you, maybe you are lacking purpose and you're trying to take away other people's purpose so you can feel good.
00:28:27.000So this two-page advertisement in the New York Times is a list of corporations, CEOs, and celebrities that are deciding to say, look how good of a person I am.
00:28:41.000This says, we stand for democracy, a government of the people by the people.
00:29:23.000However, regardless of our political affiliations, we believe the foundation of our electoral process rests upon the ability for each of us to cast our ballots for the candidate of our choice.
00:29:36.000What kind of strange posturing gaslighting do the people who have signed this garbage think that we actually believe?
00:29:45.000You see, we believe in the right to vote so much.
00:29:47.000We want to make sure that our votes are not being shredded, that illegals are not voting, and that our votes are not being diluted by a broken process, which is why we support the Georgia election law.
00:29:58.000So in case you need a refresher of the companies you shouldn't buy products from, and by the way, we're working on our Buycot page on CharlieKirk.com, so you'll be able to find the products that you should actually support.
00:30:08.000Here's who signs it: Accenture, AIG, Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, big surprise.
00:30:13.000American Airlines, American Express, Apple, Bain Company, Bank of America, Berkshire Partners, Best Buy, Biogen, BlackRock, BMC Software, Boston Consulting Group, Cambridge Associates, Cisco, Civic Entertainment Group, Clime Credit, Cowboy Ventures, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, of course.
00:30:29.000Deloitte has done more damage shipping jobs overseas and making tons of money than any of their company in the last couple decades.
00:30:36.000Dropbox, SD Lauder, Eventbrite, Ernst Young, Facebook, of course, Ferrara, First Mark Capital, Ford Motor Company, General Catalyst, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Harry's Inc., Hess, IBM, Insight Partners, Leadership, Instacart, JJ, JetBlue, Levi Strauss, which is an anti-American denim import company that makes Wuhan rich and America poor.
00:32:19.000This two-page advertisement in the New York Times, which is, we feel guilty, follow us, we're a good person.
00:32:25.000It's actually paid for by my least favorite type of person in public commentary right now.
00:32:32.000Paid by a bunch of people, but the first name is someone that I actually wrote glowingly about for years because I thought this person actually believed in the American system because she was such a beneficiary of it.
00:33:14.000That's someone who grew up with nothing, but the American system afforded this black daughter of immigrants of a single mother a life of luxury because she earned it.
00:33:25.000So now Ursula Burns is taking out double-page ads in the New York Times, intentionally gaslighting and attacking a very vanilla Georgia law.
00:33:37.000Ursula Burns also says, quote, when it comes to police brutality, this is a woman who has actually done it.
00:33:43.000So now we have to be lectured by people like Oprah, Tahanisi Coates, Patrice Cullers-Khan, all of which have tens of millions of dollars of net worth, Oprah billions of dollars, that you can't succeed in the country.
00:34:23.000I wear watches and jewelry like the 1%.
00:34:25.000She says, but quote, I worry every day if a policeman is near me, they look at me as first and foremost a threat to their place in society.
00:34:37.000And by the way, if police officers were the problem, how are you able to succeed in America?
00:34:41.000How is a black woman who grew up in a housing project, a daughter of an immigrant single mother, how are you able to become the CEO of Xerox, you ungrateful activist?
00:34:53.000Only in America could you do that, Ursula Burns?
00:34:55.000Why don't you go move to the highly racist country of Germany and go try to become CEO of Mercedes-Benz?
00:35:01.000Please, Ursula Burns, tell me how that works out.
00:35:04.000Why don't you go to France and go try to become the CEO of Louis Vuitton?
00:35:17.000Only in America could someone as ungrateful as Ursula Burns take out a double page, afford to take out a $400,000 ad in the New York Times and then go lecture the rest of us.