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July 1, 2020 1:00 pm
Jay Sekulow welcome back to fierce city as the NYPD is $1 billion conference budget line from Washington DC Jay Sekulow the New York City Council approving $1 billion in cuts from the police budget transferring the funds to youth and social service programs. Phone lines are open for your questions right now called 100-684-3110, despite a rise in violent crime across New York City and now your host Jordan secular transfers to the right. A time when birders on the rise. Homicide is on the right you got series by Wood crime, drug crime, specifically the amount of people who have been injured in serious criminal activities will all watches as New York City burned and we saw those riots and you saw the police come in and try to control it. Not clear nothing know nothing clear from Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City about what to do, how to engage and and how to kind of calm things down and that is basically the city got looted and the streets are empty and were now used to seeing on TV as the cable news cameras pull away. Time square with no cars and I mean it is a unique time but it has happened before New York's history of half of the 1970s when New York was cratering on the brink of bankruptcy.
They cut funding to the police.
Different reasons, but then faced a massive crime wave that lasted about a decade so and see interesting at the same time, the document cutting police budgets in New York.
The Seattle in a Police Department has now gone into the autonomous zone.
Why did they go when the mayor how to issue an executive order, and this was it. What's interesting here. The Congress I guess the drop zone crime rate within the zone was on the increase. What were doing is here's the problem. If you have the surgery. You have a surgeon who uses a scalpel if you're going to get a pair of you can get some meat cut you use a butcher a butcher uses a big butcher knife bludgeoning below the butchers knife to carve the meat. The surgeon uses a scalpel and dealing with the situation with the police to carve out those bad actors you need a scalpel, not a bludgeoning below because it can end up hurting the community more significant and by the way, we have been very critical of the police abuse that we have seen on national TV and that we know about.
In cases there is no excuse for this.
Those are my view, a lot of those cases are murder cases and certainly Mr. Floyd was a murder case and certainly the end of line. I believe that was a murder case of people can argue some technicalities on that one, maybe, but but still was aggravated homicide.
If it's not murder one. I made it. These work felony crimes, murder, homicide what you do not eliminate the police department you need to surgeon scalpel to go in and fix this entry and spend the money instead of taking $1 billion out of the budget to move to other things. One of a take that billion dollars and use it for training yet why you want in this retirement NYPD were tight about the capital except to say that New York New York City values are the values of the majority of the country. But as we talked about throughout this this pandemic that without New York without the LAs functioning without these major hubs of our business. Whether it's from the business. It comes in from the.
The Europe busiest international whether the stock market, whether it is just a fact. It's kind of, so goes the rest of the country.
I mean this is that these are the capitals of it. We got use to we took in New York City from the 70s and 80s it became one of the safest places to actually be because there was a there was innocence a militarization of police because of terrorism annex let annex kind of level of police here.
One aggressive counterintelligence and that resulted in safety on multiple levels. We come back on. Talk to Dan about what it's like in Washington right now, but also don't forget where our matching challenge campaign. Day one of the July matching challenge campaign to support the work of the Americans to prolonged justice. You can double the impact your donation to ACLJ.organist a great time to support our work.
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A society can agree that the most vulnerable invoice is, is there any hope for that culture to survive.
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It may not be to your your town's police department, but of course it affects you affectionate you know whether to wife your husband us to go downtown a state or or you know where you go to do business and this affects everybody.
So what if they been in Washington DC don't get your calls to because people are experiencing this, but I think you know sometimes you see these cities like New York.
They kinda hopped ahead of where Minneapolis is Minneapolis going to kind of defund the entire Police Department fan.
What is it like in Washington DC, not DC has a lot of policing but we still saw the how quickly these protesters can overrun that when the police were kinda caught off guard as all the different Washington DC Jordan, there's no doubt that Mayor Bowser and the city Council are getting the same pressure that New York is and if there weren't as an issue of joint jurisdiction. Some of these issues. I actually think they would be moving up pretty quickly in line with what New York is doing others a couple of things Congress does have some jurisdiction over the district and maybe more importantly, Jordan.
As you know, the President has the ability to protect some of the federal property and he has done so is used federal personnel to protect some of the statue. Some of the monuments that were in question here so I think Mayor Bowser's authority.
The DC's city Council's authority has been checked by that of the Jordan I would just go back to the conversation you had with your dad about this is coming to a city near you.
I think if you look at Washington DC and you take the federal layer out of that.
Jordan I think you would see St. the same cuts passing in Washington DC right now yes to your service to your sorry to see the cities that have honestly been through. DC was the murder capital of the United States that shifted so long Washington DC. These places got safer and safer. Some that was the post 9/11 build up.
But even before the 9/11 attacks. There was a redoubling of police efforts after the crack epidemic that hit the urban areas are in a country that's about because a lot of what happened the 70s and 80s, including in New York by Macrina Spike but were seeing. Now another time here were people of nor to go.
No job to go to a new employment.
They cannot leave the city. They can't leave they have nowhere ago it was already a very expensive place to live very get out your spending. Everything you make to live there so where do they go while they hit the streets.
We all knew that was Artie happening. The question now is the long-term implications of this as it will take.
We already knew and we Artie saw the York and knew that this would take significant time to get back to what what was normal and through one of the look I live through New York City in the 70s when you can really go up there or work. I worked in New York City for a law firm in the 80s and you know I want to tell you something. It was now when Mayor Giuliani came on. Things change very quickly.
The way they change their their surveillance in policing techniques but in the 1970s, not even show this. Yeah yeah will you have the screen provided CIBA silly. This was 1975. So for most real estate is broadcast right now. This is not like what that long ago. It's up to you live through, but we did have social media wasn't to remind people what was going on.
This is not this is not like this, not like an interest group that put this out NYPD put this out is as what people whose lives in New York is called welcome to fear city for those you are watching for the delisting and it was basically a a 10.10 point plan on art get nine guidelines and it starts with stay off the streets after 6 PM when we heard those kind of things referred last few weeks. Don't walk to The other. The taxicab and that whole idea of visits. It's basically were the only cities in the country where there were still cut your hotel would handle you taxicab if you needed Before you went on the street that was a holdover from what happened during this time. Word sent do not walk think about that in New York in 2012 we were in 2028 you think about the fact that we all took that for granted for a long time in New York. You could you could walk for as long as you wanted to. Basically it wasn't that there were not areas in New York, there were more dangerous than others which I met Manhattan you're talking met Manhattan right now. I just sent to will Hazel take us a few minutes to get this up a picture that a good friend of ours. A very good lawyer sent us who work with, and it's a picture of the of federal courthouse or the note, the surrogates courthouse and New York State courthouse was built in 1970. Beautiful building and you'll see what's been done to it and course the risk. This response is the mayor's will take $1 billion out of the police budget will remove it. The other things maybe try to help us ask God to do something with security missile and security schools will no long abandoned by the police have school resource officers that I guess her department of education employees. Meanwhile, the department of education in New York is talking about 3% cut in the budget and are they been going back to school really well and I think that is languidly spending the money on, but I did affect is was we get this picture which kind I thinks paint should the nature of the anarchy here, and I look I protect and defend freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, protest marches, parades clattered holding. I don't support. We do not we condemn violence, destruction of property, defecation of property. Those are things that should not happen then you had brought what is it like a mean our offices and the epicenter on we are next to the Supreme Court. A block from the capital surrounded by the Senate and House office buildings. What's it like when you go in the morning. Yeah it's been interesting to BJ because the businesses that I pass along the way are boarded up selling a lot of them are made it's it's something that is interesting to see because there even keep the house and the Senate don't have staffers in them. For the most part, most of them are still working remotely and yet the businesses that have tried open to have to board up in a J you alluded that this underlying issue and I think this is what makes it a double tragedy. We set on this broadcast many times there is an underlying issue that needs to be addressed here, but this defunding effort that were seen J. Of course it do it, it complicates the problem because it doesn't do anything to address that underlying issue and it actually makes the people who are supposedly being protested for even more vulnerable because then when they get in position to need help they cannot reach anyone, and I will tell you most of the action in Washington DC is is down Pennsylvania Avenue from here closer to the White House of the driving in Washington DC, J you see evidence of this. Even today, people using mass transit.
Not that the demonstrators are mode most businesses in Washington DC still are not permitting public transportation for their workers. Yet I've lived in Miami Washington DC have been a lot of places have been in the news lately and where people atop the event. A lot of people always edgy. Okay, always edgy. Washington DC always on the edge of a protest people you know that this Part of DC but there's so many police everywhere Miami and and watch but you had. Now, months and months of this drain on economies and even wash a fence and empty built these three-course empty the tongue. That's what surrounds the office usually does work always.
It didn't matter if it was there always people working there 24 hours a day, and if they were they were working till 10 o'clock at night and then you had people coming in at night so that it's ready to start again. It's at 6 AM I mean this was a kind of ours that people use to keep this is your 24 hour cities like Miami like New York like wash DC like LA, they never stop living, put this picture up of house they built off of the street on court in New York there is for Facebook viewers and TV viewers. There is graffiti all over the pile described for radio audience of building built in 1907 Boorse building very famous building in Manhattan and it's it's covering graffiti on the least levels were people can reach and alchemy take graffiti off, ultimately, can you have sandblasted off that's resources to that's destruction that that that's not that's not helping anybody's cause not let me take something I want to be clear on this.
What has spurred the protests is a legitimate issue a very legitimate issue. The police brutality and I only think that's the right word. The illegal action by some police officers not majority police officers but most be stopped. But some have put the book the conscience of the country. We saw the what happened to George Ford and you have to react and the reactions were indiscreet in the protests initially started off peacefully than they got violent than the protesters.
To their credit, with the police got control of it and now it's peaceful protest and the people of the right to do that I would defend the right to protest. I think cutting budgets of the police department is what I said earlier, you need the skill of the surgeon.
Not the bludgeoning blow of the butcher to handle this. You don't eliminate Police Department sadly autonomous zoning in Washington state had a close, the police had to come back and why this was dangerous 911 has to be answered so we have to do is swift justice, fair justice, due process to everybody. Of course, but make sure make sure that the bad apples that are in the police departments are removed but reinforce the police don't eliminate, and you had to this billion dollar cut this, not like the liberals aren't celebrating this the people in the streets. The NT factor is that the D from the police. They want defunded please. They want you to rename it re-associate out go back through an entire new process and I think it's a very it's a potentially dangerous time because the impact this can have an entire country will take your call to come back 1-800-684-3110 at 2064 3110 is the city you live in next next you're sitting there in fact only one. A society can agree that the most vulnerable and is there any hope for that culture to survive.
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That's when a gun was fired a gun was fired 53% increase in the amount of people who were injured by that God some died, some are still in the hospital so may have survived but taught think about a 46 per cent increase in your city of how many times someone illegally fired a gun that's double to double the crime wherever you are. Doesn't matter if you're the safest city in the country that is going to have an impact on you when you double anything because that means it's double those horrific stories you see on your local news double the amount of the violence double the amount of the if you're using a gun for criminal activity.
A lot of laws are also other violent crimes were also occurring whether it is robbery, whether it is assault.
Whether you're caught up in in a war between two different criminal elements. Drug cartels again. Kind of shocking attacks. These kind of taking advantage of the crisis try to take advantage of the pandemic. The streets being empty, and now there to see this if your those criminal entities. The ones that were running the looting we now know that was highly coordinated by criminal organized crime. You can see hate the police are getting cut to this is our time to city Council was not unanimous than it is New York City Councilman. That said, now what we've done is our create a more violent city of our citizens to live in, and I think that fan you know that's I think nationwide. This is the problem this what no one's thinking through the consequences of the actions. How do you respond to something it's called with reason and rational approaches don't just paint broad brush strokes thinking to solve a problem.
It does not work, do you think is political pandering. I really do. I think it's what I think it's worse than not thinking through the consequences and and part of the reason I think that is you and I look at this resort of the federal lands. Maybe the one silver lining here is, at least, people can choose to live in cities and localities that haven't made this type a decision, but this is the type of decision that I think in this moment in Washington DC you would come, you would see come out of Washington DC if they had the authority to do it because think just back a couple weeks ago to the debate over the justice act, the Washington DC Democrats and spent months and months talking about how they needed more resources to pouring the law enforcement for things like body cameras. Then, when they had the opportunity to go down to the Senate floor and vote on that very thing.
More dollars for body cameras more a dollars for law enforcement.
They not only voted no, but then they ran back to their localities and supported efforts like the one that is happening in Chuck Schumer stay in New York so Jay I really do think it's more than just not thinking through the consequences. I think it's looking at the consequences and instead choosing what they think is a political advantage of further base. That's very dangerous day but I will say this is why we do think these decisions need to be made closer to the people because of the came out of Washington DC it would be nationwide.
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Every day I can't remember their house and then one morning I woke up. They were talking about the destruction downtown and the attacks on police yet the city Council tells the police the Nazis tear gas to disperse crowds in life it absolutely necessary. Well I guess last night is what they considered absolutely necessary which it was and they were throwing fireworks rocks inside the baseball and they had some kind of orange smoke so the police did have to use tear gas on but the thing is it every day is distraction of businesses. It's graffiti on downtown. Nobody's doing anything that the city Council doesn't want the Felipe is to use tear gas, or mounted them as I cares at one point a few days ago. They lock people in the justice and and set fires that I'm sharing. Not everybody I mean people here knew it happened that I mean this is what is going on in Portland knocking people in the building and setting the fire last night. It was the police union that they were on throwing the bottles and fireworks that belief is a city I've been there a lot in family life's family in Portland so I didn't spend a lot of time there, especially over the last 10 years, and in his last 10 years. It was a boomtown it was. It was a boomtown. It was every time I go back there was another neighborhood that had been kind of redundant their new restaurants whether those people build those restaurants like the politics of why they had a boomtown going on. It really matter but they don't have the jobs either. I me.
I think that there's that combination of millwork for that group that came to Portland also kind of came back in Portland and and now I mean this is what you see in the cities you have boomtown type cities that totally transformed in the last 10 to 20 years so they been on these trajectories was up up up yet Lotta young people.
Lotta young people in the service industry and had good paying jobs there were consistently coming the other citizens. Their pricing people out, including the leg moved to Portland anymore tonight.
I have done a little bit of traveling by car obviously burlesque six weeks you see me in different locations, and what concerns me. Still, besides a protest with the protester find it's the violence that I said I'm condemning that seems to be much more under control and clearing out these these autonomous I think is the time zones were work overreaction and and kind of ridiculous to be quite blunt. Having said that, let me let me say what I'm concerned about economically look them in the country's hurting and while I think the economies in a come back. I was talking to people in North Carolina and in Florida and Alabama and Georgia and in Tennessee in bit small businesses are struggling medium-size business. Large businesses are struggling. So what we need to be is working on solutions, which is what our policy team does at the ACLJ with an steam does in Washington DC work on solutions, not just in court. We talk about those victories yesterday, but then you immediately moved to another topic, that's the way it is working to continue to do that at the ACLJ your support of our work is that critical, especially in her matching challenge months exports were correct or flog just the ACLJ.org that's ACLJ.org for next half hour. You think your cities. Next is that the big city near wherever you live next to the next fear city. The American Center for Law and Justice were engaged in critical issues at home and abroad for limited time you can participate in the ACLJ matching challenge for every dollar you donate, it will be now $10 gift becomes $20, $50 gift becomes 100 you can make a difference in protecting the constitutional and religious freedoms most important to you and your family.
Give a gift today online LJ live from Washington DC Jay Sekulow and secular Jay Sekulow distorted and secure to get from closet 164, 31 to this Job really New York City Council. I don't knows politics.
This is what he said there were to Fox news about these cuts so police at a time when people say I would expect more from my Police Department. I expect better trading ointment, Job really actually think you don't get better training and better support with billion-dollar budget cuts can I say something just really quickly. Jordan let you go back to. I will pledge a brook. I have lived in New York lived in New York he would been in New York, I worked in New York City. Let me do I remember what it was like when you can walk down fifth Avenue when you could not walk down Broadway where you had it when your kids. You could even go in. Now you go there and it's Disney and it's all then it was horrible.
I just leave it at that and then showing on TV what it was like before you begin a cellular Job really tells us of your bread by five we we know what were doing and we know that what were doing will create a more violent city and yet were doing anyway were making these cuts to appease a fraction of far left New Yorkers.
I understand the politics also making these cuts to continue this false propagation. The police officers on the greatest danger to the public military in Rhode Island on my ways but hold non-silicates was called jaywalking a Jay Sekulow log on their hello. I worked the commentary being here would go around the house of the Senate the same page with Jay. We met for three weeks and I think that was nice on you while you I think you're talking about the time Giuliani before those 600 plainclothes guys were able to get 80 burning guy that's all right to get 80% of the guns off the street because plainclothes guide weld and they just disbanded that those who don't learn the lessons of faith. During the repeating the place where it's the most difficult to get it to legally access to firearm the most the most illegal use of firearms or current now that was necessary to case. During these this time that we got used to but the norm for New York was not that this last 20 years the norm was what happened before. It was a tougher city a tougher place. Times Square was not a place you took kids without photo op. It was it was wild Midtown Manhattan was whether one of the more dangerous places in the entire world where there was there was, as it says in the welcome to fear city guide is a reminder to everybody about what it was like the intermediate was different. You did have magic at 24 hour news coverage during those those time and do you think the police always a greater what they were doing either in their crime is a pretty violent types almost street battle street warfare, but is guide on the southeast IMF and the bright you see. Don't go on public transportation don't walk stay off the streets after 6 o'clock. Even in the summer when it's still light outside. You'll note else. It says it here. Don't be misled by the late sunsets during the summer season. If you walk in Midtown at about 730. You will observe that the streets are nearly deserted. There's a reason why the other people that live there was also a disaster at the time the city was near a Pepsi We come back from the break I am going to delay a situation I that I experience you were baby and scroll with Pam in New York City saw the police in action in the this would been 83 may be 8283 and let's not condemn the entire Police Department. Let me just say that. Get rid of the ones that are causing the problem. Prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law and do it aggressively. Due process prosecute but my goodness don't ever the place. I see that you seen it. We've all seen at this is that this is an non-appropriate response is not appropriate to label entire Police Department like this remove the problems used the surgeon scalpel, not butchers knife big difference of how you approach things you're looking at how you car problems out and that's what I'm saying. Folks support arguments or flog just as it ACLJ.org that's ACLJ.org if you want to talk to us on the air. 1-800-684-3110 at 2000 684-3110 effectively in the fan what's happening before the U.S. Senate, where Democrats up to right now but ACLJ that or support working merciful and just as the American Center for Law and Justice were engaged in critical issues at home and abroad.
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There's too many major entities inside the United States. I don't think that's gonna be totally forgotten.
Because this but I will tell you Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, they could not remember his name. Chuck Schumer could member George was name the last couple weeks because their focus is no longer on George Floyd and in the incident. There specifically, the focus is now how can I use this moment to change society that's very dangerous. It has never worked out for them. The fact that New York City had Republican mayors back to New York had Republican governors it is.
It's kind of actually cutting like hard for people to believe during this time period of peace we got used to but listen to the first two paragraph stay off the streets after 6 PM. Even in Midtown Manhattan. Muggings in occasional murders are on the increase during the early evening hours. Do not be misled by the late sunsets during the summer season.
If you walk in Midtown at about 7:30 PM.
You will observe that the streets are nearly deserted. Looks like that Reina nearly deserted to do not walk if you must leave your hotel after 6 PM.
Try not to go out alone summoned a radio taxi by telephone. Rest the hotel doorman to call a taxi while you remain in the lobby follow the same procedure when leaving the restaurant theater or other location of your evening activity. Let me remind you what it looks like in New York before everyone basically left Midtown Manhattan. There were doorman protecting the buildings for me of right now that they can protect the classroom being shattered until they got that next day when they put up off that basically boarded it up, but then you say Washington DC the last there just moving all along. Lottie got got no staff at no one there at their board to talk more about mask. They are the fact that R's are civil societies breaking down with her and asked actually think they're walking away from the constituency that they said they want to help as well.
I agree with you that the issue of justice for George. Floyd is not going away, but I will tell you this this movement were seen right now to defund the police adorn its delaying justice for George Floyd. It definitely is because what we saw in the United States Senate over the last couple weeks I was a piece of legislation that was named after George Floyd that the Democrats been calling for to send more resources to these communities to enact some of the reforms including body cameras for police officers. The George Floyd's family had been looking for a Jordan Senate Democrats stood in the way of it in here. Here's what I will say on this reunion. Her dad had a conversation about this. I don't think anybody, not even a a Senate Democrats thinks that you get safer communities with cuts to law enforcement. I don't think they believe that. I think they know they get exactly the opposite. But Jordan, you know this better than I do when it comes to an election year. Sometimes the pandering to a radical fringe of the base happens. That's what this is Jordan not Mark my words, they don't think he gets a put on your statement.
Pres. Trump was going to a white supremacist event at this is literal everywhere. Talk about Abraham Lincoln. Now, Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, that's going to know just the four of because he was going to South Dakota. He was attending a like support. Yes, it was attending a white supermassive and deleted it. But he left it up long enough.
So who do you think is writing the messaging at the DNC right now. People who agree with the people were burning your city down. That is the same people living in your personal story to this is this is something that I experience from the streets of Manhattan.
It's in the afternoon. It's not. I think 1983. There's a statute that's called the love statutes smells old O VE right by some big banks and I think braille Fifth Avenue good part of town. All of a sudden bells go off broad daylight and proper you're in a stroller there tell the police were screaming and telling everybody to dock those police ran into guys wielding weapons to protect me and you and your mother and the rest of the people that run the streets and they got that guy and they wrestled him to the ground and is it violent when they wrestled him to the ground related to Joe called, but let me take what they were not to do. They want to let that guy executed.net that's markedly different than what took place to Mr. Floyd as was no excuse to what happened there.
That was murder.
Also what this guy was trying to do in New York City wielding a gun in middle of broad daylight was also attempted murder.
Now here's the problem.
So let's cut the police so they just don't happen to be on that street at that time.
So about a year ago we were in Miami so this is now fast forward 2019 through Miami place of the city. We still live in and I can name it and it sets it's either or the hotel because it wasn't easy it wasn't that big deal.
The lease handled it quickly, but there was there to undercover. This is this is the big difference to the cuttings under cover it up lease out card cutting so dangerous. The more that the next level of policing out, because that's is mostly carrying out the rest in broad daylight in those situations so they were to date there tracking someone he pulls out a gun they pull out their boom done is over in seconds. Seconds was a takedown.
Please take down 2019 was extremely violent. So loud were they screaming so loud that everyone could hear because there were guns involved yet because they want to make sure you look and you dock and you move in the hotel people come out and get you in.
Just like screaming that show expletives.
The cost of raising it's not like your crime rate goes down 40%.
There's no violent crime in New York is still a huge city. There's a lot of violent crime. We talk about specific to Midtown Manhattan right now, which is a little different. Usually there was not that kind of violent crime.
There, that's what it was about 1970, 1980 and so it's not like were ever to have no crime. Whenever you have brought so that's what you need police, though it takes that it makes it livable. It makes it where you can go about your day, do the business you want to do their handling that it's not your concern. The biggest issue in our country. We don't want vigilante justice. You don't want that you will communities deciding on their own, who was there to that. This is not you want accountable police departments that can respond and if there is an abuse which there have been. We know that those need to be and that have been dealt with swiftly but you also need to read the first another one of the paragraphs from the welcome to fair city matter that was distributed in New York because this shows you that you could take what was in 1975 fast forwarded 50 years 45 years. I guess and and see what you get.
The obviously we just just listen. This the beginning of that the survival guides a second seconds third sentence and second paragraph by the numbers would also simile up robberies were up 21%.
Aggravated assault was a 15% larceny of 22% burglary up 19% now. The court saw his budget problems. Mayor Beam is going to discharge substantial numbers of firefighters and law enforcement official officers of all kinds. By the time you read this, the number of public safety personnel available to protect residents and visitors may already have been still further reduced under those circumstances.
The best advice we can give you is this, until things change. Stay away from New York City. If you possibly can to me. I look at Gov. Cuomo and I said. I shrugged because he is like all you can come here so what who is going to go to New York state to open a business with that kind of leadership and and go to Newark city and visit New York City to visit no one if they made a big deal that were not letting people in front of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Texas. It went on air in the last last three months. People wanting to come back, but we thought that was going to be the can. We thought maybe that was the case. Obviously, it's not. Things are. These were not did work at the same waits for him to deal every state. Cities have said I deal with the new with the cobra DME left which is how this these protest movement started the first time say, but this is all to be looking at from a socioeconomic perspective here. You kinda look at and that barrel and in that lens.
What you see is you had the perfect storm.
You had a pandemic that was affecting everybody's health and potentially affected by so you had high unemployment. As a result of the shutdown of the economy had people stuck at home with nothing to do for months, which resulted also in civil unrest you had the horrible abuses that took place to George flooring and others broadcast across the screen across all kinds of platforms.
It was the port perfect storm. So now we have to figure as a society is a civil society. How do we regain our footing, we regain our footing by putting forward policies that make sense, which is what we do with the ACLJ working fan very quickly here working with legislators House and Senate.
But local legislators to the put forward rational policies to publish papers that makes sense. We saw yesterday Olar beautiful article from 2000. Fines ends up in a supreme court opinion P position papers we write end up becoming policy that is input important part of what we do in Washington fan and there are things that can make a real difference. Tammy talk about the law enforcement component.
The justice act would help that you talk about the education opportunity component. We've got a proposal out that would help. That of course there's an economic component as well. The J all of the things that are happening in right now are distracting from those things indicates those efforts that you're talking about those would actually do something real on the ground to help address the situation. Our focus to be there.
The dangers this will be no place for federal level there be no change. The law will stay the same astilbe everything you didn't want. By the way chokehold's art band and not man right now because Democrats were in support only one.
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Today online ACLJ Jay Sekulow library right to the phones if you will regret get what I need to call them what hundred 684 31 to the final segment was Michael in Texas online to Michael things hold on your on their afternoon my call. Quick question I want to get your opinion on things. I thought recently that roughly 2500 inmates got released from Rikers and it looks like one in 10 of those really contribute towards committing or hundred 50 new crime belt with a call to defund the relief the prisoners to decoded accountability for the average citizen is facing this crime.
You know you don't want vigilante Chuck but I can hold his judges and is accountable for the release of the writing crime, you raise a really important question and I just answer produced of those statistics are correct and apparently they they are correct the look. Most of the people that have been released from prison for nonviolent offenders and they have not. So they did not pose a risk to the community and they did that in order to protect the spread out stop the spread of COBIT. It was a very difficult situation within the prisons but some violent criminals that were at the end near the end I guess of their prison terms were released and unfortunately return to the previous Abbott storm why think it's in a room in a return to a communities that had no civil society structure to help them get back on their feet and they would boarded up towns and cities heavyset that we've seen these mercy releases it whether I think that you're right, for the most part, the most the people who were involved in any kind of crime, and especially violent crimes had to basically be on that they were to be released anyways next few months there causing more problems by being there than good age. Whatever but we know most go back to crime that's true with sister Ray asked if I meet. But then Washington DC again cities are boarded up. Civil society is not the same area and we were getting to a point where things started to open again, but it kind of is all stalled out. Why tell you couple things during first of all, I mean this is why we tried so hard to focus on things like economic opportunity and education opportunity because you do need to provide incentives and provide ways for people who were not born into advantage situations to to find opportunity and in Jordan. That's how you address the solution below, go back to something you said just a second or two ago. No matter how many of these reforms that you accomplish your stove and have violence, whether it's from people that are returning from time or whether or not it's a first-time offense is really sort of beside the point. Jordan, you are going to have violence on the streets in some instances, the question is are you can have someone that can respond to that and look one of the stated goals from Mayor de Blasio's initiative was shrinking the NYPD's headcount door that means there will be no bad people to respond when there's violence is so backwards as a policy matter ridiculous as a policy matter now, the New York Times reported this is a ghost with the last caller said Joseph Edward Williams shot and killed a man in Tampa, Florida, March 20, the authority of this was according to authorities is from the New York Times that was one day after he was among more than 160 inmates released from the Hillsborough County jail. So does happen now that should not happen and most of the people being release are nonviolent offenders and that I do understand, but we gotta be careful here. If you have this kind of civil unrest is a recipe for disaster is similar rest on this level is a recipe for disaster. It's very hard for the country to get back on its feet when you got a pandemic in civil unrest going on at the same time so it's not just a question. Lawnmowers got up Law and order.
You have to have plans and process you have to have economic stimulus you have to have a plan for training, law enforcement, you have to have a justice system that can actually operate. This is not easy, it's complicated but there's no options here. This is how you have to run the civil society we gotta get the civil society restored to build the confidence level up for our people and look this pandemic has changed a lot of things and you know in ways we probably have an amount Americans or risktakers by nature.
We are risktakers, so you have to get people to where it's that the risk assessment you do quickly or had about all the decisions you make throughout your day. We are back to where you were and let's differ depending on your risk assessment everywhere you live on the job you had the Savior police officers different risk assessment every single day for the military's different risk assessment but also we it's gotten past that point now where it everybody's having make risk risk assessment and in your business is that you work for making risk assessments about how they should open an office or is it even worth turning lights back on the first could be forced next week by the mayor to turn the lights back off. They had to make all those decisions Kostas Cassandra and Virginia online. Once an orphanage Jay Sekulow life you your heart of the overall violence in the whole state gone out parts and barely form which would come into line ganglia. First of this year returned criminal immediately to the story, regardless of what they've done. Friends of ours family how that child molesters are richer conducted released engineering plans to save some social engineering plans don't work when they don't work. Change the plan but go ahead already, because he was all for all and not only that, under the barely form that criminal and their lawyer to not only the crying scene, but the name, phone numbers and addresses of the victims that's again that's failed policy.
Things were doing things doing this was his teams were doing that with our legal team stays doing with our government affairs team is doing this on our policy people and that's my your support BCL Jason important because obviously were coming to an broadcast TV broadcast and radio broadcasts every single day and were like I said were not doing less were doing more logos launch a program that he host called Logan Sekulow reprogrammed.
We have video shorts that Jordan is doing. We have video clips that are editing team and production teams take these broadcasting out were hitting a multi-social media platforms were putting policies forward that even while Washington is pretty much shut down and you got minimal staff on campus.
We are still working on the issues you more important than ever.
J and I mean like there's this wrongheaded insistence from the left right now that this is an issue of law and order versus demonstrating for justice and J we are demonstrating that is exactly the opposite. It's actually strong law and order that ensures the space and the safety so people can demonstrate for justice and to the thing that you gotta do that were really focusing in right now.
If people have confidence in their law enforcement which you could get through some of the reforms like were in the justice act.
If you have if they have confidence that there can have opportunity in education and economic opportunity. In J. Some of these things start to improve, so you're right at this is the this is the moment more than ever that ideas that have merit have to rise to the top were putting them out. Now it's up to the American people to work with us to make sure that their elected officials actually focus on that rather than pandering to these radical I would call them radical ideas. J and their radical ideas.
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