The John Phillips Show

Alex Villanueva is running again for LA County Sheriff

39 min
Feb 10, 20264 months ago
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Summary

Former LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announces his candidacy to reclaim his position, citing crime surge, department vacancies, and waste fraud in county spending. The episode also features critical analysis of socialist LA mayoral candidate Nithia Ramen's homelessness and public safety policies, with hosts questioning her effectiveness and ideological consistency.

Insights
  • LA County Sheriff department has shrunk to 1970s staffing levels (below 8,000 sworn officers vs. 10,000 under Villanueva), with 14 suicides and half-billion in forced overtime costs under current administration
  • County budget doubled from $22B to $49.8B (2011-2025) with no corresponding service improvements, suggesting billions in waste directed to homeless industrial complex and politically-connected NGOs
  • Current sheriff operates as subordinate to Board of Supervisors rather than independently elected official, failing to challenge unconstitutional policies like ice-free zone declarations
  • Housing-first homelessness approach fails because it doesn't address underlying mental illness and addiction; residents report encampments persist despite housing availability due to drug access
  • LA mayoral candidates represent ideological extremes (Bass and Ramen both socialist-aligned) with no substantive policy differences, creating voter choice crisis
Trends
Erosion of law enforcement independence: elected sheriffs increasingly subordinated to political boards rather than serving constituents directlyHomelessness policy failure: housing-first models prove ineffective without mandatory mental health/addiction treatment and enforcement mechanismsGovernment budget expansion without service delivery: massive spending increases (3-5x in 14 years) concentrated in non-traditional government sectors (NGOs, nonprofits)Ideological consistency gap: progressive politicians publicly distance from defund-the-police rhetoric while maintaining policies that reduce police capacity and enforcementOlympic readiness crisis: major cities hosting 2028 Olympics unprepared for security/infrastructure needs due to homelessness, crime, and resource depletionRegressive taxation expansion: governments pursuing wealth taxes and sales tax increases rather than operational efficiency and waste reductionWorkforce depletion in public safety: morale collapse in law enforcement creating staffing crisis independent of hiring efforts
Topics
LA County Sheriff Race 2026Law Enforcement Staffing CrisisHomelessness Policy EffectivenessGovernment Budget Waste and FraudHousing-First vs. Treatment-First ModelsPolice Independence from Political BoardsLA Mayoral Race - Socialist CandidatesHarm Reduction Drug Policy Critique2028 Olympics PreparednessProp 47 and Criminal Justice ReformCounty Spending on Homeless ServicesICE Cooperation in County JailsInvoluntary Mental Health ConservatorshipPublic Safety Staffing vs. Unarmed RespondersEncampment Enforcement and Clearing
Companies
LA County Department of Public Health
Criticized for distributing drug paraphernalia (crack pipes, needles) in public parks under Barbara Ferrer's leadership
SEIU
Attempting to place wealth confiscation tax on November ballot statewide
People
Alex Villanueva
Former LA County Sheriff announcing 2026 candidacy; criticizes current sheriff's political subordination and departme...
Sheriff Luna
Current LA County Sheriff criticized for operating as Board of Supervisors employee rather than independent elected o...
Barbara Ferrer
LA County Department of Public Health director criticized for harm reduction drug paraphernalia distribution policy
Nithia Ramen
Socialist LA City Council member and mayoral candidate; chair of Housing and Homeless Committee; advocates housing-fi...
Karen Bass
Current LA Mayor criticized for ineffectiveness and ideological alignment with socialist policies; losing support to ...
Mark Ridley-Thomas
Convicted felon board supervisor; part of ultra-progressive super-majority since 2008 driving budget expansion
Sheila Kuehl
Ultra-progressive board supervisor contributing to policy direction since 2008
Eric Garcetti
Implied reference to Venice cleanup intervention by former official; credited with revitalizing tourism destination
Eric Adams
NYC Mayor compared to Nithia Ramen; referenced for blocking encampment clearing during sub-zero weather causing deaths
Jim McDonald
Spoke out against Board of Supervisors' ice-free zone declaration as unconstitutional
Quotes
"The sheriff is supposed to be independently elected and independent of the board of supervisors and no further proof is needed than about two weeks ago when the board made a motion to declare County spaces ice-free zones which is widely unlawful illegal unconstitutional"
Alex Villanueva
"We're talking about in the billions not in the millions in the billions and I think Minnesota is a walk in the park in comparison just to LA County alone"
Alex Villanueva
"You can't tax what has already been taxed that's gonna be tied up in litigation for decades I don't think we're gonna see a penny of it lawyers will make a profit out of it"
Alex Villanueva
"I'm not a defund the police person. I support funding the police. I just want to fund safety ambassadors instead of uniformed armed personnel"
Nithia Ramen
"When you send someone into a dangerous situation with no training and no weapons, guess what happens? People get hurt"
John Phillips
Full Transcript
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Could explode business will be good in that industry 800-2-2-2 is telephone number 1-800-2-2-2-5-2-2-2 It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program He is the former sheriff of Los Angeles County who is currently a candidate for sheriff In Los Angeles County running for his old job you can get him online at Alex Vian Weva dot org and follow him on X at Alex Vian Weva 33 sheriff Vian Weva welcome Thank you John appreciate how you doing I'm good. Thank you so much for stopping by this afternoon. We appreciate your time Oh definitely Love to hear your show and your voice and it's you know someone needs to speak common sense because there's too few they're doing it these days So you have decided to put your name back on the ballot and run for your old office I would imagine that that decision took a lot of time a lot of thinking a lot of praying a lot of deliberation Before you decided to pull the trigger what made you decide to run for sheriff again? Well, my wife and I we've been inundated with calls emails. I mean you name it for every every walk of life from within the apartment outside the department just people Just in in shock and odd how Evolved that the apartment has become to the point where they can even You know field units out in the field to handle calls for service. It's that bad and all they get from The current guy in office now is just more political nonsense and it's you know We thought about it. We prayed and we definitely thought long and hard to you know We just can't turn our back to our people and to the community. We love we said let's let's clean this mess up This guy's left and let's get him out of office And what do you think your chances are at being successful at getting elected a second time? Well, we did we did polling already and we're already in a dead heat and that's we haven't even started campaigning it So the incumbent is in in bad shape and for a reason Crime is in an all-time high reported crime is is obviously falling apart because people don't trust law enforcement anymore and It's really that bad you got 14 suicides within the department half a billion dollars spent on forced overtime And the department is shrunk to a level that hasn't been seen since the 1970s That's how much vacancies are right now. It's now below 8,000 sworn. I had it at 10,000 sworn We had a full complement of deputies to handle the pandemic to handle civil unrest to handle evacuations when they're necessary Fast forward this Turk current term in office and none of those things are happening But you wouldn't know it listening, you know reading the LA Times are listening to the mainstream media. They got nothing to say like hey look over there I've got to be honest with you sometimes and I cover the news for a living Sometimes I forget that Sheriff Luna exists Because you never see him at odds with the board of supervisors He acts as if he is an employee of the five members of that board You never see him speak out Opposed to what they're doing it almost seems like he is an employee of the board of supervisors They of course love it that way, but that's not how it's supposed to be the sheriff is duly elected by the people of LA County And the sheriff works for the people not the board. Do you see it the same way? I see exactly the same way and so does the state constitution the sheriff is supposed to be independently elected and independent of the board of supervisors and No further proof is needed than about two weeks ago I think it was the board made a motion to declare County spaces ice-free zones Which is widely unlawful illegal unconstitutional Even Jim McDonald spoke out against the idea and the sheriff was nowhere to be found to inform the board That their idea is a dead-on arrival and that he would not place deputies in conflict with federal law enforcement He was we assume he was hiding under a death suck in his thumb while the board did this motion But that was a point in time we had to step until the board know you crossed the line. We're not gonna do that One of the things that we're spending a lot of time talking about now is waste fraud and abuse We know for example in the state of California the EDD department had between 20 and 30 billion dollars stolen We know that the bull train has been a boondoggle We know that there's almost no accounting being done with the money that's being spent on the homeless One of the things that you did when you were sheriff of Los Angeles County was you were looking into These various abuses One of those cases involved a sitting member of the board of supervisors. Do you believe that you Doing that that that was one of the things that put you on the wrong side of the board of supervisors that they don't want anyone Looking for waste fraud and abuse they want someone who's going along to get along They don't want someone to blow the whistle. They want you to be part of the team where you're a pro wrestling referee You look the other way you don't see the guy get hit over the head with the steel chair and that's just how business has done in Los Angeles Well, that's exactly how it is been that way since about 2008 when Mark really Thomas now the convicted felon got on the board of supervisors and then you added on she Lacky old held the salise and all of a sudden you had a super majority of Ultra progresses on the board and they are running a criminal enterprise right now if you look at the way the budget exploded From 2011 to 2025 the budget more than double from 22 billion the 49.8 billion I think as of last year Where did all that money go the department is smaller? probation department has almost been eliminated We have less hospital beds less mental health treatment beds everything is smaller But yet where did the money go it went to the homeless industrial complex it went to a myriad of NGOs and nonprofits that are very very profitable for the politically collected are connected and that I think is a huge scam And I think it's criminal in nature and I'm elected sheriff We're going to continue doing our investigations wherever it criminal complaint takes us That is where we will go and we will not be Limited by any political consideration because that is not how the law is supposed to be enforced How much waste fraud and abuse do you think is going on right now at the county level? I think we're talking about in the billions not in the million in the billions and I think Minnesota is a walk in the park in comparison just to LA County alone You look at the city of LA their budget also doubled or more in the last those same 14 years Look at the state budget it went from 99 billion to 320 billion in 14 years did your salary triple in 14 years? I'm going to guess not did the cost of living increased or triple in 14 years? No, it did not So where is this massive expansion yet? Traditional functional government are being hollowed out the difference the delta is Fraud, waste and abuse and I believe it's criminal in nature We know that the SEIU is trying to put a Wealth confiscation tax on the November ballot statewide We know in the Bay Area we're on in in San Francisco now in the San Francisco Bay There will be a tax on the ballot for those Bay Area counties for public transit We know that the city of Los Angeles once attacks on the ballot for the fire department We know that there will be bonds on the ballot at least statewide and some local for cities and counties and districts The county of Los Angeles is now saying that they want to raise the sales tax in LA County So they can give more money to Barbara Ferrer over at the LA County Department of Public Health. What do you make of that decision? Well, apparently they haven't been able to distribute enough crack pipes and needles in all of our public parks So they want to continue that. This is I mean, this is insane When I spoke of all these budgets expanding and expanding and now they're talking about all these taxes everywhere Increases did you ever hear anybody say hey, you know what maybe we need to dial back the size and scope of what we're doing at the city The county and the state level instead of trying to milk out the taxpayers for more regressive taxation and that measure that the one for Basically stick it to the billionaires one knows it's gonna stick around to see it happen and there goes a huge taxable base from our state budget On top of that you can't tax what has already been taxed that's gonna be tied up in litigation for decades I don't think we're gonna see a penny of it lawyers will make a profit out of it, you know representing both sides, but Now it's not gonna hit the coffers at all Is there anything that could be done from the point of view of the sheriff of Los Angeles County About Barbara Ferrer at the Department of Public Health passing out drug paraphernalia to people who you know are on drugs They're addicted you know they're gonna use that paraphernalia to take more drugs That is an illegal act and she's giving them the tools to kill themselves This there is something that can be done about that and that is gonna and take a bit of effort because we have to build up our workforce to be able to have a Have a the resource the necessary to enforce a lot where it's needed and we had to be creative on that front and That whole thing about they call it a harm reduction that whole theory is is dead on a rival No pun intended because all they do is increase harm the increase addiction and They do nothing to solve the problem all they do is continue it We know that the next sheriff of Los Angeles County will be in office when the Olympics come here in 2028 I have seen no evidence at all that Los Angeles is prepared to host the Olympics from the point of view of making sure that the city is clean and safe From the point of view of making sure that we are doing what we need to do to avoid Something this tragic is a terrorist attack. It seems like they're just trying to fake it till they make it and Cross their fingers and hope that nothing bad happens Do you believe Los Angeles right now is prepared to host the Olympics? Not even close Lord willing I win this election. I'm gonna be so busy trying to hire as much as possible My goal is two thousand and two years and that'll barely get us up to the point where we're gonna have sufficient Resources to be able to deploy Countywide for events like the Olympics and to have obviously for the natural disasters and the unforeseen things It requires a lot of manpower. We're just not there right now. We're entirely dependent on the federal government The bail is out in moments of crisis and then there's a huge up for when that happens So we're really really bad shape now. What's astonishing is the political establishment Once a circle the right the wagons around the sheriff who's actually created this whole mess as if somehow It's gonna be different on the second term. No, it's gonna be twice as bad Why do you think no one seems to care about being ready for the Olympics because if something bad were to happen Or if the world comes to Los Angeles and they leave saying the boy that place was a toilet I don't think they understand how damaging this will be to their careers to the reputation of the city to the reputation of the county And it might be something that's gonna take a very long time to recover from if they continue doing what they're doing and We just push this car off the cliff to see what'll happen Oh, you're right on the money John look at what happened or went to Venice and we cleaned up Venice The reaction from the establishment was comical and and pathetic It was like how dare he he doesn't know his jurisdiction yet They were willing to sacrifice the number one tourist destination of all of LA County in 18 billion dollar a year Industry tourism, which is one of the top three in the county They were willing to do it all for virtuous signaling and ideology and they didn't give a damn about the result There is the impact on the budget the impact on the lives of the people that live in that area they could care less and It was only because we intervened we brought it back to life and now it's still on life support because now people are returning They realize oh we're back to the old old ways So there's a lot of stake here and now these people you're right They are fellmen Louise and they're gonna drive that car over the cliff and just see what happens There is a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles now Nithia ramen coming from the city council Who is a self-described socialist she believes in defunding the police? She believes that it is illegal to bust up the homeless encampments She believes the government should own the means of production She fancies herself as being the west coast version of mom Donnie in New York City The socialist candidate who is just elected to be mayor of Gotham how damaging do you think it would be if she were to be elected mayor of LA? Where do we begin on this let's put it this way Mondamis first act in office was to block the clearing out of encampments when they had sub-zero weather What was the result more than a dozen people free froze to death like popsicles on the sidewalks? That's a that's a socialism and I guess they embrace the warmth of collectivism little too hard there and You see that on the west coast it'll be twice as bad because our our situation is far bigger than New York City Which can absorb quite a bit because of the infrastructure? LA is very very different and this person it doesn't have a clue what they're saying But all you got to do is go to the goals of the democratic socialist America And they want to get rid of law enforcement. They got want to get rid of prisons They want to get rid of jails. They want to create interventionists in these magical interventionists are gonna somehow stop crime Because no longer crime. It's about community safety. There's no murderous is anymore It's crisis that need to be responded to by unarmed people. I mean it's it's horrific and of course the nonprofit world is just gonna Explode with all these people Breaking and all the money that would have gone to the traditional infrastructure of public safety in the city And what an indictment of Karen Bass where she was so bad at her job that someone as politically as extreme as Nithya Rahman now has a chance to be elected mayor All exactly. I mean the Cheshire cat when she stops smiling start realizing wow Her her her moment was when she got off that plane from Ghana going back to where the fires were happening that during the headlights thing None of these people can speak without a script They are so manipulated and controlled and everything is just Political fear board a supervisor the same way as the city of LA and we I'm just hoping I'm praying that voters You know really figured out what's at stake and who did they trust for their safety their well-being For the future of the city and the county this whole region really is at stake Last question before you go the city of Los Angeles is the 800 pound gorilla in the county of Los Angeles But it's not the only city there are distinct independent municipalities all over LA County places like Whittier and Claremont and West Covina that have Needs that are very different than Los Angeles. How important is it to recognize that and not make everything in LA County? So LA city centric All it's extremely important if you look at for example a Whittier where I'm speaking from right now and different different Independent municipalities all of these people are all these cities are governed by city council that are part-time Politicians they have full-time jobs, but the city of LA the county of LA the state of LA all three are Run by full-time pop career politicians were driven by deology But you look at how the cities are run very different and far more successful than the city of LA or county areas are unincorporated county areas You got to head to all these independent cities And you got to hand it to people who actually are something before they serve voluntarily as a city councilor as a mayor one of these cities Alex Vian Weva the former sheriff of Los Angeles County current candidate to be sheriff of LA County yet again You can get him online at Alex Vian Weva dot org and follow him on exit Alex Vian Weva 33 sheriff Vian Weva. Thanks so much for stopping by I Appreciate it Alex Vian Weva 2026.com our new website. All right. There you go 800 222 222 222 is a telephone number 1 800 222 252 222 if you'd like to email the show you can do so at Johnny Don't like show at gmail.com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail.com All right, we spent some time earlier in the show listening to socialist candidate for LA mayor Nithya Rahman with NBC's Conan Nolan and Randy we left That discussion right when they are about to get to homelessness. Oh boy buckle up kids. Here we go Nithya on homelessness Let's move on to homeless homelessness now this is your area your chair of the housing and homeless committee on the LA city council So if you're upset with the state of homelessness, she's directly responsible for it But she's about to act like she's a writer to the LA Times letters to the editor page You were opposed to 41 18 that is part of the municipal code Which requires that homeless encampments stay 500 feet away from a school and a childcare center Why were you opposed to that? Well, 41 18 is a multi-part law and there are pieces of it that actually regulate how Homeless encampments can exist that I fully supported and that I we have to enforce in our districts every single day What I voted against and what I will always vote against is performative policy making Yeah Isn't that the council that passes resolutions weighing in on every international issue including Washington DC issues under the Sun? Yep, I want to vote for stuff that works We have reduced homelessness year after year in my district fact check Not true We have addressed when I first got elected there were large encampments under under passes near the river across my district Through effective response All of those people have been housed and those encampments have stayed clear No, they have not I know people who live in that district every single one of them screams about this woman And how her office will do absolutely nothing when you have a problem with the homeless That is results to me. That's the kind of policy making that we need to build not performative politics. Okay, so the They would argue it's not performative to keep a housing or a homeless encampment away from a school site Those rules are already in place for for for how you can maintain sidewalks There are rules about where you can camp and how you can camp and do we enforce them? No, otherwise it wouldn't be an issue All of those rules are already in place camping has been banned at parks Is never yes, and there are definitely no homeless at our parks Oh, come on has she been to MacArthur Park? Is never stopped being banned at parks like many of these laws were really designed around what felt to me like a um A performance of enforcement without actually having the Capacity to be able to do what needs to be done which is to get people off the streets and to keep the streets clear of encampments How do we get to that outcome? It was not through that rule. It was through real policy making you're a Big advocate of housing first. Yes. Oh boy Boy, she's just a winner all the way around, isn't she? Honestly, where is going to be the policy difference between her and Karen Bass? I don't really understand what the difference is at this point outside if she doesn't rhyme like mother goose Well, and it just goes to show you how Karen Bass as a partisan Democrat how close she is to an avowed socialist You're a big advocate of housing first. Yes, so for for people to understand this is the Philosophy that somebody's mentally ill they're drug addicted you put them in housing And you stabilize them or they come out in a body bag like happens every single day in San Francisco Yep And then you try to address their problem Yes, well, so housing first actually often refers to especially when people criticize it It's about offering permanent housing first. I actually know they criticize the fact that you let them bring the drugs into the shelters They don't like that. I actually really believe in shelter and shelter is an urgent response We've tripled the number of shelter beds that we have in our district. We've increased shelters across the entire city I want to bring people off the street as quickly as possible permanent housing. We haven't put a dent in this No, and when you say that you gave them housing. Okay fine You give them a unit where they can put some of their stuff If they're still hanging out in the encampments because that's where the drugs are and that's where all the fun is From the point of view of a resident in the city does it really make a difference does it really matter if they also have Some place to get their mail Permanent housing may take too long to build But do we leave people on the streets in the meantime? Absolutely not and I think investing in shelter which the federal government didn't want us to do for many years Has actually helped us reduce street homelessness in my district is again fact check She's living in an alternate reality Yep Is getting off the street should it should it be voluntary if you have a bed if you have shelter should they be required to take it You know, I think that People have their people have rights and it is important for us to be able to make sure that when you are Involuntarily conserving somebody that you have a process that you follow. I think this process may be a little too complicated right now But even this simple question has a come on convoluted wishy washy non-answer I don't understand the strategy behind that outside of the fact that she hasn't thought this whole thing through If you're going to run as the outsider that's going after the establishment You have to be very clear and succinct And she cannot answer a question directly to save her life That is important to follow that process and we've done that for people who have such intensive mental illness in the district They're unable to take care of themselves We have worked closely and advocated with the Department of Mental Health. That's right. There's no stories of crazy naked people in Sherman, Oaks I'll wait there are To make sure that they are able to receive the services and care that they need that they're able to go indoors Even through involuntary processes. It is absolutely a necessary part of our toolkit However, I do want to emphasize that when you are able to offer shelter to people on the street They take it the vast majority of the time so I don't know about that that is also the opposite of what we hear from people who work in that world They want to stay in the tents. They don't like the shelters. I have a story from No, it's not her district, but in the Hollywood large mud area where literally massive Seedorf is talking to a guy in a tent and he says I don't like the shelters. That's why I'm out here So the biggest issue here in the city of Los Angeles is that even now after all these investments We only have a third of the shelter beds that we need for our total homeless population Most of the time when you see an encampment I'm not able to go to them and offer shelter beds because there are not enough available We just haven't built enough housing So from her point of view, we're not spending enough money on the bombs Well, yes We need to spend less on the cops less on fire and spend all of it on homelessness because that's going to solve it Well, that's how she got rich and that's how she got elected We have to either build more shelter or we have to make our shelter beds work better So that we can move people through them more quickly. So if if there's the shelter you're opening You're receptive to a law enforcement element to this We work with law enforcement You know, we have to work with law enforcement all the time It is you you work in partnership with law enforcement to address issues when there are crimes being committed When there are issues like assaults or violence and often people experiencing homelessness are the victims of those issues Yes, by other homeless So wait, so she only wants the cops involved to protect the homeless from other homeless people But you know, does she didn't directly say yes When she was asked if the cops should be part of clearing out the encampments and moving them off the streets Well, because we know that they're not that's not how this city operates not under Karen Bass and not in Nithia Ramas district Law enforcement has to be a partner with you Okay, let's get back to that for a second So did I hear you right that you're for a up Leveling up the staffing at the LAP to where we were at one point not to the 10,000 officers but to The mayor wants to get back to at least 9,000 officers. I stop the attrition Yeah, I have supported maintaining our force at this rate multiple time once again very carefully choosing her words Because she doesn't want people to remember that she was a deep fund the police her Oh, yeah, they were all fallen all over themselves to publicly align themselves with defunding the police But then after all these big cities became basket cases now they pretend like they never supported it You know at least you nissie's owns that crap Because we are the defund the police people right but Nithia is trying to pretend that she's not DSA when she's full on DSA Yeah, I wonder why she's running away from it because in New York mom Donnie didn't He leaned into it Yeah, I have supported maintaining our force at this rate multiple times and I've supported those efforts Let's get back supported budgets that have that have set goals around that I do want to acknowledge though that our force is shrinking despite our best effort despite Incredible investment in the department. It's almost like there's a huge morale problem in this city. I wonder why Yeah, why does no one want to work for you? Hmm, and I think we have to create a system of public safety response that acknowledges that we may be dealing with fewer officers Oh, what does that mean? I wonder Hmm What does that look like? It took a long time, but we finally got there. What does that look like that means potentially Unarmed officers. It's all about the dam and bassetters again. It's about the jobs programs for the unemployable And this is how she's going to try to get around it I'm not a defund the police person. I support funding the police I just want to fund safety ambassadors instead of Uniformed armed personnel unarmed personnel responding to calls for which you don't need armed personnel response and there are a lot of those in fact They are In many cases the majority of the calls that people are getting I don't know about that No, and guess what when you send someone into a dangerous situation With no training and no weapons Guess what happens How can people get hurt? Do I need to play once again the example set forth by former San Francisco mayor London breed people have been stabbed in earth been out to me They've been shot. They've been attacked and they still show up every single day as an alternative to policing for this community Gia wonder why she lost Hard to believe isn't it 800 222 5222 is telephone number 1 800 222 5222 If you'd like to email the show you can do so at johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com That's johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com And Randy your monitor in the mailbag Tony writes in and johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com on the subject of nitha lying I have called council district four many times about one particular mentally ill man that was wearing rags on barham He's still there nobody helps him That is the story I get from everyone. I know who lives in that district or owns a business in that district That her office is the absolute worst and if you're expecting help from them you're going to get disappointed All right, let's take a few phone calls here and begin with Vera in torrents Vera hello hi That housing first is dead on arrival these people go in there with their mental illness their alcoholism and And drug use and make it bad for everybody. I see married couples on the street sleeping in their car or on a tent And there are none of these things But they rather be on the street to be in there with these lunatics You have to triage these people put them in a mental institution and treat them some will snap out some won't You can't be all things to all people all the time you're going to have to make some hard decisions And I mean you're going to have to lock some of them up I've not one of them. Thank God. I still got my wits about me I still can reason still think But uh, that's my two cents on it. She's a liar and she needs to be put in jail with them Well, you're a hundred percent correct that it is not a housing first issue These people have addictions these people have mental illness and unless it until you treat those Situations you're not going to improve their lives and you're going to wreck everyone in the neighborhood You're going to wreck their lives too because you're going to have crazy people who should be in an asylum Living out on the streets causing all kinds of drama No, not on the streets in housing Carrying up people's property You have to do them if you take Normal people off the street and put them in housing All you got is the moon that kicks on the street They're easy to point out because they're carrying up everything Take them off the street But you can't put everybody in the same situation. It's not going to work You can't be all things to everybody all the time You're right. We'd be better off with you, Ismaire I don't know about that, but I would give it a good shot. I see it every day All right, thank you for the call. Let's go to David Whittier Dave. Hello Yeah, she She's just trying to straddle the lines so she doesn't get criticized from the left wing lunatics in the city council She knows what's right to do, but here's what I did John A couple years ago. I contacted the FPTC to see if it's legal For my city council to advocate for the repeal for the um abolishing Getting rid of prop 47 they told me yes Well, I went to my city council and public meetings and asked them to do that and what did they did for me? What did they do for me sent me a letter from the city uh Administration saying here's a letter. It was presented to the city council. They declared they're gonna ask They're gonna support Marisucci's bill to reform prop 47 they sent that to me that letter declaring that because I did the research and Did it she can do the same thing to promote enforcing prop 30 36 together judge to say You you drive user get me have her go to jail pop 36 restore that prop 47 took that away All right, thank you for the call. So are we appreciate it? Let's go to Sal in West Hollywood Sal welcome Hey, thanks guys are bringing all the information to the public. It's uh It's good to get this information out, but but there's a strategy that's going on here You know you got this ramen a wet noodle and you got Karen bass Two socialist communists and if we get right choice, you know that the two of those you know they're The public's not gonna have much of a choice the whole issue is about Between the homelessness and the illegal immigration You've got the two sides of the same coin. It's all about money that's being allocated That it go into the politicians about the Money from the world Globalists coming in to affect our Elections so that we're getting inundated with paper belt with these mail-in ballots and People that are getting elected really are the people that the Democrats are the socialist want to have in there Uh the vote that we as our citizens Uh are making are really getting nullified. We have to pass the save act So this is a problem that just can continue if we don't stop it immediately Thanks, sir. You're all your stuff that you guys do All right, thank you for the call sir. We appreciate it Let's go to Tom and San Jose Tom welcome Hey, thanks john for taking my call Uh, you know just We really do owe you you you take the cold that are That are coming in instead of not taking one that you don't want to talk to I did bring up something. I don't want to get them into the same Conversation as that last gentleman about you we do have to stop the steal that's everywhere Everybody knows that and we need to get out there I've got a couple of guys that I work with that we we're literally out there trying to do the best we can to get rid of it But when I heard the sheriff I have a background of law enforcement. I heard that sheriff no one the weather you're talking to him Um, I think it was one of his He was talking somewhere either somebody left some flip flops on his desk at one point or they threw a flip flop atom or something like that um But this guy flip flops around a lot. I just want people to know that This is a guy that took all the agents the uh the ice agents he took them out of the jail from the and and kept them from being able to Go after these immigrants safely in the jails rather than going after them wanting put them out on the streets And I I would just like to be able to talk to you about that and what what what his I think was like in 2018 I think he did it 2018 2019 and I definitely wanted to bring it up to you because I know that you would have some great Information to say about it. Well, we're up against a heartbreak here But I can tell you this if I remember The next time he's on I'll ask him if he will allow ice into the county jails if he would be elected Sheriff for a second term. Thank you for the call sir