might mean for the fup of incarceration in america? well, i think it s a big deal because if this thing moves forward, if they can schedule it differently so we stop treating it like it s this hard and horrible drug, if governors follow suit what that means is there s less of a reason to arrest african americans for nonsense charges. what happens is if you re an african american you re going to have more contact with the police anyway because police overpolice bl overpolice black communities. a white kid might be smoking the same joint a few neighborhoods over but the cops aren t in that neighborhood so they don t wind up getting arrested in the first place. they don t have the contact in the first place. so reducing the number of charges that can come against an african american kid in a neighborhood is overall really good. but listen, it s not just african americans who think this is ridiculous. you have people on both sides of the aisle that for years have been saying we can t kee
them? is it mental illness? is it people hard on their luck? is it people choosing this off the grid life? well, you know, i m a psychologist and i have worked with mental health all my life. i have worked in the emergency room doing psychiatric evals for over 20 years. i can tell you about a hundred% of homeless people have drug and alcohol problems. until we know what the problem is. until we admit what the problem is, which is drug and alcohol. we will never be able to solve this problem. giving them housing is only putting a band-aid on a problem until you address addiction issues. brian: mayors aren t equipped to do that except for you because you have to have another expertise. cops aren t usually equipped to understand how to get people off. off drugs. and if you ask average homeless person, i understand, do you want to go to rehab? most will say no. we figure that every one of our homeless people have been approached about a dozen times. we have got lots of treatment
attacked in his store. and yesterday the d.a. bragg dropped those charges. what do you hear from your friends that i know are still in nypd? do they see it as a possible tipping point into maybe a change the way the d.a. is approaching some of these? a scary point. i ll tell you why. it takes something like this to get the message across. they are only picking and choosing what issues they want to address like that. right now the cops aren t doing their job and not pro-active because they can t afford to be. they don t have the indemnification we spoke about many times. this revolving door of justice, do the job they re told to do and allowed to do. other than that it reflects on the crime in the streets and they are doing so much with so little right now. they just need the backing. they need to get back of days when the cops were spektd and had the backing of the city as well as the residents. bill: great point. big city crime stats from new
your best interest in mind. pack up your family, get the bubble wrap out, and run for your lives, because the cops aren t helping you. you don t need good cardio to be a criminal. that s true. ahead, woke companies haven t learned anything. the latest corporation to cave to the twitter mob is next.
out every day. i m reminded of soldiers, sailors, airmen and they d come home and be spit on in airports. obviously made service so much harder. of course, you served post 9/11, when, you know, chances are very good when troops walked through the airports, they d be applauded. people would slap them on the back, thank them for everything they were doing to protect our country. seems to me the cops now have the raw end of the bargain. they re the good cops, the guys that are fighting, the women fighting in vietnam, doing what the country asked them to do and facing contempt. how do we turn that around? i ask that question not to choose sides. i ask that question because, as rev and i always talk about, we want people in every community to be safe. and right now, if the cops aren t fully engaged, if the