made more often critical comments of police than being supportive. mayor durkin is a lame duck not running for reelection. one of the leading candidates is the council president, one of the members who pledged to defund the police by 50% last year. thank you, dana. dana: we ll see what happens there. thank you, dan. bill: we shall see what happens here. it is getting very interesting in california. new poll shows the radio host larry elder emerging as the republican front runner a race to recall the democratic governor gavin newsom and strong support for ousting the democrat. 47% of likely voters back the effort. 50% are against it. reading into the numbers intriguing things developing. tom bevan, editor of real clear politics. how are you doing? you read numbers for a living here. i will give you the leading republicans. elder 18%, cox 10, faulkner 10, undecided 40%. the state of the race in
it and how you ve trained and kept crime down and guns off the streets and gangs down, and then you are suddenly told we have to reimagine that and we ll bring in therapists to deal with certain situations. the whole thing is upside down. you reap what you sow. more gangs and more crime. the most predictable thing on the planet and durkin is getting the memo now? harris: 250 officers left and 300 are slated to leave. they will have a problem on her hands if she can t stop the flood. what you likeened it to in service in battle. imagine the message the enemy would get if you had to say please and have protocols in the moments of engagement. he would shoot you between the eyes before you got your words out. if you want to compare it to battle which on some streets in america it looks like that right now. unfortunately on some streets it is. you re right.
the violence is happening as the police department continues to shrink. 250 officers have left the department in the last 17 months. there are 115 fewer patrol officers and 38 fewer detectives than one year ago. the city council cut the budget by 18% which was well under the 50% activists were demanding and a majority of council members pledged. the lack of support from city hall has cops leaving in record numbers. losing these number of officers when city leaders talk about cutting a department by 50%, you will lose employees. families need security. workers, even police officers, need working conditions that support them. seattle mayor durkin who did not support the police department cuts says she will announce the plan to hire new officers next month but recutement will be a challenge given what police faced last year and a city council has
joe biden has invited him to come to the white house to try to maybe teach the rest of them about how to win an election by not inc. by cracking down on th things that people care about and i think it s too late for them for it. there s also a luxury associated with it, again going back to the mere jenny durkin o seattle, she claims her home needs to be kept private becaus she was getting death threats a a u.s. attorney in the obama administration meanwhile, peopl don t have choices about their addresses being or looted downtown, no one else has a choice, and no one else has tha luxury of privacy that these people did. it is so true, and to, when you talk about the luxury of being protected because of how you live or what you say, try being on social media and askin about the wuhan laboratory leak at the 2019 deadly virus, peopl
analyzing 25 major cities and finding that in at least 20 of them, including these mayors an other city leaders, they actually spent millions of dollars on their own personal protection with of course taxpayers picking up the tab. jesse watters in seattle where live, the mayor durkin actually got two protective details, a uniform division and her executive protection detail and those cops got priority for tha detail meaning that in addition to defunding the precincts, whe cops would call in sick or had to leave, then those would be understaffed because her details , both of them, always remained staffed. this is why people hate politicians because they never follow the rules as they direct that you whether it is pelosi who strolls into the salon without a mask or newsom who dines with 20 people at fluent french laundry or any of these people that defund the police and then get a squad flanking