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in the area the most, the rich go as we have heard story after story, hire private security to go out on the street. alex villanueva, l.a. county sheriff, appreciate you joining us and best to you, huge task ahead of you. sandra: thank you. stats back up on the screen, the story and these are the numbers that he is looking at and has to battle. l.a. county crime, two-year period. homicides up 94%, grand theft auto up 59%, those are blaring statistics. john: and again we talked about with howard safer, if you approach it the right way, you can see some dramatic declines in crime in big cities that were notorious for being riddled with crime. wow. the white house has been working all day to clean up president biden s remarks on russia, and now the president himself is trying to explain what it was that he really meant. fox news is live in ukraine with reaction and live with general jack keane on how all of this
intervention and prevention. that is why it is urgent that we request the state s immediate assistance in expanding the number of beds for those in critical need of mental healthcare and funding for the medical and support staff that they require. martha: when d.a. alvin bragg ran for office, he promised not to prosecute any one that steals less than $250 worth of stuff. that s right. don t prosecute you if you steal under $250. personally i ve seen two cases of shoplifters staking stuff out of a store. perhaps mr. bragg is now changing his tune. back to you. charles: it would be nuts for him not to. eric, thanks very much. with me now, former new york city police commissioner, howard safer. we ve had this conversation several times over this period of this every time we talk, the numbers gets higher and more. the images get more brazen.
howard safer joins us now. thanks, commissioner, for your time. you heard the president. you heard him again as we played a clip there. is he clearly laying out a way to combat gun crimes in this city? it s a bigger picture than that. we just had a young women, a graduate student pushed on the subway tracks and killed. she was not pushed by a gun. is he addressing the root of the problem? getting to the root of the crisis? he s not. what we have is an unpopular president realizing through his polls that the majority of americans want crime reduced. visiting with a popular mayor that was elected based on crime. the fact is that it s not about guns. guns are just one part of it. what is about is bail. what it is about is returning to things like broken windows, stop and frisk and send a message to criminals that if you commit a crime, there s a certainty of
disaster emergency on gun violence. [applause] eric: will this work? let s bring in former new york police, city police commissioner howard safer, who worked with mayor giuliani. commissioner, always good to see you. i tell you, there s a war on police officers. in chicago 36 officers, 36 have been shot this year. 45 officers across the country shot and killed last year. how do we end this? we end it by stopping what s happening in this country. we re going from a country of laws to a country of chaos. when we have district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute crimes, for instance, in california the district attorney is not going to prosecute any theft under $1,000. it sends a message to criminals that you don t need to be afraid of police. you can commit crimes with impunity. that along with the defund the police, with the demonization of police, with the elimination of