people are starting to hold him accountable because he has been getting a free ride for the last couple of years. he blames everybody but his own self. just this year in his office people that he hired when he took over, he has lost 130 employees in that office just since last january. a couple years ago he was blaming trump for all the problems. last year it was the pandemic and covid. now it s the media. he just does everything if his possible power to let people out of jail, to cut sweetheart deals with the court and now the city is suffering. he is ignorant and arrogant and doing what he wants to do. i m glad people are starting to wake up and call him out. he said i would like to ask crassner how many black and brown people would have to be gunned down to meet your definition of a crisis. say that in chicago. we ve been covering that for years now, sir. we re only half the size.
we start blaming the business owners? these business owners pay taxes, very hefty taxes and now you want them to institute things? in philadelphia you can walk into a store here and clear the shelf walk out and nothing happens. you walk away with it. that s what they are doing. we had it happen five times just on the day after thanksgiving. people walking into a nordstrom and clearing the shelf and walking out because he doesn t prosecute retail thefts. doesn t happen. crime down? assaults are up, shootings are up. we ve had over 2200 shootings this year. over 520 homicides. aggravated assaults are up. i don t know where he is saying philly is not a violent city and safe to come here. it is not. wake up. merry christmas. bill: if you are a politician you will eventually pay the price. people won t support you the next time your name is on the ballot. we talked about philly and chicago. here is an apparent looter in
this thing has gone 180 degrees back in their face. look, portland is dealing with a staffing crisis that the city created. you had a mayor and council defunding the police by over $15 million. they ended up villainizing these cop. allowing antifa radicals to attack them without the ability to actually defend themselves. huge numbers of these officers quit the force. they re down 150 officers. the truth of the matter is they only have 855 cops in that police department for a city the size of portland and as you point out dealing with record high homicide rates they need several hundred more than that. the police department believes they need 1100 officers to keep the city safe. at the same time what you saw was a huge decrease in 911 call operators to the point where you are waiting up to five minutes in some cases to get an emergency call just picked up. so you are already delayed calling 911. the delay is significant and
if you turn around and look, he is saying philadelphia is safe, he is welcoming visitors. there is no violence. i don t know where he is living. just down the street while he was holding that press conference a senior citizen was beaten half to death in a shopping parking lot. again, he can deflect but people are starting to wake up in the city and hopefully they push back and we can do something to be able to get this under control here. dana: as elected leaders try to find someone to blame, your take on this. this happened in chicago. mayor lori lightfoot basically saying the blame is on the business owners. watch. i m disappointed that they aren t doing more to take safety and make it a priority. for example, we still have retailers that won t institute plans like having security officers in their stores. making sure that they ve got cameras that are actually operational. dana: what happens if we go down this road instead of trying to fix the crime problem
light and even joy during a dark moment like this. we can see the charred remnants of the tree behind me being worked on. this is the third such attack in our country recently. the tree in oakland was also attacked and a tree in chicago has been attacked, gone up in flames. this time the third year in a row that has happened there. back to you, dana. dana: thank you so much. i think a couple key points out of that, bill, repeated arrests and somebody who had recently recorded as homeless and bill deblasio thinks he wants to be governor of new york has done so little to combat this problem and here is one of the consequences. bill: the issue of the homelessness has gotten worse since covid started to decline in the city. more accurately and if you are coming to new york, just look on any sidewalk, any corner, any street, it everywhere. we need to do something about