because they have way too much money. that s a big change from three years ago. when he was running last time at the democratic national convention. i know it seems like a lifetime ago, joe biden campaigned on the idea that police are racist. the dnc platform stated this, quote, millions of people in our country have good reason to fear that they may lose their lives in a routine traffic stop or while standing on a street corner. really? joe biden isn t talking like that anymore. and it s not hard to see why the antipolice movement that joe biden supported big time has destroyed major democratic controlled cities. take, for example, seattle, after 2020 of the seattle police department lost four hundred officers. they picked up and left, put down their badges. they had other stuff to do where they were appreciated and they just hit a 30 year low in the numbers of officers on the payroll. on top of that seattle state government, where both the senate and house are controlled by
could possibly see a big change. but right now, it s not going to happen. not there s not going to be a change in hundreds of police officers down. you don t see a change. now, here in new york , we have terrible no cash . we have no cash bail laws. they are beginning to change. not enough, but beginning to change. is there any movement among even democrats with super majorities to say, okay, we have to do something? it s affecting all of us now? yeah, well, we do hear chatter and both here in san francisco with our city hall leadership, along with the state in sacramento, there s these plans to potentially try and tweak and remove certain parts of that prop. forty seven to make it four hundred dollars instead of nine hundred and fifty to lower that threshold. to be a felony. but as you brought up the problem is we need more law enforcement on the street to take these thieves that get caught off the street and bring them into the police
and cvs and all around the city. this is just ridiculous that we have to waste our time and that there is so much uncontrolled, rampant looting and theft. this is just ridiculous that we have to live this way, richie. that s why she has aberdeen s gone. we had great hope for the new the new district attorney . is anything changing? for example, if i m caught shoplifting in that target and i m grabbed and i m nabbed and you got me on camera, is anything going to happen to me? well, you know, at this point, i think no. and the reason is because california has this pesky little law called prop forty seven , which which what it does is it allows these perpetrators of crime, these these thieves to steal up to nine hundred and fifty dollars worth of merchandise before it becomes a felony. so before because of that, that s what is going to prevent our district attorneys to hold these criminals accountable. so if that changes, then we
expected to be high this winter. ter comiheating oil in particul about 68% year over year. today, they filled up this tank with about nine hundred and fifty dollars worth of homet heating oil. a year ago o, the same amount of oil would have cost them closer to six hundred dollars. that s why the company tells me that some customers are just doing without. people have gon e withoutwater hot water and heat for four a week just because they haven t had the money to call me and say, hey, come on in, they don t have the money for hot water or heata again. what country is this? any country that can t provide hot water or heat in the winter isn t much of a country. and again, it doesn t need to be this way. oicause we re the largest recoverable oil reserves on the planet. n the planetwhat happens when es continue to rise? will people run out of money and doesn t take long? according to data from the bureau of economic analysis, households are spending their cash reserves far faster than a
half of them are going to reoffend. you have these soft on crime policies like proposition 47 that allows you to steal nine hundred and fifty bucks not just a day, but per store. and if you get caught, they write your ticket as a misdemeanor and you don t go to jail because you ve got this bail proposition 57 that allows a bunch of categories of crime to be called nonviolent and they include assault on a police officer. i kid you not. that s nonviolent serial arson ,nonviolent of an intoxicated victim, nonviolent. and as a result, you re finding a greater chance that the bad guy doesn t get caught. and when the bad guy knows he s not going to get caught, crime goes up. if he knows he s not going to get convicted, crime goes up. if he knows he s not going to get incarcerated, crime goes up. they may be crooks, but they re not stupid. and finally, the one that few people like to talk about and you mentioned it in the monologue is a breakdown of the family. you said their parents plural,