trend of activist owe olympians and says how much she loved her country. i m having a better morning. i got to watch the interview for the 900th time. this is just the story that we should be talking about. so often we ve been seeing the headlines about gwen berry and what she did turning her back on the flag, covering her face during the national anthem. i thought why are we talking about this when we could be talking about someone who shows passion for their country and this woman came the day. she won our hearts. she was asked by a reporter what does it mean to you to represent your country? it was a genuine excitement. the words are one thing. anyone can say words. the genuine excitement and giddy and happy and she pumped her fist and said i love representing the usa. i got up and i said i love the usa. bill: she said i freaking love living here.
we ve had this fundamental dismantling of the police department. we ve had defund the police and ended our undercover anti-crime teams. it is good to hear people like eric adams say he will restore the undercover units but realistically until the state makes necessary changes and reforms the law, even if we catch people they will be let out very early. if we caught those two guys who were recently shown in that video on the back of mopeds shooting into a crowd. if we caught those people before we fired those rounds they would have been let out on bail reform law. the police really have their hands full because the criminal justice system is not following through. bill: here is how bill bratton put it. he was on our show yesterday. give it a listen. i m sorry, there are a lot of very bad people in our society and they need to be separated from the rest of us. currently the progressive left is really pushing the idea of alternative types of treatment
we re there. we have had a v-shaped recovery. we have we re now generating a gdp that is slightly greater than it was before the pandemic started. we have what, 10 million jobs that we can t fill, we set a record last quarter, we will probably set a record this quarter. our economy is back. and it is time that now, we still have the virus with us, which we can talk about, but it is time to rejoin our lives and we can t give free rent to everybody. if you want free rent, there is nothing free, bill. everything free somebody had to work for. bill: this is like free rent to infinity. i pulled those unemployment numbers for the wall street journal. the headline.
rather than incarceration. if you ve been arrested 90 times and arrested carrying a gun we need to keep those people away from society. bill: i think he states it so well, joe. the trend is going that way. did you get a sense that it s coming back? yeah, certainly. look, he is right. even in the most crime plagued neighborhoods it s 1% or 2% of people committing all the violent crime. the mayor earlier this year announced ryker s island had the lowest population since world war ii. if that corresponded with the lowest crime and crime victim numbers we ve had since world war ii we would be praising bill deblasio. but we re making arrests, letting people out and 100% the radical aoc wing of the party doing this. thankfully you have people that like eric adams and like curtis lee running on the republican ticket saying we ll vow to
until we make a significant change in government, we should expect more of the same. i hope there is some light at the end of the tunnel. until the voters choose to do that we ll get more of the same. bill: interesting thought there. thanks for coming on and we ll check in with you. you have a strong piece in the daily news about covid and where we re head wednesday that as well. we ll check it out soon, joe borelli here in new york. dana: you know have to show proof of vaccination in indoors for dining and gyms. a gym owner says the new restriction will hurt his bottom line. are you a veteran, own a home, and need cash for your family? you should know about the newday100 va cash out loan. it lets you borrow 100 percent of your home s value. you can take out $50,000 or more.