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EXCLUSIVE: The National Guard enters Memphis to stop violent crime.. Memphis Mayor, Paul Young speaks! · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: So today I am bringing you guys a conversation that
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  Speaker 1: Let me know how you guys are feeling once you
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  Speaker 1: listen to this interview. I had the pleasure of being
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  Speaker 1: hosted in Memphis over the weekend and it was amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and so I went there for the pod Box podcast festival.
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  Speaker 1: I was there for about a day. I literally was
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  Speaker 1: there overnight, did this festival at the Coast Library. Shout
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  Speaker 1: out to you know, ina Esco and all of the
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  Speaker 1: Cosset Library team and everybody that I met there. I
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  Speaker 1: had such a great time. Amen, say may I had
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  Speaker 1: a great time in Memphis. Shall and adopted me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going back. But more importantly, while I was there, the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the city and everyone in the city. They
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  Speaker 1: had been talking to people a lot while they're and
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  Speaker 1: one of the things I kept hearing was that people
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  Speaker 1: are currently preparing or were currently preparing over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: This is actually taking into effect today September twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 1: for the National Guard to come into the city. The
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  Speaker 1: National Guard, per the governor of Memphis, Governor Bill Lee
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  Speaker 1: and President Donald Trump, the National Guard will be coming
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  Speaker 1: into the city because they are trying to fight, to
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  Speaker 1: help fight, help local agencies fight the violent crime that
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  Speaker 1: is happening in Memphis. And from you know, everyone I
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  Speaker 1: talk to while they are, these are everyday citizens just
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. I think, you know, there
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  Speaker 1: is a need for resources. Definitely, from what I understand,
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  Speaker 1: there's a need for resources because there are violent crimes happening.
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  Speaker 1: And although they've been able to have success in some places,
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  Speaker 1: there's not as much success in others when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to completely stopping the violent crime. But the and now
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  Speaker 1: the governor has said, hey, we need a National Guard
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  Speaker 1: to come in at as what happened, and that is
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  Speaker 1: what's happening. But these every day people, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: much as they want the resources and the help and
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  Speaker 1: they want their neighborhoods to be safe, they're scared right now, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Like they're over there preparing for the National Guard to
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  Speaker 1: come in and they don't know what that means. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you know, everyday people and these everyday
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  Speaker 1: you know enforcement agencies will clash with National Guarden. They
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  Speaker 1: already feel like you know, in certain places they're not
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  Speaker 1: safe because of the violent crime that we're discussing, and
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  Speaker 1: now these law enforcement or these additional resources and agencies
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  Speaker 1: like the National Guard are being brought in. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is a Memphis is black, Memphis is black as
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what, So, you know, just that whole
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  Speaker 1: conversation about what that relationship looks like between the community
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  Speaker 1: that is already there and the National Guard coming in
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  Speaker 1: and what force looks or doesn't look like, and how
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  Speaker 1: that's used, and just so many things. People were having
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  Speaker 1: a lot of conversations with me about while I was there,
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  Speaker 1: to the point where I said, to, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: pot Box podcast festival team, while we were at dinner,
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  Speaker 1: is there a way I could talk to the mayor
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  Speaker 1: and just you know, have a conversation up with him
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  Speaker 1: about what's going on and what the plan is, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't just use it when I get back to
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  Speaker 1: work at the latest with Laurna Rose of the podcast
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  Speaker 1: and on the Breakfast Club. And they said sure, So
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  Speaker 1: he came out to the podcast festival. We had some
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  Speaker 1: time backstage where we were able to talk and really
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  Speaker 1: meet and I let him know that I'll be sharing
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  Speaker 1: this interview, and we talked about everything like why is
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  Speaker 1: this happening? Why is the governor bringing the National Guard here?
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys feel like you need the help? And he,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's open to the help. But what happens
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  Speaker 1: after If you guys don't have the resources now once
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  Speaker 1: they leave, will you have it then? And people are scared?
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  Speaker 1: How do you talk to the people in your community?
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  Speaker 1: There are people who are preparing to you know, get
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  Speaker 1: everybody's like, hey, get your affairs in order. I got
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  Speaker 1: out of my the car that picked us up from
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  Speaker 1: the airport. When I arrived at the hotel, I got out,
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  Speaker 1: the driver said y'all be safe now, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: why did? He said, I does? And when I went
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  Speaker 1: to dinner, they were like, because everyone, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: are in town for there was a Southern Heritage Classic happening.
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  Speaker 1: But they were explaining to me there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people right now that are they buckling down. They
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  Speaker 1: making sure you know, license and registration is up to date,
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  Speaker 1: and insurances and just everything that they warrant everything that
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  Speaker 1: they can because they don't want to have to have
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  Speaker 1: contact with the National Guard. So let's take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to my interview with the mayor of Memphis, Mayor Paul
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  Speaker 1: Young Black Mayor. Yeah, we talk about some things. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get on into it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, there's a lot going on in Memphis
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  Speaker 4: right now with all of the national conversations.
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  Speaker 2: They were telling me about it last night. No I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I knew about DC and the conversation about Chicago, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that they were starting here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was asking them. I'm like, how do you
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  Speaker 2: prepare for that?
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  Speaker 3: Like what do you we are preparing?
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I've been trying to articulate to people
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  Speaker 4: that we're different than Chicago with LA because our governor
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  Speaker 4: has said yes and the President said yes. So as mayor,
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a say in whether they come or not.
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  Speaker 4: So what we're doing now is working to align how
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  Speaker 4: they come, where they're going to show up, what their
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  Speaker 4: assignments are going to be. So we're putting together a
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  Speaker 4: whole strategy of how we gained and we've been having
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  Speaker 4: positive dialogue with the National of Art, major generals and
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  Speaker 4: all of those folks. You know, my goal is to
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  Speaker 4: try to keep them focused on violent crime and uh
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  Speaker 4: not you know, pat the crimes and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 4: But really the thing that is a challenge for us, admitted,
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  Speaker 4: is that we do have folks that are committee violent
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  Speaker 4: crimes and not being brought to justice.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like it's going to be helpful though?
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  Speaker 2: And like, if so, how long?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's not something you don't just come here for
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  Speaker 1: like a month or two, And you know, like, how
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  Speaker 1: long do you think they need to be I think
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  Speaker 1: that it's a long term conversation I.
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  Speaker 3: Think that did other resources.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of times people get fixated on the National
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  Speaker 4: Guard piece, and I think that's just a visible presence.
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  Speaker 4: I think the thing that's going to be helpful is
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  Speaker 4: the FBI DA and all the investigative resources that they're
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  Speaker 4: going to be able to bring to support our police department.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you.
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  Speaker 4: Have a certain amount of homicides or a certain amount
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  Speaker 4: of shootings and you only have X amount of investigators,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to leave a lot of them being unsolved.
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  Speaker 4: So having their different technologies and things like that are
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  Speaker 4: going to help us be able.
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  Speaker 1: To solve What about that because every telling me say
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  Speaker 1: that the jails are like overflowing at this point, like
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  Speaker 1: people don't even have sales or sit in the hallway.
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  Speaker 2: So what do y'all do then?
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  Speaker 1: Like where do you put people that you're gonna like
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be arresting people?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they are, So they're going to be working with
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  Speaker 4: counties so that's around the city in order to help
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  Speaker 4: on that. But that is a big problem, which is
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  Speaker 4: why I think our emphasis needs to be on find
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  Speaker 4: the most violent folks, and that's who we focus on
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  Speaker 4: and not just you know, petty crimes.
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  Speaker 2: A lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting to hear you hear say that because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people I know when Chicago, when they were
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  Speaker 1: saying that what might happen, a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of people's pushback was.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not going to help because of the force
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  Speaker 1: that'll be you know, that'll be brought to the city,
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  Speaker 1: which people are going to fight back against. But you
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  Speaker 1: think opposite because you feel like you'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: work with them.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say, I think opposite.
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  Speaker 4: I think that my goal is to get the strategy
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  Speaker 4: executed in a different way than what people are perceiving.
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  Speaker 3: I think people are proceeding.
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  Speaker 4: If you have the military that's enforcing laws in the
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  Speaker 4: city against people, that it's going to lead to more conflict. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: my goal is to minimize the role of the National
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  Speaker 4: Guard and try to elevate the role of those other intitutes.
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  Speaker 2: Got you, how do you control that?
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  Speaker 3: Though?
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  Speaker 2: Like, how do you know they're going to come in
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  Speaker 2: here and listen to you?
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  Speaker 3: We can't control it, I mean, but my goal is
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  Speaker 3: to try and use influence to do it. What I
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  Speaker 3: heard from the folks in d C was that when.
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  Speaker 4: They first came in, it was ki this came from
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  Speaker 4: the FEDS and the folks that worked, that worked for
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  Speaker 4: the mayor and all that in the DC. But when
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  Speaker 4: they started, when they started folding into the operations that
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  Speaker 4: the DC police already had in play, that's when they
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  Speaker 4: both see that they were more successful. Got So that's
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  Speaker 4: why I'm trying to drive this thing in that direction
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  Speaker 4: as opposed to what they're concerned about in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like you were at the point before
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  Speaker 1: this where you were like there was no hope for
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  Speaker 1: solving the violent crime issue here?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely didn't feel hopeless on it because we've been
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  Speaker 4: doing I mean, we've been moving it in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't you guys seen a decreased I think you said.
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  Speaker 4: Percent on homicides, nineteen percent on violent crime year over year,
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  Speaker 4: thirty seven percent on car fils And that was in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. This year would be those numbers. So
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  Speaker 4: I know that the things we're doing work. It's just
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  Speaker 4: when you're starting and you're this high, when you get
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  Speaker 4: to this level, it's still too high and people are
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  Speaker 4: still frustrated. So for me, I didn't think that it
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  Speaker 4: was hopeless. I just thought it's gonna take more time,
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  Speaker 4: and so that's why I won't when this happened.
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  Speaker 3: Since it's happening, we can't stop it from happening.
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  Speaker 4: I want to try and drive it in a way
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  Speaker 4: where it does amplify the work that we've already been doing.
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  Speaker 1: So even if your governor has said no to it,
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  Speaker 1: it still could have happened.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, No, don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think, I mean, because then it would have
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  Speaker 4: been Yeah, it would have been different. But when you
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  Speaker 4: have the governor, it puts us in the same position
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  Speaker 4: that DC was in.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why I asked that is because I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people would say, if you guys are
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  Speaker 1: seeing the decreases, even though it's taking time, why not
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  Speaker 1: just think on what you've already been doing. Why say
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  Speaker 1: yes to that? And there's the risk of it not working.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think the thing is we don't
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  Speaker 3: get to say, is the governor see it? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Why would a question work to him? Why would he
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  Speaker 2: say yes?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's a different kind of politics. That's politics above me.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, they're both Republicans and we're a blue
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  Speaker 4: dye in a red state, and that decision was made
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  Speaker 4: without us.
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  Speaker 2: That's messed up.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's an interesting time.
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  Speaker 4: But it's one of those things where my goal is
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  Speaker 4: to make sure we navigated in a way that we
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  Speaker 4: become an example for the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 3: How do you deal with it.
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  Speaker 4: In a way where you minimize negative impact on the
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  Speaker 4: community and maximize positive impact.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I always try to best of luck man appreciation.
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  Speaker 3: That's challenging, appreciated.
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  Speaker 2: It's the hardest spot to being.
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  Speaker 3: It's definitely hard. I mean, yesterday the government was here.
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  Speaker 4: We did a fresh time yesterday, so there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the feelings are at a peak right now in
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  Speaker 4: the city. M h yeah, but that aside, you're going
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  Speaker 4: to enjoy your time. We don't have challenges with the crime,
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  Speaker 4: but soli cities all across the country, right, So you know,
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  Speaker 4: my goal is to just make sure that we amplify
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  Speaker 4: the good in the city and we overtake this negative
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  Speaker 4: narrative and don't let it dominate the headlines and.
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  Speaker 3: Define who we are.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: That was my sitting down with the mayor of Memphis again,
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Paul Young, and they have created a website dedicated to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, informing the public on what to expect. That
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  Speaker 1: website where people can go and get some of that
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  Speaker 1: information is Memphis, Tennessee dot gov backslash safe and clean,
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  Speaker 1: and it just answers your questions about you know, what
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  Speaker 1: to expect, what does this look like when the federal
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  Speaker 1: agencies come in, and a ton of other frequently asked questions.
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  Speaker 1: I hope this works out. I mean, I think anytime
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  Speaker 1: somewhere is you know, lacking resources. As we talked about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he said the jails are overflowing and there's
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  Speaker 1: just not a lot of support where they need it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a problem that needs to be solved, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I just hate that there's a fear because of the
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  Speaker 1: relationship between you know, certain law enforcement agencies and the
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  Speaker 1: people on the ground that live in these communities. There's
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  Speaker 1: a fear of does this cause us more harm or
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  Speaker 1: does this help us? So I'm hoping and I'm praying
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  Speaker 1: that the plan that Mary Jung talked about is a
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  Speaker 1: plan that is actually going to help the city and
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  Speaker 1: that other cities can look at and watch and mimic,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as this thing spreads from city to city.
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  Speaker 1: It happened in DC that there were some conversations around
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  Speaker 1: Chicago that didn't happen you know, now Memphis and you know,
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  Speaker 1: other places. So yeah, I'm just wishing the best for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, there is always a
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  Speaker 1: lot to talk about y'all. Could be anywhere with anybody
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  Speaker 1: talking about it, but you guys choose to be right
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  Speaker 1: here with me. I'm Laura la Rosa. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Latest with Laura l Rosa. This has been an exclusive
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  Speaker 1: episode and exclusive sit down and interview with Mayor Paul Young,
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  Speaker 1: who is the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. As I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, as they prepare for, but as they currently
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  Speaker 1: like right now, as the National Guard descends on Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: So we've guys are bring you the latest right from there.
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  Speaker 1: See you guys in my next episode.