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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Filling in for Mark,
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Speaker 1: here's Ken Rosado. And happy, happy Friday. Oh, it's so
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Speaker 1: nice to say those words. Happy Friday. So nice to
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Speaker 1: be with you, Mark. I hope you're enjoying your nice
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Speaker 1: day off, your nice long weekend. You deserve it, my friend.
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Speaker 1: It is Ken Rosato, former TV news anchor from New
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Speaker 1: York City. For those of you who are from New York,
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Speaker 1: you know I used to be on Channel 7 for
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Speaker 1: 20 years. I did the morning and midday shows at
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Speaker 1: Channel 7. I was on Channel 5, Good Day, before that.
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Speaker 1: And even if you have a good memory, I was
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Speaker 1: on Channel 55 for a bunch of years as well.
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Speaker 1: But it's good to be with you here now doing
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Speaker 1: radio with you here on iHeart, on WOR. And also,
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Speaker 1: I do a show down or over in New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: It is good to be here on Labor Day weekend Friday.
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Speaker 1: It's one of those days that, you know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of times you don't want to say happy Memorial Day
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Speaker 1: because obviously it's about remembering those who've died for us.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to say for certain holidays, happy this
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Speaker 1: and happy that because the holiday means something else. Labor
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Speaker 1: Day is like we're celebrating labor. We're celebrating all of
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Speaker 1: us who work. So you could say, happy Labor Day.
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Speaker 1: And it is nonsectarian. You could say it to everybody.
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Speaker 1: So go out in the streets and just scream, happy
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Speaker 1: Labor Day to everybody. Just don't get in their faces
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Speaker 1: when you do it. Our number today, of course, as always, 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: What a mess. If you were listening to the news,
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Speaker 1: you heard Daria Albinger talking about this and You heard
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Speaker 1: it all morning, along with the morning show, of course,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about this, Curtis. I heard Curtis, in fact, specifically,
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Speaker 1: excuse me as I swallow, talking very specifically about the
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Speaker 1: mentally unstable whom we have in New York. And Curtis
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Speaker 1: is 100% right. I know that when he was out
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Speaker 1: there with the Guardian Angels, he encountered a lot of
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Speaker 1: them over the years. And of course, there are, it seems,
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Speaker 1: more and more that we're encountering in public. So once again,
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Speaker 1: we had a case this morning of a person who
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Speaker 1: was holding a knife, we assume an emotionally disturbed person.
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Speaker 1: People near the Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan side said
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Speaker 1: that the first witnessings, if you will, of this individual
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Speaker 1: was about three o'clock in the morning. And this is
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Speaker 1: a man who was just... flashing around a knife at
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Speaker 1: people on the Brooklyn-bound side of the Brooklyn Bridge, but
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Speaker 1: close to Manhattan. And apparently somebody called police and they
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Speaker 1: showed up about 3.30, 4 o'clock in the morning, finally
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Speaker 1: between 4 and 4.30. They closed the Brooklyn-bound side of
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Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Bridge near South and Dover Streets. That was
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Speaker 1: all closed off. Fortunately, it is holiday time, if you will.
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Speaker 1: It's a holiday weekend, so maybe traffic wasn't as bad.
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Speaker 1: I don't know as it could have been, but it
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Speaker 1: was still pretty darn bad. That whole part of Manhattan,
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Speaker 1: you couldn't get over to Brooklyn via the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Speaker 1: You had to take the tunnel or go over into
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Speaker 1: Queens and work your way down. But just an absolute,
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Speaker 1: or of course the Manhattan Bridge, but just an absolute
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Speaker 1: mess this was. So police were there doing the two
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Speaker 1: calls that I know from my relatives. My dad was
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Speaker 1: a police officer for years. The two calls that a
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Speaker 1: cop does not like to get and have to respond
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Speaker 1: to are domestic disputes, Because you never know. The husband
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Speaker 1: could be beating the wife. You go to intervene and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden the wife turns on you because
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Speaker 1: you're pushing the husband against the wall and trying to
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Speaker 1: cuff him. Stuff like that happens a lot. Any police
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Speaker 1: officer will tell you. And the other call you don't
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Speaker 1: like to get is an emotionally disturbed person. And that
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Speaker 1: is because you don't know how it's going to turn out.
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Speaker 1: By definition, the person is emotionally disturbed. You could say,
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Speaker 1: calm down. And many of the officers who respond are
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Speaker 1: specially trained to keep them calm. But no matter what,
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Speaker 1: you don't know if the person is on something or
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Speaker 1: off something. Maybe they're off their meds, so they're unstable.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they just had something to push them over the edge.
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Speaker 1: And that's why we love our NYPD, because no matter what,
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Speaker 1: they try their best and they put their lives on
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Speaker 1: the line to try to deal with whatever the situation.
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Speaker 1: But this emotionally, allegedly emotionally disturbed person had a knife.
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Speaker 1: Police confronted the person. The individual, the reports are that
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Speaker 1: it was a man. When the police arrived, the man
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Speaker 1: confronted and allegedly charged at the police. And we believe
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Speaker 1: that that led them to allegedly shoot him. Everything is
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Speaker 1: allegedly right now. We're not getting a lot of confirmation.
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Speaker 1: So this is the sketch of the story right now
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Speaker 1: until we get more information. So the Brooklyn-bound lanes and
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Speaker 1: parts of the bridge walkway were closed for hours. Everything
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Speaker 1: was reopened at 8.30. We don't know the man's condition.
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Speaker 1: That's all under investigation. The man could be alive. We
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Speaker 1: don't know. It could also be that the man was
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Speaker 1: so seriously shot that maybe they're on the edge. And
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Speaker 1: that's why they had to have such a massive investigation.
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Speaker 1: But whenever there's a police shooting, you know that they
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Speaker 1: have to send out the troops and just take pictures
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Speaker 1: and measure everything. And that takes hours. And that's why
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Speaker 1: things were closed. So when we hear that crime is down,
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Speaker 1: this is the lowest crime summer on record. You notice
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Speaker 1: they pointed out when they made that comment, one of
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Speaker 1: the main bases, if you will, that they made that statement,
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Speaker 1: the NYPD, was based on shootings. Shootings were down dramatically
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Speaker 1: year to year. But you notice what they didn't talk about. What? Stabbings. Stabbings.
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Speaker 1: Where are the numbers on stabbings? Now, for the last week,
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Speaker 1: it seems that almost every day we've had another stabbing.
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Speaker 1: And it seems in almost every case it's been an
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Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed person involved in stabbing somebody. in some cases fatally,
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Speaker 1: as we know from the poor woman who was stabbed
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Speaker 1: to death the other day. It was Monday here in
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Speaker 1: Times Square. So stabbings, are they down? Well, we know
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Speaker 1: that from these statistics, year to year, overall felonies were
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Speaker 1: flat in New York, so they didn't go up or down.
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Speaker 1: And the number of rapes actually increased. The only thing
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Speaker 1: that went down was shooting murders. That went down. But
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Speaker 1: what about stabbings? You know, so this is... Listen, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to trade off one for the other. I
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Speaker 1: want neither one of them. How about that? I want
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Speaker 1: to be able to get off a subway or get
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Speaker 1: on a subway knowing that I will be perfectly safe.
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Speaker 1: I could get on a subway, either stand or sit,
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Speaker 1: and then five, ten minutes later get off the subway
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Speaker 1: and get to my destination and then repeat when I
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Speaker 1: come home. That's what I'm paying for. That's why people
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Speaker 1: live in New York City. They shouldn't have to wonder
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Speaker 1: if they will or won't make it home or end
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Speaker 1: up in a hospital later in the day. And the
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Speaker 1: job of the police... when they're allowed to do their
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Speaker 1: job by a mayoral administration like we have now that
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Speaker 1: basically handcuffs them at every angle and every possibility, when
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Speaker 1: allowed to do their job, they keep us safe. When
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Speaker 1: you have the likes of Alvin Bragg, Manhattan DA, who says,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to charge people for these 90% of
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Speaker 1: the crimes. We're not going to charge them. Hey, you
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Speaker 1: can commit all those crimes that you want. Because you
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Speaker 1: deserve to be let go because of past wrongs that
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Speaker 1: have occurred with people in general who are of color
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Speaker 1: or who lived in certain neighborhoods or who came from
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Speaker 1: certain countries. As a result, we're going to not charge
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Speaker 1: anybody for any of these crimes over here. We're just
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Speaker 1: going to go after people who murder people. And then
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Speaker 1: the next year he says, look at this, crime is down. Yeah, Alvin,
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Speaker 1: crime is down because you chose not to charge 90%
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Speaker 1: of the crimes, crimes that we used to charge people
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Speaker 1: four years past. Look, you may love Rudy Giuliani or
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Speaker 1: despise Rudy Giuliani, but the one thing you got to admit,
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Speaker 1: and I lived in New York, not in the city proper,
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Speaker 1: but went to high school and college in Manhattan and
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Speaker 1: always was within 15 to 20 minutes of Manhattan my
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Speaker 1: entire life. And I was around during the Giuliani administration.
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Speaker 1: And I remember you couldn't drive into the city prior
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Speaker 1: to Giuliani, as much as I loved Ed Koch. You
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Speaker 1: couldn't drive into the city without a squeegee guy coming up.
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Speaker 1: And if you didn't give the squeegee guy a buck,
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Speaker 1: You would slam your windshield in many cases with the squeegee,
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Speaker 1: crack your windshield. You don't want to get into confrontations
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Speaker 1: with them. They had those filthy squeegees they were using.
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Speaker 1: It was gross. They were in many cases mentally disturbed. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you didn't give them something, you worried
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Speaker 1: that you took your life in your hands. So it
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Speaker 1: was sort of out of trepidation. You just reach in
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Speaker 1: your pocket and you gave them something. Well, it started
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Speaker 1: with them. And when Giuliani came in, he got rid
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Speaker 1: of the squeegee guys. If you were around New York then,
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Speaker 1: you'll know. Apparently, half of New York wasn't around then.
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Speaker 1: These are half of the people in New York right
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Speaker 1: now are relative newcomers, so they've never lived through that.
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Speaker 1: But we're sort of back in that era where we
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Speaker 1: have people who intimidate other people, and you're supposed to
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Speaker 1: just take it. Oh, that's just living in New York. No, no.
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Speaker 1: We learned through Giuliani... And prior to Koch, actually prior
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Speaker 1: to like Beam, Mayor Beam, we didn't have that. You
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Speaker 1: could walk around the city and be perfectly safe. I
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Speaker 1: know people used to keep their car doors unlocked in
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Speaker 1: the city back in the day. Never had a problem.
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Speaker 1: No issues. And then when you gradually let, you know,
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Speaker 1: the old broken windows policy, when you gradually let, well,
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Speaker 1: we'll let this crime go. First it goes, starts with pollution.
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Speaker 1: you know, you want to drop your garbage here and
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Speaker 1: what do you want me to do about it? Then
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Speaker 1: it becomes, let the squeegee guy do the squeegee and
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Speaker 1: then graffiti. You know, if they want to do graffiti
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Speaker 1: on your building, let them do it. They want to
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Speaker 1: rip down a flag That makes them happy. Oh, if
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Speaker 1: they want to do drugs, want to smoke pot in public, whatever.
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Speaker 1: They want to spit. They want to urinate in public.
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Speaker 1: They want to be topless. And then it gets to
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Speaker 1: the point where there are no laws. There are no rules.
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Speaker 1: And we walk around in a city that is uncivilized. Listen,
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Speaker 1: the word civilized comes from the Latin word civitas, C-I-V-I-T-A-S.
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Speaker 1: It means city. The word city comes from civity, if
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Speaker 1: you will, in Latin. That's where we get it. It
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Speaker 1: got shortened in French to cité and then becomes city
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Speaker 1: in English. And so civilized means living in a city,
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Speaker 1: meaning you act in a way that you can get
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Speaker 1: along with large numbers of people. That's what it means
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Speaker 1: to be civilized, to live in a city. What we
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Speaker 1: have is a bunch of people living together, but more
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Speaker 1: and more we are accepting an uncivilized type behavior. And
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Speaker 1: that's something that we don't have to accept. We don't
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Speaker 1: have to accept that. But it happens in little increments.
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Speaker 1: Little by little, you're like, eh, what are you going
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Speaker 1: to do? Live and not live. No one wants to confront.
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Speaker 1: Before you know it, you have what you have. And
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Speaker 1: you could say, well, the largest decrease in crime year
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Speaker 1: to year in recorded history. Well, listen, I'm not pointing
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Speaker 1: the finger and I'm not suggesting, I'm not trying to blame,
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Speaker 1: but you know that captains of precincts and whatnot The
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Speaker 1: fewer crimes that they submit, the more the pat on
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Speaker 1: the back for them. So you have to wonder in
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Speaker 1: many cases, and I'm not saying it happened. I have
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Speaker 1: no evidence. I'm telling you right now. But I have
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Speaker 1: anecdotal evidence from people who are police. And I have
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Speaker 1: police officers in my family. And I have police officers
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Speaker 1: who have been friends for years. And the question is,
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Speaker 1: how many times are the numbers fudged? And well, we're
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Speaker 1: going to put this down. That didn't get reported until
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Speaker 1: the 31st. And I'm not going to put that down
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Speaker 1: this month as part of this statistic. And this is
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Speaker 1: really a misdemeanor. You know what? Let's not charge him.
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Speaker 1: Let's put it off for a month and see. And
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Speaker 1: then it'll be in next month's statistics. But that's how
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Speaker 1: things happen. And then all of a sudden, even if
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Speaker 1: it's only five fewer felonies in your precinct, all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden it's down. Look, it's down a tenth of
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Speaker 1: a percent month to month. Because you pushed it off
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Speaker 1: to the next month and you reported in your paperwork
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Speaker 1: the next month. That's how it happens. And it's all
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Speaker 1: about making it look good for the police commissioner. Not
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Speaker 1: that the police commissioner picked up the phone and said,
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Speaker 1: this is what I need you to do. No, that
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Speaker 1: is not. In fact, I can almost guarantee that is
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Speaker 1: not what happens. But it's sort of an unwritten rule.
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Speaker 1: You kind of know, hey, you know what? Cut her
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Speaker 1: some slack. She'll cut you some slack. Everybody's happy. Stuff
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Speaker 1: like that does happen. It does happen. Again, I have
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Speaker 1: no evidence. I'm not saying I have conclusive proof. I don't.
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Speaker 1: I'm speaking anecdotally. It happens. And then, boom, you have
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Speaker 1: a story in the papers that crime is at its
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Speaker 1: lowest point. Meanwhile, every single day, it's who are you
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Speaker 1: going to believe, me or your own lion eyes? We
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Speaker 1: have another stabbing, another murder. But yet, somehow, crime is
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Speaker 1: down to its lowest point. Well, listen, crime has always
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Speaker 1: happened in New York, and it always will. It's a
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Speaker 1: big city. I've been a journalist in New York City.
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Speaker 1: since I'm in my teens, and I'm almost 60, okay?
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Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time. But I can
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Speaker 1: tell you that of late, this is literally a daily thing, right?
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Speaker 1: We're talking about stabbings every single day in New York.
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Speaker 1: So when they talk about shootings are down, okay, so
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Speaker 1: now they're just choosing an alternate means of killing people.
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Speaker 1: Let's use a knife. And you can get a knife everywhere.
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Speaker 1: So this, by the way, goes against the argument of
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Speaker 1: the people who are anti-Second Amendment all these years, who
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Speaker 1: talk about guns killing people. And if we'd only get
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Speaker 1: guns off the streets, murders would go down. Guns may
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Speaker 1: make murder a little more convenient, but people then just
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Speaker 1: pick up an alternate means. They'll pick up a rock
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Speaker 1: if they want. There was a guy in Brooklyn on
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Speaker 1: Sunday who picked up a discarded baby crib and threw
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Speaker 1: it at a 90-year-old woman, almost killed her, knocked her down.
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Speaker 1: She broke her hip. I mean, just for no reason.
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Speaker 1: Just because he was mentally unstable, I guess. but this
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Speaker 1: is living in the city today and it shouldn't be,
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't be a 90 year old woman in your,
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Speaker 1: in your ending your waning years on this planet and
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Speaker 1: go out like that. And that is just not justifiable ever.
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Speaker 1: All right. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. This is 710 W O R.
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosato in for Mark on your Friday of Labor
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Speaker 1: Day weekend. And of course, before we go to break,
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Speaker 1: we can't not mention what's going on right now in
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Speaker 1: the Clancy trial. So, Everything's open up. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: I find it interesting. I'm looking at the layout here
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Speaker 1: as I raise the microphone so I get a better
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Speaker 1: look at the TV monitors. Fox News Channel, all over it.
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Speaker 1: They're in the courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts right now. CNN
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Speaker 1: going back to back, head to head, also in the courtroom.
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Speaker 1: Then you go to MS Now, totally different story. Why?
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Speaker 1: Because they weren't on it from the start. When I
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Speaker 1: worked at Channel 7, I remember we used to say,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying anything out of school here. I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. But one of the things we used
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Speaker 1: to say is own the story. So you're in for
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Speaker 1: a penny, in for a pound. If you're going to
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Speaker 1: go in on the story, even if it doesn't look
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Speaker 1: at first to be a big story, you go in
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Speaker 1: with three camera crews and you own it. And then
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Speaker 1: if it does turn into something big, the other guys,
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Speaker 1: they look like they just dropped the ball. So just
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Speaker 1: looking at this MS now from the start, I guess
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Speaker 1: they didn't own it. So now they're not even touching
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Speaker 1: the Lance trial, but Fox news channel is on it.
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Speaker 1: So is CNN. I guess they have to have a
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Speaker 1: presence there. Of course, for those who may have missed
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Speaker 1: it last night, there was another note brought to the
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Speaker 1: judge before he finally dismissed them for the night, the jury.
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Speaker 1: And they apparently are kind of deadlocked because of one
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Speaker 1: person and listening to the morning show, Larry and Curtis
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Speaker 1: this morning, Everybody had their own theory, and none of
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Speaker 1: us knows, right? We're all guessing. My theory, and I
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Speaker 1: can't hear the judge. He's talking right now. We'll find
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Speaker 1: out if I'm wrong. My theory is, you know, the
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Speaker 1: fact is there are nine women and three men on
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Speaker 1: the jury. Massachusetts is an extremely liberal state, probably the
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Speaker 1: most liberal state in the country, more so than California,
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Speaker 1: more so than New York, I believe. These are liberals who,
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Speaker 1: like the most conservative person is a mainstream Democrat in
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Speaker 1: the state of Massachusetts, and that's that. There are no Republicans, period.
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Speaker 1: And my theory is that the person who is standing out,
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Speaker 1: who's standing firm, is a man, one of the three
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Speaker 1: men on the jury. And I think he wants the maximum.
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Speaker 1: And he doesn't want to listen to the other 11.
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Speaker 1: So remember the options that the jury has right now.
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Speaker 1: They could say, starting at the top, they could say, well,
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Speaker 1: the very, very top would be guilty of first-degree murder.
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Speaker 1: which is mandatory life, no parole. Guilty of second-degree murder,
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Speaker 1: which is life with possible parole. Guilty of manslaughter, which
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Speaker 1: is up to 20 years. It could be not guilty
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Speaker 1: by lack of criminal responsibility, which is the other states
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Speaker 1: would call it by reason of insanity. They call it
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Speaker 1: lack of criminal responsibility in Massachusetts because they don't want
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Speaker 1: to say insanity because it sounds so mean. That's Massachusetts liberals.
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Speaker 1: And then not guilty. They could literally acquit, but that's
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Speaker 1: not likely because both sides agree that she killed the children.
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Speaker 1: So you're not going to get a not guilty. I mean,
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Speaker 1: one in a trillion that you would get that. So
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Speaker 1: at this point, it's going to be one of probably
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Speaker 1: the four. It's going to be manslaughter, second degree, first degree,
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Speaker 1: or lack of criminal responsibility, as they call it. We'll
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Speaker 1: see where it goes. Right now it says tensions flare
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Speaker 1: as Lindsay Clancy jury prepares to resume deliberation. So they're
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Speaker 1: about to send the jury back in to deliberate again.
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Speaker 1: But based on the fact that the defense attorney was
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Speaker 1: upset that the judge wanted to keep on the jury
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Speaker 1: the one person holding things up, that tells me that
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Speaker 1: the one person is the person who wants the maximum
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Speaker 1: thrown at her now. And I could be totally wrong,
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Speaker 1: just a guess. Give us a call. Let us know
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Speaker 1: what you think about it. 800-321-0710. Ken Rosato and from Mark,
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Speaker 1: Friday of Labor Day weekend, 710WOR.