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Interview: Joey Imperatrice · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is a Maria. He's got the best head of
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Speaker 1: hair and podcasting.
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Speaker 2: This is America with Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 1: All right, he may welcome back. It's Rich Valdez keeping
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Speaker 1: your company tonight. And I've got the founder of Blue
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Speaker 1: Lives Matter New York, Joey and Para Tree, sergeant in
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Speaker 1: the New York City Police Department. He's the founder and
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Speaker 1: president of the Blue Lives Matter. Joey, Welcome to San Rich.
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Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to talk to you because I
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Speaker 1: covered a story in passing very briefly on a previous
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Speaker 1: show where we heard that the Suffolk County Police are
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Speaker 1: now using a saliva swab and I think three of
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Speaker 1: their cruisers where they're doing roadside sobriety tests to people
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Speaker 1: that they believe to be under the influence of marijuana
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Speaker 1: or other drugs, and uproar on my social media the
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Speaker 1: comments of the cops are going for a cash grab,
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Speaker 1: and my thinking is that would have been my thought
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Speaker 1: too if it wasn't for the fact that I support
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Speaker 1: the police and I realized that police are doing their job,
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Speaker 1: which is to enforce the law. If you want to
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Speaker 1: be angry at somebody, be mad at the person that
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Speaker 1: made the law, which is the lawmakers, right, So I
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Speaker 1: feel like there's a little bit of misplaced iyer here,
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Speaker 1: and there were some valid concerns on the constitutionality of it,
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Speaker 1: as well as moreover, the limitations of a test where
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Speaker 1: there's no flow or ceiling on how drunk, how marijuana
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Speaker 1: impaired you can be versus with alcohol, we know you
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Speaker 1: have to have a certain blood alcohol content level. Under this,
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Speaker 1: you're good. Over that, you're not good. So talk to
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Speaker 1: me about your initial reaction to this, because obviously you
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Speaker 1: see it from a uniquely different perspective, perspective being in
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Speaker 1: law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: I think go both ways, right. I think it'd be
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Speaker 2: a positive on both sides. If you are doing nothing wrong, right,
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Speaker 2: and they do issue this test and it comes back
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Speaker 2: that there is nothing there. They're not wasting your time,
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Speaker 2: they're not taking you to jail. You get to go
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Speaker 2: on your way and we get to call it a day.
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Speaker 2: Very similar to alcohol, which is legal, and marijuana still
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Speaker 2: in that gray area where it's legal but it's not
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Speaker 2: legal in certain things. You're allowed to do it, but
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Speaker 2: if it's impairing your right to driver, operate machinery, it
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Speaker 2: can actually harm or kill somebody, including yourself. So we
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Speaker 2: have to be safe on the roads. For doing twenty
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Speaker 2: years with the New York City Police Department, there's never
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Speaker 2: been a test that officers have had in my time
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Speaker 2: that when we pull somebody over, you get to tell
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Speaker 2: is there something else in this person's system. I know
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Speaker 2: there's something that's there. I know they took something right.
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Speaker 2: But if I let them go and they kill somebody,
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Speaker 2: now it's on me. So we have to advance, we
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Speaker 2: have to do something, and I think it's a good
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Speaker 2: thing now. Rich also, many times with fatal motor vehicle accidents,
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Speaker 2: the person has a suspended license or is either under
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Speaker 2: the influence of alcohol or drugs. So if we can
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Speaker 2: prevent that to make the people on the road safer,
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Speaker 2: I'm for it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, there was a lot of users also commenting
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Speaker 1: on that, saying, hey, it's about time. I'm glad that
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Speaker 1: we have something like this. I think the issue comes
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Speaker 1: into play with mainly. I think it was with cannabis,
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Speaker 1: because I don't think there was any debate on the
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Speaker 1: other things, like it also measures opioids. I think most people, right,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call them the stoner crowd included, would say
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't be popping percosets and driving. But I'm sure
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Speaker 1: there are people that are taking percosets and other type
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Speaker 1: of painkillers that are prescribed or on the street or
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Speaker 1: however and driving. And this also is a problem that
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Speaker 1: you haven't been able to test for. Talk to me
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Speaker 1: about maybe experience you've had with that with other drugs
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Speaker 1: that you can't you don't have a test for.
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Speaker 2: So we have in the past, I was out there.
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Speaker 2: I was always an active police official anti crime and
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Speaker 2: street near concert force for unit. There are multiple occasions
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Speaker 2: where we did lock people up because they did have
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Speaker 2: a pill bottle with no name on it. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: prescribed to them, and it was an unknown substance that
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Speaker 2: was in this container which we did lock people up
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Speaker 2: for and you send it to the lab and you
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Speaker 2: go forward. But once again, we didn't have a test
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Speaker 2: that we could say, listen, sorry, we pulled you over
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Speaker 2: for the violation. We get a ticket for running red light,
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Speaker 2: but we're not locking you up because we're under the
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Speaker 2: assumption of something. Right, it's better to know if something
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Speaker 2: someone is under rather than go through take somebody away
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Speaker 2: from their family, worry about childcare issues, be locked up
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Speaker 2: and sell. But on the other hand, many times these
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Speaker 2: people were under the influence. You know, we could have
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Speaker 2: saved lives that day. So we have to be we
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Speaker 2: have to act like adults when we get behind the wheel,
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Speaker 2: no matter what, no matter if it's alcohol, we pills,
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Speaker 2: wherever the case may be. So we have to make
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Speaker 2: sure that we're okay, we're doing the right thing, and
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Speaker 2: we're looking forward to everybody else as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I see the puppy is joining the car saying no, no,
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Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I just think it's funny. He
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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, right on, so now and listen. I
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Speaker 1: agree with that, and I think most people who would
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Speaker 1: agree with that. My questions really come into play here
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Speaker 1: from a lot of people saying, I think it's a
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Speaker 1: question of of you know, this is going to be
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Speaker 1: a voluntary test, or it is a voluntary test, people say, hey,
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Speaker 1: you want to take this test. I think most people
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Speaker 1: were saying, I'm just saying no, I'm not taking the test,
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Speaker 1: which is in their right, I guess speculation. Do you
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Speaker 1: think that it's still going to be largely effective if
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Speaker 1: people are just gonna refuse.
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Speaker 2: It, Well, just like alcohol, you can refuse a test,
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Speaker 2: but then you're still being locked up, Right, So I'd
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Speaker 2: rather see someone take the test, show that they blew
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Speaker 2: zeros or whatever. That test is going to be right,
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Speaker 2: to be able to go forward and not have a
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Speaker 2: negative blemish on their record. Right, But same thing if
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Speaker 2: I refuse, not blood apple test, but blowing into a
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Speaker 2: tube for you rightlier. Yeah, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: So it's better off that you do do it, but
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Speaker 2: you are going to have similar rights as if it
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Speaker 2: was an alcohol test.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And from what I read, it seems that if
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Speaker 1: you do refuse, which is your right, at which point
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Speaker 1: you can be arrested under the suspicion. If they have
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Speaker 1: the reasonable suspicion, then the test is required. You have
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Speaker 1: to take the test once you're arrested. And I don't
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Speaker 1: know that that's going to make a difference or not. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't know your level of expertise on this. Mine
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Speaker 1: is zero. But when it comes to marijuana staying in
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Speaker 1: somebody's system for thirty days, people saying I smoked at
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Speaker 1: a Grateful Dead concert, I took a gummy to go
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Speaker 1: to sleep that the doctor told me to take, and
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Speaker 1: hours later I'm driving a car. It's showing up in
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Speaker 1: this test. How do you foresee those types of problems
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Speaker 1: being minted?
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Speaker 2: Well, listen, just like hours before or days before, right,
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Speaker 2: people have drank alcohol, so there's probably going to be
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Speaker 2: a limit on showing Okay, this is more likely the
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Speaker 2: person took it within this timeframe, or it's a little
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Speaker 2: bit you know, excess. I don't think it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: a one hundred percent if there's something in your system,
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Speaker 2: no matter how minute, they're gonna lock you up, right,
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Speaker 2: because it's not that way with alcohol. And the one
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Speaker 2: thing I didn't like is that they really didn't go
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Speaker 2: into detail of how they're going to do it. That's
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Speaker 2: the one thing I did not like. You got to
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Speaker 2: let the public know to what extent, right, just don't
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Speaker 2: unveil it and say.
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Speaker 1: Right, what's the level?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: I think that's the question I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: people have, is saying, hey, if you detect something, how
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Speaker 1: much of that something gets me in trouble versus whatever.
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Speaker 2: I would have liked to see them come out a
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Speaker 2: little more, and I hope that they do. Maybe it
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Speaker 2: was just unveiling it, right, But you got to give
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Speaker 2: the public a general knowledge. You can't just say they
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Speaker 2: gotcha game. You know, you got to give people knowing
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Speaker 2: what you're allowed up to, especially if it's legal, you
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Speaker 2: have to allow them to be able to go out there,
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Speaker 2: but they have to be responsible at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, it was interesting in that piece
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Speaker 1: from CBS News and the video that I shared with
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Speaker 1: you was I think it's interesting they said, listen, you drive,
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Speaker 1: and we catch you, we're gonna take your car and
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Speaker 1: we might crush it. Yeah, And I thought to myself,
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Speaker 1: I don't know anybody who's ever had their car impounded
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Speaker 1: and crushed. Maybe you know that's my bad circle of friends,
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Speaker 1: but is that a common knowledge.
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Speaker 2: I think what you're doing is a thing. They trying
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Speaker 2: to put the fear into people, letting them know they listen,
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Speaker 2: just don't do this. Stay away. It's highly unlikely they're
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Speaker 2: gonna take your car, throw it to the pound and
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Speaker 2: turn it into a cad and that's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: They're trying to tell people enough is enough, We've had enough.
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Speaker 2: They really should show the statistics because rich at the
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Speaker 2: end of the day, most of these fatalities, I'll say
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Speaker 2: it again, don't happen because someone is you know, not
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Speaker 2: under the influence of something or has a normal record
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Speaker 2: of driving. So we have to do more to prevent
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Speaker 2: people from being killed, especially these young kids. These young
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Speaker 2: kids go out there behind the wheel, they drive these
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Speaker 2: sports cars, they try to be you know, popular with
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Speaker 2: their friends. They drive fast, sometimes they take things that
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Speaker 2: they shouldn't, and unfortunately they don't go home to their families.
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Speaker 2: So we have to make sure that we prevent that
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Speaker 2: as much as we.
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Speaker 1: Can, you know. And and a point that you just
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Speaker 1: brought up about young kids, there was a story I
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Speaker 1: covered and it was close to me exact. I went
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Speaker 1: to north Berg and High School and there was a
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Speaker 1: north Berg and cop that caught a kid who had
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Speaker 1: a brand new Arch charger, you know when it was
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Speaker 1: really souped up ones. And he was on a first
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Speaker 1: date and the cop let him go because he was
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Speaker 1: on the date. And he let him go from driving
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Speaker 1: ridiculously fast in a you know, probably a forty and
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Speaker 1: he was like, I was doing one hundred, which when
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Speaker 1: I was that age, I had a friend that did that.
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Speaker 1: We got pulled over by the state police and the
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Speaker 1: cop told us, I'm supposed to tow your car, but
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Speaker 1: I'm not, and he let us go and with a ticket.
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Speaker 1: But this cop let the kid go, and not ten
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Speaker 1: minutes later, the kid was dead. They crashed into a
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Speaker 1: brick wall, the girl was dead, everybody was dead, and
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Speaker 1: the cop I think he quit his job. He was mortified.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's beside himself, and I get it. He
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Speaker 1: tried to do the right thing, tried to help the guy,
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Speaker 1: and he's stared thinking did my right thing become the
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Speaker 1: wrong thing in trying to do the right thing. So
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Speaker 1: I think that's a point well taken. And ultimately, I
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Speaker 1: think this really falls on the lawmakers. Right. The intention
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Speaker 1: is good, but as long as it's constitutional and we
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Speaker 1: have a framework and we say, hey, look, you know,
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Speaker 1: weed's legal per the lawmakers. So if you're using weed
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Speaker 1: for sleep through gummies, through this through or whatever, this
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Speaker 1: is how much you can have in your system until
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Speaker 1: we say no mas. And I think that's the part
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Speaker 1: that's missing. So I agree with you on that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Rich, I don't want to be driving
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Speaker 2: up streets and seeing crosses and memorials, especially for young
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Speaker 2: kids that had a whole life ahead of themselves. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's only so much parents can do right, and there's
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Speaker 2: so many great parents and they do the right thing.
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Speaker 2: Brother kids and just kids or kids, they're gonna go
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Speaker 2: out there and do things and explore. And we were
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Speaker 2: all knuckleheads, but if we can prevent it. I'm still
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Speaker 2: a knucklehead, we all are. But if we can prevent
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Speaker 2: it one way or the other, right, I think we can.
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Speaker 2: But once again, it goes back to we got to
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Speaker 2: let the general public know what is their limit, what
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Speaker 2: are they allowed to do? You know, don't just give
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Speaker 2: you the gotcha game? Be fair and how we do it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, setting the expectation. Joe and pair of trees, Sergeant NYPD,
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Speaker 1: head of Blue Lives Matter, president and founder. I want
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Speaker 1: you to stick with me. I want to come back
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Speaker 1: and talk a little bit about swatting. We saw a
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Speaker 1: big incident and that happened just recently. Keep it locked
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Speaker 1: right here, it's Rich Valdes coming back with Joey and
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Speaker 1: Paratries all right for Emidia. Welcome back, Rich Valdes here
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Speaker 1: with you, and we're continue our discussion on the police perspective,
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Speaker 1: not only regarding what happened in Long Island and what's
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Speaker 1: going to continue to happen there, but swatting. Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: Justice Amy Coney Barrett swatted, and this is just another
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Speaker 1: example of high profile people, low profile people, all sorts
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Speaker 1: of people getting swatted because the system works right, the
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Speaker 1: swat team shows up, they're there to help. But when
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Speaker 1: it's the bad guys using that as a you know,
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Speaker 1: I guess the weaponization of government if you will. It's
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Speaker 1: a unique way of putting it. But this is a problem. Joe,
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Speaker 1: talk to us. What do you think about what's happening
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Speaker 1: with swatting? Is there a way to fix it? And
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Speaker 1: your immediate reaction to what happened with Supreme Court Justice
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Speaker 1: Amy Cony Barrett.
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Speaker 2: It's a dangerous situation. Fortunately, almost like dosing right. Bad
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Speaker 2: people go out there and rich, even yourself. You're a
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Speaker 2: high profile person. Someone doesn't like you. You gotta worry
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Speaker 2: with your family, you know, everywhere, right, I don't want
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Speaker 2: to be following me. Someone're gonna go to my home.
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Speaker 1: Somebody knocks on my door to sell me something, solar
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Speaker 1: panels or whatever. Unfortunately, please stay away. So I tell
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Speaker 1: everybody you know, I got the sign on the door
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Speaker 1: protected by nine millimeter and I don't know what else
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Speaker 1: to do, but I know the laws in my state.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna protect my family. Were talking about kids before.
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Speaker 1: I have two kids in their twenties. I'm not the
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Speaker 1: one that's gonna lose that fight.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's not good and bad things can happen.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: We have to protect these people, especially a Supreme Court
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Speaker 2: justice right to be going after someone like her who
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Speaker 2: minds your own business, shows up to work every day,
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Speaker 2: tries to do things right. And you have individuals that
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Speaker 2: are trying to harm or or course some kind of
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Speaker 2: alarm that's not okay.
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Speaker 1: Just a year ago, or maybe about eighteen months ago,
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Speaker 1: we found somebody with a glock threatening to kill a
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Speaker 1: Supreme Chief Justice Kavanaugh saying that hey, I'm come and
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Speaker 1: get you. And then he's there and we got him.
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Speaker 1: These are I think, alarming things. Thankfully, again the men
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Speaker 1: and women in law enforcement doing their things. Us Marshall's
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Speaker 1: got them. But again it becomes a situation of how
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Speaker 1: do we, I guess, mitigate this. Is there a way
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Speaker 1: to make it safer when somebody's like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: the guy's got a gun, and you guys, do what
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Speaker 1: you gotta do. You show up with you know, with
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Speaker 1: guns blazing, ready to go, because that's your job. You
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Speaker 1: know when I'm in trouble, that's who I'm calling. Is
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Speaker 1: there a middle ground? Is there a way to remedy.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there is, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 2: Because officers have a job to do. They're going to
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Speaker 2: go with a description. They're going to go to a person,
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Speaker 2: try to find out who this individual lives. But I
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Speaker 2: think it's going to be detrimental to good people who
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Speaker 2: want to get into politics, that want to go into
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Speaker 2: being a Supreme Court justice, that are going to say, listen,
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to do this because I see what's
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Speaker 2: bad happening to everybody else. I don't want to be
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Speaker 2: that person. I don't want to put my face out there.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: I know I can do good, but is it worth
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Speaker 2: me risking my life in my family's life. So you know,
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Speaker 2: this is a very touchy situation because you're going off
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Speaker 2: of the information provided and then you show up and
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Speaker 2: it could have turned really, really bad. There's many situations
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Speaker 2: that happened like that, and I don't know. People are
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Speaker 2: sick nowadays. Rich that's the best way of putting it right.
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Speaker 2: People just they want to see harm done to other people,
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Speaker 2: and that's not the way This world should be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Two of my radio mentors, mentor a guy named
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Speaker 1: Bob Grant, used to say, it's sick and getting sicker,
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Speaker 1: and it's true. It's true then, and it's true now.
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Speaker 1: Joey and paratries Blue Lives Matter, talk to me about
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Speaker 1: Let me first talk about Blue Lives Matter from my
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Speaker 1: perspective as somebody. I served with the Nutley Police Department
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Speaker 1: for a couple of years. My hat's off to them,
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Speaker 1: and my brothers were NYPD full career. Then my other
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Speaker 1: brother became a fed. Lots of law enforcement my family
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Speaker 1: and nothing but respect and salute the men and women
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Speaker 1: in law enforcement. And I had the opportunity to participate
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Speaker 1: in the annual Blue Lives Matter Matter gathering recently, I
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Speaker 1: was brought to tears. Somebody put me at the table
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Speaker 1: with the family that lost their little guy, and it
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Speaker 1: was just an emotional time and it was just one
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Speaker 1: of the many things that your organization does to help
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Speaker 1: the law enforcement community. And I say the community at large.
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Speaker 1: Talk to us a little bit about that particular story,
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Speaker 1: if you will, and the other work that you guys
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Speaker 1: are doing. Well.
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Speaker 2: Let's start off by saying that Blue Lives wasn't started
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Speaker 2: to compact Black Lives Matter. You hear that a lot, right.
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Speaker 2: It was to go out there and show the families
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Speaker 2: of cops that they matter, that within officers that understand
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Speaker 2: are always going to remember their loved ones, right. And
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Speaker 2: it started with wristbands, and thirteen years later, you know,
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Speaker 2: we've raised millions of dollars a nonprofit organization. We've reached
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Speaker 2: out to officers all over the nation. I've become a
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Speaker 2: voice in law enforcement. But more importantly, we ended up
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Speaker 2: teaming up with children that were dying of terminal illnesses,
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Speaker 2: kids that really don't have a shot at life. The
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Speaker 2: poor families wake up every day knowring it's one day
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Speaker 2: less that they're with that beautiful little child. And they
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Speaker 2: want to be police officers. And we fly them in
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Speaker 2: all expenses paid to New York City, and they get
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Speaker 2: sworn in by whichever police commissioner, and they may meet
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Speaker 2: the mayor, whoever the mayor is at the time, or
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Speaker 2: go to Saint Pat's and see New York. And it
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Speaker 2: goes to show that officers are human beings, right that
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Speaker 2: they go out there every day. They might wear a uniform,
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Speaker 2: they might have to enforce some laws and rules. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: they don't even agree with, but at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, they still have hearts. And there's been so
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Speaker 2: much negative stuff throughout the decades, and if we could
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Speaker 2: just show some kind of a positive but also going
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Speaker 2: back to the families of cops that are killed, right,
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Speaker 2: you see all these protests and these activists and the
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Speaker 2: nonsense and you know, wishing death upon cops, and they're
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Speaker 2: standing there watching this television screen saying, this is what
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Speaker 2: my loved one died for. You know, this is what
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Speaker 2: my city feels. So no, we have to show them
15:22
Speaker 2: that they're not going to be forgotten, that they are
15:24
Speaker 2: heroes in their own rights, and we're going to continue
15:26
Speaker 2: to do some positive things. You know, there's a lot
15:28
Speaker 2: of evil going on in this world unfortunately, right, and
15:32
Speaker 2: if we could just show a light show that there's
15:34
Speaker 2: good people out there that are doing things for the
15:35
Speaker 2: right reasons, I think we're on the right track.
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Speaker 1: What do you got going on now with the organization?
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Speaker 1: What's next on the youte?
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Speaker 2: It's great, So just you know, last weekend we went
15:43
Speaker 2: to a Yankees game in a private suite and we
15:45
Speaker 2: invited families of cops throughout the decades to come and
15:48
Speaker 2: let them know that whether it was last year or
15:50
Speaker 2: thirty years ago, their loved one is still remembered. And
15:52
Speaker 2: thank god, because I don't if you're a Yankee fan
15:53
Speaker 2: or not. Aaron Judge comes up at about it at
15:55
Speaker 2: night and it's a two run to walk off over run.
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Speaker 2: So that's great. And what's important to Richie were there
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Speaker 2: having my little boy with me, Having my little boy
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Speaker 2: with me even at the gallop, by my side, seeing
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Speaker 2: what it's like to be a role model, not just
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Speaker 2: to him, to other people, being with him at the
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Speaker 2: game and seeing the families and enjoying it with them.
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Speaker 2: That's special. You know you're looking at it's cliche to
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Speaker 2: say that these kids are our future and all this stuff. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know that at the end of the day, we have
16:17
Speaker 2: to teach them young. We got to show them that
16:19
Speaker 2: this world is worth fighting for, that there's good people
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Speaker 2: out there, that being a bully doesn't last long, right,
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Speaker 2: Doing the right thing actually goes further in life. So
16:26
Speaker 2: that's the goal, is to be a mentor for the
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Speaker 2: younger people, not just my son, but the people around me,
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Speaker 2: to try to go out there and do more positive things.
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Speaker 1: People want to help your organization, how do they participate
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Speaker 1: in helping you guys? Is there a link to donator?
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Speaker 1: Is there a project that's coming up that you'd like
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Speaker 1: to share with.
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Speaker 2: The sure a www dot Blue Lives Matter NYC dot org.
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Speaker 2: We team up with all different sports organizations, We go
16:48
Speaker 2: to different events, we set up we raise money through
16:52
Speaker 2: T shirts and merchandise and donations. And you never know
16:55
Speaker 2: who the next cop is. You know, there's a company
16:57
Speaker 2: academy right now. He's got stage four cancer and we
16:59
Speaker 2: did a tea shirt campaign for him, and it's just
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Speaker 2: a little something, whether it's a thousand dollars or ten
17:03
Speaker 2: thousand dollars, just something to offset his bills and let
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Speaker 2: them know that we're there for him. And we don't
17:07
Speaker 2: just help cops in the New York area. Who helped
17:08
Speaker 2: cops all over the nation, even overseas. There were three
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Speaker 2: Puerto Rican cops that were ambushed a couple of years
17:13
Speaker 2: back that we flew down there in thirty days with
17:15
Speaker 2: the nypdis Fank Society raised sixty six thousand dollars alongside
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Speaker 2: the Raphaio Raymolds Foundation. So this is some great stuff.
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Speaker 2: We're here to just spread positivity, help those that need
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Speaker 2: it most. And keep going in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well again, I want to thank you. I had
17:29
Speaker 1: the good pleasure of city at a table with the
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Speaker 1: head of the New York City Hispanic Society, A Yallah.
17:34
Speaker 1: He was fantastic with the family at Julian Galloway's family
17:38
Speaker 1: just a really amazing people. And something that what I
17:42
Speaker 1: thought impressed upon me was that you guys were there
17:44
Speaker 1: to honor the family of the late officer now detective Islam,
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Speaker 1: who was killed in a terrorist attack in New York City,
17:52
Speaker 1: an active shooter thing that went on right in Manhattan,
17:56
Speaker 1: and it was endearing, right really just see the family
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Speaker 1: there and to see them honored and to see you
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Speaker 1: guys really stepping up to be there for them. I
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Speaker 1: thought it was fantastic. So keep up the good work.
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Speaker 2: Thank you're Richard. Appreciate that very much.
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Speaker 1: You bet again, give us the website one more time.
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure people have a chance to
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Speaker 1: help you.
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Speaker 2: Out www dot Blue Lives Matter NYC dot org. And
18:16
Speaker 2: rich is one more thing is today's one year anniversion
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Speaker 2: at Bernie Carrick, former police commissioner, passed away. And Bernie
18:23
Speaker 2: was such an amazing human being and he was one
18:25
Speaker 2: of the leaders in the city when we needed it most.
18:27
Speaker 2: When the towers fell, he was right alongside the great
18:29
Speaker 2: Mayor Giuliani. So if people just keep his family in
18:32
Speaker 2: mind today and wish that we had more people like
18:34
Speaker 2: him in the world today to stand up to not
18:36
Speaker 2: just fight for New York City, but he fought for
18:38
Speaker 2: this country in so many different ways. So God blessed Bernie,
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Speaker 2: and I hope just keep him in his breast today.
18:43
Speaker 1: Yeah. Amen to that. A big salute to Bernie Carrick,
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Speaker 1: actually a former colleague of mine at WBC Radio and patriot.
18:49
Speaker 1: Patriot for sure. Joe and Paratrees, President and founder of
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Speaker 1: Blue Lives Matter NYC dot org. Thanks for being here,
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Speaker 1: brother' going to have you back again, Sir.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you having me, Z