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Vincent Vallelong | SBA President Says Mayor Mamdani Has NYPD Sergeant's Morale at a New Low · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, we've got these great union presidents. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: love the cops. They love me. They're great to me.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Monroe, the DEA, so good to me last week,
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  Speaker 1: even before him.
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  Speaker 2: My friend Paul was great to me, Paul DiGiacomo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Pat Hendry with the PBA. And this guy who
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  Speaker 1: I'm very, very close with, just saw him at Russo's
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  Speaker 1: on the Bay that night with Scott Monroe. He's the
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  Speaker 1: SBA president, the sergeant's, and that is the great Vincent Vallelon.
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  Speaker 2: Vinny, good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: You tell me. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, listen, I've got a charmed life.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a beautiful wife and great healthy children. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to the Hall of Fame, and I got a
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  Speaker 1: good job. Hopefully still have a.
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  Speaker 2: New contract, hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm pissed because I hate the mayor. I hate
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  Speaker 1: the governor. I hate the way they treat you guys,
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  Speaker 1: cops specifically, and I know you feel the same way.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 2: You do.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. I remember when Mamdani started, Vince.
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  Speaker 1: And you were a little more careful with your words.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, hey, listen, I got to give the guy
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  Speaker 1: a chance. I do have some sergeants that actually like him, so.
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  Speaker 2: I got to be more careful.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems to me, Vincent, that the longer this
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  Speaker 1: guy stays in office and the more times you're on
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  Speaker 1: this radio program, that you personally have lost your patience.
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  Speaker 3: Ten months in, and you can't have it both ways.
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  Speaker 3: You can't take credit for the drop in crime every
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  Speaker 3: month when you sit with the PC and then scapegoat
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  Speaker 3: the men and women of this department who risk their
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  Speaker 3: lives every single day upholding the law. So you can't
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  Speaker 3: tell me that you side with one part of this city,
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  Speaker 3: the DSA, who bring nothing to the table and want
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  Speaker 3: nothing but destruction. And they want to destroy our way
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  Speaker 3: of life. They want to destroy the way our kids
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  Speaker 3: grow up. And at the same time, You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: keeping things safe in the city, regardless of the way
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  Speaker 3: that they try and change the laws. And you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sick and tired of this nonsense. I'm sick and
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  Speaker 3: tired of the parties. I don't care if you're a
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  Speaker 3: Republican or Democrat. If you're not doing what's right by
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  Speaker 3: our families and by the citizens of New York, you
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  Speaker 3: can go take a... For me to try and... Catch
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  Speaker 3: my words.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he almost cursed. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: You can go take a hike. I'm sick and tired
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  Speaker 3: of this nonsense. This guy has done nothing for this
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  Speaker 3: city 10 months in.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's done nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But don't forget, when he got his budget passed and
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  Speaker 1: he had to borrow like $ 8 billion from the governor,
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  Speaker 1: that moron, to do it, and he was still taking
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  Speaker 1: a victory tour like he did something great, at the
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  Speaker 1: very last hour, after midnight, giving the city council basically
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  Speaker 1: no chance to do anything about it, he decided not
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  Speaker 1: to add about 600 cops that he promised to add
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  Speaker 1: the day before.
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  Speaker 2: You know that, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but 600 cops are dropping the bucket, okay? Because
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  Speaker 3: they're going to say they added 600 cops, and then
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  Speaker 3: you're going to lose 700 cops to retirement. So you can't, again,
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  Speaker 3: you can't have it both ways. And when Albany... gives
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  Speaker 3: him this money, they know what his agenda is. So
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  Speaker 3: they're just as responsible as what, you know, for everything
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  Speaker 3: that he presents to the city.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: And, and, you know, and, and when, when people, when
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  Speaker 3: people are, are, are complicit over, over this stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what happens? We all suffer from it, not them because
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  Speaker 3: they're still fundraising. True.
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  Speaker 1: So as a, as a union president, the mayor did
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  Speaker 1: come out a couple of days ago and, And he's
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  Speaker 1: getting a lot of pressure, I guess. Tensions are high
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  Speaker 1: at City Hall because a lot of those creeps in
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  Speaker 1: and around him, and he's the biggest creep of all,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but they want him to fire Jessica Tisch,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, I won't do it. And look, he
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  Speaker 1: may be a bad guy. He is a bad guy,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not stupid, okay? And the truth is, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he does boast about those crime numbers because Jessica Tisch
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  Speaker 1: does a good job.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'd agree. And secondly, she's a Jew, okay?
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  Speaker 1: He's got enough to worry about with everybody calling him
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  Speaker 1: an anti-Semite from me every day to Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't need more of that. But I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he loves her. I don't think he really.
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  Speaker 1: Cares about her. She serves a purpose for him, and
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  Speaker 1: so she sticks around. You're not upset with Jessica Tish.
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  Speaker 3: Are you? Absolutely not. You know I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: You think she's great at her job, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm telling you that I work with her. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't care what anybody else says. You know,
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  Speaker 3: my job is to make sure that my men and
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  Speaker 3: women are taken care of. And she has done everything
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  Speaker 3: she possibly can to make sure that that's the job
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  Speaker 3: that she does. And you know what? What he does,
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  Speaker 3: he's a politician. And he's done nothing. I don't understand
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  Speaker 3: how people don't realize that, you know, from day one,
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  Speaker 3: 10 months in, he should have totally corrected the city.
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  Speaker 3: He's letting these politicians stand in front of demonstrations and
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  Speaker 3: then blame the cops later on because an individual fell
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  Speaker 3: to the floor during a demonstration. Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: If you're running for office, you shouldn't be in those situations.
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  Speaker 3: You shouldn't be that person that's sitting there and yelling
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  Speaker 3: at the cops and screaming at the cops when you
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  Speaker 3: want to represent those cops. True.
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  Speaker 1: This is SBA President Vincent Balalong. So we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: for days about Oscar.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot his last name already.
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  Speaker 3: He's a lowlife. Who cares?
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  Speaker 2: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of the mayor coming out and saying, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want this guy.
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  Speaker 2: On the streets. Look, you want to be critical of
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  Speaker 2: ICE because you're stupid?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Go for it, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Even though we know you can count on two hands,
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  Speaker 1: two hands, two hands, the amount of incidents that occurred
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  Speaker 1: with people that tried to confront or resist ICE compared
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  Speaker 1: to the thousands... and thousands and thousands of murderers, rapists,
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  Speaker 1: drug dealers, pedophiles that they've taken off the streets.
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  Speaker 2: The numbers aren't even close.
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  Speaker 3: You might not like my opinion on this, not you,
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  Speaker 3: meaning the general public, but ICE itself is doing a job.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to protect the people within the community, and
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  Speaker 3: our politicians are keeping them from doing their job, and
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  Speaker 3: they're demonizing them. ICE is not the demon here. You
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  Speaker 3: can easily have them show up in the court, show
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  Speaker 3: up in corrections, pick the people up. Guess what? There's
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  Speaker 3: never an incident. There's no gunfire. There's no little kid
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  Speaker 3: in the backseat. You know, that kid in the backseat,
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  Speaker 3: ICE didn't know he was there. The father did. And
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you this, and I know you that
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  Speaker 3: you feel the same way. I would never, ever put
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  Speaker 3: my kids in that same situation.
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  Speaker 2: Because the father knew they were looking for him. They knew.
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  Speaker 2: So what did he do? He's the one. He's not
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  Speaker 2: a parent.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: He put that kid's life in.
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  Speaker 1: Danger because he thought, oh, maybe they won't mess with
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  Speaker 1: me because my kid's in the backseat. That's on the father.
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  Speaker 1: And then for the mayor. I had Mark Wayne Mullen
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  Speaker 1: on the show yesterday. I hope you heard it, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: DHS Secretary. For the mayor to spend two hours going
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  Speaker 1: back and forth on phone calls with Mark Wayne Mullen
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  Speaker 1: and President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: To release this guy who's got a rap sheet that's long, long, long.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of mayor wants an animal like that back
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  Speaker 1: on our streets?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it amazing how he takes forever to actually promote
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  Speaker 3: the cops when they do a good job, when there's bombings? Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: there could be bombings up by Gracie Mansion. It takes days.
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  Speaker 3: But then if it's a perp, immediately he gets up
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  Speaker 3: there and talks about it and says, oh, this shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be done because ICE is doing this and they're not
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  Speaker 3: doing a good job. They're putting everybody's life in danger.
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  Speaker 3: That's not true. You know, he picks and chooses what
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  Speaker 3: he wants to say and when he says it to
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  Speaker 3: appease his base.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: And the DSA, they're not the friends of New York City.
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  Speaker 3: They're not the friends of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: And people need to wake up and realize this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just to emphasize what you just talked about, okay,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the cops, he had an opportunity two weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago and we all saw this guy speak publicly for
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  Speaker 1: the first time yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And thank God he's alive because two illegals... I love
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  Speaker 2: that word. I know it pisses off the Democrats. Don't
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  Speaker 2: demonize him.
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  Speaker 1: Two illegals stabbed Jose Mercedes eight times.
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  Speaker 2: He survived.
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  Speaker 1: Not one word from Namdani. He goes on and on
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  Speaker 1: about Oscar Belgal, who's a gang-banging lifelong criminal, on and on.
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  Speaker 1: Not a word about Jose Mercedes.
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  Speaker 3: Sid, justice reform, right? He's looking now to review our
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  Speaker 3: use of force. So where's your call for justice reform
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  Speaker 3: when a career criminal stalked an off-duty detective in broad daylight?
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  Speaker 3: There's no word on that, is there? No, there's not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when you talk about justice reform, when you
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  Speaker 3: talk about the use of force and you're going to
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  Speaker 3: review it, maybe we should change the wording to response
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  Speaker 3: to resisting. Because that's what we do. We respond to resistance.
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  Speaker 3: When you go out there and you commit a crime,
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  Speaker 3: you should be locked up. We have politicians in Target
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  Speaker 3: that are sitting there in the middle of the store
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  Speaker 3: screaming and yelling. And I'm not going to say who
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  Speaker 3: the politician is. I think everybody knows at this point.
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  Speaker 3: We're going after big business that feeds our community. And
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  Speaker 3: you're in the middle of a store screaming and yelling
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  Speaker 3: because they had ice set up in a parking lot.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't know they were setting up there, but you're
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  Speaker 3: going to demonize the, now the businesses that pretty much
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  Speaker 3: hire the people in the community. This is really, this
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  Speaker 3: is absurd. This is like bizarro world, to be honest
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  Speaker 3: with you. It is.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask you to give me a
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  Speaker 2: real honest answer here. I know the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I speak to Jessica Delaney. I hear the numbers just
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  Speaker 1: like everybody else, and then I even dive deeper.
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  Speaker 2: I know the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: You are the SBA president. You've got sergeants out there
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  Speaker 1: doing amazing work every day.
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  Speaker 2: Is New York City... really safer?
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  Speaker 3: It's safer as long as we're allowed to do our job.
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  Speaker 3: When we can't do our job, everybody, regardless of what
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  Speaker 3: community you're in, is in jeopardy. And people really need
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  Speaker 3: to understand that. You're only a safe... as as your
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  Speaker 3: cops you know and when we when we actually were
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  Speaker 3: able to to enforce the laws and and that's a
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  Speaker 3: part of you know the politicians are the ones who
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  Speaker 3: are watering this down it's all part of a system
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  Speaker 3: and they're they're degrading what it is we do day
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  Speaker 3: in and day.
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  Speaker 1: Out can i ask you what the morale is among
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  Speaker 1: the sergeants i'm not going to speak a part of
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  Speaker 1: detectives and uh You know, the guy's on the beat
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  Speaker 1: and the girl's on the beat. The morale of your
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  Speaker 1: officers with this creep in charge, honestly, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Not good.
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  Speaker 2: Not good?
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  Speaker 3: No. Wow. No one has any trust in the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big statement, Vincent Vallelong. You're actually admitting that
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  Speaker 1: the morale of your people are not good because.
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  Speaker 3: Of the mayor. But I told you that I would
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  Speaker 3: give him the benefit of the doubt. And I have.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't spoken to him once. And even if I
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  Speaker 3: did now, it would only be because of what we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about right now on the radio. You know, he
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  Speaker 3: has done nothing for us. I believe that it's going
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  Speaker 3: to get worse over the next few years. And then
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  Speaker 3: hopefully people will, you know, will change their mind. I
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  Speaker 3: think the governor's race and I think the AG's race
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  Speaker 3: is going to have ramifications going across this state. And
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  Speaker 3: people really need to get out and vote.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom line, we need Bruce Blakeman and we need Saritha.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to have you, Vincent Vallelong, stay in
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  Speaker 1: your position as the SBA president because not only are
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  Speaker 1: you great at that job, but you're a great New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: You and I talk a lot, a lot off the air,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got a lot of frustrations. And you share
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  Speaker 1: the same frustrations that I've got and my listening audience has.
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  Speaker 1: And the majority of New Yorkers have. Let's not forget,
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani didn't get 60% of the vote.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't get 50%. He got 49.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the majority because Cuomo and Sliwa were not
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  Speaker 1: able to beat him. So it's not as if the
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  Speaker 1: whole city loves Mamdani. We think that because the media
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  Speaker 1: says that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say this. All those people that turned
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  Speaker 3: around and said, you know, Curtis was the guy. I
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  Speaker 3: can say this now. He sold everybody out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he did. Absolutely. He called me a backstabber. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that funny, Vince?
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: He's the backstabber, right?
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  Speaker 3: All those people that supported certain people, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: did it because, you know, all for the wrong reasons.
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  Speaker 3: Not to keep the city safe.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Vincent Vallelong, you're awesome. Great, great, great. Ballsy.
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  Speaker 2: I got to say, ballsy appearance this morning. Keep talking.
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  Speaker 2: Keep doing your job. We love you. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Love you, too.
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  Speaker 2: All right, man.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. Vincent Vallelong right there, the SBA president.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great appearance.
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