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New data shows historic drop in crime and overdose deaths across US · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You are listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  Well, well, well, folks, you would believe if you watched the news, if even for a few minutes, you would believe that the world's on fire, that people are just point blank shooting people in the streets, and violence is up, and ice is killing people, and uh, you know, there's this big bloodbath, and they're just taking innocent people's lives, and uh the number of people that they're killing, it's just absolutely incredible, and and they're destroying everything.
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  Well, we have a different take for you.
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  And it's a real one.
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  It's one where if we step away from the lame stream media, we actually get a real picture.
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  That what's happening in Minnesota with the professional agitators and people who are uh stepping into harm's way on purpose, trying to get arrested, trying to uh uh I I don't know, die by suicide.
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  I you can't come to any other conclusion with the aggression that some of these lunatics have ramming ICE vehicles with their own personal cars, using their their vehicles as weapons, that sort of thing.
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  Uh it's a handful of lunatics.
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  And I I say that because I think it was um I think it was Jenkins who said uh he was talking on CNN and and he was saying that um not Jenkins, Jennings.
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  There we go.
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  Scott uh Jennings.
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  I think he was the one, if I remember right.
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  He was saying, uh, you know, if if people oppose what ICE is doing, that's fine, right?
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  Everybody has the right to oppose what they're doing, to disagree with what they're doing.
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  He said, but right now they are upholding the law.
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  They were given lawful orders to arrest illegal alien criminals, and whether we like it or not, that's another story.
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  We may dislike that, and that's okay.
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  We may think that that's unfair.
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  We may think that those laws are absolutely ridiculous.
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  And he said, and that's okay.
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  But the way to do that, the way to protest is to go to the lawmakers and ask them to change the laws.
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  Not to harass ice members.
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  Not to spit in the face of law enforcement, not to block streets like the woman who got killed the other day, to block the street with your vehicle, block ice from from going through.
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  She created a barricade while her wife recorded it.
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  You can't tell me that that was a spontaneous event.
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  She just happened to be standing there recording the entire thing.
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  While while her wife blocked the road, and then she was ordered out of the vehicle, and I'm not saying that that it's not tragic.
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  It is tragic.
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  It's it's it's absolutely horrible that somebody lost their life.
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  In fact, uh they they uh did a fundraiser.
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  I think they raised within the first few hours almost a million dollars.
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  Okay, great.
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  You know, the the her her kids, her kids are gonna have a tough life.
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  I mean, it's it it's sad.
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  But it also was senseless.
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  She had been linked to radical groups, anti-ICE groups.
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  She had been radicalized, and uh was known to track she was she was a tracker, so she would track ice agents and show up before they got there and barricade the road like she had a history of doing this kind of thing.
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  Eventually that's gonna catch up to you.
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  You know, you harass law enforcement, you you use your vehicle as a weapon, and I know the left is saying that's not what happened.
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  She was trying to flee, she was scared, she literally had her vehicle blocking the road on purpose.
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  And maybe she was trying to flee in that moment, but it just was a very unfortunate event.
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  And um it's sad to say she put herself in that in that position.
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  Um, you know, I I know the investigation has to has to run its course, and that's all I'm gonna say on that.
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  It this is not about uh pointing fingers, but she put herself in a very, very dangerous position.
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  Uh I'll just leave it at that.
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  Uh whether it was a justified shooting or not, it's I'm not an expert, and I don't pretend to be.
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  Um I can't make that call.
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  I'm not gonna make that call.
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  We'll let uh the investigators figure that out.
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  There will be a thorough investigation, but my point is this that the media wants you to think that with Donald J.
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  Orangeman Trump in office, that there are just mass murders happening everywhere, that there's crime everywhere, that that people are homeless, that uh the economy is absolutely in the gutter, that every single country around the world hates us.
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  And then you look a little bit deeper.
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  Let me pull this article up.
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  Uh this hot off the press.
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  New York City had the lowest number of shootings in its history last year.
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  Not a lower number of shootings, not uh not less than in years past, literally the lowest number of shootings in its history in 2025.
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  I'll read a little bit of this article here.
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  Uh, of all the challenges Zoran Mamdami will face taking charge of the biggest city in the U.S.
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  shootings is not one of them.
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  As the Big Apple recorded fewer in 2025 than any year on record.
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  In 2025, New York City recorded 688 shooting incidents, the lowest number in the city's history.
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  That didn't just break previous records that in 2018, it shattered it with 66 fewer shootings than that benchmark year, police commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Tuesday morning news conference.
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  In the month of December, shootings fell 43% with just 35 shooting incidents citywide.
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  That's the lowest number of shootings ever in any month of the year, beating the previous record of 36 shooting incidents in February of 2018.
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  We see the headlines and we hear the punits talk about crime being out of control in our city.
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  These numbers tell a very different story.
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  That's the police commissioner saying that.
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  And it's not just New York City.
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  This is happening all over America.
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  We'll get into some of these numbers.
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  Um, but uh if this is not good news, I don't know what is, and you won't hear about this on the mainstream media.
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  They will not they'll they'll hide it, they won't cover these stories, all they'll talk about is how Trump is a murderer, uh you have the mayor of of Minneapolis say, I have a message for ICE.
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  F Ice.
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  We don't want you here, we don't need you here, we want you gone.
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  Hmm.
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  Wonder why there's violence in Minneapolis.
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  Tim Walls said some pretty disparaging comments about ice and then denied it.
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  He's like, I didn't say anything mean, I didn't say anything extreme, and then they played the sound bites and whoops.
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  Yeah, you did.
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  You know, this is the kind of stuff it it comes from the politicians, and they just they want Americans to think that these people are are are point blank shooting people in the streets.
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  And if you look at how these stories are covered, it's always the innocent, you know.
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  You remember the uh the nurse that was arrested on on her way to work.
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  She was pulled out of her vehicle.
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  I forget where that happened.
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  Um that was just a couple months ago.
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  And it was all over the news.
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  I mean, you could you couldn't, you couldn't not.
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  Read that story.
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  It was everywhere.
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  This innocent nurse pulled out of her vehicle and you know questioned by ICE about her legal status.
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  Come to find out.
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  She was a tyrant.
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  She was mouthing off, running her mouth, you know, breaking the law to begin with.
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  That's why she got pulled over.
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  And uh then she refused to give her ID.
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  And was MF and the police.
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  You know, this is the kind of stuff.
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  It just the way that it's covered by the media.
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  These are all just innocent angels out in the street.
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  And they're all good, good people, and they're kind hearted people.
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  And ICE is just they're just uh being violent and picking on people, shoving people to the ground.
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  I've seen video after video where the narrative is they just found this this person mining their own business and just shove them right to the ground.
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  They're so violent.
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  And then lo and behold, the longer footage appears.
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  These people are spitting in the faces of ice, throwing rocks at them, dumping soda over top of them.
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  You know they don't know what's what liquid is being poured over them.
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  You start pouring something over their head.
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  They don't know if that's acid or or what the heck it is.
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  You know, the the these losers, and it's exactly what they are.
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  I don't apologize for saying that.
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  The minute you stop being peaceful as a protester, you're a loser.
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  You start throwing bricks at people, you start you start ramming ICE's vehicle with your car.
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  You start vandalizing their their vehicles as soon as they step out, or sometimes they're still in them.
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  You're a loser.
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  It's exactly what you are.
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  But the media won't say that.
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  They paint them as like these innocent, beautiful, wonderful people, and they're just minding their own business.
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  And ICE, you know, ice is violent.
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  They're racist.
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  Well, it turns out the ICE officer who shot the woman.
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  Um, I was in Minneapolis last week.
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  Well, it turned out just a couple months ago, he'd been drug.
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  What was it, like 50 yards or something by somebody else?
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  Somebody struck them, struck them with their vehicle on purpose.
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  You know, this is what these loser protesters are doing.
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  But the media is not covering that.
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  They're just they're peaceful protesters.
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  They're they're just trying to protect illegal aliens.
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  They don't call them illegal aliens.
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  Refugees is what they say.
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  Which is fine.
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  I'm not picking on that.
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  Um, but I am picking on the fact that they're they're being violent.
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  But keep in mind, and we must must keep this in mind.
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  It's a small group of people.
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  There aren't that many protesters doing it.
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  There aren't that many people who are lunatics who are throwing bricks at ice and spitting in their face and pouring drinks over top of them.
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  Ramming their vehicles with their own.
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  Yeah, there aren't that many of them.
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  And uh, I don't know.
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  I I want to be careful not to sensationalize this and make it look like it's worse than what it is.
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  It's bad.
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  But as far as the numbers are concerned, it doesn't appear to be that many people.
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  You know, it's just the it's the professional protesters, you know, the ones who are being paid to show up and agitate the Antifa type people.
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  They yell and scream fascist, Nazi.
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  You know, I've seen videos of of people yelling fascist to ICE uh law enforcement officers.
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  But the big picture is there are many less deaths under President Trump.
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  Like a lot.
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  So how about the decline in the overdose deaths?
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  There are 20,000 fewer deaths last year, overdose deaths compared to peak years.
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  A 24 to 25% decline.
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  Uh, let's pull up an article here.
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  This is NYPD.
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  Oh, nope, that's about the safest year here.
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  CDC.
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  This is about the drug use.
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  Uh provisional drug overdose death counts.
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  Uh, there are delays in in reporting, so they kind of put a little note there at the beginning, but it said this data visualization represents provisional counts for drug overdose deaths based on a current flow of mortality data in the national vital statistics system.
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  Counts for the most recent final annual data are provided for comparison.
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  Uh it's the 50 states and DC, they're all included.
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  And I'm looking at the graph here.
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  It's uh figure one A.
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  12-month ending provisional counts of drug overdose deaths.
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  It is absolutely fallen off a cliff.
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  Down 24% and still dropping.
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  It didn't level off.
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  The overdose deaths are continuing to decline.
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  This is good news.
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  There are more.
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  We have a whole show left.
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  I mean, this is incredible.
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  In a good way.
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  But it's not being covered by the media.
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  Orange man bad, orange man fascist, orange man Nazi.
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  Meanwhile.
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  A whole lot more people are going home to their to their parents and to their kids.
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  Because Trump has put a squeeze on on the fentanyl issue.
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  And justice for all.
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  That is, if you want to stay alive.
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  Crime down, drug overdoses down, deaths down, homicides down.
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  Down down, down.
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  And this is not just in New York City.
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  There's a broad national trend where crime is it's declining.
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  And it's declining fast.
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  Folks, this is not coincidence.
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  This is not just a one-off.
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  This is not New York City just having a lucky year because Mamdani is elected their new dictator, their new communist leader.
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  And people are just excited about that.
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  So, you know, they're not shooting each other in the in the streets.
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  That's not what this is.
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  This is about a president who vowed he campaigned on law and order.
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  He said, you know what?
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  There's too much crime, and we're going to get serious about it, and we're going to crack down.
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  We are an administration of law and order.
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  And you remember, of course, all the people mocking Trump.
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  Well, for all kinds of things, but uh for his mug shot.
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  Right?
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  That was one that the Democrats were, they just loved it.
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  Orange Man prison, orange man wearing orange.
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  And everything gets dismissed.
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  Um and on it goes.
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  They made fun of him for not dying in the assassination attempts.
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  Three assassination attempts within months of each other.
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  I still see people posting stuff online.
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  Quite frankly, like it's not funny.
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  And that's something, like, there are jokes that they're pretty funny, and people get ripped pretty hard.
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  But making fun of any president, I don't care who it is.
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  Because they didn't they didn't get killed when there was an assassination attempt.
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  That's not funny.
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  It's really not.
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  And it just shows you that's that's their sense of humor.
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  But it's not humor.
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  You know, they're serious.
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  They're they're laughing, but it's it's through anger.
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  They want him gone.
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  Make no mistake.
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  And this radicalized leftist agenda is what they're attempting to do is divide the nation.
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  Get everybody mad, get everybody angry, uh, get in their faces.
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  Right?
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  Make sure that make sure that you put them in their place.
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  Go out, you get those ICE agents.
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  Yeah, this is coming from on high, the mayor of Minneapolis.
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  Here's my message to ICE.
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  F ice.
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  We don't want you here.
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  Well, quite frankly, the president doesn't care whether you want them there or not.
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  They have a job to do, a lawful job, and again, uh Scott Jennings is right.
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  You can disagree with that.
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  You can you can disagree with the law.
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  I disagree with a lot of the things that the Trump administration has done.
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  You know what we're doing?
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  I had my sister call me the other day.
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  She's like, hey, can you help me uh contact senators and we need to talk to them about about these laws?
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  These laws are hurting people.
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  I said, absolutely, sure.
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  I have a couple names of people.
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  I gave her some names of people.
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  Senators who I thought would uh get some pretty good traction.
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  She's been working with uh with Senator Fennerman's office.
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  He's been fantastic, by the way.
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  That's how it's done.
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  We didn't take to the streets, we didn't protest, we didn't spit in people's faces, we didn't uh we didn't cry wolf.
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  Like, I don't know why they're being so mean to me.
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  Well, maybe because you're throwing bricks at their heads.
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  That could be an indication.
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  I don't know why it got tased.
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  Well, probably because you were kicking them in the knees.
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  They ordered you to stop multiple times, give you plenty of opportunity to stop.
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  And now they're tasing you.
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  I know why you're being tased.
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  So, yeah, Jennings is a hundred percent right.
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  The way to fight laws that you disagree with are by contacting your senators and saying um, hey, or representatives or you know, whoever say, hey, I I here's what I'm witnessing.
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  And go out, get your video.
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  I'm all for it.
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  If people are being unjust, if if uh they're arresting people who shouldn't be arrested, by all means get that on video.
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  Get evidence.
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  But when you start kicking, spitting, biting, using your cars as a as a weapon, you're not doing anybody any good.
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  You know, but they want us to be angry.
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  And unfortunately, some people are are taking the bait.
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  Uh I'm not angry.
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  Most of the people I know aren't angry.
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  Now, some of the things that we see is uh we're not big fans of and particularly with immigration, you know, revoking visas just kind of across the board.
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  I think it's a bad idea.
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  I don't like it.
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  I'm not gonna spit an eye in an IC officer's face, though.
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  That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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  You know, so it's a handful of people, and they they they bought this narrative that ICE is just out lining people up, you know, and it didn't um AOC, didn't she say something like that?
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  She talked about a firing squad that that ICE is lining people up and shooting them or something to that effect.
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  That's don't quote me on that.
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  Um, some of the things she's saying, she's just absolutely dead wrong.
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  She's making up falsehoods because she wants that narrative to fit.
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  She wants it, she wants it so badly to be true.
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  And and it's not.
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  So anyway, let's look at some of the broad national trends outside of New York City that has the lowest homicide rate ever in the history of the city.
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  Or at least since they've been keeping records.
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  So the real-time crime index and other watchdogs report that murders in the U.S.
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  dropped by about 20% nationwide in 2025.
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  That is a very significant drop.
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  Baltimore.
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  Baltimore is at that place used to be a no offense, but uh not a safe place to go, we'll put it that way.
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  I used to drive truck in Baltimore five days a week.
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  And uh, you know, you had to know where you were going.
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  If if you knew where you were going, it was fine.
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  But there were certain parts of the city that you just uh you didn't go there, you know.
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  You you uh you'd be wise to not kind of wander into certain areas if you catch my drift.
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  Baltimore was rough, was rough.
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  Baltimore recorded 133 homicides.
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  It's still a lot, but it's not these mass shootings where tens of thousands of people are losing their lives.
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  Baltimore's a big city.
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  They had 135, or sorry, 133 homicides in 2025, the fewest in fifty years, down from peaks of over 300 in a year.
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  They're the third of that.
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  San Francisco.
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  They recorded 28 homicides in 2020, the lowest number since 1950.
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  We're going back to civil rights here.
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  We're going back to the civil rights era where tensions were high in America.
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  There's a lot of violence.
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  At least a lot of recorded violence.
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  It's the lowest number in San Francisco, 28 homicides in 2020 25.
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  Lowest number since 1954.
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  East Palo Alto.
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  Recorded.
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  You ready for this?
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  It's a big number.
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  I know it's going to be hard to calculate here.
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  East Palo Alto, and I've I've been through their driving truck uh quite a few times.
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  I always like the uh the road signs that have um they have the um barbed wire on them.
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  I had never seen that before in my life.
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  Until I went out to like Palo Alto and LA, you know, you see all the all these uh road signs with literally they're wrapped in barbed wire.
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  I mean, massive road signs, the big huge ones that hang over the interstate.
• 31:16
  Like that's fascinating to me.
• 31:19
  Anyway, East Palo Alto recorded zero murders for the second year in a row.
• 31:32
  Zero.
• 31:34
  This is unheard of, folks.
• 31:36
  Why is this not running on every single news cycle?
• 31:40
  This ought to be 24-7 on the news.
• 31:43
  And and you know, if people in the media were actually honest, this is the kind of stuff that would get covered.
• 31:52
  Not a handful of losers throwing bricks at ice cars.
• 31:58
  But that's what's in the news 24-7.
• 32:01
  They'll find one clip, they'll edit the living daylights out of that clip, and they'll be like, you know, they'll have somebody on the ground, and it's all it's almost always a woman.
• 32:11
  They'll have them on the ground, and she's crying like, oh, you're hurting me.
• 32:15
  I didn't do anything.
• 32:17
  Why are you targeting me?
• 32:19
  You know, and like if you didn't know any better, you'd be like, Oh my goodness, these people are tyrants.
• 32:29
  And then you find the longer video clips.
• 32:33
  You're like, oh.
• 32:35
  She literally was walking up and punching them in the chest.
• 32:41
  I just saw one today.
• 32:44
  This big one, she was a big girl.
• 32:47
  The big woman gets knocked down to the ground.
• 32:53
  And I'm like, man, that was kind of aggressive.
• 32:58
  And then you know, like the backwards sound, rewind the tape.
• 33:03
  I found the longer video.
• 33:07
  She's walking up and like hitting this guy.
• 33:12
  Just repeatedly hitting him.
• 33:15
  He finally had enough.
• 33:16
  He should have arrested her, but uh quite honestly, these guys probably have better things to do with their time than to try to arrest every every lunatic that does something like that to them.
• 33:30
  A lot of these people, to be honest, are getting off easy.
• 33:34
  Some of these people are committing felonies, and they're getting off without even a warning.
• 33:41
  It's not gonna happen for long.
• 33:43
  You know, I think uh the federal agents agents have had about enough.
• 33:49
  But anyway, yeah, she she got uh pushed to the ground, and not shoved.
• 33:55
  It was like he he just he had enough, and he was it's like what can I relate that to?
• 34:02
  It's like when you have a kid that they they're trying to push the boundaries and they they come and they run and they just like headbutt you.
• 34:11
  Then they back up, and it's like they're they think they're a little billy goat or something, and they keep ramming you, and finally there comes a point where you just like they're so much smaller than you.
• 34:20
  You just kind of grab them on the top of their head and just like real slowly push them down, and they're their feet are like digging in, and they're still spinning tire kind of thing, and you're just holding them there in place so that they can't keep headbutting you, but they keep trying.
• 34:40
  It's kind of what it reminded me of.
• 34:44
  Like it just kind of slowly pushed her down to the ground, and she's like, Well, why?
• 34:48
  Why?
• 34:49
  I didn't do anything, you know, kind of thing.
• 34:52
  I'm like, oh my goodness, like these people are they're worse than little children, the way that they're behaving.
• 35:01
  So anyway, and this is the kind of stuff that's running on the news cycles, just 24-7.
• 35:07
  It's it's it's on a constant loop.
• 35:10
  What they ought to be playing on the news are these things.
• 35:14
  Why are they not interviewing people?
• 35:16
  Well, we know why, but why are they not interviewing people in in Baltimore?
• 35:23
  Why are news reporters not holding the microphone up to people who are saying it's quiet?
• 35:32
  We heard that earlier last year, you know, about a year ago, it was like last January, February.
• 35:38
  Uh, I had highlighted some of those stories on the show, and there were residents saying we don't hear gunfire anymore.
• 35:46
  There's in uh Memphis, Tennessee.
• 35:51
  We used to not be able to bring our kids out in the street, literally.
• 35:55
  They're like, we're out in the street, our kids are out in the street.
• 35:58
  We pull up a lawn chair and we get to sit and watch our kids play.
• 36:02
  This is amazing.
• 36:05
  And they were thanking President Trump.
• 36:11
  I think it's great.
• 36:15
  Not the thanking President Trump part, though that's pretty funny, but the the low crime.
• 36:20
  Isn't that great?
• 36:21
  Shouldn't we want this?
• 36:22
  Shouldn't we want our children to be able to play in the street?
• 36:25
  Other people's children, shouldn't we be applauding this?
• 36:30
  And you have to give credit to the Trump administration.
• 36:33
  I'm sorry, but at this point, whether you like them or not, it's kind of irrelevant.
• 36:42
  You see, we tie so many things to our personal likes and dislikes.
• 36:47
  I don't like Trump.
• 36:49
  Trump Orange Man.
• 36:52
  Guess what?
• 36:53
  Who cares?
• 36:54
  I didn't like Biden, not one little bit.
• 36:57
  I never liked it.
• 36:58
  I didn't like him as a senator, and I certainly didn't like him as a president.
• 37:03
  But so what life went on.
• 37:08
  Um I never took to social media to talk about how I didn't like Biden.
• 37:14
  You know why?
• 37:14
  Because it doesn't matter.
• 37:18
  It really doesn't matter.
• 37:21
  I didn't like a lot of President Biden's uh policies.
• 37:25
  Guess what?
• 37:26
  Nobody cares.
• 37:28
  Doesn't matter.
• 37:31
  Life goes on.
• 37:33
  Uh Biden did some good things.
• 37:36
  And he did some bad things.
• 37:39
  Things that I liked, things I didn't like.
• 37:42
  So what?
• 37:43
  Life goes on.
• 37:45
  So, yeah, we have to give the Trump administration credit for this, though, because they have really cracked down on crime, and the numbers are they're very telling.
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• 39:42
  New York City experienced the lowest number of homicides ever.
• 39:48
  Last year in 2025.
• 39:50
  It's not just New York City.
• 39:52
  This is happening everywhere.
• 39:54
  Rinse and repeat across the great nation of America.
• 39:58
  Now, this is good news for the
• 40:00
  250 year anniversary, is it not?
• 40:03
  So we ought to be celebrating this.
• 40:05
  This ought to be the year where we celebrate, and we're like, my goodness, it's it's America's birthday, and crime is down.
• 40:13
  Overdoses are down.
• 40:15
  Homicides, down.
• 40:19
  People can go in the streets.
• 40:21
  People can be they can have and enjoy peace.
• 40:26
  They can watch their kids play in the streets and in their yard without fear of being shot.
• 40:32
  This is happening across America, and it's really good news.
• 40:39
  So for the overdoses, I want to dig a little bit into the reasons why, at least what the experts are saying.
• 40:48
  And uh because I don't want you to take my word for it that this is because of President Trump.
• 40:56
  Yeah, you can disagree with that, but here's what the experts are saying.
• 41:01
  As far as overdoses, the leading theory of why overdose deaths are down.
• 41:08
  Now we know what common sense is, common sense is you shut off the fentanyl supply.
• 41:13
  Um people stop dying from drug overdoses because a lot of these deaths are not that they overdosed on whatever drug it was, it's that it was laced with fentanyl.
• 41:25
  Fentanyl is extremely dangerous.
• 41:30
  So experts generally agree that it isn't due to a single law, but rather the restoration of social infrastructure that collapsed in 2020.
• 41:45
  That's for violent crime, overdoses.
• 41:48
  The theory is that there's a massive geopolitical shock to the supply chain of fentanyl.
• 41:56
  So as far as crime, just crime in general, um, it's not a singular law, but it's the restoration of social infrastructure that collapsed in 2020 during the pandemic.
• 42:08
  There is the post-pandemic stabilization.
• 42:12
  Criminologists argue that the 2021, uh 2021 spike was driven by a perfect storm of closed schools, idle youth, shut down community centers, economic desperation.
• 42:25
  I would add that uh it was parents sitting at home uh or not sitting at home trying to work while their kids were sitting at home.
• 42:36
  And violence, domestic abuse went up.
• 42:41
  It actually started to skyrocket.
• 42:44
  Not saying that COVID caused it, but it certainly exasperated it.
• 42:50
  For people who are already prone to violence, being cooped up didn't do them any favors.
• 42:58
  And also they attribute the community violence intervention, CVI.
• 43:05
  This is the policy victory that many mayors are claiming.
• 43:10
  The American rescue plan injected tons of funding into violence interrupters.
• 43:18
  Those are civilians who mediate conflicts before they turn into shootings.
• 43:24
  Cities like Boston and Baltimore credited this coordination between police and community groups for their historic lows.
• 43:34
  So let's talk about the overdose deaths because this is a huge one.
• 43:40
  We had a hundred thousand people dying every single year.
• 43:45
  That's a lot of people dying from overdoses.
• 43:47
  Those are a lot of parents who are leaving their kids childless.
• 43:53
  Those are a lot of kids leaving their parents childless.
• 44:02
  It's terrible.
• 44:06
  But it's down a quarter.
• 44:10
  Twenty thousand less deaths in 2025 due to overdoses.
• 44:17
  So there's uh we got to look at China.
• 44:20
  There's a China crackdown theory.
• 44:24
  We disrupted the supply of fentanyl out of China.
• 44:30
  China began aggressively shutting down chemical companies that produced precursors to fentanyl because the pressure was put on them.
• 44:40
  The raw materials needed to make fentanyl became harder for cartels to get.
• 44:48
  The DEA tested fentanyl in 2025, there was a significant drop in the purity of fentanyl out on the street.
• 45:01
  And that suggests that dealers were cutting it more heavily because they couldn't, they couldn't get enough product.
• 45:08
  So they're trying to make it stretch farther, and they make it less and less pure as they try to stretch that fentanyl because they got to get their cut.
• 45:16
  These drug dealers, it gets less and less pure.
• 45:30
  Uh Narcan that's available.
• 45:34
  It's no longer just in ambulances, it's in libraries, schools, vending machines, bars, it's all over the place.
• 45:41
  And people really resisted this for a long time.
• 45:45
  Oh, people dug their own grave.
• 45:47
  Why would we, why would we rescue these junkies?
• 45:52
  I I don't like, I do not like that theory.
• 45:56
  I people have no idea how hard it is, and we don't know what causes people to go into drugs.
• 46:04
  A lot of people, I mean, we do we do it to an extent, but I'm saying from individual to individual, you have no idea what's going on in that person's life, what led them down that path to start using drugs.
• 46:19
  And I am all for Narcan.
• 46:24
  You know, if we can spare somebody's life, give them a shot at a second chance.
• 46:30
  What a gift.
• 46:34
  So yeah, we may have finally reached a tipping point where enough bystanders are equipped to reverse overdoses before they become fatal.
• 46:44
  There's a guy, um, uh social media influencer.
• 46:48
  Uh he goes by Victor the Great, he's got a couple different channels, all the same guy.
• 46:54
  But he's a recovering drug addict, and uh he's been clean 13 years, and he drives around uh sponsoring people out on the streets, people who are living on the streets who want a chance at getting clean, he sponsors them and he sends them off to different states.
• 47:13
  You know, they oftentimes get to choose the state that they go to, and he puts them through rehab, but he doesn't just stop there.
• 47:23
  Then he raises tons of money for them to get housing and to really get a start on life.
• 47:33
  Because that's the problem.
• 47:34
  And I talked about this the other day with our with our prison systems.
• 47:39
  The same is true of people who are not in prison, but they're maybe living on the streets, and they have drug convictions.
• 47:46
  It's really hard to get a start in life.
• 47:51
  All the cards are stacked against you.
• 47:53
  I mean, every card is stacked against you.
• 47:56
  You have no money.
• 48:00
  You typically don't have uh a close group of friends because the only people who you surrounded yourself with when you were in in the addiction are the people who the only thing they cared about was either getting your money or getting high with you.
• 48:16
  So you have no close friends.
• 48:19
  Family oftentimes abandons people because they just reach a point of frustration and sorrow and exhaustion.
• 48:28
  No judgment there, it just it happens.
• 48:33
  So people get estranged from their families.
• 48:37
  And they lose everything.
• 48:39
  Oftentimes they have no identification.
• 48:43
  That gets stolen or lost when they're out living on the streets.
• 48:47
  So it's really difficult, it's very challenging, and it's easy for us to say, well, just go get a job.
• 48:51
  Why don't you go get a job like the rest of us?
• 48:53
  Well, it's not that easy.
• 48:58
  So I love that there are people like Victor who are out there blessing people.
• 49:04
  And he's been there, he gets it, he knows.
• 49:07
  He's lived that life.
• 49:11
  But he's saving dozens of people, one by one, and he doesn't push them.
• 49:18
  He's like, here's my phone number.
• 49:20
  If if you want to get clean, you give me a call.
• 49:24
  Some of them do, most of them don't.
• 49:29
  But the ones who do, oh my goodness, it's it's so such a heartwarming story to watch these people transition and their gratitude.
• 49:40
  Does somebody put the time and money into them?
• 49:43
  It's fantastic.
• 49:46
  What Victor's doing, I mean, he is a saint.
• 49:48
  He's an angel.
• 49:48
  I really mean that.
• 49:50
  And he has a uh a landscaping business, and he often employs the people.
• 49:56
  Once they get clean, he gives them a shot at
• 50:00
  Employment with his company.
• 50:01
  I love that.
• 50:03
  I mean, you can't get more of a stand-up guy than him.
• 50:06
  Why are these stories not being covered?
• 50:09
  Right?
• 50:10
  Why are these stories not being covered?
• 50:11
  Again, we know why.
• 50:13
  Because they want us to think that the world has gone to crap in a handbasket with Trump at the helm.
• 50:18
  And Orange Man is just ruining the whole world.
• 50:21
  And you know, they they want us to all be miserable and feel sorry for ourselves.
• 50:27
  Well, I refuse.
• 50:29
  My life is great.
• 50:32
  Things are going great.
• 50:34
  I'm actually excited.
• 50:36
  I'm probably going to do a story on this just to irritate some people.
• 50:41
  But I'm excited about tax return season.
• 50:48
  Now it it's it's coming up here very quickly.
• 50:59
  And I'm excited to see just what an impact the one big beautiful bill actually has.
• 51:05
  I might be disappointed.
• 51:08
  I'm fully prepared for that.
• 51:10
  I don't care.
• 51:12
  I may break even.
• 51:13
  I may owe money.
• 51:14
  I don't know.
• 51:15
  We'll see.
• 51:16
  For me, it's kind of fun.
• 51:19
  Kind of fun to see.
• 51:20
  I'm not an accountant.
• 51:22
  So I'm actually terrible at accounting.
• 51:25
  I've tried.
• 51:27
  I just can't wrap my mind around it.
• 51:29
  So we take we take all of our stuff to an accountant.
• 51:35
  We pay the big bucks to have somebody else do it.
• 51:39
  Um I'm perfectly happy to do that.
• 51:41
  But, you know, life is good.
• 51:43
  Life is what you make of it.
• 51:46
  It really is.
• 51:47
  For the most part, life is what you make of it.
• 51:51
  And all these naysayers and all the negativity and people talking about how the whole world has gone to crap.
• 51:58
  That's just not reality, folks.
• 52:01
  Is life hard for some people?
• 52:03
  You betcha.
• 52:06
  Has been since the beginning of time.
• 52:09
  Is the United States falling apart?
• 52:12
  Not by a long shot.
• 52:15
  There's so much good going on.
• 52:16
  I man, it is crazy.
• 52:19
  I have a whole list of things that uh, you know, upcoming shows that I'm gonna cover for topics.
• 52:25
  It's it's just endless.
• 52:28
  Endless good news.
• 52:31
  So we're gonna celebrate.
• 52:33
  We'll celebrate the wins.
• 52:34
  We're not gonna take to the streets and we're not we're not gonna riot.
• 52:39
  We're not gonna, we're not gonna protest and shout and spit in people's faces and defecate on sidewalks.
• 52:46
  We just uh we'll we'll let that up to um we'll let that up to to the people who that's where they get their enjoyment, I guess.
• 52:56
  Being miserable, being upset, being angry.
• 53:01
  Talking about how deprived we are of of everything.
• 53:06
  Y'all knock yourselves out.
• 53:08
  Have fun with that.
• 53:11
  You know, here's another thing.
• 53:13
  Uh I just in passing, kind of a random thought, but I saw that the dreaded subsidies, which I can't stand.
• 53:23
  They actually give me a little bit of a nosebleed.
• 53:25
  Uh, but they were passed by the house.
• 53:30
  So it looks like my understanding is uh it's it's gonna happen where people get their subsidies for the unaffordable health care act.
• 53:40
  So if you depend on that crummy insurance, um looks like you're gonna get a pretty significant subsidy for the next several years.
• 53:51
  So that's good news for people.
• 53:54
  I don't like it.
• 53:56
  That's I think it's a shame that the taxpayers have to keep the Unaffordable Health Care Act on life support.
• 54:03
  It's not sustainable.
• 54:05
  It's uh it's a terrible, terrible, terrible act.
• 54:10
  Um, but nonetheless, the subsidies are coming, and it is gonna help people out, so um, kudos to to them.
• 54:24
  And and I'm not I'm not being sarcastic here.
• 54:26
  I really mean that.
• 54:28
  Uh I I hate that health care is unaffordable for people.
• 54:32
  I just don't think the subsidies are the way to go.
• 54:35
  I think the whole system needs a major overhaul.
• 54:38
  But at least there's help for now for people.
• 54:42
  A lot of people depend on health care.
• 54:45
  Uh there are chronic illnesses and things like that.
• 54:49
  And uh it just it's it's it's a broken system, folks, and it needs to be fixed.
• 54:54
  Uh but for now, the subsidies are gonna help people out, uh, millions of Americans, and that's good news.
• 55:01
  So, yeah, we'll celebrate every win.
• 55:05
  Um I just can't wrap my mind around this.
• 55:10
  As we wrap the show up, I'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that the homicides are so low for 2025.
• 55:22
  Now, rest assured, the next shooting that happens, and it will every year there are mass shootings, unfortunately.
• 55:32
  But you watch, it's gonna be politicized, and they're gonna talk about how gun violence is up and crime rates across the country every single time.
• 55:42
  Crime rates across the country are out of hand under orange man, and it's just it's it's really bad.
• 55:49
  Don't fall for it.
• 55:51
  Do your own homework, do your own research.
• 55:56
  Homicide rates are at the lowest ever in a lot of cities across the United States.
• 56:02
  This is good news for America, and I'm so thankful for this.
• 56:06
  I'm thankful for the Trump administration that is a loan order administration.
• 56:11
  They they promised Trump promised to crack down on crime.
• 56:15
  He promised to make the streets safer, and the statistics speak for themselves.
• 56:22
  So we are grateful as citizens of the United States of America.
• 56:29
  We're grateful that the streets are getting safer and safer.
• 56:35
  May these trends continue.
• 56:37
  We should pray for this nation.
• 56:39
  Uh pray for everybody, even the Looney bins who uh who are enacting violence.
• 56:47
  Uh, we pray for everybody.
• 56:48
  We want there to be peace in this nation.
• 56:52
  This is a great, great, great, in fact, the greatest nation, and may 2026 be a year of peace.
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• 57:11
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• 57:14
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• 57:22
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