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On Thursday, August fourth edition of the program, we have Mayor Adams of New York City saying that the criminal justice system here is broken and dropping a whole bunch of stats and anecdotes about just how messed up it is, specifically with respect to recidivism, as in people that commit crimes and then commit them again and again and again and don't get punished. Why we will dive into that.
Plus the hearings up on Capitol Hill about gain of function research with some pretty scary possibilities coming out of it given what we've seen from the COVID pandemic. Worth asking one, did this in fact come from a lab because it looks like it came from a lab? And two could it be a lot worse in the future unless we stop this stuff. We will dive into that,
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for a long time. And everything I told you has been proven correct true. And now even the Libs the Democrats are having to admit this in some places, not everywhere. They're still fighting against it. You're gonna find someone, you know, former public defender, part of the Soros Institute, who says, oh, it's just we need to deal with all the racism and the criminal justice system, so let's just let people out of prison and not prosecute them in the first place.
That's not that's not addressing root causes of racism. That's just undermining the law. That's all that is. Mayor Eric Adams, the African American mayor of New York City, has adopted a very clear tone of we need to knock this crap off, We need to stop this in America's largest city. And you could have this same conversation in any blue state in the country, any city, really in the country with only a few exceptions where there's a progressive prosecutor.
You have this problem where there's a progressive prosecutor, it's an issue you have to handle. Here's some of the stuff that that Adams is saying. This is from a press conference that they did in this actually here we actually have some of this. Here's Eric Adams saying that the criminal justice system is broken. Our criminal justice system is insane, it is dangerous, it is harmful, and it's
destroying the fabric of our city. Under the current law, judges are not allowed to consider whether someone is a threat to public safety when deciding whether or not to hold them in custody. This is a big mistake. As a result of this insane broken system, our recidivism rates have skyrocketed. Recidivism has skyrocketed. Now, this is completely contrary. The promise is made by the sorost progressive prosecutor types San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta,
Saint Louis, Houston. Go down the list, Go down the list, Milwaukee, Detroit, progressive prosecutors in all these places. Soros, it took him year seeded these progressive prosecutors everywhere, and the crime rates are way up, and the murder rates are way up, not you know, five percent, they're up thirty percent, fifty percent, depends on the category you're talking about. And speaking of the numbers, let's dive into the numbers here in New York City for a second. Mayor Adam said this, He said,
let's look at the real numbers. In twenty twenty two, twenty five percent of the roughly fifteen hundred people arrested for burglary committed another felony within sixty days. That's three hundred and ninety three people who did the same thing in twenty seventeen, before the changes in the law, before the progressive prosecutors came along and got their way, seven point seven percent went on to commit another crime. For
grand larceny. In twenty twenty two, the sixty day recidivism rate was sixteen point eight percent three hundred and ten people, compared with six point five percent in twenty seventeen. So you have for cidivism rates tripling, quadrupling just a matter of years. Why is that happening. It's not because of COVID, it's not because of you know, whatever, they're gonna throw your way with Oh, you know, it's it's just the
system is having it. No, they change the system, and they made it worse, and they made it so that we aren't as safe as we were before. Mayor Adams keeps going here. Actually no, this is Chief Michael la Petri, Crime Control Strategies, Chief of the Police Department, the NYPD. He said, in New York City, we have identified seven hundred and sixteen individuals who are responsible for thirty percent of the shootings in the last year or so. We're
a city in New York of eight million people. You have seven hundred people, give or take, who are responsible for a third of the shootings. I mean you could you could fit all these people in, you know, a high school gymnasium. I mean, this is not a lot of people friends her committing third. I know there there's other people that are commiting shootings too, but just give
you a sense of how concentrated crime really is. There were twenty four hundred shooting incidents in New York City, and seven hundred and sixteen people have been responsible for thirty percent of those shootings. Each of the envision individuals are under investigation. He says, each one already have I'm sorry, fifty four percent of them already have a felony record. So point zero zero eight percent of the New York City population is responsible for thirty percent of the shootings.
What do I keep saying? They say, Oh, the criminal justices him as racist. It's racist. So and then there's all these all these shootings are happening, and they say it's racist because there's a disproportionate number of individuals who are arrested for serious crimes who are black and Hispanic. However, what they leave out of all of this is that what about the ninety nine you know, ninety nine point
you know whatever. I can't even do the math percent of black and Hispanic people in New York who aren't committing any crimes and just want to live their lives in safety. How about them? How about we focus more on their needs? How about we focus more on the ninety nine percent of black residents and Hispanic residents of New York who are law abiding and worry less about hurting the feelings of the less than one percent who are committing a huge percentage of the overall violent crime
in the entire city. I mean, think about what's going on here. You've got thousands and thousands of burglaries and robberies and homicides and all these things together. How many people are really committing them in the whole city? Ten thousand committing a huge percentage of them, maybe twenty thirty thousand who are committing most of the really violent crimes, and rose are the really serious crimes, I should say,
serious property crimes. Maybe here's an idea. We just focus on taking them off the streets, incarcerating them, and making life safer for the ninety nine percent of everybody else, including the ninety nine percent of minorities of black and Hispanic residence in the city of New York, who aren't hurting anybody and who are obeying the laws and want to live their lives in peace. It's just an idea, lives right. This is what the progressive prosecutors. Oh, they whine,
They say, oh, but what about this. They find some case of somebody who you know, it was murky circumstances, three strike law, and everyone feels badly about it. Yeah, there is good. It's not a perfect system, and where there is true injustice on an individual basis, we should rectify that, but you don't rerect if I injustice, but just singer. This guy's only done three armed robberies. I don't think he's going for it. He's only done fifteen burglaries.
I don't think he's going for number sixteen. You know, he's stealing from people in his community. You know who's suffering from this, low income people who are trying to do the right thing every day. They're the ones being victimized. They're the ones being attacked, having things stolen from them. But people like Nancy Pelosi or the police, you can't trust the police from her mansion. She's such a fraud.
CNN anchors, Oh BLM. I really support BLM and I live in a seven million dollars co op in New York City, But oh BLM, such frauds. They're such frauds. Can't we all see it? And may Or Adams even he's got to be tired of these idiots. He's saying the right things right now. You see. I always tell you this, I give credit where it's due. Adams has not done a good job so far in terms of the numbers, but he is saying the right things now. And we need other Democrats to say the right things
and follow it with action. Hopefully Adams follows it with action. Is this would be major, all right? And there was the Gain of function hearings up on Capitol Hill just a couple of minutes on this. I mean, here's MIT professor Kevin, doctor Kevin s Velt, MT is pretty serious place on gain of function studies and the security risks
from them. The question is, if they were not intending to determine whether a novel recombinant event between these coronaviruses could lead to something that might kill millions of people, then why were they doing it? If there was no chance that it would come up with a result that looked like it was more dangerous, what's the point? What's
the scientific hypothesis? So again, whatever you call it, what they were trying to do was identify a biological agent that has a good chance of being able to kill millions of people if released. And they shared to the description of what they did, and they shared the genome sequence because they thought that this would make us safer, because they think that knowing which viruses in nature might cause pandemics makes us safer. They did not consider the
security risks. Seems like kind of a big deal, doesn't it. They figured, hey, let's just mess around with a virus and gain a function research at places like the Wuhan Institute of Virology with American taxpayer funding in part, not all of it, but in part. They just figured, well, this will be a good thing for science to know. So they started tinkering with viruses to see if they can make them more dangerous so then they can put them more dangerous virus information out there so that we
would be prepared in advance. Well, what happens if the virus gets out? Though? What happens if you create the problem? You think you're averting by getting ahead of it? Yeah, pretty serious. This MIT professor went on here play clip two. And it's worth noting that both USAID and NIH funded
those particular coronavirus chimera studies. USAID, to my understanding, has since disavowed those chimeric recommindation studies and announced that they will only focus on finding natural pandemic capable viruses, which is at least a step in the right direction. But again, I would call that gain a function. Another reasonable scientists would say, no, that's not gain a function, because the term is so ill defined. Yeah, because the term is
ill defined. Do you think maybe the bureaucracy was playing playing games here? I do. Do you think they decided they could get away with this? I do. Here's just one more on the possibility of these becoming WMDs. Here's Rutger's professor Ebright talking to Josh Holley about gain of function research of the kind that you know doctor Fauci through cutouts was helping to fund in China function research and bioweapons. What's the connection there? I mean, what role
does gain a function play? As I mentioned, there are no civilian practical applications that are immense bioweapons practical applications, as you've heard from doctor Spelt. The potential pandemic pathogens that can emerge from such studies are potential weapons of mass destruction, inexpensive, accessible, easily distributed weapons of mass destruction, potential WMDs, the kind that would hit all over the world and kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.
Maybe we should have had more of a discussion about whether this should be something that anyone, anywhere, in any facility should be engaged in as research. A lot of people look in this though, and saying maybe, at least in this instance, it's too late. Thanks for rolling with team. Make sure you check out the Clay Travis and Buck Saxon Show today. I'm gonna be in solo because Clay is on vacation, so you got me for three hours on that podcast. It's doing my thing, Clay Travis and
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