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City of Tacoma Sees 30% Drop in Homicides After Hiring More Cops

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0:00 thank you [Music] has anybody here been to Tacoma Washington yes I have yes I have what's it like over there I thought it was Seattle and then they were like no this is Tacoma I'm like oh what made you think it was Seattle they were throwing fish because it was an event it was called wat Seattle but but it was in Tacoma yeah I went there too for that World of Dance yes it is I know my stuff dude look I'm captain the commuters Tacoma and I was like it's pretty chill it's all right is it because it's so close and it's one of those things where like like let's say if you're from the OC and you meet someone in like Nebraska where are you from you don't say OC because I'm L.A yeah yeah like that oh but uh so something remarkable has happened in Tacoma remarkable you say highly remarkable and this might be the

0:51 only place in the in America that's having this specific effect right now it made the new 2024 Tacoma in the city of Tacoma easy do they make it there three inches wider on each side the new 2024 are you they make it there but the new Tacoma is pretty sick it's three three inches wide on your side I don't think they make it there three inches is that even noticeable no that's a lot that's a lot there's a lot all right it's big a little too much laughs who says that why are you guys laughing so hard it's noticeable it's super noticeable three inches is it always is it soft sometimes it's a little all right dude what happens in Tacoma

1:43 all right what the ████ happened so Takoma is uh Tacoma is showing massive results for reducing crime wow listen you're doing what are they doing let's move in there that is they never turn the lights off right yeah yeah it's gonna be something pretty uh music all the time let's do that stays down 33 murders are down 30 all right assault is down 17.4 sexual assaults down because nobody lives there no there's a lot of people went out three robbery is down 46.4 kick out all the crimes all the men the men are gone but who's gonna calculate these stats these numbers say something

2:35 can you do this where you leave you wish overall crime is down 23.5 over this one simple trick what was it other cities hate that yeah what do you think it is I think they legalized something that was previously and then their minds were opened by the psychedelics shrooms they allow ████ micro dosing yeah some civilized murders so it's not illegal [Music] holy ████ for me I'll legalize everything there's no more crime that is true though if you

3:26 legalize it it's not illegal that's men logic no solution yeah what do you think Nick what do you think they did I have no ████ idea this is the problem is it really just one thing not a couple of things it's one very big decision yeah come on I need to know already legalizing or Tacoma I don't even know anything about Tacoma but you know what when I tell you you're gonna go it's like that but it's one of those things that no one else is doing they had harsher punishments no they have a ████ neighborhood watch it's got to be something technical dude it has it's a it's like right there but um it we're conditioned now because it's

4:18 been so long to not think that this is what it is yeah they have cops no way they have more cops that's literally it these are more cops they've refunded the police oh oh wait what I'm not for that dude they refunded the defunded police in their City it was like the whole BLM stuff yeah it started with the BLM oh can you count why no no I was just hoping it wasn't it wasn't he because it wasn't it like wasn't stuff happening before you know what I mean like no I want to say yes because I feel like you're trying to help me but I don't think so yeah are you trying to say it was a long time ago we're tactics it was a long time ago this is BLM like obviously cops were already ████ up before BLM that's what I'm saying yeah like since the 90s

5:08 funding yeah but it wasn't pot you know see yeah thank you so yeah though I guess it was like it's it's been simmering before BLM but BLM was created when and now that's when it's official on everyone's radar one of the few Prime targets like were they the ones that were really heavily like let's really defund them like yeah they defunded it in 2020 by 30 million the department way out of what out of what 30 million out of 31 million out of 30 million yeah yeah it's crazy that um I can't believe it was that literally just died and what's crazy is um during that time I was following a sheriff via nuevas IG because he was like he's like I think he was trying to bypass the news because

5:59 the news had like a specific narrative so he would just like post random videos like he would talk to his IG just to tell people what was going on and so it would be like um uh LASD which is sheriff's department and LAPD got defunded this much money and the people that are for it are like Yay whatever he goes he would go on his page and he goes okay so these are the departments in um in like the sheriff's department we have like our Harbor division because they you know they guard the ports they have like this division cyber security whatever he goes these ones are the ones that are actually getting canceled and it was like the child yeah they're like child is now gone uh armed robbery is now gone so it's like when you look at like when it's actually like what the itemized things are you're like I think we need these to keep our

6:50 city safe yeah all of it people don't think like that they think like oh evenly like well if there's five cops just just take out one of every five cops but it doesn't work like that it's like they look at okay this we're still trying to keep the city safe here's the 20 departments that we have which is the one that I I guess we have to lose so where you have to still guard City Hall we still have to guard the courts you know so like the rich people are still we still have the guard Beverly Hills right right but like these ones I guess were do you want to chop off dude they should have taken out the traffic cops yeah [Applause] hahaha what's that the ones that write you tickets on their bikes I'm always back here those guys out our brand but that's part of the funding to pay the cops though isn't it not the police cops

7:46 I don't ever back you up I'm just really nervous right now okay because everyone's staring at me like I'm the ████ oh you're the one standing up like an ████ you're supposed to back me up me yeah dude I just got here I wonder if that's similar to what happened when when uh California got rid of all the mental asylums remember oh yeah oh yeah it's got closing and all the people that were not well like just ended up homeless and randomly yeah those were gnarly too I wonder if that got cut because people wanted more of something else and they were like well it's got to come somewhere yeah maybe that's how it is a good shot because yeah when they do fun things that department tries to have a logical approach yeah and then so I think when people are fighting for things they're usually not issue based it's just like just sounds cool yeah exactly and then so when you scream like into the open

8:36 like that when it gets received on the other side they're not just gonna like oh we'll we'll just defund ourselves like they're like okay well that's what they want so like let's do it so it's never comes out the way that they were screaming for proportional decrease yeah like I always think that there's a simple solution to a convoluted problem and it's just like this is not how things work yeah yeah the public like social media what do you see in there you just see like the the general statement you don't see the specifics or anything like that so they're like fighting for something but they don't really know what's gonna happen you know what I mean yeah yeah it is pretty crazy I mean imagine this like that um within a year like you have 127 sexual offenses and then following that in 92 that's a pretty big drop yeah like what if you were one of those like ones that could have been but you know

9:27 that's a pretty like that's a great thing like even one less is awesome I mean it just sounds like it could be like duh right like like if you define something that's put in place to protect you yes it's corrupt yes it has its issues or whatever but if you just scream out to fund and then it gets defunded it's like but then you have an emergency what do you do yeah because it's like you don't want to like we're also banning guns so it's like okay you don't have that either so now like what how do you protect yourself yeah like who do you go to you're just gonna people don't think like that though on Nick hey Nick I can't help dude because they've never ran into a situation for them to think like that yeah it's very true a lot of the people that I've heard that were like you gotta defund the police you look at them and then you're like if you've gotten a physical altercation or someone's trying to rob you or steal

10:17 something from your house you'd be ████ destroyed you're getting wiped like you've never seen a physical confrontation in your life and you're speaking from a point of like high privilege and saying well even I think like a woman right like I I I've never even I've never met one woman that has never felt unsafe in her life yeah like I know every single woman has had like that walk in the night where she like leaves work late even if she's from every day baby you know um and she's like ████ uh I guess I should I have my ████ mace if I don't I have a key like we you we try to think of all these different weapons we can use just in case Colleen has a weapon stash everywhere she goes yeah I do she has a weapon cash in that's horrible right her inventory is packed what do you mean I got you yeah you know I got it I got I got the stuff

11:07 brass knuckles everywhere this does come as sort of a blessing because now that the police get refunded then they have to show results because it's like justify the money being put back that is like doing a better job overall maybe because maybe it's more scrutinized and more sensitive and more like uh yeah like you're not gonna get away with it now that's right all the issues that people were having you know well the BLM stuff right like well even before that like I like I saw it firsthand in my neighborhood with my dad and my brother where they were like racially profiled yeah yeah um and they got pulled over right in front of my house and these cops were absolute dogs to my brother and my dad because like my dad I mean my brother was like in his teens just a Mexican looking dude didn't look like a cholo nothing just like a regular kid and a hot summer day and then uh they just had them get out

11:57 of the car and then they had his hands they put it on the hood and he was like whoa this is like really hot yeah and they're like I don't give a ████ like you're the one that is that the right way to handle that ████ it was like pure harassment and you could argue I think there's you have a better stronger argument that these cops and these um people need more training more resources more strategies to be able to handle those situations than less yes right especially with everything that we've seen yeah more better training more consistent training over a longer period of time yeah but that would require more funding so it should have been instead of defund until he's going to more funding them for Education refund them or Purge it yeah get rid of all these ████ yeah so you have the blue Veil right that people know about yeah it's crazy what's pretty cool is uh did you see recently they uh they locked up 40

12:51 of the sheriff's department uh games yeah we locked them up yeah wow like and they're exposing their tattoos and everything it's pretty cool it's pretty cool right pretty cool oh my God that is cool ████ drain it yeah perch the dirty cops yeah more psych training probably more better strategies of like well and get more people on the street because at least in La like before all of this happened there just weren't enough I mean there's too many people there's too many of us yeah not me anymore but of you guys we gotta upskill these cops no Mexicans yeah we're everywhere bro we're everywhere we're ████ taking over us I get profiled all the time more than you guys because as someone that has kind of like been on both sides a little bit like when I was a teen I was a criminal and I've been hassled so I understand the like defund the police

13:42 sentiment and I understand the police brutality sense because I've been like your brother but you look the on the ground I've been put on my knees I've been like you know racially profiled especially in Monterey Park where they have Asian gang units because that's specifically what they're targeting for yeah so I've been on that side and having even been on that side if I was 16 and I heard that they're gonna defund the police I'm gonna be like ████ yeah if I Rob the house a day I'm gonna do two or three now you know I mean so I'm like this is ████ crazy so even for my Criminal Mind I'm like do you guys see where this is gonna lead no but then yeah they did it jazz or something yeah oh yeah like Seattle or no that was like Washington yeah and then and then even they became the police do you remember that yeah so they ended up making police of their own that were just made of their own

14:32 citizens while they were doing it they're like this job's ████ hard well then there was footage there was footage of those guys even abusing it yeah of course there was footage of those appointed like non-police cops like actually bullying other people well there's that study right that happened like years ago where they had regular people like Regular civilians they put them in the jail system not in the actual justice but they put him in jails and they said okay you have you guys are the prisoners you have you guys are gonna play the cops and then after a certain period of time the cops started abusing interviewing the prisoners yeah as you should Howard what are you gonna do with it foreign

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