Epoch Times - PREMIERING RIGHT NOW California’s Vanishing Dream: Behind the Rise in Crime | #Documentary
Aired: 2022-05-14
Duration: 00:46

[00:00:00]  Violent crime is way off, plaguing our local communities right now.
[00:00:04]  I don't even care where you are in the city.
[00:00:05]  You will feel it.
[00:00:06]  We don't wear jewelry anymore.
[00:00:07]  We don't wear our watches.
[00:00:09]  The escalation in crime is forcing us to change our living habit.
[00:00:13]  Why is crime going up?
[00:00:15]  Why is this happening?
[00:00:16]  By the time the cops show up, they're gone.
[00:00:20]  We're spread far, too far.
[00:00:22]  With that, the crooks know it.
[00:00:25]  So...
[00:00:25]  You can make statistics say whatever you want.
[00:00:29]  What about the police?
[00:00:30]  Sometimes it's better not to do anything.
[00:00:33]  If you could commit crime and not go to jail, what would you do?
[00:00:36]  Would you stop doing it?
[00:00:41]  We've seen an effort to just reduce sentences altogether.
[00:00:44]  You do all that, you don't have much of a system left.