Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Make Crime Illegal Again
Aired: 2022-10-21
Duration: 11:20


=== Proposition 47 Impact (05:44) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  The censors make my videos almost impossible to find, so if you like what you see, I hope you'll send the link to a lot of people.
[00:00:15]  Wawa, the convenience store chain, plans to double the number of stores, from 965 to 1,800 in the next eight years, but not in Philadelphia.
[00:00:26]  It just announced that it's closing two downtown stores after already shutting down one in June.
[00:00:33]  This prompted the announcement.
[00:00:36]  This scene that unfolded in a Mayfair Wawa last night.
[00:00:40]  Police say about 100 juveniles were seen inside the store on Roosevelt Boulevard near Tyson after stealing stuff and breaking things and basically trashing the store there.
[00:00:51]  Officers responded to that Wawa and dispersed the crowd.
[00:00:55]  They say no arrests were made and no one was hurt.
[00:00:59]  Here are some of the 100 perps leaving the place.
[00:01:03]  Do you recognize any of these Philadelphians?
[00:01:07]  Here is the scene they left behind.
[00:01:09]  But don't worry.
[00:01:11]  As the newscaster explained in the first video, there were no injuries and no arrests.
[00:01:17]  Not one at-risk youth got a blot on his record.
[00:01:21]  But you're out of luck if you need groceries at midnight.
[00:01:25]  This is what happens when liberals are in charge.
[00:01:28]  Different cities have different kinds of problems, but they all come together in San Francisco.
[00:01:34]  The city became famous for brazen shoplifting, with thieves walking out right past security guards.
[00:01:42]  It got so bad that Walgreens closed 22 San Francisco stores in the last two years.
[00:01:48]  As the company explained, it spent 46 times its national average on security for San Francisco stores, but still had five times the loss rate.
[00:01:59]  CVS closed six of its 17 stores in the city just this year.
[00:02:04]  Target also made what this article called drastic changes because of theft.
[00:02:11]  It got to this point in California because of Proposition 47. That was a 2015 ballot initiative that changed the status of many crimes from felony to misdemeanor.
[00:02:24]  It was the people of California who voted to set the felony theft limit at $950.
[00:02:31]  Anything less than that, you can steal, accept as stolen goods, resell at an open-air market, write bad checks, or steal through forgery, and it's just a misdemeanor, meaning the police can't arrest you.
[00:02:44]  If they show up at all, you get a ticket for a court date.
[00:02:47]  No one shows up for that, so stealing up to $949 is essentially legal.
[00:02:53]  The more scrupulous thieves bring along calculators to make sure they stay under the limit.
[00:02:59]  They just come in later for another bag full.
[00:03:02]  Why did people vote for this?
[00:03:05]  Prop 47 was sold as enlightened cost-saving.
[00:03:08]  Since these crimes weren't going to be felonies anymore, perps wouldn't go to jail.
[00:03:14]  And people who are already in the big house for felony theft or forgery could get their crimes reduced to misdemeanors and get out.
[00:03:22]  The prisons would empty.
[00:03:24]  There would be huge cost savings, and millions could be spent on dropout prevention and mental health counseling.
[00:03:31]  So even fewer people would then go to prison.
[00:03:34]  See these idealistic young people determined to build no new jails?
[00:03:39]  Voters fell for Prop 47 60% to 40%.
[00:03:44]  I note, however, that the campaign for the yes vote Spent more than $10 million.
[00:03:51]  Over 19 times what the opponents spent.
[00:03:54]  The ACLU and George Soros' Open Society Policy Center alone kicked in five of the $10 million.
[00:04:02]  And what about all the saved money that was going to pay for crime reduction programs?
[00:04:07]  As if that baloney ever worked anyway.
[00:04:10]  A year after Prop 47, thousands of felonies reduced.
[00:04:14]  Cost savings still to come.
[00:04:18]  And as parts of the state become increasingly unlivable, California lawmakers want to reverse Prop 47, make crime illegal again.
[00:04:27]  What an idea!
[00:04:28]  Make crime illegal!
[00:04:30]  As state rep Kevin Kiley says, voters were egregiously misled about what this would do.
[00:04:38]  San Francisco had its own problem.
[00:04:41]  Prosecutor Chesa Budin, who never seems to have met a criminal he didn't like, His parents were both in the Revolutionary Weather Underground and were put away for many years for murder.
[00:04:54]  His adoptive parents were Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn, also in the Weather Underground.
[00:05:01]  The guy served as San Francisco DA from January 2020 until this year.
[00:05:06]  I won't go into all the crazy things he did, but the result was criminals not arrested, not charged, released early, coddled, petted, and adored.
[00:05:15]  The results were so awful that this summer we got this headline.
[00:05:20]  San Francisco votes overwhelmingly to recall progressive DA Chesa Budin.
[00:05:26]  Not even the moon-calf liberals of San Francisco like being mugged and raped and stepping over derelicts on the sidewalk.

=== Philadelphia's Bias Blues (05:46) ===

[00:05:34]  But believe it or not, only one of the 11 members of the Board of Supervisors, shown here with their clerk, supported the recall.
[00:05:42]  They loved their commie prosecutor.
[00:05:45]  You'll be glad to know they've all had implicit bias training.
[00:05:49]  I guess that includes bias against junkies because the supervisors let bums live in tents downtown and believe in supervised drug sites where addicts enjoy safe consumption.
[00:06:03]  Whole Foods is living in a dream world.
[00:06:05]  It just opened a new 65,000-square-foot store in San Francisco right across from an open-air drug market.
[00:06:14]  Addicts shoot up in the restrooms and clear out the shelves on their way to the door.
[00:06:19]  Cities outside California have some of the same problems.
[00:06:24]  Soros-funded prosecutors, no bail, immediate release after arrest, and police who have been smeared so often by City Hall they take no risks.
[00:06:34]  This summer, we learned Starbucks to close 16 U.S. stores because of crime, rampant drug use.
[00:06:42]  Six are in California, no surprise, but Philadelphia, Portland, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. have also become intolerable.
[00:06:50]  Starbucks brought the problem on itself.
[00:06:53]  In 2018, a store manager called the police on two black men who were sitting at a table, used the restroom, and refused to buy anything.
[00:07:02]  They said they were waiting for someone.
[00:07:04]  That was in Philadelphia.
[00:07:07]  Starbucks fired the manager, lathered the blacks with money, And for good measure, Starbucks closes 8,000 stores for racial bias training.
[00:07:17]  Is it enough?
[00:07:18]  Of course, it's never enough.
[00:07:20]  But all the baristas got their brains washed, and Starbucks grandly announced it would let people use restrooms, not pay for anything, and hang out as long as they liked.
[00:07:31]  I predicted Starbucks would become clubhouses for bums and druggies.
[00:07:36]  And sure enough...
[00:07:38]  Last year, interim CEO announced the company was rethinking its open bathroom policy.
[00:07:45]  Oh dear.
[00:07:46]  And now we have brazenness unknown before in America.
[00:07:51]  Unlike San Francisco shoplifters, these guys do care if they're caught, but nothing's stopping them.
[00:07:58]  Imagine how frightening it is when people suddenly start smashing display cases with sledgehammers.
[00:08:04]  And imagine how furious you would be to see crooks get away with these outrages.
[00:08:09]  No healthy society tolerates this.
[00:08:12]  If I were walking by, I'd want to kill these people.
[00:08:15]  Some states extend the castle doctrine to businesses, and you could sure discourage these guys with a couple of shots center body mass.
[00:08:24]  In most states, though, if you protect mere property with deadly force, you are the bad guy.
[00:08:31]  And let us know a certain pattern.
[00:08:33]  Do you see any white perps?
[00:08:34]  Or Asians?
[00:08:35]  Or Hispanics?
[00:08:36]  I guess surveillance cameras are racist and work only when black people do a smash and grab.
[00:08:42]  But race is the one thing you better not notice.
[00:08:45]  And the more people get away with this mayhem, the more you will get.
[00:08:49]  Remember Wawa?
[00:08:50]  No injuries.
[00:08:51]  No arrests.
[00:08:52]  And perps get to watch themselves on TV.
[00:08:56]  Maybe Prop 47 would have worked in an all-white state.
[00:09:00]  Get all those non-violent offenders out of prison so they can get jobs.
[00:09:04]  But anyone with the brains of a scrambled egg could have told them it was going to wreck California.
[00:09:11]  Now, 40% of San Francisco residents plan to move due to homeless and crime.
[00:09:18]  Here's some obvious lessons.
[00:09:20]  Lock up criminals.
[00:09:21]  Encourage law-abiding people to carry and use firearms.
[00:09:25]  Recognize that some public order offenses are so outrageous, such an insult to civilization, they should be stopped with deadly force.
[00:09:34]  Never vote for anyone backed by George Soros.
[00:09:38]  And let the police do their job, for heaven's sake.
[00:09:41]  And finally, what works for other people might not work for blacks.
[00:09:46]  They're special.
[00:09:47]  In 2019, a black former judge was sentenced to six months in jail for corruption.
[00:09:53]  The courtroom was full of black supporters.
[00:09:59]  We'll end where we started.
[00:10:21]  Philadelphia. Where blacks had such fun at Wawa and where a white Starbucks manager was fired for calling the police.
[00:10:28]  This was May 2020.
[00:10:31]  Our cameras are doing it anyway.
[00:10:34]  But like I said, the noise on the street down here is part of the chaos.
[00:10:39]  You hear the alarms going off.
[00:10:41]  You hear them breaking into the windows and then heading in.
[00:10:46]  Any group of blacks is a potential threat.
[00:10:49]  The people in Wawa were truly worse than animals.
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