Bobby Charles
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255 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 May
Bobby Charles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So thank you.
Certainly not as safe as the L.A.
Times wanted to make it out to be with that ridiculous headline.
Look, I think you're going to see a lot of this over the next year or so as some of the cities take advantage of the broader declines in homicides and shootings specifically.
And they're going to try to paint this as a massive improvement in safety overall.
And the reality is, is that crime and public safety are matters of much more than simply one or two crime measures.
And sure, L.A.
has absolutely improved things on the homicide front, on the shooting front, and they deserve credit for that.
It is great.
I think it's a combination of factors, right?
I think you had a massive increase in serious violence in 2020 and 2021 that finally started to come under control in 2022.
And I think that probably had what's called an incapacitative effect, meaning that a lot of that extrajudicial killing ended up taking off the board a lot of individuals who would have continued to offend.
If you look at...
Wow.
It's kind of a dark thought, but if you look at the sort of typical profile of your median homicide suspect and you compare it to your median homicide victim, they don't really look all that different.
They tend to have very similar criminal histories, very similar likelihoods of being in gangs.
So when you have this massive uptake in the number of offenders being killed by other offenders, it results in a reduction in the overall pool of potential offenders.
Then you have everything that happened after COVID.
You have massive changes in routine activities.
Fewer people...
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