Bobby Charles
speaker
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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are going into the office, more people are working from home, more people are shopping from home.
Americans on average are spending about 65 minutes more a day at home.
What does this mean?
It means that they're spending less time in places where they might be criminally victimized.
So when you combine some of those factors with the fact that LA got a new DA in 2024, George Gascon lost his reelection bid to Nate Hockman, who ran on a tough on crime
You had Prop 36 in 2024, which rolled back some of Prop 47 in the state of California, which gave police more ammunition to use against the criminal class.
So you have more people getting arrested, more people going to jail.
I think that enforcement has something to do with why we're seeing reductions in at least those crime categories that we know police are concentrating on most heavily because they have limited resources.
But again,
This is only a small part of the story.
The rest of the public safety picture, particularly in L.A., looks god awful.
You have massive problems of public order, people using drugs and selling drugs right out in the open, homeless encampments, petty theft, this sort of thing, all of which contributes to legitimately the average American's perception of public safety.
And this is one of the things that I think the American left has forgotten.
I think people rightly perceive Los Angeles to be in a state of disorder.
When you walk the streets of a major American city and you see people shooting heroin into the veins between their toes in broad daylight, that sends a signal that we process as follows.
We see people engaging in anti-social behavior out in the open.
We understand their actions to be or to reflect the lack of control in that public space, right?
If this individual feels comfortable doing something that is clearly both against the law and just socially unacceptable, they are confident that nobody's going to intervene.
When somebody walks into a CVS casually with a garbage bag,
and fills it with the things that aren't behind plexiglass, right, that sends a signal that nobody is in charge in that public space.
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