Chris Moritz
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332 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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This was before the election, and it did seem that America was in a twilight of empire. But beyond that, I wanted to frame the destruction of our state
against the sort of end of empire um phenomenon across you know many different civilizations and societies and with respect to the french revolution um i i've actually termed this phrase you called grievance uh or retribute retribution it's a kind of retributive justice
I call this crime equity, and I think it's at the fundamental heart of the so-called criminal justice reforms that have turned our state into a war zone in many parts. And the idea of it is that the ultimate ideological motivation for these reforms is not about rehabilitating criminals. It is actually as a form of equity about redistributing crime.
Redistributing crime to areas and people that had been historically insulated from it. So I view this very much as an attack on the middle class. And in fact, the evidence, especially speaking to police officers in Los Angeles is indeed crime has spread.
from the so called dangerous areas to the west side of Los Angeles, to Brentwood, to formerly the Palisades, to these areas that had been off limits. And this is not just because criminals have gotten smarter, not just because there's been changes within the economics of the criminal underworld, which I can talk about, but really because laws have been put in place. to unleash criminals.
And it is entirely foreseeable that by unleashing criminals and emptying the prisons, They are going to continue to commit crime because that is the statistical conclusive determination about crime. It's committed over and over again, higher recidivism by a small number of people, career criminals.
And a lot of the people that we've released through prison reforms are in fact violent and have violent history.
You know, it's funny. People say that California is this sort of like progressive bastion. They're wrong. It's actually as regressive and reactionary as you can possibly imagine. Because the oligarchy, and it kind of ties to the 1789 kind of analogy. And in some ways, I feel the bourgeoisie, the middle class that are really under attack by the oligarchy in the state.
But in any event, a great example about the prisons. So we shut down juvenile correction facilities in past years. As a result, juvenile crime has spiked. And in fact, gangs are recruiting children as young as 10 to be child soldiers committing hijackings, armed robberies, and even assassinations. There is an example a few years ago of a small time rapper who was by LAX Airport parking his car.
A 15 year old gang member approached the vehicle, assassinates him, gets back in the vehicle, getaway vehicle that's driven by his dad, okay? So what gangs have learned, because they're smart, they understand legal arbitrage, is that if you have recruit kids Even if they get arrested over and over and over again, they face no consequences.
Gaston refused, as one of his initial directives, to try juveniles as adults, ever. So this is the consequence. Again, all of these types of policies have a predictable response. And another thing I would say that is just, I think, quite interesting is the influence of the Mexican drug cartels in California is far, far more profound than anyone possibly realizes.
And essentially what I have learned through many, many hours of interviews with cops and prosecutors is that sometime in the late 2000s, the Mexican drug cartels moved into California to essentially execute a hostile takeover of the drug trade, which was primarily dominated by the Bloods and the Crips and legacy black gangs. And the cartels said to these gangs that
if we catch you selling dope without sanction, we will cut your head off. And they meant it literally. Right, so they brought the Mexican style savagery, which I call sort of pre-Columbian sort of atavistic savagery into this state. The legacy Black Kings, well, they got the message fast. So they had to find a new vertical of crime to continue their operations. What was the easy target?
Residential burglaries. And it just so happened that in the state, we barely take them seriously. You are more likely to get robbed, burglarized, beaten or your car stolen in California than in any other state in the country by far, by like double.
Look, I'm a third-generation Santa Monaghan. My house is my castle.
My grandfather was... We're from Liverpool originally. There's a lot of English in Santa Monica. And Santa Monica was a great place up until the communists took over. It's Steven Miller, one of my best friends, okay? He's also from Santa Monica. There's a lot of great folks from Santa Monica and Southern California, but we're surviving. And again, my home is my castle. I'm not giving up.
And I love my state. I love California.
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And on my X profile.
Yeah.
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