Dr. Humaan Hamadi
Appearances
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
It's a great question. Look, Gascon's overwhelming defeat is a sign that people in LA were absolutely fed up with every single thing he stood for. He took office saying that I'm going to be a fair prosecutor. I'm not going to prosecute people based on race. I'm not going to prosecute people based on gender or socioeconomic background, etc.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
But what he really meant is he's not going to prosecute anyone. Gascon's first action when taking office was to send a directive to all of his deputy district attorneys telling them that under no circumstance may they prosecute basically anything except for mass murder. I'm obviously exaggerating, but he went so far overboard that not a single deputy of his stood alongside him in support.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
And so he was basically fighting his own deputies the entire way, taking the side of criminals over the victims in every single case. And it was only when there was intense public pressure and media scrutiny around the time of the recall attempt and around the time of the reelection campaign that he ever even showed any sign of caring about victims.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
There was not just one single turning point. I think the entire era of Gascon is going to go down as a black moment in L.A. County's history because of the surging crime and of the fact that every single person became a victim in one way or another. They had their packages stolen, their bikes stolen, their car broken into multiple times. They were assaulted.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
Or even if they weren't directly impacted in such a way, the stores they would go into would have the products locked up. Stores would be closing because they got burglarized so many times. You would have people having to walk over piles of needles and drug waste in parks and beaches just to be able to get from one place to another or sidewalks, etc.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
It became an era marked by criminality and filth and lack of any sense of public safety. And all of that combined, which is something that no person could ignore after a period of time, created this sense that this is a guy who has to go.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
There is a massive statewide shift in California in the direction of public safety and the priority that public safety should take over all other issues, including all of the woke virtue signaling that for a long time until very recently had dominated the discussion. Great example is Prop 47. It passed very nicely several years ago.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
It was one that said we are going to decriminalize most drug crimes and decriminalize most theft. It would not be a felony. And in fact, it would not even be a crime, basically, because no one was really prosecuted for any theft under $950 per occurrence. So people would go in, steal $949 worth of items.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
Leave, come right back and do the very same over and over and over again with absolutely zero consequence. What's happening now is that the Prop 36 came about and did a large reversal, not a complete, but a large reversal of Prop 47. reintroducing the criminal penalties for repeat offenders who steal and repeat offenders of drug crimes.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
And this is something that combined with a prosecutor in Los Angeles County and in other areas of the state that also elected much better district attorneys will create a circumstance where public safety is prioritized over everything else. And I think we're here about to witness a new era for California, one that is a long time coming.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
I'm very glad you asked. Newsom has shown no signs of changing his tune. He has signaled absolutely nothing regarding realigning his policies and his viewpoints with how the people feel. And in fact, he's doubling down on these policies. Newsom has yet to reverse his policy of shutting down prisons or reducing the number of beds that they have. And that's a key point.
Morning Wire
SCOTUS Hears TN Trans Case & South Korea Chaos | 12.4.24
All of these new laws and the DAs are absolutely worthless without a place to incarcerate the felons. And so that's somewhere we need to go. And Newsom has shown no sign of changing his tune on that issue.