AM Show Hr 2 | Houston’s Crime Crossroads
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
A look inside Houston’s latest political storm: a proposed ordinance restricting police stops and ICE detentions. HPD Union President Doug Griffith joins to explain the real‑world consequences, while Michael digs into neighborhood decline, violent crime, and why vigilantes—real and fictional—capture the public imagination.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.6 | It's that time. |
| 0:11.6 | Lock and load. |
| 0:14.9 | The Michael Vary Show is on the air. |
| 0:45.1 | Houston City Council is up to their usual mischief, perhaps worse than usual at present, with a proposal, because they have to get in on the game. |
| 0:47.5 | They have to show that they too are left-wing nuts. |
| 0:52.6 | So you have several city council members proposing an ordinance that would handcuff our police department. |
| 0:55.6 | It would prevent officers from being able to detain criminals who a hit comes up when they run their ID as having an ice hold on |
| 1:04.0 | them. So in the country illegally, these are rapists, murderers, pedophiles, fraudsters, bad human |
| 1:09.6 | beings. Houston City Council would have |
| 1:13.0 | them released. What do you think they're going to do when they're released? It's not like |
| 1:17.9 | these hardened criminals are just like you. They're going about their business, but, you know, |
| 1:22.1 | every Thursday at 10 a.m., they take an hour and go commit horrible crimes and then come back to |
| 1:26.1 | their normal lives. |
| 1:28.8 | They don't have jobs. |
| 1:30.5 | This is what they do. |
| 1:31.4 | They don't have morals. |
| 1:32.1 | They don't have scruples. |
| 1:33.1 | They don't have boundaries. |
| 1:34.5 | They don't have a conscience. |
| 1:35.7 | This is what they do. |
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