John & Ken Show Hour 1 (05/24)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Deputy DA John McKinney comes on the show to talk about LA County DA George Gascon’s huge backlog of cases. Tina Turner has passed away. More on the guy who rammed a U-Haul truck into the White House. A man in Yellowstone tried to reunite a bison with their herd but it was rejected and so park rangers had to euthanize the baby bison.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | KFI, AM 640, you're listening to the John and Ken show On Demand on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:13.0 | We're on from 1 to 4 every day on the radio after 4 o'clock, the podcast, John and Ken on |
| 0:17.4 | on the IHeart app. |
| 0:19.7 | All right, we're going to get right into it. The criminal justice system in California, and more specifically here in Los Angeles County, is in a shambles. And we have a couple of updates today. Later on on the show, we'll be talking about a judge that says, oh, let's get rid of bail. Yeah, the no bail requirement is back like it was during the pandemic. That's nice for the crime rates. But we're going to start with, of course, the story has to come from the East Coast. |
| 0:41.4 | The New York Post, Woke L.A. George Gascon has 10,000 case backlog, a toxic attitude, which is |
| 0:50.3 | driving staff away. This is according to their sources, Some who went on the record, some who did not. |
| 0:56.5 | One former deputy DA told the post, in my career as a prosecutor, I've never had |
| 1:02.1 | victims' families actually hate us until I came into this office. |
| 1:07.4 | And you imagine it's so bad. |
| 1:09.0 | There's a lot of open positions. |
| 1:28.3 | People aren't taking these jobs. There's so many cases backed up that have to be filed. We're going to talk now to one of the candidates who would like to replace George Gascold and his DA in next year's election. Los Angeles County Deputy DA John McKinney is coming on the show to give his thoughts about this story. John, how are you? Good afternoon, Johnny Ken. |
| 1:29.3 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:31.4 | 10,000 case backlog? |
| 1:34.9 | Are anybody doing any work there? |
| 1:37.8 | You know, we are doing work. |
| 1:40.3 | We're working twice as hard as we did before. |
| 1:42.7 | And I know that's probably surprising to people, but it's because George |
| 1:44.3 | Gascon can't keep the office at its appropriate staffing levels. No one wants to work for him. |
| 1:50.4 | The people who have been here are leaving. The young attorneys are leaving within a year of |
| 1:55.5 | joining the office. Older attorneys are leaving after dedicating so many years and blood, sweat and tears to the job. |
| 2:04.2 | It's just a very sad theme here in the DA's office. |
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