From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

The Armstrong and Gettyshow.

The visuals around here insist that this crime wave is driven by COVID.

So when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go loot a store, a CVS in Nordstrom, a home depot until the shelves are clean.

Do you think that's because of the pandemic?

I think a root cause in a lot of communities is the pandemic, yes.

So crime now joins high gas prices and the supply chain on a list of things recently that officials around here have said are affected by COVID.

So what is she suggesting?

It's not clear to me.

I've heard the argument before something to do with difficult economic times and the economy and the supply rate.

So people are desperate and they join together gangs and empty out Louis Vuitton store.

Smash, smash, smash!

I mean they don't really get specific, they leave it, yeah, they leave it kind of vague.

Anyway, so a quick smash and grab round up as it is now growing.

Okay, well, to take it even further, even if I bought that, which I don't.

No, of course not.

I think it's more tied into George Floyd, happened during COVID and then the whole defund the police thing happened during COVID.

And the police are on their heels all across America.

And then the bail that we've been talking about, a bail abolition more or less and all that sort of stuff.

That's what it is. But even if it, even if it were true, what the hell difference is it make?

You still have to be able to operate society.

You still have to be able to have stores that sell things to people.

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