The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/13)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Blake Troli comes on the show to talk about the rise in shoplifting in LA. Gascon keeps claiming that crime has gone down with him as DA. Half of Americans say California is in decline. The homeless crisis is impacting an iconic recording studio that is thinking about closing its doors for good.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the Iheart radio app. |
| 0:06.3 | It's the John Cobalt show. KFI AM 640, live everywhere on the IHeart radio app. |
| 0:12.3 | And we're on from one until four. And then after four o'clock, you could hear the show as a podcast, John Cobalt show on demand on the IHeart app. |
| 0:22.7 | We'll get to the poll, the district attorney poll that we started yesterday that just closed. |
| 0:29.6 | And I realize in the modern world, you really can't do these things on Twitter anymore. |
| 0:35.1 | It was war of the bots from that for various candidates. |
| 0:38.3 | We'll explain the whole thing coming up in a few minutes. |
| 0:41.3 | I wanted to start with, I thought this is the biggest dues of the day for our purposes, |
| 0:47.3 | especially since we're covering the LA County District Attorney's Race so heavily to get George Gascona out of office. |
| 0:57.2 | Gascon is constantly insisting that crime has gone down ever since he took over because his |
| 1:05.7 | progressive methods work. Well, today the big news was shoplifting reports in Los Angeles surged by 81% in 2023. |
| 1:21.6 | 81%. And these are just the reported thefts. As we know, lots of thefts are not reported. |
| 1:28.5 | So can you imagine if there's a way to count every time a shoplifter stole something, what it would be? |
| 1:34.7 | We're going to go down to Blake Trulley, KFI News, and he's got all the details. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah, John, there's a lot of speculation that this number is actually a lot lower than what the reality actually is out on the streets. |
| 1:44.3 | But yeah, last year, there were nearly 12,000 shoplifting cases reported to the LAPD. |
| 1:50.5 | This is up from around 6,600 reports in 2022. |
| 1:55.3 | Now, if you go back to 2014, the closest shoplifting ever got to that 12,000 number is around 7,100 cases. So LA really did |
| 2:03.7 | see a big jump last year. Now, to break these numbers down, Canoga Park had the most reports |
| 2:09.6 | at 767. If you'll remember, John, this is where that Nordstrom's was hit in a very high |
| 2:16.3 | profile, smash and grab robbery that we ended up covering on the ground. |
| 2:20.1 | Sure. And everybody saw that on television for several nights, that video over and over again. |
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