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Dominic Choi is here.

Dominic is the LAPD interim chief, and we haven't had a chief of the LAPD on as a guest ever.

We had Daryl Gates on many years ago, but he wasn't the chief at the time. He'd already left.

So, Dominic, welcome. Thanks for having me, John. In studio. We're going to get right to it, because I know

everybody's time is limited here. I am going to, I'm not here to be contentious with you, although

I may turn out that way. But I want to talk to you about the stuff that we hear from the listeners.

You know, we get an enormous amount of feedback on social media and emails and calls.

And also what I get in my private life, all my friends know I have a radio show that talks about

this. And everybody seems to ask or complain about the same things. And a lot of it has to do

with policing in Los Angeles. And it's a different agenda than you might get from the Los Angeles

Times. What they write about, your department is not what most people are interested ever.

Stuff they write about never comes up in real life. And the first thing I wanted to talk about, so many people

are frustrated that when a homeless encampment shows up in front of their kids' school or in

their kids' park or on their block, that they can never get the police to do anything about it.

And the police's response is, go talk to the police chief, go talk to the mayor.

Whether it's Karen Bass, Garcetti, Michael Moore, or now you.

Why is that?

Well, first of all, that's the wrong answer.

I expect all of my officers to know what our homelessness initiatives are and what they can

and cannot do as it relates to addressing homelessness problems that are brought to them by community

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