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We're going to talk right now with my councilwoman, Tracy Park, who I hold up as one of the few

shining lights in politics in the entire state. She replaced the idiot Mike Bonnan some years ago

and is really transformed the west side of Los Angeles.

There is far fewer homeless encampments.

I drive around and I look for them and I've called her office a few times to report stuff I've seen.

And they've taken care of it.

And now she, Jim McDonald, the new LAPD police chief and the new district attorney in L.A.

County, Nathan Hockman, they got together to announce a new crime fighting measure for the district on the west side of Los Angeles.

Let's get Tracy Park on.

Tracy, how are you?

John, hi. I'm good. Great to talk to you.

When are you running for mayor?

That's a good question. You know, right now I am focused on cleaning up the mess on the west

side that we were left with after a decade of neglect and crime.

You're telling me, talk about this initiative because it's got several parts to it,

and it's all good to fight crime and to make life better for people on the West Side.

So go through the whole package.

Sure. So I am really excited about this.

You know, residents on the west side have been subjected to home burglaries, smash-in,

smash-in grabs, retail theft, and they are absolutely fed up with it. We also know that we have serious, dangerously low under staffing levels in LAPD. So in the interim, I have introduced this package that includes about a half a million

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