Neighborhood Watch is racist now | Hour 3

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I think they should find out who made the signs, right, like, who was the design company who installed them? Oh? I think actually the city installed them so I guess the city was being exclusive. The Michigan City an Arbor announced this week that, at the direction of the city Council, it completed the city wide removal of more than six hundred neighborhood watch signs in a statement, first off, I don't think the signs don't work. Okay, just like gunfree zones, signs don't work. Right, just putting up a sign that says neighborhood watch, it doesn't actually prevent crime. You know what prevents the crime the neighborhood actually watching. Like, that's what prevents the crimes is if you have neighbors that participate in watching out for each other, looking at suspicious activity and calling police about it. Right, that's what actually works, not just hanging up the signs. But a lot of people think that if you just hang up the signs, then you know, criminals will be like, oh, there's a neighborhood watch sign. I can't risk it. I'm gonna go somewhere else where they don't have a sign. Like, I'm not aware of any criminal that like moves on to a different area because of a neighborhood watch sign. But anyway, they're very happy, very proud of themselves in ann Arbor, Michigan to remove all of the six hundred signs, and in a statement, the city explained, quote, removing the signs aligns the cities and vironment with its commitment to inclusive, evidence based public safety. Okay, how our neighborhood watch signs not inclusive. The decision to remove the signs was made in a unanimous ten to zero city council vote back in December. The city said that the move is quote fostering trust, belonging and welcoming neighborhoods for all residents and visitors who wish to commit crimes. I'm just kidding, I added that last part. So taking the signs down fosters trust among who whom among whom Who's now more trusting because the sign is not there? Like I'm not really like the presence of the sign to me, isn't even like that isn't even the big deal. It's not even a matter of the sign being up there or not being up there, right, it's the rationale behind this dumb assery. That's the thing, The fact that you think this sign. I guess maybe ann Arbor, Michigan has solved all of the problems that were on their plate, that they had the time to go through and remove six hundred signs at a cost of I think it's somewhere around eighteen thousand dollars they spent to take the signs down. Like what are you even doing? Like why is this a priority? The signs are up. The sign just says neighborhood watch. And it's got like, you know, a little camera or picture or something whatever, that little blue triangle with the circle in it. I don't even you see them all over the place. It just says neighborhood watch. What's the problem with the sign? How is the sign excluding anybody from doing anything? Unless, of course you're thinking that the signs do actually prevent crime. And so anybody who walks up who's a criminal and wanting to do some criminality and they see the sign, now they're like, ah, I'm being excluded. I should be able to walk through this neighborhood. Case a bunch of joints. And that's the lingo, that's what they say, case a bunch of joints. And then you know, rob people, and I'm being excluded. I don't have trust, I don't feel like I belong, I don't feel welcomed, because that's their rationale. It's to foster trust, belonging, and welcoming neighborhoods for all residents and visitors who wish to commit crimes. I added the last part again. Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor, a Democrat, further explained the decision in an official video that was released by the city and set to music, where Taylor says, quote frankly, neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion. What again? Why is it a Why is it an expression of exclude? The resolution to remove the signs passed by the city council read that the neighborhood watch programs quote were often rooted in assumptions about who did and who did not belong in a neighborhood, reinforcing race based hypervigilance and suspicion, particularly toward black, brown, and other marginalized residents and visitors. Okay, let's picture a neighborhood. Let's say the neighborhood has I don't know, like a thousand homes. And let's say the neighborhood and in arbor, isn't there a really big college nearby there? Or in an arbor itself. Right, So let's say this neighborhood has a thousand people or a thousand homes in the neighborhood, and let's say that neighborhood is predominantly or have even exclusively black, and they have a neighborhood watch sign. Who are they excluding? Who are those neighbors excluding? Who is the city excluding by hanging the neighborhood watch sign. And here's the other thing too. You know how those signs got put up was usually the neighborhoods would come to the city and ask for a sign because they have a neighborhood watch program with block captains and stuff. And the whole point there is to know your neighbors. So like you're looking out for them, and if they're away and they leave their garage door open, you can like call them up or something. Or you see somebody that you know is poking around their house, you can call, uh, call the cops because you know they're out of town. That kind of thing. Like that's the whole point of a neighborhood watch. So you put the sign up there, like we're a neighborhood watch, look at us, right, But if you're in a predominant sorry, exclusively black neighborhood, and let's say a white person were to start walking around. You know, like all of the home security companies they all advertise with like you know, the burglars are always white, so like you know, they go go up to. The door and they're like looking in the door. So you're saying that that would be exclusive or excluding to the burglar because if the white guy walked into a predominantly black neighborhood, and then the black neighbors would see this white guy and think, huh, that guy doesn't live here. We live in an exclusively black neighborhood, right, Like Okay, Like I'm trying, I'm just trying to game this out here, people, I'm just trying to understand the rationale. In its statement, the city called the neighborhood Watch program defunct, saying that it emerged quote during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change. Oh so this is like the this is like the police department started as slave patrols. That's the way we're going here with this argument. The signage does not reduce crime and can reinforce biased surveillance. So somebody who's not at all racisty and they see somebody of a different race lingering around their neighbor's property and they're not racisty, but then they see the neighborhood Watch sign and now they're like, oh, gotta be racist. And now I have to Now I. Have to do something because the neighborhood watch sign obviously tells me that I must exclude. This person based on race. This is the rationale Like this, Okay, wait a minute, there may be a perfectly reasonable explanation for why this sounds so stupid. It's because it's stupid, right, it's stupid. This is stupid. You just shelled out like eighteen thousand dollars or so to take this down. Take all the signs down based on some contrived, critical race theory about neighborhood watch signs. That'll fix it. Fixing racism one street sign at a time, up in ann Arbor. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot com. Oh, hang on a second, I forgot to check the okay on the text line. I don't know somebody lives in Dave SA's I guess somebody, Janda lives in ann Arbor and he calls it the People's Republic of ann Arbor. Taking down the neighborhood watch signs sounds like something they would do. Bain says, there are no specifics. Tell us ann Arbor exactly what problem do the signs solve up or down. Again? Like there are two issues for me. One is the presence of the signs. Do they work right to reduce crime? And I don't know, but to me, you want like you're spending money to remove signs based on some stupid reasons. Like just leave them up. I mean, if you don't want to add any more, fine, but taking them, going through the efforts of taking them down and then to turn around and put out like a produced video, do like a big presentation, a celebration, like look at us, we are not racist anymore because we took down the neighborhood watch signs. So stupid? H correct? John from Jersey The virtually the entire city council is Democrat. Yes, you are correct. Does this mean if you report a crime in progress at your next door neighbor's house the police won't respond? Good question, Jeff, I'm not sure. Travis says it's a performative act. To remove a performative sign. Uninteresting. How can Jeff wants to know? How can crime watch signs be racist? I've seen the ADT and other similar commercials. The criminals, the criminals are all white. Yes. I have also noticed that every single time. It's a safer way to go. It's like, it's like making the Russians the enemy in all of our action movies when there was still the ussr you know. But then the wall came down and then it was like, oh, well, now they're not really our enemies anymore. And then there was like this brief window where it shifted and it became Islamic terrorists right from like Middle Eastern countries. It was a very brief period of time, and then it was like, oh no, no, can't do that anymore. And then it was always like back to Russia, but not really Russia. It was like some of these former Soviet countries, you know, breakaway nations and you know Estonia or something, right, not to give Estonians a bad rap hashtag, not all Estonians, but so then they would make the bad guys be from these breakaway satellite Soviet republics, and then you know Russia with Putin. Now it's like, okay, Russia is the bad guy again. We can make them the bad guys again. It's just it's just so tedious. You know. Oh, this is Ron in rock Hill commenting about the news story about the overcrowding in the Mecclamerk jail, and the sheriff is blaming Arena's Law because he can't turn everybody loose. Yes, and so he says, in my opinion, it's a good thing that the jails in North Carolina are overcrowded. I have an idea build more jails. Yeah. I've been saying this ever since our sheriff here in Mecklinberg County Gary. Not my fault McFadden. When he was warning against passage of the Arena's Law, which would you know, require people to be held for certain offenses and such, and he's like, we're not gonna you know, they're not gonna be able to bail out. That's what that was. The whole beauty of the. Cashless bail system, right, was that it kept the jail population low. And so now that you can't just walk, you have to actually, you know, put up money for these serious offenses. Now you have to. Now some people can't afford it, and so now they can't be turned loose. And so now McFadden is whining about we have too many people in the jails, in the one jail because you have to close the juvenile jail. Yeah, the answer is to build another jail. We need another jail. Sorry not sorry. Like we have had a massive population growth in Meclamur County going back now forty years, we've been on a constant upward trajectory. The city officials keep, you know, celebrating the fact that you know, every single day, one hundred people move into the city or whatever it is. And do you think all of them are law abiding citizens or do you think maybe there could be like one out of one hundred who's a criminal. And if you're adding tens of thousands of people or two hundred thousand people, do you think there may be some more criminals that come along with that as well as then you look outside the region and the region's growth, more people coming into the region, they may be coming into the Mecklimberg County to be you know, doing some crimes, like you might need some more bedspace. But see this is how this other left thinks though. They're like, no, no, no, we don't need more bedspace because they're you know, the criminals are the oppressed, So oppress or oppressed you know, lend you got to look through for all issues, and so you see the criminal as the victim. And so let's just give them Cashle's bail, let them walk, promise to appear in court, and then you know, toss out all the charges. No, we're not sending people into space. Kevin says. You know, if you talk about the racist neighborhood Watch signs being taken down, you are racist. They they spend millions doing a long term study to find out the signs are racist. Pete, trust the process, Trust the process. Uh oh, this is TJ's biggest fan. He's a troll. Something stupid is happening in ann Arbor. Really is stupid. Now let's talk about Trump's crypto. Actually, no, now I'm going to talk about what's happening in Los Angeles. And this is really stupid too. Los Angeles has rejected an entrepreneur's cheap and simple fix to stop the city's crippling copper wire theft crisis. Were you aware that this is a crisis. I've seen a video on this where they go around. There are all these neighborhoods that have all these street lights and none of them work because you know, if you look at the light poles. I'm not going to go into operational security here, but there are access panels that the thieves have figured out, and apparently they like roll up in broad daylight. They wear like a little reflector vest, maybe a hard hat, so people think that they are, you know, doing work on the light or whatever, and so they go in, they access the panel and then they rip out all the copper wiring and then they sell it right for scrap. And this is such a problem that the city is now wanting to charge homeowners for the light that may be next to their property. So if you're getting any light from the street light that has been robbed of the copper wiring, they want you to pay. Extra to replace the copper wiring. But then is it just going to get stolen again, Like, you're not solving this problem, You're just adding You're just adding more wiring for the criminals to come take. So there's this company that started up called End Metal Theft and they have a spokesman. His name is Mark James, and he said in an article at the California Post that his company created a hardened cover. It's like a box that sticks onto the light bulb and so you can't access the access panel and that would stop the crime. And it cost about three. Hundred bucks, and when presented with this idea, the City of Los Angeles said, no, thanks, we're gonna go a different way. We want to convert all of the solar all of the lamps into solar lamps, at a cost of about six thousand dollars per street light. This is what they're gonna do. Yeah, yeah, and and yes, they're gonna try to charge people money if you get any of the light onto your property. No, obviously, if you're a business, they're gonna charge you more. And if you if you're wealthier, then you're gonna you're gonna get charged more too. This is what the City of Los Angeles is doing. So much dumbassery from a seven oh four number who says, I have seen signs on fiber optic spools on the side of the road. Oh yeah, like the those big wheels, the big spools, and they got all all the. Big cables and stuff wrapped around him. So I've seen signs on the fiber optic spools on the side of the road that say this is not copper, please don't steal my god. It's one of those things like construction sites get hit all the time for this stuff. Our neighborhood actually, which has a neighborhood Watched sign in it, I've seen one, So just putting that out there just in case criminals or anti racists want to know. The neighborhood had a you know, local police officer come speak to the neighborhood and was talking about the crime stats. And by the way, I'll tell you that CMPD does have a crime map that you can actually go to. It's it's not perfect, okay, so like there are. Things on there that like where there there are incidents that don't show up and then whatever, so like, but it's it's pretty good. So the officer says, you know, looking at the crime data, you guys you know are here and whatever he's talking about. Anybody's like, you're still under construction and so that drives some of these numbers. A lot of theft from construction sites. But that's yeah, please don't steal signs. Maybe they work. Maybe oh maybe a neighborhood watch sign on the spool of fiber optic cable. Maybe that'll do it. Jennifer says if they build another jail, they may not be able to fund their public transportation projects that no one wants to ride. Yeah, that's true. Right, No, they're going to have to prioritize public safety. And I went over the Mecklimerk Yeah, the Mecklamerk County budget, they do not prioritize public safety. It's only if I recall correctly, it's not even in the top three. They spend more on parks and rec than they do on public safety criminal justice. So yeah, you've got to prioritize it. That's the state legislature telling Mecklinburg County and others that with Arena's Laws passage, like, you have to put a greater emphasis on public safety because you have obviously proven you are unable or unwilling to do so. Coach Kloke says, the signs need to go. It's imperative to the democracy. It will the democracy will end if we keep these signs up. Mike in Charlotte says, they closed the Statesville Road jail in the past five years. Yeah. Again, you cannot see the kind of population growth that Mecklenburg has seen and not keep pace with jail space. It doesn't make any sense. The math doesn't math on that. All. Right, back to the story at the California Post about this inventor who created a very simple device to stop this copper wire theft from street street light poles, and the city shot it down. Mark James said city hall chiefs shot it down instead wanting to focus on converting to solar lamps that will cost up to six grand each quote. He says, the most cost effective theft deterrent is not replacing what thieves are after. It's making it not worth their time to try. Copper wire theft has sparked havoc across the city and left neighborhoods in darkness while a backlog of repairs are carried out right, think about that too, like the amount of time that you're spending replacing the wiring, right, the crews that you have to dispatch, and the materials, all of that stuff, and it's like you would realize a lot of savings if you just put these boxes over the access panels. James said. A lot of these thefts happen in plain sight. Guys invests middle of the day looking like they along there. It's because they don't have neighborhood watch signs. They feel like they belong. If only there was a see if there was a neighborhood watch sign on the street lights. Oh LA should buy up all of the neighborhood watch signs from ann Arbor, Michigan. Problem solved. You buy up all their signs and you slap them up on every single street light in Los Angeles, and then the thieves will be excluded. They will not feel belonging, they will not feel welcomed, right because that's what those signs do. James went on to say, what changes things is when they walk up and they see that it's not an easy target anymore. That visual alone is usually enough and they move on. And that really is so much about like if you're you know, protecting your home and that sort of thing, Like if you harden the target, then most times thieves will move on because it's not worth it. They're gonna go find some softer target. The company presented the idea to the city for the first time back in twenty twenty two, and he pointed out that in another city, Glendale, contractors repulled wire and within forty eight hours it was stolen again, so taxpayers paid twice for the same repair, but after installing locking covers, theft at the park stopped. So it works. Wire theft is currently costing Los Angeles more than twenty million dollars a year. Oh my gosh, it's people this But you know what I think it's I think I'm optimistic. I think they're going to solve this when they elect their Democratic Socialist mayor. I really think they're going to turn the corner on this and Los Angeles will will become a really well run city. By the way, residents in the Pacific Palisades who lost everything can't even live in their homes, don't even have homes. Under this idea to charge people for the light that they enjoy on their property from the street lights, they yeah, they would actually get extra fees. Now, they would be charged more money even though their property is uninhabitable because they the city regulations are preventing them from rebuilding. I'm sure the Democratic Socialist is going to fix all of this, though. It is called pregaming with Brett Winnable. Brett Winnable, how are you? Oh, I'm great? How are you? I am great? As well? That's outstanding, We are all great. Before the music started there on the lead and we were discussing Djibouti Jibouti and I think we both agree it is a fun name to say, Boy is it? It feels good but also feels a little wrong. Yes, it does. And you suggested a fact finding mission to Djibouti. We should go. What kinds of facts do you think or do you hope to uncover on this mission. Look, we're open minded. We're going to just go and just to you know, check it out, see what it is. So this isn't a deep dive due diligence kind of thing. This is just a visit Djibouti. Yeah, look, I just want to take a peek of Djibouti. Are the people what are the people who live in Djibouti? What are they called? That's a good question. Are they? Are they the Djiboutis, Jiboutians? Are they Jiboutians Djibouties. That's that sounds like a very ancient It does sort of a tribal area Djibouti. Owens. No, that was too far. You went too far. I went to see that's it. You killed the show. Speaking of going too far? Can the Democrats go too far on on their Nazi embrace? Oh gosh, because I don't think they can. I don't think that they have any sort of built in natural immunity against this sort of thing and the Red Green Alliance. I was talking about this in the first half of the show that I think it has it has taken root, oh without a doubt, and the Democrats cannot. I mean Schumer came out and embraced this guy with and I mean it's amazing. Like ten years ago, I don't think the Democrat Party would be doing this. So, like, let's be clear, Chuck Schumer is endorsing the guy with the swastika. No, it wasn't a swastika whatever, it was the skull from the death camp squad. Okay, well there you go, say, Okay, right, totally different, not totally different, not not at all. It's actually even more offense because you could you could try to claim that it's an Indian oh yeah, yeah. Sign and all that. But no, absolutely not. And so just imagine that. I mean, it's just insane. Notice also that when Graham Plattner, who is now because Janet Mills, the governor, former governor who was running against him in the Democrat primary, she dropped out because she couldn't raise enough money. So I don't know what that says. Trump totally killed her. I mean he he pommeled her. What did he do? I didn't with the boys and girls playing games and all that stuff, and he should. A letter just kind of ride because because. Jibouti much like Democrats embracing the Nazi, much like that, uh Trump, he can't. He can't help himself. The heart wants what it wants, you know. And when he when he saw, when he saw what they were doing, and he just lays into her. I mean I remember that was a couple of years ago. Yeah, that was yeah, because all the governors were at the governor meeting. Yeah yeah, yeah, it was at the National Governors Association. Yeah so yeah, so uh Platner. I also noted that Plantner did not actually get the tattoo removed. He just made it something else. He just covered it up, so he still has it. It's still under there. It's camouflage, right, They've got cam they've got camouflage. It's like a hidden death camp. What's his last name, Platner. So it's gonna be the platinum poj Platiner pos Platiner page. He's covered camouflage. Uh yeah, So I don't know, Like this is kind of disturbing to me because I'm seeing this pattern now. Uh. You know, in a lot of these primaries, the Democrats keep going further and further sure towards this radicalized base. I mean, this guy, Plattner got the endorsement of Hassan Piker. You know, of course you know why yea, because when at when? When the uh not the ir audience? What am I thinking of Israel and Hamas? No? Yes, yeah, he was watching a video and he commented about how awesome the Hamas tactics were, and which is disgusting. Yeah, I mean, it's just awful. They beat an Israeli soldier to death. They did, and he said, oh, maybe they should have just executed him with you know, a gunshot, but you know that that might have been over the line. It's like, do you hear yourself? He blamed women for having some responsibility in their rapes, Like this guy was a poop poster on Reddit cesspool and now this stuff comes out. It's like, how quickly have we moved from punch a Nazi to nominate a. Oh exactly right, Yeah, I can't we have to co sign that, right, yeah, I mean that's it. If you're if you're in the Democratic Party, you got to co sign that. Think about this, who primaries Chuck Schumer in another what two years? Whatever? If he runs again, because you. Know he's worried about it. Is that person going to be well? It could be AOC, but it could be her or is it somebody even worse than Platner? Sure? Absolutely I can see Mandami. He can run for Senate, not president, correct because he is not born here. Correct until they take control and change all the laws with the pack Supreme Court exactly in order to get Mumdani into the White House. There we go, and now you know the rest of the story. Alrighty laughing our way through the apocalypse. Brett Winnable, Thank you sir, Thank you all right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.