 Welcome to the knuckleheads of liberty Yeah, yeah, you know and a lot of this is these policies that you know that this is the we talked about this on the show before the Is is the biggest issue with crime is was the lockdowns Yeah, that's the issue. No one says anything else, but they think that's the thing that matters No one says if that's the most important thing There's many issues, but the biggest one hands down was lockdowns. Here's why if you were a cop in New York City It's always been a tough job. That's never been an easy job, but prior to 2020. It wasn't the dangerous job New York City cops rarely got killed in New York City before 2020 I mean literally you had a better chance of being killed as a cop by another cop by mistake Then you did by a bad guy. I'm not making that up. That's what it was before 2020 It was a relatively safe city being a cop is always a tough job But it wasn't deadly unless your own person shot you that was about it, right? It was daily job 2020 comes it's deadly New York City cops are getting killed now. It is now a deadly job What changed in turn? What's 2020? Oh lock downs You make people desperate. They act desperately. That's what happens when you create an environment where you take our youth You take them out of school. You take them out of work You give them no opportunities and you lock down everything so that now everything they want to get is more expensive You've just made the black market even more lucrative. So now the bad guys who want to work in the black market They're going huh black market is lucrative. Oh, wow. Here's a workforce. That's literally sitting around on the corner Waiting to do something. Thank you, New York State for giving me my workforce Now we're all gang bangers and now we're out there and we're now we're doing crimes now We're in the black market. What is what is causing crime two separate things number one gang violence? That's the number one thing is gang violence. Why in the world with some with with 17 year olds shoot people in broad daylight It's black market. I don't have cops and courts. So what do I need street justice? See Jason thinks he's super cool and his people can do what they want and they can ignore my they can ignore the Deals I made uh-uh. I'm sending Tim over to teach Jason a lesson and it's gonna be in public He's gonna make sure Leon knows you mess around Leon's next Okay, I grew up in the Bronx. That's how it works and if you've been around those areas, that's true Tim is my enforcer. He's gonna make sure Jason's lesson and Leon. No try not try nothing This is a libertarian turf war between California libertarians Bad So that's that's the major part, but the second part now That's the first part, but the second part is addiction and mental health now What happened during the lockdowns? You couldn't go get help So now you have two years of mental deterioration Addiction deterioration. That's what you have they couldn't go get help They couldn't be with a support structure and they collapsed even worse So now people who had problems those problems are now doubled and tripled and people had serious problems They're literally almost like in the psychotic state. That's why they get arrested 40 times and still commit crimes So yes, this is all lockdowns. They will say it's everything else. This is lockdowns and real quick Can I get that visual back up? Yeah, so this is what the numbers are showing to this is New York state The blue line is murders and you look exactly what Larry's talking about and go as you 2019 It actually was kind of stable and then 2020 boom It is just a launch like a rocket and the same thing with a lot of violent assaults as well, which is the orange line Sorry, go ahead Leon. Yeah, you know, um Larry I accept accept what what what what you have just said about about crime and and the association to the lockdowns but isn't there a long-term issue here about Too many of our young people are growing up in fatherless homes. Yes Yes, I created this this this part of this problem a hundred percent and that and that was exacerbated Right. The point I was trying to make is there are many reasons that was the fire That that really exploded everything But remember think about this if you had a father in your household You weren't on the corner waiting for the gangbanger leader to take you, right? Right now you don't have a father and you don't have school you don't have a job You're right picking you're correct. That also was a piece, but that was a piece of Leon to be forward to you That's been a piece for a long time. Yes, indeed Saying is the lockdowns Was was like, you know gasoline on a fire if that makes any sense it made a bigger. Yes Yes, a hundred percent. You're correctly on that's a huge problem and most of that is the war on drugs Well, all of that but the biggest part of that is the war on drugs the one drugs Literally taking people taking black men out of the household and the example I'll give is a is an interesting example That you might like this baseball Why baseball? I would ask you every single sport, you know of the main sports in in America American sports are dominated by black men Correct. Yes, but not baseball. Why not baseball? Because baseball is passed down from father to son You take the fathers out. Oh, there's no one teaching the young men baseball anymore Yes, basketball and football learned in the streets. Yes, baseball is not it's passed on now prior to 1970 Black men did dominate baseball Hank Aaron Jackie Robinson. He did dominate baseball. What happened then the war on drugs That is our cultural example of showing how government destroyed the black family right there Good point right there. Absolutely. That's a very good point. You know, I love that. I'm gonna look into that a little more deeper Larry because that it's an issue that's near and dear to my heart And I really would like to look a little more deep in that. That's a very good point you just raised. Thank you Yep, of course. Yeah Yeah, you know, I love to talking about baseball and Jackie Robinson because it actually shows a lot of other issues too As well as you know, government getting involved in race and everything else, but life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness always and forever