Feb. 6, 2026

Stop the Chaos: Fund ICE Reform, Protect Rights, Secure the Nation

Stop the Chaos: Fund ICE Reform, Protect Rights, Secure the Nation
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We’re living in a moment where the loudest people get rewarded for being the least responsible. Politicians fundraise off outrage. Mainstream media amplifies half-context. Activists get pushed into moral certainty—and moral certainty can become moral permission. That’s how peaceful protest drifts into interference. That’s how lawful enforcement turns into a street-level powder keg. And that’s how America loses: not because we debated hard issues, but because we stopped telling the truth long enough to fix them. This episode is a right-leaning, reform-forward case for ICE modernization that strengthens the mission while protecting civil liberties. You can support secure borders and still demand discipline, transparency, and humane custody standards. You can defend protest rights and still draw a hard line against obstruction. You can appreciate the work ICE does to keep communities safe and still admit the agency isn’t perfect—because no agency made of human beings is perfect. Here’s the core principle: if we want better outcomes, we need better tools and higher standards—not a starved system running on burnout and improvisation. What we cover:

1) The protest reality nobody wants to say out loud
Peaceful protest is protected in America. Recording government is protected. Criticizing enforcement is protected. But in some hotspots, protests have shifted into coordinated interference—real-time warning networks, following operations, surrounding vehicles, and disorienting tactics like horns and whistles. The result is predictable: more confusion, more risk, more chances for something to go wrong, and more “viral moments” that get weaponized into instant verdicts.

2) The narrative war is an accelerant
When politicians and mainstream media paint every ICE action as evil by default, they don’t just polarize the country—they create permission. They push people to feel justified in obstruction, harassment, intimidation, property damage, and escalation. We demand a leader standard: verify before you amplify, speak with precision, and stop monetizing division.
3) Body cameras as truth insurance—especially for agents
Body cameras aren’t a trap. They’re a shield against selective editing and false narratives. In a world where the verdict comes before the facts, full footage protects agents, citizens, and the public’s trust. We lay out what a serious body cam program requires: clear activation rules, secure storage, audit trails, privacy protections, penalties for tampering, and a lawful, timely process to prevent misinformation vacuums from driving unrest.
 4) Training that matches modern chaos

You don’t get professional outcomes on a starvation diet. We argue for expanded scenario training built for today’s environment: de-escalation under provocation, crowd dynamics, rights boundaries under stress, stress inoculation, and post-operation learning loops (after-action review) that improve procedure without turning everything into PR.

5) Backup and crowd-control planning without crushing speech
A larger, well-trained, disciplined presence doesn’t have to mean “militarization.” Done correctly, it creates distance and stability, reduces friction, and lowers the odds of force. Thin staffing creates closeness. Closeness creates confrontation. We talk about perimeters, operational planning, specialization, and leadership temperament—so professionalism stays intact even when crowds are trying to bait a reaction.

 6) Noise-canceling comms devices and clearer protocols
If comms go down, coordination collapses. When noise is used to disrupt communication, mistakes become more likely. Noise-canceling comms and standardized protocols don’t silence protest—they keep teams safe and reduce confusion so lawful work can happen without escalation.

7) Funding with accountability—because “defund” is not reform
Reform requires resources: training hours, body cams and storage, comms upgrades, staffing capacity, detention standards, and real oversight. We make the conservative case for targeted funding tied to measurable outcomes and audits. Fund what fixes it. Measure what you fund. Punish waste. Reward professionalism.

8) Detention reform: federal responsibility, federal standards, humanitarian care
Detention issues didn’t start yesterday. If the federal government detains people, the federal government owns the moral responsibility. We argue for federal standards, enforcement of those standards, and movement toward federal facilities where feasible. Humane care isn’t open borders—it’s legitimacy. A serious nation enforces law without losing its moral center. Bottom line: America deserves better than chaos and lies. Secure borders, protected rights, humane standards, truth over narrative, reform over sabotage. This episode is your blueprint.

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There are sounds that don't just irritate you, they invade you.

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They push past your patience and land straight in your

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nervous system. A whistle at close range isn't a chant,

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it's a weaponized frequency. A horn that doesn't stop isn't

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just a message, it's an attempt to hijack focus. And

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that noise is coordinated. When it's layered on purpose, When

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it's timed to moments where people are moving, making decisions,

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trying to communicate, trying to keep everyone safe, it becomes

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something else. It becomes disorientation by design, confusion by intent.

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Now picture the moment an agent steps out trying to

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execute lawful work under lawful authority, and before you even

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know what happened, before you even know why, there are

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phones lifted like torches, not to record truth, but to

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manufacture it. Because that's where we are. We don't live

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in a country where people wait for facts. We live

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in a country where people pick a side then shop

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for evidence like it's a grocery aisle. And the worst

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part of this is most Americans, most normal people, don't

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even realize how much the narrative machine is controlling their emotions.

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They think they're being informed, but too often they're being activated.

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The verdict comes first, the clip comes second, the context

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comes last, and then context gets thrown away because it

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doesn't get as many likes or it doesn't back their

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view of the event. So tonight, I'm drawing a line

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that shouldn't be controversial, but somehow it is. We can

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protect civil liberties and protect our borders at the same time.

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We could respect protest rights and still condemn obstruction. We

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can demand humane detention standards without surrounding the idea of enforcement.

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And we can do one more thing. We can stop

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pretending the only choices are to defund or defy, because

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that's not reform, that's childish politics with adult consequences. If

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you want fewer mistakes, you want more training. If you

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want fewer lies, you want body cameras. If you want

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fewer dangerous crowd moments, you want better comms and better

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backup so agents don't get isolated. And if you want

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fewer people feeling justified to obstruct, harass, intimidate, and escalate,

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you want politicians in mainstream media to stop pouring gasoline

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in the st in calling it awareness. This country deserves

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better than this Ice isn't perfect, no one is, but

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their mission matters. Cutting funding won't create professionalism, it will

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create desperation, and desperate systems don't produce justice. They produce errors, conflict,

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and backlash. So tonight we're going to do what leaders

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refuse to do. We're going to talk about reform that's

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actually reformed, not surrender, not rage, order, truth, accountability, and

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a secure nation done with a restraint and done with

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moral clarity. Let me talk to the people who still

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believe were allowed to be honest. Not honest in a

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cruel way, honest in a grown up way. Because here's

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the reality. Immigration, it's complicated, enforcement it's complicated as well,

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But the moral logic of a nation is not complicated.

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A nation has the right to exist. A nation has

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the right to set boundaries, and a nation has the

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right to enforce those boundaries. And a nation also has

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the responsibility to enforce its laws with professionalism, restraint, and

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humane standards. When it takes custody over human beings, that's

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not a left idea, that's not a right idea. That's

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a serious country idea. But we've become addicted to extremes.

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We've become addicted to abolish versus cracked down. We've become

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addicted to slogans to make us feel like warriors, where

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we ignore the reality of a broken system and broken

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systems don't care about your hashtag. Broken systems don't care

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about your ideology. Broken systems create predictable outcomes. And when

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the border is porous an enforcement is inconsistent, criminal networks

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thrive when law is treated like a suggestion. Public trust collapses.

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When public trust collapses, everything becomes a fight. And then

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we take that fight and we pour it into the street.

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We turn neighborhoods into battlegrounds of narrative. We treat agents

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like symbols and protesters like saints or criminals, depending on

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which team you're on. That's not how you save a country.

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That's how you destroy one through division. So here's what

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we're going to do today. We're making the conservative leaning

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case for ICE reform that strengthens the mission while protecting rights.

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We're going to say clearly, secure borders are not optional,

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and we're going to say professionalism and humane standards are

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not optional either, because if you want the country to unify,

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you need legitimacy and Legitimacy requires truth, truth and what

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what's happening, truth in what's broken, and truth in what

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needs to be funded, fixed, and standardized. And we're going

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to confront the biggest accelerant of chaos in the modern error,

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not just policy, the narrative. Because a country that can't

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tell the truth can't fix anything. It can only fight.

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And I don't want a country that only fights. I

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want a country that builds again. So let's start with clarity. First.

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We have to stop talking about ice like it's a myth.

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It's not a ghost story. It's not a villain in

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a movie. It's an agency made of human beings doing

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a job the country requires. The job exists because immigration

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law exists, and immigration law exists because borders exist, and

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borders exist because nations exist. When people say no human

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is illegal, what they're really trying to do is emotionally

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erase the concept of enforcement. But enforcement isn't an emotion.

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It's a function. Every society enforces something. Every society draws

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lines somewhere. The only question is whether those lines are

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enforced consistently and professionally or enforced randomly and politically. Now

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here's the part that needs to be said with respect.

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ICE deals with real threats every day, not just paperwork,

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not just technicalities. They pursue people tied to trafficking networks,

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They pursue people tied to expectation. They pursue repeat offenders

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and dangerous individuals who have already crossed legal lines. And

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if you've never lived near the fallout, you've never seen

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what happens when violent offenders cycle through a system that

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won't hold the line. You might think this is abstract.

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It's not abstract to the victims. It's not abstract to

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the families in a lot of cities that people are

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yelling the loudest about abolish. Aren't the ones living with

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the consequences. They're living with the story. Other communities live

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with the reality. And if you want to talk about

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why America feels like it's splitting into two different countries,

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that's part of it. One side experiences the outcome of

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policy failure directly, the other side experiences it through headlines

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and curated clips. Now, let me say another thing that

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needs to be said. Supporting the mission doesn't mean pretending

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there's no problem. ICE is not perfect. No agency made

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of humans is going to be perfect. Mistakes will happen.

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But here's the difference between a serious reformer and a

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political arsonist. A serious reformer asks how do we reduce mistakes?

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A political arsonist asks how do we use mistakes to

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destroy the whole thing or to make it worse. If

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you want fewer mistakes, you invest in training. If you

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want fewer misunderstandings, you invest in communication. If you want

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fewer lies, you invest in body cameras and documentation. You

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don't get better outcomes by starving the system. Starvation produces exhaustion.

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Exhaustion produces error. So when someone says we need reform,

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but their first instinct is to cut funding, they're not

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demanding reform, they're demanding dysfunction. And I need conservatives to

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have the courage to say it plainly. The funding enforcement

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while expecting professional excellence is like taking the breaks off

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a truck and then complaining that it can't stop costs something.

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Truth costs something, Decency costs something. And yes, it's fair

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to demand accountability for that funding. It's fair to demand

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measurable outcomes. It's fair to demand audits, standards, and consequences.

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But the premise is non negotiable. If the nation wants

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to secure border and lawful enforcement, it must fund the

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tools that make that enforcement more professional, more restrained, and

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more humane where custody is involved. Now here's where it

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gets real, because this mission isn't happening in a quiet classroom.

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It's happening in the street, and the street has changed.

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Let's protect something sacred right now. Peaceful protest is a marriage.

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Criticizing government is American. Recording government to prevent overreach is American.

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And if your instinct is to silence descent because it's annoying,

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you're missing the point of this country. But now let's

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protect something else that's just as necessary. A right to

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protest is not a right to obstruct. A right to

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speak is not a right to sabotage. We have to

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draw that line again because we've let it blur, and

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we've let it blur because it's politically convenient. In certain areas,

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Protests are not just demonstrations, their operational interference events. People

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show up not simply to express a view, but to

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disrupt a lawful action. They monitor, they swarm, they trail vehicles,

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and the way that they're operating, the way that their

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interference is happening right now can warn targets and allow

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criminals to escape. That's not a minor point. That's the

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whole thing, Because when a crowd becomes a moving warning system,

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enforcement becomes a game of tag. Targets will slip away,

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Operations stretch longer, agents take more risk, and the probability

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of something going wrong climbs. Protesters have also been using

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horns and whistles. These aren't about being offended by noise.

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It's about intentional disorientation. When the goal is to break communication,

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when the goal is to overwhelm attention, when the goal

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is to create sensory chaos. It's not just protest, it's

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a tactic. And tactics change the environ They change the

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risk profile, They change the margin for error. People who

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have never worked a high stress job under constant provocation

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don't understand something. Decision making is a finite resource. When

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you force a person to process noise, insults, movement, filming, threats,

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and physical proximity all at once, you're draining the abilities

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of the brain to choose wisely. It becomes harder to

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stay measured, harder to stay calm. That's not an excuse,

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that's a reality, and reality is what reform has to

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work with. Now here's where the country needs honesty. Some

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protest behavior has started to resemble a coordinated streetforce. I'm

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not calling everyone in the crowd an extremist. I'm not

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saying every protester is violent, but organized interference is organized interference,

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and we should be mature enough to name it that.

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I've personally described it as not much shy of a

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paramilitary insurgency group because of how they're organized and coordinated.

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It can look, but I'm gonna phrase it carefully and responsibly.

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Some groups operate with coordination, discipline, and tactics that go

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beyond spontaneous protest, and that can create safety risks for

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everyone involved. There's a reason that matters. When a crowd

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is coordinated, it can surround vehicles and constrain movement. When

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movement is constrained, tension spikes. When tension spikes, a spark

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can become a disaster. And here's the worst part. Most

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people don't see the steps leading up to the spark.

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They see the final ten seconds. That's why the narrative

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war is so deadly. It takes the final ten seconds

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and turns it into a national religion. Now Another piece

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that I've talked about, training content that teaches people how

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to fight back or interfere has been pushed in most

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of these protest groups. We're not going to try and

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platform how to discussions or how to instructions, and we're

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not going to try to glorify it, but we're going

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to say the truth. When activists circulate training material designed

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to disrupt enforcement operations, that's not persuasion, that's operational resistance.

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And operational resistance doesn't just create inconvenience. It creates injuries, escalation,

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property damage, and irreversible moments. So what do we do

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about it? Without infringing on rights? We do what a

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serious country does. We up hold protest rights and we

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enforce the line against obstruction, and we define it clearly.

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We don't punish the beliefs, we punish the illegal behavior.

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We don't target peaceful assembly. We target interference, intimidation, stocking operations,

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blocking vehicles, and coordinated efforts to prevent lawful action. And

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we do it with restraint, we do it with documentation,

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we do it with professionalism. Now here's something else that

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I want to talk about in this episode. I have

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said in the past that some cities aren't seeing the

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same citizen deaths and the same severity of problems because

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the protest intensity aren't as high, And honestly, that's real.

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Different communities experience different outcomes. Some communities live with the

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downstream effects of repeat offenders XP networks. Some communities live

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mainly with a media narrative about enforcement. That doesn't mean

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one community is more moral than the other. It means

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we have a national problem that's being experienced locally in

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different ways. And if you've never watched a lawful operation

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get turned into chaotic street scene by organized interference, you

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might assume the agents are exaggerating. You might assume it's

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all just accountability. But if you've seen it, you know

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the truth. It's not accountability. It's pressure, and pressure breaks systems,

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it breaks people. Now here's the critical bridge. This street

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level reality didn't happen by accident. It has been escalated

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and morally licensed by political rhetoric in mainstream media, framing

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that dehumanizes enforcement and treats obstruction as righteous. Now we

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go to the route. If you want to understand why

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the street feels hotter, you have to look at who

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profits from heat, because heat is currency. Now, politicians profit

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from outrage. Outrage drives donations, turn out, and attention, and

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attention is power. Mainstream media profits from outrage too. Outrage

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keeps you watching, outrage keeps you clicking, Outrage keeps you

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emotionally hooked. And when those two forces combine, they create

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a narrative environment that doesn't just inform people, it activates people.

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Here's the core truth I want locked into the spine

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of this episode. When politicians and mainstream media push a

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hurtful narrative that paids Ice as evil, by default, they

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polarize the country and morally license obstruction. They don't have

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to say, go harass agents. They just have to repeat

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day after day that agents are monstrous, that enforcement is illegitimate,

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that anyone who participates is morally bankrupt. Because once you

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label a person illegitimate, it becomes easier to justify anything

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that is done to them. Harassment becomes accountability, obstruction becomes justice,

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Intimidation that becomes activism. That's how a society drifts into

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dehumanization without even noticing, and dehumanization is the seed of escalation. Now,

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I'm going to be fair to the reasonable critics. There

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are legitimate concerns to debate about enforcement policies. There are

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legitimate concerns about the tension conditions, There are legitimate concerns

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about mistakes. But legitimate concerns do not justify illegitimate storytelling.

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The moment you stop caring about facts, you stop being

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a reformer, and you become a propagandist. And propagandists don't

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fix systems, they burn them. They turn people against them.

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The most damaging lie in American politics right now is

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the lie of instant certainty. A clip goes viral and

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suddenly everyone knows exactly what happened, with no investigation, no context,

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and no patience, just certainty. And certainty is intoxicating because

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certainty lets people feel righteous without doing the hard work

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of thinking. Certainty lets people feel heroic without risking anything.

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Certainty turns complex reality into a cartoon, and then the

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street receives the cartoon as marching orders. So let me

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say this in plain English, the way leadership should say it.

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Politicians and the media need to stop lying with confidence.

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If you don't know what happened in an incident, you

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don't say you know, You say I don't know. We'll

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get more information if evidence is incomplete admitted. If you

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only have ten seconds of video, stop speaking like you

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have an hour. And if your narrative is also contributing

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to people obstructing, harassing, intimidating, damaging property, or escalating conflict

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around enforcement operations, then you are not an innocent commentator.

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You are part of the problem. This country cannot survive

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if leaders continue to keep using immigration as a weapon

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to divide neighbors, not because disagreement is dangerous, but because

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the rhetoric is teaching people to hate each other as

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a hobby. And when hatred becomes a hobby, the street

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becomes a stage. People stop trying to persuade, they start

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trying to punish. Now here's where we pivot to a

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tool that cuts through the propaganda faster than any speech

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ever will. Because in a world where narratives run wild,

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you need receipts, you need documentation, you need truth recorded cleanly.

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That's why body cameras matter. But before we get into that,

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we do the first and only valor built adraid of

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this podcast right here, because it fits the themes of values, responsibility,

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and building instead of burning. If you're tired of a

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culture that rewards chaos. If you still believe in responsibility, faith, patriotism,

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and building something that lasts, you'll understand why I support

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vulnerbil to pail and why I am building it myself.

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This isn't just clothing. It's a reminder that your values

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aren't something you hide when the Internet gets loud. It's

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purpose driven gear built around resilience and community, and it's

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about standing for something bigger than the next headline. If

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you want to wear what you believe and support a

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mission rooted in strength, unity, and giving back, check out

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vulnerabil to Peril. Now let's get back to it, because

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the next section is about protecting agents and citizens from

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the narrative machine. With one simple saying, Before we truly

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dive into this segment, I really want to expand and

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talk about one thing, truly and deeply. These body cameras

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could stop the narrative, and I just want to give

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you two examples. A while back, there was a cop

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who took out a black woman who everybody had assumed

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that it was a white cop that took her out

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because she was racially profiled, and just because they just

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thought that she was unarmed. And then he looked into

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the body camera footage and she launched at him with

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a knife. If it was not for the body camera footage,

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he would have been pinned to the wall with this

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narrative of white cop shoots black unarmed woman. Same thing

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happened with a Hispanic man not too long ago. White

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cop walks in and guy's standing in the kitchen. He's

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trying to he just looks out of it. Don't know

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if he's on something or is just mentally and physically

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just dealing with something. Well, the cop goes in and

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just was trying to talk to him and I don't

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know if it's his wife or his mother, was trying

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to talk to him, to him and talk him down,

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and he grabs a knife and starts walking towards the officer.

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Officer creates separation, puts a door in between the two

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of them and then is trying to talk him down,

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trying to talk him to put the weapon down, and

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eventually he opens the door and continues to charge out.

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The officer officer opens fire and shoots. Those two circumstances,

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the narrative was stopped, especially that last one, because right now,

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the Hispanic community is what the media is targeting in

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the worst way to try and make a narrative of

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racial profiling. Whenever an incident like that happens, body cameras

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can help. Yes, they might be considered a nuisance by

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law enforcement officers because you have to make sure they're

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turned on all the time, their MIC's working, all this

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other stuff, and they can get in the way a

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little bit because they're right most of the time, they're

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right center chest, but or they're off still after pretty

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much wherever they stick it on their body, which kind

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of depends on officer discretion and where it fits on

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their vest. But those circumstances can not only save the

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officer from a lawsuit, but can also save the departments

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from lawsuits and harassment. Because let's say the well we'll

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throw out there, the LAPD has an officer evolved shooting

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where it perceived minority, unarmed person was involved. Well, it's

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not just the officer himself that gets harassed on the daily.

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Then after that it is also fellow officers on the force.

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It happened after the Trayvon Martin shooting. It happened, It

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still happens, I mean, George Floyd, it happened after that happened.

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After all, these these situations. I just wanted to point

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that out because it's it's a situation where something that

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costs so little comparative can really slow down this narrative

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machine that is out to pretty much hang law enforcement

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officers out to dry. Something that small. And I understand

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not wanting to be recorded all the time when you're working,

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but you are a public officer, you are a public

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peace officer. You kind of signed up for it because

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you're going to be under the highest level of scrutiny.

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I'm going to dive into this and dive a little

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bit more into everything, but I just I had to

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lay this out there because it is a risk mitigation

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tool that can help protect the officer, the officer's family,

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fellow officers and their families, as well as the departments

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in the cities that they serve. Let's talk about body

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cameras the way adults should talk about body cameras. Not

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as a trap, not as a political trophy, not as

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a weapon to satisfy a mob. Body cameras are insurance.

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They're insurance for the agent. They're also insurance for the citizens,

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and most of all, their insurance for the truth in

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the country. Addicted to a half context, half lie, because

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right now, our biggest problem isn't that people disagree. Our

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biggest problem is that people are being trained to hate

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first and verify later. And once hate becomes the default,

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every encounter becomes a story waiting to be weaponized. That's

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what these confrontations have turned into, not just enforcement events,

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but narrative events. In a narrative event, the winner isn't

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the one who's right. It's the one who posts first,

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the one who gets their ankle out first. So here's

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the conservative leaning argument and plain english. If you want

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a country to stop tearing itself apart over edited clips,

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you record the full truth. If you want to protect

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good agents from insane narratives, you give them the best

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evidence possible, clean, continuous video. Body cameras aren't anti enforcement.

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They strengthen enforcement. They protect the legitimacy of the enforcement itself,

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and illegitimacy is the entire ballgame. If public believes enforcement

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is illegitimate, they resist it. If agents become and believe

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the public is illegitimate, they hardened against it. And if

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both sides fall into that trap, you get escalation on

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repeat all over the place. Now, body Cameras alone will

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not fix the culture, but they can stop the line

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machine from running unchecked. They can stop the propaganda war

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before it starts. Because the lie machine thrives on gaps.

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It thrives on what the camera didn't catch, It thrives

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on what got edited out. And it also thrives on

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silence between an incident and the official explanation. And in

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that silence, people don't wait patiently. They fill it in

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with whatever makes them feel like they're righteous. So a

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body camera needs to happen. The program needs to be implemented,

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not performative, not optional, and not sometimes it needs standards

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to protect the truth and protect right now at all costs.

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That starts with clear activation rules. When do cameras go on.

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What counts as an encounter and what counts as operations.

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The standard should be simple. If you're conducting enforcement activity,

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the camera is on. If you're interacting with a person

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in a situation that could lead to detention, use of force,

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or a public complaint, the camera is on. If you're

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moving someone into custody or transporting them, the camera is on.

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In all honesty. If I was an ice agent, the

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camera would be on all the time, because you never

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know what an interaction could happen. And I know, I

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know there's gonna be stuff talked about in advance. There's

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gonna be stuff talked about. All those cameras that they're

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not gonna want to have caught. But that's the stuff

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that it's probably gonna have to go away under this program. Yeah,

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it's gonna affect their privacy, But do you affect your

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privacy for hopefully being able to kill the propaganda machine

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that is against you, one that is starting in your

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lives and your family's lives through the dosing, through all

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of this, do you become uncomfortable for a little while

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to hopefully become comfortable again. It's it's one of them situations.

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There's no guarantee, and that's what makes it hard. And yeah,

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there will be exceptions, of course, because a serious policy

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respects privacy and dignity, sensitive medical situations, anything that involves minorsvictims,

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private spaces. These require special handling and careful hand but

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exceptions must be defined, logged, and they must be reviewable,

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not vague, not whenever someone feels like it, Because the

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whole point is trust, and trust dies when rules are loose.

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Now let's talk about the part nobody wants to discuss

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until it's too late. Storage in the chain of custody.

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Video is only truth if it can't be manipulated. That

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means secure storage. That means audit logs. That means clear

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access rules. Who can view footage and when, who can

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copy it and why, who can redact it and under

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what authority. A serious body camera program treats footage like

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evidence because that's what it is. And if footage is evidence,

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then tampering is not a slap on the wrist. Tampering

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is an attack on legitimacy. So the policy should be

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allowed about consequences. Intentional disabling, deletion, or manipulation should carry

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real penalties, not political penalties, professional penalties. If the country

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is going to trust enforcement, enforcement has to behave like

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it wants to be trusted. Now here's the part that

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needs courage release policy. In the modern world, the information

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vacuum is a weapon, and the people who weaponize it

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are not interested in the truth. They're interested in control.

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So you need to process that respects due process and

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investigations and doesn't allow the vacuum to become a riot engine.

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That means when a major public incident occurs, misinformation is spreading,

437
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:03.960
there should be a lawful review timeline, not maybe months,

438
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:09.079
not whenever it's convenient, a defined process, a defined review,

439
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:12.199
and a defined set of criteria for what can be

440
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:15.760
released and what must be redacted for privacy and what

441
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:21.960
must be held temporarily for investigative integrity. Because if the

442
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:26.039
public gets only rumors for two weeks, rumors become reality,

443
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:32.000
and reality becomes impossible to reclaim. Body cameras are how

444
00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:36.199
you shut the instant verdict economy down. Now, let me

445
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.599
speak directly to the people who worry about the cameras

446
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:44.320
will handcuff the agents. A professional isn't handcuffed by documentation.

447
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:51.079
A professional it's protected by documentation. The agent follows procedure,

448
00:36:51.920 --> 00:37:00.239
has nothing to do to fear from a camera. Agent

449
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:03.840
who gets baited into losing control is exactly why the

450
00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:08.360
camera needs to be there. And that's not disrespect, that's standards,

451
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:13.679
because a badge represents authority, and authority must be disciplined,

452
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.880
not because we hate authority, but because we respect how

453
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:22.280
dangerous it can become when it's sloppy. Now, let me

454
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:24.719
speak directly to the people who think cameras are only

455
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:28.840
four catching bad cops. That frame is lazy. Like I

456
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:33.840
talked about at the beginning of this section, there are

457
00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:40.559
a lot of situations where body cameras have expedited investigations

458
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.280
into whether a shoot was a good or bad shoot.

459
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.599
There has been a situations where it has also protected

460
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:56.960
those cops against media scrutiny and the propaganda machine that

461
00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:08.880
has fought against law enforcement officers for almost a decade.

462
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:19.000
This is something that is very important. Cameras catch lies.

463
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:25.559
Sometimes that lies a false accusation. Sometimes that lie is

464
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:29.800
mischaracterization in the media, and sometimes that lies the official

465
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:35.920
report that does not match reality. Truth is not partisan.

466
00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:40.320
Truth is protection. And I want to connect this back

467
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.480
to what was said earlier about narratives. When mainstream media

468
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:49.960
and politicians run reckless stories, they don't just shape public opinion,

469
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.679
They shape street behavior. They push protesters to feel morally

470
00:38:54.920 --> 00:39:00.599
justified in obstructing, They embolden harassment, and they increase the

471
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.920
odds of crowd escalation. Body cameras don't solve politics, but

472
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.239
they reduce the raw material that reckless politics uses to

473
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.440
manipulate people. Now here's a key detail that matters in

474
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:18.880
ice reform. Specifically, the body camera program needs to be

475
00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:21.880
paired with training on how to operate under a camera

476
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:29.480
without becoming a robotic or aggressive. A camera should not

477
00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:32.280
turn an agent into a performer. It should turn an

478
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:37.400
agent into a professional. That means training on verbal commands,

479
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:42.199
training on tone, training on spacing, imposture, training on how

480
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:46.360
to give lawful instructions without provoking the very confrontation activists

481
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:50.840
are hoping that it captures. The goal is not to

482
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.400
look good on camera. The goal is to do the

483
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:59.360
job correctly, to be disciplined, to be doing your job

484
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:07.800
and the best of your ability, and then the camera

485
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:12.000
will back it, improve it to these people who have

486
00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:15.280
been sitting there trying to tear you down every step

487
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:18.519
of the way. And the last thing I'll say here

488
00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:21.400
is this, a body camera is a moral mirror for

489
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.920
the agency too. If the agency wants public trust, it

490
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:28.000
can't treat cameras as a checkbox. It has to treat

491
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.960
cameras as a culture shift, a culture shift towards documentation,

492
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:37.719
toward accountability, toward transparency where appropriate, and towards discipline, because

493
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:39.840
in a country that is as divided as ours is,

494
00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:45.840
the truth has to be stronger than the narrative, and

495
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:49.039
right now, too often that narrative is winning. So yes,

496
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:55.360
body cameras not as punishment as protection. Now we move

497
00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:58.360
to the thing that keeps incidents from happening in the

498
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:03.119
first place. Training. If you want ice reform, that is real.

499
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:06.639
Training is not a nice to have. Training has to

500
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:12.400
be the foundation because the most failures that happen are

501
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:19.960
in high stress environments and are not a failure of values.

502
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:25.039
They're a failure of preparation. It's easy to sit and

503
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:27.519
talk about rights in a calm room. It's hard to

504
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:32.199
respect rights perfectly when a crowd is screaming, filming, pressing in,

505
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.840
blasting whistles, blasting horns, and trying to disorient your team

506
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.960
and you. That's why training has to match reality, not

507
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:47.760
the classroom version of reality, the street version, and if

508
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:51.079
we're being honest, the street version has changed and some

509
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:55.360
hot zones enforcement now happens inside a political storm. Officers

510
00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:58.679
aren't just doing a job. They're being turned into symbols.

511
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:03.039
And when someone becomes a symbol, people treat them differently.

512
00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:06.199
They stop seeing a human being and they start seeing

513
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:14.000
a target. That's why training must include psychological realities. Not

514
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:20.119
just legal realities. The first category is constitutional in legal boundaries,

515
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:25.199
agents must know exactly what's protected speech, what's protected recording,

516
00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:30.440
and what crosses and to obstruction. They must know the

517
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:35.280
difference between someone being loud and someone interfering. They must

518
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.519
know the difference between a person filming and a person

519
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:44.480
physically impeding movement. This is not training to crack down.

520
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:49.760
This is training to prevent mistakes, because when legal lines

521
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:54.920
are blurry in an agent's mind, they'll either hesitate or overreact.

522
00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:03.320
Hesitation can create chaos, overreaction can create handle. Clarity reduces both.

523
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:09.000
The second category is the escalation training that isn't naive,

524
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:17.159
not saying please and everyone calms down, real de escalation.

525
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.639
Real de escalation is about tone, pacing and presence. It's

526
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:27.480
about command voice without contempt. It's about staying firm without

527
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:34.320
getting emotional. Because crowds feed on emotion. If an agent

528
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:39.800
becomes visibly angry, the crowd senses like blood in the water,

529
00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:45.800
and the narrative machine gets exactly what it wants. So

530
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.760
you train the agents to breathe, to slow down, to

531
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:54.400
keep sentences simple, to keep commands lawful, clear and repeatable,

532
00:43:55.159 --> 00:44:00.599
and you train them to recognize bait, because bait is real.

533
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:05.760
There are people who show up hoping to trigger a reaction.

534
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:11.360
They want that moment, they want the clip that can

535
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:15.320
be edited into a story. So training has to include

536
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:20.119
the discipline of not giving the moment away. Not because

537
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:26.440
agents are scared, because agents are responsible. The third category

538
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:33.199
is crowd dynamics and situational awareness. Crowds don't behave like individuals.

539
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:37.400
Crowds behave like organisms. The loudest people can pull the

540
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:42.079
emotional temperature upward, and once temperature rises, people who would

541
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.840
never act alone can act reckless as part of a crowd.

542
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:50.360
That means agents must be trained and read escalation signals,

543
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:57.320
not to punish speech, just to recognize risk. You train

544
00:44:57.559 --> 00:45:01.480
for spacing, You train for movement. You train how to

545
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:05.920
reposition so an interaction isn't swallowed by a swarm because

546
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:10.280
in some environments the crowd is not just observing, it's

547
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:15.599
trying to control the geometry. That's a polite way to

548
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:18.599
say what a lot of people don't want to admit.

549
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:24.519
Some groups use coordinated pressure to constrain movement and disrupt operations,

550
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:30.559
So train for it, don't improvise. The fourth category is communication,

551
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:35.559
and team communication under stress. If colms go down, professionalism

552
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:41.599
goes down. When whistles and horns are being used to disorient.

553
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:48.239
When voices are swallowed, teams can become fragmented, and fragmented

554
00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:55.920
teams make errors. Training should include operating under sensory overload,

555
00:45:56.079 --> 00:46:01.000
not to create aggression, but to create steadiness, dispose agents

556
00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:04.039
to controlled chaos, and training so they don't freeze or

557
00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:07.920
snap in real chaos. You teach them how to communicate

558
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:12.039
in short phrases. You teach them how to standardize call outs.

559
00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:16.079
You teach them how to confirm instructions rather than guessing,

560
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:23.320
because when guessing happens, that's where the tragedy lives. The

561
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:30.159
fifth category is tactical patients and procedural discipline. Not everything

562
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:33.440
needs to happen in the next ten seconds. Sometimes the

563
00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:37.119
strongest move is not speed, its composure. A crowd wants

564
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.239
you to rush, a crowd wants you to react, because

565
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:45.719
reaction is what creates the viral clip. So train for patients,

566
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:50.599
train for waiting out debate, train for repositioning instead of escalating.

567
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:55.639
That's not weakness, that's strength under control. The sixth category

568
00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:01.880
is accountability and after action review VER agency doesn't just

569
00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:07.119
move on after operations at volatile environments. The agency should

570
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:11.679
review body camera footage internally and professionally. Not for pr

571
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:15.639
but for learning. Where did communication break? Where to de

572
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:20.480
posture or phrase and flame the moment? Where do policy

573
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:25.599
gap appear? When you update training, you update procedure, you

574
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:32.639
update standards. Because professionalism is not a slogan, it's iteration.

575
00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:38.559
The seventh category is screening. In leadership, you can't train

576
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:43.719
character into someone who doesn't have it, so recruitment and

577
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:48.000
promotion standards matter. You want calm, discipline people and roles

578
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:55.400
that will get provoked. You will also want supervisors who

579
00:47:55.559 --> 00:48:03.039
value restraint, not bravado, because culture flows downhill. If leadership

580
00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:10.719
rewards aggression, aggression spreads. If leadership rewards professionalism, professionalism will spread.

581
00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:14.559
So we fund training, but we also fund the standards

582
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:19.000
that make training matter. And now we need to say

583
00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:23.920
something that the country doesn't say enough. The agents themselves

584
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:28.119
are humans. If you want agents to act like professionals

585
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:33.760
under constant provocation, you have to treat mental strain as real,

586
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:40.679
not as weakness as reality. You build support structures that

587
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:45.000
keep good people from burning out. You rotate assignments. Intelligently.

588
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:51.280
You provide training refreshers, not just one time instruction, because

589
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:57.239
burnout creates mistakes, and mistakes create tragedy, and tragedy creates division.

590
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:04.039
That's why this reform package is not optional. It's not

591
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.719
about being nice. It's about preventing the country from spiraling

592
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:13.880
further into confrontation. Now here's the point that ties this

593
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:19.920
whole segment back to our earlier emphasis on protest interference.

594
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:24.840
If the environment is becoming more hostile and more coordinated,

595
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:29.679
you have two choices. You either prepare the professionals to

596
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:35.719
operate safely and lawfully inside that environment, or you throw

597
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:42.800
them into unprepared and pretend you're surprised when something goes wrong.

598
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:48.199
Preparation is the only adult choice. Training is the bridge

599
00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:52.840
between enforcement and legitimacy. It's how you uphold law without

600
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:57.079
becoming careless. It's how you protect rights without surrendering the mission.

601
00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:02.320
And it's how you protect good agents from being set

602
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:08.719
up by chaotic conditions, by political narratives and by media games. Now,

603
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:11.480
the next segment is where we're going to get very practical,

604
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:14.679
because even the best trained people can't do the job

605
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:19.840
safely if you isolate them in known flashpoints. So next

606
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:24.119
we talk about backup the staffing and crowd control support

607
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:28.800
without infringing on protest rights. There's a lie that gets

608
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:35.320
told in politics that sounds compassionate, but when it's actually reckless.

609
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:39.159
The lie is that you can keep turning up the

610
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:42.079
heat in the street and then blame the agents for sweating.

611
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:47.519
If you want fewer confrontations, fewer injuries, fewer mistakes, and

612
00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:51.920
fewer tragedies, we have to stop pretending this is a

613
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:58.639
normal work environment. In certain hotspots, it definitely isn't. It's

614
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:01.880
a pressure test, and when you send a small team

615
00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:05.480
into a known pressure test, you're not being brave, you're

616
00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:12.599
being negligent. Backup isn't about militarizing a city. Backup is

617
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:19.400
about being stable. It's about having enough trained people present

618
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:23.599
that no one feels cornered. It's about having enough capacity

619
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:28.239
that you can create space, maintain perimeters, and keep movement

620
00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:37.639
calm without shoving, without panic, without improvisation. Because here's what

621
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:44.280
happens when staffing is thin, Agents feel surrounded, crowds feel embodied,

622
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:51.239
and everything becomes reactive. A reactive environment is exactly what

623
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:56.280
the narrative machine wants. It wants raised voices, it wants pushing,

624
00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:02.440
it wants a moment that looks ugly on cameras. So

625
00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:06.719
a serious ice reform package says this. If an area

626
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:12.320
has predictable protest interference, plan for it like a serious operation,

627
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:16.960
not a surprise party. You pre plan entry routes and

628
00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:20.920
exit routes. You pre plan staging areas. You pre plan

629
00:52:21.119 --> 00:52:25.360
contingencies for crowd showing up quickly. You identify the legal

630
00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:30.519
boundaries of the operation, and you structure around them. You

631
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:34.280
don't create chaos by wandering into it. Now, when I

632
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:38.039
say crowd control, I'm not talking about crushing descent. I'm

633
00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:41.119
talking about controlling the environment so no one gets hurt.

634
00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:46.920
There's a huge difference between suppressing speech and enforcing boundaries.

635
00:52:48.320 --> 00:52:53.159
Speech is protected, obstruction is not. So what does right

636
00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:59.679
respecting crowd control look like. It looks like distance, It

637
00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:03.800
looks like perimeters. It looks like clear, calm instructions that

638
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:08.000
are repeated consistently. It looks like designated zones where people

639
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:11.960
can observe and record without interfering. It looks like a

640
00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:17.000
professional posture that doesn't taunt, doesn't escalate, and doesn't feed

641
00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:23.360
the crowd. Emotionally, and when interference crosses the line, blocking vehicles,

642
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:29.360
surrounding people, and physically obstructing movement, throwing objects, or damaging property,

643
00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:34.360
then enforcement targets the illegal behavior, not the beliefs. That's

644
00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:38.920
the principle. Punish the crowd is not how we need

645
00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:43.880
to act. But you need to punish the illegal act.

646
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:49.719
But you know you can't do that fairly if you

647
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:54.920
don't have enough personnel to operate calmly. Thin staffing forces speed,

648
00:53:55.280 --> 00:54:00.559
speed forces mistakes. So backup is not optional. Backup is prevention.

649
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:05.880
Now let's get even more specific. We also need specialized

650
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:11.079
training and support for operations in heavy protest environments. Not

651
00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:14.440
every agent has the same skill set. Some are better

652
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:18.320
at investigations, some are better at operations, some are better

653
00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:23.920
at public facing dynamics. A serious agency uses specialization. If

654
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:28.119
you know an environment has reoccurring interference, you assign teams

655
00:54:28.239 --> 00:54:32.960
trained for that environment. You also assign supervisors with the

656
00:54:33.039 --> 00:54:38.599
temperament for it. Because leadership is a thermostat. If the

657
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:43.039
supervisor stays calm, the team stays calmer. If the supervisor

658
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:46.960
gets emotional, the temperature spikes. And when the temperature spikes,

659
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.199
the crowd spikes. Now, this is where I want to

660
00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:55.920
emphasize something that I said earlier. Some cities don't deal

661
00:54:56.400 --> 00:55:01.559
with the same level of coordinated interference, so they don't

662
00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:06.039
understand why backup and planning are needed. They see it

663
00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:09.760
as overkill because they haven't lived it. They haven't watched

664
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:14.400
operations turned into chaos. They haven't watched people use noise

665
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:20.840
and swarming to disorient. So for those listeners, hear me clearly.

666
00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:24.519
The purpose of backup is to reduce the likelihood of force,

667
00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:29.199
not increase it. A bigger, well trained, well coordinated presence

668
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:36.800
allows distance and control. Distance and control reduced confrontations. Confrontations

669
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:42.199
reduce injuries, and injuries reduce outraged cycles. It's a chain.

670
00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:46.320
If you only send a few people to force closeness,

671
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:54.199
Closeness forces friction, and friction forces reaction, and reaction gets

672
00:55:54.199 --> 00:56:01.199
what clipped captions and use this political fuel. Now, how

673
00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:03.719
do we do this without infringing on rights? We do

674
00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:06.840
it by making the boundaries obvious and the rules consistent,

675
00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:13.360
whether it has to be wrote in law or wrote

676
00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:18.880
US policy enforceable policy, that's how we do it. A

677
00:56:18.880 --> 00:56:22.559
lot of escalation happens because people feel confused confusion turns

678
00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:25.320
into anger. And if the boundary is clear, you can

679
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:28.960
stand here, you can record here, you can protest here,

680
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:33.199
but you cannot block this vehicle, you cannot enter this

681
00:56:33.239 --> 00:56:37.719
restricted area, you cannot physically interfere. Then the crowd has

682
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:42.079
a choice. Most peaceful people will choose the lawful option.

683
00:56:43.679 --> 00:56:50.000
The people who choose illegal interference will be identifiable as

684
00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:56.559
individuals committing specific acts. That matters legally, it matters morally,

685
00:56:56.880 --> 00:57:00.320
and it matters politically. Because the fastest way to lose

686
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.960
legitimacy is to treat peaceful people like their criminals, and

687
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:08.639
the fastest way to lose the rule of law is

688
00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:13.679
to treat criminal interference like peaceful protests. So the reform

689
00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:19.840
approach is a disciplined middle line, protect speech, but also

690
00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:25.960
enforce the line. Now, this segment also has to include

691
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:32.000
another practical point, coordination with local jurisdiction. This is sensitive

692
00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:39.920
because the local politics can be hostile, but operationally coordination matters.

693
00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:44.639
In some cases, local leaders will not cooperate. In other cases,

694
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:50.119
they may cooperate selectively or unpredictably. So ICE needs clear

695
00:57:50.239 --> 00:57:54.960
protocols for what happens when cooperation exists, in what happens

696
00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:59.119
when it doesn't. And most importantly, the agency needs to

697
00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:01.880
plan for crowd events as if they are a part

698
00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:06.880
of the environment, not in an anomaly, because if you

699
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:13.039
treat predictable interference like a surprise, you will get predictable failure. Now,

700
00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:17.480
I want to say something that's going to land with conservatives.

701
00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:23.400
A government that expects excellence must provide capacity. We tell

702
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:27.000
our military train equipped in support. We tell our first

703
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.599
responders your heroes, and then we fight over whether they

704
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:34.960
should have basic gear. We cannot keep doing that. If

705
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:38.599
we want ice to do a hard job professionally under pressure,

706
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:42.920
we have to stop sending them into storms with umbrellas

707
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:48.159
and prayers. Now, back up and planning handle one part

708
00:58:48.199 --> 00:58:52.719
of the problem. But here's a specific threat to professionalism

709
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:56.760
that I have called out over and over again that

710
00:58:56.960 --> 00:59:02.360
deserves its own segment. Communication distrust. When whistles and horns

711
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:07.840
are used to break communication, that's not just irritating, it's dangerous.

712
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:12.400
So now we talk about comms and noise canceling devices

713
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:17.039
and how they can reduce escalation and prevent mistakes without

714
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:21.719
infringing on anyone else's rights. If you want to understand

715
00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:26.360
how quickly a situation can spiral focus on one thing, miscommunication.

716
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:31.440
Just remember the old telephone game. What happens when you

717
00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:33.880
have to pass a message from person to person to person.

718
00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:39.280
Now imagine that message is having to be passed as

719
00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:41.960
whistles and horns and a bunch of other noise making

720
00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.760
things are going in your ear as you're trying to

721
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:48.400
hear and understand the person next to you. Just think

722
00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:52.320
about that, Think about those communication errors and how this

723
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:56.880
can compound with everything else going on around them. Most

724
00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:59.960
disasters in any field begin with someone not hearing something,

725
01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:05.760
not understanding something, or even guessing something in high stress environments,

726
01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:15.800
in high stress enforcement, guessing can become tragedy. Now layer

727
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:24.400
in what you describe as whistles, horns, disorienting noise, all

728
01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:28.679
used deliberately. It's not about hurt feelings. It's about the

729
01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:32.639
breakdown of operational clarity. When a team can't communicate, it

730
01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:36.199
can't coordinate. When it can't coordinate, it gets fragmented. And

731
01:00:36.239 --> 01:00:39.960
when you get fragmented, individuals are forced to make rapid

732
01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:45.679
decisions without a full picture. That's where mistakes happen. And honestly,

733
01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:51.280
this is probably what happened to Alex pretty there was

734
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:54.239
a communication breakdown due to all the noise and everything

735
01:00:54.239 --> 01:00:57.679
else going on, all the people around them. And if

736
01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:02.239
you watch the video, you hear someone shout gun. And

737
01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:05.119
what does in a law enforcement officer do. As soon

738
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:10.119
as he hears a shout for a gun, they're gonna

739
01:01:10.119 --> 01:01:13.840
pull theirs and start shooting. Some of you might not

740
01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:18.079
view that as right, but you're talking about people who

741
01:01:18.119 --> 01:01:21.159
are putting their lives on the line, and what do

742
01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:25.880
you expect if they have a perceived threat. So, as

743
01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:32.639
a serious reform package needs to include upgrading communications designed

744
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:38.400
for high noise environments, noise canceling comm's devices, improved earpieces,

745
01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:44.239
improved radios, and better interoperability. Not because you want to

746
01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:47.840
silence the protesters, but because you want to prevent confusion

747
01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:52.400
for those officers. And let's say it straight, a protester

748
01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:55.519
has a right to make noise. An agent has a

749
01:01:55.599 --> 01:02:01.280
responsibility to be able to communicate clearly. Anyway, Noise canceling

750
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:07.840
comms don't take away anyone's right. It simply prevents crowds

751
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:10.840
from being able to hijack the team's ability to coordinate.

752
01:02:11.320 --> 01:02:14.079
Now here's where a second layer is added to this

753
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:17.840
tools without training don't solve problems. If you give a

754
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:23.000
team noise canceling comms but they don't have standardized communication protocols,

755
01:02:23.199 --> 01:02:30.440
you have chaos ensuing. Anyways, it's just quieter chaos. So

756
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:38.679
training must include communication discipline that means standardized short phrases,

757
01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:44.800
standardized confirmations, standardized call outs that reduce ambiguity. Instead of

758
01:02:44.840 --> 01:02:48.719
go over there, you train move the point a with

759
01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:53.079
an agreed reference. Instead of watch him, You train eyes

760
01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:57.159
on subject in red hoodie two o'clock. You reduce the

761
01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:02.800
need for guesswork. You also train confirmation habits. When a

762
01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:06.519
supervisor gives an instruction, the team repeats it back in

763
01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:10.079
short form, not because they're robots, but because robots don't

764
01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:16.639
misunderstand humans do. This is especially important under sensory overload.

765
01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:22.079
You asked for more training for dealing with protesters while

766
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:24.119
still being able to do their job, and this is

767
01:03:24.199 --> 01:03:29.320
part of it. Agents must be trained to operate in

768
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:33.519
an environment where noise is weaponized and cameras are everywhere.

769
01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:37.039
They need to be trained to keep their face calm,

770
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:42.280
their voice steady, their words short, and their posture professional.

771
01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:47.199
Because the crowd wants you to look angry if the

772
01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:50.519
crowd wants you to look unstable. It wants you to

773
01:03:50.599 --> 01:03:53.800
give them a clip, So you train them to deny

774
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:58.480
the crowd that clip without denying them their rights. That

775
01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:02.559
is the key distinction. You don't stop people from filming,

776
01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:07.400
you stop yourself from becoming baited into providing the emotional

777
01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:13.280
moment they want. Now, COLMS upgrades should also include redundancy plans.

778
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:17.159
What happens if radios go down, What happens if someone's

779
01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:22.039
headset fails, What happens if the environment becomes so chaotic

780
01:04:22.079 --> 01:04:26.639
that voice communication is compromised. You develop hand signals and

781
01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:32.559
nonverbal protocols that are standardized and trained. Not secretive, not sinister,

782
01:04:33.079 --> 01:04:38.039
just functional. Every serious team and high noise environments develop

783
01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:44.920
nonverbal systems. Construction, aviation, emergency medicine. This is normal and

784
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:51.360
serious work. And if you really want to talk about this, yes,

785
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:56.400
this leads into more of a paramilitary style force, which

786
01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:01.760
I mean any federal agency should be de e A.

787
01:05:02.199 --> 01:05:04.360
They've got their SWAT teams that are more of like

788
01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:10.000
a paramilitary they they they train like military. You've got

789
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:13.039
FBI has their swat teams. They all train like that.

790
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:22.079
D ICE needs to do the same thing. And I

791
01:05:22.119 --> 01:05:26.079
know that they've they've been hiring and recruiting, recruiting really fast,

792
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:29.239
and I know that that might lead to some of

793
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.280
the issues that we're experiencing too. But the training is

794
01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:37.599
not negotiable. The training needs to happen. The training needs

795
01:05:37.599 --> 01:05:45.760
to be standardized and made made to where we're we're

796
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:47.920
not gonna see the same mistakes over and over again.

797
01:05:51.559 --> 01:05:54.239
It's they don't have an easy job, especially now with

798
01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:58.760
all the all the politicians sitting here calling them these

799
01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:05.280
terrible things. They don't have an easy job. And if

800
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:09.239
you think you could do better, then go do it.

801
01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:14.079
Be the one who tries to change it from the inside.

802
01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:17.880
But just know you're still you're going to be joining

803
01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:20.920
a force that's putting its life on the line with

804
01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:29.639
little to no respect from the public. Actually, let me

805
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:32.239
take that back, little to no respect from the public

806
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:34.199
in the areas that you are going to be going to,

807
01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:37.599
because there are other places that do respect these people

808
01:06:37.639 --> 01:06:43.039
that like me, I respect the agents for putting their

809
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:49.159
lives in line, because no law enforcement career is easy

810
01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:55.880
and mistakes do get made no matter where you're at.

811
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:00.960
Then you pair that with body cameras, so even if

812
01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:04.519
someone tries to claim they were doing secret, illegal things.

813
01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:08.559
The footage shows exactly what happened. This is how you

814
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:13.280
build legitimacy. Now, there's another COMMS related issue that doesn't

815
01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:17.599
get talked about enough. Coordination between teams. When multiple units

816
01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:26.800
are involved, transport, perimeter operations, supervisors, communication needs interoperability. If

817
01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:30.920
one team can't talk to another cleanly, you create delays

818
01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:38.360
and confusion. Confusion leads to overreaction. Overreaction leads to incidents,

819
01:07:38.840 --> 01:07:42.800
incidents to lead to a narrative storm. So COMMS upgrades

820
01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:47.480
aren't just gadgets, their system design. And if people want

821
01:07:47.679 --> 01:07:53.239
fewer confrontations, fewer escalation moments, and fewer tragic misunderstandings, system

822
01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:58.719
design matters. Now let me tie COMMS back into the

823
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:03.360
political narrative problem, because when politicians in mainstream media push

824
01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:09.239
inflammatory stories, the streets get hotter. When the street gets hotter,

825
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:15.400
protesters may feel more justified in using disruptive tactics. That's

826
01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:19.239
exactly why we need these tools, not the silence speech,

827
01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:25.840
to protect the operation from being turned into chaos, because

828
01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:30.960
the nation cannot function if law enforcement is consistently sabotaged

829
01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:35.800
by coordinated this orientation. Now, where does all of this land.

830
01:08:36.479 --> 01:08:39.279
It lands on funding, because none of this is free,

831
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:45.000
not body cams, not training, not staffing, not comms. And

832
01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:48.039
if you want to upgrade detention facilities and standards, which

833
01:08:48.119 --> 01:08:52.000
is the biggest complaint from the left lately about all

834
01:08:52.039 --> 01:08:54.920
these people that are passing away in these detention centers,

835
01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.000
or the food or really anything, if you want to

836
01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:02.319
upgrade these standards, that's the biggest bill of all and

837
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:07.720
it has been happening ever since Obama. So you cannot

838
01:09:07.800 --> 01:09:09.640
sit here and actually if you want to take it

839
01:09:09.680 --> 01:09:11.600
all the way back to Clinton, because the same shit

840
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:17.720
happened under Clinton's administration. These detention centers have been problems

841
01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:21.800
for decades, but no, it's always been the Republican's problem.

842
01:09:22.079 --> 01:09:24.800
It's always been a Republican president who gets blamed for

843
01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:30.680
this crap. This is not a part is an issue,

844
01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:33.319
This is a bipart is an issue. We all need

845
01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:35.560
to come together, we all need to push for it.

846
01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:39.880
We all need to increase the standards in these detention

847
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:50.119
facilities because life is still value no matter who they are.

848
01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:58.600
So we're gonna move on to the funding segment and

849
01:09:58.640 --> 01:10:04.399
how a conservative approach funds reform with accountability. Instead of

850
01:10:04.439 --> 01:10:12.399
starving the system, Let's talk funding, because this is where

851
01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:15.640
people pretend emotions or policy. They demand a perfect system

852
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:19.239
and then demand the system be starved. They demand excellence,

853
01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:24.840
and then they demand austerity. That's not reform, that's sabotage

854
01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:27.680
with a slogan. And I'm so tired of hearing these

855
01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:32.199
Democrat representatives come out and say, no, we have to

856
01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:35.920
defund ICE, just like we have to defund the police.

857
01:10:37.000 --> 01:10:40.760
Back during Obama's term, we have to defund the police.

858
01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:44.720
You know what happened when we defund the police. Crimes

859
01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:51.800
went up, reporting came down, and we had lawlessness in

860
01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:55.520
our streets. And it's only gotten worse since because they

861
01:10:55.600 --> 01:10:58.399
keep pushing this to fund narrative. Oh, we can just

862
01:10:58.479 --> 01:11:03.840
send a social worker in to do a police officer's job.

863
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:09.640
Oh we can just go and cut funding to ICE

864
01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:14.279
and expect them to not only improve their detention facilities

865
01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:19.159
and the way that everything happens in there, but yet

866
01:11:20.399 --> 01:11:26.279
also improve training, improve communication, prevent anything else from happening

867
01:11:26.960 --> 01:11:31.279
due to their own due to their political narrative against

868
01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:37.199
these officers. You're putting a lot of stress on a

869
01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:45.079
very little budget. Here's the conservative truth that needs to

870
01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:48.199
be said louder than the activists and louder than the pundits.

871
01:11:48.439 --> 01:11:51.600
If you want ICE to be more professional, more restrained,

872
01:11:51.840 --> 01:11:55.479
more documented, and more humane where the custody is involved,

873
01:11:55.760 --> 01:11:58.760
then you have to fund the reforms that create those outcomes.

874
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:03.279
You can't train people on good intentions. You train people

875
01:12:03.359 --> 01:12:08.039
with hours, scenarios, supervision, and standards, and that takes money.

876
01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:13.439
You can't implement body cameras with a prayer. You implement

877
01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:19.680
body cameras with hardware, storage, encryption, policy, audit trails, and compliance.

878
01:12:20.319 --> 01:12:24.239
That all takes money. You can't fix detention conditions with

879
01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:30.399
hashtags or videos or standing at a podium. You fix

880
01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:35.680
detention centers with facility upgrades, staffing, medical access, sanitation systems,

881
01:12:35.720 --> 01:12:41.560
and oversight that actually bites. That all takes money. So

882
01:12:41.600 --> 01:12:45.920
the argument isn't fund ICE. No matter what the argument is,

883
01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:52.000
fund ICE modernization with strict accountability. That's the conservative lane,

884
01:12:52.199 --> 01:12:57.119
not blank checks, not bureaucratic sprawl, targeted funding tied to

885
01:12:57.199 --> 01:13:01.479
measurable standards. Let me say it in a way that

886
01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:06.479
makes this unavoidable. Cutting funding doesn't reduce risk, It actually

887
01:13:06.479 --> 01:13:11.720
increases the risk. It makes it worse when you cut budgets,

888
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:14.680
you cut training hours. When you cut training hours, you

889
01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:17.840
increase the chance of mistakes. And when mistakes happen, you

890
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:20.760
create out create the outrage cycles that we see today.

891
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:24.640
When the outrage cycles hit, politicians then use them and

892
01:13:24.760 --> 01:13:29.920
exploit them. And when the country gets more polarized from

893
01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:33.119
those politicians, you see what we see in the streets. Now,

894
01:13:34.520 --> 01:13:38.760
starvation is not accountability. Starvation is negligence to the problem.

895
01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:44.119
Now here's what a serious funding model looks like. First,

896
01:13:44.279 --> 01:13:46.439
you separate the money for the mission from the money

897
01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:52.680
for the modernization. Mission. Money keeps operations functioning. Modernization money

898
01:13:52.960 --> 01:13:58.560
upgrades to standards. If you can't separate them, modernization loses

899
01:13:58.640 --> 01:14:02.760
every time because urgent operations always eat the budget and

900
01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:05.239
then you get stuck in a loop where critics screen

901
01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:11.079
reform but the system never gets the capacity to actually reform. Second,

902
01:14:11.800 --> 01:14:16.039
you tie the modernization money to compliance benchmarks. Now, we

903
01:14:16.239 --> 01:14:21.800
tried benchmarks, body camera deployment rates, camera on compliance rates,

904
01:14:22.079 --> 01:14:30.880
tamper audit results, training completion rates, scenario training hours per agent, supervisor, certification,

905
01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:39.319
after action review completion, reduction impreventable incidents. And you build

906
01:14:39.319 --> 01:14:46.960
a dashboard for professionalism not to shame people to track reality. Third,

907
01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:52.039
you fund the boring infrastructure that makes reform real, because

908
01:14:52.079 --> 01:14:57.399
most reforms die in the boring parts. Bodycams are not

909
01:14:57.520 --> 01:15:02.079
just cameras. There's storage to stems with rules, their data security,

910
01:15:02.159 --> 01:15:07.560
their redaction capabilities for privacy, and their evidence management. Training

911
01:15:07.640 --> 01:15:13.159
is not a seminar, it's instructors, facilities, scheduled capacity, and

912
01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:17.000
operational coverage so people can actually attend training without leaving

913
01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:21.960
the field. Understaffed comms are not just new headsets. Their

914
01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:27.479
interoperability planning, their redundancy protocols, their standardized communication, training and

915
01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:32.560
equipment maintenance. Detenson standards are not just a press release.

916
01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:39.119
Their inspections, their staffing, their medical access, their documented corrective actions,

917
01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:46.920
their consequences for failure. Fourth, you implement auditing that is

918
01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:50.920
independent enough to be credible. Because here's the truth. If

919
01:15:50.960 --> 01:15:54.880
the only agency audit is one that it does itself,

920
01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:58.800
critics will never believe it, and if critics never believe it,

921
01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:02.680
the country never calms down. So you create an oversight

922
01:16:02.760 --> 01:16:08.039
process that is tough, consistent, and transparent where appropriate. Not

923
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:15.520
activist theater, not partisan planning or parties in grandstanding. Real audits,

924
01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:21.039
real reports real consequences. Now, I want to emphasize something

925
01:16:21.600 --> 01:16:27.319
you have probably heard multiple times because it's the heart

926
01:16:27.319 --> 01:16:32.760
of the whole argument. Cutting funding will not produce the

927
01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:38.239
desired result that either side wants or claims to want.

928
01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:42.399
People on the left who want fewer confrontations, fewer mistakes,

929
01:16:42.439 --> 01:16:47.239
fewer tragedies, and better conditions should understand that starvation produces

930
01:16:47.279 --> 01:16:51.800
the opposite. It reduces training, it increases burnout, and it

931
01:16:51.840 --> 01:16:56.800
increases the error that happens. People on the right who

932
01:16:56.840 --> 01:17:00.920
want stronger enforcement and secure borders should understand that starvation

933
01:17:01.720 --> 01:17:07.319
produces the opposite too. It reduces capacity, it reduces retention,

934
01:17:07.640 --> 01:17:12.159
it increases operational failure. This is why the country feels trapped,

935
01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:17.279
because we keep choosing emotionally satisfying positions instead of operationally

936
01:17:17.319 --> 01:17:22.119
effective ones. A serious reform package says, fund what fixes it,

937
01:17:22.159 --> 01:17:25.960
and demand proof. Now here's where I'm going to take

938
01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:31.840
a shot straight at the political class. Politicians love to

939
01:17:31.880 --> 01:17:35.720
scream about ice when it helps them, but when it

940
01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:42.000
comes to fund serious reforms, training, cameras, comms, detention standards,

941
01:17:42.159 --> 01:17:45.199
they suddenly get quiet or they start playing games. They

942
01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:49.960
want chaos because chaos is useful if the system is chaotic.

943
01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:51.920
They can point at it and say look how evil

944
01:17:51.960 --> 01:17:54.039
they are, or they can point at it and say

945
01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:57.960
look how underattack they are. Either way they win attention,

946
01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:02.439
but the country loses. So conservative reformers says, stop treating

947
01:18:02.439 --> 01:18:06.399
this like a campaign prop fund the reforms demand their receipts,

948
01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:13.920
raise the standards because we deserve better. Now let's make

949
01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:17.399
this personal, because that's what breaks through the noise. If

950
01:18:17.399 --> 01:18:19.520
you have a loved one in law enforcement or military,

951
01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:22.680
you understand something deep. You don't send them into danger

952
01:18:22.720 --> 01:18:26.800
without training, support and equipment. You don't tell them go

953
01:18:26.840 --> 01:18:28.640
do your job and then strip them of the tools

954
01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:32.279
that keep them safe and professional. So why are we

955
01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:35.600
doing that here? If we're going to ask ice to

956
01:18:35.640 --> 01:18:42.800
operate in hostile environments, under constant filming, under disorienting noise,

957
01:18:43.840 --> 01:18:48.239
under political deuanization, we owe them the equipment and training

958
01:18:48.279 --> 01:18:52.079
to do it right. That's not worship, that's responsibility. And

959
01:18:52.119 --> 01:18:55.399
if we're going to detain people under federal authority, we

960
01:18:55.560 --> 01:18:59.880
owe the country the assurance that detention conditions meet basic

961
01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:09.960
humanitarian standards. That's not surrender, that's moral seriousness. Now we

962
01:19:10.039 --> 01:19:14.680
bridge into detention section soon, but first This is the

963
01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:19.159
only place in the episode where the next ad read

964
01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:24.520
fits naturally, because what's underneath so much polarization is stress,

965
01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:28.920
anxiety and the sense of financial and personal instability. People

966
01:19:29.279 --> 01:19:34.079
who feel trapped are easier to manipulate, So we're going

967
01:19:34.119 --> 01:19:43.439
to talk about our other partner Sequence. One reason politics

968
01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:45.960
is so easy to weaponize right now is because people

969
01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:53.359
feel maxed maxed out financially, mentally, emotionally, and when you're

970
01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:59.399
stressed and drowning, you're easier to control with fear. That's

971
01:19:59.399 --> 01:20:01.920
why I like to rules that help people build instead

972
01:20:01.920 --> 01:20:05.159
of living in panic. Sequence is designed to help you

973
01:20:05.279 --> 01:20:09.840
see your money clearly, spending, saving goals, and the decisions

974
01:20:10.039 --> 01:20:14.239
that actually move you forward. Not hype, not get rich quick,

975
01:20:14.840 --> 01:20:17.840
just visibility and a plan to stick to. If you

976
01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:20.279
want to reduce stress and take control of your finances,

977
01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:24.840
check out Sequence. A plan beats panic every time. All

978
01:20:24.960 --> 01:20:30.600
right back to the most morally serious part of this episode.

979
01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:33.439
We're going to go into detention reform, and I want

980
01:20:33.479 --> 01:20:37.399
everyone to hear this with clarity. If the federal government

981
01:20:37.439 --> 01:20:41.119
detains human beings, the federal government owns the responsibility for

982
01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:45.239
how they're treated. There is no moral outsourcing. There is

983
01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:48.640
no not our problem. And if anyone tries to tell

984
01:20:48.680 --> 01:20:53.359
you that humane standards are weak, remind them something simple.

985
01:20:53.640 --> 01:20:56.640
A strong country is not one that crushes people. A

986
01:20:56.680 --> 01:20:59.359
strong country is one that enforces the law without losing

987
01:20:59.399 --> 01:21:04.720
its soul. So now we go deeper. If you only

988
01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:08.279
remember one principle from this entire episode, remember this one.

989
01:21:08.479 --> 01:21:11.680
If the federal government takes custody of a human being,

990
01:21:12.239 --> 01:21:16.520
the federal government owns the responsibility for how that human

991
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:21.159
is being treated, not some contractor, not a chain of contractors,

992
01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:24.840
not a maze of excuses in paperwork. The government owns it.

993
01:21:25.199 --> 01:21:28.720
The country owns it. And if we dodge that responsibility,

994
01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:32.840
we don't get a stronger nation, we get a weaker

995
01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:40.479
one with uglier scandals. Now let's say something that needs

996
01:21:40.520 --> 01:21:44.079
to be said plainly, because people keep trying to rewrite

997
01:21:44.279 --> 01:21:50.439
history based on which team they hate today, detention problems

998
01:21:50.720 --> 01:21:54.760
have not been exclusive to one party or one moment.

999
01:21:55.560 --> 01:22:01.359
They have shown across multiple eras, under multiple fists, including

1000
01:22:01.439 --> 01:22:04.720
the Barack Obama years. That matters because it tells you

1001
01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:10.119
the truth. This isn't a personality problem. It's a system problem,

1002
01:22:10.319 --> 01:22:13.840
and system problems don't get fixed by rage, they get

1003
01:22:13.880 --> 01:22:17.359
fixed by standards. And if we're going to enforce the law,

1004
01:22:17.560 --> 01:22:22.760
we must build a custody system that meets basic humanitarian requirements.

1005
01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:28.119
Not because we're naive, not because we're soft, because we're

1006
01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:32.760
Americans and we do not outsource our moral obligations. Now,

1007
01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:36.039
I want to be careful here because I'm not pretending

1008
01:22:36.119 --> 01:22:40.359
resources are infinite, but I am saying priorities reveal character.

1009
01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:44.079
If we can find money for endless bureaucracy, we can

1010
01:22:44.119 --> 01:22:46.760
find money for clean water. If we can find money

1011
01:22:46.760 --> 01:22:50.439
for political pet projects, we can find money for medical screening.

1012
01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:53.960
If we can find money for propaganda, we can find

1013
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:58.880
money for sanitation. Humanitarian care is not a luxury. It's

1014
01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:06.079
a minimum standard for serious countries. So what does humanitarian

1015
01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:09.560
care mean? And plain language, it means clean facilities. It

1016
01:23:09.640 --> 01:23:16.239
means safe food and portable water. It means reasonable temperature control.

1017
01:23:17.199 --> 01:23:20.319
It means access to basic medical screening and care. It

1018
01:23:20.359 --> 01:23:25.119
means hygiene. It means reducing preventable suffering. And here's the

1019
01:23:25.239 --> 01:23:29.760
part people miss. It also means order because when conditions

1020
01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:34.159
are chaotic, everything else becomes chaotic too. When conditions degrade,

1021
01:23:34.199 --> 01:23:39.640
tensions rise, and when tensions rise, incidents rise, incidents become headlines,

1022
01:23:40.039 --> 01:23:45.520
Headlines become narratives, narratives become political weapons, and suddenly the

1023
01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:51.079
entire mission gets dragged into a legitimacy crisis. So detension

1024
01:23:51.119 --> 01:23:57.239
reform is not separate from the enforcement. Detention reform protects enforcement.

1025
01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:00.800
If we want to reserve the ability to enforce immigration law,

1026
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.239
we have to preserve the moral credibility of that enforcement.

1027
01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:10.560
You don't preserve credibility by shrugging at bad conditions. Now

1028
01:24:11.079 --> 01:24:15.960
you also asked for a major structural change. Facilities should

1029
01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:22.319
be federal, not privately owned. Let's talk about that. Like conservatives.

1030
01:24:22.680 --> 01:24:26.720
Privatization can be efficient in some areas, but the tension

1031
01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:30.399
is not just a service. It's a moral responsibility under

1032
01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:33.720
the authority of the state. And when you add profit

1033
01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:37.399
incentives to custody, you create risk. You create pressures to

1034
01:24:37.439 --> 01:24:41.079
cut costs and ways that can collide with dignity and care.

1035
01:24:42.239 --> 01:24:47.119
You create layers of accountability where no one feels truly

1036
01:24:47.279 --> 01:24:55.039
responsible and when something goes wrong. So the reform direction

1037
01:24:55.359 --> 01:24:59.439
is straightforward where feasible. We have to move forward with

1038
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:03.479
federal FIS facilities with federal oversight and clear federal standards

1039
01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:06.960
where private facilities remain part of the system during a transition.

1040
01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:12.239
You enforce federal standards with real teeth, no soft audits,

1041
01:25:12.359 --> 01:25:18.399
no recommendations, no will try, real inspections, real corrective action plans,

1042
01:25:18.439 --> 01:25:21.960
and real consequences, because if the standards are optional, they

1043
01:25:21.960 --> 01:25:27.000
are not standards. They are press release. Now here's another

1044
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:30.239
truth we need to confront Overcrowding and delay are silent

1045
01:25:30.319 --> 01:25:34.199
killers of humane standards. When the immigration system is slow

1046
01:25:34.319 --> 01:25:42.000
and clogged, detention facilities become pressure chambers. When they become

1047
01:25:42.039 --> 01:25:46.680
pressure chambers, conditions deteriorate. So part of detention reform is

1048
01:25:46.760 --> 01:25:52.039
thoroughput a functioning system that processes case is faster, a

1049
01:25:52.039 --> 01:25:56.239
functioning system that separates priorities clearly, and a functioning system

1050
01:25:56.279 --> 01:26:02.000
that doesn't keep people in nimbo forever. When this pipeline

1051
01:26:02.159 --> 01:26:06.079
is clogged, everything downstream gets ugly, and when the people

1052
01:26:06.199 --> 01:26:10.960
argue about the ugliness as if it's moral mystery, it's

1053
01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:15.119
not a mystery, it's a math. So guess we need

1054
01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:20.479
facility standards. We also need a system that has standards

1055
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:26.720
as well. We need clear custody timelines, clear consistent procedures.

1056
01:26:27.039 --> 01:26:31.399
We need fast education where possible, and we need prioritization

1057
01:26:31.479 --> 01:26:35.680
of dangerous individuals and traffickers so we can cut down

1058
01:26:35.800 --> 01:26:39.520
on incidents that happen in these detention centers. Now, let

1059
01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:41.239
me speak to both sides of the aisle with a

1060
01:26:41.239 --> 01:26:45.239
straight spine. To the people who want open borders, chaos

1061
01:26:45.239 --> 01:26:48.760
and detention centers will not create compassion, it will create

1062
01:26:48.840 --> 01:26:53.760
backlash and harder enforcement. To the people who want pure

1063
01:26:53.800 --> 01:26:58.119
crackdowns with no reform, ugly detention conditions will not create strength,

1064
01:26:58.359 --> 01:27:02.079
It will destroy legitimacy and fuel resistance, and it will

1065
01:27:02.079 --> 01:27:05.680
only make the situation on the streets worse. The only

1066
01:27:06.039 --> 01:27:09.760
durable path is a serious path. Secure the border, enforce

1067
01:27:09.840 --> 01:27:15.359
the law, fund training and accountability, and maintain humane custody standards.

1068
01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:20.359
Because that combination doesn't just sound nice, it's the only

1069
01:27:20.399 --> 01:27:24.359
combination that can hold. Now, I want to tie detention

1070
01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:30.640
reform back to what I said earlier about mainstream media narratives.

1071
01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:34.680
This matters. When politicians in mainstream media decide to paint

1072
01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:38.760
every enforcement operation is evil, they will use the detention

1073
01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:44.359
conditions as ammunition. And if conditions are genuinely bad, they

1074
01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:48.239
don't need to exaggerate. So the fastest way to remove

1075
01:27:48.279 --> 01:27:51.720
ammunition from the propaganda war is to actually fix what's broken,

1076
01:27:52.760 --> 01:27:56.640
raise the standards, prove it with audits and documentation, and

1077
01:27:56.680 --> 01:28:00.680
take the truth back. If we do that, we protect

1078
01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:04.680
detainees from negligence, we protect agents from being turned into

1079
01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:07.720
symbols of cruelty, and we protect the country from another

1080
01:28:07.800 --> 01:28:12.239
excuse to tear itself apart. Now we're gonna zoom out

1081
01:28:12.279 --> 01:28:15.479
again because the tension reform is the moral spine, but

1082
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:20.119
border security is the structural spine. A nation that cannot

1083
01:28:20.159 --> 01:28:23.399
control its borders cannot control its future. And that's not

1084
01:28:23.479 --> 01:28:28.159
just a talking point. That is actual reality. And I'm

1085
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:30.520
going to say something that some people are gonna hate,

1086
01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:34.239
but it's true. Border security is not optional if you

1087
01:28:34.279 --> 01:28:41.479
want compassion to actually work, because compassion without order becomes

1088
01:28:41.560 --> 01:28:48.279
magnetized suffering. When the system is overwhelmed, the vulnerable get exploited.

1089
01:28:48.520 --> 01:28:51.840
When the system is inconsistent, criminals find gaps. When the

1090
01:28:51.880 --> 01:28:59.000
system is chaotic, something happens and everyone loses. This is

1091
01:28:59.039 --> 01:29:03.880
where the conversation gets emotional, and it should because we're

1092
01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:06.760
not talking about spreadsheets. We're talking about safety, sovereignty in

1093
01:29:06.800 --> 01:29:10.920
the social contract. The social contract is simple a citizen

1094
01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:13.960
obeys the law and contributes to the nation. In return,

1095
01:29:14.279 --> 01:29:18.760
the nation protects the citizen, protects the community, and maintains order.

1096
01:29:19.520 --> 01:29:22.439
When the border becomes a symbol of dysfunction, the social

1097
01:29:22.560 --> 01:29:27.520
contract begins to crack. People feel like the rules are

1098
01:29:27.560 --> 01:29:30.359
just for suckers. They feel like loyalty is being punished.

1099
01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:34.520
And when citizens begin to believe that, you don't just

1100
01:29:34.680 --> 01:29:38.119
get political division, you get cultural division. Now, a lot

1101
01:29:38.119 --> 01:29:40.399
of Americans want to focus on one piece of the

1102
01:29:40.439 --> 01:29:43.800
puzzle and ignore the rest. But the truth is, immigration

1103
01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:47.880
is a system. The border is one part, and interior

1104
01:29:48.279 --> 01:29:52.880
enforcement is one part. Courts and education are one part.

1105
01:29:53.399 --> 01:29:58.319
Workplace enforcement and incentives are one part. Legal immigration pathways

1106
01:29:58.479 --> 01:30:01.279
are one part. If you fix one part and ignore

1107
01:30:01.319 --> 01:30:06.079
the others, you don't fix the system. You punish and

1108
01:30:06.199 --> 01:30:10.359
push the problem around like a lump under a rug.

1109
01:30:12.159 --> 01:30:16.279
So here's the right leaning approach that's serious enough to work.

1110
01:30:16.680 --> 01:30:20.399
You secure the border and enforce it consistently. You prioritize

1111
01:30:20.439 --> 01:30:24.840
dangerous offenders, traffickers and those the serious criminal histories, and

1112
01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:28.239
you stop pretending that a broken system should be managed

1113
01:30:28.279 --> 01:30:32.880
forever instead of fixed. You always create a process that

1114
01:30:32.960 --> 01:30:38.359
doesn't take an eternity, a process that makes decisions, a

1115
01:30:38.399 --> 01:30:42.840
process that doesn't trap everyone in limbo, because limbo is

1116
01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:47.079
what fuels chaos. Limbo is what fuels overcrowding. Limbo is

1117
01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:51.359
what fuels street level conflict. And the reason this ties

1118
01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:54.079
directly back to ICE is simple. When the border is

1119
01:30:54.199 --> 01:30:58.439
uncontrolled and the system is backed up, it creates pressure

1120
01:30:58.520 --> 01:31:03.199
everywhere else. It increases the burden on interior enforcement, it

1121
01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:08.840
increases the burden on detention, it increases the burden on communities.

1122
01:31:10.439 --> 01:31:14.720
Then politics gets louder, then protests get bigger, and interference

1123
01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:19.920
becomes more likely. Then agents become more pressured. This is

1124
01:31:19.960 --> 01:31:22.720
why the secure the Border piece is not just ideology.

1125
01:31:22.800 --> 01:31:27.439
It's prevention. If you reduce the chaos upstream, you reduce

1126
01:31:27.520 --> 01:31:31.399
the chaos downstream. And when you reduce chaos downstream, you

1127
01:31:31.479 --> 01:31:34.359
reduce confrontation on the street. Now, I want to speak

1128
01:31:34.399 --> 01:31:36.720
directly to the people that say, but what about rights?

1129
01:31:37.560 --> 01:31:48.800
Rights matter? Because they always matter, and when enforcement is unprofessional, undocumented, unrestrained,

1130
01:31:50.439 --> 01:31:54.119
you have chaos in the streets. And that's why body

1131
01:31:54.119 --> 01:31:59.199
cameras matter. That's why training matters, that's why comms matter,

1132
01:32:00.640 --> 01:32:05.479
That's why human detention standards matter. This episode is not

1133
01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:10.840
arguing for unlimited power, it's arguing for competent power under standards,

1134
01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:18.720
because the alternative is incompetent power under pressure, and incompetent

1135
01:32:18.760 --> 01:32:23.159
power under pressure is how countries fracture. So yes, secure

1136
01:32:23.199 --> 01:32:25.880
the border, protect the country, and do it in a

1137
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way that doesn't destroy the legitimacy of the mission. Now

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we're going to move to the full package, the part

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where we lay it down so clearly that anyone acting

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01:32:35.239 --> 01:32:39.800
in good faith can understand what reform actually means. Here's

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01:32:39.840 --> 01:32:44.159
what we were actually demanding, not vibes, not slogans, a

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01:32:44.239 --> 01:32:48.880
concrete package. First, body cameras are the standard equipment with

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01:32:49.079 --> 01:32:54.159
real compliance rules, not as punishment, as insurance for agents

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01:32:54.199 --> 01:32:57.000
in truth, for the public. When you live in a

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01:32:57.039 --> 01:33:00.720
world where editing clips become verdicts, full footage comes protection.

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01:33:01.199 --> 01:33:04.760
It protects the innocent, it exposes the misconduct when it happens,

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01:33:04.880 --> 01:33:10.119
and it reduces the propaganda space. Second, upgraded training that

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01:33:10.239 --> 01:33:18.520
matches the modern environment de escalation under provocation, crowd dynamics,

1149
01:33:20.039 --> 01:33:28.800
writes boundaries under stress and scenario training with noise filming,

1150
01:33:29.239 --> 01:33:33.279
bait tactics, and swarming behaviors without giving anyone a blueprint.

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01:33:33.720 --> 01:33:36.399
You don't train people to be brutal. You train people

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01:33:36.560 --> 01:33:41.840
to be controlled. Third staffing and backup in known hotspots

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01:33:41.880 --> 01:33:46.479
so agents aren't isolated in volatile environments. More trained professionals

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01:33:46.520 --> 01:33:53.399
is not militarization when it's used to create distance, parameters

1155
01:33:53.439 --> 01:33:59.399
and stability. Thin cruise create closeness. Closeness creates friction. Friction

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01:33:59.600 --> 01:34:05.800
creates escalation. Fourth, communication upgrades that work inside of the chaos,

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01:34:06.479 --> 01:34:16.039
noise canceling comms, interoperability, standardize communication protocols, and redundancy planning.

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01:34:16.800 --> 01:34:20.520
This is not the silent speech. It's to prevent the

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01:34:20.640 --> 01:34:23.479
crowd from being able to hijack the team's ability to

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01:34:23.520 --> 01:34:29.000
coordinate safely. Fifth funding with accountability. You fund the reforms

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01:34:29.000 --> 01:34:33.119
and you demand proof training hours logged, compliance, verified, audits

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01:34:33.159 --> 01:34:38.960
published where appropriate consequences for tampering, negligence and waste. And

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01:34:39.000 --> 01:34:40.800
if you're going to ask ice to do a hard

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01:34:40.840 --> 01:34:43.479
job in a hostile environment, we at least owe them

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01:34:43.520 --> 01:34:48.960
the tools to do so professionally, and the public deserves

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01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:55.960
proof those tools are being used correctly. Sixth detention reform

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01:34:56.319 --> 01:35:04.720
that recognizes federal moral responsibility, humane standards documented inspections, corrective

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01:35:04.720 --> 01:35:09.159
action with consequences, and a real push toward federal standards

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01:35:09.159 --> 01:35:14.960
and facilities were feasible because custody is not an operational function,

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it's a moral weight. Seventh, a reality based approach to protests.

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Defend the peaceful protest, defend recording, defend criticism, but enforce

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01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:33.079
the line when obstruction, harassment, intimidation, stalking operations, blocking vehicles,

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01:35:33.119 --> 01:35:37.600
and coordinated interference that helps criminals evade. We do not

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punish beliefs, but we do punish the illegal acts. And

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now this is the piece specifically asked to emphasize, and

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it's not negotiable part of the reform package. Eight. Politicians

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in mainstream media need to stop their hurtful narrative war.

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Stop demonizing agents by default, Start declaring verdicts after you

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01:36:04.880 --> 01:36:12.479
have the facts. Stop using inflammatory framing that polarizes the

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01:36:12.600 --> 01:36:16.920
country and makes protesters feel morally licensed to obstruct, harassed,

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01:36:16.920 --> 01:36:24.600
and escalate. Because even a politician never says go do it,

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01:36:26.880 --> 01:36:30.600
reckless rhetoric still creates permission, and permission is how people

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01:36:30.640 --> 01:36:35.000
cross lines while feeling righteous in the process. This is

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01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:38.600
not about silencing speech. It's about calling leaders to responsibility.

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01:36:38.680 --> 01:36:41.239
If you are a leader, act like one. If you

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01:36:41.319 --> 01:36:46.000
are a journalist, behave like truth matters. If you don't

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01:36:46.079 --> 01:36:49.640
know what happened, stop pretending you do. And this goes

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01:36:49.680 --> 01:36:51.560
for both sides of the aisle. I don't care if

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you are a conservative, if you're a liberal. I don't

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01:36:54.119 --> 01:36:55.960
care if you're red or you're blue. I don't care

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01:36:56.000 --> 01:37:00.239
if you are a Republican or a Democrat. This goes

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01:37:00.279 --> 01:37:06.039
for both sides. Because the streets listen, the street reacts,

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01:37:06.159 --> 01:37:09.800
and when leaders lie loudly, the street becomes more dangerous

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for everyone. Now let me lock it on the whole point.

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This reform package protects the country. It protects rights, it

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protects agents, It protects the legitimacy of the re enforcement.

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01:37:22.279 --> 01:37:26.600
It rejects the lie that defund is reform. It rejects

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the lie that no standard is strength, and it rejects

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the lie that the only way to support ICE is

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to ignore what needs fixing. You can support the mission

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01:37:37.039 --> 01:37:40.159
and demand reform at the same time. That's what grown

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01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:43.520
ups do. Now we close this the way that it

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01:37:43.560 --> 01:37:45.880
deserves to be closed, not with a whisper, but a

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01:37:45.920 --> 01:37:51.600
call to maturity. Let me bring us home. We're watching

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01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:56.399
two Americas talk past each other. One America sees enforcement

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01:37:56.600 --> 01:38:01.039
and thinks safety. Another America sees enforcement and thinks oppression.

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And in the middle of all that, the truth gets crushed.

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01:38:05.800 --> 01:38:09.079
The truth gets replaced by narratives, and narratives are being

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01:38:09.119 --> 01:38:13.359
sold like a product. Politicians sell outrage because outrage gets votes,

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01:38:13.600 --> 01:38:18.640
mainstream media sells fear because fear gets clicked, and activists

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01:38:19.199 --> 01:38:24.520
sell moral certainty because moral certainty gets recruits. But none

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01:38:24.560 --> 01:38:27.199
of them are the ones who get surrounded at night.

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01:38:27.520 --> 01:38:31.479
None of them are the ones whose neighborhoods absorb the consequences.

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None of them are the ones whose families live with

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01:38:35.359 --> 01:38:39.439
the aftermath. And that's why this episode exists. Because the

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01:38:39.520 --> 01:38:46.239
country cannot heal if we keep being emotionally framed, informed

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01:38:47.239 --> 01:38:52.159
by people who profit from the vision. So here's what

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01:38:52.199 --> 01:38:58.000
I'm asking for, Not blind loyalty, not blind rage. Maturity.

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01:38:58.840 --> 01:39:03.520
Maturity looks like saying the mission matters. We need borders,

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01:39:03.800 --> 01:39:07.880
we need law, we need enforcement. Maturity also looks like

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01:39:07.920 --> 01:39:13.680
saying enforcement must be professional, transparent, and restrained because government

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01:39:13.800 --> 01:39:17.439
power without discipline becomes a problem. And even when the

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01:39:17.439 --> 01:39:22.600
mission is legitimate. Maturity looks like rejecting the political scam

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01:39:22.880 --> 01:39:26.720
that says starving an agency creates reform, because it doesn't.

1225
01:39:26.840 --> 01:39:31.600
It creates mistakes, and mistakes become tragedies. Tragedies become propaganda,

1226
01:39:31.800 --> 01:39:35.600
Propaganda becomes unrest. This is a cycle and we can

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01:39:35.680 --> 01:39:37.920
break it, but we can only break it by telling

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01:39:37.960 --> 01:39:44.720
the truth. We tell the truth about protest. Peaceful protests

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01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:49.359
is a right, but obstruction is not. We tell the

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01:39:49.359 --> 01:39:54.000
truth about narratives. When politicians in mainstream media demonize ice,

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01:39:54.039 --> 01:39:57.079
by default, they polarize the country and they push people

1232
01:39:57.079 --> 01:40:02.039
toward interference while feeling morally just did we tell the

1233
01:40:02.119 --> 01:40:07.319
truth about solutions, body cameras, training, backup comms at work

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01:40:07.399 --> 01:40:14.239
under noise, funding, with accountability, federal responsibility for humane detention standards.

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That is reform, not slogans, not scapegoats, not starving the system.

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And I want to say something directly to the agents

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01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:26.720
who do this work professionally. You don't deserve to be

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01:40:26.720 --> 01:40:29.319
turned into a symbol by people who don't even know

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01:40:29.359 --> 01:40:33.159
your name. You don't deserve to be baited into chaos

1240
01:40:33.319 --> 01:40:36.039
so someone can clip a moment and make money off

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01:40:36.079 --> 01:40:40.000
of it. You deserve training, You deserve equipment, You deserve

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01:40:40.039 --> 01:40:43.600
standards that protect your reputation and your safety as well

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01:40:43.640 --> 01:40:47.840
as your families. And I want to say something directly

1244
01:40:47.840 --> 01:40:51.000
to the citizens who are worried about rights and government power.

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01:40:52.039 --> 01:40:57.560
Your concerns are legitimate. That's why we demand transparency and restraint.

1246
01:40:58.640 --> 01:41:01.840
We can protect rights without destroying the rule of law.

1247
01:41:02.600 --> 01:41:09.159
We can demand humane standards without surrendering sovereignty. That's what

1248
01:41:09.199 --> 01:41:14.319
a serious nation does. In America needs to become serious again.

1249
01:41:15.319 --> 01:41:18.520
If this episode hit you, don't waste it. Do something

1250
01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:21.199
with it. First, share it with a person on your

1251
01:41:21.279 --> 01:41:26.079
left who thinks the only answer is abolition, and share

1252
01:41:26.079 --> 01:41:28.640
it with a person on your right who thinks the

1253
01:41:28.680 --> 01:41:32.000
only answer is denial. Tell them the truth. The country

1254
01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:35.640
doesn't have to choose between secure borders and civil liberties.

1255
01:41:35.800 --> 01:41:40.359
It can demand both. Second, start demanding specific reforms, not

1256
01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:46.760
emotional slogans. Demand body cameras as truth insurance. Demand training

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01:41:47.479 --> 01:41:54.720
built for modern crowd environments. Demand noise resilient communications so

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01:41:54.840 --> 01:42:02.279
teams can coordinate safety under disorientation tactics. Demand staffing and

1259
01:42:02.399 --> 01:42:07.800
back up in hotspots where operations are controlled not improvised.

1260
01:42:10.159 --> 01:42:14.520
Demand detention standards that reflect the federal moral responsibility. With

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01:42:14.680 --> 01:42:23.279
inspections and consequences. Third, demand political immedia responsibility. Tell politicians

1262
01:42:23.279 --> 01:42:26.319
to stop using ice as a fundraising weapon. Tell mainstream

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01:42:26.359 --> 01:42:30.640
media to stop declaring verdicts before facts actually exist. Tell

1264
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:34.520
leaders to stop pushing narratives that polarize the country and

1265
01:42:34.560 --> 01:42:37.279
make obstruction feel like a virtue. And this goes for

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01:42:37.399 --> 01:42:42.319
both sides, Republican or democrat. Fourth, demand a border policy

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01:42:42.600 --> 01:42:46.199
that is functional and serious, a system that makes decisions,

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01:42:46.199 --> 01:42:49.800
a system that enforces consistently, and a system that protects

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01:42:49.800 --> 01:42:54.800
the nation without losing its moral center. And lastly, be

1270
01:42:54.880 --> 01:42:57.880
the kind of citizen who lowers the temperature without surrounding

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01:42:58.760 --> 01:43:02.960
and surrendering the truth. You can be firm and still

1272
01:43:03.000 --> 01:43:05.840
be fair. You can be passionate and still be honest.

1273
01:43:06.079 --> 01:43:11.319
Because the country doesn't need louder voices, it needs better ones.

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01:43:12.840 --> 01:43:15.720
We can secure this nation, we can respect rights, and

1275
01:43:15.800 --> 01:43:19.359
we can protest the people doing the job and protect

1276
01:43:19.359 --> 01:43:26.479
the people living under the law. But it starts with

1277
01:43:26.560 --> 01:43:30.680
refusing the lie that chaos is compassion and refusing the

1278
01:43:30.800 --> 01:43:37.159
lie that is starvation is reform. Hold the line, raise

1279
01:43:37.199 --> 01:43:40.319
the standard, and tell the truth and demand better because

1280
01:43:40.359 --> 01:43:44.760
America deserves better. If you're still here. I'm not asking

1281
01:43:44.760 --> 01:43:46.880
you to pick a tribe. I'm asking you to pick

1282
01:43:46.960 --> 01:43:49.520
the truth. I believe America has the right to borders,

1283
01:43:49.560 --> 01:43:51.760
the right to laws, and the right to enforce them.

1284
01:43:52.000 --> 01:43:56.720
And I believe government power must be disciplined, trained, documented, restrained,

1285
01:43:56.720 --> 01:44:01.479
and accountable, because that's what a serious nation does. I

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01:44:01.520 --> 01:44:04.800
will defend peaceful protest and free speech, even when it's

1287
01:44:04.800 --> 01:44:07.479
a loud and even when I disagree. But I will

1288
01:44:07.520 --> 01:44:13.880
not pretend obstruction is speech, sabotage is activism, or harassment

1289
01:44:13.960 --> 01:44:17.000
is righteousness. And I am going to say this plainly

1290
01:44:17.479 --> 01:44:21.079
to the people with the biggest microphones. If you're a

1291
01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:24.159
politician and you speak about enforcement, you have a duty

1292
01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:28.319
to speak with precision, not rage, because your words don't

1293
01:44:28.439 --> 01:44:31.079
stay on a screen. They land in the real streets,

1294
01:44:31.119 --> 01:44:33.960
on real nights, in real moments, when people are deciding

1295
01:44:33.960 --> 01:44:36.960
whether to keep it peaceful or cross a line. If

1296
01:44:37.000 --> 01:44:40.000
you're mainstream media and you cover enforcement, you have a

1297
01:44:40.079 --> 01:44:43.920
duty to verify before you amplify, because when you demonize

1298
01:44:43.920 --> 01:44:47.199
agents by default, you don't just polarize the country. You

1299
01:44:47.279 --> 01:44:50.680
create permission. You push people to feel morally justified in

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01:44:50.720 --> 01:44:56.199
harassment and obstruction, When then you act shocked when it escalates.

1301
01:44:57.039 --> 01:45:00.600
So here's the standard I'm demanding from lead and the

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01:45:00.640 --> 01:45:04.640
standard I'm committing to as a citizen. Tell the truth

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01:45:04.680 --> 01:45:07.680
when it costs you clicks, wait for facts when it

1304
01:45:07.720 --> 01:45:12.119
costs you momentum. Stop treating human beings like symbols you

1305
01:45:12.199 --> 01:45:18.960
can sacrifice for a narrative. And now here's the accountability

1306
01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:22.560
line in the sand. Because reform isn't a vibe, it's proof.

1307
01:45:24.159 --> 01:45:27.039
Don't tell me you want reform. Show me the receipts.

1308
01:45:27.479 --> 01:45:30.640
Show me the body cam compliance that's real, not selective.

1309
01:45:30.920 --> 01:45:35.840
Show me the training hours that match the reality of crowds, noise, provocation,

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01:45:35.960 --> 01:45:39.880
and pressure. Show me the calms upgrades that prevent confusion

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01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:46.960
from being becoming a tragedy. Show me staffing plans that

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01:45:47.000 --> 01:45:51.279
stop sending people into predictable flashpoints under supported. And show

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01:45:51.319 --> 01:45:54.640
me detention standards that meet humane requirements. Because the federal

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01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:58.279
government owns the moral weight of custody, that's the deal.

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01:45:58.600 --> 01:46:01.720
We fund to fixes it. We measure what we fund.

1316
01:46:02.079 --> 01:46:07.279
We punish waste and were reward professionalism, secure borders, protected rights,

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01:46:07.439 --> 01:46:11.800
humane standards. Truth over a narrative will form over sabotage.

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01:46:11.880 --> 01:46:15.199
Because America deserves better than chaos, and we are going

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01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:19.840
to fix this country not by hating each other harder,

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01:46:20.600 --> 01:46:23.680
but by coming together as one. Because we are Americans.

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01:46:23.920 --> 01:46:31.520
We all bleed red. Whether you are white, black, brown, yellow, purple, green,

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01:46:32.079 --> 01:46:40.039
whatever color you are, you are an American and we

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01:46:40.079 --> 01:46:43.479
can do better now. If you can help up me

1324
01:46:43.520 --> 01:46:46.079
out with this show, please share it with a friend.

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Don't forget to leave a review on whatever podcast platform

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01:46:49.039 --> 01:46:55.640
you're listening on. But also remember, this country is what

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01:46:55.680 --> 01:46:59.720
we can make of it. We have the choice and

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01:46:59.760 --> 01:47:04.159
this country to change our politics by changing who we

1329
01:47:04.239 --> 01:47:12.399
vote for, by changing who's in office, and by changing

1330
01:47:13.119 --> 01:47:18.720
who we are as people. We can do better because

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01:47:18.720 --> 01:47:24.000
our communities deserve better and our kids deserve better. Hope

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01:47:24.039 --> 01:47:25.800
you guys have a good night. Don't forget to check

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01:47:25.800 --> 01:47:30.319
out the socials, and don't forget to share with a

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01:47:30.359 --> 01:47:33.720
friend that needs to hear this. You guys are amazing.

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I'm out