It's kinda black and white for me, Randy.

Yeah, let's look at this from an objective point of view, if you can be objective, because unfortunately what we are seeing from, um, from Governor Hochul and Letitia James, uh, seems to be quite the opposite when it comes down to, uh, now, you know, talking about actual prosecution of these individuals.

Now remember, this case was already examined by a prosecutor, a district attorney-

Right

... because of a number of different circumstances.

I'll give you one.

Uh, I, I investigated, um, uh, some, some ...

They were absolute rapes, um, with, from illegal, i- illegal, uh, aliens that were forced to have sex from a lawyer who said, "If you don't, I will turn you in and you will not, never get your green card."

What's your reaction to this senseless killing?

killing?Horrified, brokenhearted.

Once again, um, innocent police officer simply doing his job, life taken.

Another officer who's fighting for his life, uh, with 12 gunshot wounds whose life will never be the same.

Senseless.

Senseless is the only word.

And, uh, once again, uh, you know, this is, uh, they are the 240th police officers to be shot in the line of duty this year alone.

How significant is that soft on crime, uh, negative influence in the City of Brotherly Love?

Randy?

Well, there's so much information coming out, including, you know, digital stuff, uh, you know, texts between her and, uh, and some of the, uh, alleged, uh, perpetrators of this who were, that, that were very friendly, uh, until the, the, uh, disinviting to the party.

Um, th- this is quite literally a defense lawyer's dream case.

Um, when you have, when you have a, such a serious allegation of sexual assault, there has to be proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

That is the, that is the legal, uh, that is the legal requirement here.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep, that's what I

feel.

And when you see Letitia James putting her hat in the ring here, that really makes me question what the motivations are for this investigation.

Now, in looking at the investigation that we know that took place where the prosecutor in that local jurisdiction refused to move ahead and prosecute.

You know, when you have a sexual assault investigation, generally speaking, there is forensic evidence, there are witnesses to the crime, or, you know, that there's video evidence or something, you know, from, there's something of substance where the investigators can take it.

In this particular case, you have a statement, a six-page statement by the victim herself where she basically says, yeah, it was consensual.

Right, that's what I

So again, I want to believe all women when they come forward and say something, but when there's evidence that contradicts that, that you can't just throw 10 guys under the bus and say they all raped her because that's not what it sounds like according to these messages and her original statement claimed,

The community of police officers, male and female, and the dedication that you have to one another.

Oh, you know, it's probably the most important component is the relationships that develop being a cop.

I mean, some of my closest friends have been my closest friends since I began my police career all those decades ago.

That is really the part that you miss most when you leave.

I did a news story the other day, and this is the headline from the news story.

What I learned the day I walked back into the department after retiring.

What is very, very traumatic for a lot of us is the realization after you retire, either because you put your years in and every cop, you can ask them and they'll say, yep, I got three years, 42 days and six hours so I can retire.

Let's talk about Greg Tiger.

Randy, how did we get to the point where people who were never supposed to be here are killing Americans and grieving families are the ones who are left paying the price? Who owns that failure?

Well, the unfortunate reality is that the Biden administration allowed millions and millions of illegal aliens to enter this country.

Not only did they allow it, they empowered it.

They created a maelstrom of absolute lawlessness.

And as a result of that, we are seeing thousands of victimized Americans.

from elderly people to babies.

Just recently, in the last couple of days, a child died because of an illegal alien who killed the child while being here illegally and driving without a license.

How do you honestly get rid of them all?

What does your gut tell you? What do you make of it?

There's a lot to unpack here.

The reality is this, that there's been a decay in the ability for law enforcement to be effective in these cities.

Why is that taking place? Because they have been under intense scrutiny.

They have been under incredible pressure to not actually do policing for a number of years.

Let's look at Seattle for just a moment here.

They're supposed to have 1,300 police officers.

What is your reaction to that?

Right

... and the overreach of, of, uh, of government.

So I'm, I am concerned as well about that.

But I'm also concerned about the misuse of this technology.

Unfortunately, we have seen a number of law enforcement officers who have, who have utilized this technology for nefarious purposes and, uh, many have seen, uh, seen, uh, handcuffs as a result.

So as, as long as you have ...

And you, you mentioned at the very beginning about people having guns drawn on them f- in mis- for, for, uh, mistaken identity and that kind of thing.

Correct.

What were you afraid to admit when you became the injured man instead of the man helping others?

It was a journey.

Now, we need to go back in my past for the viewers and the listeners to really get context about what my journey has been.

And so we got to go back to a couple of very significant life-changing events in my career.

The first being a long ago event that changed the way that I viewed my life.

And that was surviving a gunfight that by all rights I should never have survived.

I was a patrol officer at the time.

What did that platform help you say? And what did it make harder to say?

Randy?

And those are the only ones that we know about.

Oh, perfect point.

You know that there have been other plots that have been foiled by the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies.

But I think we can all understand that the fact that four... that were of this magnitude have come to light in just two years is pretty well shocking, except nothing shocks me when it comes down to the Trump derangement syndrome that has enveloped America and also foreign countries.

nationals as well, because we do know that there was another plot by the Iranian government to take out our president as well.

Right, they had an Iranian strike team.

It's L.A.

What do you think now, six, seven months later?

Well, as you said, I was on the ground when this thing first broke, and I spent a great deal of time not just in front of the police station, but also talking to my sources on the ground.

This was an investigation that was... that was an issue from the beginning.

When they first got the call about this, the Sheriff's Department, which of course is the local agency that would normally handle an investigation of a missing person, handled it just like that.

They originally thought this could be an elderly woman that walked away.

However, there was a lot of evidence that was at the scene that would determine this is much more than just that, including blood at the entrance to the home.

Also missing surveillance camera that had been ripped off.

You seeing them now, where we can read both of them, throw them back up if you can on the screen, do you think these came from the same individual or different people?

What do you know?

Let's look at this situation.

You have thousands, tens of thousands of people in a very small area.

Of all times for a gunfight to break out, this is the situation where innocent people are gunned down.

We know that there are two actors involved with this, the 15-year-old who's in custody and the other unidentified individual.

What's the relationship? You have a 15-year-old who is armed and is involved in a gunfight in a situation where there's thousands of people in this small proximity.

This is a recipe for disaster.

I'm throwing it

Great

... um, you know, we have so many times, you know, said to the Chinese, "We've lagged our fingers.

Don't do this," and until we actually impose those costs, the Chinese won't listen to us.

Now, China doesn't run elections, so we can't do something symmetrical.

But we can do things that are asymmetrical, things that China really wants.

So for instance, China now is extraordinarily trade-dependent, which means that President Trump can impose those Section 301 tariffs on China later this month.

Um, and that's, uh, July 24th, when the existing tariffs, which are, uh, on temporary, um, then they expire.

But as a socialist mayor, he really can't, can he?

But as a socialist mayor, he really can't, can he?

No, you really can't.

If you look at the overall crime rate in New York City, it hasn't declined.

I mean, homicides, yes.

And I think that when you look at the national issues here, there has been a tremendous change within the criminal justice system since President Trump took office.

He's used the Department of Justice very wisely in prosecuting people who would never have been prosecuted under state statutes.

And he's utilized the Department of Justice not against law enforcement, but for law enforcement.

Are those as beneficial as the law enforcement community says they are when it comes to finding folks who, for instance, are not legal citizens, people who have recidivistic crime histories, people like that?

As you look at what has happened and now some of the 125-year crime lows we're seeing, what are the tools that you think were most effective and what do you think are the lessons learned?

Well, I think the lesson that we really need to talk about here, Matt, is that there's been a president and a cabinet that took crime seriously.

You know, President Trump got elected on one of his major platforms was the out of control crime that was that this nation was facing.

You know, under the previous administration, we saw borders that allowed literally untold millions of illegal aliens into this country.

We saw crime surging at paces that were unrecognizable in history.

We saw out of control state governments and local governments that literally looked at the realities of the criminal justice system and tried to destroy them from within.

We saw district attorneys being put into office who don't care about public safety, but only care about ideology.

Talk about some of the recent work that you've been doing, and I think there's a particular case you've been involved in recently.

But we've seen reports of some Americans feeling less proud to be American, so how concerned, uh, should we be about that?

Well, I'm very concerned about that.

I, I, I've been watching the, the degradation of the thought processes concerning America over, oh, I would say probably over the last 10 years more than...

It seems to be exacerbated over the last 10 years.

And you know, uh, I spent 34 years as a police officer, and, uh, uh, I could tell you this, that the, the, the law enforcement community in this nation is, uh, is second to none.

The ability of the law enforcement community to play a pivotal role in freedom is what really creates the ability for, for the, the people of this nation to be safe.

And I've, I'm, I'm seeing, um, you know, some very disturbing aspects that have, that have recently arisen.

How can we as a nation do a better job at creating a stronger culture of patriotism here?

What else do you know?

Well, now that there's been a new scrutiny of these demands and these letters or these emails that have come in, suddenly this is getting more attention and the belief from certain circles is that there may have been some legitimate information here.

This is something that is new, but still at the same time, remember that this information is coming to us now So many weeks later, what's the opportunity here now to bring this to closure? And I think that's why Samantha Guthrie came out with that very, very emotional appeal.

There's no doubt in my mind, Dan, that this was perpetrated by more than one individual.

There are people that know what took place here.

This may be a sign that there is a fracture in the relationship between those people that actually did this.

There was...

Four and a half months.

What else do you know about it?

Yeah, this is a huge escalation of what we have seen with the violent rhetoric that has permeated this nation, and especially on the But the terms that were being used by these suspects that were released, capitalist elites, people involved with Israel, notice how this is the same rhetoric.

These are the same terms that are being used by the left, including the Democratic politicians.

They're mimicking the same words, the same phrases.

And this is the same playbook that we have seen in the past when it comes down to the terms being used.

But this is a major escalation.

where they are actually in the stages of getting arms, bombs, and a large-scale plot from all over the nation to do this incredible, heinous attack.

Let's go kill someone because we disagree with them on their politics, Randy.

What's your reaction as a man who served on the front line that how the police got this one so badly wrong?

Absolutely shocking.

I have seen a lot of video in my time, a lot of body cam video both as a law enforcement professional and a trainer in law enforcement tactics, and also in my role as a journalism individual involved in journalism and law enforcement.

I've never seen anything quite so disturbing, both as a law enforcement professional and as a human being.

What we have seen here is absolutely one of the most shocking videos in law enforcement.

To see a police officer so callously look at an individual who has been stabbed numerous times and treat him like he is the suspect is an outrage.

And here's the danger, that what we have seen, and I've been watching what's happening in England, in the United Kingdom, and I have seen very, very disturbing aspects of law enforcement being put into place by the politics.

Uh, and it actually gives, it actually lets the politicians off the hook.

I, I guess the best way to say it would be, like, a, uh, a, um, a positive reflection on their lives, you know, that, that ceremony, so it's just a great, great experience.

And I was there with a, with a team from the Wounded Blue because we were, um, we were brought in to help with peer support for the families of the fallen.

You know, this is, this is a huge event where, um, Concerns of Police Survivors is, is the, uh, is the, uh, it is the charity that really runs National Police Week along with the National Law Enforcement Memorial.

So you have, you have two things going on.

You got the, the memorial stuff, and then you have Concerns of Police Survivors who they, they bring the families, they pay for the families of the fallen to come to Washington, they put them up in the hotels, and they also provide support for them, and my teams were part of that support.

So we were very, very busy during National Police Week.

It was very moving.

[laughs] Yeah.

Now, Randy, we're still not clear 100%, law enforcement hasn't clarified the intentions behind this shooter, but, um, you know, describe what's happening right now behind the scenes t- during this investigation to get clear about those intentions.

Sure thing.

So this individual had a, um, a, a criminal history.

They knew him.

They h- definitely had a file on him from his previous encounters, so, uh, he's not an unknown individual.

Now, th- when you have an attack like this-The first thing that law enforcement is looking at, the FBI especially because they would have the, uh, they would have the responsibility of the investigation, is, is there a bigger, um, is there a, a, a bigger threat at, at, at play here? Is this, is this individual part of a cell? Um, was he, uh, in, in, uh, conspiracy with others to commit this act? I think from everything that we have heard and seen from, uh, about this individual is they're looking at this as a mentally ill, uh, criminal who has demonstrated violent, uh, propensities in the past and that, um, you know, he was, he was a lone wolf, if you will.

It's ...

Talk about the threat level he faces at this time.

Mm-hmm

... where we can say, we can, we can go to, to this bureaucracy and say, "This needs to be fixed." But that's only part of it, because b- if that is just if you are absolutely catastrophically injured in the line of duty, so many of these officers who could be fixed before that, this is what needs to be done.

There needs to be a consistency and, and teeth in the workers' compensation law for law enforcement so that if they do become severely injured, they're not gonna get thrown away, they're gonna get, uh, they're gonna get decent medical benefits.

And then if they can't work anymore, allow them to have a pension to live on.

Yeah

... after coming out of the darkness, are now helping other officers.

My entire team is made up of people like Tim, people who, who maybe they can't be a cop anymore, but they sure as hell can, can play a role in helping officers who o- once they start realizing their, their issues, uh, they, they feel forgotten, they feel alone.

That's what the motto of The Wounded Blue is, never forgotten, never alone, and that's because the men and women who are serving in our peer advocate support team, they're touching lives.

What would that look like?

So there would be a couple different things.

One, there is what is now known as the public safety officer benefit.

This does exist.

If a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his family will get a certain sum of money.

There is a part of that that if you are... incredibly incapacitated and disabled, that you can also get hold of that stipend, that money.

But what's happened is it is so incredibly bureaucratic that people fall through the cracks or police officers don't know about it.

What do the statistics look like? How many officers are in this situation? limbo where they don't get the support of their department and they don't qualify for that catastrophic insurance.

Um, so ca- can we just get your immediate thoughts, um, after you heard that the shooting happened, which the White House, you know, is calling another assassination attempt?

Yeah.

Clearly, this individual, um, who was highly educated, would, would, was not on the radar of any, um, terrorist cell, um, had... was, was, uh, uh, seemingly normal, uh, in fact, he was teacher of the year last year, just as, just, uh, months ago in December, um, attacked this, this, um, uh, this event, harming himself with a pistol, with a shotgun, with knives, planned this, um, emanated from Los Angeles area, uh, transported himself by train to Chicago and then from Chicago, uh, onward to Washington, DC armed, and then planned and plotted this attack.

The, the fact that this was suppressed, that the Secret Service, um, that the cordon around the, uh, around the event, um, ended his ambition to kill and to, um, attack this, this, uh, uh, event, well, that's a success when it comes down to the security of this event.

But still, um, th- you have to look at all of the, uh, s- uh, this situation and wonder, uh, why and how could it have been prevented even earlier.

How, how did this armed man get as far as he did? Uh, the questions are, did the security checkpoints operate as intended? Um, would you be able to give us some of your comments on this aspect?

Yeah, no, that, this is a, this is a, a critical incident that will be evaluated.

You know, every time that there is a, a situation and an event that takes place involving the President of the United States, but then again, at all, all critical incidents involving law enforcement, there has to be a critique.

So in the case, where does it stand then? Are these other victims just gonna go unaccounted for? Are they gonna keep investigating and trying to pin them to him? Because what's the likelihood that three or four other bodies got dumped along the same stretch of highway where he had dumped like 10 of them?

Oh, absolutely.

Unfortunately, now that they pinned these seven on him that he has pled guilty to, the investigators are basically going to write off those other bodies.

They will clear them.

At this point, they will clear all the ones that he has admitted to.

That'll wipe him off the books.

You'll never see the light of day again.

Right, and it sounds like too, at least in that documentary I watched, that a lot of the cops at the beginning, and again, some of these murders go way further back from 2010 that I'm talking about, I believe in the late 80s, definitely 90s, and they think he's probably responsible too, but because they were prostitutes, nobody cared.