% UNEMPLOYMENT EVER.
% GREATEST GROWTHS IN
% MANUFACTURING JOBS.
% LAST THING WE WANT TO SEE.
% [LAUGHTER].%>> PUBLIC SAFETY
NEWS, LAST
% WEEKEND IN MILWAUKEE FIVE KILLED
% INCLUDING A BABY WHEN A DRIVER
% GOING 80 MILES AN HOUR ON A CITY
% STREET RAN A RED LIGHT.
% THE 20 YEAR OLD BEHIND THE WHEEL
% DID NOT HAVE A LICENSE ACCORDING
% TO POLICE.
% RECKLESS DRIVING HAS HAD THE
% ATTENTION OF LAWMAKERS.
% 2020 A RECORD 107 PEOPLE DIED.
% LAST WEEK TONY EVRS SIGNED A
% BILL.
% OUR NEXT GUEST WOULD SAY IT IS
% ABOUT TIME.
% TRACEY KNOWN AS MILWAUKEE
% ACTIVIST DIRECTOR OF PEACE FOR
% CHANGE ALLIANCE ACTIVE ON THIS
% FRIGHTENING PROBLEM IN HIS CITY.
% HE JOINS US FROM HIS VEHICLE IN
% MILWAUKEE.
% THANKS FOR DOING SO.
% >> THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
% >> TWO YEARS AGO YOU WERE QUOTED
% AS SAYING PEOPLE WERE TIRED AND
% AFRAID.% WHAT WAS YOUR REAC
TION TO THE
% DEADLY CRASH LAST WEEKEND?
% >> TWO YEARS AGO TIRED AND
% AFRAID, NOW TIRED AND ANGRY.
% THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED
% EVEN A BABY KILLED.
% IT IS DEVASTATING.
% WHOLE CITY IS DEVASTATED.
% WE ARE TIRED AND ANGRY AND IT IS
% TIME FOR ACTION.
% UM, YEAH, THAT IS ALL THE
% EMOTIONS, YOU KNOW.
% FIGHTING BACK BASICALLY.
% >> YOU ARE AN UBER DRIVER.
% YOU DRIVE THE STREETS OF
% MILWAUKEE WHAT IS THAT LIKE?
% >> IT IS LIKE THE INDY 500.
% YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CUT YOU OFF,
% RUNNING RED LIGHTS.
% THEY ARE RECKLESS.
% THEY DON'T HAVE NO SENSE OF
% VALUE OF LIFE.
% COUPLE OF TIMES WHERE YOU KNOW,
% I ALMOST WAS IN A SERIOUS
% ACCIDENT BECAUSE SOMEBODY BLEW
% THROUGH A RED LIGHT, A STOP
% SIGN.
% SOMEBODY ALL THE SUDDEN TRIED TO
% BEAT TRAFFIC AND TURN IN FRONT
% OF US.
% IT IS JUST, IT IS LIKE MAKE PS
% PEOPLE NOT WANT TO DRIVE
% ANYMORE.%YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT
IS SO CRAZY
% OUT HERE.
% >> RECENT STUDIES,
% DISPROPORTIONATELY A PROBLEM IN
% BLACK COMMUNITIES, WHAT IS THAT
% ABOUT?%>> UM, THAT, I MEAN, Y
OU SEE A
% HIGH SENSE OF RECKLESS DRIVE ON
% NORTH SIDE OF MILWAUKEE YOU CAN
% SAY BLACK COMMUNITY, YES.
% ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MILWAUKEE
% WE ARE SO RELAXED WHEN IT COMES
% TO UM, TRAFFIC SAFETY, AND THEN
% IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
% WE STAY IN MILWAUKEE SO
% SEGREGATED.
% NORTH SIDE, BLACK COMMUNITY.
% THEY HAVE NO VALUE.
% WE HAVE TO BE MORE TOUGH ON
% CRIME HERE IN MILWAUKEE ON THE
% NORTH SIDE.
% THESE SAME DRIVERS WILL NOT DO
% THIS IN THE SUBURBIAN CITIES.
% THEY WON'T DO IT IN OAK CREEK,
% IN SOUTH MILWAUKEE.
% THEY KNOW THEY HAVE ZERO
% TOLERANCE.
% WE NEED ZERO TOLERANCE HERE IN
% MILWAUKEE.%>> WHAT IS THE MIN
DSET OF
% DRIVERS WHO ROAR AROUND BEHIND
% THE WHEEL BLOWING RED LIGHTS?
% >> THEY THINK IT IS COOL.
% THEY DO IT.
% SOME RECORD IT AND PUT IT ON
% SOCIAL MEDIA.
% YOU KNOW, FOR VIEWS, FOR LIKES,
% FOR ATTENTION.
% THAT IS THE INTHING.
% THAT IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT IT IS.
% THEY WANT TO YOU KNOW, JUST
% SPEED.%IT IS LIKE THEY HAVE N
O SENSE OF
% VALUE OF LIFE AND IF THEY DON'T
% CARE ABOUT THEIR LIVES, WHY
% SHOULD THEY CARE ABOUT YOURS.
% >> THAT GOES FOR --
% >> GO AHEAD.
% >> HOW DO YOU THINK THE NEW LAW
% INCREASE IN JAIL TIME MIGHT
% CHANGE THIS FOR THE BETTER?
% >> UM, I SUPPORT IT.
% SOME PEOPLE SAY WE DON'T NEED
% PIPELINE TO PRISON.
% WE NEED MORE RESOURCES.
% THAT IS TRUE.
% THEY ALSO HAVE TO OWN UP TO
% THEIR ACTIONS.
% RIGHT NOW IT IS LIKE, YOU KNOW,
% THE LAW IS AFRAID TO APPLY TOUGH
% ER PENALTIES ON PEOPLE OF COLOR
% BECAUSE THEY ARE TIRED OF SEEING
% PEOPLE OF COLOR IN PRISON, IN
% JAIL.%YOU KNOW.
% WE HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHEST
% INCARCERATION RATE IN THE
% COUNTRY SO THEREFORE THEY TRY TO
% BE MORE LENIENT WHEN IT COMES TO
% TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS.
% YOU KNOW.
% BUT NOW IT IS TIME BECAUSE WE
% ARE LOSING PEOPLE.
% IT IS TIME FOR ZERO TOLERANCE.
% I SUPPORT THE JAIL TIME.
% YOU GET THE YOUNGER GENERATION
% FEELS CURRENT LAW IS A JOKE.
% A SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR
% TEENAGERS.%IT IS LIKE THEY'LL
GET ARRESTED.
% FEW HOURS LATER BACK OUT AND
% STEALING ANOTHER CAR AND DRIVING
% OFF AGAIN.
% WE NEED TO HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE
% IN CITY OF MILWAUKEE.
% OAK CREEKS, SOUTH MILWAUKEE.
% ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY WHEN IT
% COMES TO RECKLESS DRIVING.
% >> ALL RIGHT.
% TRACEY, WE NEED TO LEAVE IT
% THERE.
% THANKS VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
% COMMENT ON THIS.