. So felony theft charges have surged by 154% just this month after O'Neal Burke took over.

So here's my question. I, of course, am completely in favor of improving the laws and the enforcement in the big cities, right, because it's a problem everywhere. So I'm totally in favor of this. But there is a question that pops up that I feel like we need to be adult about. And it goes like this. You probably saw a video. It was kind of viral of two young black women. I don't know if they were over 18, but they were somewhere in that age range. And they were casually doing some shoplifting at some box store. And they were captured at the exit, and they were putting handcuffs on, and they were acting surprised. And there was a video of them talking to each other in the back of the squad car where they're saying, it's illegal now. Like they didn't know that the law, that there had been a change in society and that the enforcement would be aggressive.

And I get that not everybody follows the news, and certainly not everybody follows the political news. So if you're a young person, did you really know? I mean, seriously, was there any way you would know that the situation had changed from there's no real risk to you're going to jail now? Here's where it gets tricky. Again, I'm going to tell you I'm completely in favor of the new enforcement, so don't interpret this as softening my stance. Completely in favor of it. But I'm going to ask you this question just as a human, stepping outside of just the political or the legal or the how do you save the city. Those are all important, and they're more important than what I'm going to say next. But I feel like it's necessary. Those cities created an attractive nuisance. Do you know what that means? An attractive nuisance. In other words, by making it legal to shoplift, they essentially encouraged it. Would you agree? Here's some free stuff. There's no penalty. And then word gets around and people are taking advantage of the free stuff with no penalty.

Yes, they need to go to jail. Remember, I'm not arguing against it. But does that seem fair to you? Now, remember, I always make fun of fairness because fairness is what I say was invented so children and idiots could have conversations with each other. Fairness isn't a real thing. But sometimes there are things that just strike you as a human. Here's what I think. I think if you pick up an 18-year-old who has no criminal record, who did not know that this was now more criminalized, it was always illegal but it's more criminalized, if they didn't know, I would blame the city for creating an attractive hazard. The attractive hazard was the city itself had basically said come steal our stuff. And so when two 18-year-old young women went to do exactly that, the rules had changed. Honestly, I'd let them go. I'd let them go because I would blame the city for putting them in a situation where they were attracted to crime. Your city should be pushing you from crime. If the city spent one minute making crime attractive, which they did for a lot longer than a minute, I feel like there needs to be some kind of period of forgiveness.

So arresting them and putting them in handcuffs and putting them in the back of the squad car, 100% on board, 100%. But once they enter the legal system, I would like to hear their lawyers say, your honor, this law only recently changed. The city had created an attractive hazard. I think that has to be taken into account. And I would love the judge to say, ladies, if you do that again, you're going straight to jail. But your defense has a reasonable argument that reasonable people can agree on. I wasn't comfortable putting them in jail once the city had set them up. I'm not for that. But again, we have to have laws and they have to be enforced.

Apparently online there's a debate between Representative Crenshaw and a popular X personality, Cat Turd. Now apparently Cat Turd's made some claims about Crenshaw, and Crenshaw said that claims are fake and suggested they would sue them. Some of you are taking sides. You don't like Crenshaw's views on war and there was something el