News · moment 11 of 13
LAPD's List of Calls They Won't Respond To
from The Tim Dillon Show #336 · #336
8 min
News
Tim reads through a list of non-violent and low-priority calls LAPD will no longer respond to (mental health calls, dead bodies with no foul play, syringe disposal, public defecation, etc.), riffing on the absurdity of each category and tying it back to Gavin Newsom's unpopular presidential ambitions.
- Tim reviews LAPD's new list of calls they won't respond to, which includes homeless quality-of-life issues and non-violent mental health crises.
- Sending cops to reason with a violent schizophrenic is presented as the obvious alternative to not sending them at all.
- Parent at a park with kids calls about a heavily drugged homeless man, and cops say 'have a nice day.'
- LAPD won't respond to non-fatal vehicle accidents, parking violations, or abandoned vehicles.
- Trespassing complaints with no indication of danger aren't police priority, even if someone just wants to see Taylor Swift's yard.
- Syringe disposal calls get no police response—someone dumping needles in your yard gets told to shut up.
- Possible dead bodies with no indication of foul play: leave the body there, don't involve the police.
- Tim pivots to Gavin Newsom supposedly running for president while California is a national embarrassment everyone hates.
- Unarmed response protocols are justified as helping police focus on real emergencies, but Tim argues some situations need armed officers to prevent escalation.
- Lori Lightfoot made the chaos of being Chicago's mayor entertaining; Gavin Newsom doesn't even make his incompetence fun.
- Tim imagines Lori Lightfoot on a lesbian cruise playing shuffleboard, someone asking what she did, and her saying she was the criminal mayor of Chicago.
- Tim concludes that maybe ignoring dead bodies in Los Angeles will somehow work out, but he has no confidence in the approach.