We've been playing different hymns from the different branches of the service this morning on this Memorial Day 12 district
Allter, Henry Perez with me. Good morning. Thanks for coming in on this kind of little close edit microphone. Thanks for coming in on Memorial Day today. Thank you
Done everybody's sweet and we're sleeping in and you got up early. I really appreciate it. Your teacher used to that. Yeah, I get up
I get to school about six o'clock every morning and start working on my goals for the day. My goal is today to be able to make it through the
day to get to sleep at night. That's my goal. I hear some interesting stats about Memorial Day. Let's do this right now 25 cities around the
country claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day, but actually it all started in New York in 1873. Can you claim it if it's I mean the fact is the
fact it was started in 1773 in New York. 75% of us will go to a barbecue this weekend. The second most popular holiday for
the first one is what's the most popular holiday. Fourth of July. Fourth of July.
Yeah, between now and Labor Day, Americans will eat seven billion hot dogs. That's all of us together, by the way. Eight hundred
eighteen hot dogs every second. Wow. Be careful out there. 25% bump and cook your related fires on Memorial Day. About 50,000
people will be injured in car accidents this weekend. 44% in traffic fatalities will involve alcohol and 42 million veterans have
served in wartime, a total of 1.3 million Americans have lost their lives defending the United States. This is important statistic,
remembering them because that's what Memorial Day is all about during the Vietnam War. I had a good friend of mine,
um, Stephen Cot. And when we were taking, um, he went to high school with me. We wanted to get our licenses first. So we went to
the driver's head and it wasn't our high school. It was at another high school. So we had a walk there every day. And I met him at his
house and we walked every single day. Rain, sun didn't make a difference because we want to go to the driver's head. He got his license, graduated high school was
killed in Vietnam. I mean, within within a year and a half, all that happened. I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe this guy walked the school with, you know, the driver's head
every single day. We had a pizza every day at the, at the end of the driver's head. And here he was. He'd signed up and he was killed like shortly after we joined there. So the Stephen Cot and
everybody else who gave their lives for our country. We do appreciate it very much. And, um, I hope people on Memorial Day think about that for a few minutes. I
know the barbecue is okay to have barbecues in them. I can't bring myself to say happy Memorial Day. Yeah, it's a tough thing. I think about that too. A lot of time I've
had several people tell me happy Memorial Day. And I'm thinking, well, it's, it's a sad occasion. Yeah, this is, yeah, right. This is, of course, we're thankful that the, the freedoms that we have in this country now. We're brought about by our veterans and especially those who passed away. And I, me as a, as a natural
life citizen coming from a communist nation. I really is really appreciative of their, of their sacrifice so that I could have a life here in the US.
They're all these people that gave their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. We don't think about them. We think of World War II or World War One Korean War Vietnam. What Afghan Afghanistan people gave their lives. I mean, we weren't at war per se, but they still gave their lives defending our freedoms and what we stand for. And it's just, I just cry when I see those caskets come home. Yeah, we're really, they're sacrifices for us. I mean, they had their whole lives ahead of them and they said, I'm going to give them my life. So you can enjoy yours.
That's a big thing to do. A lot of people wouldn't do that. Stand, stand in the way of a bullet so I can have freedom. They know what they were getting into. They knew they made up a coming home. I mean, you try your best to come home. But I don't know. I just, I feel so sad on this day. So when I get out today, we're going to Union Grove at nine o'clock for the Memorial Day ceremony, the local local American Legion post does it every year.
And they pick a different veteran who passed away during the war. My father, he was a US Marine, but he didn't die in the war. But they, they honor, if they don't have somebody, you know, they then honor a veteran that day, they do a gun salute and they have, they played tabs local high schools.
They got a bugler who plays stamps. Very good, by the way. And so we do that every year. So we're off to Union Grove at nine o'clock. You go out to Graceland, right?
I do. What's your lineup today? Today, I'm going to be doing the opening invocation. And I'm going to be doing the closing blessing. It's going to be at 11 o'clock at Graceland Park Cemetery 10 o'clock.
The parade starts on West Boulevard in Highway 20. And you're all welcome to do that right after the parade. It'll be done by 11. So we plan on starting at 11 for the Memorial Day ceremony for Racine County.
Yeah, big. The parade is in Union Grove. How big is it? It's over in 30 seconds. They marched down from the high school to the cemetery in Union Grove.
And there's only like 12, 13 people in the whole parade. They used to have the high school band, but they stopped doing it years ago. So it's real quick down and dirty.
It's over with. And then they do the ceremonies, what you want to see anyway. But that's what Memorial Day is all about.
Now you, on the other hand, are involved in a lot of things. I got a whole bunch of questions to ask you.
Not you, but you was an older person. I want to ask you know, just a few hang around there. So how have you been in Alderman?
I'm the longest serving Alderman, continually serving Alderman right now. I started in 2013. So I've been elected seven times. And again, I have to start running for reelection. Pretty soon.
I said you can say, I was elected in 20 ought six.
And you enjoy it. I do. The fact that I can help people and the people know to call on me when the city is what they believe not treating them fairly makes a huge difference to me.
As a pastor, my life career goal has always been to help people as a police officer. That was always my goal. And so when people calling me to help them resolve their issues, especially with the city, I get great enjoyment out of that.
I am, I guess they said I'm there now. I forgot what I'm going to say. Um, I guess it's not important. I forgot.
You get a lot of people contacting you when you're trying to relax and enjoy yourself. And they come up to you. Hey, Alder, I got this bottle in front of my house. So there's a crack in the street. And I every time I hit it, I break an actual way can do about it.
It happens a lot of New York accent. Not that much to do with the New York accent. Yeah. It doesn't happen that much. No, it doesn't happen. I'm in the 12th district, which is actually right here where radio park is. Oh, good. We're going to complain for you.
I think I've handled something like a place actually here for radio park. And our neighborhood is actually pretty good. We don't have a lot of those issues.
And so there are, there are phone calls, which I try to resolve right away. And I always ask people leave me a message so I can try to figure out the details before I call him back with an answer.
And a lot of times, for example, I've been successful at setting up the traffic controls over at Starbucks school, which they were having issues with.
And also at Grayson school, when that was part of my district, before I got rezoned. And I'm very thankful that we can actually help the kids. The kids are a big, you know, there are future here in town.
And so we have to make sure that they're safe and that they can do the right thing in society. And that's why I concentrate and focus on trying to help the community, trying to help the kids, especially as a pastor and as a teacher and as a former police administrator, police officer, police administrator.
I was right. You were in the police force. Yeah, 18 years of Miami. I've been a, that's a rough place to be a police officer. It was in the 80s, too, is when I started, which was really rough.
The Metro day police department where I first started was actually in some kind of gunfight every day. So it was a very interesting lot of drug dealing down there.
Colombian drug dealer. So it's a big thing at the time. I think of the movie Scarface with Al Pacino. That's what I think you're back in the ladies in Miami.
I actually met a guy who modeled his life after Scarface ended up arresting him. Tony Montana. Yeah, it wasn't Tony, but somebody who modeled his life and we, we ended up searching his house and my partner, leaned on a refrigerator box, a refrigerator box, leaned over.
And money started coming out of it in the rooms, $3 million in this refrigerator box is the only thing we could find in the house at the time.
And then he got indicted. And what was interesting about that is that the squad that came to investigate actually ended up stealing a million and a half of that and they all got indicted.
And it was quite an interesting experience down in Miami. We had a lot of corruption all the way around.
Now you're working on, it's called snapshots on safety in Bursim County. I has to with gun safety. And including for kids, we have been very fortunate here in Racine and the whole Southeast Wisconsin area.
I mean, it seemed like for a while every month, there was a some kid with a gun in a school shooting up the place and we've been fortunate not to have it here.
But wherever it is, people say, well, it never happens in a place like this. Well, it does happen in a place like that. It can happen everywhere. You got some kid who's got a grudge and access to a gun and he'll kill people with it.
He is, they don't have the sense to know you're ending a life. And then with that, you're ending your own life because you're going to go to prison for the rest of your life.
And you're probably ending your parents' lives because they'll be risk-held responsible. I mean, it's a big thing, but you're offering gun safety to kids. Now, you say kids, we're talking about how old?
Oh, we're talking about, starting with about nine years old.
Really?
Yeah. We found that kids have access to guns when the parents don't control the properly. For example, one of the simplest things you can do is put your gun in a safe.
There's biometric safes. There's push-dot safes so you can open right away for access. And parents don't realize there's gunlocks that you can put through the barrel so that it can't shoot.
If it's needed in the hurry.
Well, the biometric one and the push-dots work right away. The gunlock actually needs a key, but you can keep it handy.
And the city we're seeing will actually give you a gunlock, the police department for your guns at home.
So we're trying to do a service that way to the community. A couple of years ago, I was teaching and I had a kid shoot a gun in the bathroom next door to my classroom.
And that really reminded me of the importance of this.
I'm a nationally certified firearms instructor with the United States Colonial Care Association.
And we do work and have a program specifically designed for kids.
I want to put it on a program this summer for kids.
And I've always I've had some volunteers already call me and say they wanted to be part of that.
Part of it is going to be the trauma, the physical trauma. So I have a nurse Renee Beck Santiago's who has offered to help me.
Actually, she's a PA and so I'm really excited about this. We have a couple of people who have said they were sponsored part of the program.
We're looking for a date that works for everybody right now, but we're going to do part of the program from United States Colonial Care Association.
Some other programs, but especially we're going to focus on on gun safety.
I've never held a gun in my life. I've never even had one in my hand. I would be terrified to hold a gun.
My wife wanted one for her birthday. This is when COVID just hit and she worked for the Caledonia Police Department for several years.
But she wasn't a sworn officer. She was a dispatcher. So I contacted one of the officers she used to work with.
And he said, well, I'll go down to the store and help you get one because I'm going to get it as a gift because I don't know anything about him.
And so we COVID hit and the stores were closed. And it just we didn't want to doing it.
But she wanted one to learn how to shoot because in the police department, she just never had access to which she just never did it.
I just never shot one before. I would be terrified. And I don't know if even if my life depended on it, if I can take a life,
I told you I have a bug thing at home, right? We won't we don't kill bugs in our house. We capture them and you know,
sing born, free and let them out the door. I don't know if I could take a life. I can't even take the life of a bug.
Well, you'll find that when the when it's between you and another person life is important.
But I just don't think I could take a human life. I don't know. I don't know if I, you know,
when I was in the military draft, I was in the when they were calling off the birthdays, you know,
the lottery. And I said, I don't know if I can kill somebody if I have to go into the military.
I don't know if I could take a life. Sure. And they said the same thing. When the gun's aimed at you,
yeah, you'll do it. I don't know if I could do it. I think we recognize that life is sacred. And that's
what we have to be prepared. And we have to be prepared with knowledge. We have to be prepared with action
if necessary. The important thing and the most important thing always is to try to deescalate.
I mean, that's always the first thing. We were teaching now. I'm an Alice instructor and I love
you guys instructor. So it's a program design, which is basically run away from the situation,
hide if you can and fight if you must. That's me run away. Yeah. Well, that's a good strategy,
because if you're not there, you're not going to be involved in that gunfight. I was in one fight
in my entire life on this planet, one fight. And it was in sixth grade in grammar school,
a kid named Mickey Strange, who was a friend of mine. When they turned on me, he said, he called
all the kids. He's going to take care of me on the playground after we get it done. So I step
out of school. And there's the entire school is waiting. He's leaning against the fence.
And I said, all right. And I charged him as fast as I could. And I just slammed him against
the chain link fence. He went fell down. He was out of breath. And he started crying and walked
away. That's it. But I didn't hit him. I just charged him, right? And knocked him off his feet.
And he wasn't expected me, you know, you know, bobbin and weaving with him. I didn't do it. And that's
the only time in my entire life. I was in a fight with somebody. I tried to do that, the escalate.
I had people come up to me and you know, threatened me, the escalate. One reason is, I don't want to lose
a tooth. I don't want to break a nose. I would lose an eye. And that's very important. I mean,
and that's the first thing. Guns always have to be your very last resort where you have no other
option. But we teach that. And we teach the parents proper storage, proper, the mechanics of it.
So they're familiar with it. There's something happens. Now your old grasp what a gun is. And the
and the when you use it, sometimes there's no turning back. Right. Grasp that concept. Well,
we have to start training so that they do. I mean, we teach them math, we teach them spelling,
we teach them reading, we need to teach them gun safety right away in the morning. I've written
a gun safety cartoon book for my grandkids that I'm trying to publish right now. And it has to do
with finding a gun in the park, making sure it's covered, going, asking for help, not touching it.
And those are that's part of the story involved in that story. It's Bernie the moose dog and his
adventures, by the way. I have a whole series that I'm working on right now. And these kids who
find a gun in their homes. And they go to the high school because somebody called them a name
and now they're going to kill everybody in the high school. They were going to get their hands on
for that kid to get the gun. It couldn't have been in the safe. Right. Unless you knew the
combination to when he shouldn't know it. Right. So the parents are now accountable. Well,
absolutely. We definitely hold the parents accountable if that happens. Actually, the law says
that if you're 14 years old or less than you have access to a gun and commit a crime,
the parents are held legally responsible for that. At the age of 14, the kid is held responsible.
But the parents are held according to Wisconsin law from 14 and under. You know, my father were four
years during World War II. He was a tail gunner. And so he did. They sat in the turret and shot
planes down and stray ships until he did. He killed people every day. That's what he did. And I
asked him once I said, would you ever get a gun? He said, never. Yeah. Four years of killing people
with guns. I said, he said, I'm never, ever touch a gun. And, you know, that can understand it.
You know, it's very traumatic. I both ways. If you do the killing or if you're shot at, I've been
shot at twice since I've been in Wisconsin working security. And the last time my wife's like, Henry,
you're getting told for this, you need to stop. Like, yeah. So now I do a training and I do private
security. But I also do a church safety consulting and nonprofit consulting. So if you have a church
or something, let me know. People were happy to do that for you. Synagogue's churches. Yeah.
I mean, they all get the, they're well nuts coming in there. Yeah. Church safety is the fastest
growing crime in the world right now. Church related safety. Yeah. I'm just the other day. I mean,
they, this guy, they was going to bomb a synagogue and they found out beforehand. And they got
them. Luckily, they found out beforehand because they brag about it and people turn them in.
Just want to remind people that what this day is all about. 52% of Americans think
memorial days lost its original meaning. Only 60% say remembering America's fallen troops is the
first thing they associate with it now. But 40% that's not the first thing. Now it's okay to associate
with barbecues the beginning of summer in the three day weekend that we have. Just make sure you
take time. If it's just a few minutes to honor the fallen soldiers as well. And you're going to do
that today. Alder, Henry, is it Alderman or Alder? You don't mind? Okay. Alder, Henry Perez,
he's going to be is in there right now. And you're going to be doing a ceremony of Graceland today
for the bad time. Yes, I am. It's I'm going to be doing the invocation and the benediction
for the Memorial Day ceremony that's being put on to honor our veterans that have passed away,
especially those during their service. Yeah, I'm going to head out to Union Grove,
American Legion does a whole big ceremony out there. We do there for you because my father
and I was buried out there. I am going to be buried in that cemetery. We went out yesterday to
clean the gravesite and fix it up a little bit. And I was just drive by us. I don't want to say
if anybody moved into our site, Jim, we got four graves over there and just make sure nobody's
there. Yeah. And it's like, well, what are you going to do there? I'm going to dig them up and
get them out. Put them somewhere else. I hate to bring them. It was amazing the other day
on the news. They were showing a funeral at a church. Yeah. And the pole bearers are bringing
the casket out to put into the hers. The bottom falls out of the casket. Oh no. And the body falls
on the steps of the church. And the pole bearers stand there and shock. What do we do? What do you
do? Right. They're like frozen. They don't know what to do. And there's the body with the bottom
and just laying there on the church steps. What do you do? Fortunately, I've never had that happen
to me. I haven't wanted to see it. I've appreciated many funerals. Oh, but that would be
because that even happened. I don't know. Okay. So you're in here today. We're talking about all
the safety programs you have. And let's continue with that. We talked about gun safety. But there's
what's the program you're doing with the the Racine County eye? Well, this is a very interesting
Denise who runs her scene. She's in here all the time. Yeah. She's in here. She's in here not
too long ago. Yeah. She's very great with me and whenever I submit something, she usually publishes
it. And I started submitting what I call snapshots on safety because I saw issues that needed to
be addressed in the community. And she's published 10 of them. And so I have a series with them called
snapshots on safety. All you have to do is search snapshots on Racine County eye or my name. And
you'll if you if you Google my name on their site, a whole lot of stuff comes up. So I recommend
just snapshots and safety mug shots, police records. Yeah. Oh, they kind of stuff indictments.
Everything comes up. No, no, no. Being an alderman, I get in a I get in the news a lot. So
and she's very good at reporting stuff like that. She's permitted me to contribute to her website
and to the news. And I'm really thankful because it gives me an opportunity to share some of my
expertise. And so I've written tense things to look out for in the community. And a lot of times
when I see something going on in the community, I'll do some research if I don't know and I'll do
some basic tips. And of course, these are not the all and all, but there's their conversation
starters. Get to know what's going on. These are some issues to help you think through what's going
on in your life. So I've done snapshots on gun safety, on fall safety, fall not falling
down, but fall the season Halloween, personal safety, home safety, back to school safety, jogging
safety, and school bus safety. You know, you mentioned all those things and while you're mentioning
them, I could think of stories I've heard in the news where somebody was hurt or killed
because they weren't following those you got the buses. You've got there was a huge bus accident.
And I just saw the video again the other day on YouTube right by Rapids Drive. Do you remember
that a city bus rammed over and knocked over a school bus? Did you ever see that video?
I didn't know I just saw this video. Oh man, it's terrifying to see. There were no kids in it.
It was an empty bus, but we were the driver. But I don't know who was it fault. I just saw the video
and it's like shocking to see what you hear these stories about school buses and you know,
for no people getting the accidents. But when you deal with kids and there's no seat belts in
school buses. Oh no, there are seat belts in school buses. The kids just don't use them.
I heard there aren't none because if there's an emergency, you can't unbuckle 50 kids that quickly.
So you've got to have them out of the seats and out the back if there's a problem. I've never
seen a school bus. Do they have now seat belts? Yeah, they have seat belts. Actually the seat belts are
the buses are designed so that the law enforcement officer responding to the scene can know where
things are. For example, the black line that goes across the bus is actually where the seats are.
Oh really? Yeah. So there's different levels of markings on the bus. There's an emergency
way that you can get in from the outside. Are we supposed to know this or are you just telling us
this for the first time? I never heard of this before. Yeah. Well, first responders are aware of it.
Maybe the community is not because they're not too concerned with that. They're more concerned
of getting their kids out of the, you know, safely onto the bus and onto school. But you know,
school bus safety is really interesting because a lot of people don't know many times when to stop
when the flashing stop sign is on or where the red light is on. And actually Caledonia or
Sturvent has a little different rule on that here in town when the when the lights are on. So
naturally you're supposed to stop, give them room. I leave about on three or four car spaces
behind the bus so that I can see around it and see if there's kids moving around it as well.
It gives me a scope of vision so I can be extra careful. You know, kids are going to be kids.
They're going to be running. They're going to be careless. They're going to be playing with
each other. There might be chasing a ball. So you really just can't depend on the stop sign
that the bus puts out. You have to look at the environment that's around you and make sure that
it's safe as you move forward from moving from the bus. I only took a bus for a half year in kindergarten.
I think that's a full year because I other than that, I live close enough to the schools. I didn't
think so. When you're walking in the rain, it seems like 20 hours you're walking. But Mr.
Clancy was our bus driver. This is way back in 1960. He was our bus driver. And he's the nicest
guy that he had rules on that bus. Yeah, sure. And when he turned around and gave you the eye,
the side eyes or whatever, that bus was quiet. Everybody was in their seat. He was a volunteer
fireman. He taught us about the whistles, the blue in our town, what they meant. And it was a good
guy. But he was dead serious when that bus is moving, you sit in your seat, you can talk, but
do not get out of your seat. There were no seatbelts. And there were no of those signs that come
out. Those didn't exist yet. But never forgot Mr. Clancy. Thank you. So you have a Mr. Clancy.
I never forgot that guy. And there was the only bus driver ahead of my life.
Well, you know, we think of the big yellow buses, but there's actually white buses, small buses,
special education buses, daycare vans, and just regular people transporting their children back
and forth, you know, cars picking up the daycare vans too. Yeah. Yeah. So and some of them don't have
the appropriate signage. So you have to really be careful when you're around those type of buses.
Because if you're not careful, there's a good probability, not possibility, but probability that
you're going to be putting kids in danger and yourself for that matter. It just calls me when
that red sign is out and people just driving past the bus. Oh, yeah. How'd you get a driver's license?
That's on the test. I know it's on the test because I remember it on the test. How did you
pass that test and pass that sign? Well, I think a lot of times people are confused when there's
a median and when there isn't a median. Yeah, but you're driving right next to the bus.
Oh, yeah. I'm going to talk about somebody on the other side. I'm talking about the guy driving
past these behind the bus, just gets around it. Yeah. I know the median thing is kind of confusing.
If there's a boulevard where there's so letting that you don't have to stop if there's a boulevard
like a median. If there's a median, you don't have to stop. But if there's no median in the
six lanes across, you got to stop. Yeah. And I don't see people doing that. Yeah.
Well, this tutorial, Henry Perez is with me here. We're talking about safety issues,
safety for joggers. And this is the jogging season coming up. Although I see people jogging in
the winter. I don't get it, but I see them jogging in the winter. So this is the jogging season.
People have very early in the morning and likely going to work at that hour in a rush because
they are late for whatever reason. And the joggers, you know, you're supposed to stop and follow
the stop signs, the street lights and everything else. So let's talk about that jogger safety.
Yeah, jogger safety. That's very important. You know, when you're jogging down the street,
a couple of things could happen to you. You could get, unfortunately, you can get hit by a car,
which is very dangerous, but it's also because of the crime, you know, you could be attacked,
harassed. So you need to make a plan. You need to make a predetermined emergency plan, right? So
jogging safety isn't the only place where an emergency plan is available. It should have your name,
your address, your date of birth, your physical measurements, your hair color,
fingerprint or DNA, hair or saliva sample of something that the police could use for positive
identification if they need to investigate. But something that's really important and people
forget, make sure that others know where you are. When you're going to leave the house that your
family or friends know that your intention, what your intention is and how long you intend to be
gone, having others you know and trust is very valuable. In case something would possibly happen
to you, don't be deceived. There are people everywhere with evil intent. So make sure your friends
or family know where you're going, what your route will be and how long you intend to be away.
Let your friend know your route. Pick a designated space along your route where you get to know
someone and make a friend. In case there's an emergency, you may need to be able to stop at their
house to get help instead of going all the way back home. Use or carry with you a flashlight,
which you can use not only if you're jogging at night but early morning, reflective clothing.
The flashlight you can also use as a weapon because most of them have bevels on the top and you
can hit somebody with it and it'll pick up their DNA. I recommend pepper spray or pepper gel
and you can easily find that at Walmart and some of the other sport stores as well. Keep a knife
or a tactical pen on you. Knives are legal to carry and Wisconsin. That's not an issue.
And a tactical pen actually writes but has a pointed end on one end with you can hit somebody with
it and break a window if you need to. And a fanny pack with your personal identification
and use technology. Don't close yourself off from the real world. Track yourself. Let others know
what where they can track you. Be a tracker. One important thing too that always people
wear earpods all the time. Right. So one of the things you need to do is wear just one instead of
both. So you hear the outside. Yeah. And people forget about that and that's such a simple thing.
If you don't hear something coming at you because you're too focused on running and hearing what
you're listening to, that can be very dangerous as well. This is some tactical thing you have here.
You need like one of those police vests that come out like 40 feet with all this stuff to jog with.
Well, not really. I mean, my wife, when she, when she goes down to like friends, she got
it as a whistle weather. Yeah. And she has a little thing of something or I don't know.
So the whistle serves two purposes. If you fall down and can't get up, you can blow the whistle.
People come looking for you. If you fall down while you're walking and you're down in a ditch or
something, that's a way to notify people. Other than that, the whistle is really good for pretty
much just that. I always carry a whistle on my hearing just for reasons like that. People attack you.
Don't like attention and whistles bring attention. Well, that's a whole idea. But if you're
in danger, you want attention. Right. But the bad guys don't want the attention. Right. They don't
like corn's honking and only sure about home safety in the last few minutes here. Sure.
Home safety. Now, this is one of the things that are most important. Most of us live in a home or
an apartment building. And these are some safety tips that are really important. I'll give you 10
quick ones. Again, an alarm sign posted in your yard. Even if you don't have one, it actually works.
Most criminals or rather goes to a house that may not have a sign in front of it,
then go to one that does most. And if you can afford it, get a real alarm.
You know, that's that's just something to have one that's monitored if you can place surveillance
cameras wired is preferred to Wi-Fi because Wi-Fi can easily be distracted or interfered with
through movement and start lighting around the exterior of your house, not only for your own
property. So you can see out, but if law enforcement has to come on your property, they want to be
able to see around the cartilage of your house as well. Get strong windows, but remember that you want
plants underneath the ledge. You don't want you want to leave six inches of space between the
ledge of your window and your plant. And you want your plant to be something that has spikes on
it like roses or something because if someone's trying to break in, they will get cut and then
you'll have DNA evidence as well. And that's really keep any tools that you have around the outside
that can be used to break a window, keep them in the garage if you can or in a shed, make sure
that you look around your yard, remove any objects that can be used to break into a house.
And something very important, most crimes occur with people walking into your front door
or your garage door. Keep it locked and secure. And additionally, remember to do that also as well
with your windows, get a people. If you're going out of town, cancel your meal in your newspaper,
put it on hold to might even get credit for it and have a plan. Have a plan in your house where
you're going to go. If there's a crisis, who you're going to contact, keep a flashlight in every
room in case there's a bad weather like we had just a couple of weeks ago and the power goes up.
Here's something else I heard a while ago. They said, sleep with your key fob for your car on
your nightstand. And if you hear somebody near the house, hit the horn on the key. Absolutely.
Absolutely. Because the horn will scare them and they'll go away. Well, we hope they'll go away.
Well, if I heard a horn like right in front of me, sir, I think I'd, again, they don't want attention.
Horn's bring attention. People say in the middle of the night, people start turning on their
lights and looking out the windows. Now, who's the idiot who's got their horn going and you then
it keeps going. Then alarms other people as well. So they all go look at the windows. They're
look at the ring cameras. They're surveillance videos and that way it can be very important.
They're a safety feature. We have one of those. How do they call those things that you put on
your steering wheel? I forgot the club club. Yeah, we have one of those. And if you watch the YouTube
video on it, the guy says, put it in such a way where they could see it in the window.
Absolutely. You know, don't put it in the way where they can't you want it to see it.
Right. Once they see the club, it's a preventive measure.
Absolutely. Right. Even if you don't have it locked on, they see it and they know they can't
steer the wheel. And they move on to some other guy. You don't want to, you know,
some other car to get burglarized, but you don't want your car.
We had a funny story that when I was in a state attorney investigator in Miami, we were all
assigned the clubs because it kept stealing our cars. And so once we got the club, we had no more
cars stolen. Yeah, I have this one back from my original Camaro, which I got back in the 70s.
Sure. And it's a big thick one. I'll think of the thin ones they have today.
And you put it on there and you just make sure the person's walking like at home,
just make sure they can see it. Right. And they'll they'll pass your car.
And you want the angle of the top part of the club towards your window on the other side.
We keep it. It's between the window and the the front window. It's locked in there.
So you can't even turn the wheel if you want it to. You couldn't do it.
And just don't lose the key. We have a we have two of them just engaged when I was losing it.
I thank you for coming in. That's more. They holiday today.
Oh, it's my pleasure. Thanks for inviting me. Don anytime.
Be more than happy to come back on the show. And you teach it during the day time though.
I do. I teach dual language special ed. It just did middle school.
Sixth, seventh and eighth grade Spanish and English to rough age.
It is for sure it is. We've done a we've done a great job at school this year.
We've I usually notarize. I'm a notary public. And usually notarize their paperwork for
expulsions and stuff like that. I haven't even had to do too many this year. We've really come a
long way. Good for you, my friend. Yeah. Thank you so much.
12th District Alder Henry Perez. You're welcome back anytime.
Thank you brother and blessings to you and the and the hearing community out there.
Thank you very much. All right.
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