Fort Myers Crime is Down, Cars on 5th (but not on 5th), Flock Talk
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was what I would say, a way different town back in. the late 90s, early 2000s, when... Florida was a way different state back there. Downtown Fort Myers was a place that was divided by a road and you didn't go past that road. And unfortunately, that road was like second half right there, second street right in downtown. Like it wasn't like way deep. There was a divide. And it was a very small circle and now it's way wide. Now what brought it there? Police Chief Fields has credited a lot of things. This is what he had to say. As we have grown out, we've actually seen crime reductions, which is usually the opposite. Normally when cities grow, we see crime increases. We do some really, really in-depth follow-ups, and we're hyper-focused on the few individuals that are causing the most crime out there and holding them accountable. He also credits full staffing, focused on repeat offenders and hotspots. He's also into technology, a real-time crime center, license plate readers, shot spot. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. What? License plate readers? Well, these are the type of things, technology. When you think technology, then you think this. And as a, and I said this when we talked about the flock license plate reader cameras, this right here. is one of those things that people will say. Well, let me ask you this then. Okay. Do you believe that the flock cameras deployed in the city of Fort Myers contributed to this reduction of crime? No, not at all. I think I agree with what Ron DeSantis had to say. And Ron DeSantis says basically when you were at a 50 low crime rate because you enact great law and order, great policy, and great law enforcement officers before a license plate reader will ever do a job. that I believe that it's rightfully meant to do, I would employ a law enforcement officer. You know, there's a lot of things that you can replace with AI in cameras. There's a lot of things that you could replace with AI. I don't care if you have an AI person, take my Taco Bell order for the rest of my life. That's not going to affect me. It actually made it right. It's amazingly. Amazingly enough, it made the order correct. But... I'm not okay with replacing a law enforcement officer with a license plate reader. And some will say it'll make it their job easier. I say this is a way to replace law enforcement officer. They now don't even need to run radar in school zones in other places or watch red lights because red light cameras will catch you. We're slowly but surely turning our police department into the nanny system of the United States. And there are 100,000 of these cameras in America, by the way. I did some research. What else you want to know about the day? 100,000 is too many. That's where it, that's the issue. It's not about the farming of the information. It's when you've built a mass surveillance system that has 100,000 cameras. By the way, not in many rural areas except for the one gun range in Ocala. And there's two of them there. Right. So close to 100,000 cameras that in the background of this company.
The guy who created it has never stood politically, but he did donate a large five-figure sum of money to a Democratic candidate. So when you donate to a Democratic candidate, you are a Democrat. And their major investors were people, big billionaires who were Republicans. And then all of a sudden decided in 2024, I mean, were Democrats. And then all of a sudden in 2024, they flipped party when they saw Biden falling apart and they endorsed Trump. Why at the same time, the same people donated a quarter of a million dollars, I'm sorry, $2.5 million to Harris. They endorsed Trump but donated to Harris so they were both sides. They're playing the field for this flock camera system. Because they want to make sure no matter who wins, they're in the good graces. It feels like perhaps there's a more sinister underlying problem here with Flores. You know what, let me take sinister out of it. What if they're just taking the bumper stickers on your car to find out how many of you. have a coexist sticker on your car. That's not the bumper stickers they're looking for. The bumper stickers they're looking for are the three percenters, the oath keepers, any of that symbolism, that's what they're looking for. If you have a don't tread on me flag on the back of your truck, that's probably what they're looking for. But my point being, what if they're just farming this information for money? And that could very well be it too. There's some minute. That's what it is. That has to be. But if that was really the reason, though, where's the money? Why would it be so tied into law enforcement if really all that they were going for was data mining? Because it was the easiest way to get the cameras installed. 100,000 of them nationwide is to give it to the law enforcement officers for a tool. I mean, and I wasn't trying to take the story of the Fort Myers. Listen, congratulations to Chief Fields and FMPD for being a safer city. Continue your great job. Lee County, Safe County. I wasn't trying to go after them. I wanted to backstep that right. I thought it was interesting that license plate readers were mentioned in as a part of the success. Well, technology. Fort Myers PD is embracing flock while other Florida cities like Panama City are, I'm sorry, Palm Bay have terminated any arrangement with flock whatsoever. The sheriff or I'm sorry, the. The city. The city went out in it. Said the decision came after learning that many of the flock cameras have not been installed correctly and without proper permits. So are these just getting thrown in the ground now just anywhere without permission? There's a lot of cases going on right now when it comes to these cameras. There was a Supreme Court ruling about privacy and those. And the issue right now is, and it's not about flock, but it talks about mass surveillance. And then you've had one judge, a conservative judge, who says they're not mass surveillance and was not against these flog.
But isn't it funny how recently, like I think it was even yesterday, we had somebody call in and said, well, call them what they are, license plate readers. Isn't it funny how the news media has adopted license plate readers instead of calling them cameras? Like the whole conversation around flock is shifting before our eyes. And it's more than a license plate reader because it does, and they've already gone on the record and said it takes pictures of bumper stickers, dense, scratches. Identity. identifying marks on your vehicle. Right. To identify your vehicle and keep track of where your vehicle went. It's like Ready Player 1. Right. That's where they have the drones, right? You said right? Yeah. Ready Player 1, which is a futuristic, dystopian situation. There's tracking with drones. Right. Drone cop cars. That's next on the list. You should be just okay with it. It'll keep your neighborhood safe. Imagine how quickly they can respond to a crime. I'm with Jim Swartzel. I'm against it, all right? More daybreak coming up next. Cars on fifth. They got a location, and it's not on fifth. On 92-5, Fox News. The race for governor, Congress, and the local seats that matter. This is Southwest Florida's home for election coverage. 92-5, Fox News.
Welcome back to daybreak on 925 Fox News. I'm your host Jason Jay Jones along with Rob Stevens. Rob, cars on fifth. Cars on Fifth. I don't know why I feel like that. It needs to be the song. Cars on Fifth is no longer Cars on Fifth. They have found a new home. They're now Cars on Sixth. No, I'm just kidding. After more than 20 years on Fifth Avenue in Naples, it's moving to Bayshore Drive outside the city limits for the 2027 year. This means the city of Naples will not receive any income from an event. received a lot of income before. How far is Bayshore from Fifth? Not far at all. This is pretty much literally right outside the city limits. Bayshore for those that are semi-familiar with Naples is kind of southeast Naples near, what's that park? There's a park there, but it's near the botanical gardens. So if you know where you're headed towards the Botanical Gardens, the Naples Botanical Gardens, it's kind of down in that area. Have you ever been to Cars on Fifth? I have. And what did you think of Cars on Fifth? I like it, but that's just because I'm kind of a gearhead. You know, I like looking at the exotic cars. I like talking with car guys. You know, I'm an enthusiast. I enjoyed it. So do you think it will be better or worse? on Bayshore. I think it'll be fine on Bayshore. It may even be bigger than it ever has been just because of all of the attention that it's received and the fact that the city, after 20 years of nearly flawless execution, the city basically said, ugh. we think you're more of a liability. And then when they actually, you know, put their money where their mouth is and say, okay, well, we're just going to go somewhere else. That's when they start to panic and say, well, maybe we'll just create our own. Not going to happen. It is good that it is staying in the area of Naples. So hopefully some of those downtown businesses will continue to benefit. You're exactly right there. Fort Myers Beach showed interest. Cawyer County talked about it. And now it's landed on Bayshore in Cawyer County. Still close, but no longer under the city's thumb and the city's ruling. That's what happens when the town looks at it. The city looked at it. They're like, I don't know. There's a lot of loss there. And, you know, one of my friends doesn't really like it. It just messes up her drive. And it's something minuscule like that. So they decide to. Let it go. We're just going to forget about it. And losing it become the easy outcome. And they never thought, they never thought in a million years that it would get picked up by the county just outside of their city limits. Yeah. And Bayshore is a cool vibe too, actually. There's like a food shop park there and everything. It's going to be a great venue for it.
There's a Tommy Bahama restaurant on 5th, is there not? No, there's a Tommy Bahama restaurant on 3rd. On 3rd Street. Give me two restaurants on 5th. Give me two or three. Let's see. You have Malto, you have, let's see, La Troitia. That's good, those two. You have Beach A. How much money do you think those two lost? A lot. How much do you think? I mean, La Troitoria's at the end and Beech is at the other end. I'm sure those restaurants are going to suffer. But I mean, places like Del Mar, places like Malto, places like the French, which is no longer the French, obviously are going to suffer from this. You know what? Listen, when they do this and you decide to go out against an event in the city of Fort Myers. After the shooting at ZombieCon, they killed ZombieCon and it could never come back. Instead of adjusting it and finding a way to still make this event that was around for years that showed respect to the horror movie, Dawn of the Dead, that was filmed in the city of Ford Myers. They canceled it. They did away with it. They say it'll never, it'll be violent forever instead of figuring out a way to make it not violent. Now, I understand sometimes when you have to kill that event, not huge about it. But I think City of Naples. made such a drastic move here that this, without trying to figure out a way to make it work, they said they don't want this event. Unless the local businesses pushed back and said, we don't want this event, then they have no right to be the ones to push an event away that will destroy the financial day of multiple businesses. Yeah. And I don't understand why the city didn't take the same approach with Cars on Fifth that it took with Naples Pride, that it took with the St. Patrick's Day parade, saying, hey, the scale of your event is too big for us to support on our own. You need to be on the hook for additional security. So again, all of those events in Naples, where those shortfalls were, were privately funded, and these problems were solved. I would think the same thing would happen to Cars on Fifth, but the city of Naples didn't even give them that opportunity. They were more worried about transgender than they were about V8 Thunder Machine. No, they're more worried about transgender than the people who actually have the money that patronize the businesses in Naples. You know, listen, if Naples continues to do things like this, you're going to see a shift in their city council. You're going to see a big shift in their city council. And it might be time. It might be... the exact time to really decide that you're ready to make some changes when it comes to that. Because I think this is just a sad day for Naples in a massive celebration. You know who sent me this? Who sent me the information on this? Not the story, but the full information, the press release? The county commissioner, Dan Kowal. Oh, well, I mean, I guess if anybody would know, it would be Dan Kowal. How excited is the county to have this event? Oh, I'm sure. The county's stoked for this. Right. And how much are they going to be willing to provide for this? They're going to be like, yeah, we got you covered. Don't worry about the city of Naples. But thank God they jumped in.
The city of, the Collier County has events. I couldn't imagine. They do. The U.S. Open Pickleball Championship. Could you imagine the Edison Festival of Light Parade shifting out of downtown Fort Myers and all of a sudden it's in Naples? People would go, what? Yeah, be absurd. What? No way. This is our event. Quarter of a million people come to it. This is our event. Oh, well, we don't want the people. We don't want the traffic. We don't want the headache. Sorry about that. My bad. My bad. My bad. My bad. My bad. Silence your phone. Sorry. It usually lives on silent. My wife would say that all day long. So. You know what? Good job, Carrier County, for not losing it to the beach because Mayor Alers was drooling. Oh, I know he wanted that. I mean, that was drooling out. He was all like, we're going to get that. We're going to get that. The council started moving in on it. The city manager started pitching in on it. We talked to both of them about it. Yeah. That's, I think, again, great for the businesses. It's going to put Bayshore on the map. It'll bring people to the botanical gardens. But there's a lot of other really great businesses around there, like Celebration Park. There's Anchor Lab brewery. There's all sorts of really cool. stuff right around that little district. All right. I'm going to make a pledge and I'm going to make this pledge. I am going to make one day at least every two weeks to come down and you give me a call your experience down there. I'd love to show. I'd have a good time. I love to take it to some of these places. I go down there quite often, like I do, but a lot of times I end up stopping at Hertz Arena that's so far as I go. I spend many hours at Hertz Arena. I was there for two and a half hours yesterday. I'll probably be there again tomorrow. The next day, the next day, the next day, the next day, the next day. Coming up next five voices, five stories. Fast-paced news countdown. We're talking about the 5-835, and it's next right here on 92-5 Fox News right all along.
This station's like a city council meeting. Loud, heated. And somebody's about to quote the Constitution. We the people of the United States. 92-5 Fox News. Right. All along. Good morning. Welcome to daybreak here on 92-5 Fox News. I'm your host Jason Jay Jones, along with Rob Stevens. The 5 at 835 is presented by Southwest Florida, oral and facial surgery, specializing in excellent care. Number five. You have my word. As your next governor, we will always stand up and defeat crazy. There you go. That is Congressman Donald's at a gubernatorial event where he says, you have my word as governor. I will always defeat crazy. You know what that is? That basically is a message to all the future Democrats that's going to or the future Democrat that will run against him. Let him know, basically, I'm setting the tone for my general election and I'm already going to set it just so you know it. We're going to defeat crazy. And by the way, Jolly is crazy. I mean. No doubt my mind. He will deviate crazy. Number four. This is a crazy diet. This is a diet that consists of eating. sourcrow and meat. Like, you can't just walk into a... Well, he sustains it because he doesn't. Can you imagine? He has to travel with coolers of sourcrown. I'm not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It's ridiculous. I can't do it. It's not sustainable. Are you maha? I'm in favor of maha. Like, I think people should be healthy. No, he is not. But I think ultimately... He is completely not. I want to eat. Pop-Tarts. No, I don't eat Pop-Tarts every day. Okay, you eat sweets. The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in history of the world. If you think about it, it comes in this beautiful foil package. He eats all the things you should not be eating. Every single thing. Right there. Marco Rubio loves him some Pop-Tarts. And I'm sure that's where he differs. Everybody's asking whether or not this Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sourcrowt diet of Sourcrowt and beef. If you would, like, no, I don't want to travel with, I don't even like Sourcrow on what New Year's you're supposed to have it on New Year's, right? Sourcrout and cabbage or something like that you're supposed to have every New Year's. It's gross. The name of it, it's like cottage cheese, all right? Sour. Cream. There are gross. I mean, it just sounds gross. I find it hard to believe that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has any problem getting those Pop-Tart calories off as much as he's running around every day. Have a Pop-Tart, man. What's your favorite flavor, pop-tart, by the way? What's your favorite flavor? Do you like Pop-Tarts? I do. The classic strawberry or blueberry, I think. You want me really blow you away?
Single-handedly, the full brand Pop-Tart, sugary things, the worst thing you could legitimately ever put in your body. No, no, no. Outside of a Twinkie. No, I would say a Twinkie's number one. Pop-Tart. Twinkie. I'm telling you statistically, you can Google it. Show me. Oh, I will. I'll get it. I'll show you during the break. I was blown away. I did this. I talked about this one. I was like, can you believe that Pop-Tart is single-handedly the worst thing we could put in our body? I guess there's so many additives, so many preservatives. It's like the worst thing you can put in your body. At least that's what they say. Number three. You vote no on three in November. And then you tell your Florida legislature to address this appropriately in session, Florida Sheriff's Association, strongest sheriff's association in the nation, came out with great concern for Amendment 3 in its current form. When the House and the Senate. passed Amendment 3 to go onto the ballot. They had never seen a financial analysis of that amendment. Do you know why law enforcement like Grady Judd? That's Grady Judd, the sheriff of Oak County. Do you know why he's standing out, getting ready to jump out in front of this? Because now conservatives, supporting the elimination of property tax, now have the complicated, aligned did not look like anti-law enforcement. Now the Sheriff's Association and myself and 97 other sheriffs and 14 captains of police officers and all law enforcement. They don't want the property tax amendment. to be passed because they're worried about losing their job. But that just shows the distrust in their county commissioners or city council that they can't cover the loss of it happens. Now, Grady Judd says it's miswritten and that there's secret language within side of it. But they're already addressing that, though. This has already been challenged in court. A judge has already ruled that the ballot language has to be rewritten. And Attorney General James Uthmeier is on the job. You know, I think... I could vote against the property tax elimination. I just need someone to cut me the check for my property taxes for the next 12 years. And then we'll be good because by that time somebody else will make the difference. I might make a profit on that if it goes down. Listen, I'm never, ever, ever, ever going to vote no to cut my taxes. Never, ever. Ever, just like I will never, ever, ever vote yes to raise my taxes. That half-sent sales tax that went up that I don't think I was actually living in the community when it got voted on. That have-sent sales tax is a horrible, horrible sales tax for the schools of Lee County. That's why you pay 6.5% sales tax in Lee County and not in Cawyer County.
It's just wild to think about. This is a half a cent supposed to go to schools, and someone voted on this, and it's supposed to be temporary. I feel like they've made 27,000 times more than they said they were going to make off that half cent, but we still got it there. And there was still a deficit. I'm not going to kill that. I'm not going to kill that or kiss that revenue goodbye, even though we don't need it anymore. Number two. I don't worry about anything, to be honest. Whatever it is. You know my attitude? Whatever. Well, it's only up to Secret Service. I just follow what they'd like to do. So I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say. Why do you on nature of the threat? I guess there was a threat out there. I didn't really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats. Right. He gets a lot of threats. If you don't know that, what's going on there. We broke this story yesterday. The Washington Post reported that while President Trump was in Turkey, that he was boarded Air Force One, went straight through the center of it, straight onto a catering truck, lower the catering truck, drove him to another plane, an Air Force plane, put him on that plane and flew him to the UK, where he boarded another Air Force One and flew home. Meanwhile, everybody else that was on the first Air Force one was still taking off. Come on. See you guys later. Oh, man. Good luck, press. Hope you have a great day. But you know what? Those are words to live by for everybody. This might, what would Trump do? WWTD. I mean, I mean, that is truly words to live by. I don't worry about anything, to be honest. Whatever it is. You know my attitude? Whatever.
Forget about it. I don't worry about anything. I whatever, whatever, whatever. I wonder if he had any of those Biscoff cookies and he slew in his pocket while he was in the catering truck. I'd have loaded my pockets. Oh, yeah. Those Biscop cookies are like nobody's business. Number one. That's the daybreak band, the daybreakers doing get the flog out of here. And I brought that up because I wanted to end the segment on this. Some people seem to think that there are supporters of this that aren't law enforcement. I would tend to believe that most people, when they look at what a flock camera does and the license plate reader flock, the flock license plate reader cameras. Okay, we could put that in there if you like. It violates your Fourth Amendment right to privacy. It's a bottom line. And if somebody is out there that thinks that I'm wrong and you think you're an expert on this, I would encourage you to definitely call in. 239-479-55-9-2 is the number. 239-479-55-9-2. Call us if you feel like I'm giving you a bad shake when it comes to this. I mean, for real. There you go. The five at 835. While we wait to see if somebody wants to defend the flock cameras in real actual time, good luck with that. We'll sit here and tell you about what I call the biggest love quarrel and what true love is all about. It's when two grown men. One gets a machete. One man gets a hatchet and they go over to a public's parking lot in Panama City and they duel it out over a woman. Both got cut up pretty bad. Both got arrested. Neither one of them got the girl. One of them already did time for killing a 16 year old with a chain years ago. And when you think about this going down... I tried to bet that she had three names or like two first names, like a Mary Jane or a Peggy Sue, Mary Sue, you know, Sue Ellen, something to that matter, right? But I was wrong. We looked her up and she doesn't, all right? But she certainly doesn't look like a score either. Really, Rob? Two men. Grown men. Went and dueled in a public parking lot. It is not about what she looks like. Trust me, that's not what this duel is about. What's it about then? Love, man. Love. Oh, you know what I'm talking about? Oh, man. Daybreak, 925 Fox News right all along continues next.
of us is that little red pill to reignite that spark for politics. The cure for electile dysfunction is 92-5 Fox News. Results may very long. Welcome back to daybreak on 92-5 Fox News, right all along. Phone line's open for the last segment here. They're already here. 239, 479-5592. The hot button today is definitely flock cameras. Elmer from Fort Myers, go ahead. What did you see? Good morning, Jason. Yeah, I understand the conversations going on about these stationary flock cameras, but I've been seeing these very indiscreet Toyota Corolla's half, the windows halfway down with the plot cameras inside them. I've taken pictures of the vehicles or license plates. They're in Costco parking lots, public parking lots, all over the place. Send me a picture if you see another one. Texted at 239-9-4-7-9-2 so I can see it. If you can get a picture of one for me, all right? I've got pictures of license plate numbers. I'll send it to you. Send it to me. I want to see it. All right. I'm curious what you got. I appreciate you. Thanks for calling in and being on daybreak. That's interesting. Could they be laying them into parked cars and parking them into parking lots? Now we're really crossing the line. You know, and when it comes to license plate readers that are attached to police cruisers, those are so the cruiser can read the plate as he drives. It reads the plate as he drives past it. It just simplifies his job. I think that's an okay use case. Me too. because you have a person in charge of the equipment. And it's not tracking me because it's moving. Rich from Alva Maria. Go ahead. Rich, what's up? Yeah, I attended a meeting Monday night with a group of people who seem to know quite a bit about the flock cameras that was held at Lulu's Kitchen. And the idea there was that in Collier County, a gentleman made the... assertion or statement, I'm not going to use the name, but I'm just saying a guy there who seemed to be informed said that the Collier County use of flock cameras per the sheriff Rambosk, it stays in Collier County and that data does not go into the usual flock camera database, which is a worldwide database, which is frightening. So I think the, oh, go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say the assertion that, you know, like trust us, Tyler County citizens, the sheriff is on top of this and the data does not leave the county. I think, okay, but I'm kind of from the era of... you know, why do we as the citizens have to say, trust us, why couldn't there be a very positive, you know, uh, yeah, hold on. Let me let me start. Rich, you know, did anybody talk about how the cameras were free to the county at this meeting?
I didn't hear that. Free to the county. No cost at all. So where's the money? Where is the company that took billions of dollars from a company to build this company? They took a huge investment from these two guys to build flock. Where are they making their money? Where is their money being made? Yeah, that's the rub. I think the data, and do you trust, if I said, hey, look, I'm going to scan your retina and I'm going to scan your 1040. Trust me, I won't use it for nefarious purposes. You're like, well, I don't have sure if I could trust you or not. So I think, you know, a government of by and for the people would say, hey, you know what? We're going to take extraordinary measures to. calm the citizens and say that this flock data will not be misused. We're going to put 100,000 of them up nationwide without asking one citizen if they approve it. Now, one citizen said yes. I've got one example like, you know, the speeding. Okay, so speeding can be hazardous. Of course it can be hazardous. So this is out in Arizona. Citizens successfully fought. 30 seconds. Cameras that were there to, you know, give you a ticket automatically. So the citizens rose up and said, hey, we're tired of this. We jump on the 101 out circling Scottsdale and Phoenix, and we don't want to get automatic tickets. So they reversed. their course and took down the speeding. Well, the Speed Zone cameras have notoriously been erroneous across the entire country. You can find the articles, hundreds of articles across it. So I'm not a big fan of those either. And they've actually had to return like 1,300 different tickets in Sanabelle right here in Southwest Florida with the school zone speed camera, which, by the way, brings me to a great topic as we wrap up today. Remember, those cameras are on. Schools back in session. Don't speed through a school zone. You're going to get a ticket in the mail, and it'll cost you a Honda, and you're going to pay. You're not going to fight it. And the money's going to get split up in some kind of weird conglomerate of a of a tech companies. Tech company payoffs. Listen, the, the flag conversation is never going away. It's not going away until Congress stands up and does something. It's a 100,000 camera surveillance system on America. That's what it is. We're still going to see. I think, I think we're still going to see some. vigilante justice here. I think people are going to continue to push back. We're going to continue to see pictures of cameras taped up, sawed down, thrown away. I don't think this is the end of these. Are these your sawblades here? I'm just kidding. On behalf of Roger and myself and my good friend Rob, Rob, thank you very much for being here today. Rob Stevens, Roger and myself, there we go. I got it all in.
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