Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Edward Caban

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

Bill weighs in on NYPD's commissioner Edward Caban stepping down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some bad news for me today as police commissioner, Edward Cabin, resigned, a 57-year-old Bronx guy. I liked him personally. I got to know him a little bit. He's the first Latino ever to serve as commissioner. Now, when I heard it, I was sad, but I don't know what happened. So apparently his brother is in some kind of trouble for influence peddling. New York Post is writing the story, but the Post doesn't have anything specific as the federal beef. But the feds are raiding homes and they're looking at phones and there's a lot of stuff swirling. So the commissioner felt that he had a reason. And it made me sad.

But again, I don't know. I'm not privy and no one else is in the press. We don't know what these allegations will be. But the commissioner felt he had to step down, and he did. I just talked to him yesterday. And I said, hang tough, you know. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. I don't know what happened, but I like him.

All right? He's been very respectful and responsive. If I need a piece of information, the guy gives it to me. That's all I ask, public servants. Be honest and be accessible to the folks. Now, my grandfather, as many of you know, was NYPD, and the police department in New York was kind enough to give me his sheet, and he was in 1920s, and served his 20 years and got out in the Depression and got a security job in a bank, and he wrote out the Depression there.

My grandfather was a war hero in World War I at Muse Argonne, where the Brooklyn Battalion distinguished itself, 75% casualties, unbelievable. My grandfather never talked about either his police experience or his war experience. So I was kind of blank until I got older, started to research him. He had died by that time. So I have the utmost respect for the New York City Police Department. What is starting to bother me now is Major Adams. And Kaban was his guy.

Adams, I gave him a chance because I knew. the hellish damage that de Blasioid caused his city. And Adams steps in, he's got to clean up the mess, but he hasn't done it. I don't see any improvement in the city at all. And I don't think he'll win reelection, Eric Adams, unless there's some big course correction. I'm much harder on Adams than I was on a commissioner, because I don't know if the commissioner did anything wrong. And I can see that Adams isn't leading the way he should. He's not. It's not about politics for me. It's about getting things done, problem solving. So I have an emotional tie to the NYPD. I've always backed it and respected it, even though I got very, very angry as a young man with the Knapp

Commission, all the drug corruption. That really bothered me. But I think it is the finest police agency in a world, and I hope I'm right. I mean, I know so many cops and retired cops, and I just, this whole thing bothers me. I want to give you an update on another case that bothers me, and this is Daniel Penny. Remember a 24-year-old former Marine who's on a subway on May 1st, 2003, and a drug-addled guy named Jordan Neely was threatening people, in the subway car and Penny neutralized him in the process killed him. Again, I don't have all the information, but what I do know is that Penny will be acquitted. In this case, I don't think should ever been brought by Alvin Bragg. I don't think any other jurisdiction in the

country would have brought this case. Maybe, maybe Chicago and L.A., but Bragg is so far left and based everything on skin color and all that. That's who he is. But Penny, the trial, begins on October 21st, coming up fast. I think there's a good chance it will not even go to trial. If Bragg thinks he's going to be embarrassed, you drop the charges. Because Bragg is right in the middle of the Trump stuff, which is really shaking the whole justice system.

in this city and state. Anyway, right now I'm rooting for Daniel Penny. Filing is very closely. I think there is a sculpatory evidence all over the place that Penny would be acquitted. If it goes to trial, I hope it doesn't go to trial. But I wanted to give you an update on that.