July 30, 2025

Sleuth Nils Grevalius - Fixing Street People

Sleuth Nils Grevalius - Fixing Street People

Longtime private Investigator and security expert Nils Grevalius has his views on LA's homeless, mental illness, the NY Shooter's motives, and why he likes Trump's plan to help localities put the mentally into treatment hospitals.

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A real gumshoe is on the line.
Nils Gravalius is a private

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investigator in Los Angeles.
He's been following the shooting

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a little bit, so we'll grab his
insights.

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But we're also going to be
talking about Trump's new

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executive order, which will
empower states to pick up

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homeless and ship them off into
mental institutions.

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And Nils has some thoughts about
that.

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Welcome to the program, Sir,
from Los Angeles, my own, my old

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stomping grounds.
Let's talk about the shooter and

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what your insight is being a
private investigator.

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We should mention a private
investigator, a private

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detective.
And that's been his career.

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So I've not I don't think I've
talked to a gumshoot before.

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So it's good to have you on.
Well, I'm.

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I'm very pleased to be on your
show, Mr. Shane Tamara.

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He grew up in metropolitan Los
Angeles, was a standout all

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player in the West San Fernando
Valley and then kind of fell off

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the map after that.
And he may have had brain

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injury, but I think the the
nature of this thing suggests

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there's more to it.
I also a mental illness arising

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of high grade cannabis use
Cannabis psychosis with other

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form of paranoid schizophrenia.
Mr. Watkins.

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Now, what is that?
Is it because of some element

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that's in marijuana?
And nowadays they're making it

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pretty potent, aren't they?
They are making it quite potent

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and people with any kind of a
predisposition toward family

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history, that sort of thing, are
very prone to falling into

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schizoaffective disorder from
high grade cannabis use or

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paranoid schizophrenia.
And once somebody falls into

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that, it, it, it can be treated,
but they're never the, the brain

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chemistry is never the same
again.

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The people who say that cannabis
is harmless are fools.

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We this is perfectly
demonstrated.

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I've had three missing persons
cases in the last 12 months, all

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involving kokosis.
People who were otherwise normal

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on Monday and on Tuesday went
completely off the rails.

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One of them was found booked as
a Jane Doe into a hospital in

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another county.
Even know her name and she was a

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scientific research graduate
student.

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That's amazing.
Do you think this is driving my

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Because look, this is a giant
social experiment now for the

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last 10 years, legalized
cannabis in certain states.

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People know how to get, it's
easier to get than it's ever

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been.
Do you think this is what's

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driving a lot of the drug
addiction in the homeless?

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It sounds like an obvious
question, but has anybody

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connected the dots?
And you live in an LA, It's not

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the same place as it used to be.
There's homeless everywhere,

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right?
Yeah, I I'm not going to call

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them homeless.
That's that that that puts me in

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a in an abusive relationship
with the English language.

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Mr. Watkins bums, winos, Dings,
crazies, junkies, derelicts,

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whatever.
To use the term homeless is to

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buy into the idea that they
played no role in what became of

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them.
So I won't do that.

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But what I will say is that
quote, UN quote, homeless is

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money is cryptocurrency for for
California Democrats, the

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Newsome donors, the Karen Bass
donors, the Bunko Jerry donors

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line their pockets with this,
with this money.

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And our population of derelicts
grows and grows and grows.

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And what what President Trump is
doing is he's forcing A

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clarification under the law and
he's putting government county

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officials and mayors on notice
that they can either actually do

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something with the services that
they have or, or have problems

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from him.
And the ambiguity in the law is

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going to get sweated out.
Trump has done this with the

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birthright citizenship.
He's done it with deportations

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of DACA, etcetera.
So now he's going to do it with

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the quote UN quote, homeless
situation.

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Now here in here in Los Angeles,
I think we have 75,000 men and

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women living on the streets,
under railroad trestles, in the

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landscaping, along the freeways.
And when Democrats want to do

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something with Californians,
they, they don't hesitate.

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I'll give you a great example.
During the, during the COVID

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pandemic or, or pandemic or or
whatever you want to call it,

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they, they moved heaven and
earth.

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They ordered people to stay
home, to wear masks, to stay,

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stay away from each other.
They're not engaging

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recreational activities.
And they had every authority

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under excellent law that they
wanted.

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They didn't have to change the
law to claim they had the

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authority to do that.
But now when it comes to doing

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something with derelicts, they
claim that they're powerless,

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that there's nothing baked into
the law to make that allows them

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to do anything about anyone at
any time, which I think is

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garbage.
Men and women are suffering

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without consequences, they'll
continue to suffer.

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The the best way to shrink your
homeless problem is to

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ruthlessly enforce trespass,
larceny, public intoxication,

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possession of drugs, dealing
drugs, charges, short term

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incarceration, and offers of
help.

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And the people who won't take
their help just can't be helped.

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And the ones who will take the
help will change.

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So you don't necessarily see
this as a bad thing of a of a

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having, because we know that
Ronald Reagan sort of closed all

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that down.
You don't see anything wrong

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with with rounding people up and
and making them go somewhere

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where they're kind of away from
the people.

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You don't think that could be
abused?

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Well, it'll be, it'll be be
abused to around the clock in

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order to make Los Angeles good
for the Olympics, Mr. Watkins.

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And they'll break the law over
and over and over again.

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And there'll be no consequence
for it because, you know,

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nothing will happen as the
result.

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What I think is the way to go
about it is to enforce the laws

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we already have.
We're not enforcing them.

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This is a constant consequence
Free State.

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The only thing that's really
illegal in California is beating

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up crossdressers.
Interesting.

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We're talking with Niels
Gravalius.

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He's a private investigator.
He's got a resume that's

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envious.
He knows a thing or two about

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this.
I don't.

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I know we don't have a lot of
time, but I do want to have you

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back and I want to have you back
soon.

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And talk about Adam Schiff.
Why be delighted?

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Because there's a lot to it.
I'd.

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Be delighted.
Yeah, because.

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I'd be delighted.
Based on your experience, and

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we've only got about a minute,
Nils, what are you, what's your

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assessment of the Epstein case?
What do you think they're trying

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to hide?
Well, they're trying to hide

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that it was an intelligence
operation, Mr. Watkins being

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operated probably jointly by the
CIA and another agency, maybe

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Mia 6, maybe Mossad.
And they turned it from a

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criminal investigation at the
FBI into a counterintelligence

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operation to impound the files
to keep them away from Pam Bondi

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and Dan Bongino.
That's what's going on.

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It's just like what they did
with the Crossfire Hurricane

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material.
When John Durham went to work,

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they hit 90% of the evidence.
Are you shocked that that is

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occurring or it has occurred at
that level of executive

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government?
No, no, that they that they

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inventory city, they maintain an
inventory of official secrets

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that they can used for future
extortion or political

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bargaining.
That that sort of has been going

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on quite a while.
And I have some theories on

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this.
I'm, I'm a former

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counterintelligence agent and I
can talk a bit, but you know,

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I'm not going to violate
secrets, secrecy or the

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espionage or any of that.
But I can give you some

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contextual things on this, Mr.
Watkins.

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And I'm going to get it from
you, too.

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And I'm going to be out there in
California for a little while.

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I'm, I'm hoping.
Do you drink beer?

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Well, it depends.
It depends.

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Depends on how large your
breasts are, Mr. Watkins and I

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Let me know when you're in town
and I'll and I'll make sure that

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you and I collide some.
That would be nice.

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That would be wonderful.
By the way, Gravalius Security

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Investigations, Nils Gravalius,
it's good to have you here on

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America TODAY and we thank you
and we'll be in touch very soon.

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Appreciate that.
So cheers, man.

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Cheers to you.
All right, great, great.

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That's our second time we've had
him on and we're going to have

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him back on.
I want to get the skinny on Adam

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Schiff.
Oh, you didn't hear about that.

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Oh, yeah.
He's possibly facing mortgage

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fraud.
Isn't that interesting?

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