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More on the 911 Changes · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Hang on, I'm cussing out somebody on Facebook. There we go.
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  Speaker 1: Exclamation point.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: All right, 22 minutes away from the top of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas in the Power Hour on 610 WTVN. Talking
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  Speaker 1: about this silliness that is coming out of Columbus City
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  Speaker 1: Hall that's been sprung on the people of Columbus. They
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  Speaker 1: say they tested this. Have you heard about any testing
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  Speaker 1: of this? I mean, I haven't heard a word about it.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing I've heard about this prior to this
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  Speaker 1: show starting was nothing. Until you mention it on air.
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  Speaker 1: But now they are going to take 911 calls and
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  Speaker 1: decide whether or not they actually need to dispatch emergency
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  Speaker 1: medical personnel to you. If there's any doubt, they'll send
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  Speaker 1: you over to the nurse line at a private company
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  Speaker 1: called Crosswalk. And Crosswalk will then determine, really? Really? We
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  Speaker 1: don't have any control over anything at Crosswalk? Who they hire?
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  Speaker 1: What they do? How they handle anything? Life and death,
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  Speaker 1: that's what 911 is supposed to be for. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to call 911 and run the risk of being
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  Speaker 1: transferred over to some private company with their own hiring
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  Speaker 1: practices to determine whether I need or how much help
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  Speaker 1: I might need. This is ridiculous. 821-9886. 821-WTVN. Pat, you're
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  Speaker 1: on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com phone line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like to say the stuff that other people
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  Speaker 3: only think, and here we go. The The administration in
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  Speaker 3: Columbus for years have brought in Somalians without any input
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  Speaker 3: about the ideas. They took down the Columbus statue without
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  Speaker 3: any input on the ideas. They take away park from
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  Speaker 3: the neighborhood and make it into a sports thing without
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  Speaker 3: any input. So as long as the morons in Columbus
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  Speaker 3: continue to vote for the idiot Democrat knuckleheads, This is
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  Speaker 3: what you're going to get, people who think they know
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  Speaker 3: better than anybody else on how to run our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and bringing in the cultures from other countries. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what, you want frivolous 911 calls? That is
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  Speaker 1: something that I've been griping about since I was here
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  Speaker 1: doing traffic, sitting out in the newsroom. We had scanners
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  Speaker 1: on the wall, all the police scanners and emergency scanners.
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  Speaker 1: The number of maternity calls... that the ambulances responded to
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  Speaker 1: over in Wedgwood apartments on the West side for the, the,
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  Speaker 1: the women, the Somali women would, they, it was like
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  Speaker 1: they were, that was going to their gynecologist was calling
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  Speaker 1: the ambulance to come check them out. It was every morning.
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  Speaker 1: I would hear that.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. And nobody wants to talk about it, but
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  Speaker 3: they brought in all those people and those people are
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  Speaker 3: now using the nine one one for their doctor appointments
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  Speaker 3: or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's, it's nobody wants to admit that's what's going on,
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  Speaker 3: but that's what's going on. Now, I do want to
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  Speaker 3: say one more thing. When my mother got old and funny,
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  Speaker 3: she began calling 911 because she got lonely. So I
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  Speaker 3: understand the need to have some kind of triage and
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  Speaker 3: sorting out and so on. But my advice is Take
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  Speaker 3: yourself to the doctor. Take yourself to the hospital. I
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  Speaker 3: fell off a roof. I dragged myself and drove myself
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  Speaker 3: to the hospital. I broke my leg. I broke my leg.
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  Speaker 3: I dragged myself and I had several heart attacks. Just
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  Speaker 3: take yourself. Forget the whole 911 nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Pat, you sound like the John Wayne of female persuasion.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my good. I love you. You call anytime. Multiple
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  Speaker 1: heart attacks fell off a roof, crawled to get to the.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's impressive. That's impressive. And what I'm saying, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, before anybody decides it would hit me, you're racist. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm observant. I'm just telling you, this is what we
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  Speaker 1: heard in the newsroom every morning on the scanners. Multiple,
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  Speaker 1: multiple maternity runs. Stations 12 and 17 over on the
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  Speaker 1: west side, multiple maternity runs over to Wedgwood. And that's
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  Speaker 1: not helpful. You want to talk about somebody in serious
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  Speaker 1: trouble who definitely needs something, needs help? They're trapped under
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  Speaker 1: a car. But, hey, you know, the paramedics are off
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  Speaker 1: doing a maternity call for somebody. No. No. Every day.
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  Speaker 1: It was an everyday thing. And again, we have come
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  Speaker 1: to understand, mostly, that 911 is for emergencies. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: calling it, I have deemed it an emergency. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need you to transfer me to some third-party company to
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  Speaker 1: discern whether or not, or to what degree, I need help.
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  Speaker 1: I am a lifelong resident of this city. I am
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  Speaker 1: an American citizen. I know when I need help. And
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  Speaker 1: if I call you for it, I damn sure expect it.
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  Speaker 4: 821-9886.
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  Speaker 1: 821-WTV. And, Carrie, you're on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com phone line.
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  Speaker 4: Hi. Well, hi.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to point out that while you might
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  Speaker 3: not call if it wasn't an emergency, your statistics at
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  Speaker 3: the beginning said that 50% of the calls they are
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  Speaker 3: getting do not really.
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  Speaker 2: Require an emergency vehicle or paramedics or anything.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say anything about 50% of the calls.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you did at the very beginning. They said 50%
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  Speaker 2: of the calls don't require paramedics. So it seems if
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  Speaker 2: they're sending people out... Just because I do believe that
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  Speaker 2: you would only call if it was a serious emergency.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wait a minute. You're saying Mayor Ginther said half
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  Speaker 1: of the calls to 911 in 2024 did not require
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  Speaker 1: EMS on the scene. Andy Ginther said that. I want
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  Speaker 1: to hear that from an authority within the department.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, I'm just saying that's the statistic that they're using.
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  Speaker 2: It just seems to me that even though you may
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  Speaker 2: have learned to only call 911 in case of an emergency,
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  Speaker 2: It sure seems like there's probably a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: out there who aren't doing that. And so they're calling
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  Speaker 2: when it's not an emergency, which means, just like you
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  Speaker 2: said earlier, you've got somebody who's in a serious situation
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  Speaker 2: and the paramedics can't go to them because they're going
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  Speaker 2: to for some foolish reason, you know, when somebody's calling
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  Speaker 2: when it is an emergency.
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  Speaker 1: And, Carrie, I'm not going to be argumentative with you,
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  Speaker 1: but I've got to do the devil's advocate thing because
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  Speaker 1: that's the way I think. Using the logic that you
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  Speaker 1: just put forth, I know how to have two beers
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  Speaker 1: because that's what my limit is before I start to
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  Speaker 1: feel anything. I know how to have those two beers.
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  Speaker 1: There are some people out there who don't. Should we
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  Speaker 1: discontinue the availability of beer? Because if all those other
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  Speaker 1: people are misusing it, And I'm using it correctly. Should
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  Speaker 1: there be something else in the process for somebody to
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  Speaker 1: have a beer? I know how to obey the speed limit.
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  Speaker 1: There are plenty of people who don't.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't they just trying to make sure that there are
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  Speaker 2: paramedics available for, in your analogy, the people who... Do
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  Speaker 2: drink beer responsibly? Do only call the emergency services when.
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  Speaker 5: It's really important?
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  Speaker 1: And what happens when this third party non-accountable, crossroad or
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  Speaker 1: crosswalk or whatever the heck they're called, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: anything about them. I don't know what kind of accountability
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have to the citizens of Columbus. What
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  Speaker 1: happens when they make a mistake and they don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's an emergency, they don't send anybody, and someone ends
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  Speaker 1: up dead because they had a heart attack? Whose responsibility?
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine it's similar to the the responsibility that
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  Speaker 2: there's nursing lines for almost all the health insurance companies
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  Speaker 2: and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Right, those are private entities, though. Those aren't taxpayer-funded government entities.
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  Speaker 1: This is our government.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. But my guess is, and this is a guess
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  Speaker 2: because I don't know this first I've heard of this,
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  Speaker 2: but it would seem that they would be under the same.
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  Speaker 2: As if 9-1-1 says, oh, it's not an emergency, we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to send somebody. I mean, I think they
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  Speaker 2: do that now. They certainly do some sort of triaging.
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  Speaker 2: I know it was just a couple years ago we
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  Speaker 2: heard about people were using 9-1-1 because the McDonald's order
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  Speaker 2: was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, there's idiots out there that call 9-1-1 over
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of stupid stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Right, just stupid stuff. So I guess this is just...
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  Speaker 2: a similar type of triage but with a more qualified
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  Speaker 2: person than a 911 person.
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  Speaker 1: At least the.
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  Speaker 2: Nurse would have medical training.
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  Speaker 1: That is an assumption that we're going with. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about this. This just got sprung on everybody.
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  Speaker 1: There's been nothing as far as talking to the public
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  Speaker 1: and saying, here's what we're considering doing, and there's been
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  Speaker 1: no public meeting, nothing. The mayor just decided we're rolling
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  Speaker 1: this out, and I don't think that's very responsible either.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly sounds like they needed a better PR start.
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  Speaker 5: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. Gary, thank you very much for the call.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. 821-9886. Tom, you're on 610 WTVN.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good evening.
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  Speaker 4: Just a couple of real quick comments. I'd love to see,
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  Speaker 4: you know, what the company gave the mayor for his
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  Speaker 4: re-election bid, just like they have. gave him money for
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  Speaker 4: his re-election bid. You know, I mean, there's definitely money
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  Speaker 4: that's crossed the hands. We know that.
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  Speaker 1: I make no accusations, but those questions are going to
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  Speaker 1: be asked, and they deserve answers.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, because, I mean, it's already come out to Haslam's, Gabe.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Guenther for his reelection bid, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how many millions, but, you know, isn't it coincidental that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, all of a sudden this comes up from
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  Speaker 4: the mayor and he's running for reelection? You know, this
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  Speaker 4: city has gone to pot in the past. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I think Mayor Coleman was a far, far better mayor
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  Speaker 4: than this guy is. And he won't get my vote.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a Republican. But I tell you what, we need change.
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  Speaker 4: And even if it means voting for a Democrat and
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  Speaker 4: Shannon Harden, That gentleman will get my vote.
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  Speaker 1: I fear that Shannon Harden may be even worse. It's
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  Speaker 1: a no-win for me, but I will agree with you
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  Speaker 1: about Michael Coleman. We did not agree on everything, but
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  Speaker 1: as far as leadership and decision-making on behalf of the
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  Speaker 1: citizens of Columbus, I think he was much, much.
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  Speaker 4: Better at it. Yes, he was. But this thing just
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  Speaker 4: going to be enacted, I can't believe the public can't,
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  Speaker 4: you know, recall the mayor on this. I mean, we've
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  Speaker 4: gone through this, like the lady earlier said, with the
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  Speaker 4: red light cameras and now the flock cameras. And I
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  Speaker 4: think there could be a better way of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: coming up with guidelines and penalties for the officers that
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  Speaker 4: misuse it. But don't, you know, don't completely cut out
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  Speaker 4: the flock, you know, which is basically tying the tying
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  Speaker 4: the police department's hands, as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, vilifying a valuable tool is what they're doing. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the tool, it's how it's used in some occasions. William,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get you in here before I have
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  Speaker 1: to say goodbye. You're up.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, I just had a quick comment. Is it just me,
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  Speaker 5: or did I miss the whole concept where you get
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  Speaker 5: in trouble if you call 911 for something silly or
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  Speaker 5: stupid or frivolous? I You and I don't agree on
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things, but I 100% agree with this.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, we're going to trust somebody else, and the
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  Speaker 5: time the call gets transferred, and then it gets transferred again,
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  Speaker 5: and it gets transferred again, the person's already gone.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: No. The reason for calling 911 is I don't need
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  Speaker 5: help five minutes from now. I don't need help 20
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  Speaker 5: minutes from now. I need help five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: Like too many things in government today, William, what they're
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  Speaker 1: saying is you're probably not smart enough to know whether
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  Speaker 1: or not this is a 911 emergency call. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to make that decision for you. And that's worrisome.
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  Speaker 1: I got to run, buddy. The music's playing, which means
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  Speaker 1: it is time for me to fly. However, I'm back
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  Speaker 1: in for Blazer tomorrow. He's going to be off tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that, Zach? Thankfully. Oh, yeah, just you
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  Speaker 1: and me. So try to wear something sexy, okay?