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23 1130 What NOW Mr Mayor? · Chuck Douglas

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  Originating from the iHeartMedia Megaplex and Columbus, Ohio, the studios of six'
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  ten WTVN. This is the Douglas power Pour Podcast. I've never really understood
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  people that felt the need to practice a speech, because I think it takes
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  the zest out of it, the spontaneity out of it, and sometimes that
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  makes your point weaker, whatever point you're trying to make in the speech case
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  endpoint. I've bet the show audio from the show that I did on the
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  twenty ninth of November is far more poignant than coming in here and restating it
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  for the podcast. So I'm just going to go to the show audio from
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  the twenty ninth of November. We had somebody finally die because of one of
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  these stolen Kia dirt balls. You gut somebody did because four punks in a
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  stolen Kia rammed into their Hyundai or Honda over on Hilliard Rome Road on Saturday.
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  I went through that intersection about I don't know two and a half hours
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  later. There was no indication of anything happening, so they cleaned up the
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  accident very well. I didn't even know about it, I don't think until
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  Monday, but they went through a stop sign, blew through the stop sign
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  there at Beacon Hill and Hilliard Rome, right by Doctor's West Hospital, if
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  you know the area, and hit this Honda. And the driver of the
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  Honda has now died. So now what do we do? What do we
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  do? After time? I still don't know the record this particular driver of
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  the Kia. I don't know how many times, but I bet you it
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  wasn't there first being caught behind the wheel of a stolen car, and there
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  were four of them in the car. At last check. They were charging
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  the driver with receiving stolen property, not auto theft, not you know,
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  felony anything, but just receiving. They were leaving it at that and I
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  hope that that was because they were waiting and praying that this other driver would
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  come out of this, but they did. So now what now? What
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  I am? I am? And I don't know who they are, don't
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  know how old they well, I know they're fifteen, yes, male or
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  female, don't know, black or white, don't know America or not,
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  don't know, had a daddy in the house, don't know, I don't
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  know. What I do know is that we need to start making examples of
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  criminals in general, and most definitely of these young criminals, because damn it,
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  they just don't care. They don't care. They're stealing cars, they're
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  shooting people, they're killing, the stabbing, robbing, going into stores and
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  hauling out garbage bags, and nobody seems to want to do anything that's in
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  power to do something. Those of us out here in the real world,
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  Yeah, we've got an issue. We've got an issue. We think somebody
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  ought to go to jail. We think somebody ought to pay a price for
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  this. But the people who are in charge and have the absolute power to
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  make something happen, they sit around forming their committees and their task force,
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  and they're you know, doing their studies and coming up with their formula.
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  What's that judge's name I saw on television. I forget her name. She
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  was the part of the group that designed this formula where they give them,
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  you know, points for when they get arrested to decide whether or not they
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  stay or not. I would say, your formula needs to be reworked.
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  You're on her because they need to stay while the jails are just a terrible
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  place for them. Make the jails better. Come on, we're tax tax,
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  tax, tax, You make money, you pay tax on it.
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  You spend money, you pay tax on the stuff you buy. You buy
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  a house, you pay tax every year for the right of owning the house.
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  You leave your money to somebody when you die, and they pay taxes
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  on it. For God's sake, you get to tax the income four thousand
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  times. Why don't you use it to actually do something that makes sense.
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  If the jails are bad, make them better. If they're understaff, hire
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  more people. If you need this, go get it. But stop making
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  the rest of us out here look around every time we walk out our door
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  or to see if somebody's coming down the street we don't recognize, or or
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  you know, wearing a hood when they shouldn't be because its ninety degrees and
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  you got a hoodie on and the hoods pulled down and you're lower in your
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  head. Of course, I'm gonna watch you. Yeah, profiling, Yeah
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  I am, just because he's no. Don't even insert anything in there,
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  because I don't care what he's except for the fact that I don't recognize him.
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  He's acting suspicious, he's got his hood down. It's too hot to
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  even be wearing that, and he's getting way too close to me, my
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  car, my family, my house, whatever. So his profile is get
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  away from me. And more and more of us are getting like this.
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  Why because those who have the power and the charge to do something about the
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  problems choose to not do anything about the problems. They come up with excuse
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  after excuse, project after projects, and not do anything. And now someone
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  is dead. We've been saying it. You've said it. I've said it.
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  People you don't know. I've said it people you do know. I've
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  said what are they gonna do when somebody gets killed by one of these kids
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  stealing a car? Well, somebody has been killed? May again there?
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  Now what, Zach Klein? Now what Columbus City Council, Now what?
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  Don't tell me what the police need to do. They can't keep picking them
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  up and bringing them in so you can turn them loosen. They're out two
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  hours later doing the same thing. Now what and what responsibility do you bear?
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  Especially if it comes out that this kid that was driving the car has
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  you know, five six seven arrests already for stealing cars and you did nothing?
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  Are you? Are you implying that this person may have had a prior
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  run in with the law do you think you think somebody in a stolen Kia
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  at fifteen years old with three other people in the car with them does not
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  already have a reputation for being somebody that can steal cars. That's where they
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  got the three passengers. I highly doubt it. I'm just kidding. That's
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  where they got the three passes. They went out and knowing that that one
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  can do it, let's get it, let's go steal car. And somebody's
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  dead. I know you think I'm you know, wow, Chuck's just really
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  off the hooked, and I maybe I am a little bit. I grew
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  up here, man, this is my hometown. Columbus, Ohio is my
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  hometown. I graduated what is quickly becoming a cesspool called Columbus City Schools,
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  except we were public schools instead of city schools, and we had a nice
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  Apple logo back then. Till my last breath, I will be a proud
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  West High Cowboy. But I'm proud of what we were. I'm not proud
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  of what I'm seeing out there today. Yeah I am. I am upset.
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  I am very upset, and more people ought to be upset, especially
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  those who are empowered and entrusted to do something about it. The decline of
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  what we know to be civilization happens one teaspoon at a time. You don't
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  have to drink the whole jar, and we keep letting teaspoon after teaspoon pass
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  our lips. That's okay, it's it's not that bad. It's not that
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  bad yet it is because at the end of not that bad comes much worse.
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  And we've got to do something. And the people who are entrusted and
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  empowered to do something have got to do something, and they've got to be
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  called accountable, loudly accountable, publicly accountable, repeatedly accountable when they don't.
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