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Brian talks with Cory Bowman · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Corey came into Stios on break post election. Yes, Corey
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Speaker 1: Bowman ran from mayor of the City of Cincinnata. Notice
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Speaker 1: the color charted electoral map we keep permanently posted here
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Speaker 1: on the morning show. Strekker put that up after the
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Speaker 1: Quire produced it. So we see the red areas where
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Speaker 1: people were smart enough to vote for you, Corey Bowman.
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Speaker 1: And then we have the color coded chart showing the
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Speaker 1: percentage of voters that went pervoll and the current makeup
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Speaker 1: of Cincinni City Council, which is only one member different
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Speaker 1: than it was prior to the election. And it's all
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Speaker 1: you know, pervall fifty to seventy, pro ball seventy one
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Speaker 1: to eighty four, and per ball eighty five to one hundred. This,
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Speaker 1: of course, based upon the reality of the last fall
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Speaker 1: election where only one out of twenty five registered voters
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Speaker 1: or people actually showed up to vote. It's insane, Corey.
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Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't understand people's lack of
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Speaker 1: interest or they're fair to pay attention to the problems
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Speaker 1: that we all knew about going into the election. And
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Speaker 1: here we are with the exact same cast of characters,
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Speaker 1: and what unfolds in the aftermath is more information about
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Speaker 1: how poorly run the city's been up up to the election.
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Speaker 1: If we had all this information, like the firing of
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Speaker 1: police Chief Thiji, the camera installation that was promised for
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Speaker 1: years and denied, on and on and on like these
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Speaker 1: are reflections of mismanagement, I mean, plain and simple. The
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Speaker 1: whole iris rolling thing floating around the background that has
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Speaker 1: just got everybody like, what in the hell is this
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Speaker 1: all about? It could have been different, but it wasn't.
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Speaker 1: So you're citizen Corey Bowman, but you're still a West
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Speaker 1: End resident, correct, Yes, sir?
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Speaker 2: Well, first off, thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 2: Good good morning, everybody for listening everything. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be a great day today. But yeah, Brian, first off,
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Speaker 2: you know, thank you so much for the entire year
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Speaker 2: that we were running that campaign that you consistently had
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Speaker 2: us on talking about the issues and you know, like
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Speaker 2: what you said, you know, when it comes to the
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Speaker 2: management of the city, that's what we ran the race on.
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Speaker 2: And I think that even after the election, even though
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Speaker 2: it's not the results that we wanted to see, you know,
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Speaker 2: in the words of one of my friends, Christopher Smithman,
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Speaker 2: elections have consequences elections have consequences, and I think that
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Speaker 2: one of the most important things we can continue to
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Speaker 2: do is to keep these issues at the forefront of
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Speaker 2: the conversation. You know, I made a post a while
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Speaker 2: back go something that hit me pretty close to home,
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Speaker 2: was that one of our church members, her granddaughter was
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Speaker 2: Queen Irie, the eleven year old girl that got shot down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So what happened was is that her grandmother is a
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Speaker 2: member of our church. The shooting happened at Laurel Park,
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Speaker 2: which is about six blocks away from our church, right
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Speaker 2: across the street from where they live, and the little
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Speaker 2: girl two years prior, we had actually gotten a chance
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Speaker 2: to pray with her at an outreach that we had
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Speaker 2: at that park, at the very place where she tragically
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Speaker 2: got her life taken away.
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Speaker 1: You had to have a vigil there because of the
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Speaker 1: other eleven year old that got killed there. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so two years before it was Dominic Davis, and
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Speaker 2: these are issues that we've seen throughout the city. And
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Speaker 2: so I made a post just kind of pleading to
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Speaker 2: the leaders at city Hall, just saying, this is an
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Speaker 2: election here. I'm not making this post for another run
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Speaker 2: or another race. I'm making this post as a citizen,
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Speaker 2: as a pastor, as a business owner, as somebody member
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Speaker 2: of their community. And the thing is that we've got
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Speaker 2: to do better. We've got to do better when it
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Speaker 2: comes to public safety. And I'll just throw this in
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Speaker 2: there that the answer to that is not just throwing
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Speaker 2: more money at it.
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Speaker 1: Well, no question about it. Although money is necessary to
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Speaker 1: buy things like cameras, I think we all can probably
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Speaker 1: come to a reasonable conclusion that, let's say, since the
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Speaker 1: first eleven year old was shot in the park and
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Speaker 1: the promise was made the cameras would be installed, and
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Speaker 1: I can't. We can acknowledge the cameras don't prevent crime,
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Speaker 1: they deter it. I use the analogy again, burglars know
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Speaker 1: a house with a dog versus a house with no dog.
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Speaker 1: They go to the house with no dog because who
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Speaker 1: wants to take that chance? Cameras are up. It's like
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Speaker 1: having a cop there. Do you want to take a
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Speaker 1: chance where they can identify you even if you have
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Speaker 1: a mask on. They can identify people based up on
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Speaker 1: their height and their gate and their weight. With cameras,
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Speaker 1: they're wonderful evidentiary tools to be used in finding a
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Speaker 1: guy that committed crime, But in front of that is
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Speaker 1: the guy that's going to commit the crime can look
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Speaker 1: up or know there's cameras in this area. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: move to an area where there's no cameras. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well also too, I mean the issues that we talked
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Speaker 2: about the entire year, right when it comes to public safety,
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Speaker 2: this isn't rocket science. You know. The crime has been
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Speaker 2: a problem since canaan Able, right, and there has been
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Speaker 2: solutions to that, you know, in our city. I think
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Speaker 2: one of the biggest things that we were pushing that
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Speaker 2: we still push right now is I mean, number one,
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Speaker 2: you're twenty percent understaffed as a police department. Any organization,
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Speaker 2: any company, any type of entity that is twenty percent
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Speaker 2: understaffed is not going to operate to the fullest of
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Speaker 2: its ability. We've got to increase lateral hiring. We've got
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Speaker 2: to make sure that those complement levels are up. And
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Speaker 2: then also we've got to put pressure on the judges
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Speaker 2: to hold criminals accountable because I talk with the people
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Speaker 2: in the community. These criminals do not paint a right
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Speaker 2: picture of the entire community.
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Speaker 1: They don't.
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Speaker 2: It's a very small amount of people that aren't held accountable,
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Speaker 2: and we've got to change that from the judicial system,
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Speaker 2: and then finally you got to bridge that gap between
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Speaker 2: the police officers and the community they serves. One way
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Speaker 2: to do that is to enforce low level crimes de
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Speaker 2: escalation tactics and encourage your officers to be more involved
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Speaker 2: in situations rather than just only swoop in at the
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Speaker 2: worst case scenario.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, along those lines, I think of the whole you know,
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Speaker 1: the romantic notion of the beat cop. Everybody knows them,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think of the I can't remember what
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Speaker 1: it was the name of the program was, but swinging
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Speaker 1: the baton, you know, the night stick walking down the
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Speaker 1: street and saying hello to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Pleasantville type of the Andy Griffin.
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Speaker 1: And doors at night to make sure they're locked. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's all a romantic notion, but it does suggest that
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Speaker 1: it's a friendly relationship, a familiar relationship with the people
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Speaker 1: who the officers are patrolling in that neighborhood, and that
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Speaker 1: connection sort of gives people the positive I to the police.
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Speaker 2: You know what's funny is that I was working at
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Speaker 2: my coffee shop. I had to cover for one of
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Speaker 2: my baristas, and as I'm in there, you know, that's
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Speaker 2: kind of my opportunity to tell people, Hey, this is
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Speaker 2: a good chance to meet me if you want to,
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Speaker 2: you know, schedule meeting or whatever.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to be serving customers.
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Speaker 2: So as I'm in there, gentlemen, comes in a very
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Speaker 2: prominent businessman in the city, and over the course of
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Speaker 2: thirty minutes of him in there, every customer came in.
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Speaker 2: I probably gave a like ten second hug to every
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Speaker 2: single one of them, saying, Hi, how's your family, how's
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Speaker 2: this And he just looked at me and said, well,
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Speaker 2: you're like Andy Griffith right now, what the heck is
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Speaker 2: going on in the West End right now? But then
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Speaker 2: if it's okay, I want to tell a story about
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Speaker 2: what happened that night with the eleven year old getting shot,
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Speaker 2: because we were with the family that night, and this
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Speaker 2: was a kind of a revelation that I had because
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Speaker 2: you know, the first radio interview I did, somebody said, well,
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Speaker 2: this is really personal for you now, and I said, well,
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Speaker 2: this was always personal to me, even throughout the race,
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Speaker 2: because it wasn't just about being mayor of Cincinnati. That night,
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Speaker 2: I got the call from the grandmother. Me and my
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Speaker 2: wife were about to go to Graters with our kids,
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Speaker 2: and we go right to Cincinnati Children's and we were
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Speaker 2: with the family during some of the most horrific scenes
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Speaker 2: that you would ever see when it comes to mourning
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Speaker 2: and the loss of a loved one, from the mother,
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Speaker 2: from the father, and from all the cousins, young cousins.
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Speaker 2: Seeing the whole yeah, and seeing the whole process, from
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Speaker 2: the detectives, from the corner, from all these different processes,
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Speaker 2: from how they're treated by social workers, all sorts of
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Speaker 2: things going on, and then when they finally get escorted
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Speaker 2: out at the end of the night, right, and it
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Speaker 2: wasn't done rightly at all. When the whole family gets
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Speaker 2: escorted out, we go to the place where little Queen
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Speaker 2: Eyrie was shot and it's at Laurel Park. It's right
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Speaker 2: across the street from the grandmother's house. So we're there
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Speaker 2: that night. I was there until past midnight. We got,
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Speaker 2: you know, some pizzas delivered to the family. When something
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Speaker 2: like that happens, the whole community comes out. Well, this
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Speaker 2: is something that struck me, right, is that I'm out
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Speaker 2: there just you know, kind of praying with people, talk
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Speaker 2: with people about the little girl. And we're in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the park. Well, there's some cars that are
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Speaker 2: pulling by that are fairly driving fairly slow, right, and
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Speaker 2: they've got ten windows. I mean, everybody's got ten windows now.
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Speaker 2: But what happened was I called some contacts with the
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Speaker 2: police department. I said, get some cruisers down here if
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Speaker 2: you can, to Laurel Park to protect the family because
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Speaker 2: they're out in the park their morning. I mean, we're
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Speaker 2: in the dirt where you can find blood where the
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Speaker 2: girl was, right. So then the cop cars pull up
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Speaker 2: and the whole community at first freaks out.
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Speaker 1: And they think they're responding.
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Speaker 2: They think they're responding, right, and they think that they're
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Speaker 2: there to try to clear them out. I raise up
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Speaker 2: my hands and I say, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: that's me. Those officers are here for you, for your protection,
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Speaker 2: to protect you. And then something just happened to where
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Speaker 2: they realized that they could actually be on their side, right.
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Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there thinking, isn't this what elected officials
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Speaker 2: should be doing. Isn't this what leaders in the city
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Speaker 2: should be doing, bridging that gap between the community and
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Speaker 2: the police officers that want to protect and serve them.
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Speaker 1: And that's the last thing on the provol administration agenda.
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, you know, yeah, it was Aftab at that meet.
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Speaker 1: I know the answer is no. It's a rhetorical question
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Speaker 1: from Joe Strecker, but no, Aftab pro Voll wasn't at
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Speaker 1: the park for your vigil. He hasn't never showed up there, has.
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Speaker 2: He to my knowledge, And you know, I like to
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Speaker 2: give credit. Where's credit, dude? To my knowledge, he did
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Speaker 2: through a detective try to reach out to the family
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Speaker 2: as well, and so I mean that's, you know, something
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Speaker 2: that I think is needed as well, just leadership reaching out.
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Speaker 2: I know there was a couple city council members that
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Speaker 2: were there at the balloon release, so but this is
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Speaker 2: something that we always have to put the forefront. Accountability,
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Speaker 2: accountability to accountability. If we're if you've got that large
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Speaker 2: amount of people proportion wise that are voting for these
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Speaker 2: people in city hall, well then it is your job
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Speaker 2: to keep them accountable and make sure that they're doing
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Speaker 2: the job of keeping the city safe, clean and protected.
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman will return. We got another second with him
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Speaker 1: before we get to the bottom of the ar with
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Speaker 1: Jack Windsor, editor in chief the Isle Press Network and
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Speaker 1: Neil Windsor Report, which you can find on zoom on
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Speaker 1: Ice in Ohio as well as propertytech is that's the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the hour. One more with Corey after these brief words.
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Speaker 1: Eight eighteen Here fifty five KRCD talk station post election
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Speaker 1: coverage here with Corey Bowman from since formerly running for
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Speaker 1: mayor of the City of Cincinnati. He's still a resident
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Speaker 1: of the West End. Of course, his church is there,
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Speaker 1: his business with King's Arms Coffee, right, yeah, sort of
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Speaker 1: shout out, that's free plug for you. Show up there.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people do. I stay in touch with
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Get yourself a good cup of coffee, and
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Speaker 1: support Corey Budma, which I encourage you doing. Now. You
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Speaker 1: mentioned earlier lateral hires, and I know that. See I
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Speaker 1: was gonna say your campaign in running for mayor had
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Speaker 1: a couple of really positive results the mayor. After that part,
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Speaker 1: Volt was denying that there was any crime to even
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Speaker 1: notice in the City of Cincinnati. I know I'm boiling
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Speaker 1: it down to its minimalist terms, but every time someone
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Speaker 1: got hurt or shot or killed, there's nothing to see.
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Speaker 1: It's just an you know, the violent crimes down We
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Speaker 1: kept hearing down, down, down, down, down. Don't believe your eyes,
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Speaker 1: don't believe the news. Just believe me and what I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you kind of a marketing plan. None of them
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Speaker 1: ever supported the police. They were all part of many
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Speaker 1: of them part of the defund the police movement. That
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Speaker 1: was all the rage Black Lives Matter was going down,
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Speaker 1: and we saw what happened to so many cities on that.
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Speaker 1: So your campaign, though, elevated crime to the attention of
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Speaker 1: the voting public. Coupled with Sarah Herringer, whose husband murdered
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Speaker 1: in her over the wrong department, I don't think. I
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Speaker 1: don't think Mayor I have to have Pearl will ever
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Speaker 1: bother to pick up a phone to call her. But whatever,
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Speaker 1: you had the violent beat down, most notably the issue
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Speaker 1: involving Holly, who was able to stop the fight by
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Speaker 1: stopping a cold punch with her face, knocking her out
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Speaker 1: and causing serious bodily damage, and the attention that that
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Speaker 1: guy things are out of control in downtown that would
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Speaker 1: force the administration, because of you and your pro police campaign,
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Speaker 1: to rise to the challenge. We're gonna do this, We're
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Speaker 1: addressing crime. We're gonna throw five point four million dollars.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna put some cameras over on the West end,
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Speaker 1: which had been promised for a couple of years. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna hire laterally, we're gonna add additional police officers to
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Speaker 1: fill the contingent of police officers on the force, which
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Speaker 1: is about two hundred down. There's an idea, but then
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Speaker 1: when they implement it, they open thirty spots up And
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Speaker 1: Ken Cobra, FLP president told me seven applied seven. Do
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Speaker 1: you think that has anything to do with the administration's
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Speaker 1: attitude toward and lack of support for the police department generally,
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman.
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Speaker 2: I think absolutely, and also to just the culture of
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Speaker 2: how it's perceived of does city Hall actually back the police?
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Speaker 2: And if the police are told to do their job,
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Speaker 2: you know, are they going to be protected by the
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Speaker 2: administration that hires them essentially? So, yeah, you mentioned this
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Speaker 2: and I kind of showed you the T shirts.
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Speaker 1: That's a great story, folks, get a load of this.
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Speaker 2: So you know, we we tragically lost to the New
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Speaker 2: York Jets this year. The Cincinnati Bengals did well that game.
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Speaker 2: I actually was a part of a tailgate and just
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Speaker 2: kind of meeting people and stuff, and one of a
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Speaker 2: group that I was meeting was a former well not
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Speaker 2: former current NYPD officers. Now a lot of them had
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Speaker 2: come into town for the game because they're all Jets fans.
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Speaker 2: And then as I'm talking with them, you know, we
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Speaker 2: started talking with even the union presence and all sorts
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Speaker 2: of things that that just developed this relationship to be
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Speaker 2: able to communicate with I mean, in my mind, the
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Speaker 2: best of the best and the nation, you know, second
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Speaker 2: to c CPD what should be absolutely so as we
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Speaker 2: were talking, I was sitting there telling these guys, hey,
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Speaker 2: just so you know, you know, we know what's coming
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Speaker 2: down the line with the future mayor, Mom, Dannie. We
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Speaker 2: know that there's a lot of distrust with that current administration.
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Speaker 2: This is what I was trying to do. Because I
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Speaker 2: knew lateral hiring was going to be an issue. I
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Speaker 2: had talked with many of them about the possibility of
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Speaker 2: them moving to their families to Cincinnati, an amazing city
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Speaker 2: that has a lower cost of living and if you
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Speaker 2: have an administration that backs you up. All of them
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Speaker 2: jumped at the opportunity of possibly moving to Cincinnati and
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Speaker 2: helping with the CPD and joining the force of Cincinnati
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Speaker 2: Police Department.
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Speaker 1: Oh, the cost of living here is so much lower,
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Speaker 1: it's insane.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So these are things that we were as a campaign.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't just putting out videos and just saying hey,
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Speaker 2: we want to be mayor. We were trying to find
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Speaker 2: solutions because in my mind, this is such a key
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Speaker 2: issue that actually down the line a lot of people
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Speaker 2: are ignoring right now. But you've got you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: sixty to eighty officers maybe even more than that that
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Speaker 2: are entering that have the possibility of entering. The drop
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Speaker 2: is what they say, right they have the ability to retire.
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Speaker 2: Most officers under a good program don't take that retirement
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Speaker 2: right away. They continue on, they get their pension, they
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Speaker 2: get they build up their future for retirement. And also
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Speaker 2: they're working a job that they love and they want
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Speaker 2: to protect and serve the community. Right now, if things
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Speaker 2: don't change, you know, for the door, I'm telling you
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Speaker 2: right now, even starting this year, there will be a
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Speaker 2: rush for the door to where that twenty percent understaffed
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Speaker 2: will quickly turn into thirty percent understaffed. And then when
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Speaker 2: you try to do the lateral hiring, when you try
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Speaker 2: to do any type of recruitment, you're going to see
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Speaker 2: low numbers there because the confidence of the morale, the
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Speaker 2: things that produce proper recruitment, are not going to be employeed.
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Speaker 1: Well, couple with that, knowing full well that as a
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Speaker 1: lateral hire, under the current circumstances, you are guaranteeing you
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Speaker 1: will be working a lot of additional overtime hours, whether
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Speaker 1: you can or want to or not.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's something that you know, that's the culture
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Speaker 2: of the police department right now, to where I have
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Speaker 2: officers coming in my shop and you know, they just
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Speaker 2: don't know what to do because they got into the
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Speaker 2: job to protect and serve. They love the city, they
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Speaker 2: love the communities they serve, but the culture and the
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Speaker 2: morale has decreased so much over the years to where
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Speaker 2: you know, we have to do things to make it
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Speaker 2: better for our police officers to be able to do
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Speaker 2: their jobs properly. And that's not happening right now.
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Speaker 1: Right And a simple non legislative, non monetary solution to that,
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Speaker 1: something to get the process started, is to get mayor
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Speaker 1: a f to have provol city manager Cheryl Long, all
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Speaker 1: of the members of council. First, I'd say, maybe get
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Speaker 1: rid of virus Rowle, who's a problem in the background.
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Speaker 1: But beyond that, to get out loud and start encouraging
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Speaker 1: this cooperation starts supporting the police department in the work
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Speaker 1: they are doing protecting the residents of the City of Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: and heeding the advice that may come from withinside the
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Speaker 1: police department at ways to solve the problems and provide
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Speaker 1: better solutions so that we can be better served by
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Speaker 1: the police department.
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Speaker 2: I would also end it with this is that when
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Speaker 2: the problem of public safety always becomes an issue, the
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Speaker 2: solution for the other side always is let's throw more
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Speaker 2: money at it. Right you know, Mayor Portval suggested that
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Speaker 2: we raise the income taxes and the earning taxes of
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Speaker 2: the city in order to put more into public safety.
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Speaker 2: But I would venture to say, hey, we need to
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Speaker 2: complete overhaul of how the money is being spent, because
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Speaker 2: right now, sixty four percent of our budget goes toward
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Speaker 2: public safety. But what's categorized as public safety? Are these
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Speaker 2: lawsuits and these settlements categorized in that? Are all these
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Speaker 2: administrative costs, or are these community initiatives and all these
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Speaker 2: things to maybe paint a building or pick up trash
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Speaker 2: or maybe all these events that don't have anything to
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Speaker 2: do with helping your police department, with helping public safety.
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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of nonprofits and goos contractors. A
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Speaker 2: lot that money is going toward a lot of things
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Speaker 2: categorized under public safety that is not going toward benefiting
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Speaker 2: public safety.
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Speaker 1: Well, Irish for Ally's sons got a job involved in
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Speaker 1: public safety at Government Square that resulted in some actually
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Speaker 1: some printing work for T shirts and hoodies by Iris.
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Speaker 1: The husband apparently has a printing company, so that's all
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Speaker 1: worked out. Well, there's no crime in Government Square anymore,
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Speaker 1: is there, Corey Bowman.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I believe that there was just a recent
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Speaker 2: shooting that you got the guy.
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Speaker 1: I saw that as well. We'll call that a rhetorical question.
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, Happy new to you, Best of health to
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Speaker 1: you and your family. Understand everybody's doing really well. I
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Speaker 1: asked you that off air, But your family's doing well. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: We just celebrated my son's sixth birthday yesterday, so he's
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Speaker 2: very excited for that, and both my boys started school
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Speaker 2: this year as well. So yeah, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: great things. We love this city. We're just going to
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Speaker 2: keep on going, and you know, just so thankful for
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Speaker 2: people like you that and for other people that have
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Speaker 2: had that voice in the community. To be able to
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Speaker 2: bring these issues to light. I would say that these
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Speaker 2: people and anybody else that if you were loud during
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Speaker 2: an election year, be even more loud during the off
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Speaker 2: election years. Hold people accountable because we have to see
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Speaker 2: our city, see safe streets, prosper streets and clean.
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Speaker 1: Street and you like me. No one wants the city
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Speaker 1: to survive and prosper more than us, and we just
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Speaker 1: feel that we have better ideas for that. The current
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Speaker 1: situation has proven to be a failure. There's a different path.
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Speaker 1: Why not at least try it? Council Corey Bouma, we
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Speaker 1: will talk again soon. Keep up the great work and
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Speaker 1: get a cup of coffee at King's Arms coffee shop
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Speaker 1: in West Send. Support Corey Boem and there's again a
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Speaker 1: free plug for you. Corey. I'm happy to do that,
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Speaker 1: he