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FOP Pres Ken Kober - Mayor Aftab, let the police do their job!! · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Aiming a conversation about downtown Cincinnati and most notably the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show and
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  Speaker 1: a happy new year to Ken Cover. FOP President's great
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  Speaker 1: to have you back on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, Hey, good morning, Brian, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Your reaction matter have to have Purvol's proposal to increase
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  Speaker 1: the property to increase the income tax in order to
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  Speaker 1: deal with public safety, but a lot of other things,
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  Speaker 1: he said, new revenue will allow us to fund and
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  Speaker 1: further prioritize public safety investments and support our police and
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  Speaker 1: fire in a historic way. Do you really need money
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  Speaker 1: to come out loud and start talking up and supporting
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  Speaker 1: the police verbally and in public and encouraging the citizens
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  Speaker 1: of the city to work with police as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: reject them and consider them all to be an evil force.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that to me right there would go a
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  Speaker 1: long way our elected officials out loud showing support for
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  Speaker 1: you and the members of law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you know, I think that there's this misnomer that
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  Speaker 2: throwing money at a problem somehow equates to supporting public safety,
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  Speaker 2: and it just doesn't. Money's not going to solve this
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  Speaker 2: no matter how much money you throw at it, and
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  Speaker 2: raising taxes is just not going to help anything. It's
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  Speaker 2: just I you know, it's following what this Future's Commission said,
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  Speaker 2: which is a bunch of CEOs from downtown that have
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  Speaker 2: a stake in this play in the city that thinks
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to be a good idea to raise taxes,
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  Speaker 2: and instead of looking at the budget and seeing, well,
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  Speaker 2: is there places that we can cut stuff if we
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  Speaker 2: want to fund things more, and instead the simple answer
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  Speaker 2: as well, we're just going to tax people more. People
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  Speaker 2: are tired of being tax I was looking at some
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  Speaker 2: social media stuff this morning online and you can't find
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  Speaker 2: one person that supports this. It's nonsense. I hope council
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  Speaker 2: members take heed of this and do the right thing
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  Speaker 2: and decide to vote this down.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one thing is for certain, if they do support
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  Speaker 1: an increase in the income tax, it will be something
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  Speaker 1: that the voters in the city will get to at
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  Speaker 1: least to approve or jecked as a concept. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: just wondering how the voters are in the city of
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati feel about having their income tax raised.
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  Speaker 2: Ken. Yeah, well, I mean I'm not too hopeful about
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  Speaker 2: the voters of the city, especially considering how this election
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  Speaker 2: just worked out. But that goes for Hamilton County as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know when we're seeing that the law law and
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  Speaker 2: order judges that are not being re elected. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't have a whole lot of hope for what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in this county right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's going to make things worse. Christopher Smithman
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  Speaker 1: said a lot of his financial planning clients moving out
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  Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati for all these reasons, crime,
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  Speaker 1: property taxes, income tax, and not getting return on the
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  Speaker 1: investment for the taxpayers that are a taxpayer for the
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  Speaker 1: dollars that they spend in taxes. So it's going to
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  Speaker 1: only going to exacerbate if your prediction is true. It
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  Speaker 1: follows Christopher's and that is a bad, bad thing on
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  Speaker 1: a going forward basis for basically city and Hamilton County. Pause,
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  Speaker 1: bring Kenn back. Talk about some of the things Provall suggested,
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  Speaker 1: like accepting the help from the Ohio fifty five per
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  Speaker 1: CD talk station. Very happy wins to you. After the
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  Speaker 1: top of the hour news we're gonna hear from Jack
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  Speaker 1: out of Theton with a big picture. I always enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: Currently talking with that FOP president of Kenkob represent the
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  Speaker 1: sin St Police Department Union and a hello, I just
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  Speaker 1: got a text from a guy I know. You know
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  Speaker 1: story career in law enforcement. Retired from the Sin Sint
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  Speaker 1: Police Department after multiple years, John Newsom went on to
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  Speaker 1: be a Warren County sheriff. He said, tell Ken hello,
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  Speaker 1: and then ask him if there are any performance measures
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  Speaker 1: regarding the Ohio State Patrol working in the city. Mayor,
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  Speaker 1: I have to have pur vault. Yesterday, when talking about
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  Speaker 1: this income tax increase, he said also that he intends
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  Speaker 1: to continue the city's current public safety initiatives, like extending
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  Speaker 1: the partnership with the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: this whole crime thing hit the fan last summer and
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  Speaker 1: fall and they through this five point four million allocation,
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  Speaker 1: part of the concern from people was, wait a second,
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  Speaker 1: the governor has offered you thirty days, every single day,
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  Speaker 1: every month of the year, assistance across the broad array
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  Speaker 1: of law enforcement. But the only chose to take him
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  Speaker 1: up on two days a week or two days what
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  Speaker 1: was it a month or a week? And then four
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  Speaker 1: days he didn't take the entire package. Do we know
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  Speaker 1: did Ohio State Highway Patrol's presence, as limited as it was,
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  Speaker 1: have any impact on crime? Did it help at all?
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  Speaker 1: And if they extend this partnership, do we have these
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  Speaker 1: metrics that can show, yes, this is worth doing. Although
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  Speaker 1: it does sound like it's worth doing from my perspective
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  Speaker 1: just on its face, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, it's certainly worth doing. I know they did have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of success, especially using their helicopter from people
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  Speaker 2: that were fleeing if we didn't have a drone operator
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  Speaker 2: available to be able to have the helicopter there that
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  Speaker 2: were able to assist in making arrest. So it's certainly
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  Speaker 2: worth it. And the interesting part is I talked to
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  Speaker 2: Andy Wilson, who's the director of the High Department of
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  Speaker 2: Public Safety, which oversees all of these entities for the state.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him yesterday because you know, as we
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  Speaker 2: heard the mayor talk about how that they were going
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  Speaker 2: to extend this relationship, of course I pick up the
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  Speaker 2: sun and I call him and I go, so, what
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  Speaker 2: does this look like? And he did say in fact
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  Speaker 2: that yes, he goes, I've talked to Chief Henny. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: he's extremely excited about expanding this. He goes, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: so sure yet exactly what that means. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was a bit apprehensive because we certainly
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  Speaker 2: saw uh in September, you know, when they offered all
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  Speaker 2: these things, and I was in these meetings, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the mayor immediately pushed back and gave, you know, seven
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  Speaker 2: different reasons why they couldn't do this, and then of
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  Speaker 2: course in the twenty third hour when they were getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to start, they mixed it. And then they went
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  Speaker 2: back a week later and said, okay, well we'll do
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  Speaker 2: some things. But to your point, I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: a hold of the director today and see if they
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  Speaker 2: have any metrics that they can provide of because they
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  Speaker 2: keep stats for everything. It would be nice to know, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what is our even though it's technically not costing the
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  Speaker 2: city anything, it's costing taxpayers. You have to have these
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  Speaker 2: troopers down here, But what is what's the return on investment?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's important for people to know.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that, and I guess we are still
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  Speaker 1: down a lot of police officers, at least in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the contingent in the city of Cincinnati. One of
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  Speaker 1: the efforts was we need to hire more police. We
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  Speaker 1: need to do lateral hires because it takes a while
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  Speaker 1: to get a recruit class through and get them up
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  Speaker 1: and running. We wouldn't need the Ohigo State Highway Patrol
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  Speaker 1: if we had enough police officers to start with. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that the core of the problem right now? Insufficient
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  Speaker 1: police officer power?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, they just they authorized
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  Speaker 2: a class of thirty laterals. We have a class of
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  Speaker 2: seven that's starting.
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  Speaker 1: Seven three weeks to my next question, exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: was going to ask you, Let's say we had this
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  Speaker 1: fund that this new income tax of this whatever pile
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  Speaker 1: of money would be exclusively allocated for the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: hiring new police officers and boosting the ranks of the
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  Speaker 1: Sincinnti Police Department. Can we even do that in this
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  Speaker 1: anti police environment created by all these left wing nut
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  Speaker 1: jobs which made policing, which used to be a laudable
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  Speaker 1: and a lofty and well restive back to profession, which
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  Speaker 1: has reduced it now to something that no one wants
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  Speaker 1: to do. So, is there any way to overcome the
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  Speaker 1: challenge of even hiring people?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the answer right now is I don't think there's
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  Speaker 2: a way to overcome it. I mean, we saw what
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  Speaker 2: happened back in July and August and September after the
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  Speaker 2: fourth and Elm brawl that occurred, you know, where you
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  Speaker 2: had investigators that were being ordered by city officials to
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  Speaker 2: sign criminal charges when the prosecutor's officers they weren't warranted.
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  Speaker 2: Who wants to work in those conditions? And then now
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  Speaker 2: on top of it, now they're talking about raising taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Who wants to come into work in the city of
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati when you're going to pay more taxes. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: these are all things that, whether they believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: are having an impact on being able to hire police officers.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen this. Now we do have a metric.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about metrics. They authorized thirty lateral recruits and
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  Speaker 2: we got seven. What's that tell you? That tells you
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  Speaker 2: everything you need to know.
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  Speaker 1: It's scary right there. Yeah. I mean for the people
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  Speaker 1: who hate the police, mission accomplished congratulation on undermining what
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  Speaker 1: used to be a respected profession and bringing about a
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  Speaker 1: lot of crime in our cities for want of police officers.
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  Speaker 1: That's Appaul and Ken, it really is. And I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you brought that up because that's been my sort of
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  Speaker 1: looming question in the back of my mind. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if we're I mean, is there enough money in terms
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  Speaker 1: of salary that we could offer someone to become a
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  Speaker 1: police officer? If you I mean you had a figure
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  Speaker 1: in mind that could overcome this challenge. We got thirty
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  Speaker 1: open spots we're hiring. Is there a dollar figure associated
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  Speaker 1: with that would say, Okay, we're gonna not kind of seven,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a full contingent of thirty. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to turn away fifty people because we
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  Speaker 1: don't have enough space or money for them. What's the figure?
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  Speaker 1: If money is the.
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  Speaker 2: Object, I'm sure there is a figure, but I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you apparently the City of Cincinnati, it's not there,
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  Speaker 2: because when you're only getting seven out of thirty, I
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  Speaker 2: would say that the money's not there at least yet.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we'll see what happens they talking to
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  Speaker 2: the mayor talked about yesterday about all these historic investments
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  Speaker 2: in public safety over twenty twenty six or we're going
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  Speaker 2: to see what that is, because we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: negotiating a contract at the end of the year, so
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see just how his historic the investments.
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  Speaker 1: Are Joe's comment, that's going to be fun. Ken Kober,
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  Speaker 1: can you We'll pause, we'll bring it back because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to ask you about this camera situation over in
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  Speaker 1: the West End. Because apparently after Parwall's waiting to hear
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  Speaker 1: from the since ain't the talk Station six fifty one
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  Speaker 1: pitch about kercity Talk Station FP president Ken Cober on
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  Speaker 1: the program talking abou crime in the downtown Cincinnati and
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  Speaker 1: the problems associated with on the heels of the matter,
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  Speaker 1: after have Parawall getting sworn in within ten seconds of
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  Speaker 1: his statement starking about increasing the income tax in the
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  Speaker 1: city for public safety, along with affordable housing and a
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  Speaker 1: whole litany of other things. How about one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars that they allocated last September for cameras
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  Speaker 1: over in the West End, cameras that had been promised
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  Speaker 1: to the friends over in the West End. Since let's
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  Speaker 1: see here, Dominic Davis got shot and killed in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, that's when they're first talking about installing cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Then we have the death of Greener we read eleven
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  Speaker 1: year old killed in the park very close to where
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  Speaker 1: Dominic was gotten down, and still no cameras. One hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars is allocated, and yet we don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if the cameras are up, and neither does
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  Speaker 1: the mayor. The mayor said yesterday that since a police
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  Speaker 1: department does have cameras in the West End but doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know how many or how many still need to be installed, quote,
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  Speaker 1: CPD is doing the work to identify those numbers and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as we he and the mouse in his
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  Speaker 1: pocket have them, we will make them available to you.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a fun fact he probably should have
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  Speaker 1: had when he was sworn in ken Kober. What is
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  Speaker 1: with the cameras? How does it take so long? And
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  Speaker 1: I know they don't necessarily prevent crime, but they go
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  Speaker 1: a long way to solving crime and provide some people
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  Speaker 1: a measure of comfort. What's going on with this? How
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  Speaker 1: much control do you have over where those cameras are
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  Speaker 1: and how many there are?
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the interesting part about this. So the city
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  Speaker 2: has the police department has access between city owned cameras,
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  Speaker 2: other entities that own cameras that they give the city
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  Speaker 2: access to that maintains them. The police department has access
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  Speaker 2: to roughly eight hundred cameras throughout the entire city. They
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  Speaker 2: also have two people that are responsible for installing and
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  Speaker 2: maintaining these cameras. Two people for eight hundred cameras. The
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  Speaker 2: other interesting part of this is in order for them
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  Speaker 2: to be able to go do maintenance on these cameras,
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  Speaker 2: to install cameras, they have to have this is a
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  Speaker 2: big surprise, a bucket truck to be able to go
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  Speaker 2: do these things. The police department does not have a
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  Speaker 2: bucket truck, and they can only get access to a
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  Speaker 2: bucket truck if another city department says, yeah, there's one
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  Speaker 2: available for you to use. So this sounds a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot like what we saw that occurred over the summer
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  Speaker 2: where they decided, hey, we're gonna do all these walking patrols,
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  Speaker 2: and when they were told by Chief Fiji, we don't
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  Speaker 2: have the personnel to fill this, their response was figure
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  Speaker 2: it out. Oh now, so this is the same thing
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  Speaker 2: that happened. You have politicians that go, this sounds really good.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna go in front of a camera. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: say we're gonna allocate one hundred fifty thousand dollars that
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna put cameras up and they're going to do this. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't have the means to be able to
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  Speaker 2: do these things, how do you expect us to get
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  Speaker 2: done the problem that you.
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  Speaker 1: Have and it takes so damn It seems like such
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  Speaker 1: a simple thing to accomplish, Kent really does. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody and his brother's got a camera on their house anymore,
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  Speaker 1: ring doorbell. I know that's probably not an adequate types
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  Speaker 1: camera solution, but this is not some sort of multi
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar modern technology that you got to acquire. This
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  Speaker 1: has been existing out there in the world for a
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  Speaker 1: long time and it seems to be a simple manner
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  Speaker 1: to put them up and give the voters and the
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  Speaker 1: residents what they have been promised for two and a
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  Speaker 1: half years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. So you decide we're going to
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  Speaker 2: invest one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cameras, but
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  Speaker 2: we don't have the equipment for them to install them.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have the people to go out and maintain
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  Speaker 2: install these cameras. But yet they expect us to get done.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's silliness to think that this is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. We know that a politician would never just
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  Speaker 2: say something to try to appease the community. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: we know that they would never just throw money at
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  Speaker 2: a problem, But unfortunately, in this case, that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: it seems like has happened.
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  Speaker 1: Well, among the safety plan that he had mentioned, permanently
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  Speaker 1: implementing walking patrols in the city that requires the manpower
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  Speaker 1: that you said does not exist, building onto the city's
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  Speaker 1: bike patrols that seems to me to present the exact
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  Speaker 1: same problem. Investing in technology like license plate readers, so
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  Speaker 1: the Sinsint Police Department's drone and the Sinsi Police Martment's
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  Speaker 1: drone program that requires folks to monitor and read the
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  Speaker 1: data that's coming in, assuming they even put those up.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that's like the flock camera kind of deal.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally investing in programs that had proven to
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  Speaker 1: mitigate crime. I don't even know what that means, but
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like the vast majority of the proposals from
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  Speaker 1: the mayor require a lot more police officers. And again,
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  Speaker 1: going back to your point, if you can't get an
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  Speaker 1: open wide offer for thirty spots filled, you only get
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  Speaker 1: seven applicants, you can't accomplish the proposed goals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is the problem, Like all these
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  Speaker 2: things sound fantastic, Let's have walking patrols. Where are you
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  Speaker 2: going to put the walking patrols? Where are you gonna
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  Speaker 2: put them? Are you gonna put them in high crime
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  Speaker 2: areas and tell these officers are going to pair them
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  Speaker 2: up and tell them to go out and do proactive
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  Speaker 2: work to arrest criminals. If you're going to say that
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna do it and you're gonna support them, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a great idea. But if it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be like what we saw this past summer, where they said, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to put people on Vine and Main Street
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  Speaker 2: between Central Parkway and Liberty where no data suggests that
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  Speaker 2: there's been an increase in crime. Everything's been in north
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  Speaker 2: Over the Rhine. But all we're gonna do is walk
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  Speaker 2: around because we're going to protect all the three CDC businesses.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't make much good sense, but that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: we saw. They actually went as far as to say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to have walking patrols in Washington Park. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there hasn't been an increase in crime in Washington Park,
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  Speaker 2: so why are we going to do this? While we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it because the marises we're gonna do it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. This is the problem that I've
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  Speaker 2: had with the mayor all along is stay out of policing.
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  Speaker 2: You're not a police officer, you're not a law enforcement professional,
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  Speaker 2: never have been. Let the police department run the police department,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe you'll see things change. But until that happens,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see a lot of in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six and we solw twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll add along and double down on my earlier comment.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't cost a dime for the mayor and the
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  Speaker 1: members of the Cincinna City Council to come out and
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  Speaker 1: go around the various communities and make regular public service
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  Speaker 1: announcements that we should be supporting the Cincinnati Police and
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  Speaker 1: stop demonizing them, work with them, make phone calls, hand
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  Speaker 1: in tips, help control the crime in your neighborhood by
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  Speaker 1: working cooperatively with the Cincinni Police Department. That's a simple statement.
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  Speaker 1: I just made it up off the top of my head,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that might go a long way without
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  Speaker 1: additional tax revenue.
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  Speaker 2: Can without a doubt, adding tax revenue is not going
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: to help anything. Like I said, you can try to
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: throw money out a problem. Money's not going to solve
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: a problem.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: It's just not going to now when you can't get
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: people to be police officers. FOP President Cancobra on behalf
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: of my entire listening audience and my family to you
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: and every member of law enforcement. God bless each and
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: every one of you. I hope this year is a
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: better year for all of us, and I wish you
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: all the bast