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Laketa Cole for City Council · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Pleased to welcome to the fifty five KC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Running for Cincinna City Council. Guess what open voting? It's
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  Speaker 1: you can vote today if you want, go to the
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  Speaker 1: Hamil County Bard of Elections cast to vote. It's early voting.
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  Speaker 1: We have until the first Tuesday of November to get
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  Speaker 1: the vote cast. Don't let it go your vote. Your
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  Speaker 1: vote is worth so much in downtown Cincinnati, only twenty
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  Speaker 1: five maybe thirty percent of for lucky you're going to vote,
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  Speaker 1: meaning you have a lot of power in your vote,
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  Speaker 1: and you might want to consider Lakita Cole as a
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  Speaker 1: choice running as a charter at candidate Lakita Cole dot com,
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  Speaker 1: l A k E. T A. Colecol dot com, Lakida Cole.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to have you here on the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I hope people remember that you happy to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You did serve as a city council member, You were
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  Speaker 1: chief of staff, council aid, a state legislator. You held
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  Speaker 1: senior roles within community city administration. You obviously have a
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  Speaker 1: connection of familiarity with the system, so people can't call
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  Speaker 1: you inexperienced Lakita, Let's jump right to police chief threesa Thiji.
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  Speaker 1: She was put on administrative leave, and I guess according
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  Speaker 1: to her lawyers, no reason whatsoever was cited. They did
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  Speaker 1: not cite some sort of you know, problem with her
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  Speaker 1: work experience. How she It's just it's a big mystery.
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  Speaker 1: And her lawyer was out yesterday saying that she can
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  Speaker 1: only be dismissed for costs because she's been an employee
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  Speaker 1: for more than six months, so the city charter prevents
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  Speaker 1: her from being let go. But I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: her status is, whether she's been fired or merely placing
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  Speaker 1: your own administrative leave crosses that barrier. But this all
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  Speaker 1: seems to be very politically motivated as we fast approached
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  Speaker 1: the November election day. What's your take on this, Lakita.
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  Speaker 2: Cole, I definitely agree with that, And it's ridiculous because
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  Speaker 2: just a month ago they, the city manager and the
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  Speaker 2: mayor was just praising her. So you know, a month later,
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  Speaker 2: you're making her escapegoat, and you know, just the way
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  Speaker 2: they're doing things is just chaotic, and it just shows
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  Speaker 2: you that there's no real vision down there. There's no
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  Speaker 2: you know, lack there's a lack of urgency of what
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  Speaker 2: to do. And you know, you know, you can't sem
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  Speaker 2: out fire her because there is violence. There's no police
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  Speaker 2: chief in this country can guarantee you that there's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be violent, right, you know, And and it's
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  Speaker 2: just it just tells you that there's so much dysfunction
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  Speaker 2: going on down there. I mean, look what they did
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  Speaker 2: with the fire chief. You know they're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: backpet on that. It's just it's just totally dysfunction and chaotics.
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  Speaker 2: It just shows you that this, you know, the mayor
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  Speaker 2: and the city manager, it seems like they don't know
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I think you summed it up quite nicely. They're lakida.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is almost the mirror image of what
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  Speaker 1: they did to uh, to the to the fire chief.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of his case wrongfully terminated. He's
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  Speaker 1: waiting to get a big check written by the taxpayers
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  Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati. It looks like check number
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  Speaker 1: two exactly. Yeah, check number two is coming our way exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. What's gonna happen with the police. With the police chief,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like getting together. I mean, it's it's you got
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  Speaker 2: news conferences. Like I said, just last month, you were
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  Speaker 2: praising her right job. So now you put on you
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  Speaker 2: you call her back in, so you changed her in
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  Speaker 2: front of all the police chiefs. You know, this is
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  Speaker 2: just not the way you handle things now.
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  Speaker 1: But the nature of the role as police chief or
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  Speaker 1: fire chief as the case maybe, has changed dramatically since
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  Speaker 1: Issue five passed. No longer do the members of the
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  Speaker 1: unions of the police force choose their own police chief.
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  Speaker 1: It's now in the hands of two people, the mayor
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  Speaker 1: and the city manager. So they have a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 1: of control and sway over the job because they're in
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  Speaker 1: a position to fire someone. I guess they could make
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  Speaker 1: up cause, but they could get easily rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been suggested I heard it from the FOP president.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard it from others that she was following the
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  Speaker 1: directive of aftab Purval and the city manager. So she
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  Speaker 1: did what they said, and in doing what they said
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  Speaker 1: in terms of law enforcement, crime became a real problem.
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  Speaker 1: So by following their directive she ends up without a job,
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  Speaker 1: or at least on administrative leave. I'm not quite sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I smell a rat here Lakeiita.
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  Speaker 2: Cole, I'm in total agreements with you. Quite quite A
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  Speaker 2: ducks is a duck quite quack, and this is why
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely impaired. For what you said at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: We have to change what's going on down there. Not
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  Speaker 2: only then, I'm gonna tell you know, we definitely need
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  Speaker 2: to get a recall, a ballot initiative, a recall for
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  Speaker 2: the mayor, a valid initiative. And it also shows you
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  Speaker 2: that this function of what when we passed that the
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  Speaker 2: only person that can bring up the city manager for
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  Speaker 2: firing is the mayor. I just don't think that that's
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  Speaker 2: will be the way it should go.
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  Speaker 1: I think there needs.
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  Speaker 2: To be something where maybe the supermajority can bring up
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  Speaker 2: the city mayor ser up as well. But they have
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  Speaker 2: this in the hands of one person, and especially when
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  Speaker 2: that person don't know what they're doing, and it's obvious
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  Speaker 2: because look what happened. What's going on? I mean, never
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  Speaker 2: in the history have I ever heard you have to
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  Speaker 2: have eighteen thousand citizens from one neighborhood do a go
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  Speaker 2: forward a ballot initiative on an issue that you passed
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  Speaker 2: the council. Pas. I'll tell you that this council is
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  Speaker 2: so dysfunctional.
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  Speaker 1: Lakita, I can't believe. I'm so happy you brought that
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  Speaker 1: up because I was clearly going to ask you about
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  Speaker 1: Hyde Park, but also Bondhill. So I see your website
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  Speaker 1: and I love the way you've outlined your platform. Cool
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  Speaker 1: e see Community Council reformed the oh oppose connected communities
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  Speaker 1: zoning one size fits all. You are not entitled to
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  Speaker 1: choose your own destiny any of the fifty two neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was offensive. Clearly, Hyde Park thought of defensive.
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  Speaker 1: We'd have to get a ballot initiative on which made
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  Speaker 1: have to have pur ball pull the plug on the
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  Speaker 1: well connected development waiver to community to community connected communities.
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  Speaker 1: Bondhill had a similar problem. I think every neighborhood should
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  Speaker 1: be able to control their own destiny when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to housing and development.
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree. Last Friday, you know I'm the vice
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  Speaker 2: president of Bonham Community Council. Last Friday I spent my
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  Speaker 2: Friday evenings with the community count with our community trying
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  Speaker 2: to come up with some type of way that we
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  Speaker 2: can work through the of the day break issue and
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  Speaker 2: get a benefit of agreement or something we can actually
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  Speaker 2: developer try to sell back. I mean, we should not
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  Speaker 2: be having him to spend on our Friday evenings doing
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  Speaker 2: it because of this city council and its administration just
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  Speaker 2: will not listen. Right, they are so dysfunctional, but yet
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  Speaker 2: they seem to think they know what's going on, and
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  Speaker 2: they do not. They are so disconnected. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had a D in my name so I can say disconnected.
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  Speaker 1: You're cracking me up, Lakita. All right, so we have
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  Speaker 1: a crime problem. Obviously, I suppose if you were in charge,
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  Speaker 1: would you have accepted all of the that I will
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  Speaker 1: underscore this word free offer of assistance from governor to wine.
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  Speaker 1: He offered Ohio State Police, Ohio State But you police
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  Speaker 1: to work every day of the month. Mayor, I have
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  Speaker 1: to have purvo. At first only took two days and
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  Speaker 1: now he's up to total of four days. Crime is
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  Speaker 1: a twenty four to seven all month long problem. Lakda,
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  Speaker 1: what would you recommend her if you were in his position,
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  Speaker 1: would you have taken all the relief that the Wine
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  Speaker 1: was offering?
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  Speaker 2: You know, no, because I'm gonna be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm fearful that they would be you know, we would
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  Speaker 2: be over police and they don't know our community. However,
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  Speaker 2: what I would do, what I would make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we have what we had before underneath one of the
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  Speaker 2: police sheets. We had those pockets of like community orient policing,
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  Speaker 2: We had citizens on patrol, we had our community leaders
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  Speaker 2: out there in those pockets where they were the crime
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  Speaker 2: was very high and up and that therefore people can
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to what's going on. I don't believe that
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  Speaker 2: you make this school also the escapegoat about what's going
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  Speaker 2: on down up Found Square. What you do is is
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  Speaker 2: when I was in school, we had those Metro buses
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  Speaker 2: diverted from away from downtown. In fact, what they did
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  Speaker 2: is they brought the kids directly to the schools. That's
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  Speaker 2: what they need. That's what needs to happen. You need
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  Speaker 2: to work with the Metro and figure out a way
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  Speaker 2: having those kids go directly to the schools and not
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  Speaker 2: and diverted away from downtown. Never in my history of
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  Speaker 2: ever sing Swat having to patrol Feltain Square, Swat patrolling
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  Speaker 2: Felon Square. That is disfunctional at its highest level.
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  Speaker 1: I understand and obviously we have a growing problem with
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  Speaker 1: young people in society and I personally Loo Kita. You
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  Speaker 1: can disagree with me if you want, that's fine. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's the consequence of the breakdown of the nuclear family.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I don't know how you grow up. But
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  Speaker 1: I had a curfew in the house. And if I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't home by curfew and I didn't call ahead of
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  Speaker 1: time saying I needed some extra time, I was in
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  Speaker 1: for a world of hurt. My parents would be sitting
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  Speaker 1: there waiting for me to walk in the front door.
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't able to run a muck. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: we could, if if government could change the reality of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in any given household, fine, but you can't.
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  Speaker 1: A teacher can't change the life that that child has
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  Speaker 1: grown up with. As much as we wanted, they're overwhelmed
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  Speaker 1: with a challenge. So I know you've you've got a
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  Speaker 1: like reaching out ideas about listening to parents and talking
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  Speaker 1: directly with youth. How come might we use that concept
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  Speaker 1: to change what's going on with our young people?
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  Speaker 2: Lakita, Sure, yeah, So I have been out there talking
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  Speaker 2: with the young people. I spend some time or they
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  Speaker 2: can I spend some time with Woodward, And many of
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  Speaker 2: those kids are saying they really just want an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: more than just fast foods. And they also want a
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  Speaker 2: place to go our recreation center. Because I said, well
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  Speaker 2: what about our recreation centers. They don't feel like they're
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  Speaker 2: inviting and the opening to them. Many of them say
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  Speaker 2: that they go in, they can't come back out. They
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  Speaker 2: go in and they leave, they can't come back. If
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  Speaker 2: they go to get something to eat, they can't come
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  Speaker 2: back in. It's just not an open and welcoming environment
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  Speaker 2: for them. So we have to make sure that if
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  Speaker 2: we have these recreation centers in our communities, they open
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  Speaker 2: to them, to have somewhere for them to go. You're
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  Speaker 2: absolutely right. We can't police somebody inside their home. But
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  Speaker 2: we can do is demand some opportunities for these young people.
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  Speaker 2: But demand, for example, you have the trades, you have apprenticeships.
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  Speaker 2: These young kids are looking for an opportunity. They don't
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  Speaker 2: want to just hang out. They don't want to just
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  Speaker 2: have a fast food restaurant. They want more. They want
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  Speaker 2: a career path and that's what we need to have.
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  Speaker 2: We need to bring back as I keep say, ccy,
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  Speaker 2: and bring it in house, yes, and not have it
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  Speaker 2: outside house. To have it in house, will we actually
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  Speaker 2: can control of the milestones and making sure that it's
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  Speaker 2: doing what it's supposed to do and if not, then
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  Speaker 2: we change courses.
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  Speaker 1: Trades are a great option for literally anybody. You can
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  Speaker 1: earn what you learn, and artificial intelligence cannot take away
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  Speaker 1: a plumber's employment or electricians for that. For that example,
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  Speaker 1: see Community council Reform, oh appose Connected Communities, zoning, l
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  Speaker 1: listen to citizens in youth e expand council transparency. Lakitacole
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Read about her platform, learn about her and
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  Speaker 1: it's open voting. You can go ahead and vote for
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  Speaker 1: Lakita if you like Lakida, Best of.
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  Speaker 2: Luck, vote for Cole.
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  Speaker 1: Go to the polls. Vote for Cole. I love it,
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  Speaker 1: very nice conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Vote look, look both smarter, vote for Charter.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, and you got Steve good in the
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  Speaker 1: midst too. We're all big fans of Steve Gooden as well.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck Lakda, best of luck. If you get elected,
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  Speaker 1: bring about some post that have changed for the city
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  Speaker 1: that we all love.
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  Speaker 2: I will thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Eight fifty six fifty five kros De Talk station