Bill cunning into Great America and welcome to this Warriors. Tuesday afternoon in the
Tri State Reds Baseball kicks off about six oh five tonight with Lance McAllister.
Well, number forty four Dela Cruz hit went out into the Laking River or
the Ohio River, or just hit the boat tonight the most exciting I might
all say this. Maybe Mike Dartists would disagree, but early on this is
the most exciting Reds player that I've ever seen. Talk about Frank Robinson,
you talk about Tony Perez, talk about Morgan, talk about Barry Larkin,
talk about Jose Blaman on Rehill, whatever you want to do. Talk about
Bucky Waters, talk about noodles Han. Noodles Han was a great performer.
But nothing has led up Cincinnati like Della Cruz has done the great number forty
four. Joining you and I now, as Mike Dartis of the power of
five and he is the consort of course of share Sari Palelo and Mike Dartis
once again, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Let's talk first of all
about the great number four twenty four, not Eric Davis, not Floyd Little.
Let's talk about not Jim Brown. Let's talk about Della Cruz. How
exciting is that guy once he met to the Reds. Most exciting start in
the history of baseball. I think's Tella Cruz and not even Reggie Jackson number
forty four, Willie. But you know what, I think it's his age
too. I mean, you talk about a guy coming up when he's a
teenager versus a lot of these other guys who spent two or three or four
years in the minors after college. And what's funny is the guy gets criticism
from fans because of his batting average and his strikeouts. He's hitting two fifty,
you know, and he hits these monster home runs. He's exciting,
He fills the ballpark. Give him a few years, give him a few
years, and really, the pitching's been the pitching's been pretty darn good.
Yeah, But when your offense is hitting two fifteen around him, I mean,
what do you expect. I mean, he doesn't have a much of
a crew around him, you know, So he gets a lot of criticism,
but he is exciting and I love watching well, you know, Mike
Dartists. To start the year, Kral put together a team with a third
baseman. I guess on steroids. A first baseman Cees that is hurt,
can't play all year. Matt McClain, who was very exciting last year,
I guess coming back on August or September. Then center field freedom keeps getting
hurt. That's four of the eighth position players aren't playing, and now as
we speak this Tuesday afternoon, they're in third place. Who knows what can
happen in the future. But let's get serious. Enough of this playing around.
I want to deal with you on Pastor Jackie Jackson. I read the
story that you have at your website, and of course we pick it up
too, that Pastor Jackie Jackson been around a long time. He's founded an
anti violence group in the city of Cincinnati. I met him many years ago.
Well intended, a good guy, and I'm reading this story that he's
had ten family members killed in the past ten years, including his sixteen year
old grandson who was shot down like a dog and the banks a few days
ago. He's out at two am in the morning. I think this Jackie
Jackson the third has a child, but nonetheless he's sixteen years old. I
guess like a sophomore junior in high school or tries to be. And then,
in addition to the ten dead, he says he's had nine other family
members shot, one multiple times and lived. So we have one family with
nineteen gunshots, ten dead, nine are wounded, some multiple times and live.
And I'm thinking, Mike dartis, what if you and Shuri Palelo had
a family with ten members dead, gunshot, wounds and got shot and lived.
I might want to move to Madagascar and breed Kmodo dragons. It's got
to be safer. What the hell's going on? Well, I think,
you know, you know, you're running to people on the street who say,
you know, sometimes a lot of folks who watch it, you know,
they say, you know, it's tough watching all this bad news.
Or I don't watch the news all the time because there's such bad news as
well. What I try to tell him is make the news up. This
is stuff that's going on, and we can't put our head in the stand
and ignore it. There's so many things going on, I mean, what
is the answer. We talked to Prosecutor Melissa Powers in Hamilton County, talked
to the sheriff Charmaine McGuffey, talked to Sheriff Jones out there in Butler County,
and I think, you know, there's always that ongoing debate of rehab
versus jail time. And the problem is, as you know, Willie,
most of these people committing these crimes are reoffenders. And then eventually we're gonna
that's the eight hundred pounds elephant in the room. You know, these are
the reoffenders. How do you deal with them? Do you put him in
jail for longer? Do you get him off the streets? You know,
there's this debate, and it's such a divided America right now. There's no
middle ground, there's no middle ground undeciding how we handle all this. And
I think that's the big problem. We're never making progress, We're always chasing
our own tail. You and I have been dealing with it. I of
course, did a lot of criminal law over the past. Really I believe
it or not. I've been an attorney now fifty years. Unbelievable. Last
weekend I was eighteen years old shooting baskets at Deer Park High School. Time
flies, and it's getting worse, not getting better. I look at some
stats given by the Department of Justice, among other things, every day in
America. There's one hundred and twenty people shot in America and killed every day,
one hundred and twenty. And on top of that, there's two hundred
more that are shot and wound and lived. And the crime statistics appear to
be going in the right direction, but not really because most people don't report
crime because there's no reason to report it. When you got two to four
hundred kids downtown doing donuts and having a stage matches MM style, and then
you have shots fired at barges going by, three or four cops cars show
up and they're told, don't do anything I had on the other day.
Ken Kober the head of the FOP, and he will freely say the cops
are demoralized. There's not enough cops to go around and as a consequence,
as a consequence, all they can do is just put out fires all over
the place. We need to two hundred more police officers. But you bring
up a key point, Mike Dartist, we need a criminal justice system.
When repeat offenders come back to juvenile court with Judge Carrie Bloom, who gave
a great interview to one of your reporters, and the head judge and juvenile
court said she does not want to put a kid in jail for one or
two or three days because of the harm inflicted upon the offender. The offender
is concerned. Carrie Bloom is concerned about the offender having some psychological damage by
going to jail for a day or two. And I'm thinking, my god,
they need to go jail for a long time. Just recently in front
of juvenile court, we had a kid who committed the assault on that Cole
Raine High School teacher, put her at death's door, took off part of
her skulls her brain could expand, and the judge there gave essentially six months
in jail to a Cole Ryane High School student who's now sixteen years old,
for attempted murder. And the prosecutor wanted to take that case out of jubie
court and put it in adult court, and the juvenile court judge said nod
Staffan Raid said no, we're not going to do that. And so you
have someone that commits an attempt at murder on a Cole Raine High School teacher
in class while class is going on, and he gets an additional six months
in jail, and the teacher's outraged she's lost her life, and so we
need, well, what's your perspective. You've been around a long time,
you bring up repeat offenders. If you have someone who almost kills a teacher
in class, shouldn't you get more than six months in jail? I think,
you know, it's sad because this is one of the things. You
know, there was maybe six months eight months ago, there was a shooting,
not a shooting, it was an armed robbery down at the banks,
involving a teenager, and the kid didn't even get jail time. The kid
didn't even get jail time. And some of these bails, it's just confusing,
you know. You see in one county somebody gets a million dollar bail
and then in Hamilton County it's five thousand dollars for something far more serious.
I think, you know, we have to look long and hard at,
you know, putting people behind bars for longer. And and the problem is
they say that you can't treat every offender the same, but unfortunately they do.
Every young offender seems to be treated in the same way, given the
same liberties, you know, where if they commit a serious crime, they're
given a second chance, they're given a third chance, I think we have
to look long and hard at somebody who's just flat out a danger to society,
somebody who somebody You lose your right to be an innocent child when you
pull a gun on a teacher or you beat up a teacher, and as
you say, you almost killed that teacher in cole Raine Township. Yeah,
I think sometimes you lose your right to be treated like a child when you
do something that serious. You know, I've been around it a long time
and I've been in the business thirty five years, and it's the age old
debate, but I do believe. Yeah, if it's something where you feel
like you can rehab somebody and it wasn't that serious a crime, I'm all
for it. Put them into the system, try to rehab them, second
chances, third chances. But when you kill somebody or nearly kill somebody,
I think that's off the table. Once you get to that serious the nature
of a crime, I think you have to take that element off the street.
And it's not fair. You're concerned about the offender, as you said,
and their future and how they're going to react to being behind bars,
But what about the next two or three or four victims who are going to
be subject to a shooting or a robbery or something like that. You know,
Mike Dartist, there's three or four active gangs in the city of Cincinnati
breaking into cars almost every night, I think the last night of the night
before. You spoke about more car break ins, as if it's no big
deal because it happens so often. But when you get your car broken into,
your windows are shattered, and your stuff's going through, it's a serious
crime. I mentioned yesterday on Saturday night in Oakland County, which is north
of Detroit, Sheriff Bouchard, and I've had him on a couple times,
he's a great sheriff, that they had a simple car break in and someone
stole a twenty twenty three Chevrolet equin and an officer was on parole and they
said, hey, there's that twenty twenty three Equinox. I can't see the
license plate, but it's the right color. Let's pull him over. And
the cop gets out of his car, walks up to the car with his
gun drawn at his hip, and three get out unload on him, and
that officer is dead. And that began with a carjacking, with a car
break and then a fob was left inside the car and away we go.
And these gangs recruit kids that are thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen because
they know we have a dysfunctional juvenile court system that won't lock up kids,
and they have a different attitude when they get to be eighteen years old and
they get into adult court. I say, if you, as a kid
commit an adult crime, then you do a dult time. But when you
have a judge Carrie Bloom and others that doesn't have that attitude, and there's
no power on earth that can reach in a juvenile court with a sixteen year
old almost kills a teacher in class and make that student come to adult court.
Know in Columbus that the legislature under the leadership of Bill Sitz, is
going to try to get a law pass that in serious felonies, the county
prosecutor can reach in a juvenile court and take the case out without the juvenile
court's judge permission. And let's face the face of crime and Cincinnati is a
young black male face. But the great majority of young black males have nothing
to do with crime. They're the victims of crime. I would assume the
nineteen or twenty relatives of pastor Jackie Jackson are all black, and half are
dead and half are walking around with bullet wounds, and they're all black.
And there seems to be this idea. Well, we got to give a
kid a second or third or fourth chance. And that's not the way it
ought to be. And until we change, that system is going to continue.
Now, lastly, we got the Great Debate coming up Thursday night.
And as you sent me a text this morning, this could be This could
be super Bowl type numbers. Tony Bender tells me that ninety three of the
top one hundred TV programming last year, and you're aware of this at Channel
five is NFL football. This could be an event, might even be hired,
might even be hired. It might be a super Bowl between someone mentally
absent against the Trumpster, who's loathed by many. Give me your perspective.
You're going to have it on at nine o'clock. We're going to have it
on all the platforms. This is a heavyweight championship of the world. The
presidency is on the line. Mike Dartis, give me your perspective. Well,
first of all, I think you already know this. I did an
informal poll last night on Twitter, and I said, as you watch these
dates, are they going to help you make a decision or have you already
made your decision? And I think you already know the answer. Ninety six
percent of the people in the polls that I've already made my decision. So
but you know, it's funny that four percent could decide this election if you
look at all of the key states. And you can look all you want
at the overall general election numbers and pretty darn tight within a point or two
or whatever. But if you start looking at the key swing states, Ohio
Trump by eight, Pennsylvania Trump by six, Georgia Trump by four or five
this time around, Nevada Trump, Arizona Trump. Michigan right now is a
dead heat, and Wisconsin's kind of a dead heat. Even if Biden were
to be able to pull those two, Trump would still win the election.
So Joe Biden's got some work to do. And I think that these debates
are immensely important for him to show America at his age, with all these
memes and videos going out on social media, some of them doctored up,
of course, and some of them real that he can lead you know,
and you're gonna see it on live TV for an hour and a half straight.
You know, there's no audience, so it's just the two of these
guys, Mono Amano, and I think it's just gonna be mussy TV.
I don't know. I mean, some of it's gonna be uncomfortable, A
lot of it's gonna be uncomfortable. But I mean I would not, you
know, tune away from something like this because I mean, I think I
think not only is America watching, but the world is watching, and and
really down the stretch here November, this is huge. I mean, there's
a lot of states that are up for grabs and it's really going to be
interesting to see how this goes on Thursday night. It's going to be exciting.
I think the four or five percent will decide the election. And of
course Trump is playing an away game and the officials are picked by the Biden
team. Some of the comments made by Jake Tapper include this is Jake Tapper
in his own words in twenty twenty quote for tens of millions of our fellow
Americans, their national nightmare is over. Trump is gone. He also said,
quote quote continue Trump continues to lie to the American people. Another retweet,
Trump is one hundred percent insane. These are the words of the moderator,
describe trump presidency as a total disaster. He ran a segment about the
alleged shape of Trump's penis. I'm talking about Jake Tapper. He questioned the
twenty sixteen election Russia collusion hoax. He said it was a hoax. The
laptop is not real. He also claimed that Trump was rather angry defendant.
There's no case here for him whatsoever. He accused Trump of being a Russian
plant, and that is from the host, that that's the guy in charge
of the debate. Does that sound objective to you, Mike Dartists, Let's
talk about Trump. Let's talk about that. Well, I'm not talking about
that, and I'm not diving into that pool with you there, Willie.
I think I'll stick away from that. But what I will say is I
think Donald Trump, as you probably know, plays road games stronger than home
games. The day he's convicted in New York, he raises more money than
he ever had and he and he whips up that base. I think that
you know, he's been prepping for this debate, and I think that he's
ready for if Jake Tapper, in his mind steps over the line a little
bit, he's going to use that, of course, and you know that
that'll get his It'll it'll pump up the people who are Trump supporters, and
he'll use all of that. So I think he's going in his people have
thrown that storyline out there about Jake Tapper and CNN, and so therefore he's
ready to, you know, ready to use that to his advantage if he
has to. You know that. You know, Trump's a pretty good counterpuncher,
but he's playing an away game and the officials have been picked and paid
for by the other side. So Trump needs to overcome not just one person,
but three. But Mike darteris thanks for coming on this Tuesday afternoon,
and let's all hope the violence in the city stops. It'll stop when family
formation occurs. It'll stop when faith is a part of urban Black America.
It'll stop when more fathers are in more homes telling boys when they're five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten years old, what is proper
behavior and what is not proper behavior. I can't imagine you having a son
down at the banks at two o'clock in the morning, wondering where in the
hell's my boy? You know exactly where he is. And so when when
good fathers and good mothers raise good families, that's the solution. But Mike
darteris give my best to Kay Rob and all the folks at Channel five will
will he have a good day? And God bless America. Let's continue with
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