WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:09.640 My billy coming in the Great America. Welcome this glorious 2 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:12.599 Thursday afternoon. The Tri State Reds Baseball kicks off early. 3 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.759 Get ready about four to ten this afternoon, but in 4 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:18.559 about four hours got Reds baseball first bitch about five 5 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.359 to ten. A country group, one of Tony Benner's favorite, 6 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:24.760 Old Dominion. Who in the hell are they? I might ask, 7 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.160 But nonetheless old Dominion. I thought it was a college. 8 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.120 Old Dominion's going to play after the Reds game. Hopefully 9 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:31.920 we'll be quick ones so those who care about Old 10 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.960 Dominion can hear some tunes. But nonetheless is more important 11 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.240 things going on. I did note the mayor yesterday after 12 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:42.600 a puival and share along in completely over her head 13 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.200 had a nine to one to one called an eight 14 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.039 oh one Plum Street. After the news conference about three 15 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:51.719 o'clock because the mayor had dislocated his shoulder, patting himself 16 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:54.119 on the back and Sharyl Loong was giving him mouth 17 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.679 to mouth resuscitation. The mayor didn't know what to do. 18 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.359 I mean, there's no crime in the city. Things are great, 19 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.200 Buinesses are moving in, the schools are really good, and 20 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.680 law enforcement is fully respected and funded. I know that 21 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.799 from the news conference. It reminds me of the Eyetola 22 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.640 who gave a news conference about ten days ago and 23 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:12.640 said that was a great victory when those B two 24 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.480 bombers dropped those bunker busters all over our nuclear site. 25 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:18.680 That was a win. We won that one and they 26 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:21.519 won't come back anytime soon. Maybe AMTEP could talk to 27 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:24.079 the Eyetola and figure out how to do a news conference. 28 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.319 But until then, of course, we have issues in River City. 29 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.040 Steve Gooden is a great lawyer and a big time 30 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.680 law firm, but more importantly he's one of the members 31 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:37.560 of the Clifton Community Council and unbeknownst to many, another 32 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.799 street takeover occurred about four or five days ago on 33 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.120 a Saturday night Sunday morning, in which local businesses in 34 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:46.959 the Clifton area were thank god, many were closed by 35 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:50.840 this point, but much was going on. And once again, 36 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:53.200 Steve Gooden, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first 37 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.040 of all, I'm not sure what the Bohemian hook A 38 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.719 Cafe is. I know Tony Benner likes to go there 39 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:00.439 and smoke out of the water pipe. I'm not sure 40 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.079 what the what the hookah is. But as a member 41 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.840 of that community council. Describe what happened, and you told 42 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:07.640 me off there has been building for about a year. 43 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:09.759 So what happened about four or five days ago. 44 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:13.479 Well what we've got there, Well, first, thanks for shedding 45 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.919 some light on this, because the city sure as hell isn't. 46 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.639 They're trying to sweep this one under their rug. This 47 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.479 was a serious incident where a police officer was injured, 48 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.280 where a fire truck was denied access to the street 49 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.039 on a run. They could have gone very badly and 50 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.680 there were guns out and drawn. And what's been going 51 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.039 on is there's this business called the Bohemian Houka Cafe 52 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.960 that advertises after hours parties on social media and they've 53 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:40.400 been doing it for more than a year. They tend 54 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:42.520 to kick off about two in the morning when all 55 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.719 the other legitimate businesses are closed. People sell alcohol out 56 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.479 of their cars, They dance in the street, they drag race. 57 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.919 There's the multiple instances that have been captured on security 58 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.199 videos of people brandishing and playing with guns, and it's 59 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:59.000 been an issue that we've been trying to elevate up 60 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.800 at City Hall for some time. The police come and 61 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.039 break it up occasionally that they tell us they don't 62 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:06.960 have enough officers to respond. We've been trying to get 63 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:08.879 the city to sue them and shut it down as 64 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:12.520 a public nuisance. That's been going nowhere, but then finally 65 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.159 here over the fourth of July weekend, it blew up 66 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:19.240 into the biggest one yet, somewhere between forty to fifty people. Again, 67 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:21.360 they blocked a fire truck that was trying to get 68 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.759 out and go on a run, and it finally did 69 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.280 lead to a significant police response. They had to deploy 70 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:32.120 the pepper bullets, the rubber bullets, mace. An officer was injured, 71 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.120 eight arrests, one felony assault on a police officer. And 72 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.360 it was a mess. And the worst part is listening 73 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:41.319 to the scanner traffic where you can hear the police 74 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:44.319 calling for backup and being told that there aren't enough 75 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.759 officers to provide the backup. Ultimately, it ended up with 76 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:51.000 about thirteen cars there, so it was a major melee. 77 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.360 The city did not report it in any way, shape 78 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:56.960 or form. It's almost impossible to get data on this. 79 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.000 It's about four blocks from the mayor's house, about five 80 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.039 IBox from another council member's house. The Chamber of Commerce 81 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.280 president lives there. I lived there, for crying out loud, 82 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:09.800 it is a It is a wonderful, you know, suburban 83 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.199 oasis sort of within the city up in the clifting 84 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.520 gas light right for the Esquire movie theater by the 85 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.879 famous of one of the early skylines is right there 86 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.480 at the neighborhood. Everybody knows, and thank god, no one 87 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.120 was more seriously her. We do have an injuried officer, 88 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.480 but it's like it never happened, and finding any data 89 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.680 about it from the city's website wasn't even mentioned yesterday 90 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:31.519 in the press conference. 91 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:33.439 And you say it's been Steve Goodnes has been building 92 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.360 for about a year, so this didn't happen. This isn't 93 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.000 a one off. I would assume coming up this weekend 94 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.720 or next weekend, same stuff's going to happen. The Hookah 95 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.160 Lounge on their website said they're open every every day 96 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.040 till four am. I thought bars had to shut down 97 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:47.000 at two. 98 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:51.240 What happened, Well, that's that's absolutely true. What they're trying 99 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.160 to get around is this, I guess the Hookah Lounges 100 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.759 doesn't have a liquor license, so they're arguing, hey, we 101 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.920 can stay open later because we don't have it. We 102 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:01.600 don't sell liquor there. She's idiots or selling liquor in 103 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.680 the cars outside. We have video after video of video 104 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.279 of them doing this. But that, I guess is the argument. 105 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:10.439 The city allegedly has a law that says all businesses 106 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:12.240 on that strip have to be shut down at two, 107 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.279 but again, no one's enforcing it. They see the holes, 108 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.000 they understand, they know if no one's coming up to 109 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:18.959 enforce it, why. 110 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:21.920 Not kind of like the curfew laws, you know, curfew 111 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.360 laws after about ten o'clock completely ignored. How about open 112 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.720 air smoking marijuana completely ignored? Well, let's talk about other 113 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.839 similar circumstances. Hyde Park Square. You're a little bit on 114 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.519 the outside of that incident. But does this again demonstrate 115 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.399 the city council and the mayor couldn't care less with 116 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.480 the residents of Hyde Park or Clifton have to say 117 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:47.240 about matters that concerned living in Hyde Park or living 118 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.639 in Clifton, and they hold these news conferences, these cheerleader sessions. 119 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:54.680 I have to expected confetti to fall from the ceiling 120 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:56.920 and have somebody hand the mayor of the Super Bowl 121 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.839 trophy for the great news conference he had. He's fiddling 122 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:03.600 his Cincinnati is burning. Is this symptomatic of city council 123 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:06.800 in the Maryrior couldn't care less about the residents of Cincinnati. 124 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:11.480 The city council is a disaster. I mean, with a 125 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.079 couple exceptions, there's a couple of folks there that seem 126 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.959 to live in the real world by jam Michelle and 127 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:20.360 Sky Johnson and others, but by and large, they are 128 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.720 ignoring these things. I was looking this morning on their 129 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.639 social media accounts. It's all about, you know, raising different 130 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.319 flags and going to fundraisers. There is no mention at 131 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.199 all of any of this. And the press conference yesterday 132 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.519 was almost know it was right out of Georgia orwell, 133 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.839 because what they do is they take like a they'll 134 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:42.040 find like a nine or ten day period where shootings 135 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.399 go down a little bit, and then they run out 136 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.519 and celebrate that nine or ten day period and say, look, look, 137 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.160 we have a new trend. The real trend is that 138 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:54.240 shootings are ridiculously up month to month. Murders were up 139 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.519 almost over one hundred percent made in June to July. 140 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:02.000 The trend is god awful and they're ignoring that trend 141 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.240 and they know what to do. I mean, our police 142 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:08.040 department is ludicrously understaffed. We were supposed to have about 143 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.279 twelve hundred police officers. Ken Kober at the FOP tells me, 144 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.240 for a full compliment, we're down to nine fifty. You 145 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.160 back out the command staff and the impound lot guys 146 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:19.560 and the detectives. He says, we're down to about four 147 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:22.879 hundred and fifty officers that can actually answer calls, split 148 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.600 across three shifts and four districts in a city of 149 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.160 over three hundred thousand people, with another two hundred and 150 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.639 some thousand people every night here eating, dining, going to 151 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.720 ball games, et cetera. It doesn't work, can't. There's not 152 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.879 enough officers to do the community policing, walk the beats, 153 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.120 in force, curfew. It's just not there. We have to 154 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.160 get back to the point where we're actually staffing our 155 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:46.319 police department. The drones aren't going to do it. We 156 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.560 need to be working with the county and they also 157 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:50.879 need to be trying to do something about these judges 158 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:54.439 over there in the city prosecutors who aren't getting high 159 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:57.040 bonds on these people who have gun offences. They're getting 160 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:59.120 right back out on the streets and they know that. 161 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.600 So yeah, they're very very divorced from what the actual 162 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:06.439 neighborhoods want. It's just it is mind boggling to me, 163 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.800 particularly this incident in Clipton, and particularly the mess in 164 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.040 High Part because about half the counts, some members either 165 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:14.399 live in the Clifton area or in the High Park area. 166 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:16.959 They're ignoring their own neighborhood. It's the most bizarre thing 167 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:17.680 I've ever seen. 168 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.600 I'm looking at a bond set and Common Police court. 169 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:25.519 The defendant, whose name is Briasha Shroud, defendant shot a 170 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.720 twelve year old victim in the back of the head. 171 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:32.679 Fortunately the person survived. He was charged with attempted murder 172 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:37.200 felonious assault, and he gets a fifty thousand dollars bond 173 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.440 at ten percent. Puts up five thousand dollars. Someone puts 174 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.879 up five thousand dollars. This guy is now out and 175 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:47.480 he's charged with shooting someone on the back of the head, 176 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.679 and he's out with his guns on the streets of Cincinnati. 177 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.399 And that's Common police court. That's typical. Also, it came 178 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.159 out We're gonna have Paula Christian on later that the 179 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.320 police in Cincinnati knew or should have knew that Mordecai 180 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:05.240 Black had parole violations two months before the fatal OTR 181 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.840 stabbing of Patrick Herringer. Two months before that, the City 182 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.200 police the I Team made the discovery while reviewing records 183 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.639 related to a multi family home in which he was living. 184 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:17.759 I can't imagine the girlfriend of Mordecai Black. She must 185 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.159 be a great winner, but nonetheless she claims that he 186 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.799 burglarized my home, cut off his ankle monitor, and on 187 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:28.200 least six occasions. The city was informed that had six 188 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.080 hits on Black for parole violations when they entered his 189 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:34.519 name into a mobile computer database on April sixth. He 190 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.000 was in prisoned for nine years for felonius assault and 191 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.360 aggravated rioting, was released another three and a half years 192 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:45.039 of monitoring, cuts off his ankle monitor, commits numerous crimes 193 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:48.639 over a ninety day period, six hits on him. When 194 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:50.799 the city computers went to say who is this guy? 195 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.240 Easily could have been picked up. They knew where he 196 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.879 lived and knew what he looked like. He's walking around 197 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.440 OTR with a butcher knife and kills breaks into the 198 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.879 home of Patrick Herringer and kills him as his lovely 199 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.799 wife Sarah is watching and the police knew that Black 200 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.159 was staying at a Vine Street address because they listed 201 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.320 it as his address on an incident report, and they 202 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.960 knew it cut off his ankle monitor four weeks after 203 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:17.679 being released and failed to pick them up. And the 204 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.480 officers in the report said, we talked to a female 205 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.600 suspect and she stated herself that Black walked into her location, 206 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:29.480 threatened her, burglarized her sole items, and left, and she 207 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:32.840 identified Mordecai Black as the person that did it, and 208 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:36.039 the city police did nothing to pick him up. How's 209 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:36.799 this possible? 210 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:39.159 Well, it is. 211 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.440 I mean, I can tell you my guess is what 212 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.399 the police officers would tell you is that it's a 213 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.759 lack of officers and resources and they're stretched as thin as 214 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:49.840 they could be. I don't blame the individual officers, but 215 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:53.000 I'll tell you at the top, it's terrible. I mean, 216 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.480 I mean, we know that we need. We're at least 217 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:59.200 two hundred and fifty police officers short already, and we're 218 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.559 still in the business of trying to like police High 219 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.080 seventy five rather than giving that over to the state patrol. 220 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:06.559 What should have happened many many years ago. Even the 221 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.240 officers we have already even being correctly deployed the chief. 222 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:13.360 I just don't understand. I don't understand where she's coming from. 223 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:17.240 She's supposed to be independent down there, advocating for more staffing, 224 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:19.440 and instead all I hear out of her is they're 225 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.440 providing political cover for the mayor and the other electeds 226 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.799 down there, saying that things really aren't as bad as 227 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.000 they are. And I mean, if it were up to me, 228 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:29.480 should be should be out the door. And I'm saying 229 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:32.559 this is a former assistant prosecutor from many years ago. 230 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:36.120 The idea that someone is taken into custody with the 231 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.639 gun and is not given a high bond to at 232 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:43.120 least I mean, even if they're ultimately resolved their charges favorably, 233 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.360 they need to sit for a while until this is 234 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.399 all sorted out. That you have taken somebody who had 235 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.759 a gun and must with someone who actually shot someone 236 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:53.240 and putting a bond out there that they can reasonably 237 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.480 make him walk out the door, that is insane. It 238 00:11:55.559 --> 00:12:00.120 undermines public safety, and it encourages this lawless behavior, and 239 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.600 it discourages the police. And the officers I talked to 240 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:04.840 will tell me they don't even bother with the curfew stuff. 241 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.759 Anymore because nothing happens. The juvenile court just sends them 242 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.720 out anyone. Even if they file the charges, nothing happens. 243 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.440 They have a diversion docket and they don't even spend 244 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:13.759 the night. 245 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:14.720 They go home. 246 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.200 Well, Steve Gooden on the Blue Ash incident I had 247 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.840 on the mayor of Blue Ash yesterday and within twenty 248 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.960 four hours it was only a thirteen year old. Can 249 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:27.279 you mention a seventh grader directing a Roman candle at 250 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.559 a police officer in uniform, shooting the police officer on 251 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.519 the leg with one of those Roman candle type bottle 252 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.240 rocket deal The cop first thought he was shot in 253 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.440 the leg, and you don't know what it is. Fortunately 254 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.600 it didn't penetrate much into his skin, and within twenty 255 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.080 four hours the thirteen year old is released. In fact, 256 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.919 the charges are dismissed by juvenile court because of a 257 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.519 tender age. Seventh grader is conducting riotous behavior at the 258 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.559 Blue Ash, Red, White and Blue get together and they're 259 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:59.159 out of prison. And this other case I mentioned, this 260 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.200 person shot a twelve year old in the back of 261 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:04.679 the head. The kid's going to be in a wheelchair 262 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.840 the rest of his life. And that kid's out on 263 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:10.000 bond awaiting trial, and the cops tell me Ken cober 264 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.080 Dan Hills. They'll tell you the cops are demoralized because 265 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.679 they arrest someone and they're out before the paperwork is completed, 266 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:21.360 and they're out, Why arrest anybody? And this cries out 267 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:24.200 for a change. But I suspect there won't be a change. 268 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.840 I firmly suspect that in November, Mayor Piirval is going 269 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:30.039 to be re elected. He'll be on the GQ cover 270 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:34.080 in December, and that Cheryl long incompletely over her head, 271 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.200 will get a ray. She's making over three hundred thousand 272 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.799 dollars a year currently, and God blessed Teresa Thiji, the 273 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.159 chief of police. She's providing cover for the politicians because 274 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.480 that's her job, and the cops underneath. All these groups 275 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:49.720 are demoralized and depressed. There's got to be a solution. 276 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.360 Steve Goodness a question in there somewhere, would you mind 277 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:52.919 answering it? 278 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:58.440 The answer is this, Willie. I am happy to say 279 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.639 that we hope help is on the way. I also 280 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:03.519 one of the other hats I wear is that I'm 281 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.039 run the Charter Committee Greater Cincinnati and we are rolling 282 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:08.960 out a slate next week, of which I will be 283 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:14.240 a part that is going to firmly, firmly support law 284 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.960 enforcement and public safety. And we think this is a 285 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.000 moment where it has gotten to a point where we 286 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:23.600 need council members who are independent, who have the professional 287 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:27.240 background and the personal backbone to stand up to this 288 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:31.559 nonsense and to force counsel to look at the neighborhood concerns. 289 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.120 It's not just public safety. Public safety is by far 290 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.600 the number one issue, but like the mess in High 291 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.840 Park and all the zoning reform and the way what 292 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.120 they're doing with the railroad proceeds, all of it is 293 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:45.120 a bunch of backroom stuff that no one understands that 294 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.879 the neighborhoods are cut out of. So, yes, you're going 295 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:49.480 to be hearing from us in a big way in 296 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.799 the next week and over the next few months. This 297 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.759 is a moment that we must absolutely stand up for 298 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.360 our neighborhoods and the residents here. There are a lot 299 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:04.799 of Commons people, and they're across all demographics, all races, 300 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.080 and a lot of the folks that have been reaching 301 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.879 out to us are common sense Democrats. This isn't even 302 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:12.799 a political national issue. They're just sick of it. They're 303 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:15.960 worried about their kids, They're worried about their neighborhoods. I mean, look, 304 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:17.919 I got a thirteen year old that lives with me. 305 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:19.919 He was going to go up to this new Burger 306 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:22.600 place in Clifton the day that there was a shooting there, 307 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:24.399 like he was going to walk up there with his friends. 308 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:25.960 Thank God he did not. In the middle of the 309 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.240 day there was a shooting there in the cuf neighborhood 310 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:33.279 in Clifton. I mean, it's very real to everybody right now. 311 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:36.840 So we will be hearing from us in a big way. 312 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:38.759 And I know it's a big task, and I know 313 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.080 the idea of the Democratic sample ballot is something that 314 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:44.120 everybody thinks is insurmountable. Yes, but this is a year 315 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:45.879 where I do think people are going to vote their 316 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:46.399 own interest. 317 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.200 Well, you have to run as a charter right. If 318 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.759 you do run, because the Republican brand has been so 319 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:53.720 damaged in the city of Cincinnati, in Hamilton County, it 320 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.000 can't win. A Republican can't win in Hamilton County, much 321 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:59.360 less the city of Cincinnati. So run is a charter right. 322 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.639 There's going to be four to five hundred people wounded 323 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:04.919 this year in the city of Cincinnati. There's going to 324 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.639 be eighty to one hundred murdered. There's going to be 325 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.279 approximately twenty thousand shots fired in the city of Cincinnati 326 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.919 this year, and the mayriorage dislocating his shoulder, patting himself 327 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.080 on the back with a great job they've done. And 328 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.720 if this doesn't arouse the citizen and you say, okay, 329 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:23.440 we need reform. An old Charles P. Taft, a good 330 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:26.960 friend of dearly departed Jim Scott, found that the Charter 331 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.679 Party about one hundred years ago to reform city government, 332 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.080 and more than ever, it needs to be reformed now. 333 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.679 It may be a fool's errand to run against the 334 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:38.759 Democratic Party in the City of Cincinnati. However, they have 335 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:42.639 convenient objects of their score and tend to be Donald Trump, 336 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:46.240 which hides the evaluation of the failure of their own policies. 337 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:48.240 You kind of can't live in a city or a 338 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.120 county where you pay your sales and you pay your 339 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.159 real estate taxes and you can't send your kid to 340 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.679 the public schools because they're so bad. So you pay 341 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.679 for public schools at cps you can't attend, and then 342 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:02.039 you can go to businesses because of all the shooting 343 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.240 being done, and the cops are short, two hundred and 344 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.079 fifty police officers, and they pat themselves on the back 345 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:09.480 talking about what a great job they've done. Well, Steve Gooden, 346 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:12.799 we've got to run up against the clock. But street takeovers, 347 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.720 crime in the streets, blood running. It's happening right now, 348 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.279 and I hope city leaders are paying attention. But once again, 349 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:19.960 Steve good and good luck to you, and thanks for 350 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:23.640 coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you Steve anytime. 351 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.839 Thank you, God bless America. Let's continue with more. I 352 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.160 just hate the idea of my city falling into the 353 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:32.839 clutches of the policies in Chicago, LA and New York. 354 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:34.839 I see it happening, and I would fight like a 355 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.519 warrior poet to shed light on the mistakes of city 356 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.440 council and what they're not doing, because they're hiding the 357 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:46.279 obvious failure of their policies behind subterfuges such as crime 358 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:53.519 is down. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred. Wow, Hi, 359 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.960 Billy Cunningham, the Great America. And I thought about this 360 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:02.000 going on a rantom rave at what's happening in my city. 361 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:07.319 And it may be insurmountable. I know, for many, many years, 362 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:12.079 Hamilton County was completely red, that is, Republican, and the 363 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:16.559 city was blue red and Charter Right. The city council 364 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.960 operated correctly when there was three or four Democrats and 365 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.559 one or two Republicans, three or four Charter Rights and 366 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:26.000 the city kind of worked together in a moderate way 367 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.759 in order to advance the interests of the city. The 368 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.319 Charter Right party has long since fallen on tough times 369 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:37.440 because they're not on the voters have decided to disregard 370 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:40.640 the quality of life in the city of Cincinnati and 371 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.480 pursuing some other end which I don't fully understand. You 372 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:49.039 can't pay confiscatory real estate taxes when you you can't 373 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.480 send your kids to the public schools. And we just 374 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.680 had Brian Combs, and of course Scott Sloan has owned 375 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:57.440 council members and others that are well intended individuals. They're 376 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.960 not bad people. They're dealing with almost an imposs circumstance 377 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:04.160 where the CPS is going to spend six hundred million 378 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:08.640 dollars six hundred million dollars on public education with no results. 379 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:13.039 I'd like to see the last five to ten years 380 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:19.359 the graduation rates are high, but that's because social promotion exists. 381 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.599 That is, you can't have a fourteen year old in 382 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:25.400 the third grade, so no one has academic achievement standards. 383 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:28.079 What happens is that you simply show up or don't 384 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.039 show up, do homework or don't do homework, do book 385 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.960 reports or don't do book reports. It doesn't make any difference. 386 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:36.880 You advance to the next grade. You're respective of your 387 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:40.000 academic achievement. When I went to school, there was a 388 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.000 fear that if you fail, it's so embarrassing to yourself 389 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.640 and your family. You work to engage in behavior that 390 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.200 keeps that from occurring. In other words, you study work, 391 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:50.319 you take tests, you prepare yourself, and away you go. 392 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:53.960 None of that happens today in CPS or any other 393 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:58.440 urban public school district. Imagine being in Chicago public schools. 394 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:02.200 Imagine being in in Atlanta public schools. They're Washington DC 395 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:07.240 public schools. Are you kidding me? Wow, there's no educational achievement. 396 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.680 The graduation rate maybe ninety percent, The academic achievement rate 397 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:15.480 is well below ten percent. How many graduate from Taft 398 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:19.119 High School or youths that actually have an achievement of 399 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:22.200 a commensurate with their eighteen years of life. The answer 400 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.039 is very few, single digits maybe. And so when you 401 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.920