Speaker 1: We count down to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Seven oh six here fifty five Kerr see the talk station,
Speaker 1: and a very happy Friday to you. Obviously, a huge
Speaker 1: election coming up in November. Top all the way down
Speaker 1: to the bottom. All the races are extremely important, most
Speaker 1: notably here in Hamilton County, Ohio, where we have a
Speaker 1: decision to make on who we're going to vote for
Speaker 1: for Hamilton County Sheriff. I think the man who was
Speaker 1: previously in the job is the man for the job.
Speaker 1: Jim Neil, welcome back to that. Do you have KRCY
Speaker 1: Morning Show, my friend, It's always great having you on
Speaker 1: the program.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's been a while. It's good to be with
Speaker 3: you this morning, that's for sure. And I've been blessed
Speaker 3: to run into Joe Recker on two occasions in the
Speaker 3: past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Hanging out, hanging over price heal, chili worry or something
Speaker 1: like that. Hey, Jim, I'm gonna put you on the
Speaker 1: spot right out of the gate. Here we're doing listener
Speaker 1: lunch at Jim and Jackson the River on the seventh
Speaker 1: of August, first Wednesday, of August. You have an invitation
Speaker 1: to join us for lunch. I know you've been to
Speaker 1: listener lunches quite a few times over the years, and
Speaker 1: just an opportunity to meet some of your maybe voters
Speaker 1: and hang out with us if you are free. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not pressuring you, but I want to remind you
Speaker 1: about listener lunch in case you want to make it.
Speaker 2: Do a fly by.
Speaker 3: Amen, Yes, I am free on the seventh excellent.
Speaker 1: Well, you're welcome to join us at lunch. I hope
Speaker 1: to see you that and mis smith Aman is going
Speaker 1: to be there. He's a big fan of hers. Jim Neil.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, it's vote Jim Neil a
Speaker 1: E I l vote Jimneil dot com. That's his campaign
Speaker 1: web page. Let's just talk about your motivations for wanting
Speaker 1: to take back over the role, Jim. Do you have
Speaker 1: inside baseball about how things are going currently under the
Speaker 1: hern administration. Because I don't read, I read very little.
Speaker 1: I don't see a whole lot of reporting. Of course,
Speaker 1: local reporting doesn't usually get involved in morale issue staffing issues.
Speaker 1: So what's going on inside that you're aware of that
Speaker 1: serves as at least a motivation for you to run again.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely. First of all, let me clarify that we
Speaker 3: should be spending this opportunity celebrating the re election of
Speaker 3: Bruce Hofbauer. But that didn't happen. So I had to
Speaker 3: ask myself, what are you going to do about it,
Speaker 3: jim So I decided to run because you're absolutely right
Speaker 3: about the morale. It's morale's bad right now. Staffing levels
Speaker 3: are extremely been impacted negatively. They're extremely understaffed right now,
Speaker 3: to the extent that you know, floors had to be
Speaker 3: shut down at the County jail. And and when you're
Speaker 3: shutting down an operational like that, that's especially like at
Speaker 3: the county jail, that's hundreds of beds that are not
Speaker 3: available for societies worse, and does that make our community safer?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. When you don't have a cell available for
Speaker 3: the offender.
Speaker 2: Well, there is a need for the cells.
Speaker 1: I mean there was at one point, Jimmy, you and
Speaker 1: I have talked about this over the in past years,
Speaker 1: that there was no room at the end, you know,
Speaker 1: in other words, they were packed in there more than
Speaker 1: it was a design and built for. And of course
Speaker 1: we always have the staffing issues the number of inmates
Speaker 1: far exceeding the number that's safe for the deputies who
Speaker 1: are guarding them. But you're saying they're closing down these beds.
Speaker 1: Does that mean there's no demand for the space? Is
Speaker 1: this a consequence of woke judges letting people out that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be let out. I guess I'm wondering, if you
Speaker 1: have a full contingent of deputies and you had the
Speaker 1: money and resources, would the place be full and would
Speaker 1: all the beds be open?
Speaker 3: That's a good that's a good question, because we have
Speaker 3: no control over you know, the decisions the judges make,
Speaker 3: but we do have control every police officer at effects
Speaker 3: and arrest, that offender is booked into the county jail
Speaker 3: and held there until they faced the judge the next
Speaker 3: day for arraignment. But when you don't have staffing levels
Speaker 3: to provide security the when I left the office, Brian,
Speaker 3: the office was right sized when it came to personnel.
Speaker 3: We were fully staffed. In the county jail, we were
Speaker 3: right size, and court services, and we were covering our
Speaker 3: beats on patrol. But since I left office, the number
Speaker 3: of deputies are fewer today than there were back then.
Speaker 1: Is that because of attrition inability to get people to
Speaker 1: you know, pursue a career in law enforcement with the
Speaker 1: Hamlin County Sheriff's Department, is it lack of funding, a
Speaker 1: combination all above what's driving Then.
Speaker 3: It's not funding because she's adequately funded. There's a budget
Speaker 3: that's you know, set for the deputies. It's when the
Speaker 3: deputies are eligible to retire. They're retiring. A number of
Speaker 3: them have left for other jobs with other agencies, and
Speaker 3: it's tougher today. You're correct on recruiting, but it's it's
Speaker 3: about leadership, Ryan. The deputies don't want to they don't
Speaker 3: want to work for an agenda. They want to work
Speaker 3: for a law enforcement agency. And the current sheriff is
Speaker 3: promoting her party's agenda in policy and it doesn't mix with.
Speaker 2: Law enforcement DEI.
Speaker 3: Not just THEEI, just policies in general. You can see
Speaker 3: the agenda of the party written into these policies.
Speaker 2: We'll give us an illustration of that. So or not operating.
Speaker 3: Sheriff mcguffey's every sheriff in the state of Ohio not
Speaker 3: working with Immigrations and Customs enforcement also known as silent,
Speaker 3: And that's just an example of one policy. When you
Speaker 3: drive by these county buildings, you're used to seeing what
Speaker 3: on the top of the building an American flag, correct,
Speaker 3: the state flag, maybe a POW flag. Now you're seeing
Speaker 3: a Pride flag. I mean, you see what I'm going with.
Speaker 3: The agenda of the party is working its way into
Speaker 3: the policy of the sheriff's office. This is a political sheriff,
Speaker 3: not a sheriff that is prioritizing law enforcement and prioritizing
Speaker 3: oppolding our constitution and serving the people. She's doing a
Speaker 3: very good job of serving the party, but she's not
Speaker 3: serving the people to the extent that she should be.
Speaker 2: Well, this sounds like the for.
Speaker 3: The these deputies, it really is. And morales down. They're
Speaker 3: leaving at record levels. It's hard to recruit period in
Speaker 3: law enforcement the way we've been demonized over the years.
Speaker 3: But she is adequately funded. There is funds available for
Speaker 3: staffing levels, but the staffing levels are really down, sir.
Speaker 1: Well, and I can understand that you don't want to
Speaker 1: walk into a highly politicized environment when those politics don't
Speaker 1: well serve your own personal interest outside of work. But
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be a politically motivated job. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: talking law enforcement here. You know, this sounds like exactly
Speaker 1: what's going on in America's military, Jim. You know, they
Speaker 1: can't get people to join America's voluntary military because well,
Speaker 1: word's gotten out that basically it becomes this indoctrination session.
Speaker 1: It's not about killing people and breaking things and maintaining
Speaker 1: a cohesive military fighting for us. It's about dividing everybody
Speaker 1: and put them in separate racial and sexual baskets to
Speaker 1: meet some sort of you know, across the board numbers game.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: So what is Sheriff Jim Neil to turn this around?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you depoliticize the policies, but you've got
Speaker 1: to get you got to spread the word about that
Speaker 1: that it's a different operation, that it's a you know,
Speaker 1: a welcome environment for people who care about law enforcement
Speaker 1: in their community. That that's a tough job at this
Speaker 1: state we find ourselves in, Jim.
Speaker 3: It is, and that's going to be the challenge initially
Speaker 3: is is hiring, hiring, hiring, recruiting and hiring to get
Speaker 3: the agency right size so that we are available to
Speaker 3: provide that quality law enforcement service. But I believe leadership
Speaker 3: will help. I've there's been a number of deputies that
Speaker 3: have left that already approached me. If you're elected in
Speaker 3: the office sheriff, can we come back. So I'm hoping that.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that initially there's going to be a wave
Speaker 3: coming in the front door coming back door. And that's
Speaker 3: exciting and it starts with leadership, Ryan and you know,
Speaker 3: and leadership that's focused. Look, as sheriff, I am an
Speaker 3: elected executive. The duty of the executive, whether you're sheriff,
Speaker 3: whether you're governor whether you're the president, is to enforce
Speaker 3: the laws. It's that simple. I'm not going to be legislating.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be interpreting the laws. I'm going
Speaker 3: to be enforcing the laws. And and as you can see,
Speaker 3: there's been a failure of that all the way up. Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, even President Biden, he's not enforcing the laws
Speaker 3: on the USC and uh, that's his job and that'll
Speaker 3: be my job as sheriff to enforce the laws and
Speaker 3: uphold the Constitution. I'm going to be focused on that.
Speaker 3: Public safety is so important part of the agenda. If
Speaker 3: you recall from the from Donald Trump and JD. Vance
Speaker 3: is one of the one of their goals is to
Speaker 3: make America safe again. Well, that's my focus as sheriff,
Speaker 3: to make Hamilton County safe again. And and you know
Speaker 3: how that works, Brian. You know the collaborations I was
Speaker 3: involved to make that happen.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, just let's pause.
Speaker 1: I'll bring you back because these are import and thoughts
Speaker 1: we're going to get into you. I also want to
Speaker 1: ask you about the status of Hamilton County relative to crime.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you are big into collaboration and working with
Speaker 1: other agencies, which is kind of a unique thing in
Speaker 1: law enforcement.
Speaker 2: You did such a great job of it.
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Speaker 1: Seventy one could about KRSCD talk station Brian Thomas Swift
Speaker 1: Sheriff Jim Neil. I hope he sheriff again. Jim Neil.
Speaker 1: You can check him out on a line to vote
Speaker 1: Jim Neil dot com. We put your website link on
Speaker 1: my blog page, Jim, so folks can easily find it
Speaker 1: if they can. Just remember fifty five KRC dot com
Speaker 1: and I was startling. Encourage them to help you get
Speaker 1: elected in November and Jim, you're getting you were segueing into,
Speaker 1: you know, working collaboratively with various law enforcement and back
Speaker 1: in when you were previously sheriff, you were on the
Speaker 1: fifty five KRSE morning show regularly and you always talked
Speaker 1: about how important that was and what greater illustration than
Speaker 1: what we saw with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: You see how many different law enforcement agencies have to
Speaker 1: work together to get you know, as a well low
Speaker 1: machine for one event. I mean, with a dangerous landscape
Speaker 1: we find ourselves in. You got FBI Director Ray talking
Speaker 1: about terrorist activity likely h and he's worried about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the kind of thing that's really
Speaker 1: really important. Has that element of law enforcement within the
Speaker 1: Hamilton County Sheriff's Office been lost under the current administration?
Speaker 3: Jim, yes, it has. The motto of the Hamilton County
Speaker 3: Police Association is cooperation and operation, And our federal partners
Speaker 3: even tell us that about law enforcement Hamilton County. They're
Speaker 3: really impressed on.
Speaker 2: How while we work together.
Speaker 3: So it's equally important for the sheriff to work with
Speaker 3: all of law enforcement, to share resources including excuse me,
Speaker 3: human resources, and to participate in the task force to
Speaker 3: create task force to deal with the trends. It's a
Speaker 3: force multiplier, Brian, when you do that, because no one
Speaker 3: agency will bear the burden of financing that task force.
Speaker 3: If I have two deputies in a task force, my
Speaker 3: budget's covering those two deputies. But they're working with other
Speaker 3: law enforcement solving some of of of the worst that's
Speaker 3: going on in our county today. Because as you remember,
Speaker 3: we started the Heroin Task Force in Hamilton County and
Speaker 3: and the also one of my first task force that
Speaker 3: I formed was to deal with the homeless population living
Speaker 3: on the county campus. And then I had task force
Speaker 3: with the State of Ohio, the Human Trafficking Task Force.
Speaker 3: I had task force with the US March Marshals, the
Speaker 3: Fugitive Task Force. I had a task force with uh
Speaker 3: you know, involved in a task force, a collaboration with
Speaker 3: the FBI with terrorism and also with computer crimes. We
Speaker 3: were out there looking for them predators that are the
Speaker 3: victimizing our youth and other computer related crime. Brian, and
Speaker 3: I had taskforce with Homeland Security, and the list goes
Speaker 3: on and on and on. I had taskforce with the
Speaker 3: private sector. I had I had a collaboration with Hope
Speaker 3: Dudley circulating playing cards in the county jail. Each card
Speaker 3: had a face of a of a murdered UH A
Speaker 3: victim in Greater Cincinnati in that crime. That homicide has
Speaker 3: not been solved.
Speaker 2: Yet the program.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and with that collaboration, I was informed by our
Speaker 3: detectives that while I was still share, five of them
Speaker 3: cold cases were solved. And you know, that's why it's
Speaker 3: important to form UH that you know, to embrace this
Speaker 3: cooperation and operation and to collaborate with public and private sector.
Speaker 3: And it's just a win win and it's a force multiplier,
Speaker 3: especially now when there's fewer of us in law enforcement.
Speaker 3: We need to work together to combat the criminal element.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the criminal element, before we part company today,
Speaker 1: Jim Neil, what is the status of crime in Hamilton County?
Speaker 1: I get the impression it's not good, but again, not
Speaker 1: a whole lot of local reporting to give us a
Speaker 1: broader picture of how things currently stand. Your take on
Speaker 1: this current situation, Jim.
Speaker 3: Yes, there is. It is not good, and the population
Speaker 3: of the county is you're going to see an increase
Speaker 3: because Cincinnati is a sanctuary city and what that means
Speaker 3: to the foreign nationals is Cincinnati is a place that
Speaker 3: opens their arm to receive them. And the current sheriff
Speaker 3: has expanded the sanctuary city and has made the county
Speaker 3: a sanctuary county now, so the entire region has been
Speaker 3: affected by this sanctuary status and the foreign nationals are
Speaker 3: being protected. And instead of dealt with accordingly, I will
Speaker 3: tell you that as Sheriff, any foreign national that is
Speaker 3: arrested for violating our crimes, they will be reported to
Speaker 3: Immigration and Customs Enforcement also known as ICE, so they
Speaker 3: can begin their investigation. And when these offenders are released
Speaker 3: from our county jail by way of making bond or
Speaker 3: if they serve their sentence, ICE will be notified of
Speaker 3: the release and we will hold them up for an
Speaker 3: additional forty eight hours for ICE to respond to interview
Speaker 3: these individuals and also or take custom city of them
Speaker 3: and prep them for deportation. And and and there's a
Speaker 3: uh and that's not happening today. When they make bond
Speaker 3: there being released, are they sticking around for court? No,
Speaker 3: they're not Brian because they're very organized criminals. They're here
Speaker 3: victimizing you and your neighbors. They're well equipped and they're
Speaker 3: well funded and they're well represented legally. We have we
Speaker 3: did enough problems with our own homegrown criminals. We don't
Speaker 3: need other countries criminals. So as sheriff, I'm going to
Speaker 3: be working with it UH, with the President and UH
Speaker 3: the Vice President on their mission of making America safe
Speaker 3: safer again, and I will be working with immigration and
Speaker 3: custom Enforcement to get the the evil deported out of here.
Speaker 2: Jim Neil, find them online.
Speaker 1: Vote Jimneil dot com that you got yourself some votes
Speaker 1: right there, Jim. They talk about upholding the law. Jim,
Speaker 1: I wish you all the best. You have a form
Speaker 1: here on the fifty five KRC Morning Show and access
Speaker 1: to my listeners anytime you want.
Speaker 2: It's always great here in your message.
Speaker 1: And I'll keep my fingers crossed for the residents of
Speaker 1: Hamilton County that they choose you over all. We've got
Speaker 1: currently got when they vote in November, Jim, until we
Speaker 1: talk against stay well, have a wonderful weekend, and best
Speaker 1: to health you and your loved ones.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and God bless you and your listeners.
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