Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome this Thursday afternoon
Speaker 1: of the tri State.
Speaker 2: The government has opened.
Speaker 1: The Democrats have suddenly said, Okay, let's have TSA workers
Speaker 1: not sleep in their cars. Let's make sure the food
Speaker 1: stamps get out to people. We're gonna pay the We're
Speaker 1: gonna pay TSA. We're gonna pay the air traffic controllers
Speaker 1: at the expense of the insurance companies getting all the
Speaker 1: money under Obamacare. But that's a different issue. As you
Speaker 1: may know, there's many, many problems in River City. One
Speaker 1: of them is on short Vine. Another one is babies
Speaker 1: and boxes. And Brian Hamrick's on top of both stories.
Speaker 1: And Brian Hamrick, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: And Brian, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good. Thanks again, mister Cunningham.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about short Vine this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Because I saw one of the captains and CPD gave
Speaker 1: me a shot spotter detail about in the last month,
Speaker 1: what are the shots being fired in Cincinnati? As if
Speaker 1: a white piece of paper was in front of me,
Speaker 1: and I took a bunch of black pepper and shook
Speaker 1: it all over the paper. There's thousands of thousands of
Speaker 1: shots being fired, and that doesn't count the other to
Speaker 1: bacherous misbehavior. Short Vine right against UC campus. And you've
Speaker 1: done stories on moms and dads not feeling comfortable their
Speaker 1: kids going to the University of Cincinnati because of the
Speaker 1: robberies because the car break ins, guns are everywhere. But
Speaker 1: now it's metastasized a little bit off campus to short Vine. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, for those listening in Iowa, describe short Vine.
Speaker 1: Then we'll talk about the failure of parents to keep
Speaker 1: their kids off Short Vine. At two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: Please give the American people a full report.
Speaker 3: Well, short Vine is what one block over from UC
Speaker 3: main campus if you go down Jefferson right where you
Speaker 3: go into the all the sports sporting events there, you know,
Speaker 3: you go into with basketball, the football, baseball, all of
Speaker 3: that just across from there. It's it's it's really it's
Speaker 3: not officially a part of the u SEE campus, but
Speaker 3: it is a part of the u SEE community. Uh,
Speaker 3: And so all the students come over this way a
Speaker 3: lot of times, especially if there's a sporting event, you
Speaker 3: have to park over here where you want to or
Speaker 3: not and walk through the area. And uh, you know,
Speaker 3: we have talked to. You talk to any of the students, anybody,
Speaker 3: they know that this area is trouble. And you talk
Speaker 3: to the business owners down here, they'll tell you the
Speaker 3: same thing. You know, and some are saying it's as
Speaker 3: bad as they've ever seen it. Now, short minds had
Speaker 3: its issues over the years. But you know, just a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago, they're videos circulated.
Speaker 2: We had it.
Speaker 3: You can see it on our website. Somebody's firing off
Speaker 3: a gun. People are running, there's a crowd of people.
Speaker 3: Somebody just opens fire. Everybody's running. I did the story
Speaker 3: not long ago. Down in front of a liquor store,
Speaker 3: a fifteen year old goes to rob another guy, a
Speaker 3: guy we had incidentally interviewed a couple of weeks before,
Speaker 3: just as a random person who observed another crime somewhere.
Speaker 3: He's standing outside this liquor store, all caught on camera.
Speaker 3: The kid goes to rob him. He pulls the gun
Speaker 3: on the victim. What he doesn't realize this victim he
Speaker 3: has his own gun. So they're in a big shootout,
Speaker 3: people everywhere. You can see him scattered there, you know.
Speaker 3: So the victim gets shot to death. The fifteen year
Speaker 3: old shot as well, but he survived, and so that
Speaker 3: case is still in the courtroom. And there have been
Speaker 3: all kinds of other there's other ones that don't even
Speaker 3: go reported. Kids that have been attacked. We just talked
Speaker 3: to the mother of UC student who's been attacked two
Speaker 3: times walking out here. So city council today is going
Speaker 3: to try and do something. Uh. They're going to enact
Speaker 3: as curfew. Uh. You know, if you talk to business
Speaker 3: owners down here, they think what's happening is they did
Speaker 3: that crack down down by Fountain Square and all that. Well,
Speaker 3: these these folks that create problems, they go somewhere, they're
Speaker 3: going to be somewhere, and a lot of people think
Speaker 3: they're just up here. So we've got sort of a
Speaker 3: whack a mole problem going on. And so we're gonna
Speaker 3: whack the mole up here and see if and see
Speaker 3: if that works. But you know, who knows if it's
Speaker 3: going to have any effect at all. But it looks
Speaker 3: like uh here in just a couple of hours the
Speaker 3: uh if city council is going to vote to try
Speaker 3: and do something up here, and right now their answer
Speaker 3: is a curfew, uh for the middle of the.
Speaker 1: Eyes kind of queue the red box, get rid of
Speaker 1: the food trucks. Let's have a curfew. I watched Chief
Speaker 1: Isaac Are retired as the chief of police from CPD.
Speaker 1: Now's the chief of police and U see, and he
Speaker 1: said that it's ridiculous when you we have ten to
Speaker 1: eleven twelve year olds, thirteen year olds running around committing
Speaker 1: mayhem at two o'clock in the morning, and when the
Speaker 1: weather is good, it's worse than the weather is bad.
Speaker 1: You had a couple of us, these students two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: thought it might be a good idea to get a pizza.
Speaker 2: I think for meos.
Speaker 1: They're walking out with a large pepperoni pizza and a
Speaker 1: gang of six or seven kids got around him and
Speaker 1: they didn't want to give them the pizza, and so
Speaker 1: the gang of six kids beat the crap at him,
Speaker 1: kicked him in the head, broken bones everywhere, and the
Speaker 1: robbers got the pizza, running down short Vine trying to
Speaker 1: eat a slice of pizza.
Speaker 2: And so it's absurd.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, And what we need is a functional juvenile
Speaker 1: court system that when you catch these kids, there's consequences.
Speaker 1: There's that thirteen year old who murdered someone who's going
Speaker 1: to be held in Jubie Court till twenty one. Then
Speaker 1: he's going to be released. And there's not a statute
Speaker 1: under fourteen to deal with murder. We don't have laws
Speaker 1: that even deal with ten, eleven, twelve year olds committing
Speaker 1: arm robberies.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: And I want to know where is my where is dad?
Speaker 1: Where's the social constraints on bad human behavior? And uh
Speaker 1: with the weather nice tonight and tomorrow is gonna be
Speaker 1: a problem.
Speaker 3: It's uh, it has uh in a lot of these kids.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: This has become part of the uh of the culture.
Speaker 3: It's celebrated in song and dance and music and the
Speaker 3: tenements of this and this isn't This doesn't just come
Speaker 3: from me. This comes from the folks who are down
Speaker 3: here in these neighborhoods. You know they know it as
Speaker 3: well that you know it's uh. You'll hear it in
Speaker 3: their music, for example, you'll hear these uh these songs
Speaker 3: and the and the lyrics are all killed. The cops,
Speaker 3: beat the women, UH, take the money, smoke the dope,
Speaker 3: and and that you're that that those are the tenements
Speaker 3: the ability, and then they aspire to be these thugs
Speaker 3: that they see standing on the corner, right, And it's
Speaker 3: because I mean, the sons have done great marketing. I
Speaker 3: gotta give him that. You know, the city ought to
Speaker 3: see tire those guys and say, hey, what are you
Speaker 3: doing to attract youth? Because at the end of the
Speaker 3: rainbow there is no there is nothing. There's nothing for him.
Speaker 3: There's jail or they're getting shot to death, you know,
Speaker 3: or getting out of it somehow. That that's what's really there.
Speaker 3: But but nobody's dispelled the myth that they're gonna be
Speaker 3: a big wheel and there's some sort of al Capone figure. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, that's you know, there's some grandiose lifestyle. You know,
Speaker 3: at best, a guy gets about a week and a
Speaker 3: car he paid for him cash with speakers blasting their
Speaker 3: theme music, riding through the sounds of Cincinnati. That's the guy. Like,
Speaker 3: he gets about a week of that, maybe a month, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then he's shot to death or thrown in jail
Speaker 3: or something happened to him. But but you know, there's
Speaker 3: nobody living the high life. You know, if they are,
Speaker 3: I don't see them. What I see are the dead people.
Speaker 3: Those are the ones who you see.
Speaker 2: Like boat guards, etc.
Speaker 1: Is always a market, it is kind of an ovank guard,
Speaker 1: kind of a music theater venue. But the actual business
Speaker 1: owners don't want to come on camera and talk, do they.
Speaker 3: No. We've talked to a number of folks up here.
Speaker 3: I just I'm up one short vine as we speak
Speaker 3: and just talking to people and they're like, yeah, nah,
Speaker 3: you know what. I don't think I better, but but
Speaker 3: I think it's a good idea that they do something.
Speaker 3: But people are afraid. They're afraid. They don't want any
Speaker 3: kind of repercussions because if you stand out, you might
Speaker 3: get a lightning bolt. We're not done trying to catch
Speaker 3: up with folks. Hopefully we'll get somebody today, one of
Speaker 3: these business owners. But they'll tell us all, you know,
Speaker 3: off camera. They're willing to tell us, you know, hey,
Speaker 3: look something's got to be done. It's crazy. I think
Speaker 3: Chief Isaac said, look, it don't even count the violent crime,
Speaker 3: but just the chaos that's going on. That's the way
Speaker 3: he put it. So you know it's happening, and there's
Speaker 3: you know, it's just a lot of activity up here,
Speaker 3: and you know, we're fortunately that it hasn't gotten worse
Speaker 3: with like I said, when you got somebody unloading guns, Yes, yoh, well,
Speaker 3: I mean you've got people unloading guns when there are
Speaker 3: dozens of people standing around. You could have one of
Speaker 3: these situations where you've got multiple people shot and killed.
Speaker 3: You know, Like, I was amazed that when these two
Speaker 3: the guy who got killed pulled the gun and shot back.
Speaker 3: That when there's people sitting everywhere, how the bullets missed
Speaker 3: all those other people? I have no idea, because they
Speaker 3: both basically unloaded their weapons and those bullets were flying everywhere.
Speaker 3: It's like the OK Corral out there.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not fair to the OK Corral.
Speaker 1: And lastly, on this topic, before we talk about babies
Speaker 1: and boxes, uh, the superintendent of schoolers came home with
Speaker 1: slowly a couple of weeks ago. There's about five thousand
Speaker 1: kids in cps that are homeless, five thousand boys and
Speaker 1: little girls living in cars, and another five thousand are
Speaker 1: English second language kids. That and then you have a
Speaker 1: chronic absentee rate of forty seven percent and seventy one
Speaker 1: percent of black boys are chronically absent. You put all
Speaker 1: that together and you got a recipe for total cultural collapse.
Speaker 2: Secondly, I got to get to this. You did a great.
Speaker 1: Story on babies and boxes and I saw this, and
Speaker 1: I said, I heard the number. One hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: newly born babies put in boxes in fire departments another
Speaker 1: example of collapse of our culture.
Speaker 2: Explain that story.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they put these they call them, they're the
Speaker 3: ones they use around here mostly are called the safe
Speaker 3: haven baby boxes. And so you have these moms who,
Speaker 3: you know, they're stuck in a bad spot and they
Speaker 3: they don't know what to do, and so they've opened
Speaker 3: this up and then anonymously you can drop the baby
Speaker 3: in this box and at the fire station the alarm
Speaker 3: goes off. Don't have these things for years, and you know,
Speaker 3: kind of forget that they got it, and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, that's what they had in Union Township.
Speaker 3: Somebody puts a baby in a box. They know nothing
Speaker 3: about where the baby came from. It was a healthy baby,
Speaker 3: and now that baby's on the road to a whole
Speaker 3: different life. That was in a Union Township. They don't
Speaker 3: give a specific day or time when that was, but
Speaker 3: it was very recent and last week or two weeks
Speaker 3: they had the baby drop there. And meanwhile in Hamilton
Speaker 3: they were putting in a brand new baby box. Just
Speaker 3: you know, someday somebody's gonna use it, you know. And
Speaker 3: so these moms who feel they got no other choice,
Speaker 3: nowhere else to go.
Speaker 1: I know, they could have bored it and killed the baby,
Speaker 1: and they didn't do that. And so it used to
Speaker 1: be a felony to do it. Now it's no harm,
Speaker 1: no foul for the mother.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, no, huh, they're no charges. They don't even
Speaker 3: you know, want to know who the mom is. They
Speaker 3: just want the baby to be safe. That's their main goal.
Speaker 3: And I talked to the woman, she's out of Indiana
Speaker 3: who started this. There's like somehow I think she said
Speaker 3: three hundred This was a three hundred and ninety fifth
Speaker 3: baby box, the one in Hamilton. They got them all
Speaker 3: through Texas and everywhere. Uh, And they have had seventy
Speaker 3: babies since they started the program put in the boxes,
Speaker 3: and one hundred and seventy eight that women, just moms,
Speaker 3: came to the fire station where they have the baby box.
Speaker 3: They didn't put it in a box. They just handed
Speaker 3: it over to the firefighters there though, and said, you know,
Speaker 3: take care of the baby. And so they put it
Speaker 3: in with the child services and then you know, they
Speaker 3: find a home for it. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 3: the one in Union Township didn't already didn't already place.
Speaker 3: Or you know, there are people that are waiting for babies,
Speaker 3: hoping to get you know, a healthy baby, right and
Speaker 3: you know can't have kids and all that. So, like
Speaker 3: you said, it's a you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 3: it's a program that you know is working. Like you
Speaker 3: said that it should certainly be the alternative because you
Speaker 3: know what the folks who have these boxes and put
Speaker 3: them in say, you know, you know, it gives women
Speaker 3: an opportunity to do something rather than the alternative, which
Speaker 3: often is not a good choice to make.
Speaker 1: And for those who may be caught in this about
Speaker 1: a minute remaining, those might be women that are caught
Speaker 1: in this no harm, no foul, And you don't know
Speaker 1: who the mother is. And I guess down the road
Speaker 1: in fifteen or twenty years somebody a mother could pop
Speaker 1: up and say, where's my child? I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: no identifiers, correct, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, they they say there's no identification to it. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure how they do that. If it happened. I
Speaker 3: don't know that they've been in there well enough to
Speaker 3: have had anybody come back and say, hey, you know,
Speaker 3: let's reconsider this. I'm not sure what the procedures are
Speaker 3: are for that, if they did have that, But but
Speaker 3: the whole idea is that it's an anonymous it's an
Speaker 3: anonymous uh uh drop that you drop the baby and
Speaker 3: nobody is like, no questions asked, ass you know, and
Speaker 3: and that's the way they set it up to be.
Speaker 1: So now we'll see but or whatever. It's sad, it's
Speaker 1: sick and it's good. It's one of those things in life.
Speaker 1: It's sick, but it's sad, but it's good because it
Speaker 1: is so easy to kill baby in uterot today. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's organizations like Planned Parentode making millions of dollars through
Speaker 1: that terrible business. At least mothers have the you know,
Speaker 1: it's not easy, of course delivering a child. But well,
Speaker 1: once it's done, to recognize I can't handle this as
Speaker 1: a positive. We'll see what happens at two o'clock with
Speaker 1: short vine and that's a game of whack a mole.
Speaker 1: And if that is shut down, back to the central
Speaker 1: business district here, there and everywhere. And I won't stop
Speaker 1: until parents are responsible and juveniles are held accountable. The
Speaker 1: police need to arrest, the prosecutor needs to prosecute, and
Speaker 1: the judge needs a sentence, and it has to be consequences.
Speaker 1: And right now you can kill, murder, rape, rob and
Speaker 1: there's no consequence because we have a juvenile court system
Speaker 1: like Harry Bloom, the judge there who give book reports
Speaker 1: and say don't do it again and apologize and out
Speaker 1: you go again. It's a revolving door. There's about a
Speaker 1: few hundred needs to be taken off the streets to
Speaker 1: save a few hundred thousand, and until that happens, for nowhere,
Speaker 1: but I'll be watching tonight for the story about short Vine.
Speaker 1: Brian Hamrick, once again, thank you for coming on the
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian, Thanks again, mister Cunningham.
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