Speaker 1: Also here in the tri State, and of course the
Speaker 1: Bengals teed up on Sunday with the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2: God knows what's going to happen with that.
Speaker 1: Plus it was discovered yesterday by some enterprising reporters with
Speaker 1: The Inquirer that Frost Brown is going to be paid
Speaker 1: between forty and one hundred thousand dollars a bunch of
Speaker 1: money to investigate the chief of police for wrongdoing, to
Speaker 1: give the mayor a reason for what he did. The
Speaker 1: mayor indirectly but through share along the city manager fire
Speaker 1: Chief of Police Thiji, and now the mayor and the
Speaker 1: city manager wants to our big time law firm to
Speaker 1: discover why the mayor did what he did. Joining me
Speaker 1: now with this and so many of the other issues
Speaker 1: since the Sheriff of Butler County, Richard K. Jones and
Speaker 1: Sheriff welcome again to the Bill Cunningham showing first of
Speaker 1: all as an outside observer looking at the mess on
Speaker 1: city Council as an outside observer of what's happening. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine the police chief who's been a cop for
Speaker 1: like thirty five years, her family have been ops for
Speaker 1: like one hundred years, standing next to the mayor for
Speaker 1: news conference after news conference after news conference in which
Speaker 1: everyone's on the same page, share long the city manager
Speaker 1: who's completely incompetent, and then the mayor who's way over
Speaker 1: his skis, and the chief is standing there, and the
Speaker 1: three of them agree that they're doing what's right. They're
Speaker 1: holding down crime. There's all kind of transparency, and at
Speaker 1: no point did the mayor indicate the chief of police
Speaker 1: was somehow on her own. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: election gets close, the mayor needs a scapegoat, and the
Speaker 1: escapegoat is a woman named Teresa Thiji. So, as a
Speaker 1: law enforcement official with some forty years, you've been in
Speaker 1: law enforcement about as long as I've been in radio,
Speaker 1: how do you perceive the behavior of the elected officials
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati when they want to dump everything onto the
Speaker 1: shoulders of Fiji? When she did what the mayor wanted
Speaker 1: her to do.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Look, she's a great person, great family, great background,
Speaker 3: good people, and the people that she worked four or
Speaker 3: the worst, the worst of the worst. Your mayor is
Speaker 3: a goof and and he's running in a race, and
Speaker 3: what they do is they sacrifice people. He has no
Speaker 3: idea what's going on.
Speaker 4: She's not.
Speaker 3: She wasn't allowed to fix anything. And then you got
Speaker 3: the sheriff that's sitting on the empty cells because the
Speaker 3: courts won't put him in jail, and it's the prosecutor.
Speaker 3: You got a perfect storm, and they're all blaming it
Speaker 3: on the police chief. I know her, I know her well.
Speaker 3: Like I said, she was never allowed to do her
Speaker 3: job because of these goofs, these incompetence. But that's who
Speaker 3: they elect down there. How would you like to be
Speaker 3: a business downtown? Restaurant, Rubies, all these restaurants and look
Speaker 3: and those people donate to these people's campaign thousands of dollars,
Speaker 3: and who the hell would want to go to Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: I'm not one of them, And I'm.
Speaker 3: Just telling you it's a terrible situation. The people that
Speaker 3: have businesses downtown, Who the hell would want to go
Speaker 3: to Fountain Square where they shoot people. It's terrible. Those
Speaker 3: businesses have to be feeling it, and they're going to
Speaker 3: continue to feel it because what they'll do is they'll
Speaker 3: do a national search. They'll find some they'll find some
Speaker 3: goof somewhere that's been fired like forty two times, and
Speaker 3: they'll bring them to Cincinnati, like.
Speaker 4: These big cities, and it'll be.
Speaker 3: The same thing, turnover after turnover after turnover. They don't Hey,
Speaker 3: the courts won't put them. They have a no cash bond.
Speaker 3: Everybody goes free. The jails sitting on empty beds, and
Speaker 3: you've got a sanctuary city. You got everything that can
Speaker 3: go wrong. They have debt out the ass, they owe money.
Speaker 4: They don't. Butler County we have no debt none. We're
Speaker 4: building a brand new.
Speaker 3: Disc at center and more for the corner combined together
Speaker 3: thirty five million dollars.
Speaker 4: Look, and they paid cash for it. There's no debt.
Speaker 3: They're sitting all probably one hundred and seventy one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy million to the good.
Speaker 4: All good.
Speaker 3: We have one commissioner that's kind of a goof, that's Carpenter.
Speaker 3: But other than that, here in Butler County, we're doing good.
Speaker 2: Sheriff.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine just on the city pension Cincinnati one
Speaker 1: hundred years ago had his own pension system before PRS
Speaker 1: was ever created, and the shortfall on the city pension
Speaker 1: system is well over a billion dollars. Now to a
Speaker 1: little city like Cincinnati, a billion dollars, maybe a trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: On top of that, they spent years telling the police chief,
Speaker 1: do not enforce the law. In other words, we have
Speaker 1: situations of speeding in dui and reckless operation. We have
Speaker 1: situation open air drug use, homelessness, drug encampments, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And the chief if the police is told by Scotti
Speaker 1: Johnson on city council and by Cheryl Long, the city manager,
Speaker 1: who's completely over her head, do not enforce the law
Speaker 1: because too many people arrested look like us. So not
Speaker 1: going to arrest people because of the color of their skin.
Speaker 1: That's called racism. So here you got a proud member
Speaker 1: of the Neville family. The Nevills have been police officers
Speaker 1: for like seventy five years. She comes in and wants
Speaker 1: to enforce the law. She said, well, you can't walk
Speaker 1: around Washington Park smoking pot, and you can't be intervening
Speaker 1: drug using. You've got to get the homelesses off the streets.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to reclassify a shooting in which
Speaker 1: bullets go through a car as property damage as a misdemeanor.
Speaker 1: I want to classify that as a felony. Well, the
Speaker 1: mayor and the city manager won't let her, and so
Speaker 1: they reclassify offenses, they ignore criminal violations. And now not
Speaker 1: about what about a week ago when the city manager
Speaker 1: supposedly fired I think it's called administrative lee, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be fired.
Speaker 2: Teresa Thiji, the.
Speaker 1: Mayor, said it's time we start arresting people for misdemeanors.
Speaker 1: I would think it is a basic tenement of law enforcement. Now,
Speaker 1: when you see somebody in your presence committing a drug offense,
Speaker 1: do you tell your man and women of Butler County
Speaker 1: if you see somebody walking around the streets you having
Speaker 1: a needle in their arm or living in a homeless
Speaker 1: encampment in downtown Hamilton? Do you see somebody smoking pot
Speaker 1: walking around? What do you tell your many women to
Speaker 1: do in uniform?
Speaker 4: Hey, we do what we're supposed to. We're supposed to
Speaker 4: keep everybody safe.
Speaker 3: You're not allowed to do that. It's against the law. Hey,
Speaker 3: you go to jail and you only have to do that. Listen,
Speaker 3: you only have to do that a little bit, Bill,
Speaker 3: they'll go somewhere else. We try to tell them, go
Speaker 3: to Cincinnati. They got everything there, They got the best
Speaker 3: welfare system in the world. They'll give you free money,
Speaker 3: they won't put you in jail. You can lay on
Speaker 3: the streets do whatever you want. You can do those
Speaker 3: race car things where you close the highway down, ro
Speaker 3: test and block the bridges off. But don't go to
Speaker 3: Kentucky because they'll whip your ass put you in jail. Yes, hey,
Speaker 3: you made us a mistake crossing that bridge. But listen,
Speaker 3: they had a good police chief. They have the best
Speaker 3: police department in the United States, one of the best.
Speaker 4: I know them. They're not allowed to do their job.
Speaker 4: Can't blame them. They're so screwed up.
Speaker 3: And like I said, empty beds in jail because the
Speaker 3: judges won't put them in jail. Everybody gets bonded out
Speaker 3: before they get the paperwork done. It's sanctuary city. But again,
Speaker 3: the businesses downtown are suffering.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 3: Hey, the word is don't go there. You get turned
Speaker 3: around and get on the wrong street. Hey, you're going
Speaker 3: to get shot, You're going to get beat down, and
Speaker 3: if you try to defend yourself, you will be indicted
Speaker 3: and charged with a crime for being a victim. Terrible
Speaker 3: national news and embarrassment. The mayor should resign immediately. One
Speaker 3: of the worst mayors I've ever seen. He should quit
Speaker 3: like yesterday.
Speaker 1: Let me give a little story about Judge Josh Berkowitz
Speaker 1: had them on twice since Labor Day. Every day as
Speaker 1: the administrative judge presiding Judge Heimlic County Municipal Court, he
Speaker 1: gets a availability of beds available in the jail because
Speaker 1: the judges, you might recall when my wife was on
Speaker 1: the bench about ten fifteen years ago, there was a
Speaker 1: movement of foot by Sean Donovan by side lease.
Speaker 2: We had to build another jail.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: The cost was going to be one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: and there'd be a five year sales tax increase of
Speaker 1: a half a percent that would sunset after five years
Speaker 1: to raise one hundred million in order to build a
Speaker 1: brand new jail in addition the one we have now.
Speaker 1: Because they were double betting and judges were told in
Speaker 1: the morning penny would get something at eight a m.
Speaker 1: In the morning, we can't accept any prisoners today, and
Speaker 1: so you have to act tough on the bench. You
Speaker 1: had to say, well, don't do that again. But you
Speaker 1: couldn't send these gang bangers and criminals to jail because
Speaker 1: the jail said we won't accept them. That's how things
Speaker 1: function to fifteen years ago. And now let's fast forward
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty five. Josh Berkowitz, running for reelection, says
Speaker 1: he gets that update every day. Between two and four
Speaker 1: hundred beds are available every day in amer County jail.
Speaker 1: And this isn't Charmaine mcguffey's fault because she doesn't sendence
Speaker 1: people to jail. The judges in Hamleton County, half of
Speaker 1: them are liberal Democrats who believe in something called restorative justice.
Speaker 1: I see campaign literature of Democrats restorative justice, and they
Speaker 1: don't think people should go to jail. We have a horrible,
Speaker 1: lousy juvenile court judge named Bloom, Carrie Bloom, who who
Speaker 1: thinks especially black boys should not be sent to jail
Speaker 1: because of reparations and restorative justice.
Speaker 2: So instead of.
Speaker 1: Him, we have more crime, more shots fired, more victims,
Speaker 1: more robberies, more drug sales, more breaking into cars, more
Speaker 1: stolen cars than we've ever had, and we have fewer
Speaker 1: people in the jail proportionally we've ever had. And so
Speaker 1: half the judges are Republican. Half the judges are If
Speaker 1: you get in front of a Democrat judge, and as
Speaker 1: an experienced criminal defense attorney, you know how to work
Speaker 1: the case to get in front of one of these judges.
Speaker 1: When I practice law actively, i'd look in room may
Speaker 1: who's coming up the weeks ahead, and I try to
Speaker 1: get me an easy sentencing judge. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go in front of Judge Crush. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go in front of Judge Matthews or Judge I didn't
Speaker 1: want to go in front of any of the tough judges.
Speaker 2: I want to go in front of the easy ones.
Speaker 2: You work the.
Speaker 1: System to make sure your client is sentenced by an
Speaker 1: easy judge.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so when you have two to three one hundred
Speaker 1: empty beds, that is chaos, Sheriff, that is absolute chaos.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, the city is known for that right now.
Speaker 3: It's really sad. And again that's who these people elect,
Speaker 3: and it's going to continue to be that way. The
Speaker 3: business is downtown until they get the nerve to start
Speaker 3: firing these people not supporting them and get people in there.
Speaker 4: They give them happy talk, Hey, we're going to fix it.
Speaker 4: We're going to get in the new police chief. Man
Speaker 4: want to fix anything.
Speaker 3: They'll get some person that's been fired from some other
Speaker 3: department somewhere else. Probably won't hire anybody from within at all.
Speaker 3: They'll go outside and they'll find some person that will
Speaker 3: be like what they want them to do, and they.
Speaker 4: Will do it.
Speaker 3: Listen, you're absolutely correct as far as trying to judge
Speaker 3: shop people that are listening to your station right now.
Speaker 3: When you were in college, you didn't pick the hard
Speaker 3: the hardest professor. You went down, Hey, this one's hard,
Speaker 3: that one's no, I'm going to go to this one. Hey,
Speaker 3: you don't have to do but one term paper. They
Speaker 3: don't come very often.
Speaker 4: They're liberal.
Speaker 3: That's who you picked. When you were in college. You
Speaker 3: didn't pick the hardest one. Same with the judges they picked.
Speaker 3: They judge shop. It's not rocket science, but the system
Speaker 3: is so broke. The mayor, the city council, the city
Speaker 3: manager all broke down. Listen, I tell people here in
Speaker 3: Butler County, we're so fortunate. We're a thirty minute drive
Speaker 3: maybe twenty five from downtown since right totally different here.
Speaker 3: We got jails, we got judges, prosecutors, good police departments,
Speaker 3: and we run it here. That's why people want to
Speaker 3: come here. Thirty minute drives from here, downtown Hamilton, Butler County,
Speaker 3: the county seat to total chaos. Thirty minute drive. That's
Speaker 3: how if we were like Cincinnati, we would have the
Speaker 3: same issues. But we are not sure.
Speaker 1: If you've been accused of the social activist online that
Speaker 1: you are monetizing and making money off illegals, can you
Speaker 1: tell the American people how much money the Feds are
Speaker 1: paying you in Butler County to house inmates in the
Speaker 1: Butler County jail. I'd say, on a yearly basis, how
Speaker 1: much money are you is to county getting.
Speaker 3: Hey, we're going to bring in twenty two million next year.
Speaker 3: In the last twenty twenty years we bought in over
Speaker 3: two hundred and the next this year, next year, and
Speaker 3: into twenty seven, we're going to bring in a quarter
Speaker 3: of a billion with a b a quarter of a
Speaker 3: billion dollars. And that's what we're bringing into the county here. Now,
Speaker 3: do we get paid to bring prisoners here? Sure we do.
Speaker 3: We don't do it for free. We work with ICE.
Speaker 3: We lock people up. The ICE goes with us. We
Speaker 3: don't have the authority to make the arrest on ICE charges,
Speaker 3: but ICE goes with us or thereby phone where we
Speaker 3: make contact, they put the charges on them.
Speaker 4: We go out with them to assist them. And we
Speaker 4: help them.
Speaker 3: We don't let them throw rocks at the police here.
Speaker 3: We don't let them spit on the police here. You
Speaker 3: can spit on the police, but you go to the
Speaker 3: hospital first, then you'll.
Speaker 4: Come to jail.
Speaker 3: You throw a rock at us or a brick, you're
Speaker 3: liable to get shot. So and if you jump in
Speaker 3: front of a car of one of our citizens here,
Speaker 3: they'll probably run over you. That's what happens. That's the difference.
Speaker 3: It's the difference there. Thirty minute drive and do we
Speaker 3: keep our communities. Yes, we've probably arrested a hunt probably
Speaker 3: ice with us.
Speaker 4: ICE is probably.
Speaker 3: Arrested one hundred and fifty illegals Aaron, Butler County.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, sounds to me like you're monetizing the
Speaker 1: misery of others. According to the social activists, they don't
Speaker 1: like the idea that you're housing these criminals. Claremont County
Speaker 1: is starting to do the same thing in Boone County
Speaker 1: and you're talking about a quarter of a billion dollars
Speaker 1: in Butler County. That's a crap load of money, and
Speaker 1: it's housing individuals that are they're not with you long
Speaker 1: You a might have a hearing, might not and they're
Speaker 1: they're in and they're.
Speaker 4: Out three weeks.
Speaker 3: That's how long they stay because there is no federal
Speaker 3: jail space other than what county jails.
Speaker 4: And we're doing our part. Seventy eight percent of America.
Speaker 3: Once these people shipped out, that's who they voted for.
Speaker 3: Democrat and Republican. And the activists that come here don't
Speaker 3: want you to make any arrest. But listen, they're here.
Speaker 3: They're here illegally. I've seen something today. I haven't verified
Speaker 3: it that fifty million illegals that are in the United States,
Speaker 3: fifty million over so many years get welfare. Fifty men
Speaker 3: and so trying. The Democrats are trying to get it
Speaker 3: to where they can get this bill open. The government
Speaker 3: back up only if that continues to give health care
Speaker 3: to the illegals.
Speaker 1: Thirty seconds remaining. How long would it take Sheriff First
Speaker 1: Richard K. Jones to clean up the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Hey, I said six months earlier. I could do it
Speaker 3: in three months. They'd have to give me a contract.
Speaker 3: I'd have to be able to keep my job as
Speaker 3: the sheriff and Butler County I could fix that. The
Speaker 3: police would love me. All law enforcement would love me.
Speaker 3: I would get with the judges, I'd get with the prosecutor,
Speaker 3: do the best I can. We would make a rest.
Speaker 3: We would flood the courts, and we'd run people off
Speaker 3: the streets, and all the punks and thugs, we'd run
Speaker 3: them off, juveniles.
Speaker 2: Everything would be over.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to maybe the city manager. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna see if I get you appointed the interim police chief.
Speaker 2: Would you like that?
Speaker 4: Hey? For three months and a contract and.
Speaker 3: A cutting fires and we'd have to get with the
Speaker 3: prosecutor here to make sure I could keep my job
Speaker 3: here as the share well, do both very easily.
Speaker 1: Richard K. Jones, you're the best there is. Thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Shaw. I'm gona start promoting
Speaker 1: you to become the chief of Police of the City
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Hey, the police would allow it.
Speaker 1: Got sheriff, thank you, the chief of Police, Richard K. Jones,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. See here, Matt, all right, let's
Speaker 1: continue with more now that would be something to cover
Speaker 1: on news radio seven hundred.
Speaker 5: Rising downtown violence and political pressure have catalyzed the chaos
Speaker 5: regarding the Cincinnati police chief. While the interim chief steadies
Speaker 5: the ship will community leaders turn to a tried and
Speaker 5: true veteran to become police chief permanently, or will a
Speaker 5: fresh face rise from within the ranks to restore calm
Speaker 5: and credibility. As speculation is swirling, keep it here for
Speaker 5: the latest on seven hundred WLW.
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