WEBVTT - Elect Judge Christopher McDowell 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:06.800 805 here, 55KRC, the talk station. Happy Friday Eve, a.k.a. Thursday. 0:00:06.820 --> 0:00:09.799 I prefer the latter, or the former. In studio again, 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.100 it's always a pleasure to see him under any circumstances. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.760 Judge McDowell, we need to keep Judge Christopher McDowell on 0:00:14.780 --> 0:00:18.390 the bench. He's an outstanding jurist. He is, of course, 0:00:18.590 --> 0:00:20.290 a worthy jurist, and he's one of the people we 0:00:20.310 --> 0:00:23.250 need around to, well, who understands the criminal justice system, 0:00:23.290 --> 0:00:25.870 legal system generally, and doesn't play fast and loose depending 0:00:25.910 --> 0:00:27.230 on who's standing in front of him in a court 0:00:27.270 --> 0:00:29.290 of law. Judge McDowell, welcome back to the morning show. 0:00:29.310 --> 0:00:31.420 You heard my conversation with Signal 99. 0:00:31.420 --> 0:00:34.340 Yeah, I love Signal 99. As you know, she endorses me, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.330 as does the FOP. But she has her finger on 0:00:38.370 --> 0:00:40.909 the pulse of what's going on in the city like 0:00:41.110 --> 0:00:41.629 no one else. 0:00:41.770 --> 0:00:43.850 Like no one else. And one of the things I 0:00:43.890 --> 0:00:47.010 brought up right out of the gate, first person to 0:00:47.130 --> 0:00:49.870 know about it and mention it, and even this morning, 0:00:49.909 --> 0:00:53.590 no local news carrying it, although apparently it's certain, the 0:00:53.659 --> 0:00:56.580 decision of the Chief Washington case in the appellate court 0:00:56.700 --> 0:00:58.940 sitting and bank, which is all of the appellate court 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.670 judges in the Sixth Circuit, Now, first off, we had 0:01:01.690 --> 0:01:03.830 the underlying decision came out of, what did I say, 0:01:03.930 --> 0:01:06.670 August of last year? Right. It was a two-to-one decision, 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.680 fighting in favor of Chief Washington and also finding that 0:01:11.220 --> 0:01:13.220 Cheryl Long is going to be personally responsible. She has 0:01:13.260 --> 0:01:16.480 no immunity from the challenges against her, which is really 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.320 profound in and of itself. But then there was an 0:01:19.380 --> 0:01:22.900 appeal for an en banc hearing, which is that all 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.520 of the judges on the Sixth Circuit hear the case 0:01:25.580 --> 0:01:29.220 or review the case. And there were, what, 19 of 0:01:29.260 --> 0:01:33.500 those judges. And the decision came back 19 to 0, 0:01:33.500 --> 0:01:36.720 upholding the prior decision, which suggests even the dissenting judge 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.980 in the earlier decision changed his mind or her mind. 0:01:39.020 --> 0:01:41.080 I didn't check who dissented. Am I right on that? 0:01:41.620 --> 0:01:45.550 Yeah, it's an extraordinarily rare thing. This also happened very 0:01:45.630 --> 0:01:48.630 quickly because you're dealing with the Sixth Circuit. This is 0:01:48.670 --> 0:01:52.070 not just Ohio. This is a multi-state jurisdiction. 0:01:52.250 --> 0:01:52.670 Good point. 0:01:52.770 --> 0:01:54.710 First, in order to get an en banc hearing, you 0:01:54.750 --> 0:01:56.530 have to request it. They don't have to give you 0:01:57.010 --> 0:02:00.170 that hearing. And it's very hard to get such a hearing. 0:02:00.610 --> 0:02:03.010 And so to get the hearing at all is extraordinary. 0:02:03.410 --> 0:02:05.590 And it suggests that the court is accepting it because 0:02:05.630 --> 0:02:08.440 you're telling the court there's a division within the Sixth 0:02:08.470 --> 0:02:11.900 Circuit Court of Appeals on this issue. All right. So 0:02:11.940 --> 0:02:14.380 they said, OK, we'll hear this matter, which is hard 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.399 to hard to get. And then for them to come 0:02:16.460 --> 0:02:21.119 out 19-0 on it, including the dissenting judge, that's extraordinary. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.169 That is a total slapdown. 0:02:23.790 --> 0:02:27.570 Huge slapdown, which is why I immediately experienced schadenfreude when 0:02:27.590 --> 0:02:30.889 I first read about it from Signal 99 yesterday. So there, 0:02:30.950 --> 0:02:33.360 I appreciate your additional wisdom and insight on that one. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.860 But also another reason to keep Signal 99 in this conversation, 0:02:36.900 --> 0:02:39.020 as well as bring up Mike Odioso, you're working on 0:02:39.060 --> 0:02:39.860 a project with them. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.600 Yes, we're working on public safety and laws that coming 0:02:44.660 --> 0:02:47.560 out of my experience as a judge that can help 0:02:47.620 --> 0:02:51.810 public safety here in Ohio. And I had two suggestions 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.929 for Mr. Odioso and Signal 99. The first of which, again, 0:02:55.970 --> 0:02:58.430 coming out of my experience as a judge is, I 0:02:58.470 --> 0:03:01.030 believe that it should be a separate criminal offense for 0:03:01.090 --> 0:03:04.690 someone to cut off their ankle bracelet. To me, it's 0:03:04.730 --> 0:03:05.730 a form of escape. 0:03:05.770 --> 0:03:07.950 Wait a minute. Hold on. News to Brian Thomas, who's 0:03:08.010 --> 0:03:10.030 never practiced criminal law except to be a clerk for 0:03:10.070 --> 0:03:12.890 Merlin Shiverdecker back in the days. It's not a crime 0:03:12.950 --> 0:03:14.130 to cut a monitor off? 0:03:14.770 --> 0:03:17.070 Well, they can charge you with things like destruction. 0:03:17.090 --> 0:03:17.650 Property damage. 0:03:17.669 --> 0:03:17.889 Yes. 0:03:18.030 --> 0:03:18.510 Oh, Lord. 0:03:18.530 --> 0:03:22.590 But they never, ever do. I've never seen that charge brought. 0:03:22.870 --> 0:03:26.119 Those ankle monitors are very expensive. And when you cut 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.410 an ankle monitor off, that means, one, I've either put 0:03:28.430 --> 0:03:30.669 you on the ankle monitor as part of your bond 0:03:31.190 --> 0:03:33.649 or as part of your probation because I feel you 0:03:33.690 --> 0:03:36.290 need to be watched. And when you cut that ankle 0:03:36.330 --> 0:03:40.030 monitor off, it becomes a very serious matter. They come 0:03:40.070 --> 0:03:42.410 immediately over to my courtroom. They say someone's cut off 0:03:42.460 --> 0:03:45.100 their ankle monitor. I issue a warrant for their arrest. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.520 And they have to go out and search for this person. 0:03:48.660 --> 0:03:51.260 And so I feel that it's a form of escape. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.520 And if it's a misdemeanor that you're on bond or 0:03:53.580 --> 0:03:56.560 on probation for, It should be an automatic six months. 0:03:56.940 --> 0:03:59.300 If it's a felony that you're on bond or you're 0:03:59.340 --> 0:04:02.040 on probation for, it should be an automatic one year added. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.540 We need to deter people from cutting off their ankle 0:04:04.590 --> 0:04:06.770 monitor because for some people it's just a game. 0:04:07.630 --> 0:04:10.430 Clearly a game. We found out about it. Sarah Herringer 0:04:10.470 --> 0:04:13.310 lost her husband in their own apartment and over the ride. 0:04:13.370 --> 0:04:15.110 She's since moved on with her life, and who can 0:04:15.150 --> 0:04:18.210 blame her? But that guy who murdered her husband was 0:04:18.230 --> 0:04:19.969 supposed to be wearing an ankle monitor and had been 0:04:20.070 --> 0:04:21.990 out without an ankle monitor. He cut it off for 0:04:22.029 --> 0:04:24.430 a long time. And that was at that point in time, 0:04:24.470 --> 0:04:28.250 I think most of my listening audience, me included, didn't 0:04:28.310 --> 0:04:31.349 realize that they aren't monitoring the ankle monitor people. I mean, 0:04:31.370 --> 0:04:34.230 there's really no oversight. You get the impression when you, oh, 0:04:34.270 --> 0:04:35.969 you got an ankle monitor. It's got alarm is going 0:04:35.990 --> 0:04:38.270 to go off. Someone's going to room with video screens, 0:04:38.290 --> 0:04:41.550 looking at, you know, geofencing locations where they can be 0:04:41.610 --> 0:04:43.870 and cannot be. And the minute someone steps out of 0:04:43.890 --> 0:04:46.450 that parameter, alarm goes off and resources are sent to 0:04:46.490 --> 0:04:48.469 pick them up. Nope. Apparently none of that goes on 0:04:48.510 --> 0:04:50.290 unless you can correct the record for me and my 0:04:50.330 --> 0:04:50.950 listening audience. 0:04:51.029 --> 0:04:53.870 Yeah. Well, It's different for me. I have a very 0:04:53.890 --> 0:04:57.670 good relationship with the EMD people. And so if somebody 0:04:57.710 --> 0:05:00.120 cuts off an ankle monitor, who's on bond or probation 0:05:00.130 --> 0:05:02.640 to me, they, they know that they can call me 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.620 at two o'clock in the morning. They can drive to 0:05:05.660 --> 0:05:08.780 my house and they have driven to my house at two, 0:05:08.860 --> 0:05:11.500 three o'clock in the morning. And I signed that warrant 0:05:11.820 --> 0:05:14.770 and they go out, they'll, they'll have that guy within hours. 0:05:15.010 --> 0:05:15.670 Almost always. 0:05:15.710 --> 0:05:17.450 You mean a warrant needs to be signed when it's 0:05:17.610 --> 0:05:19.690 obvious that someone has cut off their ankle monitor? 0:05:19.910 --> 0:05:20.230 Yes. 0:05:21.150 --> 0:05:25.550 Yes. I, Well, I mean, I don't have any problem 0:05:25.570 --> 0:05:30.419 with due process, Judge McDowell, but, I mean, they're under 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.239 parole parameters or under terms and conditions of the release 0:05:34.260 --> 0:05:36.240 that they must maintain an ankle monitor. If you can 0:05:36.300 --> 0:05:40.420 definitively tell that it's not on anymore and it hasn't moved, 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.440 if it's just laying in a corner and has not 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.099 moved for a week or something, I mean, it's just, 0:05:46.180 --> 0:05:48.680 that seems to me that law enforcement should immediately be 0:05:48.779 --> 0:05:50.620 sent to that location to pick them up or at 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.799 least an APB sent out that, hey, so-and-so has violated 0:05:53.820 --> 0:05:55.620 the terms of his parole and he's out on the 0:05:55.670 --> 0:05:56.290 street somewhere. 0:05:56.810 --> 0:05:58.290 They come to me and they ask for a warrant 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:59.870 and I immediately sign that warrant. 0:05:59.890 --> 0:06:03.350 See, that's why we need to keep you. I'm kind 0:06:03.370 --> 0:06:05.029 of curious to know, and I'll ask out loud sort 0:06:05.050 --> 0:06:07.770 of rhetorically, how many other judges here in Hamilton County 0:06:07.810 --> 0:06:11.250 are willing to have that open option and be woken 0:06:11.270 --> 0:06:12.810 in the middle of the night to make sure that 0:06:12.850 --> 0:06:13.730 justice is served? 0:06:14.170 --> 0:06:16.130 I'll tell you this. When I first became a judge, 0:06:16.170 --> 0:06:19.010 I was given a handbook that told me that I 0:06:19.029 --> 0:06:23.659 should not sign warrants after 5 p.m. And this is 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:28.000 not a 9-to-5 job. Criminals don't operate 9-to-5, and judges 0:06:28.020 --> 0:06:31.940 should not operate 9-to-5 either. And so it's not just 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.289 the EMD people that I let. I let all the 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.210 detectives in this city know, if you can't reach another judge, 0:06:37.730 --> 0:06:39.550 I would much rather you wake me up at 2 0:06:39.550 --> 0:06:42.230 o'clock in the morning than somebody get hurt. And that's 0:06:42.270 --> 0:06:43.510 the way all judges should think. 0:06:43.770 --> 0:06:45.530 Right. And that is not to suggest that you're not 0:06:45.589 --> 0:06:48.560 reviewing the warrant request for probable cause. It's just that 0:06:48.580 --> 0:06:50.340 you're willing to do it at any given time of 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:51.680 the day when it's needed. 0:06:51.700 --> 0:06:54.440 That's right. And when they come to me, they've got 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.539 to go through the probable cause. This is the person. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.380 They cut off their ankle monitor. This is the time. 0:06:59.420 --> 0:07:02.230 This is what they're out on. What do you want 0:07:02.270 --> 0:07:04.969 us to do, Judge? It's almost a rhetorical question to me. 0:07:05.010 --> 0:07:05.620 Go pick them up. 0:07:06.150 --> 0:07:09.690 But under what theory should a judge not engage in 0:07:09.730 --> 0:07:12.630 that after 5 p.m.? I'm struggling with that one, Judge McDowell. 0:07:13.670 --> 0:07:15.750 I think that a lot of people look at it 0:07:15.790 --> 0:07:19.190 as a nine-to-five job. I can't answer that question. To me, 0:07:20.190 --> 0:07:22.230 it's not the way things should work. We have a 0:07:22.940 --> 0:07:26.040 warrant database that we are supposed to check in on, 0:07:26.620 --> 0:07:30.840 and we're told basically it's nine-to-five. It used to be 0:07:30.860 --> 0:07:34.120 in common, please, that you would go and you would 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.830 meet the officer at a location. They would come to 0:07:36.870 --> 0:07:39.230 your house, but now they expect you to get on 0:07:39.250 --> 0:07:42.520 your computer and And they say after five o'clock, you're 0:07:42.540 --> 0:07:45.780 not required to monitor. And so that's not the way 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:46.290 I operate. 0:07:46.580 --> 0:07:48.750 And there's no such concept as a night court running 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.489 24-7 courts in downtown Cincinnati or in Hamilton County. 0:07:52.790 --> 0:07:55.770 No, sir. There should be. I mean, also for the 0:07:55.810 --> 0:07:58.250 convenience of a lot of people, because if you have 0:07:58.290 --> 0:08:01.010 a job and you go down to court, you're missing 0:08:01.190 --> 0:08:03.730 half a day, a full day's work. We should have 0:08:04.170 --> 0:08:06.650 a court that starts in the evening for people so 0:08:06.670 --> 0:08:08.660 they don't have to miss work. We should be in 0:08:08.700 --> 0:08:11.780 the service business as well. And we're not in the 0:08:11.820 --> 0:08:15.080 service business. We sit there like kings and queens waiting 0:08:15.100 --> 0:08:16.260 for everybody to come to us. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:21.100 Well, you are a taxpayer-paid employee. I mean, it's a 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.380 beautiful thing that you can reach the lofty status of 0:08:23.420 --> 0:08:26.690 being a judge. Obviously, people have confidence in your ability 0:08:26.700 --> 0:08:29.170 in that regard. You've achieved the status that many people 0:08:29.210 --> 0:08:34.230 will never achieve. But come on. It is a 24-7 0:08:34.270 --> 0:08:37.330 job because crime's 24-7. I don't understand how anybody couldn't 0:08:37.350 --> 0:08:39.410 have that attitude. you know what, you're going to have 0:08:39.450 --> 0:08:41.309 to work some overtime hours if you apply for the 0:08:41.330 --> 0:08:42.950 job of a judge in Hamilton County. 0:08:43.030 --> 0:08:43.990 Okay, I'll do that. 0:08:44.070 --> 0:08:45.410 Same thing for a lot of jobs. 0:08:45.809 --> 0:08:47.340 Well, as you know, if you go down to the 0:08:47.380 --> 0:08:52.240 Hamilton County Courthouse on a Friday at 2.30, it's like 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.599 the Hotel Unshining. There's nobody there. There's nobody there. A 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.920 lot of these judges, they're coming in at 10 and 0:08:59.960 --> 0:09:02.160 they're leaving at 2. Some days they don't come in 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.900 at all. And they're signing warrants up to 5 o'clock. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.850 That's not what the people of Hamilton County should expect. 0:09:09.910 --> 0:09:11.790 And that's not what they get from me. I work. 0:09:13.510 --> 0:09:16.370 This is why we need to keep Judge Chris McDowell 0:09:16.470 --> 0:09:19.310 on the bench. Help him out any way you can. Obviously, 0:09:19.370 --> 0:09:25.400 vote for him. Keepjudgemcdowell.com is the website. It's his campaign website. 0:09:25.420 --> 0:09:28.980 You've been out putting out signs for your campaign at 0:09:29.059 --> 0:09:31.600 all hours, just like your job. You have to go 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.340 out after work and put the signs up. But business 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.520 is good insofar as sign placement is concerned, Judge. 0:09:36.780 --> 0:09:38.800 Oh, yeah, I've got signs up all over the county, 0:09:38.820 --> 0:09:42.080 but I normally put them up around midnight to 1 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.079 or 2 o'clock in the morning because there's no traffic, 0:09:44.940 --> 0:09:46.850 and that's when I can do it because I've got 0:09:46.870 --> 0:09:50.250 a full-time job during the day. The other week, I 0:09:50.290 --> 0:09:52.090 put one up in the daylight, and I thought, gosh, 0:09:52.110 --> 0:09:54.770 this is so much easier when the sun is out 0:09:55.070 --> 0:09:55.770 than in the dark. 0:09:56.370 --> 0:09:58.880 Keep Judge McDowell.com. One more segment with Judge McDowell. Before 0:09:58.890 --> 0:10:01.480 we get to iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff, and after 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.360 I mentioned USA Insulation, yep, BCD Talk Station. Happy Thursday. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.580 Keep Judge McDowell.com, where you can help out Judge McDowell, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.020 who we definitely need to keep on the bench here 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.760 in Hamilton County. Veteran judge, lots of experience, and obviously 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.040 committed to the job of, I guess, only one judge 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.260 in Hamilton County that's willing to get up at night 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:25.620 and entertain a discussion about a search warrant being issued. Yeah, okay, 0:10:25.650 --> 0:10:27.180 that seems to be a logical part of the job, 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.619 but he seems to be the only one willing to 0:10:28.660 --> 0:10:32.080 do that. But also, you've got a word or two 0:10:32.179 --> 0:10:37.099 to say about bonds, as in, not James Bond, but 0:10:37.540 --> 0:10:40.610 cash bonds, no cash bonds, owner cognizance bonds, which seem 0:10:40.620 --> 0:10:42.170 to be all the rage in Hamilton County as well. 0:10:42.190 --> 0:10:44.890 Does anybody ever have to post a bond, even in 0:10:44.929 --> 0:10:48.370 the most heinous circumstances, circumstances, Judge McDowell? Apparently not. I 0:10:48.370 --> 0:10:50.309 know you got some great illustrations of people who should 0:10:50.370 --> 0:10:51.870 not have been allowed out on the streets without a 0:10:51.890 --> 0:10:52.790 pretty decent bond. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.560 Yeah, let's go back to the definition of the own recognizance. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.240 What people need to know, it's called an O.R. bond, 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.240 own recognizance. When someone's issued an O.R. bond, all they 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.220 need do is sign a piece of paper and then 0:11:05.260 --> 0:11:07.119 they walk out of the jail. They don't have to 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.290 put up any money. They just have to say, I 0:11:09.590 --> 0:11:13.189 promise to show up for court. I have seen, since 0:11:13.250 --> 0:11:17.370 I've been a judge, an O.R. bond on a rape case, 0:11:17.929 --> 0:11:20.540 a felony of the first degree rape case with an 0:11:20.700 --> 0:11:24.560 OR bond. I cannot imagine being a woman who has 0:11:24.620 --> 0:11:27.819 been raped, reported that, gone through the rape kit, gone 0:11:27.860 --> 0:11:31.400 through all of that, and then the sigh of relief 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.580 that you must feel when you realize the police have 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.660 apprehended that person, that he's in the jail, and then 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.050 to realize he's just walked out of the jail, not 0:11:40.090 --> 0:11:43.410 posted any amount of money. and how terrified that person 0:11:43.450 --> 0:11:43.910 must be. 0:11:44.090 --> 0:11:46.989 Well, remind the listeners the obligation of at least a 0:11:47.010 --> 0:11:48.910 judge who understands the law here in Ohio, what they're 0:11:48.929 --> 0:11:51.750 supposed to consider in determining whether or not a bond 0:11:51.809 --> 0:11:53.229 is going to be issued or they're going to be 0:11:53.250 --> 0:11:54.770 allowed on own recognizance. 0:11:54.830 --> 0:11:58.010 Yeah, the most important thing for a felony of that degree, 0:11:58.030 --> 0:12:00.480 a felony of the first degree, in which you're looking 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:05.280 at between three and 11 years in prison, is public safety. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.260 We passed a constitutional amendment here in Ohio that says 0:12:09.460 --> 0:12:14.890 judges are mandated to take into consideration public safety when 0:12:14.929 --> 0:12:17.990 they issue bonds. There are other factors to take into consideration. 0:12:18.450 --> 0:12:21.650 But public safety should be your North Star when you're 0:12:21.670 --> 0:12:24.790 looking at a rape case. The safety of that woman 0:12:24.809 --> 0:12:28.050 who reported that rape. At a minimum, right, you need 0:12:28.070 --> 0:12:30.929 to set a high cash bond. And then you also 0:12:30.950 --> 0:12:34.110 need to, we've got this jurist monitor where the guy, 0:12:34.230 --> 0:12:36.530 if he's out, would have to wear an ankle bracelet. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.020 that would put like a geogrid over the woman so 0:12:39.059 --> 0:12:41.120 if he ever comes into that area, it would send 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.120 off an alarm so she would know. 0:12:43.260 --> 0:12:45.819 So she would know. I like that development. 0:12:46.059 --> 0:12:46.260 Yeah. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.390 Because, of course, you know, keeping the public interest in 0:12:49.410 --> 0:12:51.390 mind and public safety in mind, of course, includes the 0:12:51.530 --> 0:12:53.430 victim's safety in this circumstances. 0:12:53.790 --> 0:12:56.750 Yeah, I mean, to the extent anybody ever gets out 0:12:56.809 --> 0:13:00.470 on a charge like that, they should have the jurist 0:13:00.530 --> 0:13:03.689 monitor because, you know, the police are minutes away when 0:13:03.770 --> 0:13:08.360 seconds count. And so if you are... that woman and 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:12.380 that person is coming into that zone, it automatically alerts you. So, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.000 you know, get the heck out of the house. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.380 Unless of course that person has cut their ankle monitor off. 0:13:17.460 --> 0:13:19.040 That's right. That's right. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.910 Which is a real problem here in Hamilton County. Jeez. 0:13:23.790 --> 0:13:27.630 And under what theory, I always want to default to 0:13:27.650 --> 0:13:30.470 some sort of woke perception of the justice system. And 0:13:30.510 --> 0:13:33.030 I presume that's where this springs from, but under what 0:13:33.090 --> 0:13:38.330 theory should a rapist be, be allowed out with owner-cognizance bond? 0:13:38.530 --> 0:13:42.130 I mean, is that good for society? I struggle with 0:13:42.150 --> 0:13:42.680 that one, Judge. 0:13:44.500 --> 0:13:48.260 I can't answer that question because it's so beyond the 0:13:48.300 --> 0:13:52.880 pale to me. You have progressives who portend to have 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.580 the interest of women and minorities at heart, but yet 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.400 when these people are let out, who's at risk? It's 0:14:00.490 --> 0:14:04.730 minority communities, overwhelmingly. It's black-on-black crime that we mostly are 0:14:04.750 --> 0:14:07.780 dealing with. They're going to go back to those communities 0:14:08.070 --> 0:14:10.290 and they're going to hurt people in those communities. They're 0:14:10.309 --> 0:14:12.989 going to hurt women. Time and time again, I see 0:14:13.130 --> 0:14:18.070 bonds for crimes against women that are not protecting women. 0:14:18.630 --> 0:14:21.590 I review every felony, the first, second, and third degree. 0:14:21.870 --> 0:14:25.000 I conduct those arraignments to make sure that those people 0:14:25.030 --> 0:14:27.560 are protected. Let me tell you this, Brian. No one 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.700 who has been out on bond to me since I 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.000 have been a judge has gone on to hurt someone 0:14:33.060 --> 0:14:36.000 else while they were on bond. That should be The 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.000 same for every judge in this county. 0:14:38.460 --> 0:14:43.700 Amen, Judge Christopher McDowell. Keep Judge McDowell. Absolutely. Keepjudgemcdowell.com to 0:14:43.740 --> 0:14:46.300 help us do that. And, you know, you mentioned this 0:14:46.340 --> 0:14:48.920 whole concept of, you know, rapes and low bonds. I 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.920 saw that Cincinnati Police Department STARS report that they released 0:14:52.970 --> 0:14:55.810 in terms of looking at last year versus this year. 0:14:55.810 --> 0:15:02.460 241 reported rape offenses reported. Year-to-date through October 10th compared 0:15:02.500 --> 0:15:07.200 with 154 last year. In other words, a 56.5% increase 0:15:07.300 --> 0:15:10.500 in rapes, and that's reported rapes, sir. Numbers are on 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.040 the rise, and apparently some of the judges in Hamilton 0:15:14.060 --> 0:15:16.700 County just don't seem to appreciate the gravity of that crime. 0:15:16.900 --> 0:15:19.730 Yeah, when there's no consequence, it's like juveniles. When there's 0:15:19.770 --> 0:15:21.830 no consequence, criminals know it. 0:15:22.610 --> 0:15:25.570 Know your judges. Please, listening audience, spread the good word 0:15:25.610 --> 0:15:29.150 about Judge McDowell and the other judges. GOPjudges.com and Hammond 0:15:29.170 --> 0:15:31.940 County Republican Party websites got it. You know, I don't 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.060 care what you say about the Republican Party, my blue-leaning friends. 0:15:35.500 --> 0:15:37.380 If you're voting for the judges on the blue sheet, 0:15:37.420 --> 0:15:41.260 you are voting for, yeah, zero bond for rapists, the 0:15:41.420 --> 0:15:45.920 release of juveniles without any consequence whatsoever. We could go 0:15:46.020 --> 0:15:48.510 on and on. You get the idea. Words out. Let's 0:15:48.570 --> 0:15:50.970 keep our eyes on the bench this year, and Judge 0:15:50.990 --> 0:15:53.950 McDowell is a recipe for for keeping the ship in 0:15:53.970 --> 0:15:56.000 the right direction. Judge, thank you so much for your 0:15:56.020 --> 0:15:57.580 time today. I wish you all the luck in the world. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:58.760 Thank you, sir. God bless you. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.910 And don't run over Judge McDowell. He's out putting roads 0:16:01.010 --> 0:16:04.080 or putting up campaign signs in front yards. The return 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:05.920 of iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff.