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Speaker 1: Don't want to be an americandio shorright here we go,

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Speaker 1: Here we go slowey seven hundred WLW. Very sad and

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Speaker 1: horrible story here. As you know, we had a casualty

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Speaker 1: That's a horrible story in a horrible way, horrible thing

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Speaker 1: for any parent or grandparent or family member to go through,

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Speaker 1: Laurel Playground on the West End. If you go back

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Speaker 1: a couple of years, there's a promise to put more

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Speaker 1: and the inquirers of Scott Warpman reported the stories when

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Speaker 1: being confusion and contradictions, lack of accountability. If you budgeted

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Speaker 1: the money council did to put those cameras up, how

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Speaker 1: come the cameras aren't up that is a good question.

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Speaker 1: She sits on public Safety, the Committee of Public Safety,

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Speaker 1: and that be council member. And I'll be on the

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Speaker 1: Scottsland Show this morning on seven hundred W out of

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Speaker 1: and a happy new year. How are you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the mayor said we will spare

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Speaker 1: nothing to put a stop to this after the shooting

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Speaker 1: death of this eleven year old, and it sounds like,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's again more important things to say, more

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Speaker 1: things to say, and giving lip service to this. But

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Speaker 1: if two years ago you on council approved one hundred

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Speaker 1: the West End as part of that four and a

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Speaker 3: I wish I had a better answer for you, but

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Speaker 3: it appears that there's still work to be done to

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Speaker 2: So, just to set.

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Speaker 3: A little bit of context through listeners, in early September,

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Speaker 3: safety package. It's part of that, there a bunch of

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Speaker 3: Two line items in that bill that I was personally

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Speaker 2: Year old on New Year's Day.

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Speaker 3: So this is a moment of urgency for myself, for

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Speaker 3: my colleagues, and the mayor and the city manager. We

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Speaker 3: are all eager to get those dollars out the door.

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Speaker 3: And frankly, we're looking to CPD at this moment.

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Speaker 2: You know, those.

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Speaker 3: Dollars, those at one hundred and fifty thousand for Western cameras,

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that was September of last year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: here we are in January. Should it take that long?

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Speaker 3: No, it absolutely should not, and I think everyone should be.

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Speaker 3: We should be able to move a lot faster especially

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Speaker 2: So you know, my ask is, if you are a

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Speaker 3: In that area and you are willing to have a

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Speaker 1: Well, and I'd imagine there isn't a business owner down

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Speaker 1: And it's not the first time we've had a shooting

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Speaker 3: You are not wrong that we need to move faster.

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Speaker 3: And to me, it's the camera as well as lighting.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we need.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you right now, all council, the mayor

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Speaker 3: this with complete urgency. So again my ask is if

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Speaker 2: And if that means going door to door and.

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Speaker 3: Knocking and asking who's willing to do this, like it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean two years ago, three well three now

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Speaker 1: let's get this thing fast tracked. It took till September

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Speaker 1: I would think we voted and passed something, hand that

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Speaker 1: Should you have to follow up on everything you guys appropriated.

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Speaker 2: Perspective, I'm not here to dodge blame. I'm really not.

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Speaker 3: But typically when council does the voting and the allocating,

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Speaker 3: this case it's the police chief, but in other departments

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Speaker 3: So I am not going to dodge the responsibility that

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Speaker 3: checking in and making sure those dollars are out the door.

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Speaker 3: In fact, you know, right before Christmas, I had multiple

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Speaker 2: My people come up and being like, hey, we want.

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Speaker 3: But in this case, when it's life or death, I'm

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Speaker 3: get better in lighting. Those are all urgent, immediate actions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And I think that is a respect you for

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Speaker 2: That's a fair question. I'll say.

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Speaker 3: You know, my dad owned a business for forty years

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Speaker 3: So the first step here is to solve the problem.

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Speaker 3: So how do we get those cameras up? How do

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Speaker 3: we can go back and analyze what went wrong. But

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Speaker 1: anal workings, but it seems like once you approved that

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, it goes to the

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine the cops don't want to get those

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Speaker 1: cameras up. It helps them do their job. Is the

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Speaker 3: No, those dollars are in Cincinnati Police budget, so they're

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Speaker 3: Right, It is every mother's grandmother's parents worst nightmare to

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Our residents should absolutely expect that if Council allocates dollars

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But in all fairness to you, Anna Albe and

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Speaker 1: We're going to put the cameras up, and the cameras

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Speaker 3: It's heartbreaking, right, And I know nothing I'm going to

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Speaker 3: Especially in these urgent, critical life and death moments. So

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Speaker 3: I just I want to be really careful with my

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on the show this morning, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for the time. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: And again for everyone listening, I want them to walk

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Speaker 1: Right and all the best, and thanks again, for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, take care all.

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Speaker 1: Right, council member, and I'll be sitting on public safety.

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Speaker 1: And you heard it here. How many times you a

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Speaker 1: And you could have prevented this. And I think the

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