Speaker 1: Bill cunning in the Great American. Of course, I get
Speaker 1: a hundred, sometimes thousands of emails a day from various sources.
Speaker 1: That one stood out like a sore thumb. When I
Speaker 1: hear the name of Trumpy and an email, it perks
Speaker 1: me up and I pay attention. So a few days ago,
Speaker 1: a young man named Jackson Trumpy sent me an email
Speaker 1: about living in OTR and what happens in OTR and
Speaker 1: he doesn't get a whole bunch of concern from the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati because of what's happening in and around
Speaker 1: Saint Francis Seraph Ministries on the Republic Street right off
Speaker 1: Liberty in the north end of OTR. And as you
Speaker 1: know as a listener, I've driven by that area frequently,
Speaker 1: and I've pointed out on the air and off the
Speaker 1: air that things don't look good there. That is not
Speaker 1: kind to have homeless individuals living on the streets, is
Speaker 1: not kind. To have people that are hungry in sias
Speaker 1: doing things in garbage cans, is not right. To have
Speaker 1: the mentally ill living on the streets. And so when
Speaker 1: this email was sent to me by a young man,
Speaker 1: twenty six year old Jackson Trumpy, I read it and
Speaker 1: it goes on to say, I've been a resident of
Speaker 1: Northern OTR, north of Finley Market for eight months now.
Speaker 1: I chose to move downtown because I believe in the
Speaker 1: fun urban atmosphere revitalization happening in OTR. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be part of the future. However, I want to
Speaker 1: bring a serious and ongoing public safety threat, in public
Speaker 1: decency and quality of life to Cincinnatians in general, and
Speaker 1: Jackson Trumpy. I can say this welcome for the first
Speaker 1: time to the Bill Cunningham Show and Jackson. First of
Speaker 1: all me I say that those of us who knew him,
Speaker 1: those of us who worked with your grandpa Bob Trumpy,
Speaker 1: have his memories with us often because he taught us
Speaker 1: so much about radio. And as I said to you
Speaker 1: off the air, that when he left this earth a
Speaker 1: few months ago, he left a hole in broadcasting, also
Speaker 1: a hole in your family. I would ask you, first
Speaker 1: of all, what was your relationship with your grandpa Bob Trumpy,
Speaker 1: the Great Number eighty four? And how much do you
Speaker 1: miss him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. It's an
Speaker 2: honor to be here. Yeah, our whole family misses him
Speaker 2: a whole lot. We were very close with him. We
Speaker 2: lived not far away. He lived in Glendale, Ohio, so
Speaker 2: we visited him quite frequently growing up. He used to
Speaker 2: come to all my games. He would never miss a
Speaker 2: sports game for myself or my sisters. And I really
Speaker 2: appreciate the kind words that you and your colleague said
Speaker 2: on seven hundred. We were all listening.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Jackson. I spoke to him a few
Speaker 1: months before his death. It was about a collateral matter.
Speaker 1: And his exterior was hard as Chinese calculus, but inside
Speaker 1: you the heart the size of the state of Texas.
Speaker 1: And he created sports talk. He did Olympics, he did
Speaker 1: the Masters, he did the Major League Baseball, football, basket boxing.
Speaker 1: He was a great broadcaster, recognized he's in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It got the Peter Roselle Award, for God's sakes, and
Speaker 1: I followed him for something like ten to fifteen years
Speaker 1: on this radio station. I learned radio more from him
Speaker 1: than from anyone else. So whatever success I've had for
Speaker 1: the past gosh forty three years, the foundation of that
Speaker 1: success was listening and watching your grandpa, Bob Trumpy. Now
Speaker 1: let's get onto your column. You talk about the core.
Speaker 1: The problem is large daily congregations of persons around Saint Francis. Sarah,
Speaker 1: explain why you sent me this and explain what you
Speaker 1: have observed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, before I start, I just want to say
Speaker 2: that I do think Saint Francis Sarah, mynasteries is doing
Speaker 2: a really good deed and helping those who are in
Speaker 2: need and cheating hundreds of meals today approximately three point
Speaker 2: fifty from what I was been told, to those who
Speaker 2: are struggling with homelessness. It helps create a small measure
Speaker 2: of stability in some of these people's lives who pretty
Speaker 2: much face constant uncertainty. And I don't really think that
Speaker 2: this is of fault of Saint Francis, but the whole
Speaker 2: issue I think kind of stems around where this is
Speaker 2: where their site is located here since living in OTR
Speaker 2: and as you said, when you pass this area on
Speaker 2: Republic Street, you can look north up Republic Street and
Speaker 2: there are anywhere from fifty to one hundred people that
Speaker 2: are just in that alley kind of set up. There
Speaker 2: is just trash everywhere, and there's been a lot of
Speaker 2: crime within this one block area. And I just think
Speaker 2: with the amount of growth and economic development that the
Speaker 2: city is trying to put in the Northern I believe
Speaker 2: the location of this dude pantry is directly hindering the
Speaker 2: progress of.
Speaker 1: That So Jackson Trumpet, you'd almost call it a failure
Speaker 1: of compassion. And we need drug treatment facilities, we need
Speaker 1: alcohol treatment facilities, we need insanity assistance people with mental
Speaker 1: health problems. And it's not kind, it's not understanding. It's
Speaker 1: not helpful to have people living on the streets, that
Speaker 1: have people fornicating on the streets, to have people using
Speaker 1: drugs on the streets, to have the negative impact on
Speaker 1: residents like you and workers and visitors, and Northern OTR
Speaker 1: is directly affected by the location of this homeless and
Speaker 1: food kitchen. So your idea is to provide those services,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily in an area in which there are
Speaker 1: many businesses and people living, correct.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean where the site is located in the
Speaker 2: heart of revitalization zone that the city and like three
Speaker 2: CDC are working to bring back to life. However, the
Speaker 2: crime that goes on around this food pantry is uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty shocking to say the least. I can
Speaker 2: recall at least three homicides this year, the latest being
Speaker 2: on August sixth, twenty twenty five, when a woman was
Speaker 2: struck in the head by bullet. I went onto the
Speaker 2: city's website and I actually looked at the crime that's
Speaker 2: for this singular block some of the things that I've seen.
Speaker 2: They don't show you all the crimes, but they do list. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's been six shootings, three of them have been fatal.
Speaker 2: The other three people were hit and no one, no
Speaker 2: one died. There's been a total of thirty five different
Speaker 2: theft reports and for total offenses reported within that area
Speaker 2: is over eighty and that's just within the singular block
Speaker 2: of Republic Street and Liberty Street. So as you can
Speaker 2: look up for yourself on the city website, there is
Speaker 2: a ton of crime and law enforcement assets being sent
Speaker 2: there all the time.
Speaker 1: And I would assume Jackson Trumpy that the police have
Speaker 1: told me they're told not to interfere when crimes are
Speaker 1: being committed because the city doesn't want it to be
Speaker 1: in They went the statistics to prove one thing. If
Speaker 1: you seen in uniform scout patrol cars, police in uniform
Speaker 1: driving by and ignoring this while it's going.
Speaker 2: On, Yeah, I mean, I definitely have. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: they're aware of what's going on down there.
Speaker 1: Again, I don't.
Speaker 2: Really think it's St. Francis's fault that this is going on,
Speaker 2: but I think what they're doing is really good, and
Speaker 2: as human beings, we have a moral responsibility to help
Speaker 2: those in need and help them get back on their
Speaker 2: feet to live a more positive life. But I just
Speaker 2: wanted to bring this kind of whole thing and shed
Speaker 2: some light on it because I think myself and a
Speaker 2: lot of other people that are living in the area
Speaker 2: notice kind of what's going on there on a daily basis,
Speaker 2: and I know that people do not feel comfortable walking
Speaker 2: around that area just because of all the crime. There's
Speaker 2: just widespread trash, people sleeping in doorways, it's I mean,
Speaker 2: aggressive panhandling, open drug use. If you drive by there
Speaker 2: and kind of look down that alley, it's not uncommon
Speaker 2: that you'll see someone doing the typical zombie lean where
Speaker 2: they're kind of just blumped over like they just did
Speaker 2: something and it's not a good look. And for the
Speaker 2: whole growth of the city and the whole initiative for
Speaker 2: them to get economic growth into Northern OTR, it's just
Speaker 2: directly hindering that process. Since I moved in in April.
Speaker 2: There have been very nice renovated storefronts all around this area,
Speaker 2: and I can't recall any of them being leased like
Speaker 2: they are all still vacant. No, a lot of the
Speaker 2: apartment buildings are. They have a lot of rooms left.
Speaker 2: And I believe that this problem right here is directly
Speaker 2: correlated to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your email to me talks about sexual intercourse in
Speaker 1: the middle of Republic. Street officers and business owners have
Speaker 1: told me that women and men engage in sexual acts
Speaker 1: in public on a regular basis. It's simply what occurs.
Speaker 1: Shot victims and also open air drug use, aggressive harassment,
Speaker 1: widespread litter, and it's been going on for years and years.
Speaker 1: I had on a business owner Privy Bar is a
Speaker 1: few blocks over and they had seven people shot outside
Speaker 1: the Privy Bar in the month of November. But we're
Speaker 1: told by the mayor, who by the way, has left
Speaker 1: town at this point in others that things are better.
Speaker 1: Your email says to me, Jackson Trumpy, you emailed have
Speaker 1: to have purerival the city manager, Jean Michelle Kearney, Cca
Speaker 1: an Albi Victoria Parks. When you get a hold of
Speaker 1: them for this widespread and you talk about crimes being
Speaker 1: committed every day, there's dozens and dozens or more crimes
Speaker 1: being committed, but they don't go on the on the
Speaker 1: on the blotder because no one's arrested. The police just
Speaker 1: ignore the crime. Therefore, crime is down by some categories.
Speaker 1: But when you contact the city officials as the grandson
Speaker 1: of Bob Trumpy, what respond once do you get of any?
Speaker 2: I mean, they basically just acknowledged my concern. They told
Speaker 2: me that the ministry is a longstanding, privately owned nonprofit
Speaker 2: that's been there since the seventies. It is privately owned
Speaker 2: and they cannot legally force the organization to do anything.
Speaker 2: They told me that they would reach out to Paint
Speaker 2: Transis and address the illegal behavior and contacts and tell
Speaker 2: them to contact poliefs when necessary. They also told me
Speaker 2: that my email had been forwarded to the CPD District
Speaker 2: one neighborhood Liaison sergeant and once he got that email,
Speaker 2: he would respond to me with information on how they're
Speaker 2: going to make the situation better and resolve it. I
Speaker 2: have not heard anything, which is kind of why I
Speaker 2: wanted to reach out to you, because I just think
Speaker 2: this issue needs to be addressed, and as a young
Speaker 2: person living downtown in OTR. I feel like we need
Speaker 2: our voices to be heard as well.
Speaker 1: One might ask why did you agree to move? Why
Speaker 1: did you go to OTR, Because I assume you know
Speaker 1: ahead of time, before you moved there, about seven months ago,
Speaker 1: that what you'd be facing, what was your motivation and
Speaker 1: putting yourself in that environment, then complaining about it, what's
Speaker 1: your motivation and going there in the first place.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a decent amount of friends that live downtown.
Speaker 2: It's a really fun it's a really fun area. You
Speaker 2: have all the action there. You have the Bangles, the Reds,
Speaker 2: the FCC. There is a lot of development going on downtown.
Speaker 2: I also work in Kentucky, so I had to move
Speaker 2: somewhere that I could be closer to work. My previous
Speaker 2: drive to work was almost an hour there and back
Speaker 2: every day. But you can ride the street car to
Speaker 2: get anywhere. There's a ton of really good restaurants and
Speaker 2: local festivals and street fairs and many other activities to do,
Speaker 2: and it's just a fun environment. However, I think that
Speaker 2: we have this problem just like all other cities do.
Speaker 2: I just think that we need to be better out
Speaker 2: of dressing it.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine who works with Saint Francis, Serah
Speaker 1: said they used to open the doors of the church
Speaker 1: to allow people inside the church itself. The Franciscans run it,
Speaker 1: but it got so bad inside the church, those who
Speaker 1: run the ministry Saint Francis said, we can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: There was a urination on floors, on pews, there were
Speaker 1: sexual acts committed inside the church itself, that there were
Speaker 1: drug use inside the church. It got so bad after
Speaker 1: months and months and months of putting up with it,
Speaker 1: they locked the doors. While it's true the city can't
Speaker 1: control what happens inside of a church. It can control
Speaker 1: what happens on Republic, it can't control what happens on Liberty.
Speaker 1: That's their direct responsibility. Saint Francis does not control Republic Street,
Speaker 1: and they have these activities from fifty to one hundred
Speaker 1: people happening daily. Is a city problem that the county's
Speaker 1: trying to address. But it's the city police that are
Speaker 1: being told don't do anything, because the cops say, if
Speaker 1: we start arresting people in and around Saint Francis, Sarah
Speaker 1: and OTR, it doesn't do any good because they arrest
Speaker 1: them put them in the jail. They're released immediately, they
Speaker 1: don't show up for court, then a warrants issued to
Speaker 1: cape Is for their arrest. Then they're arrested, sent back
Speaker 1: to the jail. Then you go to judge and the
Speaker 1: judges say, they've been arrested two hundred times. Nothing we
Speaker 1: can do. Put them back on the street. It used
Speaker 1: to be and the good old days. You might recall
Speaker 1: we had Longview State Mental Hospital. In fact, when I
Speaker 1: was in the Attorney General's office, i represented the state
Speaker 1: to put people with profound mental difficulties or drug or
Speaker 1: alcoholic use in law, you state mental hospital until they
Speaker 1: dried out or until they got their lives together. There
Speaker 1: was about seven hundred and fifty people a long View
Speaker 1: State Mental Hospital. That's where those persons were in the
Speaker 1: nineteen forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies. That's the solution is
Speaker 1: still arresting him. The cops will tell you makes no difference.
Speaker 1: What difference They go back to Republic Street and keep
Speaker 1: using drugs. You've got to put them in an environment
Speaker 1: where they can't leave, in which they have to get better,
Speaker 1: and if they don't get better, then they don't leave.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense to you? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree with what you said. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff that I see downtown that you know,
Speaker 2: probably people in other cities always see as well, but
Speaker 2: when you see it in person through itself, it's pretty
Speaker 2: shocking the first time. But yeah, Saint Francis, I know
Speaker 2: they can't control the individuals that are outside, even I
Speaker 2: know they were on many of their services and they
Speaker 2: do a great deed, And I'm not suggesting that we
Speaker 2: take that away in any form or kind of like
Speaker 2: kick them out, But I just there's too much that
Speaker 2: goes on in this area, in the center of this
Speaker 2: redevelopment district, and there's a lot that the city is
Speaker 2: trying to do, but they're but they're really just hindering
Speaker 2: themselves with this site being in the center of Northern
Speaker 2: OTR and just having this this constant like fifty to
Speaker 2: one hundred plus people roaming around constantly, and you know,
Speaker 2: just making some people feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I bet have you thought about Jackson Trumpy? Have you
Speaker 1: thought about leaving and saying I can't do it anymore?
Speaker 1: Are you willing to stay with it for a little
Speaker 1: bit longer?
Speaker 2: No, I'm I'm not considering leaving. I'm not to that
Speaker 2: point yet, But I mean, who knows, we're all be
Speaker 2: in a year, but no, I am not to that
Speaker 2: point yet.
Speaker 1: All right, Jackson Trumpy, once again, your father, your grandfather,
Speaker 1: is held in high esteem, and may his memory bring
Speaker 1: you comfort. And Jackson Trump, I'm glad you got a
Speaker 1: hold of me. I'm glad I think your grandpa would
Speaker 1: be happy with a kind of grandson that your mom
Speaker 1: and dad and he helped develop. And whenever you want
Speaker 1: to have further contact with the big One, you get
Speaker 1: a hold of me, and I'll do my best to
Speaker 1: get the message out. And the adults have got to
Speaker 1: take adult responsibilities for these kinds of things. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe not pay criminals eight point two million dollars. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's better to use that money to reinstitute a in
Speaker 1: house facility that you can't leave until you're better, and
Speaker 1: if you don't get better, you can't leave. A few
Speaker 1: hundred cannot kill the life of one, hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people. Jackson Trumpy, once again, thanks for coming on
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show, and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jackson, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: God bless America. Let's continue with more of it. The
Speaker 1: city will spend eight point two million dollars paying criminal,
Speaker 1: serious money, but they won't solve the problems that their
Speaker 1: policies have created. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred ww