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Crooked River Cast Show 24
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- Deepish dive into crime stats. What is really going on?
- How safe are Ohio Schools?
- Judge Celebrezze “misconduct”update.
- Dajavu? Nope just the downtown “safety“ patrol!
- Voting registration’s at the BMV are racist!
- Back to paper ballots? Not so fast!
Good Things
- Scene and House of blues up coming concerts.
- Lake Metropark’s Paul Revere corn maze. Merica!
- 20th Annual Cleveland October Fest Last two days Sept 5th & 6th
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Transcript
Introduction and St. Vincent Concert Recap
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Crooked Rivercast. I am your host for today's show. My name is Robert and joining me every day, every week, I should say, is my friend Tom to help us keep track of, you know, Ohio and all that kind of stuff.
00:00:17
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This is show 24 recorded August 2025. Another week, show. Let's
00:00:23
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another week another show let's go In the morning, Rob. In the morning. In the morning, Tom. How are you? I'm doing good. I'd ask you how your week was, but I hear it ended.
00:00:35
Speaker
It might have ended pretty nicely. Oh, yeah. had a concert to go to on Friday. Friday evening at the Rock Hall. so was at the Rock Hall?
00:00:46
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Yeah, it was on the it was outdoors. Oh, yeah. Okay. It was outdoors. They got the, I think it's called the PMC or PNC stage. I forget. yeah I think it's i the end c us the bank. yeah Yeah. Yeah. I think they sponsor it.
00:01:00
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And it was, I went to see St. Vincent, which anybody who doesn't know who that is, go check them out. It's Annie Clark is the lead singer and guitar player, and she's pretty damn awesome.
00:01:15
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Yeah, she is definitely a creative brain for sure. Yeah, she's different. She comes from a different angle. Yeah, and some of it is so cool. i i Yeah, you turned me on them little while ago. There's a few songs that I still go back to. I like it. she she's um She's been on tour for a year and a half, so I think this is one of her last concerts this year. Yeah.
00:01:37
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and It was incredible. i she Her last album is kind of a stripped-down album, a little bit more um rock-based. So there's like a little little bit more guitar, I guess. i mean, she's a guitar player, but she her music is all over the place. it's I don't know what you but you would even call it. i think people People call it indie, but it's a little too...
00:02:02
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um how I think indie is usually kind of sounds indie. It's quality wise, as far as recordings and stuff, her stuff is really just, there's money behind it. So I don't consider it indie. I, her music's almost like avant garde sometimes.
00:02:21
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's a, and that's a good, like, how would you describe it to somebody? And I i would just say, go listen to it. And, you know, cause every album from what I've seen is very different. A lot of the times. Exactly. And her last album, I was going to say, it's, it's a little bit more rock based and her show was very, um, you know, it was a five piece and it was, it was really more,
00:02:45
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I don't want to call it rock and roll because it wasn't Joan Jett rock and roll, but it was definitely pared down and a little harder, little bit edgier, I should say. Right. I hope this is maybe this doesn't come off as an insult because it shouldn't because it's not. But to me, when I see different phases, you go to different videos, different um live performances, I get the rock version of...
00:03:11
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Madonna? like Like, it's artsy. like There's a lot of art to it. There's a lot of production to it a lot of the times. and And Madonna was like that. I mean, the costumes and the little bit of pageantry.
00:03:23
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She's done that a little. She's done that. I don't know what her tours were like before. She has an Austin City Limits ah show from 2018 that was very,
Ohio and National Crime Statistics Debate
00:03:34
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again, avant-garde and kind of ah ah more of a...
00:03:40
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You know, there was costuming. Yeah. and Madonna used to do a lot of that. And, you know, she was ah yeah i don't i'll respond a great performer. Well, Madonna was incredible.
00:03:51
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But, i you know, Annie Clark or say most people call her St. Vincent. um she's she's a little bit, ah she just comes from a different angle. It's hard to describe. Yeah, yeah not the music is not even close to the same. I'm not saying that. Yeah, Just a, and she has that tone to it, like that but look. it's It's cool. I like it. I mean, she's not afraid. She's not afraid to express herself, and that's awesome.
00:04:15
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Yeah, the the the show was great. Jealous. so Yeah, it was a pretty awesome my show. I should have went, but, you know. That would be a good one. That would be a good one. ah next Like if she comes around again, said, I was surprised she even came to Cleveland because she's so, you know, the one thing is she's got a pretty large support group of the LGBT community. So you get to witness a lot of that.
00:04:42
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oh so I was kind of surprised to see her even come to Cleveland. I thought maybe she was doing it just because it's at the rock hall because she got a, ah she won three Grammys this year And i think she inducted somebody into the Rock Hall or is about to.
00:05:00
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I forget. Yeah. But ah she she does like little docu-series type of things about rock and roll and the history of music. So I was wondering if she kind of did this because of the Rock Hall.
00:05:12
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Anyways, if she's coming here again. in the hall good for the Hall. Yeah, exactly. Anyways, if she's coming here again, i will probably, i would go see her again and I would like to see her at a place where I can,
00:05:24
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I don't where they're seating, I guess. Oh, I gotcha. You know, I worked all day and then I stood for another freaking... Yeah, stood all day at work and then you stood all day at the... Yeah, it was a long night. I was pretty tired.
00:05:39
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There was an opening band called Gustav, which is a female lead singer. i would It was a strange... I took a listen to them...
00:05:51
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before we went to the show and I didn't like It's, don't, I don't even, they're kind of like punk eighties, punky.
00:06:03
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I don't even know what you would call that one either. And, oh I would say i I still didn't really like it. It wasn't my thing, but you know, they were good as far as like music, musicianship and stuff. They were pretty darn good.
00:06:22
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Yeah, I don't know if there's been many opening bands that I've liked. Unless I went to see the opening band. There's been a couple of those shows to go see an opening band. But most opening bands, you're like, eh, you know, they're opening.
00:06:33
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yeah Yeah, it was a good opportunity for them. I thought they were unique. i could see why i think could see why somebody would like them. i just It was my thing. I think one of the few opening bands that I ended up liking, actually, we talked about them last week, Alice in Chains.
00:06:51
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Oh, yeah, yeah. I saw them before I knew who they were. They opened up for Van Halen during the Foreign Lawful Car Lounge tour. They were at Blossom. and i said And we were there. We had seats under the pavilion. We sat and listened to most of their set.
00:07:02
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i didn't think it was bad. was just like Ellis in chains. That's a odd name for a band. and then I think i remember making fun of him because Lane Staley tripped as he, as he went off stage on the, after the final song.
00:07:13
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But I mean, you know, and I will age myself right now. I just did too. I guess we did. Uh, My favorite opening band that I ever saw was Metallica.
00:07:26
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Oh, wow. Yeah, you did. You just outdid me. Thank you. Yeah. I saw them open for Ozzy at Richfield Coliseum. Oh, my gosh. What a show. Ultimate Centaur. I think that was 87. They came around.
00:07:39
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wonder what album they were on. Metallica. That had to be Ride the Lightning or Kill Em All. I think it was Ride the Lightning. i don't I don't know even because I didn't know who they were. um my One of my top albums was probably Rides of Lightning.
00:07:52
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Yeah. i mean they twenty Top 25 probably. Metal albums. it was it was They had this tiny part of the stage set up for them. Yep.
00:08:03
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And but it was just purple and white lights on them. And it was just, it was, it was cool. It was, I i didn't, I, yeah, shit. oh Sorry.
00:08:15
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Anyways, I was, ah I was probably, i think I was 15 when that came around. Yeah. Or 15 or just turned 16. I wasn't able to drive yet. I know i went with older friends from, from high school.
00:08:30
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Yeah. I, I, uh, uh, well we can, I'll just stop cause I could keep going on. And the reasons I was at a lot of concerts, um, when I was younger, um, thanks to my brother for buying everybody's tickets and half of them.
00:08:42
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So,
00:08:44
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Anyway, i do have one. and do have to do a listener request. i We had we had ah listener request, something from me. It complimented me, I guess, so I figured I'd help him out with a little.
00:08:56
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Excuse me. and I know it's unprofessional, but you'll see why.
00:09:04
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Welcome to 1099 The Frog. We can get smooth jazz and traffic and weather on the 8s. There you go. That's for you. The Dulcic Tones of Rob.
00:09:17
Speaker
Smooth jazz and traffic and weather on the eights. Why aren't they on the eights? We don't know. Sounded good. Anyway, little comic relief before we get into and to our first story here.
00:09:32
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And get comfortable, people, because we may be here for a minute or two. ah We're going to do a slightly deeper dive than we normally do, I think, on this one, just because it's gotten so much attention. And as I started digging into it over the last week, there's some good stuff here. so What are we talking about? We're talking about crime stats, talking about Trump suggesting more cities get National Guard. We talked about DeWine getting heat because he he offered he was asked and supplied couple hundred MPs from the Ohio National Guard, got some heat for it.
00:10:07
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um And let's start with, I guess, a backgrounder here from um News Channel 5. I think this is about a week or so ago. this but I think it was a but week after, oh, I should also say,
00:10:19
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Again, we talked about a couple of weeks ago, JD Vance making comments after that brawl in Cincinnati and everybody going, but what crime? Look at the crime stats. They're great. And and so here we are.
00:10:30
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It's a little backgrounder so we can catch up. ah This is new channel five.
00:10:35
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It's News 5 at 6. It started with the vice president. How many of you all have wanted to go to downtown Akron or downtown Canton or downtown Columbus for a meal, but you're worried? One week ago.
00:10:48
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The local authorities in these big cities have allowed lawlessness to run wild. Northeast Ohioans fired back. People from out of town that don't know what Canton's all about. whole city of Akron have changed.
00:10:59
Speaker
It's not the same. And if you think it's the same, you haven't been in Akron, you haven't lived in Akron. You're going to anywhere and find somewhere that's a little sketchy. Now, another politician is sounding off about safety in Ohio cities.
00:11:11
Speaker
Now, despite the political back and forth studies show violent crime is actually down across the country in the first half of 2025. The Council on Criminal Justice reports that in 11 of 13 categories, the rate of violent offenses was lower than it was in the first half of last year.
00:11:27
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News 5's John Kosick found people on both sides of the aisle now taking credit for that. but it comes to crime, the year 2025 is off to a good start in cities across the country.
00:11:37
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The Council of Criminal Justice found homicides in the 30-city study down 17% compared to last year. Aggravated assaults down 10%, gun assaults 21%, robberies down 20%.
00:11:48
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As for Cleveland, no exception. Same here. So all of our part one, which are our high violent felonies, are all down. They've been down all year. We find that, you know, Our actions are working. Our homicide solve rates are, you know, at 70 percent right now. Do you attribute that to anything?
00:12:05
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i can't answer 100 I'm grateful for it. While she won't say, the Department of Homeland Security will, attributing the decline in a pulse on acts to the policy. Thank you.
00:12:22
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postproing bib to write an op-ed for msnbc stating it's egregiously misleading and brazenly hypocritical of the white house to try to take credit and the truth is that it's all happening in spite of donald trump ah because of him.
00:12:34
Speaker
He said, despite President Trump's policies, which policies was he talking about? Was he talking about the lower taxes, the child tax credit? You know, when politicians make stupid comments like that, I don't normally pay a lot of attention to it He said it's... Wait, just real quick.
00:12:51
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I know I made fun of Amy for it, but yeah sometimes Marino, that's Marino, I believe. ah Sometimes he sounds a little drunk, too. so I just want to be, you know, fair. I think most of them are drunk.
00:13:02
Speaker
I think he just has that, he has a little, you know, but sometimes, like Amy does, I think, but it's like, you know, sometimes I wonder. Continuing. Instead of taking shots at the Trump administration, Bibb should focus his efforts on making Cleveland better. And if the mayor wants to play politics, he can play politics. But the reality is Cleveland's got lots of problems.
00:13:19
Speaker
And working to fix those problems, Bibb says, isn't political. I said focus, Senator Moreno, about your op-ed last week, yeah this morning. Yeah. And he was saying, called it playing politics. You should be focusing on the city and improving it.
00:13:31
Speaker
You see what you said in that op-ed is political. I'm speaking truth to power. Oh, um and it's important for our administration to communicate the progress that we're making and to continue to get community buy-in.
00:13:43
Speaker
Okay. Before I stop again. Now, what could the city mayor do to help crime? There's a lot of things. I would ask you, Tom, to guess what he would do in this situation, but you're never going to guess. so I'm not to, I'm just going to play the clip and you'll find out. It's very important.
00:14:01
Speaker
Something you'll see he's going to do. This is, this is really going to help watch. Something he says they're doing every day, including a safety walk plan for this very evening. A safety walk. All we need is a good partner in the White House and in Congress to help us continue that progress.
00:14:15
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Something Murray's evening. All we need is a good partner in the White House and in Congress to help us continue that progress. Something Moreno says they have been and will continue to be. We're going to be announcing some...
00:14:27
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ideas and some strategies on how we're going to address taking back our cities. In Cleveland, John Kasich, News 5. All right, let that play. So why does the city of Cleveland need a good partner in the White House and Congress to fix crime in their little teeny city?
00:14:43
Speaker
That was the first question. Second, a safety walk. Woo-hoo!
00:14:50
Speaker
I was going to cut that clip up a couple of times, but I had to leave that that safety walk in. That was just too good. He's going on a walk, guys. He's going on a walk. Safety walk. So again, we had Vance come in and make these comments, and we've had news reports over and over again stating how crime is down. what what is What is going to happen? What are these people going to do in D.C.? So part of this article that we have from Fox 8,
00:15:18
Speaker
They have a clip in there from the AP. It's an AP clip. It's actually, I mean, a Fox 8 story. an AP story. And here's part of the clip because this was a just over a minute long clip. After I took out all the pauses in the um breaks and it went down to 42 seconds.
00:15:39
Speaker
but Wow. Yeah. So, and I just here but just, you know, he's very confused on what's going on. So we'll just play. see what he Yes, see. Interestingly, despite national data that shows violent crimes declining, there is a difference in public opinion.
00:15:57
Speaker
um A majority of Americans bold have said recently that they believe that crime is a major problem in big cities. So there's a perception that runs counter to some of those statistics.
00:16:11
Speaker
While the president has talked about violence, unacceptable rash of violent crime. It's interesting that experts say that more than 90% of police calls have nothing to do with violent crime. It's really unclear what the Guard members would do in these big cities.
00:16:29
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What are they going to do in these big cities? I mean, Trump is suggesting that more cities could need needs National Guard, and he's not sure
Cleveland Crime Rates and Reporting Issues
00:16:40
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what they would be doing there.
00:16:42
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Well, here, you know,
00:16:45
Speaker
I mean, just just at a random stab at the news on and on X, maybe something they could help out with this. A downtown Cleveland restaurant worker was assaulted. The perpetrator caught on camera, but at last check still hasn't been caught.
00:17:01
Speaker
Here's News 5's Kaylee Olivas with more details. In an alleyway off 9th Street, right next to Sausalito's, a man brutally attacked a woman right here, leaving her with several injuries, walking away as if nothing had happened. Truthfully, I never gave it a second thought, like coming out here and being out here by myself or walking employees to their car.
00:17:22
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um But yeah, most definitely now it's it's definitely, it's very rattling. Charlotte Siegel is a manager at Sausalito on 9th. Next to the restaurant is this cut through. It's kind of secluded, but there is a parking lot around the corner and a camera that captures every move.
00:17:39
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On Wednesday afternoon, an employee of Sausalito was out pressure washing some catering equipment. She had her back turned while a man was walking by. Surveillance shows he looks behind him, sees no one else is around, puts his belongings down.
00:17:54
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And then skipped over the alley. He jumped her and attacked her and brutally beat her. The assault. Not even 30 seconds long, but a part of the victim's left arm is fractured.
00:18:06
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She also suffered head trauma as well as cuts and bruising all over her body. She survived. And that's the one thing that we just keep reminding her is, you know, you survived this and to kind of hold on to that.
00:18:17
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um Still very traumatized by it. Now, the mystery is, where's the guy who did this? And who is he? Video shows once the beating ended, he collected his things, smashed a wine bottle, and went on about his day.
00:18:32
Speaker
We've asked Cleveland police for information on the suspect's whereabouts, but no one was available on Thursday to give comment. The agency is working on it, though. The only update that we received was yesterday. They said that they did track him to an RTA bus.
00:18:46
Speaker
um The officer said he used some form of a card. He's saying because he used that card and the camera's on the bus, they think that that's like a strong lead. um But obviously... So thinking if they had a few more police officers, maybe somebody could have returned comment to the news organization that was asking. I just thought maybe that's one thing they can do.
00:19:08
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Can think of any others? Anybody?
00:19:12
Speaker
Leaving room for Tom. You know, there's something I was going to bring up later in this story here. I can keep going you want to hold it. But you know, Cleveland in 2019 had over 1,600 officers and down to like 1,100 and something.
00:19:26
Speaker
Yeah. nineteen had over or over sixteen hundred officers and we're down to like eleven hundred and something It's still under 1,200, 1,137 officers.
00:19:44
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And
00:19:48
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some of them are actually working, they're approved to work a second job, meaning they're cops somewhere else. Like we talked about last week, the crime is so good in Cleveland, they asked the kaga county, which we'll touch on later, to help.
00:20:03
Speaker
that's That's how good the crime stats are in Cleveland. Yeah, no, it's it's it's it's awful. But something's going on. because Well, okay. you know Crime hasn't gone down.
00:20:15
Speaker
It's just not being reported, and it's being reported differently than it was ah five, six years ago. I think you are correct, but also think there's something else going on. and he did They did touch on it a bit, which was their removal, you know, or at least ice ice or ice showing up in these big cities some of the times and and cracking down. That could be part of it. because So pulled Akron's stats.
00:20:38
Speaker
I pulled an article from a couple years ago. Some of these numbers are. go ahead. Well, yeah, that could have something to do with it. But I think um um crime has been going down.
00:20:49
Speaker
There was a spike in crime in 2020 or 2021 early, you know, during the pandemic. It's gone down since then. and Leading up to of COVID, I think it FBI would say it was on a down downward trend.
00:21:03
Speaker
Right. For many decades. Right. Until and then until COVID. And then there was a, it's it's been a downward trend since the 90s, which probably probably since the internet really kept, you know.
00:21:15
Speaker
ah But anyways, ah it's been on a downward trend, slowly trending downwards. And then 2020, and, you know, you could blame it on the lockdowns, basically.
00:21:26
Speaker
Yeah, but... So let's talk about year over year, though. Let's not talk about 2020. Let's look at Akron stats from okay from last year to this year. First half of last year to first half of this year. Because in my mind, if you drop crime, if you drop robberies by 2% or 3%, that seems like it would be a good significant drop. 5%, 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%. 18% down. Yeah.
00:21:50
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eighteen percent down Okay. What do you, I think that's how it's reported. ah I'm getting there. I'm getting there Okay. ah Oh, sorry. No, you're fine. No, no, you're fine. I'm i no i'm just saying I'm, um' we're laying it out. So I oh, I got clips, Tom.
00:22:05
Speaker
Okay. um So I just wanted to hit some of these because to me, to to your point, I'm not saying that I think, I think it has a lot to do with it. And that has a lot of that. Maybe that's had a lot to do with it over the last 20 years, but year over year,
00:22:21
Speaker
uh, what I mean by, uh, less 20 years reporting discrepancies and the way they report. Um, But just for Akron, year over year, first half of 24, the first half of 25, 18% robberies down, felony assaults, 16%.
00:22:36
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sixteen percent so Overdose deaths down 46%. Breaking and entering is down from 281 to 245. Some reason they gave me percentage. ah Auto thefts down 28%.
00:22:49
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Shooting victims down from 92 adult victims to 46. That's like half, literally half, I think. No, it's just it's like 40% low. ah calls for service
00:23:03
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calls for service. Yeah. I would love to know this. Well, it's maybe not much as you thought. So down from first half 2023 Akron, 2024 in akarron there in the first half of there were was So that's That's,
00:23:18
Speaker
What's the percentage of that? That's like 5%, isn't it? No, 6, 7, 10% would be, yeah, that's like 5, 6, 7%. Okay. But that's significant. Like you saying. It Yeah. Okay. um Murders remained about the same, which is 12.
00:23:34
Speaker
About the same. It's either the same or not the same. So there's that. But they're saying it's 12. Okay. I call BS because that seems like a lot to come down year over year.
00:23:49
Speaker
Oh, for sure. if If this is the case, wonderful, wonderful. But is that really the case?
00:23:59
Speaker
So let's go to the next clip. which is a one I pulled out from NBC4 out of Washington, D.C.
00:24:11
Speaker
This clip, I think, is from or three weeks ago. and oh Yeah, I think it was ah first, second week in August. And they're reporting on or they're talking about a report that they did back in May.
00:24:25
Speaker
And let's see, maybe, you know, let me go to my clip setup notes here because there's probably something else I wanted to say. Yeah. Maybe well we were in this clip, we can find out where maybe some of this National Guard in D.C. coming from and the Trump administration.
00:24:41
Speaker
Let's listen to what they had to say.
00:24:46
Speaker
These allegations of manipulating crime statistics has been around for quite some time now. was back on May 22nd that the D.C. Police Union actually put out a press release and made that allegation. Then News 4 began to look into it. Police Union.
00:24:59
Speaker
And we broadcast and publish our own story back on July 18th. And now we've learned the Justice Department has launched its own investigation. Last month, News 4 first reported that MPD Commander Michael Pulliam had been placed on paid administrative leave, accused of manipulating crime data in the 3rd District.
00:25:21
Speaker
Pulliam denies the allegations. In that same report, the chairman of the D.C. Police Union, Greg Pemberton, said the manipulation of crime data was common in the department and done to make it appear violent crime was lower than it actually is. Hold on a second. So I think we I said last week they caught wind of this in a couple articles.
00:25:43
Speaker
they They'll creatively lower the crime. On scene. And a lot of these cops are told to do it. This is what they're going to touch on. On scene? On scene. Okay. When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense.
00:26:09
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So instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or carjacking, ah they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification. peberton Pemberton is the union head of the police union.
00:26:29
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His members are coming him and coming to him and telling him this.
00:26:34
Speaker
And his members are telling other members to do it because the lieutenants are showing up. They're part of the union, too. OK, let's continue. that When the classifications are changed, they are not reflected in the violent crime statistics. Oh, you mean at the time of our initial report, D.C. crime data shows violent crime was down 26 percent when compared to the same time last year.
00:26:56
Speaker
And overall crime was down 8 percent. Our report caught the attention of President Trump, who mentioned it at his news conference a week ago Monday and last night posted to Truth Social that the D.C. Police Department was under serious investigation.
00:27:14
Speaker
But in an interview last week with News 4's Mark Seagraze, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the D.C. Police Internal Affairs investigation into changing crime stats was only focused on Commander Pulliam. I think that what Paul's reporting revealed is that the chief of police had concerns about one commander.
00:27:37
Speaker
investigated all seven districts ah and verified that the concern was with one person. so ah we are completing that investigation. The mayor's office today declined to comment on the new federal investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
00:27:55
Speaker
Not so chatty now, are you? Not so chatty now. And let's just finish this News Channel 4 off. I got one more clip. This is, so what it what what did the police chief have to say? That was the mayor that had no comment.
00:28:08
Speaker
Here's what the, they they they asked. They asked for comments from all these people. And here's what they got. and And Paul, we know that you mentioned ah about Chief Smith. She did not want to go on camera, but you did speak to her at length and give you a statement. What did she tell you?
00:28:23
Speaker
Yeah, back ah on July 18th, the chief came to the television station. I sat down and I interviewed her for about an hour. It was on the record, but she didn't want to go on camera.
00:28:34
Speaker
And afterwards, she instead decided to give us a statement. I'm quoting now from this statement that she gave us at the time. She says, I do not condone any official reclassifying criminal offenses outside the guidelines set in MPD policy. Any allegation of this behavior will be dealt with through an internal process. So that's what she said at the time. It's curious to know how she's responding to this information now today.
00:29:02
Speaker
We're still working on that. Yeah, let me me clue you in. She's trying to cover her butt right button now.
00:29:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And then that led me to a New York Post story.
00:29:18
Speaker
Headline, this is ah August 13th. Headline, Democrats are hiding the rise in violent crime with tricky statistics. Tricky statistics. So it's a pretty, pretty ah in-depth article. And they are, they go through some of the claims, you know, from the campaign saying that crime went up under Trump.
00:29:40
Speaker
This New York Post article says, but the opposite is true. Between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022. and soared by forty three percent under biden between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two So, of course, news outlets are routinely asserting the article says that Americans are mistaken and believing that violent crime is rising.
00:30:03
Speaker
Don't believe what your eyes believe what we tell you. Believe what we tell you.
Urban Crime Policies and Their Effectiveness
00:30:08
Speaker
um So typical Axios headline they're saying is new data shows violent crime dropped sharply in major U.S. cities.
00:30:16
Speaker
And PR, same thing, violent crime dropping. So they then they bring up. There are two measures of crime. One is the FBI's NIBRS, which counts the number of crimes reported to police yearly. And then there's another one that's mostly used as the Bureau of justice Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey.
00:30:42
Speaker
o That's a mouthful. They they generally ask about 240,000 people each year whether they've been victims of a crime in an attempt to measure both reported and underreported crimes and unreported crimes.
00:30:55
Speaker
And what they found is since 2020, these two measurements have been highly... They're opposite. Opposite, yeah. Right, negatively correlated. The FBI has been um finding fewer instances of crime, but people have simultaneously answering in greater numbers that they have been victims.
00:31:18
Speaker
Why is that? Well... According to the article where we talked about, we just heard what maybe what's going on in DC, but more to your point, I think this article goes to, and they're saying that there is a drop in reporting.
00:31:35
Speaker
um So they're saying, but yearly, um ah like I just got lost in the article. Oh, here we go. um So they say, we know ah crime victims report ah only about 40% of the violent crimes and about 30% of property crimes to police.
00:31:53
Speaker
Okay. um But every year from 2020 on when these figures have moved in opposite directions, for instance, 2020, the FBI reported 2.1 drop in violent crime, but the NCVS showed an alarming increase of 42%, 42.4%, largely the the largest one year percentage increase in violent crime ever reported by that measure.
00:32:16
Speaker
Okay. So we got all that down. I'm just want to make sure I get everything. right but but Okay. Okay.
00:32:22
Speaker
um So... Arrest rates plunged. Yes. So FBI data shows arrest rates plunged for reported crimes in such cities, plunged by more than half, 44% in the five years before COVID pandemic, and just 20% by 2022, the largest drop ever.
00:32:44
Speaker
All right. So why do why are they thinking there's a drop here? that's what I'm trying to get to. And what they're saying is, because um Because of defunding of the police, they've lost effective officers to retirement since the pandemic and ah ah demoralized because of of the the protests in and the defund the police movement.
00:33:10
Speaker
um It says, ah court ah compounding the problem is that fewer than half of all police departments are providing complete crime data to the FBI since the reporting system changed in 2021. I mean,
00:33:26
Speaker
i mean if you just don't report it, it will go down. Well, there's there's ah other reasons, too, they don't report it. it's i I believe it's the prosecutors or the...
00:33:40
Speaker
District attorney, you know, if if they're not going to go after these people or if they're just going to let them go anyways, they they don't even bother arresting them. People lose confidence in the police and they just stop calling.
00:33:55
Speaker
Example could be Akron with 3,000 less reports or year over year. Could be just crimes down. Could be people just get sick of...
00:34:06
Speaker
calling about the guy running around your neighborhood trying to stab people, and then the cops take him away, and then two days later, he's back again. Mm-hmm. So why do I call the cops?
00:34:19
Speaker
Right. That's kind of, there's a lot of that. There's a lot, know, you got, you got cashless, you have cashless bails now and, uh, prosecutors that aren't going after people.
00:34:30
Speaker
You have also many cities. i you know, Cleveland's not one of them. I don't believe so. I know I'm certain it's not, but there are a lot of cities that,
00:34:41
Speaker
You know, if you rob a store and it's under $700 or under $900, they don't even bother coming out. Yes. I totally forgot about that. Yes. yeah major major Major cities like l LA, Chicago, for example, if you steal up to $700 or $900 and cops cannot, they won't arrest you. they've They've literally set policy that way and announced it.
00:35:05
Speaker
Yeah. You've seen in a lot of these cities, like places like CVS are just pulling out because groups of 20, 30 people will rush the store and just fill up bags of stuff off the shelf.
00:35:18
Speaker
I think it was San Francisco. they ah It was $700, and then they raised it to, I think, just under $1,000. The ah it parts of San Francisco, cisco are it's a ghost town there. that That was a great city at one point.
00:35:34
Speaker
Yeah. You know, i think it's where it good. Oh, yeah. Businesses have moved out. I mean, you just all you see is boarded up CVS's or or Walgreens, whatever they have out there.
00:35:46
Speaker
Yeah, that happens once a month. you're You can't make any money. you a you cut you have a store for the next week that has nothing in it because it's basically been cleaned out. And then, like, how do you how does that store stay profitable?
00:35:59
Speaker
That happens one time and the store is losing money. And who wants to go shop there? Because once once they figure out they got to put everything behind glass, you know, you know i I get PO'd when there's a few things behind glass at my local CVS.
00:36:17
Speaker
You know, it's like, i don't want to go shopping there. So people find other ways to shop for the same stuff. Yeah. Like I have to, uh, I have to like show my ID just to get some sinus medicine because.
00:36:28
Speaker
Exactly. Somebody's going to crush them and pretend like they're breaking bad or something. Right. Heisenberg's Heisenberg's. Yes. All right. So here's, here's the one I was looking for. So in 2022 in cities with more than a half a million people, only 8% of violent crimes reported and underreported and only 1% of property crimes resulted in arrest.
00:36:50
Speaker
That's why nobody's reporting.
00:36:53
Speaker
Right. So you could see maybe as we listen to this crime stat story from the News Channel 4 out of D.C., it was picked up by the Trump administration. We had that we talked about one of the Trump um cabinet or the Doge, members of Doge or whatever, they ah who got who was trying to intervene in a mugging in D.C., who got but put in a hospital or whatever.
00:37:16
Speaker
you know He got himself beat. And we we can't go without saying his nickname, which is Big Balls.
00:37:24
Speaker
So he ah apparently does have big balls because as he's trying as a woman is getting beat up by a group of couple of group of guys, I think it was most likely he intervened and got himself beat up to.
00:37:37
Speaker
yeah And you have this then you have this story come out.
00:37:41
Speaker
Oh, I was going to say big balls is a hero, actually. Yeah, right. Yeah. He saved the woman possibly from getting more severely injured or or worse. Okay, so maybe we can see why, a Trump wanted to intervene in D.C., because we see the story about them flubbing the stats.
00:37:59
Speaker
Oh, we've got one guy doing it. How many other people are doing we've already checked. We checked. We're good. Nothing here to see. Everybody go home. Yeah, okay, so the cops checking cops. How about we have an independent check on it, please?
00:38:14
Speaker
Yeah. And we have all this other stuff we just talked about. But also we have what, mean, getting rid of illegal alien criminals that can help too.
00:38:26
Speaker
That's helping too. Yeah. So everybody wants to take it's compounding things, you know? Yeah. But I think those huge numbers like out of Akron, there's more than just Trump deporting people.
00:38:37
Speaker
There's something else going on there. Either something there, I guess my point to this, to these cities like Akron and Cleveland and Columbus, saint whoever, show me what you've done to change. Where's your, where's the pivot point to justify these stats?
00:38:50
Speaker
Like, have you implemented something? And we're going to get into the downtown safety patrol in Cleveland later. and They also, ah you know, I was going to say that they also, one of the ways they do this, and and we kind of, we touched on it, but they changed the definition of crimes.
00:39:07
Speaker
Right. That's kind of what it was saying in the clip. Like the lieutenant will come in and say, ah, this more looks like just an injury to the hospital. Yeah, no, but they... They legitimately do it, at too like, ah like ah as far as officially changed the definition of crimes. Yeah, good point.
00:39:23
Speaker
And, you know, they've changed the definition of, and I i pay attention to the, um you know, Second Amendment, and and they ah they've changed crimes, you know, the mass shooting crimes, they've changed the definition of that. They've changed the definition of children.
00:39:39
Speaker
They've, you know, well, there's there's a number of things where they change the definition. All of a sudden, ah in one year, shootings have become the biggest danger to children. And it was just because they raised the children from 17 to 21.
00:39:56
Speaker
And who's, you know, you yeah, yeah you know there's a bunch of seven, between 17 and 21 year olds that we considered adults that are dying from gunshot wounds. And that's, and that's gang related.
00:40:09
Speaker
Are you saying this is not the only place they manipulate this? Are you? Oh, no, no, no, not not even close. I'm, they do it everywhere, everywhere. And we'll talk about it later. But one of the things, uh, for school shootings, here's an example of a school shooting.
00:40:22
Speaker
Cops chase two guys around whatever city they end up in a school parking lot. yeah The cops get out and they shoot at each other. That is reported as a school shooting. It could be a midnight.
00:40:34
Speaker
It's reported. It's on school property. A school property is reported as a school shooting. ah Even even the um if If an officer is in the school, and this happened a couple years ago, this happened, this might have, I might be going back to 2016 or 17, but an officer was at a school doing a demonstration and his, ah being a retard, he discharged his weapon on accident and that was considered a school shooting. Yeah.
00:41:07
Speaker
you know it but So you can make stats yeah really, can make you can really. You can change things around and make it look like however you want to make it look. Not to say you can't look at stats. They are a one, they are one look at the situation. They are one view of the situation is one, one piece of the puzzle, not the whole puzzle.
00:41:28
Speaker
Right. That's, that's way I look at it. So you can maybe see why Trump would want to intervene in D.C., like I said. And then we can see as we look through like this, they're talking about New York and Chicago, you know, the way they underreport, change the change the ah crime, all this other stuff.
00:41:47
Speaker
It's happening in D.C. It's happening elsewhere. So maybe we can see why Trump would suggest that this could work in other cities.
00:41:57
Speaker
So he does that and you know, all I actually think he's doing that. I don't think he's going to do anything. yeah. Maybe. Yeah. I have, maybe, but have my I know why he's doing it. Yes. We'll get to that at the end.
00:42:11
Speaker
like got a couple more clips and I have, ah i think we're on the same page, but I have my, uh, I have my, my theory of his strategy. All right. But before, ah guess I should stop this cause you know, I, i planned, planned for this comic relief because I figured I was going to get in these,
00:42:28
Speaker
all these clips and you know me, Tom, I get all excited. So I plan to comment. So before I go any further, i got a couple more clips left. Let's just, just calm down and do a little, have a little laugh here.
00:42:39
Speaker
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00:42:51
Speaker
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00:43:04
Speaker
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Crime Policies and Political Strategies
00:43:15
Speaker
Ground beef, refried beans, guacamole, cheese, sour cream. And if there's any room left, a few shreds of lettuce. I'll see. Some may ask, is your taco salad healthy?
00:43:29
Speaker
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00:43:39
Speaker
You put the beast in fiesta. Mr. Giant Taco Salad Invasion. Bud Light beer and said, which one comes from?
00:43:51
Speaker
I was eating a salad the other and I'm like, this reminds me, because this is not healthy. That was one of my, one of my top favorite of those commercials is that one. Cause it's so true.
00:44:03
Speaker
Is that healthy? It's a salad, isn't it? 12,000 calorie salad. It was a Caesar salad people. It wasn't a taco salad, but it just, by the time I put the cheese and the croutons and the Parmesan crisps and more cheese and the dressing and like, yeah, this is,
00:44:20
Speaker
was like, eat a burger. Hell, and there's some dressings. If you just put the dressing on the salad, it's... Oh, yeah. Yeah, Caesar dressing. Caesar, right like a good, you know, like a... Well, any dressing is terrible nowadays because it's all seed oils, but... True, yeah. I was going to the Italian is not bad, but not a few years in... Your best thing to do is just some balsamic vinaigrette and but some olive oil.
00:44:44
Speaker
what Tom, I want a 12,000-calorie salad. It gets you through the week. No, we do. ah Commercial's better because at one point in the commercial, in the video part of the commercial, he's on the he's on exercise, Blake, in front of the TV eating his salad.
00:45:04
Speaker
Okay. So on to more... Doom, doom, doom. I'm just kidding. This is... um continue on. Like I said, maybe maybe we've seen why Trump wants to suggest to spread this to other cities.
00:45:21
Speaker
Maybe we really see why he wants to do this and at least do this in D.C. because look what they're doing with the stats. possibly you know this is So he's seen this. He's seen big balls getting his butt kicked and you know trying to save a woman. And maybe this is someone's motivation.
00:45:37
Speaker
So then he goes, ah, we can put this in in some more blue cities like Chicago. Oh my gosh, they lost their just lost their their loving mind. Well, that's why you did it. Yes, that's why you did it.
00:45:48
Speaker
It is an 80-20 issue. i don' I don't think most people want federal involvement in their city, but crime is an eighty twenty issue. So when you make Democrats look like they're um supporting crime, you're winning. That's just what's happening.
00:46:05
Speaker
i've I have two clips from one of my favorite YouTubers, which is ah ah liberal hive mind. Okay. You ever check them out? i've I've heard some stuff from them, yeah. Yeah.
00:46:16
Speaker
So I catch them on occasion. You know, um some of the stuff's redundant for me, but this one was pretty good. he had some clips in it. I figured I'd pull it. And one of the ah stats he shows, like you were saying, the 80-20 issue, is he's pulling up this Associated Press Center for Public Affairs Research.
00:46:33
Speaker
is the source of this poll. And the percentage of... Who says crime is a quote unquote major problem in large cities? Start with Republicans because this is not shocking.
00:46:43
Speaker
96% of Republicans say it's a major problem. Okay. Independence. Okay. 72% of independents say it's a major problem.
00:46:56
Speaker
Okay. What Democrat? but you Could you take a guess at what this poll would say? If you those two numbers, where would Democrats be? Well, they're going be the low. ah You know what? I don't know. Okay. I don't know. Because if you're going to, if you're going into the inner cities,
00:47:11
Speaker
Who are who are are they just, where are they um doing this? It's a result based on interviews with 1,182 U.S. adults conducted between blah, blah, blah, a margin of error. say I mean, it's it's a loose pulse. Margin of error is 3.8%.
00:47:24
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, I guess I'm just wondering, where they like, where who who, you know, the demographic that they're asking. But imagine it's random. It should be. Yeah, it should be. But, okay, so it's random. I'm going to say Democrats are s still going to be...
00:47:38
Speaker
Over 60%. Damn, you're good, Tom. Democrats in this poll say 68%. 68% of Democrats say it's a major problem.
00:47:50
Speaker
um As an aggregate, U.S. adults are at, can you guess, Tom? Can you guess? 81%. eighty one percent Yeah. yeah 80-20 issue, man.
00:48:01
Speaker
Let's see. So there's a liberal hive mine. He has ah has his a little bit of his own commentary, but he's also got some clips from a couple people. Let's see. What he has to say is I got two clips here. It's pretty good stuff here.
00:48:13
Speaker
Hey guys, welcome to the Liberal Hive Minot Channel, solely focused on exposing the abundant hypocrisy of the left. Well, once again, we've come full circle with another one of these ridiculous, totally dishonest left-wing narratives.
00:48:24
Speaker
After weeks of hysteria, after weeks of being told that Donald Trump's crackdown in Washington, D.C. was racist, fascist, it was a plot to put black people into labor camps. What? We believe...
00:48:36
Speaker
that the National Guard and the military occupation is the first step into rounding black people up and putting them in detainment camps here in Washington, D.C.
00:48:50
Speaker
and around the United States of America. It was obvious that this was going to be a losing issue for the Democrats. I mean, did they really think that this was going to fly? the military is not supposed to be used for ordinary law enforcement purposes. In D.C., he was talking about cleaning up the graffiti and, you know, dealing with the blight of homelessness, which are obviously local, not federal issues. yeah um ah you And he's trying to militarize our society, intimidate his political opponents. The whole idea of picking cities based on their partisan leadership is absurd. Wait, intimidate or embarrass um political.
00:49:34
Speaker
Opponents or policy opponents. is it Is it because they're Democrats or is it because of the policies they've enacted? Is he is he trying to intimidate or is he just trying to embarrass them? Hmm.
00:49:45
Speaker
That's interesting. I mean, there are lots of Republican cities in town struggling with crime. Everybody is across the country. Always. Crime has always been part of our history. part of our And yet crime is down in D.C., for example. It's at a 30 year Oh, well, you know, crime is just a part of American life. What can you do?
00:50:07
Speaker
Obviously, that wasn't going to fly. Nobody was buying their alternative solution. Big brain mayor from Chicago, Brandon Johnson, hitting us with a real radical brand new idea. Definitely not tried before. Do you believe that the streets of Chicago would be safer if there more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago?
00:50:28
Speaker
I believe the city of Chicago in cities across America would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing. look i but That's say not the question I asked. My question is, and I just need to answer a no. Do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer? Actual journalism. if If you got all of those other extraordinary programs put back into place, which do have a history of being successful, if that's if that's complemented by having 5000 more cops on the streets of Chicago.
00:51:03
Speaker
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to just police officers, Joe, is what I'm saying. That is an antiquated approach. I'm saying we've invested in detectives. You're hearing what I'm saying? I'm agreeing with you. Increased law enforcement activity doesn't affect crime.
00:51:17
Speaker
We just need more affordable housing. What a complete moron every time with these Democrat Marxists. They hit us with the most typical been there, done that, failed Marxist solution to a big societal problem as if it hasn't been tried before. Okay.
00:51:32
Speaker
okay So let's come, let's come all the way around. Yeah. I got clip two from liberal hive mind. Where are we at now? Where are we at now?
00:51:44
Speaker
He's got a little clip here from the um DC mayor might be kind of interesting. Let's see what she has to say. All right, folks. So again, after all the rhetoric, take a look at what DC Mayor Muriel Bowser just said. We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city.
00:52:09
Speaker
The most significant thing ah that we are highlighting today is the area of crime that was most troubling for us in 2023.
00:52:22
Speaker
Now, we have driven it down over the last years, but for carjackings, the difference between this period, this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year bar represents a 87% reduction um in carjackings in Washington, D.C.
00:52:43
Speaker
We know that when carjackings go down, when the use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer.
00:52:55
Speaker
So this surge has been important to us for that reason. Ah, isn't that funny? So now it's effective. Now he's keeping the city safe. Well, isn't it obvious what happened?
00:53:06
Speaker
They started to catch on to the fact that once again, they took an 80-20 issue, them of course taking the 20 side, and slowly but surely, probably the focus groups started to come in. They probably started to see data like this showing, surprise, surprise, most people think that crime in big cities is a problem.
00:53:21
Speaker
Who would have thought about the freaking focus groups to tell you that? And of course, they probably saw moments like these where CNN conducts a street interview. And well, let's just say it didn't go as they expected. um first reaction was that this is a good thing.
00:53:34
Speaker
I think that the governor, as well as ah the mayor, should be on board with it just so we can get a bit more of security in Chicago. The way that we need. the The crime has dropped since 2024. Do you feel like the city feels safer?
00:53:48
Speaker
No, not at all. No, especially with the police being defunded. Oh, that didn't go like you thought it did, what did you, CNN? I don't think the question was even done. She's like, no.
00:54:00
Speaker
I'm surprised she didn't turn around and say, you don't feel safer, but the stats are saying so. Yeah, why not? so they here we yeah I have seen interviews like that before where they're ah asking the the resident of the neighborhood if they feel safer and they say no, and then they argue with them.
00:54:20
Speaker
Yes. the The elitist from some other area or area of the state or country saying, no, no, no. See what the stats say? Yeah, but I live here.
00:54:30
Speaker
The CNN talking head that lives in a gated community. Right. like Like the guy from CNN and earlier, the first clip where he's like, well, it's just part of our culture. I mean, we've always dealt with crime. Yeah, he's an elitist in a gated community who he thinks, well, it's just, I mean, it's just a little crime.
00:54:45
Speaker
It's not like gunshots every night in the city of Cleveland and Akron and Columbus and all around. It's not just those cities, but you know what mean? It's like, yeah, when you're not feeling it, you don't think it's a big problem.
00:54:57
Speaker
So what's Trump doing? and Can Trump send the National Guard to U.S. cities without them asking for it?
00:55:08
Speaker
I think if if he yeah
00:55:12
Speaker
calls it an emergency. He calls it a national emergency, possibly, yes. think it would be challenged. i think Yeah, of course. I mean, there's going to be some district joke judge that tries to block it. Probably appointed by ah Obama.
00:55:26
Speaker
Good point, yes. yeah only I think the only real way he can do it easily or without any pushback is if the city says, please, yes, come bring it in. Of course. Yeah. So I don't think he actually wants.
00:55:41
Speaker
I mean, i think he maybe he wants to or thinks it would it would work. I don't think he's actually going to do it because i don't I think it's just like he can technically. I he had to do a national emergency thing and all that stuff, but I'd have a problem with the national emergency thing just to do this.
00:55:52
Speaker
I don't know. ah there's ah There was murders in Chicago last week. theyre therere They have that about every week. Yes. I would think that, I don't know, is it a national emergency? I don't know. i don't think so, but yeah i don't you there could be an argument for it.
00:56:11
Speaker
Yeah, I guess you can make an argument for it. i yeah i think it's i think you're reaching a little bit there at this point. I think it's more, to me, more likely... So here's here's here's what Trump does. he's he he can do the He can do D.C.
00:56:25
Speaker
because of the special circumstance in Washington, D.C. It's not a state, just a district, blah, blah. Right, right. But he can only do it for 30 days, I think. yeah Maybe he can extend it, this and that. yeah I think they've already extended it. I forget how how that goes, but they it after the it was days, but then have the go through a different process of extending it.
00:56:47
Speaker
And after the mayor's comments, we just heard saying pretty much, thank you. This is working. Right. Right. So he can do that. They can extend. you only So I think here's, here's what I see. Trump is doing this in DC.
00:57:01
Speaker
Crime is dropping. Everybody's screaming. He, he floats out. Well, we can do this in like Chicago and LA and stuff like that. Everybody flips out. all the All the leaders of those cities say, absolutely not.
00:57:14
Speaker
While the citizens are watching the news where everybody's talking about crime stats dropping by 70, 60, 80, 90% in D.C. And as you heard the person on the street from Chicago said, no, I think it's actually a good idea.
00:57:28
Speaker
think it's a good idea. So you now have 80-20 issue that your leaders in your city are saying, we don't want to take care of crime this way. we We're doing it good ourselves. Look at the crime stats.
00:57:40
Speaker
And then everybody's going everybody who lives in the city is looking around going, yeah, I see the crime stats every day. they're They're in my face every day. What the heck are you guys talking about? And you you start creating a divide, my opinion.
00:57:53
Speaker
Well, it's, a you know, you're going to get the ah people saying, oh, he's playing 5D chess. But no, no, he's just playing ah TDS. He's just playing chess.
00:58:05
Speaker
He's just playing chess, and he's playing to the ddf yeah TDS factor, meaning he could do whatever, and they're going to argue the opposite. So next year, when the midterms are in full effect, midterm elections are in full effect, the Republican Party can now put out a whole bunch of commercials with crime, crime in one, you know, and pictures of people doing crimes with Democrat liberals, liberal Democrats saying, no, crime's good.
00:58:39
Speaker
And we don't want any help. We don't need Trump's help. Right. You don't need Trump's help. I think this, he's he's playing pop. This is politics. He's making them look stupid. And one of my new favorite memes that I like to drop on um the ah TDS out there on on in social media is, you know, Trump's the, I think the first president in almost 100 years not to have a dog.
00:59:00
Speaker
You know why? Why? Because he's made the Democrat Party his bitch.
Listener Engagement and Media Critique
00:59:06
Speaker
That's why. And that's what, that's example of this right here. he's he He set them up, he set the bait and they took it every time they take it.
00:59:12
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80-20 issue. And it looks stupid.
00:59:18
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So there's that. So that's what's going on that's why That's why we're having all this crime. What crime? but Maybe it's not as what they seem, as what they're telling you.
00:59:29
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I think we're being lied to. I think there's a big part of these stats that we're just being lied to about. Again, what you done differently in these cities? I don't even get it anymore. like what are the What is the Democratic Party even doing at this point?
00:59:45
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but I mean, i don't, they're doing more of the same. That's, they keep, I don't know. Yeah, it's weird. It's astonishing. Just strategically, it seems. So it's like they're shooting themselves in the foot constantly and and cheering about it as they do it.
01:00:03
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, it troubles me. I mean, I'm not a fan of the Democratic Party. I'm not really a big fan of the Republican Party either, but There needs to be at least two parties.
01:00:16
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And i don't know, when's the last time we had two parties that and are actually have anything, just you know that that they don't just play together like these two do. um I think the country is healthier with two or three healthy political parties.
01:00:33
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More ideas are better. And the Democrats are just gone. They're gone. They don't have any ideas. They have no good. All their ideas are just, in my opinion, insane. And Republicans have plenty of crappy ideas too.
01:00:44
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hate to just keep picking on the Democrats, but my gosh. They make it easy. Yeah. Easier. That's why I look it and go, are they doing this on purpose? Like what, what's the strategy here? it doesn't make any sense at all. It's just, they're just, they've got blinders on and they're just, don't They're pushing forward. i think they are i think there is a faction of the Democratic Party that's trying to pull back the insaneness.
01:01:11
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That would be like Rocan. Yeah, Rocana. Rocana, is that what it is? I think it's Rocana. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, ah there is a faction. I'm trying to think of who. there I think it's more of the bureauc some of the bureaucrats that are in the Democratic Party.
01:01:31
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And the leadership, just like the yeah Republican leadership. They're all corrupt. ah Yeah. they Well, yeah. I mean, it really is a uniparty. it It's just. At the leadership level and up in that area.
01:01:45
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As you get down there, maybe as you get down to lower levels, maybe not so much, but the leadership is definitely. They all eat dinner together. They go golfing together. They, you know, they get their own adrenochrome together. It's.
01:01:57
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This is how it is. Once you get up there, you you you want to shut the door behind you so that nobody else can come up with you. Great. Hold on to that power as long as ah you can.
01:02:09
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01:03:11
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All right, Tom, I think you're ah you've been chomping at the bit for this one a little bit, huh? What's that? in safety sow in safe schools is the way I have it in the list. Yeah, i have I didn't read this story, so.
01:03:24
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Okay. I was just, it was the. um It's okay, we got a. yeah It was the national, you know, the, where was that? min Minneapolis? Minneapolis, yep. Yeah, the school shooting from Minneapolis. I just saw evil come out.
01:03:36
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evil come out Yes. Yeah. Here, let me play a little clip here from ah before we talk about DeWine. Yeah. This guy, he posted this on, his name John Hahn.
01:03:51
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Oh. And he's from Natick, Massachusetts. I think he's a gay dude. I'm assuming he had a rainbow flag posted behind him.
01:04:03
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And you know what? There's going to be a lot more of that coming up, you know, especially at these religious areas, you know, hey, we've had enough of your kind coming after public schools, right? It's about time. Yeah. Churches and Catholic schools and religious schools.
01:04:20
Speaker
It's about time they get their turn. That's what I think. That's what I think. I'm just going to sit back and watch people do it. I'm going to fucking laugh. I'm laughing about yesterday.
01:04:32
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you guys want to laugh about us? We're going laugh about you.
01:04:38
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That's just pure evil right there. Did anyone laugh when they shot up the gay bar in Florida about 10 years ago? No, I don't think so. I didn't know what happened.
01:04:49
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What? So that happened on a Saturday evening in Florida. Pulse nightclub.
01:04:58
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I remember that. Yeah. so So oddly enough, I believe the story is the guy had two, had one, one bar in mind or something. so another building in mind, I think it was another bar, but they had security or something to that effect.
01:05:13
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It could be mixing them up. Anyway, I could be mixed. I think that was a school, actually school shooting. Maybe anyway, forget that. Anyway. So this happened on a Saturday evening, the shooting of the gay club in Florida, Paul's nightclub.
01:05:26
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That Sunday, when when they were you know investigating and it had you know all these people here, cops and all this all the stuff, nobody was laughing.
01:05:38
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And i here's here's how I know this. Chick-fil-A, the evil, God-fearing fast food place, who's closed on Sundays, opened up a couple of locations and delivered food to the Pulse nightclub, to all the first responders at the Pulse nightclub. Nobody was laughing.
01:05:56
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That's what they were doing. That's what Christians do. That's what a lot of them, not everyone, but that's what they do. That was, uh, that was sick. Yeah. That was horrible. So I got one more here. That's bizarre. It's a Nebraska Senator. It's a, I want to play, I have a short version of it, but I want the long version to play out for it.
01:06:14
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It's a, call it's a three minutes long actually. Okay. But um I think I just want people to hear the, the, the insaneness in this person's, uh,
01:06:26
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voice as it goes through. Cool. Yeah, go.
01:06:33
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you, Mr. President. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people.
01:06:44
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That's what they're saying out there.
01:06:47
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They're standing in a circle in the rotunda saying that over and over again.
01:06:56
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Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people.
01:07:07
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We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here.
01:07:18
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We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here.
01:07:28
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We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here.
01:07:43
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We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people.
01:07:59
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Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. ah long here need trans people we love trans people um yeah need trans people A feeling mix coming on.
01:08:18
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Where's the remix at? We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people.
01:08:29
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We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here.
01:08:42
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We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people.
01:09:00
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We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people.
01:09:11
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You matter. You matter. We love trans people. Don't do it again. no
01:09:20
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So that's like, that we cow that's in our government. And the reason I'm playing that, if people don't know, you know what? is it? ah That was a Nebraska, Michaela Kavanaugh, a Nebraska senator. That's not happening in an Ohio. ah it might Well, it might be.
01:09:35
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ah I don't think so. But it's happening in our government over and over again. ah not not quite to that level that I've seen, but ah that same type of rhetoric.
01:09:47
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Wow. and um I wanted to, i I brought that up just because, you know, i'm I'm assuming that everybody knows, but if you weren't, if you're not paying attention, if you just heard there was a school shooting at yeah like church a church, Catholic school church, it was during mass and two kids were killed. and I think there were 15 injured. Yep.
01:10:13
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And, The newspapers and the media the mainstream media did not report that it was a trans...
01:10:23
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woman. Yes. So it was a man. They did not. Or barely. if they Barely. if they I think CNN mentioned it, but they mentioned it in a way that we should say her, not i wish him.
01:10:35
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ah wish I wish would have grabbed that article. I was reading one article, and it's not this one that we have posted ah from News Channel 5. No, it's not. um the ah Towards the end of the article,
01:10:49
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They say something to the effect of the shooter's gender was unclear, although back in whatever date, the shooter did change his name to her name
01:11:07
Speaker
on their birth certificate. Yeah. So how was it unclear again? The guy literally, I mean, the dude literally had ponytails in some of the pictures i saw. and And he changed his name to a woman's name. I think it's pretty clear.
01:11:18
Speaker
Right. but I asked my wife about it. She heard about it I go, you hear any interesting details that might stick out? She goes, no, what? I go, it's a dude being, pretending to be a woman. And oh they had a manifesto, which they really haven't played. Or if they did show anything from the manifesto, you have idiots.
01:11:39
Speaker
Okay. There was a picture of, hit of this guy's guns and he had written all kinds of stuff on his guns. And one of them was, kill President Trump.
01:11:51
Speaker
On the magazine, I think it was. Kill Donald Trump on the magazine, right? But the news reported it as they just wrote that he just wrote Donald Trump. So then there's idiots like ah Rosie O'Donnell saying it's a right right wing shooter.
01:12:09
Speaker
Yeah. um Well, because she's getting the reports either. And Rosie O'Donnell is overseas now. She lives in Europe or something, doesn't she? Something like that. I don't know. but i But I wanted, i what what started really pissing me off was, not you know, I expect them not to report that that was a trans shooter.
01:12:28
Speaker
But at some point they have to, because... The Denver shooter was trans. Aberdeen shooter was trans. The Nashville shooter was trans. The Georgia shooter was trans.
01:12:39
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Philadelphia shooter was trans. Iowa shooter, gender fluid. Uvalde shooter, a trans. Colorado shooter, trans. Minnesota shooter, trans. Okay.
01:12:52
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This needs to be reported on, at least. So yes you have, I would say, ah ah of the last...
01:13:03
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School shootings of the last five, six school shootings, they've all been trans. Tom, there's like 100 school shootings a day in America. You didn't know that? Well, yeah, the way the way they record it now.
01:13:14
Speaker
But anyways, it's it's insane.
Pharmaceutical Influence on Media and Mental Health
01:13:18
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And ah you got to we got to start talking about that. You know, the other thing is, back in the day, they used to talk about the SRIs that the kids were on.
01:13:28
Speaker
Yep. Now they don't. And they stopped. What's an SSRI in case people don't know? I like Ritalin. Yeah, it's a ah um but Prozac. um Antidepressants. Antidepressants. Any kind of drug. word Yeah.
01:13:42
Speaker
That can make you ah ah homicidal or suicidal. Yes. And they do have that. And when you stop taking them, that's a problem.
01:13:55
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So this is kind of where I was gonna leaning into was ah this again, that clip you played in these stories. Remind me of another one of my favorite memes I like to drop on X and elsewhere is it's the trans flag when and and um and bold letters over is make asylums great again.
01:14:14
Speaker
Because in my opinion, we got rid of most of the sane asylums around the country in lieu of medicine. problem with medicine is you can stop taking medicine and nobody knows until it's too late. I'm not saying this is that case.
01:14:30
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This is one of those cases. I'm saying your SSRIs, is yes, they can make you crazy, but also they can help you. But if you stop taking them, you go back to crazy. Yeah, but the the the biggest problem we've been finding, they they don't talk about it, and ah is that they're over prescribing these kids. They're giving them adult prescriptions for like 15, 14, 15, 16 year olds. So they get all this medication plowed into them.
01:14:58
Speaker
And meanwhile, meanwhile, the news used to talk about this back in the 90s. But what happened in 98? All of a sudden, they couldn't advertise.
01:15:09
Speaker
Yes. I advertise this. I advertise, Big Pharma advertises now on just about every news channel. Well, not just advertise. They are usually the largest advertiser. Well, yeah, it's 70% revenue for mainstream That's the 24-hour for ah um mainstream media so that now twenty four hour news Yeah. The Foxes and the CNNs.
01:15:32
Speaker
Yeah. And they can't. So they can't say anything. If they say something, they're going to pull back their advertising. So it when we made this legal, it made the mainstream media ah but worse.
01:15:47
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it it made them It made them liars, basically, because now they can't. They leave out the details of... things that And what happens in 99 is Columbine happens, and nobody mentions that those kids were on, I believe those kids were on Ritalin. At least one or two of them, at least one of them was, if not both.
01:16:04
Speaker
Yeah, so, no, it's the gun's fault. And, um you know, i have a number of guns. I lost them in a boating accident, so I don't have them anymore. But I did have a number of them, and they never left my house. Yeah.
01:16:18
Speaker
Yeah. Caused me a shooting. So I'm, I'll bring this up now because it's, you just brought it up. The gun, blaming the gun, blaming the gun. ah It reminded me of an article from our favorite news organization. I put that in quotes because it's the Babylon Bee. But ah the new Klug board game for liberals just has you blame the murder weapon.
01:16:39
Speaker
That's the headline. U.S. Hasbro Gaming announced that it was expanding its board game library with a brand new version of Klug where you blame the murder weapon and never solve any crimes.
01:16:51
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Clue, liberal edition, was being called the most important, the most interesting update in years for the popular game. Here's a quote. I'm terrible at Clue.
01:17:03
Speaker
I always lose, noted a board game enthusiast, Justin Coates. But in Clue, liberal edition, everybody loses. I'm so there. Is that Babylon B? This Babylon B. Yeah, said that really quickly at the beginning just to get it through. So in Clue, liberal edition, three to six players must solve the murderous murder of Mr. Bobby, a cisgender white health insurance CEO, and compete to be the first one to blame the murder weapon.
01:17:34
Speaker
where Where was Mr. Bobby murdered? With what weapon? Was it justified? these are the answers these are the answers that must be These are the answers that must be answered.
01:17:44
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These are the questions that must be answered before the liberal can safely close the case sawul and save the world. Mr. Bobby was killed with a gun. we need common sense gun laws.
01:17:56
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A happy, a happy looking non-binary person said in an exciting new TV spot, advertising the product. Our players are, our other players disagree, suggesting that banning lead pipes and candlesticks was the answer. a New creative arguments for family. That great. i had to put that in there. Oh, I want to do a quick PSA here yeah regarding, uh,
01:18:23
Speaker
Second Amendment. There's a new RNC chairman and anybody, anybody that cares about the Second Amendment needs to pay attention. ah There's a new chairman.
01:18:34
Speaker
Joe Grutters is the new RNC chairman. And he is not a Second Amendment supporter.
01:18:47
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he He's from Florida, and he's had, you know, he kind of brought a lot of laws into Florida that are not pro-2A. So, of course, we put him as a head of the GOP. That makes sense.
01:18:58
Speaker
Yeah, well, head the RNC chairman. Yeah, he's not the, I think ah Laura Trump is actually the head of the RNC, but ah he's a chairman. So and for your midterms, but you know, if you if there's a primary going on, ah which i'm I think happens in May here in Ohio, keep an eye out on who's running because um I'm going to say this Grutter's guy is probably going to be more in support. he's you know Well, we should say this. like
01:19:29
Speaker
They dole out the money to the candidates. Yeah. so right So keep an eye out on who's running in their 2A stance. Because because he's I have a feeling he's going to be giving more money to the so the ones that probably say they're pro-2A, that they support the Second Amendment, but probably... What'd they say five years ago?
01:19:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. look Look back on how they feel about red flag laws. Yep. That's a big one. and so A wishy-washy Republican always falters on the red flag laws.
01:20:06
Speaker
Yeah, the red flag laws. And there's a couple of others. actually yeah You know, I didn't take notes. this is This was just something I grabbed last second here. And just just keep an eye out on who's running in the primary in Ohio.
01:20:18
Speaker
We should really get on the ball and have a Second Amendment segment. Yeah, we should. we Yeah, we should. Because there's there's a lot there's a lot of good things that have happening lately. Yeah, that too. So, ah yeah, we should.
01:20:29
Speaker
But just to wrap up, in case anyone wanted to know, Clue Liberal Edition, it's on sale in retail stores for $29.99, plus a $19.99 tariff fee.
01:20:39
Speaker
That was the last line in the article. I put that in there. I'm sorry. I railroaded. No, no, no. That's fine. That's perfect. That's awesome. I was, as you were talking, was like, Ooh, that's, I got to at least let them know how much it is. Jeez.
01:20:50
Speaker
That's good. So what did, what does our, our illustrious, what did the gov have to say? What did the gov have to say? what What's Ohio? What's the state and local done to increase safety in our schools?
01:21:03
Speaker
Well, let's hear the support from ABC News Channel 5. Not Morgan. Sorry, everybody. Not Morgan. yeah See what they had to say.
01:21:14
Speaker
Voting rights advocates are suing the state. saying and new Look at me doing the wrong clip. Hopefully I put it in the right order. Here we go. Well, devastatingly, when things happen like it just did in Minnesota, it puts everybody, parents and students on edge.
01:21:30
Speaker
Now, for years, schools have been working to increase safety, doing things like numbering the outside of classroom windows for first responders and making it not as easy for anyone who wants to to just get into these schools.
01:21:44
Speaker
But the state of Ohio is continuing to work towards increased safety. It's all in the preparation. It's being ready. And it's also doing things that may deter someone from coming in and doing this. So there's no no guarantee that tragedy will not strike. But we have an obligation to minimize the odds that that will happen.
01:22:04
Speaker
DeWine says the reality is schools are very safe and they are actively working to minimize any safety risks. Sounds like it DeWine also points out that just like fire drills, the staff and the students need to know what the process is in case the worst happens.
01:22:18
Speaker
bills you You have to drill these things. You have to practice. um This is actually good. hate Doing that with our kids, you know, the kids knowing what to do in case something happens and the teachers knowing what to do is is vitally important.
01:22:33
Speaker
Now, this year in Ohio, there's 97 school districts that allow armed staff. That's up by more than 20 districts from just last year. asked Governor DeWine if more districts should choose to do that. He said it's up to individual communities to decide if that's right for them. But again, it all comes back to proper training and proper protocols to be in place so that everybody knows what to do in case of an emergency. For now on Ashtabula,
School Safety and Mental Health Support Debate
01:23:01
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Catherine Huntley, 19 News.
01:23:05
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So they've been working years and what they've come up with is numbering the outside of the classrooms.
01:23:11
Speaker
Yeah, they should already be numbered for the fire department. Yeah, yeah. On the outside, they should have already been, they should have been done that like a decades ago. And making it less, not as easy to get into the, oh, thank, that's, yeah, okay.
01:23:24
Speaker
um How about take off the no gun sign off the schools? Yeah, I think that i think there're there's something coming through. ah it might just be in, they're researching it right now, but they want to get rid of school gun-free zones.
01:23:39
Speaker
But you heard that little, at the end there, 20 more school districts in Ohio in the last year or two have allowed their teachers to conceal carry, which I am all for. Yeah, there's 97 school districts right now, but I think there's, ah I think we have over 600 districts Ohio. Oh, yeah, six or 700 districts. It's not even, it's barely 10%. I mean, it's we're going in the right direction, but it needs to.
01:24:05
Speaker
I'm all for it. I think in that situation, there needs to be a little bit of oversight, though, as far as how much training do you have with your firearm and how often you go training. i think there should be some requirements since you're around kids.
01:24:19
Speaker
Yeah, of course. you know ah Because people say, I say I'm for teachers carrying guns all the time. People go, oh my gosh. yeah But no, you have to have training to do this. The worst thing I want is some teacher that doesn't know what to do with a gun to try to pull it out in ah in a ah an event to make it worse, right? Well, you know, yeah, you're right. You're you're absolutely correct. But the nice thing about having are allowing staff to carry in a school zone is if somebody's coming in to shoot up the building, they have no clue who who has the gun, if anybody even.
01:24:51
Speaker
So it's a deterrent just from allowing it. And I believe one of the... think it was a school shooting from quite a few years ago in California. That's the one i was thinking of when i was talking about the Pulse Nightclub.
01:25:04
Speaker
I'm pretty sure ah one of these, he had had one, his original target had an armed security guard and he went on to the school down the street that didn't have one and shot up the yeah Jewish school in California, believe.
01:25:19
Speaker
Yep. So just that alone.
01:25:24
Speaker
yeah I get it. Everybody thinks, oh, no, not more guns. But ah who stopped at this guy? What stopped this guy?
01:25:32
Speaker
He killed himself, right? Oh, yeah, yeah he he ah shot himself. this guy This guy, this trans woman was in a... Go check out the manifesto because this person was not in a good place. He said he was sick of being trans and he is sorry that he brainwashed himself into it, which I don't think he brainwashed himself.
01:25:57
Speaker
so I think... Society brainwashed him and his mother who signed off on all this. ah Notice that we never talked to the parents of these shooters either. Did I hear something that she like fled? yeah so She's like, she's lawyered up.
01:26:16
Speaker
Yeah. They, they, ah they ah raided her home and I, I thought I heard she lawyered up or she left or something. She lawyered up. Okay. Which I mean, which is normal, but, uh,
01:26:26
Speaker
ah You know, this guy had a shotgun with him, pistol and a rifle. And I would love to know how he afforded all that, too. He wasn't hiding it. So unless he had a room that was like under under lock and key where his parents couldn't get it. I don't know if there's a dad involved.
01:26:46
Speaker
But ah I don't know how he was hiding this, any of this from his parents. He 23. was I think he still lived at home.
01:26:58
Speaker
There was a post I commented on because somebody had done the math with the stats and said that it was only 0.21% think posted 0.217% school shootings were from trans people. first all, math was wrong, it was 2.17%. point two one seven percent of school shootings were from trans but first of all his math was wrong is two point one seven percent and It's through history, though. I think well he went back a couple of don't know how long it went back. that That's regardless of it. I. i He's like saying, well, it' it's not it's the trans people aren't that big of a deal. I i my comment was, yes.
01:27:30
Speaker
A hundred percent of them were mentally ill, but two point one, seven percent of them were a little more mentally ill than the others. How's that? Because by definition. He was mentally ill.
01:27:42
Speaker
I don't. yeah Yeah, definitely mentally ill. mean, when I see my definition, like five years ago definition, because they've changed it because now it's, it was a mental disorder, but now it's not.
01:27:52
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Well, there's that. And it's the escalation of it. That's what I see. I understand it's only 2%, but what about the last year? Yeah. Last year, it could be half of them.
01:28:04
Speaker
Yeah. The legit ones. Yeah, the real, you the ones that went in and shot up. And we can we can make a call out to our one of our favorite shows, the No Agenda show, who's been bringing up. John's been talking about this for a year or more.
01:28:17
Speaker
um Just wait for these kids to realize what they did to themselves and go after, start going after, start blaming the people that did this to them. Now, this guy doesn't necessari necessarily do that, but it's not far off.
01:28:28
Speaker
Well, he blamed himself. Yeah. Right. Oh, yes. Okay. You know, yeah, he he feels, he felt sorry that he, he was sick of being trans and that he feels sorry he brainwashed himself. And it's like, no, you didn't brainwash yourself. Somebody somebody groomed him into it, whether it's his mom or or some online, you know, so yeah it's not like you all a sudden go, oh, I'm a girl. i mean, and they changed his name lot, like when he was in his yeah I think I forget.
01:28:58
Speaker
it Early, early teens. Yeah. Yeah. In the article, they're like, it's unclear what his gender was. But his mom had his name changed and the the pictures of him in a ponytails with ponytails as a woman. I'm like, I think it's pretty clear what what his gender, what he thought his gender was.
01:29:12
Speaker
Yeah. No, it's it's terrible. And, you know, I showed a clip with the Minneapolis mayor was saying and stuff like that. It's pretty.
01:29:25
Speaker
That's I didn't know that fact that you told me about because I. know, there's so much crap out there. I do look at what's going on with these things, but try not to. Get too deep in them because it's so dark sometimes, but on these these shootings and it's just the rhetoric and everything is just so toxic a lot of times. id So I didn't dig that deep in his manifesto.
01:29:47
Speaker
um But that really is troubling because why is he blaming himself? You know, it's like, yeah well it's it's troubling that that he...
01:30:00
Speaker
people may find that my take on this is is maybe a little coarse which it probably is it has to be but they need help these people need help that's what i'm saying make asylums great again that's a joke that's a tongue-in-cheek but that's there's some seriousness to these people need our help and all they're getting is reinforcement of the crazy they don't need affirmation they need help yes Get them the help they need as soon as they need it.
01:30:28
Speaker
They may find that 10 years or five years whatever they go through, that may be still feel this way. But as far as I can see, majority of the people who get the help they need, they end up just being normal or gay.
01:30:40
Speaker
Yeah, they just usually they just end up. I think I'm saying usually. i think Excuse me, not normal and gay. That is normal. um Well, yes, I i yeah had that. That's normal. I'm sorry. it's It is normal. And being gay is abnormal.
01:30:54
Speaker
It is not the norm. It's a deviation. Yeah, it is not the norm. So not to demonize them, but, you know there's but that's what actually happens when in the years past, very few continued on as they got older into transition.
01:31:08
Speaker
Very few. Right. Now we go right to pills. Right to pills and and castration. And be honest with you, it's, I mean, but my for my worldview, I mean, you're just neutering ah all the people that would vote your way. So, hey, yeah keep keep on, you know, keep aborting and neutering yourselves. I mean, geez, people get some help.
01:31:30
Speaker
Really do. Yeah. I really think they need help. Yeah. Yeah. It's sad. Anyway. Get away from killing people and all that kind of stuff. Let's talk about government corruption.
Corruption and Safety Patrol Concerns in Ohio
01:31:43
Speaker
Oh, okay. That's normal. Yeah, it's just normal everyday. wait, I got to check the box. Check the click. Okay, we're good on that one. Okay, so I saved this story. I didn't i didn't do a deep dive into it. i' kind of... ah but We talked about this a little bit.
01:32:00
Speaker
We talked about this. Yeah, this was in a past show. it is ah a report by the Marshall Project back then. And it was they were they were investigating Judge Leslie Ann Celebreze.
01:32:15
Speaker
And they found her... What she was doing is she was, well, I think she was dating a yeah ah lawyer. yeah And his name was Mark Dator or Dator. I'm not sure how that's pronounced, but he she was dating as far as we can tell, assuming that she was dating him.
01:32:35
Speaker
And she was saying sending him work. So she got busted on that. And i forget exactly how it worked. like how, how she was sending him the work, but it it was, you know, it was kind of a, she was doing him a big favor by sending him work. I think it was over $600,000 worth of work.
01:32:54
Speaker
Yeah. Over five, six years. So, i mean, he was getting a hundred grand a year from her. It sounded like 95, something like that. So it says, that's why I pulled out. Cause I was looking for that. like like, I can't remember what, what, what the work she was sending. So and so this says in some complex divorce cases,
01:33:09
Speaker
judges appoints receivers to act as a neutral party to control a couple's marital assets. Right. Including real estate, cash, equipment, deposits, accounts, and businesses. Right.
01:33:20
Speaker
The receivers are paid by divorcing couples. So she was, as she gets, got these cases, she was sending them to um the I think her quote unquote boyfriend, I think she's married. well but Nobody's sure, but there's comp there's people saying, I think it's towards the end of the article. Yeah.
01:33:40
Speaker
Whether with two or actually, so for example, records show she consulted with two lawyers about a divorce for her husband. And ah she also told other judges she was in love with daughter. Right. And phone records show the duo spent over 300 hours on the phone in one year.
01:34:00
Speaker
I don't know that's a lot or not, but it seems like a lot. It's an hour, almost an hour a day. Yeah. Yeah. It was a lot. It is a lot. Well, anyways. But in fact, the appearance of the relationship, ah the two parties and the public, ah and then the public undermines the confidence and decision that the judge is making.
01:34:22
Speaker
So regardless if they were dating or not, just the idea that she could be dating him was was bad enough. So she was sending him, you know, work.
01:34:33
Speaker
Right. And how did they find this out? I found this this pretty interesting. So they found this out. Nobody would have seen this, ah that no one else was going on. But the board said, Sutterbree's and Daughter's relationship would have been unlikely, but would have likely gone undetected had a Strongsville ah businessman, Jason Jardine, or dying not hired a private investigator to follow the judge. So he, a private businessman, hired a private detective to follow the judge around.
01:35:03
Speaker
That's how they found this out. That's crazy. So the article is really about the recommendations from a couple of organizations. um The House Supreme Court's Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which handles civil complaints against attorneys and judges, requested a one-year suspension, which would have reduced to six months with good behavior.
01:35:26
Speaker
The recommendation was then sent to the conduct board. ah In response, the board members wrote that they found the council's recommendation penalty not significant enough ah given the extent and nature of the misconduct.
01:35:41
Speaker
Wow. they're recommending two years suspension with one year ah taken off with good behavior. Yeah, I think she they're going to try to make an example of her. Yeah, which they should because, yeah, this is what everybody hates about government.
01:35:57
Speaker
that's the It's Cuyahoga County was doing for years, this kind of stuff. Yep. you know, sending, doing favors and sending work to contractors who did favors for ah county councilmen stuff like that.
01:36:12
Speaker
Very similar to that. So that's, that's, that's what's going on. Celebrities. It looks like she's definitely going to get, she also, oh so also approved nearly 500. yeah. She, that's what you're saying. She put $500,000 in fees for dotted costs, LLC between January 2017 June 2023. It's only six years.
01:36:32
Speaker
ah wow that's That's a lot. That's some cash. That's basically more than a hundred grand a year. So a little less 95. I'm sorry. I can do math people. I can really can.
01:36:43
Speaker
All right. So where we go to you next, Tom, I think, I think we're done with celebrities. Yeah. I think we're done with her. Um, but she's just getting started. What's she going do for a couple of years?
01:36:56
Speaker
I'm sure she's going to be out on the streets or she can ask her boyfriend for some cash. Yeah, well, I think she's an elected judge, right?
01:37:07
Speaker
Oh, so somebody's got to appoint something replace her. Yeah, her term... her term ah Hang on, I thought I saw 2027 the... Yeah, a ruling is likely months away.
01:37:22
Speaker
Celebreze's term expires in January 27. so she got another year, a good year left. Yeah, so she might she might have to, you know, she'll be ousted, suspended, past her expiration.
01:37:39
Speaker
she'll to run again, which is going to be hard to do if you've already got corruption charges. Yeah, well, we'll see where the money is. Yeah. Because... I bet you nobody ran against her. I mean, some well, you know, she might not be able to run. Yeah, she might And she might have to wait, like, a you know, another, however whenever however that works for judges.
01:38:00
Speaker
You know, she might have to wait another turn. Yeah. I don't know how many years it is. That's actually pretty good question. With the name of, Selbrizy, I wouldn't be surprised to see her back there. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
01:38:13
Speaker
Oh, nepotism's. right, well, i'll check that box. Did I already? Yep, checked it. So our next story was, know, I saw this come across and I thought, what?
01:38:24
Speaker
and ah And the only thing that came to mind was was this right here. So I figured i'd I'd pull a clip from one of my favorite movies, which I haven't seen in so long. um But when I saw this story come across, it's about, yes, yes, it's about the downtown safety patrol again. And I thought, well, wait a minute.
01:38:40
Speaker
Do you ever have deja vu, Mrs. Lancaster? I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen. you know that's okay. Thank you. That's from Groundhog Day. Yeah. One of the openings or the scenes when, you you know, first day it was, I couldn't help it. there's some scene in there. I know it sounds like this. So yeah, deja vu all over again, as they say.
01:39:01
Speaker
So what's the story? Well, the down soundund downtown safety patrol strikes again, and this time another person is dead.
01:39:13
Speaker
So this this is a second in ah incident in the last five months that an innocent bystander has been killed in a crash um following a chief ah police chief chase from the downtown safety patrol, which is, everybody doesn't remember from last week, it is actually the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department who created this downtown safety patrol.
01:39:36
Speaker
Again, to help with the crime in Cleveland because it's So good, they say, as we said earlier in the show, but so good that they had to help get help from ah the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's. There's a big issue. It's costing couple million dollars a year.
01:39:49
Speaker
And now part of the problem is this is the second one in five months by the same person driving. This wasn't the same guy that was pointing his rifle out the window. It's not Vajusy.
01:40:01
Speaker
Yeah, okay, Vajusy. I mean, give you some credit. I at least said that name a couple times by now because it's so good. No, it is. Well, you know what? I have the i had the clip. let's just i was go I was trying to save the clip, but I just played because this is why I have clips, people, because it's way better to get it from them than from me.
01:40:18
Speaker
So here we go. Here's ABC News 5, as usual. The downtown safety bisol they patrol Deja Vu is what I labeled it. so News 5 investigator Tara Morgan here with us now. She's reported on deputy chases extensively with what she's uncovered tonight.
01:40:35
Speaker
And this is the second chase where Deputy Casey Loudermilk gave chase and an innocent bystander was killed. A warning, the video is tough to watch, but we think it is important to show you exactly what happened.
01:40:47
Speaker
Records show the chase lasted just under two minutes with speeds at one point about 100 miles perph hour. Watch closely this Cleveland surveillance video.
01:40:58
Speaker
You can see cars pulling up to a red light at Superior and Addison. In just seconds, the suspect car plows into one car, pushing it into a field. A different angle from Addison shows a cruiser sideswiping the wreckage.
01:41:12
Speaker
Sade Elder, a mother of two, died. de right, so nobody can see the video, obviously. But one of the interesting things I saw, watched this video a couple times, is one, there's one angle. There's three cars coming to the intersection.
01:41:29
Speaker
And they stop. I think it's a red light. Or it was a red light. So they stop. And then this dude's car flies through the intersection, hits a car, and then the cruiser comes through and hits, you know, this mother's car spins out of the way, and then the sheriff's department car hits that car.
01:41:51
Speaker
But it appears to me that she stopped in the middle of the intersection. like She heard the the police sirens and just stopped because they were there at the light. And then the cross street is Addison, I think.
01:42:01
Speaker
And they were, or maybe was vice versa, but they were on the cross street. So um I like looked like, how did he, how did she get hit? Well, some reason she stopped in the middle of the intersection. I'm not saying anything that it's her fault. I'm just saying it's odd that, and then the second angle that they show that they talk about Isn't even a second angle because it's a camera looking at another camera that blocks theth almost the entire shot.
01:42:27
Speaker
What? Of the intersection. Yes. So I'm like, hey, how about you get the shot from that camera that's in front of this camera? Like, what the heck is this? So you really couldn't see a clear view of what actually, you know, there's the the first shot that you see the three cars, it's in the distance.
01:42:40
Speaker
I mean, the camera the camera's on the block before, so it's a whole block away. Yeah. the traffic light, but it really appears that she had stopped partially in the intersection for some reason. And I mean, he's, he's doing 60, 70 miles an hour and he hits her.
01:42:56
Speaker
Had to have been. I mean, that, that it's zooming. I mean, he's doing 50, 60 easily. So, but same guy, five months. And we talked about the other one, one of our first shows, um, and on Eddie road over on 90.
01:43:09
Speaker
Yeah. Came across, hit the woman. The car he was chasing hit a woman, pushed her car over the but um exit ramp into a field next to it, and they both died.
01:43:20
Speaker
We'll continue on you can get a little bit more out of this. but Christopher Mondo was hurt but is out of the hospital. New records reveal how badly passengers in the two cars were hurt.
01:43:32
Speaker
A 16-year-old girl in the suspect's car has a spinal injury. Elder's passenger has a double-broken pelvis. This is the second chase in five months where a driver who had nothing to do with it was killed.
01:43:45
Speaker
In March, a woman died when her SUV was hit during a chase and flew over a traffic bridge in a fiery explosion. Deputy Loudermilk started that chase downtown as well.
01:43:56
Speaker
County Council Member Sonny Simon has been working on changes to the sheriff's pursuit policy. We knew as council that this could be problematic. You know this moving forward. Oh, did you?
01:44:07
Speaker
We needed to make sure there were safeguards to put a cost-benefit analysis in place that we would keep the community safe, but at the same time not harm innocent people. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
01:44:19
Speaker
Obviously, this is something that that's occurred um too many times. Simon says she doesn't think the county should be chasing. She's proposing chases only for felony and violent offenses and not misdemeanors like reckless driving.
01:44:35
Speaker
Her legislation is still pending to halt funding for the downtown safety patrol until policy changes are in place. why It's unspeakable. thats Why is it still pending?
01:44:47
Speaker
So in contrast to our, our first half of the show,
01:44:52
Speaker
More police isn't always the answer because if you don't have the right police involved or the right leadership or the right rules in place, it cannot, it's not always a good thing. and In this case, this is what I think we have.
01:45:03
Speaker
We have, a downtown safety patrol that is outside of the jurisdiction of the Cleveland police department and they have their own rules and chases, which are significantly different than the Cleveland police department.
01:45:18
Speaker
in The police department needs approval to but go on a chase and it has to be, i believe for felonies. It can't be just for, you know, tinted windows.
01:45:29
Speaker
I think I want to say the last, that first one was for something silly like that. I don't, I don't remember though. So more of the downtown safety patrol. um Yeah, they should, at this point, they should disband it.
01:45:43
Speaker
ah But Miss Simon says, it says later in a clip, but Miss Simon says had a, had some good talks with the deputy, with the sheriff. Oh, good talks. Yeah, good talks. It's kind of like the Mayor Bibb going on a walk to, well, a safety walk. that's Safety walk.
01:45:57
Speaker
Yeah. like Look how safe I am. when I have all my security around me. I'm walking through downtown Cleveland. Look how safe I am. i Again, you know, oof.
01:46:10
Speaker
It's a hard... And then the guy's pleading no guilty. Not guilty. Loudermilk? Yeah. Yeah, but it looks like I'm looking at another article you have here. Well, I meant the... um The guy was being chased.
01:46:23
Speaker
Oh, of course. Yeah. might ah you should yeah easy As you would think he would. Oh, yes. And then that, that, sorry. Yeah. I'm getting it to the next one. I was getting to that point, but now they're looking into this, um this, this.
01:46:37
Speaker
Loudermilk. Marshall. What did, no, he's a deputy. Yeah. tariff step um Louder milk, which is, wow. That's a pretty cool name. It reminds me of Police Academy Tackleberry.
01:46:51
Speaker
Yes. Is that made up? Loudermilk. Is that your real name? Casey Loudermilk. That sounds made up, but okay. So he's being accused of lying ah during the background check and keeping details off his application according to his personal file.
01:47:08
Speaker
ah What details...
01:47:12
Speaker
I don't even know. Does it say the doesn't really say. i'm like Yeah, that's what thought. i remember going over this, and then I don't know if it... They probably can't say because it's still investigating it. Yeah, I think you're right.
01:47:26
Speaker
Someone deliberately has an application process. We should not be hiring them. What? Duh. Yeah, thank you. He also told examiners that Highland Heights police office office officials disqualified him because he failed a physical agility test.
01:47:43
Speaker
Lottomich listed on a polygraph questionnaire during the sheriff's department's hiring process that the Ohio State Patrol rejected him because he failed build a polygraph exam.
01:47:55
Speaker
He said later he took a second exam and passed. According to a sheriff's polygraph report, um
01:48:07
Speaker
yeah, he did not devolve on his app or disclose the details on his application because he did not have enough space available. That's what he said. Oh, how about flip the page over?
01:48:21
Speaker
Good Lord. Well, the Vajusi, and this is the pattern we're seeing here. This Vajusti guy was bumped out. I mean, he was thrown off the Metter Police Department. He was on the Cleveland Police Department for like eight months, and then he got then he got pulled over to the... I have to go back and check.
01:48:38
Speaker
But I think the sheriff's part was his third stint.
01:48:42
Speaker
The Metro Police Force kept him on for a few months or less than a year, and they said, yeah, no, he couldn't he couldn't handle the situation. he he got too worked up and and didn't it didn't make good decisions under pressure.
01:48:53
Speaker
That was Vajussi. These are like double A-ers coming up. it's It's not even the bench. it's not the It's not the minor leagues. It's a third-string quarterback coming up. oh Yeah, not even that.
01:49:06
Speaker
It's a third-string kicker coming on. Yeah, maybe. This is bad. Yeah. So again, we we know we're talking about earlier about, you know, taking care of crime and a better, excuse me, a better police presence, but it's not always just more numbers.
01:49:22
Speaker
You need to have the right leadership and the right strategy because then you get, you get Yahoo's like this. Use the word Yahoo's. I did. You got people like this who don't belong in a police force, but because i would imagine pickings are pretty slim for people who want to be cops.
01:49:41
Speaker
Back defunding the police. Yep. more Low morale, all the stuff we talked about earlier. It's all hitting in more places than we we realize, I think. So I will just keep up. I mean, as I feel like in a couple more weeks, there'll be another story about the safety patrol. I just kind of get sick of talking about them, to be honest with you.
01:50:05
Speaker
But like I said, if you think
Voting Registration Law and Cultural Events
01:50:06
Speaker
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01:50:22
Speaker
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01:50:35
Speaker
and then Send it their way. Really appreciate you listening. Really do. Last couple we got here, Tom. Last couple. Voting reg registration at the BMV.
01:50:48
Speaker
Racist?
01:50:53
Speaker
Yeah, everything's racist. Everything's racist. there's a new law that passed, in the last I they believe in the last budget, that allows you to register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Ohio.
01:51:08
Speaker
But in the law, they state you need to prove that you're a legal citizen with a passport or birth certificate. Well, naturally, naturally it's racist.
01:51:21
Speaker
Let's hear from, let's hear from, there's a couple, it's a council person. I will say who it is, a Democrat from Columbus. This is News Channel 5. As always, voter registration at the BMV. See what they had to say.
01:51:36
Speaker
The law hurts Ohioans registering to vote. Now the law that went into effect this summer- Hurts them. Requires proof of citizenship in order to register at the BMV. Ouch. Columbus Bureau reporter Morgan Trau breaks down the case and why each side is fighting back. Morgan.
01:51:51
Speaker
As you know, Morgan, your voice is your vote. in um It is. the opportunity to voice your concerns, which is why state rep Latina Humphrey is supporting litigation against a new Ohio law, one that requires proof of citizenship in order to register to vote at the BMV intentional to target ah urban communities, intentional to target those who may have disabilities. Voting rights advocates are suing Secretary of State Frank LaRose. Nonpartisan elections law expert Atiba Ellis explains that the lawsuit alleges the state is violating the National Voter Registration Act.
01:52:26
Speaker
The goal of the NVRA was to make sure that states would not only affirmatively offer the ability to register, but it also was meant for states to not create overly burdensome burdens around registrations.
01:52:44
Speaker
He adds Ohio law already states only citizens can vote and there could be issues since the new law requires proof of citizenship at just the BMV, but not when you register online.
01:52:55
Speaker
Requiring different. Wait. Overly bird and burdens somely burdensome burdensome burdensome. i love this argument and love this argument ah voter registration laws are racist because people color are they you not know how to get a birth certificate I dare anybody to head over to Glenville, East Cleveland and ask the residents there if they know where the DMV is.
01:53:25
Speaker
If they know how to get a birth certificate. Can you afford a birth certificate? Hey, here's ah here's an idea. We'll just make them free. Solved. Or are you saying that black people, people of color, Hispanics are just, they just don't have the mental capacity to know how to get a birth certificate or a passport?
01:53:47
Speaker
Cause what they always say. Well, you can't have, you can't share your when you go to vote because that's racist. um Because people of color can't get ah license.
01:53:58
Speaker
Well, costs money. Yeah. It costs like $20. What takes time? Oh, okay. So keep going here. See what else I just love. How this hurts them.
01:54:10
Speaker
And oh, that's why that's why I stopped it. So the key there for me was, why don't we have at Why don't we require this everywhere you register to vote, not just to BMV?
01:54:23
Speaker
That's what he's about to say here. He's about to say the fact that you don't you don't have to do it elsewhere, but you have to do it to BMV is not right. Okay. let's Let's just hear what he has to say He's right.
01:54:34
Speaker
He's right. And I have the solution. v but not when you register online. Requiring different things in order to accomplish the same goal of voter registration might raise problems around equal protection. LaRose champions the legislation, saying that it protects the safety of elections, despite a dozen of his own audits showing there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. In a statement, he says, I won't apologize for or back down from the work we do to ensure the integrity of our voter rolls.
01:55:05
Speaker
Lieutenant Governor Jim Trestle agrees. We need to do anything we can to make sure that things are done properly. Trestle says that he trusts LaRose in adding extra steps in place to make sure every Ohio vote counts.
01:55:18
Speaker
Just last year, the secretary announced indictments on six green card holders for allegedly voting before or in 2020. Local prosecutors said the cases had no merit and one of the indicted was dead.
01:55:31
Speaker
But the Republicans say that every non-citizen voter needs to be held accountable. I would certainly not be opposed to making sure that their citizens...
01:55:42
Speaker
that do the proper registration i to have that opportunity to vote. Advocates say that this could place roadblocks for Ohioans who don't have access to technology or who may not be able to afford to pay for citizenship proof, like a copy of a birth certificate or passport. This was intentional to stop certain people from voting. A federal judge will decide whether or not to pause the law while the case is heard. At the Ohio State House, I'm Morgan Trout reporting.
01:56:08
Speaker
Dead ones. Yeah, i was like, oh, we I mean, one of them was dead. well you got to worry about that guy? for Just let him vote.
01:56:17
Speaker
How many other dead people are voting? Hello? ah Yeah, so this is more of the same. i i say solve the problem. Everywhere you register the vote, you should show proof of citizenship. Online, not online, the BMV, I don't care. where you're Where you're registering, you should show proof of citizenship.
01:56:36
Speaker
Why have a law if you're not going to check? Oh, it's just in case later on after they vote, you can find them. Let me break.
01:56:47
Speaker
Leaving room for Tom. Yeah. I mean, there's not much to say. Yeah, there's not much more to say to that. I just like, come on, come on. This is all to do about nothing because, you know, the but thing is, if you're if you're anti- anti this, you're basically just, all you want to do is cheat.
01:57:07
Speaker
I don't understand what else it could be. Yeah, there's nothing here that's going to prevent somebody. There's nothing here hurting anybody. It's common sense. I hate to use that term, but...
01:57:19
Speaker
if If this is a problem, if people with disabilities have a problem getting an ID or getting ah birth certificate or passport or something like those, the solution is not to to lower this the standards of the voting.
01:57:32
Speaker
The solution is to help those people with whatever needs they have. Hey, how about a family member or your church or some other place or or some local group that can help you get these things?
01:57:43
Speaker
But no, no, we won't do that. We'll just lower the standards, lower the bar. Yeah, no, that's... Don't raise people up. Lower the bar.
01:57:55
Speaker
So there they may stop this There may be an injunction while the lawsuit goes through. We'll we'll wait and see. But that's that's really the only update. yeah Okay. and And then since we're talking about voting, I just want to touch real quick. I talked about last week, as we talked about the, ah I think, Trump's executive order on voting machines and paper ballots, that there was two counties who that are trying to go back to paper ballots. And those counties are Mahoning County and ah Seneca counties.
01:58:26
Speaker
um they They have appealed the the court's decision because they lost, saying you can't go back to paper ballots. And from my understanding is because the state law says once you adopt digital voting machines or tabulators, you cannot go back.
01:58:43
Speaker
and they're they're challenging that so that they lost their first round of court and they're just appealing it right now i don't yeah it's silly don't think it'll be on the ballot um the questions whether it's going to appear on the november ballot or something like that they um
01:59:05
Speaker
that's That's basically about it. I just wanted to, course, they put Trump's post in there on Truth Social. I'll make sure there's nothing else That's pretty much it. But they're still fighting it. They want to go back to paper ballots and and counting paper ballots.
01:59:18
Speaker
um And we'll see what they do. But that's a dumb lie. i get the, ah I don't get why you can't go back. I don't i don't understand why. once you Once you go this way, you can't.
01:59:33
Speaker
So, yeah, launched. So this was ah launched. This is launched by residents and took in two counties, like we said, the ban voting machines. um In doing so, the state's top elected officials ruled that the process they attempted was illegal under Ohio law.
01:59:50
Speaker
So there you go. Okay, that's that.
01:59:54
Speaker
On to our favorite segment of the show.
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And for today's Good Things segment, we have Smooth Jazz. No, I'm just kidding. We have House of Blues. I came across, I was digging around for some good stuff. And one of the things I saw was we were talking about Alice in Chains and then here jerry ah Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains.
02:00:23
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So he did singing, but he is lead guitarist at Alice in Chains. Did a lot of the writing for Alice in Chains, kind of and of the main main guy. He's one star the band.
02:00:35
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So he's coming, i believe, on the 6th, 7th, 6th. But really, what this brought up was the list of House of Blues. There's quite a few concerts coming up.
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Everybody to check out if you're interested interested in seeing some live music. One of them was UB40. Really? Do you remember UB40? Yeah. Red, head red wine.
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and you go go Yeah. That was the one. That was the one. im i'm I'm trying to look through the calendar now. yeah Boy, they need to they need to they need to improve that calendar.
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Jesus. Yeah, put it in list view. Yeah, this awful. yeah ah jerry Yeah. I want blood tour is the 5th, Friday, September 5th. It's coming. Let's see.
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couple other ones, Electric Feels. don't who that is. Live local music featuring Nathan Hedges. Yeah, what but restaurant bar? is Is that a group? i don't think so.
02:01:33
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No. Like Open Mic or something? dar Dark Angel Extinction Level Event, North America. wonder if that's that's weird. I wonder it's some kind of... Huh, that's a band. Interesting. Interesting.
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Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff here. Here comes the mummies. What was other one I had put up there? It was early in week, so now forget. Oh, yeah, the scene. 14 top concerts coming in September. That's think I saw the Jerry Cantrell. Yeah, St. Vincent was the one you saw. It was the first one for the 29th.
02:02:09
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Yeah, that was a great show. Let's see. Tate McRae, Nine Inch Nails on the 31st. That's today. Oh, okay. That's right.
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ah So Nine Two is Dorothy. Dorothy Martin. don't know. She sang She Was a Kid. Where is she? Yeah. i don ah Pink Floyd.
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but i don't know. She's a singer, I guess. Nine Inch Nails. UB 40 Hudson Westbrook. I don't know who this is. Texas Headhunters on the 5th.
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I feel like Blues go see them. They're pretty good. Beachland Ballroom. Allison Krauss. That's kind of cool. Oh, yeah. And Union Station. they're They're coming into, what does it say? Because these aren't at the House of Blues. These are just all over the place. Oh, the yeah Jacob's Pavilion.
02:03:06
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Yeah. And there's a whole bunch in there. So top 14, that's the other article we put in there for top 14 shows in and September, except they cheated and they put St. Vincent in there. and Alabama shakes are kind of cool too, man. yeah I didn't know they were coming. Okay. Yeah, good stuff.
02:03:23
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Yeah, so we'll put that in the in the show notes links in the blog. You've got to go to the website, check those out. Get your links and pictures and on a show wrap-up little blog about what we talked about today in the show notes. The next, or in the blog post. Next, real quick, Paul Revere's corn maze.
02:03:41
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That's one that you brought. too Yeah, i just... if Let me see this. Starts September 2nd. Sunday, September 2nd. Yeah, it goes through... Tuesday through... Get out of here, Ed.
02:03:55
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No kidding. Yeah. Okay. I guess I can't see the article. I think it runs the whole month. What is it? ah The first Tuesday through Sunday starting September 2nd.
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It's a maze. They call it the Paul Revere... It's a Paul Revere themed corn maze. So it's 250 years since he made his ride. And it's ah it's just something to do.
02:04:21
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Shame on you, News Herald. Shame on you. ah I was going to give you props because I haven't heard from News Herald in a while, but you're about as bad as Cleveland Magazine or The Plain Dealer. I can't get to anything on there. But I did read a little bit about this. And the one thing I pulled from this was what they're worried about.
02:04:37
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is a lack of rain and a lot of the stocks are not tall enough to make a maze. Oh, no kidding. at the picture. Yeah. yeah We didn't even mention where it is. It's Lake Metro Park Farm Park. Yes. Thank you.
02:04:47
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Yeah. Lake Metro Park, Farm Park, and they're going to have something there. It's ah just Paul Revere themed. They're just going to use a lot of founding fathers kind of stuff throughout the whole thing. kind of cool.
02:05:00
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Yeah. Check it out. Do something good with the kids. Get them out. Get them off the screen. Get them in a cornfield. It's 250 years from his ride Yes. And its ah next year is going to be the U.S.
02:05:15
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two hundred twenty fiftieth birthday. Next year will be big Fort July. Big one. Oh, yeah. Huge. UFC at the White House. Are they really? Yeah. I didn't even know that. yeah they're yeah They just signed a new deal, too, for... ah Paramount or somebody that they're, I forget, they're going to, they signed a big deal, but I mean, the big deal was that Trump wanted the UFC event there during the, during the festivities.
02:05:40
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what does chi Huge push in the next coming year for,
02:05:46
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coming around the white house or America and kind of, um, I think, how would I put it? Uh, um, showing what American can still do, showing the good stuff of America. I'm trying to think of American pride, right? Yeah.
02:06:03
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Uh, focusing on, you know, the things we do, they want to, he wants to, you know, he wants to have a huge celebration all year, different events all around the country. It's going it's going called America, baby, 50 years.
02:06:15
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250 years. and The question we have to ask at our 250th birthday, is the experiment dead? Not even close. It's good.
02:06:26
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It's good. Uh, be a good show. one day Just to go over that. Yeah. I don't think so. Take my black pill and then we'll have a debate. Yeah. Next. Last is, uh, you can still catch that one more week, one more weekend as of the publishing of this show the show for the 20th annual Cleveland October fest at the Caga County fairgrounds.
02:06:47
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Oh, cool. It, uh, as we'll drop this on the first, which is, it'll be on a labor day.
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And then the fifth and sixth the last two days for the October. So you want a leader hosen beer and, and schnitzel. No, you know to go. I know where to go.
02:07:08
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Cause I mean, who doesn't want that right about now. And that wraps up our show. I, it's a long one. It was a marathon one. It's pretty good though. And Thanks for everybody for listening. Really do appreciate it.
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02:09:39
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