Cuts all of them from their behavior in San Diego. But at least they have a terrible team coming in the Baltimore Orioles, and they haven't lost a game since September of last year. Many say the best team in baseball. So if the Reds are any good, which we think they are, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they need to prove it. But until then, I'm watching the news. I monitor the news so you don't have to. And Scottie Johnson, who is the man on city Council that the police often
look toward to represent a law enforcement perspective. I think Scotty Johnson has been a good friend of Sidney Abrahms they repped for many years. Is the guy in charge of the Public Safety Committee of the City of Cincinnati. And this former cop, former shall we say protector of Mark Mallory said, we can't rest our way out of this. Sure we have an open air drug market. Sure we got a heroin being sold. Yeah, we've got a lot of gunshots happening in front of a church Saint Francis Sarah. Yes, I
know all that, but we can't rest our way out of it. We need to spend more money on drug treatment, you spend more money on maybe boatchi ball, Maybe a little bit of pickleball might be good. And who knows? Iris Rowley, the clown who's in charge getting paid big bucks to walk around community types say we need downtown movie theaters. If we at downtown
movie theaters, the youth, the youth would have places to go. Joining you and I now is Representative State Representative of Cidny Abrams, who spent seven years as a police officer in the city of Cincinnati on the mean streets of Cincinnati, to discuss how much money is being paid by the state on drug treatment, drug rehabilitation, et cetera. How much money's being shoveled into the cities without measurable effect and Cidy Abrams, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
And Cindy, how are you. I'm great today, great American, Thanks for having me on. Let me ask you a couple of questions because I think you're like a normal person. Of course, you're out in Green Township where people like to flee, either there or Boone County. And Harrison, I'm well, Harrison's Harrison's got a problem. They have the Democrat Confederate flag flying somewhere and Harrison, and that's the big news. You can't fly
the Democratic flag the Confederacy without problems. That's a different issue. But I'm watching the reporting of Channels five, nine, twelve, and nineteen, and to their credit, under the leadership of paula Christian Channel nine, there's been quite a bit of focus on Saint Francis Seraph on Liberty Street downtown Cincinnati, where you patrolled for years OTR in which this it's an open air drug market in which you buy heroin, you sell heroin, cocaine, powder, cocaine,
of course, marijuana, plus every pillar imaginable, and the city, Cheryl Long PG Puroval, the mayor and Scottie Johnson said there's nothing we can do. After all, we got to talk about the root causes of crime and that'll take care of it. Also, thirty pounds of human poop are picked up on the alleys every day or two, and there's pools of urine everywhere. But the city's kind of washing his hands like Julius Caesar, I'm sorry, like punctious pilot and saying, you know what, nothing we can
do. So Representative Cidny Abrams when you go to the hallways of power in Columbus, and this same thing is happening in Cleveland and Columbus and Toledo and Youngstown in which open air drug markets exist in downtown areas. Is there anything we can do to stop this? Well, let me go back to you know, a couple of years back, when voters voted overwhelmingly, I think it was almost seventy eight percent that they want the judges to consider the safety
of the community when setting bail. Let's start there. Let's start that. Ohio ins overwhelmingly voted to say, you know what, yeah, we do have a right to walk down the street in our neighborhood, go see a ball game, you know, go to the grocery store, whatever you're doing. You have the right to have a picnic in Washington Park. He's the right to feel sick, right, Yeah. And so as a former police officer, yes, you know, look, there's always going to be crime.
Someone's not going to get the memo that you know, you want to be a productive member of this and go to work and treat others how you want to be treated. There's always going to be some in society that aren't going to get that memo. A couple more things I'll say is that as a chair of Criminal Justice, of course we hear a lot of bills all over the spectrum, you know, ramping up penalties, loosening penalties, the
whole nine yards. But I'll tell you I went to the border where Sheriff Jones, as you know, last year, and House Bill two thirty was born from that border trip. And I'll tell you something. We're going to give you stats from Ohio. Since the bill's in production on June twenty seventh, twenty twenty three, roughly three thousand, six hundred and twenty four Ohioans and fifty seven, three hundred and eighty Americans have died of fentanyl poisoning.
Now that's devastating. This is the fentanyl is something that we again you could ask law enforcement, the coroner's office. We have never seen anything like this. It is killing people. It doesn't matter who you are, where you live, what you do for a living, the whole nine yards doesn't matter. And what we're seeing as a state and as a country with this fentanyl crisis is catastrophic, and you know what, we've got to do something about
it. So speaking, of treatment. The state of Ohio, the taxpayers a billion dollars with a B a billion dollars in mental health. You know, we can go on and on treatment once you're addicted, Hey, prevention, how not to get addicted. We invest the money in the services. It's not like we're lacking there. So my answer was, let's ramp up some penalties to you know, get more in line with federal law. I mean, if you're trafficking in drugs and the DEA catches you, you're going
to prison period, period. And so this bill ramps up the drug trafficking charges for cocaine, of course, fentanyl related compounds, heroin, and methamphetamine. And of course we have a five year mandatory minimum on there prison term if an individual is convicted or please guilty to a fentanyl related death. I think that's important. You know damn well that you're selling fentanyl and if you
kill someone, you need to be held responsible period. Of course, we're going to do some education in our school's K through graduate school about this mountainal awareness. And one really interesting, very very great tool for our law enforcement is we're going to allow law enforcement to collect oral fluids oral fluid testing on
the roadside, So that will test for all drugs of abuse. And what's really neat is a test for the parent gene, which is going to tell law enforcement how impaired you were at that moment, how high you were, and what drug you were on. So again, future of law enforcement, we need this. Of course, you shouldn't be driving around impaired. And
that's what Ho's Bill two thirty does. Ah I now, Sidney Abrams, that's all good, sounds good, But if the cops on the streets of Cincinnati are told by their supervisors don't arrest individuals, it's not the right thing to do unless you have to, unless there's violent felonies being committed in your presence. Channel twelve Paula Todi head video of cops see uniform in their cars, watching drug deals going down on the steps of Saint Francis and around OTR
Paula Christian. Channel nine had video of cops watching heroin in fentanyl being sold and did nothing about it. Now, when you were a cup, were you given any instructions by the chief of police or your captain in your district not to arrest drug dealers in the city sin Right now, it is not happening because of the policy of PG pyrivol and Cherl Long and Chief Thiji. Well, you ever told us a cop when you see heroin being sold and
someone zoned out on fentanyl, to stand down and don't arrest them. No, and listen, you've got to let the police do their jobs. Okay, first of all, let's talk about that number. Well, number one is people need to be held accountable for their actions. I'm sorry, but listen, if you're out there, you know, assaulting people and robbing people, do you really think if you tell police. Lets let's use some common
sense here. If the if the city is telling the police, okay, you're not allowed to do this this, or just turn their cheek or go drive somewhere else or whatever, no enforcement, then guess what the businesses that the city has worked so hard to draw two parts of OTR and the banks. Look at how we've come leaps and bounds in the last decade or so in both of those locations. Now you want people to come down and spend
their money, Well, guess what. They're not going to come down, and they're not going to go to the restaurants and the bars or the casino or whatever unless they feel safe. And guess what, then then it turns a direct impact on your local economy, employing people in the whole nine yards. So listen, public safety is paramount. If you don't have public safety, if you don't support the police, let them do their jobs, then you're going to get what you deserve, which is high crime. No one's
coming to your city, and it's going to spiral downward from there. I have a text here as we speak from a District one police officer says. This says the following. Tell your listeners, do not go downtown because if you do, you're taking your life in your own hands. And the police
we are not permitted. We are not permitted to intervene and use force against problem criminals because they are told that it is racial to do so and will create more problems for themselves and for the city if they lay hands on anyone, if someone resists the rest, do not use force. That's from a
police officer in District one. And so the message when I talk to the leadership and you'll give the names out, I will FOP president Ken Kober and former I don't know, thirty five year cop Dan Hills will both say that there's been a complete change in the attitude of city Hall from the years of Charlie Luken, from the years of Mark Mallory, from the years of John
Cranley. That when two to four hundred youths wild through the streets of Cincinnati, going into restaurants, overturning food on tables, eating hamburgers off a plate in the banks, and the gunshots are fired, there's burning rubber all over the city of Cincinnati. No rest are taking place. That they're told to
stand down unless someone must be arrested. If you have that attitude, and then even if you're arrested, you know, Sidney Abrams in juvenile court, I want to talk to you about this that Judge Kerrie Bloom and I can read the policies that have been given to me by a magistrate in juvenile court who must go nameless because to identify this person would mean that guess what, you're fired. If you're a magistrate here it is Willie. We have big
problems. The mayor is handcuffing the police from doing their job. Can't arrest it unless it's a violent felony. In presence the city prosecutor. Now there's the County prosecutor Melissa Powers who does felonies. The city prosecutor handles misdemeanor send email to CPD that all traffic fences will be dismissed unless the officer contacts this office to directly. Juvenile court dismiss assaults, resisting arrest, run away in
truancy. And also Judge Kerry Bloom is overturning the magistrates who convict them and sealing the case and putting on early entries of release on murder cases. That's juvenile court. That's from a magistrate in juvenile court. And I can't name this person because they'd be fired. Imagine the breakdown of law and order when we have the cops are told, don't arrest anybody, God forbid. You have to have a violent arrest, so salely has to happen on occasion.
But when the arrest has taken place for a juvenile, even in murder cases, that we have a juvenile court system. This isn't Benjamin Schwartz, this isn't Sylvia cb Hendon, this isn't John Williams. They're told to keep the lid on and don't send these cases to adult court. Your reaction well, listen, this is ridiculous and crime is totally out of hand. You have
to support the police. If you literally stop people randomly. You can go around to different neighborhoods again Green Township, Harrison, go all around the county, including the city of Cincinnati, and you just randomly pulled people. Hey, what's their number one concern? They're going to say, of course, inflation, but number two is crime. People are met up with this. They want to go downtown, like you said, see the ballgame, you
know, go reds and you're literally going to enjoy a nice meal. And you can't because people are acting like complete fools. And you have to support the police. Let them do the jobs they're trained to do. They are trained professionals, and let them do their jobs. Now, Juvenile Court, I got into this and I've been working on it, pouring over the Ohio Revised Code to see what changes we could make. Of course, at the state level, because obviously the judges, you know, have to follow the
law what it says. They're in the arc whether they want to or not. At the end of the day, when you are a juvenile and you commit let's talk about violent crimes right now, not that I'm downplaying misdemeanors or traffic offenses, but at the end of the day, you need to be held responsible. And if it's some violent crime, first of all, there's something in the RC called Marci's Law, and the victim has a right to stand there in the court of law and be heard. So does the prosecutor.
So again, the situation has drawn my attention, and the Supreme Court just sent over the rule package. It's on my desk and I'm pouring over it. And they've made some changes to juvenile at Rule nine and it is to the General Assembly to either accept it or we can make changes ourselves, I believe by July first. So again, yes, I'm looking into it.
And if the judges don't want to do their job, which is to bring the victim in and bring the prosecutor in and let them be heard in the court of law, then we're going to We're going to change We're going
to change it. I'll tell you another change that this is when you have incompetent juvenile court judges, when you have felonies committed by fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year olds and the judge has complete discretion on felonies, whether to send it to adult court or not when the juvenile court is completely dysfunctional, hurting
the community. Many states give the county prosecutor equal responsibility to reach into juvenile court when the juvenile court judge, like a Kerrie Bloom, refuses to bind anybody over, and that gives the county prosecutor the equal ability to reach into juvenile court and grab a rapist, grab a murderer, grab an arm robber, and snatch them out of juvenile court and put them an adult court. Presently, that's not the law. Would that be a good idea. I
wouldn't have a problem with that at all. Look, at the end of the day, that everything you just described is a violent crime. And if you want to act like an adult by committing those very serious you know, rape, those very serious adult crimes, then you know what, maybe you should think about that before you commit them. So then you want to act like an adult, We're going to treat you like an adult. And again, look, they save the juveniles that are bound and over, they save
them for the worst of the worst. You know that as they should. Yep, And you know again it's out of hand, and I don't even have to ask the Highlands. I already know because I've knocked doors for my primary and I hear crime, crime, crime, support the police, So it's time. I mean, I've always supported the police, as you know, being married to one, and then of course serving as one myself and all of our friends. Some of them have retired, but a lot still
serve. And hell yes, we support the police and you need to continue to do that and let them do their job, all right. Lastly, the virus of crime in the city and Blue Ash. In thirty days in the month of April, eighty five car break ins in thirty days just in the city of Blue Ash. There's hundreds of car break ins to find guns and god knows what else. And they're coming out of the city of Cincinnati to comit crimes elsewhere with masks on and gloves. It's metastasized. We have
to have a response. Cindy Abrams, thank you again for coming on The Bill Cunningham Show. And the Billy advocated so far and spent on drug treatment. Scottie Johnson says, spend another billion, spend more money, give him some botchy ball and things are going to be good. But Cindy Abrams, thank you for being there and thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Cindy, You're welcome. Have a great day. Let's continue with more. Next up are your comments. And I'm watching my city
destabilized. I'm watching my country being destabilized by outside an internal forces who do not wish us well. When you have UCLA campus overrun with left wing radical Marxist who demand that Jews be killed, and you have the hammer and the sickle flying over UCLA campus, the enemy is within the gates. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred. You lw this Mother's
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