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Year's Day with a child who just celebrated Christmas. So another shooting at or near Laurel Playground on the West End, if you go back a couple of years, there's a promise to put more cameras up, and cameras are on us specifically in that area because there have been shootings and kids being struck, and the inquirers of Scott Warpman reported the stories when being confusion and contradictions, lack of accountability. If you budgeted the money council did to put those

cameras up, how come the cameras aren't up? That is a good question. She sits on public Safety, the Committee of Public Safety, and that would be council member. And I'll be on the Scott Slane Show this morning on seven hundred deble Ota and a happy new year.

And additionally, there was another one point two million that was meant to be for lighting and cameras broadly city wide. And those are two line items in that bill that I was personally very passionate about because while we know sometimes you know, cameras can't stop a crime necessarily, it sure makes it a lot easier to solve the crime, and in this case, to apprehend a killer, someone who shot and killed an eleven year old on.

cameras on their property. So you know, my ask is, if you are a business owner in that area and you are willing to have a camera or lights put on your building, email my office let me know and I will make sure since I Police reaches out to you as soon as possible.

And it's not the first time we've had a shooting or violent crime happen around this playground, for God's sakes, And now the end result is because of I don't know, lack of accountability or confusion, contradiction or incompetence or a combination of all of those. You have an eleven year old. It's dead. There's literally bloods blood on the hands of elected officials because of the lack of movement on this project.

middle of winter it's dark out right. We need to have these spaces well lit so that they are states and then you pair that with the cameras to make sure that there's that monitoring there.

reach out to me my office. I'm Anna dot Albi at cincinnatidshoh dot gov, and I will get you in contact with Cincinnati Police because at the end of the day, like we need a police out there, and if that means going door to door and knocking and asking who's willing to do this, like it's time to do that work.

on public safety. From a council person's position, an alby, do you look at it going Okay, well we order the money, here's the money, we're going to appropriate it. And then do you just move on to the next thing. And then it's not finger pointing at you or council for that matter. About a simmer Fire council member, I would think we voted and passed something, hand that off to the city manager, the mayor's office or whoever the police department, that there's going to be action on this.

Should you have to follow up on everything you guys appropriated. From a funny perspective, hey.

dollars are out the door. In fact, you know, right before Christmas, I had multiple people ask me about the Fusist camera technology, which allows private camera owners to kind of connect their feed in with Cincinni Police. My people come up being like, hey, we want to do this, but we have no idea how So I literally got an email on Christmas Eve back from the assistancity manager being like, oh, yeah, the funds are there, and you know what, I should have followed up them and be

like great, we need to do more. So you know, I'm not going to duck and dodge responsibility. Yes, it's true that typically when council allocates the dollars and puts for the vision, it's them the administration's job to execute. But in this case, when it's life or death, I'm going to get my hands dirty and make sure we're in there. Making sure that we get those cameras up, up, gets better in lighting. Those are all urgent, immediate actions.

those cameras being put up? Who is that on the city manager?

go back and analyze what went wrong. But I'm here in the immediate moment, which is let's get these up, and in fact, just yesterday coming out of kind of a meeting with CPD and I think the City Manager's office we got a camera tower with lights into Laurel Playground, into that park area, right, So we are in the moment where we are solving the problem and we can go back and analyze after it's taken care of.

We need to push hard at this moment. And it's not just this one one park, right, I firmly believe all of these play spaces that are supposed to be for kids, we need to make sure that they are well lit, have those cameras so that kids can be outside. Right, It is every mother's grandmother's parents worst nightmare to have their life year old shot and kill well filming TikTok videos and playing in the park. Like how horrific.

September have been put up or not. We don't even know if they even do we know they even have any footage whatsoever of what transpired on New Year's Day.

dollars out the door for projects. So when we think about making government work for people, it's got to be a priority for us to cut through that red tape so we can actually get the work done. And so that's something I'm going to be focusing on hard this

next term. The second term here is Okay, we can have all the great intentions in the world, but if we can't get dollars out the door to get think initiatives up and running, intentions don't matter for anything, right, So we've got to be able to cut through the red tape and make government work for people.

make sure it's actually getting executed. And I hope and I think the public deserves quite honestly, and no more so than those in the West End, because you know, we're told two and a half years ago, after the first eleven year old was shot to death, that this is intolerable, it's not going to happen, and we have yet another death, the same age, same situation, same location of something that we told. We're told two and a half years ago that this isn't going to happen again.

We're going to put the cameras up, and the cameras aren't up. And I think the public demands that. I think they deserve to know where the problem was. And you know, I know generally folks like yourself don't want to out others, but I think the public deserves that, because if I'm in the West End right now and you're telling me, and the mayor goes, hey, look we were after this one. We'll spare nothing to put a

stop to this whole thing. Well you said that two and a half years ago, and now we got another baby dead. I think we deserve to know what went wrong, where the fault was, what happened, and why it didn't happen. And not only that, I think an apologies in order for those in the West End, and specifically if you're West End resident, I is it fair for someone to go, Look, I just don't trust you guys anymore. This is twice now.

us kind of a report out on those dollars. So if that's not on the agenda yet, I'm going to be pushing Public Safety Chare Council Number Johnson to make sure we do get that full audit and report out about where those dollars were, because I know last time I talked to this assystem city manager, it was slow to get dollars out the door, which again speaks to the broader process of how hard it is to cut through the red tape.

four and change is being spent properly. You have to go back and literally look and make sure every dollar that you guys allocated is being spent properly or at the very least the plan's been implemented. I mean, who the hell has that kind of time to follow up.

the door? Have things been implemented? So you know, I am looking now to the city administration for that complete rundown, whether that's from the city manager's offic or from the department heads or in this case the interim police chief to know exactly where those dollars are and have they been spent yet?

inquirement to try to figure this out. No one has any answers about how many cameras are up, which ones are working, where the money went, if it was spent, where the documentary. No one knows anything. That's not a good look for city government. And I know you're part of the solution, not the problem, and you're a good again. I appreciate you coming on the show this morning, absolutely.

some accountability. How about hey, here's where the weak link was and name names instead of because if not, you just continue to create the same pattern over and over again. And that is in competence, That is a lack of transparency and account of There's got to be some accountability with this death. Your thoughts five three, seven, four nine under the Big One, Talk back the the iHeartRadio app. If you're extreaming the show there Scott's Loan Show back

after News on seven hundred w weld. Scott's Loan Show on seven hundred w weld. We just had a chat with council Member Anna Olby. If you missed, it'll be on the podcast after the show. Great conversation and she

didn't pull too many punches here. She is as outrage to the rest of us that we had yet another eleven year old shot at West End Playground where two and a half years ago we were told it's insufferable, it's going to stop because we are going to do something about this, and council spend one hundred and fifty million dollars from more cameras in that area. Not that cameras would stop crime, but from what I understand, there may be one camera, one camera up there and maybe

or maybe they don't have evidence. And after what happened with the eleven year old the boy by then, but Dominic Davis, we had on New Year's Day an eleven year old girl shot at same playground and there have been many shootings in and around that same area over the years. We were told by the mayor that he's going to spare nothing instead of put to put a

stop to this. But council already did their job. I don't know how much more you can hold members of council be it Scottie Johnson, be it, Anna alb be it, Seth Walsh, be it, Mark Jefferys, Jeff kramer Ding. I can go on and on once they appropriate the money and say here, here's one hundred and fifty thousand dollars

specific for cameras in the West End. I don't how many cameras that gets you, but probably a few cameras as part of a five point four million dollars spend on public safety, which has been ignored now for many administrations. It's not a have to ad purevol's fault necessarily that you know, we weren't spending money in previous administrations and putting that emphasis on preventing crime or catching those responsible or committing crime, making it easier for the cops to

do their job. I can't help but think that the police certainly would have loved to have those cameras up. And maybe it's because again we're back to this this cluster, you know what, because you fire Thiji and you've got an interim chief and he's still them. Know, we're going to continue investigating as to why we fired her in the first place. We need we need more time to make a case as to why we fired her.

I think that's fair. I think the city manager has to answer some questions as well. Share alone. If council's job is to allocate the money, should it be there a job to make sure that the money is being spent? I would say no. Maybe a follow up is an order, but you can once you do it, it's in someone else's hands. If you handed to administrators, then administrate it and the end result is this isn't like, oh, hey, we made a mistake. An eleven year old girl is dead.

I'm not saying that sure death is entirely preventable, that we could have prevented this from happening, but I'm sorry if you had cameras up there, I don't know if that's a deterrent, but maybe bringing someone to justice, having some enclosure for the family it is somewhat there, but there's blood in the hands of those elected officials that were given the money to do this and didn't do what they were supposed to do. I mean, it's pretty clear of the public in the West End is very,

very angry as we all are about this. Hell, I don't live in Cincinnati proper. You may not either, but you hear these stories and it just breaks your heart. Here's an eleven year old girl in a playground on New Year's Day and she gets gunned down by nonsense. It's like the mom that got shot in the crosswalk. For God's sakes. It's just one story after another. And is it going to stop all this crime or prevent it?

Probably not. But it's going to be easier to get justice for this family because guess what, Dominic Davis was killed two and a half years ago. I don't think they ever got the shooter there, and I have no idea. I mean, give these families a chance, or give these kids a chance, for God's sake, and get these animals

off the street. It couldn't very well be that the same person who shot and killed Dominic Davis in twenty twenty three shot and killed this little girl on New Year's Day and you have one job, let's do it. You know, this is my fierce libertarian streak coming out here, and I wouldn't say that. You know, this is why you have to have private security, cameras and everything else.

No government. If government can't do the basics, and I would say public safety is the cornerstone of basic Then if you're a younger voter, because typically younger voters that would be younger millennials and gen zers want more government to take things over, why would you want that If you can't have the basic stuff, why would you want

to expand government? Local government at that, whether it's local, state, or federal, have more of that in your life because government programs, I mean always say treat us like children, because you assume that people can't manage their own affairs. But bigger than that, how many times has government consistently over promised and underdelivered? This debacle in the West End is a great example of that. It's a bureaucracy. There's no incentive for them to be efficient, to be responsible,

to be accountable. The Inquirer, the paper of record here in Cincinnati, can't get any answers as to one of the money is was it spent? What happened? Do we even have any cameras up? Knowing even has an answer as to did we put cameras up or didn't? We can't even get the open records request or crying out loud, I don't know why you'd want more of that in your life and not less of it. If you guys

can't handle the basics, why are we worrying about? You know, we've got to take care of student loan debt and housing on affordability, and the gig economy and wage stagnation and climate change against they can barely. They can't handle putting up cameras at a park, for God's sake, And yet we want more of that stuff. And I get the reasons behind it. And younger generations have different experiences

and changes. And I know you saw the two thousand and eight housing crisis and said, well, well, look we had to bail out all these businesses and banks are too big to fail as part of the two thousand and eight financial crisis. If you're a Mellen Hill, right, I get that. Watch your parents suffer. Okay, but what drove the financial crisis? A lack of oversight. I'm not saying suggesting o other mental libertarians and anarchists. Obviously we

got no government. But and in my mind and maybe in yours, I don't want a government doing everything for me. You certainly you need to be an officially, need to be a referee and put guardrails in place, because you know, unchecked authority or in checked bureaucracy or unchecked capitalism for that matter, is not beneficial. There has to be some guidelines in place and guardrails in place where that you can do that. But to suggest somehow the government should

take all this, Oh, look what happens. They can't even handle putting cameras up in a freaking park. And now you've got another kid dead five three, seven four nine, seven thousand d in Highland on seven hundred WWD high Hi.

live their lives. Do you suggest that, like an eleven you old should just stay inside all day when it's dark outside. I mean, don't the people who live in those neighborhoods have a right to use the parks and facilities that are put there by the government without fear of being shot today?

anyone deserve to catch a bullet? The answer, of course says no, unless you're a criminal, like a Rodney Hinton for example. We'll get into that more of speaking of Rodney Hinton later on about ten o'clock, actually a ten oh six, Steve goodins here to talk about his insanity play and what all this means, and that the court bought this whole thing. We'll switch up the topic then after news coming up at ten o'clock, about twelve minutes

from now. In the meantime, it's five one, three, seven, four, nine, eight hundred the Big One Talk Back iHeartRadio app to Mark and Wyoming on the Big One. Good Marting, Mark, Yeah.

and see where the money is. You know, the Consol's job is to appropriate the funds to make sure things work and problems get solved. I don't think you should have to go back and check your math and say, okay, now I've got to do someone else's job. And but you're right, is that like, let's start naming names. I want to know where the hell this thing got screwed up in the first place, because you have another eleven year old dad. Two and a half years ago, we

were told this can't happen again. Well guess what's just happened again. And the money they appropriated to help solve the problem or prevent the problem hasn't been spent yet. We deserve answers names already.

through under the eyes of you know, public accountability. Uh in doing the right thing with the public money. Takes forever to do. The bureaucracy and the red tape is the problem. But at some point someone has to be responsible as to why these cameras weren't put up after the last shooting, and certainly after September when they appropriated the money. The bigger questions I asked Anna Alby, is okay, well this is one hundred and fifty thousand of five

point four million. What the hell happened to the rest of the money. What else aren't you doing? What else aren't you sitting on? I mean, these are great campaign type of things where you go, hey, look what we're doing. We put cameras, great, we voted for camras, awesome, we're the cameras. Wow, we didn't put them up. Well, then, what's the point of all this then? And what do you tell with a straight face to the family of this eleven year old girl who they're about to put

in the ground. It's it's unconscionable, is what it is. And it is a pattern. And I don't know if it's true in other cities. I can't speak for Louisville and Columbus, and I can't speak for Indianapolis or Chicago or Cleveland or Toledo, or Youngstown or Dayton, but certainly Cincinnati. You want to know that the people you and trust are doing their job, and clearly they aren't. And all we get from the mayor will spare nothing to put

a stop to this. How about some accountability? And I think at the top the biggest problem we have seen, and you name all the problems that we've had, is a lack of transparency and accountability. You know, you can bring up names like Patrick Herringer, and you can bring up the rye, the brawl over the summer and go on and on and on, and the lack of transparency, accountability and someone to say this is unacceptable. Here's the plan, and we've got the plan executed. You can't find it.

And yet it's happened again. It's happened time and time and time again, where there's no one willing to step up and say I'm the one who's screwed up, it won't happen again, or holding someone accountable. But rather we get platitudes about how it's intolerable and we're gonna we're gonna stop this and it's not gonna happen again. And guess what, it happened again. How can you be that tone deaf in such a short period of time. It's beyond me. It is beyond me. One more quick one here,

let's go to a John and Westwood on the Big one. John, good morning.

If you're going to say, way, we're going to put up cameras, we're going to do this and that.

That's kind of what happened here. It's like, yeah, well, you got the equipment, you got the tools, you got there, you got all these things. Well why didn't you go do your job? What were you doing instead of doing this? And that's kind of a you know, ham fisted example of the problem. But okay, if it's a business and it's a big company, and certainly the city of Cincinnati is there are people who are tasked with making sure

these things are executed. I can be the owner and go, okay, we're allocating this amount of money to this budget for I don't know, marketing. Let's say, and if you decay, hey, I've got one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for marketing. And you go, I thought we were doing I thought we spent money on marketing. Where is it, Well, we didn't spend the money, Well why not you get fired for that? It's the same thing here. The question is who gets fired. Is it the police department, is it

management within the is it the city manager. And this is not the first time we've had problems. What about the police. I'm very pro police, but you know, when you have a situation where the chief is in flocks and we still have an interim here, I think that's also part of the problem. And what does that go back to. It goes back to left accountability, transparency and function of those elected, in this case re elected to government.

News is next seven hundred WW. Since you want to be an American, we pivot from the issues of the city. I'll revisit this last a suffer. A lot of people want to fire off about the city for not having these cameras up. We appropriated the money for and end result, you've got eleven year old girls shot to death on New Year's Day. Unreal way to start the new year.

For sure, we also have this go on. Speaking of violence, Hamlin County prosecutors have decided not to pursue the death penalty for the man who intentionally ran over and killed Deputy Larry Henderson last May. They agree that Rodney Hinton was legally insane at the time he murdered the deputy. He's expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Sometime next week the judge, Judge Luvers, has to sign off on this for more. It's Steve Gooden, attorney at law,

and Steve, welcome back. How are you good? I'm all right, but I wish we had better news to start the year. We have an eleven year old murdered at a play ground where two and a half years ago and another eleven year old child, a boy, was murdered. No one has answers to cameras being up there. And now we have the news coming out after what we saw last

May at UC's graduation. Here's retired Deputy Larry Henderson working a detail where he's pushing the button operate street lights as people cross across the university campus in order to facilitate graduation. And we know the Rodney Hinton, who was aggravated because his son was justifiably shot and killed by police officers for his role in steel in the car. He decided he was going to get vengeance for his dead son and kill a deputy he had nothing to

do with this. He's expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity next week in the court. Apparently in the prosecutor's offices agreed. That's pretty rare, isn't it.

Apparently the judge actually appointed an independent expert to take a look at him and to render some sort of mental evaluation, and it was this independent expert who concluded that he did have some sort of Mister Hinton had some sort of pre.

is all based on opinion. You know, the the so called MacNaughton test, which is what most states use, including Ohio in terms of deciding whether someone is not guilty by reason of insanity, and it requires that someone has such a a severe mental illness or mental defect that they cannot appreciate the rightfulness, rightness or wrongfulness of their conduct. Here's somebody who was actually it looks like was functioning

in society before this. So it begs a lot of questions does but I will say also in the prosecutor's defense here in Ohio, I mean we have essentially don't have the death penalty anymore. It's on the books, it's seldom imposed. Even if he were sentenced to the death penalty. You know, the governor Dawine is sent a moratorium on the death penalty because of the drugs that they.

the present but the past. I don't know. If you drive around the city, presumably in your mind you're looking for someone to blame, someone to take out, and an eye for an eye sort of fashion, and then you feel that your son was wrongfully shot, even though he was justifiably shot by police. There's no telling a grieving parent that. But you know, him going out and essentially looking for someone in uniform to kill indicates to me

that's premeditated. If it's premeditated, how does that not how does that work then relative to being insane, because you're not supposed to know that this at this time is a crime, and what you're going to do is a criminal in nature. But if you're deliberately doing something and actively seeking one some out for one, understand it took like in the upwards of an hour for him driving around, I don't understand how insanity is play here.

vengeance aspect. And we now know he has been indicted subsequent to his arrest for assaulting a SHARE's deputy up in Butler County, I mean because of you, Because he actually killed a Hamilton County SHARE's deputy who and the Hamilton County deputies run the jail locally. They moved him up to Butler County as a security for security reasons, obviously, and he's already assaulted another uniformed officer there and is unfacing a different fellow the indictment for that. So you know,

it also begs the question. In Ohio, it's very very hard to establish what we call temporary insanity. I mean, that's something that really only exists in the movies. It's a practical matter in Ohio. You either have a severe, severe mental health diagnosis that renders you incapable of understanding right form wronger you don't if there's no such thing

as temporary insanity. And this sort of flirts with a temporary insanity theory, which is, well, he had this mental illness, he saw the video triggered his mental illness, so therefore his criminal culp ability you know, you know, is significantly reduced.

as we said, even by a lawyers doesn't matter. But this is one of these things that is going to be very very hard, I think for people to understand and grasp even you know, I think some of the lawyers who practiced in the spaces I have over the years, you know, are scratching their head a bed at this.

But I apparently what happened yesterday was that there was a you know, a one of the court appointed psychologists who was supposed to be a truly independent person not representing the state or the or the defense, came in and said, no, he had a pretty severe mental health history prior to all this, and that's what they're hanging their hat on. So right now, with the prosecutor's position, I mean, it looks as though, I mean, the death

toll he's already off the table. And I would assume we're going to move into a scenario where, you know, where he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity and assuming that the psychological diagnoses hold up and you know, he's going to be placed into some sort of mental health you know, lockdown mental health facility, hopefully for the rest of his life.

We know that as a fact. But even if bipolar disorder is present, I don't know why the prosecutor could argue that that second prong is had met as we talked about. I think that's the frustrating part, not just for most people listening, but especially for the family, because the family had to sign off.

do want justice here. And that's the problem with this. It doesn't feel like justice. And and you hit the nail on the head, which is almost everybody who ends up in the criminal justice system has some sort of mental health issue. I mean, whether they're dealing with those process trauma and that leads them into drug use, and the drug use leads them down into uh, into stealing. It's always a problem. The issue is what do you what do you do with your mental health problem? You

know problems? Do you push back? Do you get help? Do you do you take them more responsibility of not crossing the line into criminal conduct and hurting other people and stealing from people and doing things of that nature. And that's what our system is. I fear is starting to lose because there is this concept of like, you know, yes, everybody has their mental health problems in gr or not

goes to by reason of insanity. It was always when I was doing this twenty years ago, was reserved for those very tiny sliver of cases, the great minority of cases where someone was so mentally ill that they couldn't understand what they were doing. And that's a pretty rare thing. Everybody's got problems, Everyone has mental health. Almost everybody has some mental health issue. But at the end of the day, it is our responsibility morally to actually control ourselves into

engage in society in the right way. And that's what's getting lost here. And I'll tell you this is something that people are going to struggle with. I am amazed if you look online, if you look particularly on some of the Facebook groups, there are a lot of folks out there who have a lot of sympathy for Hinton. You know, it is not it is a It is a more divided community on this than you would take.

But just for my friends in the law enforcement community, I think this is something that kind of makes him sick.

curR at my hands behind the wheel of a car. Conversely, in this case, we know that in this case, Rodney Hinton was diagnosed as a bipolar in the summer twenty twenty three, well before the offense, and he was prescribed antipsychotic medication. If he choses a lot of people do to get off the drug and not take his prescribed medication that then triggered this episode of insanity, it doesn't the standard hold the same. Like if I choose to drink alcohol, use drugs and I kill someone, that that's

my fault. Does that apply in this case? Do you have a duty and responsibility to take the antipsychotic medication that was prescribed to you? And if not, does that not assume guilt?

then engage in criminal conduct. You know, it should in some way from a common sense standpoint, it should preclude you from being able to use some of that mental health defenses, some of those mental health defenses, but Ohio law just doesn't even contemplate that at its current states.

have their license taken away from them immediately. We don't see that with lotily folks. We tend to treat them the kids. I think the same with them mental illness. A lot of this is probably driven by the and rightly so, there's advocates for the mental health community, of which we all have mental health issues at different levels

for sure, me, you, everybody, and you know. The fear then is, well, you know, if we do this, then we're going to stigmatize mental ill and then people won't go get the care and the help they need because they're afraid that they're going to get in trouble. We're only talking about from this perspective with Rodney Hitton, we're only talking about four states of mental health. Of course, what we're talking about with him is bipolar disorder, but

things like schizophrennie very serious metal. Well, we're not talking about someone who needs I don't know, something for for mild depression or something like their ADHD meds. We're talking about schizophrenia and we're talking about psychotic disorders. We're talking about issues like this, and there's only a handful of them this would apply to. It's not like this is, hey, you didn't take your are your allergy medicine today and you got an accident. It's your fault because you're sneezing.

Nothing like that. We're talking about serious mental defect here.

you know, all over town. He's getting lost, and it was like, it's just a matter of time before he hurts himself or someone else. And luckily I had a power of attorney that had been executed and I got some legal advice and I took every you know, I had to shut it down because I felt that I was going to have a moral, if not legal responsibility at some point for where it was going to go. And a lot of people you have, you see in

these scenarios. I don't know what the case is with hinting, but you know, typically you have a family member who is involved in the treatment in some way, and sometimes they have some legal authority through the probate court and particularly in terms of making sure they have their medication. So you know, that's got to be part of the equation is you know, you know who is the responsible party.

That's on me. I engage in that kind of behavior, being deliberately intoxicated, Whereas if I'm ordered to take prescription antipsychotics because of a mental state and I don't do that and kill someone, it's not my fault. It doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't have hope that the law is going to change anytime soon because their fear of the backlash from the mental health community and others, the fear that's going to cause people not to get

the help that they need. It definitely is a catastrophe on many levels here. But the good news is that he's going to plead and hopefully he doesn't see the light of day. Are you pretty confident he's going to get life? He's never going to get out of jail.

will well, we'll have some value, I hope. But the thing is he will be eligible to have, you know, to be in a treatment situation, and to be evaluated for release every so often.

don't know what's going to happen that way. We just know that if he were convicted straight up, this would be murder even without the death, then he will be murder with a life tail. So h but still I think it is, you know, it is unlikely that he gets out. I mean, they are gonna you know, there's going to be a murder conviction and uh you know again one with the possibility at parole and uh, you know,

and it's it's complicated. We can't say for sure he'll never get out, but there's a pretty good chance he'll ever.

talk about a next Lonely after doing seven hundred. It's a Scott's Loan show on seven hundred WLW. Steve Good was just on talking about what's going on with Rodney hitting In case you're just joining the show, didn't hear it?

County Prosecute Hamblin County Prosecutor Kip guynan assistant prosecutor, has after talking to medical experts and testimony, including court appointed testament but also independent testimony, in analysis of Rodney Hint in the state of mind the day he decided to murder Deputy Layer Henderson, has determined that he was legally insane that the time he murdered Henderson, and it feels like justice is not being served there because you see someone who in the capacity that seems to go against

the narrative that he was out of his mind at the time, in that he was premeditated. He was shown the video he in the family was shown the video camera footage of his son being killed by police officers. Son killed by police officers because he was an a

stolen vehicle. He had a gun on him, He's fleeing, He disobeyed commands, fell down, picked the gun back up and held it in his hand and as he was running past the dumpsters, turned towards at least look towards a police officer which sees that certainly is a threat against his life, and fired the rounds in which killed that young man, Ryan Hinton, his dad in the family.

Was shown the next day the video or at least couple days later, the video of the murder, not murder, but of the shooting, and this triggered him to murder Deputy Larry Henderson, in which it appeared about an hour got in his vehicle because he was distraught, as you could imagine, at some point decided he was going to find someone a uniform to murder, and that person was Larry Henderson, who was working a detail as a retiree, making all extra money I guess, running the cameras or

running the stoplets that you see for their graduations, so people cross the street and had nothing to do with what happened with a son and I even the same department for that matter, as a sheriff's deputy, you know, a since andy cop. Not that that would not that that would matter at all, but he decided that this is what's going to happen. He did so because he was off his medication. For bipolar. This seems to me

like a lawmaker could tackle this issue. But I can imagine for reasons why a lawmaker wouldn't, and that it just doesn't seem just that if you are ordered by your doctor you have a known serious mental deficiency, and I would say bipolar disorder is, I would say schizophrenia is. Then you have to make you have to take your mets.

We know there are a lot of homeless people and are homeless for a lot of reasons, but mental health drives a lot of this who won't take their mets, and then we see them do things in public that threaten not on the quality of life, but also may threaten or actually do bodily harm to people because they're if they're mets. Can you force someone to take their medication? It's awfully tough to do unless you put them an institution,

which in my opinion, we need more of. We're saying we did was close all the mental hospitals back in the sixties and seventies because it felt like, well, you know we're not treating them, well, let's release them out in the public. Okay, great, Now what do we have? We have people who have mental illnesses that are running around the streets doing things like this before you could

institutionalize them. That has to come back. We've got to change that because we worried about the stigma, and that's also the problem. Well there's a stigma. Yeah, there should be a stigma. These are very serious mental issues. This isn't minor, and we're talking a handful of things that would trigger the courts to enforce this. I made the parallel that if I decide that I'm going to go out, or you go out and do drugs, and I'm talking

about drugs that would alter your mind and state. If I would consume alcohol, If I would I don't know, co cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, whatever it is, a marijuana for that matter. And I out there and I do that stuff and I kill someone and it's in my system. I go to jail for that. I go to prison for that as well. You should, because you made a conscious effort to put something in your body that was going to cause you not to be able to operate

a motor vehicle using your clear mind and motor functions. Well, if that's the case, then why isn't the opposite trip that if you are told by a doctor, Look, you've got to take this medication the rest of your life because you have bipolar disorder, you have schizophrenia, you have very serious mental issues, and then you're able to get in a motor vehicle and drive that car without that in your body. Is it going to always happen when someone goes off their mets. No, but this can't be

the first time someone's done that. Doesn't that hold that person to a level of accountability. I mean, you went, you got diagnosed that you had this problem. You deserve to treat that problem. And it's not like, you know, taking your heart Well, what are you saying, sloan in the court is going to force you to take your heart medicine, to take your you know, get your diabetes injections. No, No,

because the only person you hurt is yourself. There maybe your family members, But again, we do stuff all the time that hurts our family members. That shouldn't be a criminal issue. When it extends to the public at large, it's a different story, right You. Not taking something to control your A one C is much different than taking something to prevent you from going on a psychotic rage, on a rampage and we see it have happened in the past, whether it's mass shootings or something like this.

I think that's something seriously the legislature should look at. Not not all drugs that deal with psychotics were not certainly not everything you put in your body should be Hey, you listen, you forgot to take your I don't know, something for your blood pressure that's not the same as some sort of anti psychotic medication. Hopefully that's something we would address. I don't really see it happening because the mental health advocates will bend over backwards screaming about how

this is just some more stigma. It stigmatizes the mental health of people even more so, and it's going to cause them not to go get the help that they need. I don't know. This guy went and got the help he need. He still refuses to abide by the plan. That seems to be as big a decision as someone drinking and driving, and yet we have high standards for that. Doesn't make a lot of sense in my opinion. Something else going on here that I want to get real quick. Uh So we get Maduro out. He's in in the

lock up, he's in Manhattan. Hopefully it doesn't turn into last time we had somebody in a high profile individual in jail in New York City. Uh, look what helped wind up happening. You know what I'm saying is not Hopefully it's not doesn't not like Jeffrey Epstein. Nonetheless, Nicholas Madura's wife are in custody and it was in court and the charges against them include drug trafficking, and the idea we got Madua out of powers we got to stop drug trafficking, which really there wasn't a lot of

drugs he was trafficking in the US. We got to see the oil, which is the big thing. We got to save our democracy or save the democracy there. But we're back to being the world police again, which we were told this administration wouldn't do. There's the issue of American dominance and punishing Venezuela for sending our migrants to the United States. Okay, those are the reasons why we got Madua out of power, and it's a pretty long list.

But there's a problem there in that if that's the standard, then what are the countries would then fall under the thumb of the United States Going Okay, we've got problem with you we're going to take you over. And since we're going down this road, it's kind of like a it's like a country draft. Right now, we're gonna run Venezuela. Hell at this point, just look at it going. Okay, if that's the mindset, let's lean into this thing. And

what other countries should we invade? I mentioned jokingly yesterday Columbian that came out. They well, Columbia's actually one of the countries, largely because it shouldn't cost five dollars to get a cup of coffee with cream in it. Yeah, the drug plot and cocaine, the cartel's okay, that's all well and good. I don't know if you'll ever completely get rid of it, simply because Americans love drugs. We're talking about the Brian hitting Rodney hitting rather with the

drugs there. But Americans like to self medicate. We like weed, people like cocaine and heroina. I know it's not good for you, it's not good for society, but clearly there's an appetite for it. There's a market for it here. People enjoy doing they know. The pitfall is kind of like smoking, right, Warren. Smoking has been going on for a long time. Look, all the research that we spent

to stop smoking, people still smile. They switched to vaping because it's less stressful, and now we're going after that as well. We love our vices here in America. We love our vices, and we love drugs. In America, we're a bunch of drug addicts. Even hell, even if you've never taken a street drug into your life, you're probably still taking some medication. Our lives are improved immeasurably by drugs, legal or otherwise. So in this case, how Columbia drug

probab okay, okay, can't whatever? Worried about the coffee right, which is also a drug? Like yeah, cream a couple couple of coffees with the cream, I mean large is whatever they call the grandes. That's like ten, you know, fifteen bucks, Like it's a lot of money for some coffee, beans, man for for hot water and beans. You know what I'm saying. We can get that cup of coffee down to reasonable. What's reasonable? Two bucks two fifty two fitty

I'm down Columbia should be on the line. It looks like it's like kind of a nice arie Tiffy cleaned it up a little bit get rid of the drug cart tells, hey, it seems like a good vacation spot for us. I agree with Cuba as well. They've been a pain in the ass for a long time. These guys, plus the people there are suffering. This is and that would be the best move of all time because you

easily win Florida if you're a Republican. If you haven't before, you definitely you because you get that, you get that ex patriot vote right there. And let's face it, the people because of communism are aren't doing very well. Despite what people like Michael Moore say. It's a beautiful country with horrible government, not only that being Italian and saw what happened with the casinos back in the fifties with Momo Gi and Conna. You know, we built the Italian

mob built the casinos down in Cuba. Fedel Castro comes along, nationalizes and kicks the mob out, and their series as to why this is why Kennedy got quit an Italian term whacked. There's something behind that as well. So I don't know, maybe we get our casinos back, make the mob great again. I don't think Mexico simply because it's just you know, we think of Mexico is well, it's like Cabo or you go to I don't know, Cancum. Yeah, those are are two small areas. And I think, quite honestly,

do this other stuff. It's gonna get Mexico in line because it seems like the new Mexican president she wants to play she wants to play ball, so maybe that's coming around with that. I would say to Brazil for the same reason. That's a big ass got it's a huge country man. And also lots of snakes, lots of snakes in the Amazon. You gotta do with the Amazon rainforest. Now you take that over. Now you inherit the whole problem of global warming. And you got did I mention

the snakes? Giant crazy bugs as big as of Olkswagen. You know, we don't want to be in there. We don't want to be in there. Brazil, Just let Brazil be Brazil. Greenland's another one. I guess there's resources there and national security. Where's it go to? Greenland? Greenland's not really green Greenland's actually Iceland, and Iceland is actually Greenland, as we learned in grade school. I think if you're going to invade, look at it. This way, you're Greenland,

this big honk of ice. Okay, maybe they got some stuff under the ground. We want whatever, let's do Iceland. It's a lot smaller, it's tiny compared to Greenland. And it's green, not Icy. It's rykevic right. You fly in, you fly out. It's nice. And not only that, if you fly to Europe, it's a good stopping point. It's a good point to get out, change, stretch your legs

a little bit. Well, having to go to the hassle so you know, pass sports and maybe you stay there for well, it seems like, yeah, Greenland, that that Greenland is my Iceland seems to be the one. If we're going to take over another country, I'm all in on Iceland. Let's start there and expand that territory a little bit that way, just kind of you know, dipping our toe in the water. I think we've got this part of

the hemisphere that you know, South America. Like I said, you know, you go after you get Cuba, you get Columbia, you take care of, you know, some of these other countries. Columbia, Columbia, I'll be happy with just column Columbia Cuba, those two are that's doable. It's in the time zone. Yeah, okay, if you're gonna start messing around around the other side of the go to Iceland. We don't want to be going halfway on the world though. I don't know. Do we need Jamaica, Do we need Costa Rica? Do we

need the Bahamas and Perua? No, you don't really need that. Those are small, tiny little island cut let them be. We've got enough of a footprint if you just did those, I'd be quite content with that. As long as we're taking stuff over, I say, go big or go home. Trying to think other countries. What about Germany? We need a presence, and Germany's invaded other countries before. It's about time we say, well, we're taken to see how you guys like it. Gotta be like in the Smack Daba.

Now we kind of need Germany now we don't want to piss off the Germans. Plus yeah, well look at the Cincinnati connection here too.

right there, Spain's right there, and maybe maybe Moroccots. He has taken a Morocco as long as we're rolling, and you know, I'm trying to think what the case would be against Morocco, because you got to you gotta gena. Like the whole thing with Venezuela is about you know, it's about drugs, and it really isn't about getting the oil out of there. I'm not sure the oil companies are too keen on doing it because you know, again

it's the flavor of the month. They get in there, spend billions of dollars and then the regime changes again. Your screw, You lose all that money. You might as well just stay in the golf in the Permian basin. But I'm make I go Columbia, Cuba, Iceland, those are my big ones right there. I make a list. I'm running a list over here. It's my Christmas wish list for this year. It's only what three hundred and sixty

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in divorce filings this month. I guess that makes sense because you know, you get through the holidays and you realize, as you spend a lot of time around people, because most people have the week or weeks off, there's you know, events, there's get together with friends and family and more, and you realize how mouch you hate that person who's ring is on your finger and you want to take that

ring off and fired in the drink. Jason Philibaum family lawyer of Attorney at Law, joining the show once again to discuss Jason.

wants four. There's fights. I just recently did a divorce because a you know, a couple wouldn't have kids, and one of them won on it. Another big thing I see is finances. I can't tell you how many spend thrifts. There are both male and female hidden credit cards. You know, people work hard and come home and their spouse pay you know, spends all the money on whatever involve trips, shoes, I've seen both. Those are probably the too biggest. And

then the third is more of a psychological question. But I think people just stop working at it, and before you know, you become roommates instead of lovers and friends, and then that creates all kinds of other issues.

happens to the holidays as well. But I think a lot of people are like, I just want to get through the holidays, you know, I want to give my kids one last Christmas. I want to you know not, And then I want to do it in January because I want to have it settled by the next school year, and divorces can take six to eighteen months to resolve, So if you start it in January, you probably will have a pretty good idea of what's going on by the time kids will go back to school in August.

The other thing you know is tax returns. People, you know, divorces are expensive. You've got to pay attorneys, and so a lot of times people will wait until they're getting their tax returns end of January early February so they can pay legal bill.

So would your advice then be, hey, try to settle this before you come to see me, because no one is ever happy. No one leaves with what they want in a divorce.

have to file. You're going to have to go through that process. And you're right if other than the death in the family, divorce usually is the most stressful time that you're going to go through in your life. I see it, you know, even if you don't have kids, but especially when you have kids, because even if you're the best parents in the whole world, you're losing half the time with your children, You're doubling your expenses, and

you're cutting half your income away. So it's very stressful for pretty much everyone that goes through it, whether they want it or not.

I've had divorce couples come to me and say, hey, I want to change school and the other person doesn't agree. And by the way, it's July. I'm like, the course are not going to hear your case within a month. You're not going to be able to switch schools in a month unless you have an agreement. So people that are looking to switch gold even post divorce, still have the file emotion and get into court, and you know, I recommend doing that by March or April, so you know, divorce,

I think January is a good time for that. Filing in December is always rough. So that's why people wait till January. And then there's probably a whole host of things I tell clients when they call either in November December, you know, things that they should and shouldn't do before and during the original filing part of it.

and they file for divorce. And so you see the spike all the way through because you suffer through the holidays and that probably finalized the deal, or you wanted to get through the holidays because of you know, hanging out with family members and friends and the kids and all that stuff too, and then you want to go, okay, well we're going to start the new year. My resolution is to to dumpyard dead ass. How much time? How often is it is it? Is it usually mutual that

couples kind of come in together. Are they come in and go, okay, well we talked about it, we're gonna we're gonna break up, As opposed to the very theatrical one where someone will gets served and they have no no, and they had no warning ahead of time.

don't want to put your kids through that. So I would say, you know, other than a dissolution, a lot of divorces are self contested and they sell bite and I'll give you some free I gave you a shelf fre invites. I'm going to give you the same freevit. But in all seriousness, there's a few things I tell every client that calls me. Number one is treat your house right now like an insurance claim. Go through in videotape everything you have in the house videotape. The you

know whether it's in good condition or bad condition. One of the big fights that we have is, oh, that paintings worth five thousand dollars and the other person said, no, that painting. We got rid of it three years ago. Well there's a video of it on the wall two weeks ago, so that's not true. Or you know, they'll say, hey, that this item is worth this amount of money and I'm like, no, this is the shape that it's in,

it's not. So you do it for insurance. So I say, it's not a bad idea to go through and just videotape your items in your house. Insurance companies tell you to do that in cases of five or a fact. So before you start a divorce process, that's that would be a nice way to catalog everything. The second thing I tell people is don't move out of the house unless there's domestic violence or danger or you know, things

like that. Don't move out of the house because you are giving up probably your most important asset and losing control of that during the divorce process. Plus, if you have kids and you don't have a plan for you know, what kind of parenting time you can have during the tendency of the divorce, it could take three to six months for court to make a decision on what parenting time is. So if you move out, I've seen situations where people have been kind of kept away from their

kids for months. So those are the two biggest pieces of advice I give is don't move out without talking to an attorney first, and catalog your items just by doing a quick you know, video of it like you would for insurance Jase.

money is in order. If there's a huge savings account, some people are afraid the other side might take it and dispose of it. So I always tell people, don't dispose of it. That's going to come back to bite you. Don't go to the boat, don't go to the casino. But I think it's okay to put it in another safe account that's held there until the court decides how to divide it. I've had a situation where a guy

had a lot of money in savings. He took it out, he put it in another staving's account, filed for divorce, and then very quickly I spoke with the other attorney and said, hey, he's willing to split this this marital assets, but make sure we take that into account at the end of the cave. And so we did a temporary agreement, we split the money. That's I had another situation where I advised the client to do that, he didn't and the life took it and then he was without the

ability to pay bills. So that those are all concerns, and that's why I give a free consultation, and I suggest before you do anything like that, talk to an attorney, so you do it. The right way. You do it the legal way, and then you do it the fair way, because at the end of the day, in Ohio, the court is going to split it over your assets and all your dad's fifty to fifty unless there's financial misconduct or something like that. It's the fifty to fifty state.

And so you want to make sure you act fairly because the judge is going to require that at the end.

so much emotion. And so I tell clients don't do anything that's going to you know, put fire on the flame. You've got a fire right now, and you know your life is kind of burning. That's how the forces are. That's contain it. Let's get it to make sure there's no long term damage. You start going on social media and posting about a new boyfriend or girlfriend, or post about all the bad things you're spouted, just take gasoline import on that fire. It's no longer a controllable situation.

So I tell people, you know, it's not something you have to do. You don't have to not talk about your divorce, but I would very much keep everything off social media because you don't want to do anything to make it more difficult than it already is.

It's not sooner, but there's all sorts of deadlines. I know people who have gone, well, I just ignore it, maybe it'll go away, and it doesn't.

we can talk about strategies moving forward. The worst thing you can do, though, is put your head in the stand and ignore it. Even even people that file their own answer you know, I don't want to do this, or I don't want a divorce. I don't think you know, we're not you know whatever that's stell you're putting yourself. I've had a situation where a person tried to do it on their own and end up getting blocked from

seeing their kids for nine months. Had they got an attorney, I think I think that would have probably only been about a month. So there's a lot of things that can go wrong by trying to do it doing it yourself. So don't put your head in the stand. Get an attorney.

Right away, and then you know, counseling. You know, I do refer not specifically two people, but I tell clients you should talk to a counselor because this is, like I said at the beginning of the call, one of the most difficult situations you're going to go through outside of death in the family. And you know, if you had a death in the family and you're feeling this way,

you'd go talk to a counselor. I think it's okay to have someone that you can kind of dump your mental track with because this is going to be sort of a long fight.

three hundred thousand dollars when it's fifty. And then all of a sudden, the judge is awarding an order based on a three hundred thousand dollars amount instead of a fifty one thousand dollars amount. And then now you're paying something that you can't avoid, and it's going to take months to get that change. So fourteen days if there's temporary orders requested, twenty eight days to file a formal answer.

But you should get an attorney right away. They can look at the paperwork and they can tell you, you know, what needs to be done.

you said. But how many people come to you in Afric consulting attorneys try to fix it or wind up walking away going you know what, we'll just we'll deal with it. We'll figure this out.

still don't remarry. But still it doesn't happen very often. So I tell clients it's okay to hope that you might reconcile, It's okay to request the counseling, but you need you need to go forward with the idea that this is happening, and my job is to help walk you through the divorce, you know. And again you go to a counselor and they'll talk to you about the other part of it. But you know what, pure numbers, it's very rare. It's a lot more rare than people think.

in your opinion, any movement this way? Why do things get better not worse?

in twenty thirteen. And as far as their oil production, they used to account for about one percent of global GDP and produce around three point five million barrels per day. Today it only represents abouero point one percent of the world GDP and produces only about you know, less than that, you know as we move forward, and a lot of that has to do with the infrastructure decline under Chavez and Maduro over the years.

Venezuela's economy is not very robust. It only accounts for about one hundred and twenty billion dollars when the United States is about thirty trillion, and so Venezuela's economy is about the size of West Virginia's and so in the big scheme of things, it doesn't really matter today as far as this is concerned from an economic standpoint. Geopolitically is a total different conversation. But from an economic standpoint, it doesn't really move the needle.

one of the big oil companies. And maybe this is why they're not saying much about this outside of Chevron, I think is that they don't know what the political situation is. The last thing you want to do is spend hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars to explore in Venezuela. They have some regime come and cut you out and nationalize it again. And so it isn't it safer for them to continue to drill in the golf and in the premium basin.

and that's what these companies are looking at now. Overall, when you talk about oil and the price of the price of oil, the bigger picture is that the rising output in the United States and OPEC will dominate oil market dynamics for the coming years. And so just because of you know, those two entities, we expect the global supply growth over the next year so to push oil prices down to about fifty dollars per barrel. So again it's it's more about US as as opposed to Venezuela.

And you know, I think some energy companies have some I would say hesitant optimism about investment in Venezuela.

an investment point of view and an economic standpoint. You know, but when you go throughout history and you look at all the conflicts that we've been in, whether it's been Desert Storm or the Cuman missile crisis, World War two, you have to remember that the mark of the time has met and exceeded its previous highs.

cup of black coffee. I think Columbia said that we should have all the countries. I think we should go after Columbia next.

little money check this morning. I know the Fed met in December last year obviously too, and we again get to kick the tires every week on how the US economy is doing overall. Despite the huge bump yesterday in the market's record dat on Wall Street, how are things overall now that we've had in the first month of the new year.

the Fed's preferred inflation measure of two percent. Policymakers cited higher tariffs as a key driver of core goods inflations, and so we're starting to get a little bit more clarity there.

in other areas, particularly manufacturing. We received the ISM manufacturing data survey data yesterday which showed a little bit more cooling than what was expected, and most of those supply managers cited the fact that there is still uncertainty with teriffs and that's causing a lot of us within their markets. You know, we're gonna we receive the Ism Services data this morning. I have yet to kind of unpack that, but I think, you know, to kind of summarize all

of this. You know, what we're looking at is that the FED feels pretty good about where we are. They do think that the quarter percent cut will help the labor market moving forward over you know, into twenty twenty six, but you know, they are looking at other things. One of the one of the things that I thought was was very promising is that we continued, you to see

housing prices come down a little bit. And I think the fact that we've cut rates over the last year and a half or so is starting to help the housing market a little bit better. What about inventory there, Yeah, so the inventory you know, is pretty stable. We're seeing inventory somewhere around fifty percent, you know, and getting back to the home sales, you know, that stronger than expected

three point three percent in November. That's the four straight monthly increase in signal, you know, the incremental improvement heading into two thousand and twenty six. And so you know, we're starting to see some momentum there. And Scott, I don't know if you see it, you know, with with with you know, in your business have you Have you seen any type of effect there.

ramp up. And that's always very telling about where we are from an economic standpoint, to see how these companies are performing, and not only the numbers that they come out with, but also the guidance of how they feel about their corporations moving forward into twenty twenty six and beyond.

taken care of. If you're the over the age of seventy three, then you need to start taking your require minimum distributions and a lot of times when people take regular recurring distributions on a monthly basis, you want to make sure that that exceeds the total amount for the year. You also want to rebalance your portfolio and take a

look at that as well. You know, with the increase that we've had in the market over the last three years, if you have a target of let's say a sixty forty portfolio organically, that can get out of whack a little bit because of the surge that we've had in equities to where maybe you're a little bit overbalanced, and so you want to take a look at that and also take make sure in an after tax account that you manage your capital gains and try to limit those

as much as possible using tax loss harvesting. So there's many things that you need to be looking at at the beginning part of this year, and I would suggest that you consult with your financial advisor to go over some strategies you know that makes sense for you.

and overall to get a financial plan together. You know, one of the things is to make sure you don't run out of money. But if you have a financial plan and you have some answers, maybe you can spend more in retirement if you don't have specific legacy or charity goals. And that's the fun part of my job is you know, if the financial health of my client is in place, I'm going to encourage them to spend more and do more things and so that I can

vicariously live through them through their retirement. And that's one of my favorite parts of my job.

And you know, of course, if you've got that kind of luck, you go, hey, you know, I've got two years, so I can get Social Security and Medicaid things like that, and then you get sick and it's a lot out of pocket. So professional make sure that does not happen to you.

do this? And I think that's why it's important to get it on paper, run some analysis on that because for a lot of people they see better than they hear, and it's important just to get the reassurance from your financial advisor that you can actually do it and do it comfortably.