Compassionate conservative
Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis Jr. believes having his deputies patrol Over-the-Rhine is a rousing success.
In addition to having 19 deputies patrolling the troubled Cincinnati neighborhhod, Leis has prisoners sweeping up and cleaning up the neighborhood, wearing their orange and white jail uniforms.
The first day the clean-up began, the temperature was in the mid-90s and very steamy. The deputy assigned to watch the eight inmates cleaning up that day worked up such a sweat that he lost 10 pounds that day, Leis spokesman Steve Barnett said.
Today, there are 10 inmates sweeping up, clearing brush and beautifying them.
Leis gave them a special treat.
"Big Boys, fries and cokes," the Sheriff said.
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Post a Comment*Is that John Cranley... I mean Bog Boy?
I just bet Bi-Si gave them a big boy !!
Sheriff Si Leis wants the mostly black prisoners to work like slaves. He, like most Republicans, have never gotten over the fact that Lincoln-- a Republican-- freed the slaves over 140 years ago. Lincoln happens to be about the only Republican who has ever walked the Earth who had respect for the Black man. And the GOP, in the first of many instances of letting their thirst for power get in the way of keeping their treasured status quo, nominated him as President.
Yet another reason to vote for John Cranley. Cranley will stand up to bigots like Si Leis and put them in their place.
I heard a news report that si's boyswill not be patroling otr between 2:30 and 7 am - the time when most murders and violence occurs and when the bars close down and everyone is out to buy some drugs in order to keep the buzz on.
i wonder if they're there onthe weekend or absconding fromthe juridiction then too.
Sheriff Leis has gone off the deep end. He is a tired, old dinosaur who is so driven by his inflated ego and sense of importance that he has forgotten what is in the best interests of the County.
Did people see his criticism of the judges in Hamilton County? If I understood him correctly, Sheriff Leis criticized judges for making inmates serve their full sentence and not make them eligible for work details. Isn't a judge supposed to make that call? Not the Sheriff.
Lets think here. The county wants to build a new jail and raise taxes to build it. They just came up with 1.8 mil to give the guy that runs the jail to patrol the City of Cinti's Over The Rine.Lets use the 1.8 mil a year for the new jail and the 6 mil the city has came up with for a tent jail to hire more Cinti.Police Officers there solved. and also do we really need a new jail I was told that Indianopolis and louville our comparable in size but the jail population is much lower...I wonder why ?
Indianopolis and louville our comparable in size but the jail population is much lower...I wonder why ?
Those cities do not arrest people for neighborly gestures like putting quarters in expired parking meters.
Plus, they do not have a cross-dressing bi-si egomaniac that demands fresh chicken everyday !
Someone, Please Help me with the Math:
Less citizens + more police + more criminals ??
"Today, there are 10 inmates sweeping up, clearing brush and beautifying them." Kimball, who exactly are the "them" being beautified? Guess knowing grammar isn't important if you're a "journalist" at the Inquisitor. Apparently, proper spelling doesn't matter either- "neighborhhod"?
The only reason the inmates from the Justice Center sweeping OTR are black is because that's who is committing the crime. I'm sorry if "the man" is holding you down Mr. Livingston, or Miss Holland, but who killed Kabaka? It was a black man. And which mayor has seen the biggest spike in crime and done the least for our city in his six months as mayor? Mark Mallory, a black man. You scream whites are racists but don't show change in the neighborhoods and positions filled with blacks. And you think Cranley will help? First of all as a member of the house he won't have the power to do anything to Si Leis. And his constituency will be 85% White, who I guarantee all 85 approve of doing something about crime, something our Sheriff is doing. Please dissolve the black fist, join with your elected officials and police officers and do something about the drain our cities going down.
"I believe the only way to deal with these guys is to lock them up, because they're not going to be saved," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters said. "Don't confuse jail with rehabilitation. It's warehousing."
I believe the only way to deal with deters the cheater is to lock him up for his money laundry for he is beyond rehabilitation:
Make a Concealed Contribution !!
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Hint to whoever posts comments in bold and italics...
Your comments are so worthless that as soon as I see text style changes I just move to the next comment. I imagine I am not alone in avoiding your idiocy (you are seriously hurting Cranley from my perspective). I would suggest using normal text if you want people to respond.
I would suggest using normal text if you want people to respond.
Another wRong wingnut whacko who doesn't know schmidt !!
Your self absorbed suggestions demonstrates that you are more interested in authoritarian conformity than any real substantive dialogue !!
Other than clicking your heals with your elephant dung covered shoes, just what have you contributed to society, or the blog topic (which has nothing to do with Cranley) !!
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRATIC 2006
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Last Friday, NBC Nightly news featured an inspiring story about a sheriff in Memphis who (literally) runs a relay race every year to benefit St. Jude's Children's Hospital. This marvelous man has raised millions for childhood cancer research and the race is more than 20 years strong. He continues to run the race himself, despite a shattered hip that resulted when the sheriff was hit by a car.
I point this out because I do not find it necessary for the Enquirer to throw Si Leis a parade (no doubt to make use of his giant blow up doll of himself) for buying a round of fast food for a group of prisoners slaving away in 100 degree temps. It is nice to know that there are real public servants out there, and not just the dregs we have to put up with here in Hamilton County.
I think we should evaluate these Si work detail programs.Lets go back to an article on 3/5/03 in the Cinti.Post an inmate while working on a detail was able to steal a Kilo of cocaine from the police property room.
leis reports on his boys being in otr ( heard on wlw)
( story not to be printed in the enquirer)
the "boys" made 59 arests - all but 4 were for misdemeanor offenses ( probaby not paying a traffic ticket or skipping court because they didn't have the money to pay a traffic, open fask, joint fine)
so - $1.7 (?) million effort to pick up a bunch oflow level, nonviolent, poor blacks - as deters says, there's no hopes for these guys, no rebailitating ( poor into working class) warehouse them all so my nephew can have a job working at the jail 'cause he has no skills to get a real job any place else.
geez, we could get our relatives and friends too stupid to qualify for a job, a job at the clerk of courts office - that works too!
So because it's a misdemeanor, you should just get off scot-free? Seriously, what's the logic here? Because they're poor and black there should be no consequences? Do you even have the demographics on the arrests that deputies made? Or are you just assuming?
Thank God the deputies are patrolling OTR. I haven't seen it so clean for a while, and druggies are getting the idea that this isn't a good place to buy and sell drugs.
And, yes, Si was being kind by giving away burgers and sodas. He could put every single inmate on work detail and isn't obliged to give them anything in return.
last night a man was killed in otr - where were leis' boys - they went home when the thugs came out to play.
si had to feed the inmates doing cleanup details because it wouldn't be worth it for them to go all the way back to the jail for a cheese sandwich. i have no problem with big boys and fries.
as to misdemeaner offenders who generally only owe a fine - $100 bucks isn't anything to a guy making $30 K for an infraction of the law, but $100 bucks to a guy making $50 bucks a day ( yes, that's about how much they make if they can find work) is a problem.
it goes to the old question is it worse to steal a dollar from a poor man than to steal a dollar from a rich man? the answer is yes.
to support my claims; there was recently a suit in hamilton county were the lawyer proved that the courts were sending people to "debtors prison" ( at the justice center) simply because low level ( open flask, traffic tickets, public intoxication) offenders didn't have the money to pay the fines and court costs.
so... they picked up a bunch of non violent, misdemeanor offenders.
and no, of course they shouldn't get off scot free. my sons car was totalled by a woman with no license, no insurance,... our liabiltiy coverage ( because full coverage for a teenager is outof this world) leaves us stuck. what do i want them todo to her? make her ,make me whole- it does not behoove me or the taxpayers to have her put in jail to teach her a lesson.
when my business was robbed by a teenager a couple years ago - the kid, once he knew he was caught, came to me and worked for two weeks, hard, to re pay me for the property damage and the money he stole. i testified that i was not only made whole - but, i felt the kid made extraordinary efforts and had some redeeming characteristics i didn't expect to find in a kid whose dad just got out of jail, whose mom abandoned him when he was 2, --- they sent him to hillcrest for 2 years ( even though he did't meet the critieria for entering that facility for serious dangerous young offenders).
nooone cried for that kid - except me. the victim.
go to the sheriff's website and look up the stats on these "violent offenders" you'll find the truth. like i did. this is a poverty and addictions issue not a deviant issue.open flask, trespassing, public urination, traffic fines, ....
if your little brother or son is an alcoholic, do you want him in handcuffs or do yu want him in treatment so your family doesn't go through this over and over and over again?
This column has been printed from The Cincinnati Beacon: Where Divergent Views Collide!
The Cincinnati Beacon
Team Heimlich Uses Jail Hearings as Campaign Springboard
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Yesterday marked the first public hearing about failing County Commissioner Phil Heimlich’s excessive jail tax proposal—and already we can see Team Heimlich (which includes the Cincinnati Enquirer) working overtime to spin this in Phil’s favor. The biggest players of the last 24 hours: Crystal Faulkner, Kimball Perry, and Tom Weidman. Let’s briefly look at each in turn.
Crystal Faulkner
We have written about Crystal Faulkner before (read about her WNKU radio interview with known Gothardites here, or read about how she worked for DeWine’s task force while hosting Heimlich campaign events here).
This same Crystal Faulkner (whose son appears to be working on the Heimlich campaign) wrote an opinion column published in this morning’s Enquirer—complete with a professional head-shot. Naturally, the Enquirer failed to disclose the relationship between Faulkner and Team Heimlich.
From the column:
The 1,800-bed jail is the most cost-effective solution over the long term. We looked at many alternatives, from rehabbing and expanding existing facilities to using tent or bubble jails. We found all the alternatives inadequate in terms of cost, operations, safety, medical and rehabilitation services.
The new, consolidated facility will also allow for vital programming space for rehabilitation services of the inmate population. The direct result: decreased recidivism.
This 1,800-bed facility will be expandable to meet our incarceration needs well into the future. The new jail allows the county to house the many special needs and medical beds that the present jail population requires. It also provides the safest environment for law enforcement officials and social service providers. Most importantly, though, it will keep criminals off the streets.
This, the morning after Heimlich’s public meeting in Sycamore Township to discuss, in public, his jail tax proposal. So, when Faulkner writes that the “1,800-bed jail is the most cost-effective solution”—to which jail plan does she refer? Todd Portune’s? His is the more cost-effective solution, but given the fact that the Enquirer has virtually ignored the details of his plan, Faulkner can rest assured that her Tuesday morning readers will associate her gushing support with her own candidate’s proposal.
Kimball Perry
Kimball Perry’s inability to disclose facts has been widely reported here, and perhaps the most outrageous example is when Perry was party to Team Heimlich’s smear attempt against David Pepper—inspired purely by this press release distributed by Tom Weidman.
Perry conveniently neglects to inform anyone that Weidman is Heimlich’s re-election campaign chairman. And his column from this morning continues in that tradition.
Not once does Perry give any details about why this meeting was held in Sycamore Township, nor does Perry discuss the facilities themselves.
The location was too small to accommodate the turnout for this public hearing. Sycamore Township has a small hearing room—it only seats 50—so the majority of people were in an anteroom trying to see and hear from a small color TV set up in the front of the room.
Why would Heimlich hold this important meeting in such an inconvenient location? Because Tom Weidman is a Sycamore Township trustee, and he organized the event as a campaign favor to Phil. Don’t expect to hear any of this from the Enquirer—Perry is a player for Team Heimlich, too.
Tom Weidman
We mentioned Weidman above, and there may not be too much to add right now. Suffice it to say that this meeting happened in Sycamore for no reason other than Phil’s campaign chairman organized it that way as a political favor. The location was inconvenient, and the facilities did not cater to the numbers who arrived. But as we hypothesized in this article, this is the plan from Team Heimlich’s playbook. They have no real platform, so they will tour neighborhoods where team members have connections.
The next meeting has been organized especially for Melva Gweyn—Cincinnati’s darling racist. Team Heimlich loves her so much, that even Kimball Perry gave her a long quote in this week’s article. Expect to hear more outrage from her at the next meeting.
Thank you for reading (and printing from) The Cincinnati Beacon.
at 8/08/2006 1:38 PM Anonymous said...
Thank you for sharing your story !!
That's exactly what we are talking about !!
1800 treatment beds empty is better than 1800 jail beds full !!
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