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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Friday, Kentucky, and it is Kentucky and is morning news,
coffee and company with you here on News Radio eight
forty whas we are now joined by Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.
Happy Friday, mister Greenberg.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How we doing doing really well this morning. It's been
a good week and it should be a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No doubt about it. I wanted to start with the
news yesterday. Obviously, a big decision to a point for
the second second term Ed Harness as the Louisville Inspector General. Obviously,
I think, folks, and we've talked about it quite a
bit the last couple of days as far as what
this role is and sort of what the purpose of
it is. But your decision to nominate for a second
(00:36):
term here tell us a little bit about that, and
I guess just overall how you view this position.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, the role of this position, it was created so
that if individual, if people in Louisville have a complaint
against LMPD, there's an independent office to go to to
file those complaints and to get those complaints heard and investigated.
And that's what the Office of Inspector General does. They
respond to civilian complaints that might be about LMPD, and
(01:06):
so I think that accountability is very important. Chief Humphrey
and I are working incredibly hard to make improvements every
day with LMPD, with all of Louisville Metro government. We're
making great progress and doing that all at the same
time reducing violent crime, and we all want to be
held accountable. We think that's an important part of rebuilding trust.
And so I reappointed mister Harness to continue in that
(01:29):
role with sort of that independent oversight response mechanism that
he has, And in the meantime, Chief Humphrey is going
to keep leading LMPD, keep making reforms and improvements every day.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Mary Greenberger is our guest joining us here on News
Radio eight forty Whas I know, there was an announcement
at the Community Care campus this week, and for those
who have not been caught up on that, tell us
a little bit about what the announcement is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Sure, So, you know, when I first became mayor,
even before as mayor, we all knew we had a
very significant challenge in our community with too many people
who were homeless, and many people are homeless on the
streets because they're also struggling from addiction. They're also struggling
with mental health illness, and they don't have a place
to call home. All of those are related and combined,
(02:18):
and so I have this concept to create the Community
Care Campus. We partnered with Volunteers of America, which is
a wonderful organization that does great work in this community
for many years, and together with our cities funding and
support and their leadership, this is going to be a
place that provides housing and healthcare for individuals who are
(02:39):
homeless or experiencing homeless. Right now, we have a temporary
family shelter that's up there and so fifteen families right
now are living there with services were helpful. Where that's
going to become permanent. We're going to also in partnership
with the YMCA that we announced this week, we're going
to be able to help teenagers that are homeless. They
might get out of the foster care system and have
(02:59):
nowhere to go, and so we can help them get
a new path on life. And also something called medical respite,
which means if you're homeless and you end up in
the hospital and then you're released because you don't need
to be the homeless in the hospital anymore. This is
a way for you to gain your strength, fact help
you get back on the right path so you don't
end up back on the streets after you've been in
the hospital. So it's a really comprehensive approach, it's innovative.
(03:20):
I think it's going to be a national model for
one of the many things that we're doing to reduce
the number of homeless people who are living in our community.
And I think you've seen great progress on that over
the last three years since I've been mayor. We've got
a lot more to do, and this is one of
the big things that we're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Another thing we've seen progress in is just crime reduction.
Violent crime reduction and getting guns off the street. That's
a big factor in reducing violent crime. When guns aren't
involved again, it obviously is going to help. And I
know we've had this. I've brought this up a few
times when we've talked, and I know you never want
to make it seem as if you know that there's
still not going to be issues. There's always going to
(03:55):
be issues regardless, because that's just life. But I think
I really appreciate Chief Humphrey is as far as how
he laid it out a couple of weeks ago that
there really is no finish line, but also we should
acknowledge that there is improvements being made and probably being
felt by those in the community, and that's what we want.
Right Obviously, there's never going to be a situation where
it's perfect, but I think we should always acknowledge whenever
there's progress made here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I totally agree. I mean, we're making great progress. You know,
homicides and shootings are down over twenty five percent this
year alone. That is great progress. But we still have
a lot more work to do, and that's why Chief
Humphrey continues to lead LMPD in the right direction. We
have a new recruiting class that's starting in a couple
of weeks that I'm really excited about with the numbers
that we've been able to get of new recruits back
(04:38):
to LMPD after many years of people not wanting to
be a member of that police department. Now they're coming
back in droves and we're restocking and you know where
we're adding to the number of police officers. We were
looking to hire two hundred more officers to work on
preventing crime from happening in the first place. We're also
using new technology. I don't know if you've seen Nick
(04:59):
about these new drones that we're using. You can get
to the scene for crime or a fire before the
first responder. Those are going to be incredibly helpful. We've
used them successfully already a little bit in a couple
of pilot projects, and we're excited to just continue to
roll that out.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So the last time we talked, we did not have
a UFL team just yet. Now we do.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm so excited about this. It's just just just to
see a pro football team here. I mean, but I'm
a huge sportsman. I know a lot of people in
this community are. But it's just cool for the city
to have something like this to where this is where
this club wanted to come. Was what was your involvement?
How much selling did you have to do or did
they just say, hey, we want to be in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, we worked with Low City and the soccer team
and a little bit in their efforts to recruit the
team here. As you heard though, Mikeropole, you know he's
a decision maker and he saw the stadium when he
was in town for the Kentucky Derby. He loves Louisville.
His team did a lot of research and saw what
a great market we are for sports in so many
(06:00):
different ways, whether it's going to events directly, whether it's viewership. UH.
He knew what what a great city we were, and
so we were able to sell it because of who
we are, UH and and what we do. So I'm
incredibly excited for the Louisville Kings. It's gonna be a
great UH season next season. I think Lynn's Family Stadium
will be full of people that are enjoying football next
(06:23):
March through June and and and so it's it's gonna
be really fun. I'm glad it gives us something else
to cheer for, and we're gonna we're working right now
to bring either more teams or more international sporting events
to the city. Louisville loves it, Louisville shines. We're great
at welcoming the world, and so we're all in in
this area.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I'd tell you what the we need. I mean,
we do a lot of things well when it comes
to hosting big events, but on the sports side, there's
no doubt we've we've we've excelled there for for many,
many years, and I when when this announcement happened, I
thought to myself, you know, it was kind of a surprise.
We haven't been in this situation. Not that every day
there's there's a professional team looking to find a home.
But I'm happy to know that that Ropol and his
(07:02):
team looked at Louisville. It's the perfect fit in the stadium.
I mean, I think if you've yet to go to
Lynn Family Stadium because you just are not a big
soccer fan, or maybe you just haven't been able to.
I don't know if people who who've never been, they
don't realize how beautiful it is, not only from I
mean clearly looks beautiful from the interstate, but inside, I
mean it is such a phenomenal facility. Obviously many soccer
games hosted there throughout the year, but to add football,
(07:23):
it's just going to get more people out to see
what a great jewel we have in that stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, it's an amazing stadium. Whether you're watching Low City
or Racing, both are great teams. The postseasons coming up,
I would encourage people to go out there and check
it out, whether you've been before and just want to
go back or whether you've never been before, because it's
a really unique experience. It's a very intimate feeling. You're
there's not a single bad seat in the entire stadium.
It's really exciting, and you know, it's it's a wonderful
(07:51):
family friendly event.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So the two fan bases, and again, I know there's
people in the city that are that are that are
fans of other programs, but obviously a lot of Lowell
Cardinal fans here in Louisville, and certainly a lot of
Kentucky Wildcat fans as well. I'm hopeful that this could
be maybe the first thing that we come we come
together collectively together and cherwell for one team, because the
power we would have if we came together to support
(08:14):
one team. Obviously that'll never happen with the Cards and
the Cats, but we've got a lot of passionate fans
of sports, specially football around here, and that's my hope
is that we really show the UFL that we were
the perfect city for them. You know, about than anybody,
there's a lot of Kentucky fans and Louisville fans here.
We coexist together. That's what makes the rivalry so special.
Specifically here in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's right. We can all put on the green for
the Louisville Kings and it'll be wonderful events. I mean,
speaking of which, big big night tonight with the Cardinals.
A lot I know a lot of folks went down
to Miami for that game. I know we're an underdog,
but coach Brohms got the team ready. I'm excited about that.
And this week was the tip off luncheon for the
u of L women's and men's basketball teams, and so
(08:54):
I mean, it's gonna be great, great fall for all
of us sports fans here in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
No doubt. A lot of great energy surrounding UL athletics
right now, and I think a lot of that starts
with the great work that Josh Hurd has done. Just
really again, the energy and the vibes are at a
level I haven't seen in quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And Josh is amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He's done a great job. So yeah, tonight a tall task.
I'll leave you with this stat that I'm sure you're
aware of because I know you're big louisvill fan, But
Jeff Brum has one of the most impressive and really
just crazy stats. Ever, in this spot where he is
unranked as a head coach, his team's unranked, and he's
playing a top three team, he's three and oher, which
again going to be a tough task tonight to keep
that going. But isn't that one of the craziest stats
(09:31):
you've ever heard. It speaks to him having these guys
ready to play.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Think I did not know that stat, But here's the
four oh yeah, let's go card.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Absolutely, Thank you as always, Mary Greenberg, We appreciate your time,
enjoy your day and have a good WEEKND my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thanks, thank you too.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Thank that's little Mayor Craig Greenberg joining us here on
News radio eight forty whas all right, quick tom out.
We'll see how the roadways are looking here. Also, we've
got another update of the weather. We'll get that with
Matt Melosa. Bitch a woky, So stick around right here.
It's News radi ight forty w h A s.
Happy Friday, Kentucky, and it is Kentucky and is morning news,
coffee and company with you here on News Radio eight
forty whas we are now joined by Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.
Happy Friday, mister Greenberg.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How we doing doing really well this morning. It's been
a good week and it should be a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No doubt about it. I wanted to start with the
news yesterday. Obviously, a big decision to a point for
the second second term Ed Harness as the Louisville Inspector General. Obviously,
I think, folks, and we've talked about it quite a
bit the last couple of days as far as what
this role is and sort of what the purpose of
it is. But your decision to nominate for a second
(00:36):
term here tell us a little bit about that, and
I guess just overall how you view this position.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, the role of this position, it was created so
that if individual, if people in Louisville have a complaint
against LMPD, there's an independent office to go to to
file those complaints and to get those complaints heard and investigated.
And that's what the Office of Inspector General does. They
respond to civilian complaints that might be about LMPD, and
(01:06):
so I think that accountability is very important. Chief Humphrey
and I are working incredibly hard to make improvements every
day with LMPD, with all of Louisville Metro government. We're
making great progress and doing that all at the same
time reducing violent crime, and we all want to be
held accountable. We think that's an important part of rebuilding trust.
And so I reappointed mister Harness to continue in that
(01:29):
role with sort of that independent oversight response mechanism that
he has, And in the meantime, Chief Humphrey is going
to keep leading LMPD, keep making reforms and improvements every day.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Mary Greenberger is our guest joining us here on News
Radio eight forty Whas I know, there was an announcement
at the Community Care campus this week, and for those
who have not been caught up on that, tell us
a little bit about what the announcement is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Sure, So, you know, when I first became mayor,
even before as mayor, we all knew we had a
very significant challenge in our community with too many people
who were homeless, and many people are homeless on the
streets because they're also struggling from addiction. They're also struggling
with mental health illness, and they don't have a place
to call home. All of those are related and combined,
(02:18):
and so I have this concept to create the Community
Care Campus. We partnered with Volunteers of America, which is
a wonderful organization that does great work in this community
for many years, and together with our cities funding and
support and their leadership, this is going to be a
place that provides housing and healthcare for individuals who are
(02:39):
homeless or experiencing homeless. Right now, we have a temporary
family shelter that's up there and so fifteen families right
now are living there with services were helpful. Where that's
going to become permanent. We're going to also in partnership
with the YMCA that we announced this week, we're going
to be able to help teenagers that are homeless. They
might get out of the foster care system and have
(02:59):
nowhere to go, and so we can help them get
a new path on life. And also something called medical respite,
which means if you're homeless and you end up in
the hospital and then you're released because you don't need
to be the homeless in the hospital anymore. This is
a way for you to gain your strength, fact help
you get back on the right path so you don't
end up back on the streets after you've been in
the hospital. So it's a really comprehensive approach, it's innovative.
(03:20):
I think it's going to be a national model for
one of the many things that we're doing to reduce
the number of homeless people who are living in our community.
And I think you've seen great progress on that over
the last three years since I've been mayor. We've got
a lot more to do, and this is one of
the big things that we're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Another thing we've seen progress in is just crime reduction.
Violent crime reduction and getting guns off the street. That's
a big factor in reducing violent crime. When guns aren't
involved again, it obviously is going to help. And I
know we've had this. I've brought this up a few
times when we've talked, and I know you never want
to make it seem as if you know that there's
still not going to be issues. There's always going to
(03:55):
be issues regardless, because that's just life. But I think
I really appreciate Chief Humphrey is as far as how
he laid it out a couple of weeks ago that
there really is no finish line, but also we should
acknowledge that there is improvements being made and probably being
felt by those in the community, and that's what we want.
Right Obviously, there's never going to be a situation where
it's perfect, but I think we should always acknowledge whenever
there's progress made here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I totally agree. I mean, we're making great progress. You know,
homicides and shootings are down over twenty five percent this
year alone. That is great progress. But we still have
a lot more work to do, and that's why Chief
Humphrey continues to lead LMPD in the right direction. We
have a new recruiting class that's starting in a couple
of weeks that I'm really excited about with the numbers
that we've been able to get of new recruits back
(04:38):
to LMPD after many years of people not wanting to
be a member of that police department. Now they're coming
back in droves and we're restocking and you know where
we're adding to the number of police officers. We were
looking to hire two hundred more officers to work on
preventing crime from happening in the first place. We're also
using new technology. I don't know if you've seen Nick
(04:59):
about these new drones that we're using. You can get
to the scene for crime or a fire before the
first responder. Those are going to be incredibly helpful. We've
used them successfully already a little bit in a couple
of pilot projects, and we're excited to just continue to
roll that out.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So the last time we talked, we did not have
a UFL team just yet. Now we do.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm so excited about this. It's just just just to
see a pro football team here. I mean, but I'm
a huge sportsman. I know a lot of people in
this community are. But it's just cool for the city
to have something like this to where this is where
this club wanted to come. Was what was your involvement?
How much selling did you have to do or did
they just say, hey, we want to be in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, we worked with Low City and the soccer team
and a little bit in their efforts to recruit the
team here. As you heard though, Mikeropole, you know he's
a decision maker and he saw the stadium when he
was in town for the Kentucky Derby. He loves Louisville.
His team did a lot of research and saw what
a great market we are for sports in so many
(06:00):
different ways, whether it's going to events directly, whether it's viewership. UH.
He knew what what a great city we were, and
so we were able to sell it because of who
we are, UH and and what we do. So I'm
incredibly excited for the Louisville Kings. It's gonna be a
great UH season next season. I think Lynn's Family Stadium
will be full of people that are enjoying football next
(06:23):
March through June and and and so it's it's gonna
be really fun. I'm glad it gives us something else
to cheer for, and we're gonna we're working right now
to bring either more teams or more international sporting events
to the city. Louisville loves it, Louisville shines. We're great
at welcoming the world, and so we're all in in
this area.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I'd tell you what the we need. I mean,
we do a lot of things well when it comes
to hosting big events, but on the sports side, there's
no doubt we've we've we've excelled there for for many,
many years, and I when when this announcement happened, I
thought to myself, you know, it was kind of a surprise.
We haven't been in this situation. Not that every day
there's there's a professional team looking to find a home.
But I'm happy to know that that Ropol and his
(07:02):
team looked at Louisville. It's the perfect fit in the stadium.
I mean, I think if you've yet to go to
Lynn Family Stadium because you just are not a big
soccer fan, or maybe you just haven't been able to.
I don't know if people who who've never been, they
don't realize how beautiful it is, not only from I
mean clearly looks beautiful from the interstate, but inside, I
mean it is such a phenomenal facility. Obviously many soccer
games hosted there throughout the year, but to add football,
(07:23):
it's just going to get more people out to see
what a great jewel we have in that stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, it's an amazing stadium. Whether you're watching Low City
or Racing, both are great teams. The postseasons coming up,
I would encourage people to go out there and check
it out, whether you've been before and just want to
go back or whether you've never been before, because it's
a really unique experience. It's a very intimate feeling. You're
there's not a single bad seat in the entire stadium.
It's really exciting, and you know, it's it's a wonderful
(07:51):
family friendly event.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So the two fan bases, and again, I know there's
people in the city that are that are that are
fans of other programs, but obviously a lot of Lowell
Cardinal fans here in Louisville, and certainly a lot of
Kentucky Wildcat fans as well. I'm hopeful that this could
be maybe the first thing that we come we come
together collectively together and cherwell for one team, because the
power we would have if we came together to support
(08:14):
one team. Obviously that'll never happen with the Cards and
the Cats, but we've got a lot of passionate fans
of sports, specially football around here, and that's my hope
is that we really show the UFL that we were
the perfect city for them. You know, about than anybody,
there's a lot of Kentucky fans and Louisville fans here.
We coexist together. That's what makes the rivalry so special.
Specifically here in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's right. We can all put on the green for
the Louisville Kings and it'll be wonderful events. I mean,
speaking of which, big big night tonight with the Cardinals.
A lot I know a lot of folks went down
to Miami for that game. I know we're an underdog,
but coach Brohms got the team ready. I'm excited about that.
And this week was the tip off luncheon for the
u of L women's and men's basketball teams, and so
(08:54):
I mean, it's gonna be great, great fall for all
of us sports fans here in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
No doubt. A lot of great energy surrounding UL athletics
right now, and I think a lot of that starts
with the great work that Josh Hurd has done. Just
really again, the energy and the vibes are at a
level I haven't seen in quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And Josh is amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He's done a great job. So yeah, tonight a tall task.
I'll leave you with this stat that I'm sure you're
aware of because I know you're big louisvill fan, But
Jeff Brum has one of the most impressive and really
just crazy stats. Ever, in this spot where he is
unranked as a head coach, his team's unranked, and he's
playing a top three team, he's three and oher, which
again going to be a tough task tonight to keep
that going. But isn't that one of the craziest stats
(09:31):
you've ever heard. It speaks to him having these guys
ready to play.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Think I did not know that stat, But here's the
four oh yeah, let's go card.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Absolutely, Thank you as always, Mary Greenberg, We appreciate your time,
enjoy your day and have a good WEEKND my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thanks, thank you too.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Thank that's little Mayor Craig Greenberg joining us here on
News radio eight forty whas all right, quick tom out.
We'll see how the roadways are looking here. Also, we've
got another update of the weather. We'll get that with
Matt Melosa. Bitch a woky, So stick around right here.
It's News radi ight forty w h A s.
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