Jim Neil for Hamilton County Sheriff

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
It is seven twenty eight here at fifty five kre
CD talk station. And man, I got to know pretty
well over the years. I think the world of him,
and I think he did a wonderful job. And he
was sheriff here in Hamilton County. Jim Neil, who is
running for sheriff against the current incumbent, Charmage McGuffey. Welcome back, Sheriff,
Jim oh former sheriff now soon to be sheriff again hopefully,

(00:26):
Jim Neil. Good to have you on the program, sir, Hey, it's.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good to be here. Ryan. Thank you for the opportunity.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Pleasure to do it. I'll recommend folks check you out online.
Vote Jim Neil and Eil vote Jimneil dot com. It's
your website for your campaign as well. Run out the
clock here. We're getting fast approaching next Tuesday. Clearly stayed
in the obvious, Jim, your final opportunity to sway the
hearts and minds of my listeners. May most of whom
I'm going to assume support you anyway, but you've got

(00:55):
to differentiate yourself between the current administration and Charmeae mcguffee. Uh,
my understanding and you can go ahead and spring from
what I have learned through little birds whispering in my
ear and speaking with people who work in the sheriff'sawice
morale not so hot right now, and uh, and it
is a failure of leadership more than anything. What's your

(01:15):
take on that, gym?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Absolutely, Uh. And it starts from the top. As you know,
Sheriff McGuffey, when she was a major with the Sheriff's office,
there was an official complaint filed on her for creating
a hostile work environment and uh, and that complaint was sustained.

(01:38):
And you know what, she hasn't changed, and she's she's
a bully and uh, she's very vindictive. And that's that's
a poor leadership quality. Uh. So it's hard to maintain, uh,
staffing levels in an environment like that. I mean, you

(02:00):
can recruit, but it's keeping them, Ryan, it's keeping them.
And the stamping levels are definitely down in the Sheriff's office.
In a lot stems from leadership. But before I go
any further, I want to remind you and everybody else
that I'm endorsed by Christopher Smitherman. She is endorsed by

(02:26):
George sorrows. Can we explain the difference between she is
a political activist sheriff. I was the people sheriff. I
was focused on public safety and law enforcement, law and order,
following the rule of law. That's why I'm sitting here
talking to you, trying to get my job back, because

(02:50):
I wasn't willing to go down that road sell my
soul to the devil to keep a job.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know, it's an excellent observation. Law enforcement is I
should be politically neutral. I don't know how being a
Republican or Democrat has anything to do with your focus
on keeping criminals off the streets, or arresting criminals or
chasing down bad guys. Basically enforcing the law. The laws
on the books just enforce it, so it shouldn't bear

(03:18):
a political stripe. You don't need to go out and
keep talking politics while you are sheriff. You just need
to create a great work environment, provide your people with
the resources they need, and encourage them to do their
job and get the bad guys. Now she has politicized it.
I don't think I've ever seen her in doing anything
other than attending like LGBTQ plus parade events and you know,

(03:39):
pointing out over and over and over again and leading
a lot with the fact that she's the first you know,
I guess lesbian sheriff or something. This is twenty twenty four, Jim.
No one gives a crap about your sexual identity. No
one cares who you choose to sleep with. Are you
effective at the job? Have you demonstraly proven that you

(04:01):
are a good person to be there right right?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
And let's equate that with quality law enforcement? I don't
see it. We have some great men and women that
work in the Sheriff's office, but it's a failure under
her leadership.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
How do you right the ship, Jim.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh, effective leadership, It starts from the top. These men
and women signed up to enforce the laws, to uphold
the constitution. That's what they want to do. They don't
want to enforce political agendas. And that's what's happening in
law enforcement in Hamilton County. With the larger agencies Cincinnati.

(04:47):
The officers are being blocked and not allowed to do
their job the sheriff's office because of the leadership and
following the political agenda. They're not as effective as they
could be either. I mean, the two largest agencies in
the county are failing us because of leadership, poor leadership.

(05:10):
And I'm talking about and I'm talking about the sheriff,
and I'm talking about city council that leans on the
current police chief, not allowing her to do her job. Yeah,
and that's why. But this is why I love the politics, Brian.
I'm going to go back to the politics. Whether I'm

(05:31):
a Democrat or whether I'm a Republican, that's not going
to affect how I run that office. But it gets
me into the office, so I can be the people's sheriff,
not influenced by politics because I answer to no politician.
I answer to you, Brian, I answer to Joe, I

(05:52):
answer to all of your listeners. And that's what's great
about the office of the sheriff is that I if
I don't want the office to be political, it won't
be political because I do not. I'm not appointed by
a politician. I'm elected by the people. So we got
to keep it that way. But once you're elected sheriff,

(06:12):
you've got to keep the politics out of law enforcement.
You're doom for failure. The current administration is failing.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Put an exclamation point on that. For everything I've heard,
so I'll tell you what. Let's take an early break here,
I'll bring it back. I want to talk about a
couple of other hot button issues that are going on,
and one of them happens to be immigration. Lachlan, of
course within Hamilton County. I want to get your perception
of immigration, whether it has anything to do with crime,
and what are the current statistics regarding crime. Local news

(06:43):
keeps telling us that there isn't and hasn't been an
increase in crime. In fact, it's dropping off. I'm a
little bit skeptical or jaded and cynical over that conclusion
under the circumstances. So we'll get Jim's take on those issues.
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Speaker 1 (10:02):
Seven here fifty five KRCD talk Station, A very happy
Wednesday to you. After the top of the air news.
The other key to law enforcement here in Hamilon County
Prosecutor Melissa Powers joins the program to give us a
final push to put her and her rather keep her
in office Judge of Paulatano at eight thirty. The meantime,
Jim Neil, former sheriff soon to be hopefully again sheriff.
Vote Jimneil dot com is where you find them online.

(10:25):
Now the National news has stumbled upon the issue that's
going on in Lochland. And I'm not picking on Lachland.
It's just that it happens to be in the national
news within the last week. Three thousand, three thousand immigrants,
both probably a mix of legal and illegal, but Mauritanians primarily.
I don't know why Mauritanians chose Lachland as their destination city,

(10:49):
but there they are. So the village of Lachland, a
town of thirty four hundred peoples, has an influx of
three thousand new arrivals. We'll call them, and the city
officials and the mayor is like, we can't deal with this.
It's uns literally, the word from the mayor is unsustainable.
I'm not sure if there's any connection with crime there,

(11:11):
but what's your connection with the illegal immigrant population? Your
relationship with ICE. How you would run the sheriff's office
this time around, Jim Neil.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Okay, let's start with ICE, Immigration Customs Enforcement. Yes, as sheriff,
any immigrant who is physically arrested and transported to the
Hamilton County jail, that arrest will be reported to ICE
so that they can conduct their investigation. And one of

(11:41):
two things is going to happen when that immigrant is
released from jail, whether making bond or serving thy sentence.
ICE will be notified of that release. They're going to
either interview the immigrant for additional information for their case file,

(12:01):
or they're going to take custody because they have a
federal court order to deport. And quite frankly, if these
immigrants are violating our laws, Brian, they're showing signs of
not being good citizens, why do we need to keep them.
Let's deport them.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, and certainly ICE will do its job if they're
alerted to the immigrant population. Now, for her part, I know,
Charmie mcguffee claims to be working with ICE. That's her claim.
I guess the Inquiry interviewed her most recently, I guess
a week or so ago, and her position. She claims
is that she contacts ICE and has a working relationship

(12:40):
with them. Do you believe that to not be the case?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
It is not the case. She's the only sheriff in
Ohio not working with ICE. She will notify them after
subsequent to release an offender. Hey, I released an immigrant
instead of notifying them giving them up to forty eight
hours to respond to the county jail to do their job.

(13:06):
She's not working with ICE. That's a good question. You
can ask the prosecutor as well. But she's not working
with ICE.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
All right. Well, well it's not.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Part of her party's agenda, Brian, And she's an agenda sheriff.
She's a political sheriff. She's an activist. During twenty twenty,
when I was sheriff, I would see her out there
with these the twenty twenty movements that caused a lot
of harm to our property and injuries to a person,

(13:41):
and we affected a number of rests. She's been seen
in those gatherings.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
She's an activist, no question about it from my perspective.
Just giving you an opportunity to speak your case on
the issue. Now moving over to the jail as well
as staffing in the sheriff's department. Generally speaking, getting people
to enter the field of law enforcement as a career
choice hard enough given the circumstances in this country with
the defund police mentality and the anti police mentality. Well,

(14:11):
where are we in terms of numbers of the sheriff's
office and to the extent we don't have sufficient staffing.
What does Jim Neal do to right the ship and
get folks to consider that as a career choice.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Absolutely, we're gonna have to hire higher hire to staff
the jail. There's no question about it. They've lost When
I left in twenty one, every floor in the county
jail was open for business. That's not the case now.
So we are going to have to hire. And I've

(14:44):
had I think former deputies approached me, Hey, if you
get elected, can I come back? You know. So it's
very positive the feedback that I'm getting. So hopefully with
the proper leadership, the popper placement in these divisions of

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leaders it'll attract candidates. But it all starts from the top.
Bryan and Uh, I'm going to go back to Lochland.
I feel for them. I believe when you have numbers
like that, I believe there's people behind the scenes, behind

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the scene work in this, the NGOs, the non government
organizations bringing these people to these communities. Lochland, from what
my understanding, is not a sanctuary village. Uh. They missed
Cincinnati by a couple of miles there, Brian. And who's
going to pay for the services? Brian? When you've doubled
the population, you're going to need more public servant, including

(15:49):
law enforcement paramedics. Who's going to pay for that? Lockporn
can't afford to pay to double their uh, their numbers
of public servants, So who's going to pay for Are
the NGOs going to pay for.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Nice one? Nice one?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well, maybe we need to go after them because apparently
they're getting financial support for bringing them here. How about
given that finances to Lachlin so they can grow their
agencies to provide a service that is comparable to the population.
Now and.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Well, I just you know, the law enforcement one of
multitude of layers of problems when you double the population
of one town. The village administrator, the village administrator over
there has just said it was about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollarsand losses to the village because well, the
illegal immigrants moved in, and since they don't pay taxes
and are not eligible for employee the employment the residents

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are moving out, resulting in fewer tax dollars. I suppose
any very complicated problem, but fundamentally, when it comes to
law enforcement, a sheriff Neil will absolutely work with Ice
and endeavor to remove them.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
And I'll work with Lachlan too. I work with all
the agencies. You know that, Brian. Oh, Yes, We're going
to share resources, including human resources. But I'm going to
get the ship right. I'm going to get right staff,
right size the people that we need so we can
work hand in hand with the other agencies because this

(17:27):
is a huge problem. Cincinnati is a sanctuary city. They
brought poison to our region, and those of us who
care are going to have the band together and deal
with it well.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Immigration is certainly one of the defining issues of this election.
Jim Neil, I wish you all the best, my friend.
I knew you did a great job when you were sheriff.
We had a good relationship and I enjoy your open
door policy, and of course you demonstrated the how wonderful
it is when you have a great working relationship with
multiple agencies across multiple jurisdictions that is critical to successful

(18:03):
law enforcement in the region. And I know you're a huge,
huge collaboration proponent, so I wish you the best. Jim.
We'll keep my I'll keep my fingers crossed. You got
my vote, and I know you get to vote to
Christopher Smithman.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, thank you. Fortunately, you know it's important to be
a you know, follow the constitution and support that as well.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Exactly you too, Man. Best of luck and God bless you.
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