Chief Jim Gilbert with FCSO

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, good afternoon, my friend. How are you today? It's Friday?
Hopefully good.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
You got a little bit of a beautiful day in
the night for her beautiful day for a neighbor.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Would you be mad? Oh?

Speaker 4 (00:14):
There he is mister Douglas, not mister Rogers.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm not nearly cool enough to be mister Rogers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, but I like the fact that you were doing
the shoe back and forth while you were doing that.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Wearing the sweater, wearing your sweater, especial sweater.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I like to wear this because it makes me feel
like I'm ready to go to the land to make believe.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Your cardigan, I love it, even though it's ninety two Look,
be suspicious if mister Rogers has a cardigan on and
it's ninety two degrees, you ever see.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Wonder why I've seen that term before Women's lightweight summer cardigan. No,
you can't have summer and cardigan in the same description
of the product.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's like jumbo shrimp. It just doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's also another layer. Layers are what keeps you from
getting cold? Yes, yeah, And you don't want layers right.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Layers right now unless it's layers of ice and ice cream.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hey, man, what an amazing day for our commander in chief.
I mean, he's having an amazing day. The Supreme Court
is smiling upon forty seven Titan.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
She's not smiling, no Titan.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
She's looking saying no, no, absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Clarence Thomas kind of he abstained on something which kind
of caught me by surprise. But as you said, the
decision for the majority that we oh my gosh, that
was like, that was poetry. That was poetry, Miss Jackson
subscribes to a theory of something that doesn't even exist
or so, I mean, it was just beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, it was like, right, yeah, hey, let's bring in
Franklin from Franklin County Sheriff's Office. It's Chief Jim Gilbert,
who's joining us now. And hey, Chief, welcome to the show.
How are you.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm doing good, guys. How are you guys today? Obviously
it sounds like you're doing great in the neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
We are, man, We're we're doing fantastic.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
And uh, I man, every time I see a picture
of you, You're it's the incredible.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Shrinking Chief Gilbert. Man, congratulations.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
By the way, I know you're probably going man, I
don't want to talk about that, but I just I
haven't talked to you a little while, and I have to.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
I got to congratulate you.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's one of the hardest things on earth to push
back from the table and you were doing it.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
So congratulations, brother, thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
It's a it's a it's a it's good to be
healthier and h and fitting and uh so I co'
in my twenties.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Again, it's great to lose weight. But I mean, you've
actually increased the macho factor too. I've been in president.
Well seriously, you've got it. You've got a very I
feel like you could take us into battle and uh well, uh.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
You know, gra grab your rifle and you're extra mags.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I guess right.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I was gonna say from one guy who's shedding pounds
as in chuck to you, Chief Gilbert, and I just
I'm like, man, I'm surrounded by people that are I mean,
reducing big time.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
So this is cool.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's exciting, especially in what you do for a living,
Chief Gilbert. I mean as far as you know, dropping
shedding the pounds and so on, and you're saying, man,
it feels like I'm in my twenties. Again, I would imagine,
I mean, that is nothing, but you would even sent
me a text at one point going, man, my knees,
my back, everything feels so much better, and I'm just

(03:22):
I don't know, man. Just congratulations are in order for.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Sure, man, So thank you.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
I appreciate it, cool appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And congratulations are in order for all three of us
are Reds fans. Let's start with something a little bit light. Yeah,
I mean, I know, these these series that we continue
to take from these upper echelon Major League Baseball teams
right now is a bit of a head scratcher, but
I'll take it. And so there's no rest for our
Reds is that they are firing up a three game

(03:50):
set tonight, kicking off tonight at Great American Ballpark, and
they're taking on the Padres, who are forty four and
thirty six. So it's it's gonna be they're gonna have
to florid again all week days.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
They still chick you guys, doesn't it seem like it
seems it just seems like they're chipping away a little
bit at a time and they're like just gradually starting
to you know, head head towards head towards the kind
of season we want to see, you know what I mean,
it's like they're just chipping away and they're winning their
series and then yeah, they're playing really good ball right now.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, we don't even have three Yeah, I know. And
as a matter of fact, they keep doing that. It's
almost like you don't want the break to happen, the
All Star break. It's like no, because uh, I don't.
I'm not even gonna put it out in the universe. Yeah,
and I'm not gonna say but we don't have Hunter
either right now too, which is I mean, that's a
that this is really really well again, head scratching, what's

(04:40):
going on. But I'll take it, especially going into Detroit.
I mean that was one that I went, are you
freaking kidding me? And then you know, the other night,
who was it?

Speaker 4 (04:49):
He was up third?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Maybe it was like maybe his fifth pitch in the
first game of the Yankees series, and you know, Aaron
Judge goes yard on us and I go, well, okay,
this is over. There goes all three games and old contraire.
So we ended up winning that series. But You're right, man,
it's actually kind of exciting. Are you getting down to
Cincinnati at all? Are you getting to go see him

(05:12):
yet this year?

Speaker 5 (05:13):
I haven't been to a game yet this year, but
my son's been to probably about ten of them so far,
so he gets down there a lot more so. But yeah,
I hope to get I hope to get the couple
after the All Star break.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, yeah, man, that is.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
We're scheduled to go right now in August, middle of August,
but I'm going, man, can I wait that long?

Speaker 5 (05:29):
You know somebody, somebody I'm talking to you right now
that goes to be a stake downer or something too.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
So yeah, that's that's.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I don't know who that is. Yeah, it wouldn't be
anybody in this room, would it, because it ain't.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Mean I've been trying to pay that off for how
long now I's been.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
We'll get Donalds might now, but we'll get not the
same thing.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
No, it's low carb. You can have you can have
a small state. We'll split a six ounce fil A.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
You're let me guess you want to go to Rubies, right,
you want one of the a five wagu steaks.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
That's like one hundred and eighty five times.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Now, you know we can go to the precinct. Okay,
a different name but the same owner.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I can I think we could.
We could probably figure that out.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
To take time, just one time. I'd like to taste
that Waguh.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
It's it's like meat butter. That's the best way to
describe it.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I've had a couple of them, and it was gift
cards that I used, by the way, because I don't
roll like that. But I was just like, all right,
I'll take it. Since I got a gift card. It
was I'm telling you me, that's better than advertised. I'm serious,
it is. It is just ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I just hear the name of it in my mind
starts to drool.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, yeah, no question, all right, So yeah, thirty four
arrest were made on Wednesday. It's the latest Operation Unity,
which is an initiative to target crime and address public concerns.
Stolen vehicles, shots fired, calls, assaults, all of that stuff.
This is incredible, Chief Gilbert, that, I mean, thirty four

(06:59):
arrests were made.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
And take me through what you know about it.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I mean there's a lot of As a matter of fact,
there's a story today driver arrested for drag racing. He
had three kids in the car with me with him rather,
I mean, this is crazy.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, So you know, shaff Fallwin is very committed to
the to the residence and citizens in nine townships and
villages for which we have primary law enforcement responsibility for
and putting these together, and you know, it's it's an
internal combination of several different units within the Sheriff's Office
and patrol coming together and you know, focusing in on

(07:35):
exactly what we see with comments on our social media.
You know, we see our social media, we see the comments.
We're trying to address those concerns. We have our liaisons
that are out and our deputies that are out in
the community here and from trustees and lected officials, so
you know, we're aware of what's going on. It's the
hardest job in America right now to be a police officer,
and it's important for us to be out because we
want the community to understand and know and a warning

(07:56):
to the criminals that you know we're here, we see you,
we're gonna arrest you, we're gonna hold your antible. And
that's exactly what these programs are for these operations. So
this one was in Prairie and Franklin Township that was
our focus this month. Next month will be in another
area of the counting focusing as well. And you tell
you the amount of people that beep their horn and
give us thumbs up when they see us out there

(08:16):
on these stops or out on these with these individuals,
and then the people that are approaching us and thanking us.
I mean, it's it's it's it's great for my deputies.
It's the opportunity for them to realize, like, hey, we're
really making a difference out here. And you know, we
had we had not only the incent you talked about, Mark,
but we also had we attempted to stop the vehicle
and you through some intelligence gathering and through through our

(08:38):
Narcotics Unity SIU, you know, we knew this individual involved
had had some serious, extensive criminal history, criminal past. He
didn't stop, he took off on us. We terminated the pursuit,
but one of the east Side cars, because this guy
was on on two seventy driving reckless at six o'clock
at night, was able to get good stop sticks deployed
and then luckily the individual just directed into the guardrail

(09:00):
and then ran into the woodline. You're two seventy and
thirty three and one of our deputies. You know, I'm
to tell you, you know, this guy was a bad guy,
did not want to go back to prison. We tased him,
we mased them, he fought with the deputy. He got
charged with aggravated robbery and assaulting a police officer as
well as the felony fleeing in additional charges because he
tried to grab the officers gun. And this was an

(09:20):
individual that did not want to go back to prison.
In this exactly these type of operations. What we're trying
to target out there is these individuals that are praying,
praying on our citizens committing these violent crimes. And we
got one off the street for sure out of that arrest.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Hey, Jim, let me ask you, when he crashed into
the wall out there on the east side, what is
the radio code for and what do you actually do?
Because seriously, you know, that's just that is cosmic justice
right there. Man one hundred and fifteen miles an hours
with this guy was clocked aat on two seventy at
six o'clock on a weeknight, crashing into the wall.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
He crashed into the wall because the stop sticks.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Well, it's hard to control your vehicle obviously.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
At to begin with.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
But you know, he had no regard, no regard for
his safety, and you could care less about anybody else's safety.
You could care less about law enforcement trying to stop him.
But that's a perfect example of the individuals that are
out there that are that are that are committing the
robberies and the parking lots that are that are breaking
into cars, that are stealing guns, that are stealing vehicles.
And you know, now with all the paperwork put together

(10:22):
and the appropriate charges, we hope and that we're seeking
to make sure that he stayed locked up for a
very long time, but we hope that happens. So that's
just one example of the work that's getting done on
these operations and on every day, I mean just just
last week done in the Hamilton township. Our agency was
one of the first it's now a felony to commit
a get out of the car, jump onto somebody's porch
and take take a package. And we were able to

(10:44):
get a ports beef last week and charge him with
the new felony law related to a theft off of
a porch. So you know, these guys, but the men
and women Shares always do amazing work. I encourage anybody
listening if you're interested in a career. We are hiring.
We continue to hire Frank County Sheriff's Office. We'd love
to have people apply and come out. In fact, I

(11:04):
told you earlier Mark my front seats, Ope, and I'd
love to have you all on a ride along. And
I know you and you and Choco big supporters of
law enforcement. You guys do a great job to cover
the stories that are important to those on the ride
home tonight. We're hiring, so come on out a lot along.
Contact us as.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well if I apply, Will you vouch for the fact
that I'm twenty three.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
I don't know if I can do that. It's not
nineteen ninety six when you were actually twenty three.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Out of thirty four arrest it's really important to point
this out before we say goodbye to you. Out of
thirty four arrest, fourteen of those were felonies. That's the
very bad guys off the street, with twenty being misdemeanors.
They seized one hundred point five grams of meth off
the streets of my beloved West Side, two point five
grams of fentanyl, another gram of cocaine, one hundred and

(11:52):
nine traffic stops, fifty nine citations from those stops, and
this was all in a twelve hour per Less your hearts.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
And let me piggyback on that too.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
As we're talking to Chief Jim Gilbert with Franklin County
Sheriff's Office. When you see the amount of officers that
have been shot as of recent and you know, the unthinkable,
I mean, this is happening.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Far too often.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I know, Chief, you agree with this as well,
but I'm telling you, man, and you say it is
the hardest job. It absolutely, hands down is the hardest
job right now because you don't know, especially in situations
like this. You pointed out the one guy's he was
not wanting to go back to prison and so on.
I mean, we're seeing this happen over and over. But
just a little bit of a pause from you know,

(12:41):
your deputies and all types of men and women in
law enforcement. Just a little bit of a pause, which
has been created unfortunately over these last few years, could
be the difference between going home to dinner and not.
And that's the scariest part of this whole thing. The
bad guys could be extra bad and you don't even
know it when you're rolling up on them.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah, we have to. You know, we're very blessed to
have great training, great equipment. But you're right. I mean,
that's why it is the toughest job. It's the hardest job,
because you're right, it has an effect, it has an effect.
Been a cop thirty two years and sit here and
tell you that the conversations that take place during roll
call and during calls and after calls, I mean, it

(13:21):
is very, very tough. It is a tough. It's a
tough time out there. But you know, we've got to
we've got to be resilient. We honor, we honor our oath.
We how important our oath is. And you know, we
we know we have the public support. We see it,
we hear them, and we know that the vast majority
of those out there understand the split second decisions that
need to be made, you know, need to be made

(13:41):
at you know, two o'clock in the morning and a
dark alley by an officer, a deputy. So you know,
you're right, You're absolutely right, it is. It is very,
very tough, and it's been a very tough few months
for us. But well, you know again that the comments
from the public are very important. I just encourage anybody
when you see a cop walk up and think them
thank them for what they're doing, because it's not necessarily
right then and there. It could be two hours from

(14:04):
then where they're racing down the road to go help
somebody that they don't even know, to help save a
life or stop the crime in progress. And you know,
they're very dedicated men and women in the sheriff. The
show is very very blessed to have shriffall in support
to go out and do these kind of operations, and
we're going to continue to keep doing them, and we're
going to continue keeping getting impact all throughout this county.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
It's great to hear that you're getting random comments from
people saying thanking you and so on. That's that's outstanding man.
That can be the difference between somebody who is on
the edge of having an absolute horrible day and you,
and people just don't understand what type of an effect
that can have on an officer.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Hearing something like that can change around your entire day.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
You're having a crap day, and it can change it
completely around. So I do I encourage everybody as well
to just randomly say thanks to an officer if you
see them out and that, like you said, the beeping
and the thumbs up and all of that, because man,
you got you can you ever have too much of
that from what you guys do day and day out.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Man.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
So yeah, and you got just real quick, you guys
open up about the street racing. Those were two white
Dogs chargers racing eighty miles an hour, nine point thirty
nine down West Broad Street over in Lincoln Village, and
we got them stopped. We had six or seven cruisers
very quickly get in the area and get them stopped.
And you're right. One of the drivers had unrestrained children
in the car, so and he went to jail on warrance.

(15:24):
And you know, we're hoping in fact that the prosecutor,
the city prosecutor's offices reached out already today and some
emails wanting to make sure that they they they're aware
of this case as it goes through. So, but you're right,
the street racing's out of control as well too.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Keep fighting the good fight, Chief Jim Gilbert with Franklin
County Sheriff's Office, and thanks man for giving us a
couple of minutes today, I am going to ride along
with you. I don't know where Chuck's at on this,
but I absolutely want to do this. Yes, it is
so amazing to watch when you have a front row
seat like that. I mean, I've done it a few times.
It's been a long time and I can't wait. Man,

(16:00):
I'll hit you up on that, but I.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Well, it's always a pleasure to have ride along in
the front seat rather than the backseat.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Sollulated, Thanks, brother, appreciate thanks.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Man.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
If I ride along and we catch an idiot with
a four year old, a six year old, and eighteen
month old in the back of the car drag racing,
I'm writing him a Chuck ticket.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm just I'm letting you know.