downtown liquor shop —

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGuTUOBAuLG/?igsh=MXI0ajRpM3Z2YWpqOA==

^ not a good look, but IIRC that video is a good few years old. 

One of the de facto police commissioners, in fact the boss of same,  displaying his professionalism:

https://fox8.com/news/i-team-councilman-asks-judge-to-remove-monitor-over-cleveland-police/

 

Edit:   If you look at Brian Kazy's X page he is putting the pressure on Racine.

what da …? 🙀

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHOiFZ7OrG7/?igsh=dzdhOG80bXhtNzRo

An old neighbor just texted me that they caught a fugitive in front of my old house near W. 50th and Franklin. 
 

apparently there was a 45 minute foot chase with police and a couple suspects through backyards in the neighborhood- and a helicopter was called in

^Anyone have any color on this?

40 minutes ago, YABO713 said:

^Anyone have any color on this?

Probably this incident? But I don’t pay for their premium function so I can’t hear the police radio audio here. 
 

Found this on Facebook…

 

 

Sounds like the second guy is the one caught by your former home?

I honestly don't know if this is the right thread for this - and was torn between this, housing and "random quick questions", so one of my fellow mods can move me if so... 

 

But in short, I have a friend who lives in a home in Ohio City. In front of their home is a man who parks both of his identical cars every day. One car is apparently always stationary, while he sometimes drives the other, though not frequently. One car appears to have all of his clothes and belongings (or at least a lot of them), and he also appears to sleep in this car very frequently (if not always). Having said that, our friends aren't thrilled with a stranger effectively becoming a permanent tenant on their tree lawn (the one vehicle has a strong odor associated with it as well). They've asked him politely (while bringing him cookies and raisin bread) if he'd consider moving the cars elsewhere - he informed them that he's been there longer than they've occupied the house (which is true). 

 

I know I'm a lawyer, but I can't think of any legal recourse my friends have to try to get this guy to move elsewhere. Is there anything you think I'm missing? 

I think you're technically supposed to move your vehicle every three days if it's parked on the street

1 hour ago, YABO713 said:

I honestly don't know if this is the right thread for this - and was torn between this, housing and "random quick questions", so one of my fellow mods can move me if so... 

 

But in short, I have a friend who lives in a home in Ohio City. In front of their home is a man who parks both of his identical cars every day. One car is apparently always stationary, while he sometimes drives the other, though not frequently. One car appears to have all of his clothes and belongings (or at least a lot of them), and he also appears to sleep in this car very frequently (if not always). Having said that, our friends aren't thrilled with a stranger effectively becoming a permanent tenant on their tree lawn (the one vehicle has a strong odor associated with it as well). They've asked him politely (while bringing him cookies and raisin bread) if he'd consider moving the cars elsewhere - he informed them that he's been there longer than they've occupied the house (which is true). 

 

I know I'm a lawyer, but I can't think of any legal recourse my friends have to try to get this guy to move elsewhere. Is there anything you think I'm missing? 

If it's private property, they should call a tow. If public property, the city. Among other statutes, 3335-21-14 is being violated.

 

But before, their home needs to be wired with a security system and the police should be notified of potential reprisals. This can get ugly fast.

 

But give an inch, they take a yard. This needs to be nipped in the bud ASAP even if potential new issues arise.

47 minutes ago, TBideon said:

If it's private property, they should call a tow. If public property, the city. Among other statutes, 3335-21-14 is being violated.

 

But before, their home needs to be wired with a security system and the police should be notified of potential reprisals. This can get ugly fast.

 

But give an inch, they take a yard. This needs to be nipped in the bud ASAP even if potential new issues arise.

Thank you - I agree. They're trying to be passive about it for now but I'm confident it's eventually going to come to a head.

I wouldn't like it either, but as long as he isn't actively dangerous I would leave him alone. I just chalk this stuff up to party of life when living in a city. Perhaps skewed from living in California/Bay Area for several years before returning to Cleveland where tents routinely popped up on sidewalks in front of houses. 

 

Not saying this is objectively correct, just my opinion.

On 4/16/2025 at 3:25 PM, YABO713 said:

I honestly don't know if this is the right thread for this - and was torn between this, housing and "random quick questions", so one of my fellow mods can move me if so... 

 

But in short, I have a friend who lives in a home in Ohio City. In front of their home is a man who parks both of his identical cars every day. One car is apparently always stationary, while he sometimes drives the other, though not frequently. One car appears to have all of his clothes and belongings (or at least a lot of them), and he also appears to sleep in this car very frequently (if not always). Having said that, our friends aren't thrilled with a stranger effectively becoming a permanent tenant on their tree lawn (the one vehicle has a strong odor associated with it as well). They've asked him politely (while bringing him cookies and raisin bread) if he'd consider moving the cars elsewhere - he informed them that he's been there longer than they've occupied the house (which is true). 

 

I know I'm a lawyer, but I can't think of any legal recourse my friends have to try to get this guy to move elsewhere. Is there anything you think I'm missing? 

 

I've long argued for in Cleveland what i see in most other cities of all sizes.  There should be parking bans on one side of the street for 1-2 days.   This allows the city to actually clean them, and also cuts down on this sort of abandonment of cars.   For example, when I lived in Buffalo, the street i lived on had parking Thursday-Monday on one side, and Tuesday-Wednesday on the other.   Cars left on Tuesday were ticketed/towed, depending on the street access.  

 

The problem in Cleveland, of course, would be enforcement.   Neither the police nor city parking enforcement people would want to add to their workload.  

 

 

 

 

On 4/16/2025 at 10:25 AM, YABO713 said:

MBut in short, I have a friend who lives in a home in Ohio City. In front of their home is a man who parks both of his identical cars every day. One car is apparently always stationary, while he sometimes drives the other, though not frequently.

If this is on Clinton, I know who you’re talking about as my neighbors and I have discussed it. As I understand it, he leaves every day during the day, then comes back at night to sleep in his car. He’s homeless if that wasn’t clear. The second car (stationary one) recently disappeared…I assume it was towed.

Some good news here, the biggest in quite some time IIRC:

 

Countless cars broken into at WSM, in BROAD DAYLIGHT, another probably 50 over the last couple days in OHC in general. But our mayor is more concerned about about a worthless football team.

It's frankly no wonder why so many people want the Browns out of the city, and why people still continue to get out of Dodge, while Cinci is killing us in both job and population growth.

8 hours ago, AsDustinFoxWouldSay said:

Countless cars broken into at WSM, in BROAD DAYLIGHT, another probably 50 over the last couple days in OHC in general. But our mayor is more concerned about about a worthless football team.

It's frankly no wonder why so many people want the Browns out of the city, and why people still continue to get out of Dodge, while Cinci is killing us in both job and population growth.

I'm sure there are Cinci forumers on here who will tell us cars NEVER get broken into there... 🙄

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Anyone have any idea what the SWAT situation on the east side was this morning? Heard people talking about it at the store but didn't inquire further

16 minutes ago, YABO713 said:

Anyone have any idea what the SWAT situation on the east side was this morning? Heard people talking about it at the store but didn't inquire further

https://www.cleveland19.com

Man in custody after standoff on Cleveland’s East Side

According to officers on the scene, the man is a suspect in the overnight kidnapping of a woman in the city’s Third District.

Something positive:

Note, this is a classic example of counting chickens before they're hatched.

BUT. Lookie here: https://data.clevelandohio.gov/apps/f1fa870ebbcc47beabdc4de4357d3c8b/explore

City of Cleveland is currently at 66% as many homicides as it had through this day in 2024. In other words, homicides are down by 1/3 y/o/y.

Murder rates are falling in most large cities, but our decrease is among the largest, so there's a decent shot our homicide rate will fall out of the top ten in 2025.

2 minutes ago, LlamaLawyer said:

Something positive:

Note, this is a classic example of counting chickens before they're hatched.

BUT. Lookie here: https://data.clevelandohio.gov/apps/f1fa870ebbcc47beabdc4de4357d3c8b/explore

City of Cleveland is currently at 66% as many homicides as it had through this day in 2024. In other words, homicides are down by 1/3 y/o/y.

Murder rates are falling in most large cities, but our decrease is among the largest, so there's a decent shot our homicide rate will fall out of the top ten in 2025.

That is positive. Though it likely simply means there aren't as many active gang beefs.

The other violent crimes tending down (IIRC) is even moreso.

Homicide does not correlate with the other ones.

2 minutes ago, E Rocc said:

That is positive. Though it likely simply means there aren't as many active gang beefs.

The other violent crimes tending down (IIRC) is even moreso.

Homicide does not correlate with the other ones.

Overall crime is down about 10% y/o/y. So the murder decline is actually much more steep.

Also, I would assume it's not simply a result of fewer "active gang beefs" since the murder rate has fallen every single year from 2020 to present.

I would be speculating about what occurred, but the Bibb administration has made a targeted push at certain individuals they believe were tied directly or indirectly to a high percentage of murders. So it's possible that is part of what is going on here.

On 5/27/2025 at 3:58 PM, LlamaLawyer said:

Overall crime is down about 10% y/o/y. So the murder decline is actually much more steep.

Also, I would assume it's not simply a result of fewer "active gang beefs" since the murder rate has fallen every single year from 2020 to present.

I would be speculating about what occurred, but the Bibb administration has made a targeted push at certain individuals they believe were tied directly or indirectly to a high percentage of murders. So it's possible that is part of what is going on here.

I'm guessing the return on investment for street crime has been falling in general, while online crime and one of our political parties offer so much more.