Before we get too far along on this one, just remember the management of the Liberty Center complex in Butler County, Ohio—you had to be told to reopen the playground after COVID. You didn’t do it alone; you had to be talked to. There were a lot of moms who wanted to take their kids out to the mall, and there were lots of moms who wanted to talk to other moms and enjoy the benefits of the excellent food court there. But for almost a year too long, after the rest of the world came back on after all the dumb Covid lockdowns, Liberty Center still had the lights out at the playground and marked it off as closed because of fear of the local health agencies getting angry over it. So, the management of the Liberty Center Mall complex is not the brightest in the world; they are following the same destructive woke policies as everyone else. What makes Liberty Center great is its location, and the people who have fled all the blue-run areas in Cincinnati settled in the region around Liberty Center because they don’t want to be impacted by a bloated, intrusive government. I love Liberty Center; we always go there as a family. I think it’s a wonderful thing to have in our community. But it could be vastly improved if management was better. Just think of how much lost money occurred because they were too slow to open the playground. I didn’t say anything about it at the time or my role in it because I didn’t want to embarrass them. However, regarding this recent Sheriff Jones story, there is some history of woke management practices from corporate firms getting their marching orders outside of our community, and that is a problem we need to discuss.
You might have heard, and I agree with him absolutely on this one, Sheriff Jones is charging Liberty Center for the reward money that ended up capturing a couple of shoplifters who were caught by some excellent police work done at Dick’s Sporting Goods. Based on the evidence presented, a couple of women look to have taken several thousands of dollars in theft. And this is a national trend everywhere these days, especially in communities particularly impacted by the rhetoric of Marxism that believes private property should be abolished, and one of their methods of social destruction is to find suckers who will then turn to the streets and rob property owners of their goods and services. Sheriff Jones has to send a message that Butler County is not open for crime because it isn’t. I have noticed that there are a lot of gang bangers and criminal thugs who have been flocking from regions around to the glory and sentiment of Butler and Warren Counties due to this same Marxist trend. These criminal-minded types believe that if affluent people have something, then they have a right to take it. So, if we don’t crack down on even the most minor infraction, word will get out that Butler County is an excellent place to go and commit crime. And we can’t have that. So these women had to be arrested for being caught doing what they did at Dick’s Sporting Goods. Sheriff Jones needed to make an example of them. And he knows it because I’ve told him. It’s not because we don’t have enough police to cover the job. We do, and then some. But if he needs help, I have my hand way up. There was a gun store near my home that was recently hit with a break-in, and I would like to see that kind of behavior discouraged intensely. Civilian oversight is the ultimate backstop on these kinds of things. So it’s not just this recent theft at Liberty Center; there is a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that indicates a larger crime spree brewing by the actions of Democrat policies from everywhere. And we have to meet it with aggression; otherwise, it will just get worse.
Sheriff Jones is sending the bill for his police work to Liberty Center to pay, and I think that is a good idea, given the situation. I would advise the Liberty Center management to drop all the woke garbage and get on to the Make America Great Again plan. That’s where the rest of the world is heading after this next election, and it will be very costly to cling to any form of wokeness very shortly. I would get rid of the skinny pants mall cops who are allowing too much riff-raff to form there. The Mall is private property, so they can tell people to leave. Failure to do that will result in the same fate as Tri-County Mall to the south and Forest Fair Mall to the west along I-275. People stopped going to those malls because of the thugs and crime that occurred. Mall management was slow and reluctant to draw the line because they didn’t want to end up in court over profiling issues, which is not something that will hold up to legal scrutiny. If the security at Liberty Center intends to break up a group of three or more dangerous-looking teenage kids from just looking stupid, they can. And they should. If Liberty Center security does not protect the moms who like to go to the mall with their children, then what happened to other malls in the country will occur to Liberty Center, too.
I would suggest hiring the kind of security guards at the GOP Lincoln Day Dinner a year or so ago when Ron DeSantis came to speak. To get into the event, they had huge, muscle-bound tough guys between 6’2” to 6’5”. They were huge and menacing, which I thought was too much for that kind of event. But they were trying to make a point for a person running for president. Anthony Munoz from the Cincinnati Bengals was right behind me, and he looked like a baby being patted down by these guys to go through security. They were too much for that event, but I would hire them to do the same security at Liberty Center. They may cost more for wages, but they will more than make up their worth in added lease space and dollars generated. If people don’t feel safe, they won’t go to the mall, and moms set the family schedule. To avoid criminal scum bags and those looking like they want to be those types, moms will stay home with their kids and order from Amazon. So mall security must protect those who go on a limb to invest in a brick-and-mortar store. That is their first and most important function, not in being fair to everyone and not profiling losers and bums but creating an atmosphere that makes moms feel safe. I would hire serious, tough guys who project confidence and will back it up with action. And if Liberty Center Mall security punts to the local police departments, then they should pay for the cost of good police work. I would encourage Sheriff Jones to get rich by doing so because it is worth the money to crack down on crime. Otherwise, and this is the Marxist political plan by encouraging all these dumb people to commit crimes in the first place, there won’t be any money left to steal. Petty crimes and significant crimes need to be prosecuted aggressively. Otherwise, society will fall apart quickly, especially at Liberty Center in Butler County, Ohio. It’s OK to be mean to scum bags and criminals. And I’d suggest that Liberty Center listen to Sheriff Jones and do their jobs as required.
Rich Hoffman
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