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Ask the Sheriff - Midday Mobile - Tuesday 9-10-24
There will be no personal nor direct attacks on anyone and I would ask that you please try to Keep down the loud cheering and the clapping. There will be no booing and no unruly behavior With that this is painful and it will be for a long time After all these are a couple of high-stepping turkeys and you know what to say about a high stepper No step too high for a high stepper. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk 106 five was shot to tough. Yeah, I mean, I think everybody knows that you know Sean He took some licks he hangs in there. Yeah, what's wrong with the beer? We got I mean the deal We got drink pretty good on it. Did you hear what I said? So this is a Bade Council. I had no doubt about them. That doesn't shock if you don't like it Last question. Were you high on drugs? Like 1207 FM talk 165 midday mobile glad to have you here on this Tuesday and coming up this hour Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch our guests for Ask the sheriff for mind or two get those questions in on the text line and the phone line both October three zero one zero six three four three zero one zero six for a call or a text And if you use the FM talk one oh six five app You can always leave us one of those talk back messages there from the front page But our lead-off batter today as we're looking at a System in the Gulf. It's got a name and it's got a lot of people talking It's Francine and we bring in our staff meteorologist dr. Bill Williams for more on that. Hey doc Hey, there Sean Yeah, Francine is getting back together right now and satellite pictures So it's becoming rather impressive still a small tropical storm But it will be intensifying as it moves in a both easterly direction It's way down near the near Brownsville, Texas about the Mexican border and that's just east of that and But it is is making that turn now north northeast at eight miles per hour highest winds are 65 miles per hour So it's getting close to becoming a full-fledged hurricane it now appears that it will become a hurricane probably by evening and During the nighttime hours tonight it should continue to intensify and Most likely will become a category one hurricane or at least a strong category one perhaps with winds getting up around 90 miles per hour right now looks like it will make landfall in Louisiana and That will occur tomorrow afternoon almost As late as the early evening as possible and it may lose a little bit of strength Just before it reaches the coast because of what we call wind shearing the upper air winds strong enough to the weaken the structure of the storm, but it still will be a category one hurricane and It looks like it could produce a storm surge in the on the central coast of Louisiana that could be anywhere from 8 to 10 feet the likely target right now looks like Morgan City and After it moves into the Morgan City area will track very close to Baton Rouge and of course it will be losing strength and then up around Vicksburg and Eventually by oh late Thursday, it'll be a tropical depression and be up around Memphis and we'll continue on up Into the Midwest, but as far as our area it looks like we'll see rainfall totals of two to four inches and that's possible and We of course need some rain although it's we don't like to get it notice those amounts over once But we will get some rain out of this. There's a lot of it now a big rain shield that Located to the northeast of that storm and that will be moving in tonight tomorrow and Into Thursday and then conditions should improve late Thursday and Friday we can right now look for some wind gusts tomorrow up to about 30 to 35 at times and They'll be out of the east and then Southeast tomorrow night same thing gust around 30 35 and then on Thursday Gus around 30 in the wind will be out of the south Dr. Bill, what are you telling folks? I get the southern automobile County and southern end of Baldwin County for I mean, I know that we're a good distance away, but storm surge of or right Tides higher than normal. What would you expect? Yes, we're east Yeah, right now. We're looking at about one to three feet for storm surge and That means so we have to include Mobile Bay and and particularly when the winds switch around to the south and That'll push more water to the coast and into the bay now the question is could the storm move a little farther to the east that is possible but right now it looks like it will be a Louisiana storm Around Morgan City and then on to Baton Rouge keeping it just west of the New Orleans, but we'll we're gonna continue to watch this and See if any changes occur while it's out well out in the in the gulf and any changes that occur out there We'll have a great effect on where the landfall occurs obviously and so we want to watch that So I mean there is some because I saw the adjustment in the track a little bit easier saying Morgan City Are there things in meteorology? You're looking at they could let it go further east. I mean is it it's not a foregone conclusion? Yeah, we're looking always looking at the upper rear pattern over the area and already we're Look there's that possibility that it could lose some strength as approaches the coast because of the upper air winds and they can also be a factor in the final path of that storm so those are things that We constantly are working on all right, Dr. Bill. We appreciate the update We'll be looking back to you for updates the whole way through the next couple days Because you said we'll be getting rain today and tomorrow even into Thursday Okay, Sean. We'll be we've watched it closely. Thanks. Dr. Bell. There's our staff meteorologist Dr. Bill Williams getting us started on this Tuesday and In studio Bobial County Sheriff Paul Burt's good to see you always good to be here now that kind of information though I mean from you know we think about and we'll talk about crime and all that but public safety does go beyond People breaking laws it does and and you know feeding off of you know, Dr. Bill's information You know pay attention to our low-lying areas. They have been the same for years Yeah, and never hurts to have a full tank of fuel and you know, just to be prepared Yeah, but you know as of now there are no shelters being opened in Mobile County So yeah, it doesn't sound like we need them But it is you know something look at the you talk about this and it's so important the areas that do flood and know it Know them and you know as a mobile guy, you know, you know, I know them It's interesting to see the When when a bigger storm comes in and national media comes in they're like this whole area Like now that doesn't flood there and floods down there and that by you it floods out of that canal But doesn't flood over there that's yet another hundred feet higher and you know They could they could draw these big crayon maps where it's flooding everywhere. You're like, man It doesn't exactly flood like that like some of that's normal. Yeah That's just the way we roll around here Well, lots to talk about on today's show and people can get their questions in for the sheriff He's in for the hour three four three zero one zero six three four three zero one zero six I guess we'll start off with this one you've been making news here since last time you're in y'all You know always seem to have something yeah, you respond and then people either cheer or Clap their pearls when you say something question about concealed carry permits and Applying to people who are under? 21 right So let's say in your words because this has been and you have I've seen you on talk about them But go back to this and and what what are you looking at in your words? What do you want to see happen? Well, you know and there was some Misunderstanding on those initial interviews If you want to call it that All I'm looking is to have a discussion, you know And if that would be an option to curtail some of the violent crime we're seeing You know in in and around mobile county and I say mobile county in different municipalities And you know, they're fortunate. There's not a lot of that out in the county so, you know and what we're seeing statistically is Most and I say most 90 percent at least of those violent crimes involving firearms are being committed by people 20 years and younger now, you know the the law as it is written For 17 and under you know, they're forbidden to possess a pistol anyway, right, but we still have a a fair number of those from, you know 20 to 18 that are out here, you know committing violent crimes and you know, I'm just looking for a discussion to You know, see a way that we can address that. Okay, so and you've done this in the past, but I think this is worth doing again Describe this as a lifelong law enforcement officer. You you pull over a vehicle Tell me how having in this case having That they would have to have a concealed carry permit under 21. How does that help the officer? How does it help the deputy can like walk us through that? Well, you know, let's just say you have your your pull a car. Oh, you know over for whatever traffic violation um And they're a number of of people fitting that category that you know three or four in the car with three or under 21 and You know, let's say it's two o'clock in the morning. They're not going to school. They're not going to war, right? You know, what are you doing? And and typically, you know, that's you're up to no good if you're out rolling around that time in the morning. Well That let's just say that amendment passed. Mm-hmm. You know, if they didn't have a permit, they go to jail and we take the guns Right. So you say can we search a vehicle? Here's a gun. Who's gun is this? Oh, it's uh, well, they don't try to hide them anymore I mean, so I miss typically we do a traffic stop there playing view and you know, you can see them in their waistband and You know, they don't try to hide them. Okay. So at that point, you say, all right. You got a pistol there. Where's your permit? Yep and Does that I mean help make a a bigger arrest or is it just taking that gun away from that? Well, I would venture to say that most of the People committing these crimes those guns are stolen Yeah, because they can't legally go purchase one And you know, that would allow us to affect and arrest run serial numbers on the gun to determine if it's stolen or not You know, and and you'll see he's the weapon And and you know people get upset when I say that it's you know, we're not looking to do gun grabs We're trying to take them out of the hands of people there that don't belong, right? So yeah, Tom Graham Bay said why would the 20-year-old and he taught using my word that I use a lot in the show Why would the 20-year-old dirt bag worry about getting a permit? He doesn't carry a gun He don't carry gun regardless, but thank you for your service. Sure. So he's gonna carry gun regardless But if he was required to have a permit he gets to go to jail And so you're right and that argument is used a lot if bad guys are gonna be bad guys They don't care what the law is But you know that that ability to affect that arrest Has now been taken away and and again, I'm just looking for a discussion I'm not trying to lead a An effort to repeat the law or anything like that, but it's certainly worth talking about And it's if you yeah, it would be again overs don't lie Yeah, it would because Bob's saying, you know, there's no permit needing the city of Alabama We know that but you're saying an amendment possibly to that for this age group, right? And they would you know, the way my fault process is it would certainly exclude You know military whether it be active or reserve, you know, because it number one you've you know been vetted basically And you know had some training and you know anybody employed in the public safety field You know who's had same same background and you know education on firearms you know And again, I welcome these discussions you know, I think some people get a little too passionate about it, you know, but you know, I respect everyone's opinion And you know, but there's no need to get nasty about it, which is what I've encountered a lot lately But let's talk about it. We come back more with Sheriff Paul Burch right here on mid-day mobile You This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk 1065 I Welcome back FM talk 10065 and mid-day mobile your chance to ask the sheriff or guess this hour mobile county sheriff Paul burch And I do it at this texture just like we were talking about So speaking of flooding I live on dog river and my guard will flood with a full moon and a high tide exactly It's like like dr. Bill gets it. We all get it It is interesting though when there's not a big enough storm that you'd have national media But it's always been funny over the years national media comes in though Do some live shot for the city but feel like all this could be underwater. You're like that Doesn't exactly work like that over the years you know having warped you know many hurricanes I literally saw some of the national news people standing beside a building Under a downspout downtown for their live shots. Right. It was comical. Well, they'll they'll go do this They'll there's so many times you'll see this they're standing in the water doing the report The dry land is five to ten feet away from them But they roll up their trousers and get out there to do the live shot You're like well, you could just stand right there where it's dry, but it's not as dramatic This tax error said I inherited a pistol from my stepfather. Is there anything I need to do as far as registering it? Well, number one do not register it. Yeah, it'd be my opinion and uh, but legally no There's nothing that yeah, you don't need to know it's because what we're talking about is you conceal carry in under 21 Um, yeah, there's no and people I think still because the old days have this idea that if they get a concealed carry permit They're registering their firearms. You're the sheriff. You know it I am a consumer of that and in the all the years since I've had a concealed carry permit It's for me. It's not for I've not ever identified I probably don't even have a handgun. That's right and I don't want to know what any individual has it's not my business. There you go. Um, see Bob says And if some of us don't want the government to know whether or not we have guns have guns or not, but we could But could we not maybe register all our guns when we purchase them so when the sheriff or law enforcement pulls people Over runs a check and notices. It's not registered to an individual that they pull over They can then arrest them for it not being registered to them. We've got to get some help for law enforcement Well, the only time you per se register guns if you buy one through an ffl dealer, you know Where you know usually a brand new gun purchased somewhere um But That goes to a federal database that you know local state law enforcement don't have access to without a unless there's a crime being committed And you have to file subpoena and obtain that information to trace the gun so You know And that's for the protection of the citizens, you know You know, like I said just a second ago. It is not my business what all you own You know, and I don't want anybody to know what I'll allow and that's our second amendment, right? Yeah, now one thing I've said in the past people make their own choice. I did for insurance purposes Keeping a note of serial numbers and pictures of firearms. I may or may not have Um, and I was you know, I was the victim some years ago of a of a burglary And uh to have the serial numbers on that Gun to be able, you know, if it shows up in a bus so I could get it back Yeah You know because it's funny those things get stolen so many of these and then at some point they end up Getting picked back up and if you have a serial number and have a register then you have a way to get it back I actually uh Took received one about a year ago that was stolen from my dad, you know 10 12 years ago So it's important, you know, and a lot of people don't take the time to record their serial numbers and Yeah, I did it for insurance stuff as well And that's why I do it too and I didn't post it anywhere. I've got it on a Written down my sheet and the photographs and well, and that's the thing most people won't take the time to actually write down the information Pop a picture of it with the serial number with your phone, you know, if you buy it new in a box take a picture of the Label on the box Open it up take a picture of the gun and then make sure the serial numbers include it. Yeah And that doesn't need to go anywhere. It's just no with you. It's you you hold on to it Shana Mobile said if you were convicted of over 10 years ago of a non-violent felony, can you obtain a firearm? No, not not my federal government standards. It's if you're a convicted felon, you can't possess fire Is there I know there is some discussion on the voting side with the governor giving pardons for people get voting rights back Is there anything like that for people there there is that can be reinstated on the state end and then that will You know the federal will fold into that. You know, if you're granted your right spot And you know, I know several people that fit in that category. They you know had a felony drug arrest 20 years ago And what's that process that you did that take that up with Alia or we can actually go online and start the process um it ultimately requires some letters to be written DA's office usually has to to sign on with it, but but it lays out the process. Okay, uh, let's see the Uh, we'll get to that one's a little bit lengthy. We'll get to that one get back Um No one from earlier and I this is really not your belly wick. You're you run the jail not the prison system But trace asks a question for the sheriff. Why the hell are all these death row inmates getting to live in additional 30 years before they're put to death I'd be the wrong one to ask because it would be a lot quicker if it were up to me You know, I've got a couple folks on death row right now and You know, I will say and he's probably referring to the one that you know recently the governor signed a date for That particular individual because I worked that case Didn't fight anything he confessed. He said from the very beginning You know, he went through a mock trial because if it's capital you still have to have a trial And uh, he just he wants to be put to death. He don't want to go through the pills process and Yes, so like he's asking why they're taking responsibility for it. So why does it take that long? Yeah, I mean just the appeal process You know, I just had a hearing About a week and a half ago guys bill and death row since 2005 Yeah, and just All the evidence in the world. It's just a messed up system coming right back more of your questions for mobile county sheriff Paul birch right here on the day mobile You This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on fm talk 1 0 6 5 Like to 12 35 fm talk 1 0 6 5 and midday mobile quick reminder to a friday show This show we're gonna be at the grounds. It's the gnd farms outdoor expo friday saturday and sunday at the grounds really excited mid-day mobile there friday my friend and I uh, Mike ward we're gonna be doing our outdoors show special outdoors show at 11 o'clock on saturday So we come by and see us there but three days at the grounds for the gnd farms outdoor expo A lot of questions coming in and statements here for the sheriff this one from daniel Said to share tell the sheriff. I praise one of his deputies given me a courtesy light up when I was running 15 miles over through the saira Landex said at i 65 I was running 78 forgot to turn the cruise off when I passed the bridge He came off 158 instead of pulling me over he turned his lights on till I slowed down and then he rode on And that accomplishes the same thing as you know Getting the ticket. Yeah, that's yeah, he slowed him down You're gonna talk to him saying you know your your commercial gnd farms those are great people They're they're so good to the community and you know, they're good out there and they give back Yeah, don't hold against me friends mind. Yeah, don't But miss starland. I don't know about lead, but miss starland for sure Um, she's my friend Lee sometimes David asked two questions for the sheriff how frequently is it that a death row inmate actually request an execution and drops all available appeals So that this is really the first one that i'm aware of you know And i'm not sure the legal process is a process for you know, I guess You know saying no, I don't want any appeals I know it has to go through a basic appeal process to make sure you know all the laws and the protocols are followed But this is what you know when this person's executed in dearmans is last land Uh, it'd be the fastest execution i've seen in my law enforcement career It goes on to say and as a representative of mobile county law enforcement Do you have the opportunity to witness the execution of a death row inmate from mobile county? Uh ones that I've you know had involvement with on the cases. Yes, I will You know if i'm not dead by the time they execute them There you go. That's a statement for sure Uh, ken says bad guy's not getting permits is the point Everyone getting an id to vote shows us who shouldn't be voting everyone getting a permit shows us who shouldn't be carrying a gun You can't be for voter id and against pistol permits at the same time Well, I think what uh muck gummi did was really interesting You know if you followed that where they've said okay if you're gonna carry you you need to have a valid id Yeah, and you know, there's a lot of people upset about that But you know my thing is you got to have a an id to do banking business. You have to have an id to You know by beer by beer, you know cigarettes pretty much anything you do and you know in alamama, you know id is required to vote so I don't understand people's opposition to you know, it's not having anything to do with the weapon that you may be carrying But there's nothing wrong last asking you have a valid id if you are carrying Navy chief is asking this he says please forgive my ignorance But how is it legal to possess a handgun under 21 years of age when you have to be 21 to purchase a handgun? Just the way the law is written. You know possession and purchase is different You know the purchase of a handgun federal law and you know or any firearm and So the possession you know is different. Yeah, somebody could they can't buy the gun But the 18 to 21 year old could be given the gun. Yep Uh Jason said also is nice to see the pritchered officer held accountable We had talked about that last time and so an additional thanks for the sheriff's influence there. We're just getting started I like it Yeah, and people hadn't heard in the past too. I mean this is Once again People think well that's frittured. There's mobile. There's sins whatever but underneath all that is the responsibility of sheriff's office So even if a municipality has police department, but those things aren't You feel or the citizens ask you that this is not being done Y'all can be in that municipality and affect law enforcement We can and often do especially you know a lot of your smaller jurisdictions don't have you know homicide detectives So, you know, we work a lot of the homicides even in other jurisdictions You know what I what I try to say and get the message across as it relates to prittured You know, I get asked a question a lot. You know, why why do you care so much about what goes on prittured? A problem that we're seeing a lot of the crimes committed in and around mobile in different areas of mobile county The offenders are from the prittured area. So they commit their crimes elsewhere and then they go back to prittured, you know as a safe haven so You know, it's not like they just we can corral in there That's where we know we can find them, but they're committing crimes elsewhere And that's what we're while we're trying to so aggressively work toward, you know putting them behind bars Protect all the citizens throughout mobile county. Well and and speaking of prittured specifically a few shows a few months ago Maybe more When y'all went out there and really blanketed things in prittured You said it was because people in prittured called you and so not only were they doing crimes elsewhere These people were doing crimes to people that lived in prittured and they were like, hey Sheriff, I I don't feel say i'm not putting boards in the map, but I said we need help the and this this were people who live in prittured saying That I have they're not working these cases or People were you know blatantly disregarding the law. I don't feel safe citizens of prittured said and so as a sheriff You're allowed to go in there and help those people. Yep. And I will always you know and You know, I say it often there are a lot of still a lot of decent people in prittured who maybe Retired from some of the plants that are now closed down, you know, they worked all their life to pay off their home You got a right to live that can't be forward to move nor should they have to you know, they should agreed They have a right to feel safe in their home and you know, it's my duty to make sure they do Because wherever you live in the county and if you're in a miss municipality Just think if your law enforcement just didn't get it done and you're scared and said like i'm going to look to If they're not going to do it, who's going to do it? We are Uh, cb carl said ask the sheriff about the laws for morons that don't turn on their headlights in the rain There there are a lot of different laws like that that I could you know I was behind one on airport just a while ago that was in the left lane Doing about 25 miles an hour. So yeah, I wish there were I guess uh citations you can write for being a moron Gosh, you would I mean how big would your books have to be? That's to get another courtroom Uh this from motor man says what about the discrimination angle argument someone might try to use My wife and I still get our permits every year even though we don't need them I guess there's discrimination for age you're talking about on the permit in your Oh, you I don't i'm guessing so motor man. Maybe you can text back. He said what about the discrimination angle argument someone might Try to use by wife and I still get our permits every year even though we don't need them I will say motor man up like if you're going to drive outside the state I mean that that's that's why mine will always stay current Right if I had a handgun I probably don't but if I did and I would drive out of state it's important for me to have that It is. I mean chances are you know if you're not doing anything crazy and nobody, you know Will ever know you have one, but you know if you happen to get stopped and and there's you know file and recovered In that state requires a permit. You don't have one. You know, you may have a problem Yeah, I don't want to have any reason to yeah, you know and and I guess With that question if he's asking about the age group as it relates to discrimination, you know as base Totally on Stats. I mean it's you know, we can show each and every one of those Crimes and how far they date back and in the age groups and you know, that's why we're discussing that Yeah, he's saying yeah, he he confirmed. Yes, the age group thing. Yeah, I mean it's based solely on statistics it is a weird thing because In you know, I you and I are both pretty pretty strong second amendment folks here and I could say the second amendment is Didn't say age Right. So I could make a Big argument idealistic argument. You should be able to have the gun at two years old whatever they're going he can't do that So you have to pick some age and it becomes the age of majority or 18 for having it But then here's the law in the books like David chief asked earlier. You can't buy the thing Yes, the law says you can't buy the thing But you can possess the thing. I mean there is it's not as cut and dry As I might want it to be from a second amendment angle, you know, and when you try to I guess compare and contrast federal law to state law a lot of times their contradictory, you know, and confusing So so I mean I see both sides of that argument but again, you know All I'm looking is for a discussion to see what we can do to stop some of the violence of that age group And and and right now I don't have any other ideas So if we it's got to come from all ends. It's got to come from law enforcement and that Same thing. It's got to come from my friend john young many not against violence for this Change is not An ordinance not a law not important. There's there's got to be a heart change at the same time You're right. That's going to take a long time takes more time It does take a long time and john not talk about all the time that doesn't mean it's not worth doing It should be going on while this other stuff is going on that may be in a decade decade and half Something changes, you know, and we we return to a value system that we've lost You're right. You know and and Here's I can guess more miles is probably about to cringe, but hey laurie if it were You know up to me these gang bangers that want to kill each other Build a bulletproof arena and let them go at it Is the innocent people who get killed that infuriate me you're speaking for me You're speaking when you say that you're speaking for me if y'all want to go down We're going to shut down brookley You don't get out there at the end of the tarmac you would shoot it out leave all the Grandmothers and children and all this that are shot with this crap Out of it. It's the innocence that infuriated me too. If they want to kill each other, how about it? Now that's do it safely and I think that's what and I think If you're killing each other do it safely, but this brought you know, this was Motivated me over the last couple of years to really be really engaged in this Is these stories of kids? They're just doing kid stuff You know, and here's some other kids. It's not they're going to shoot it out Yeah, and they shoot that kid or they shoot that kid's grandmother or that you know shoot into a house where people are sleeping Well yet, yeah, that's great sleeping then we've had you know children killed children paralyzed Sitting in their homes doing what they're supposed to do Pratchett TV working on home rocious was in pritchered Probably three years ago a lady was literally on her knees in church And you got to be kidding me. Mm-hmm. Oh, there's been a rest made in that case It was took I think several months to finally make an arrest, but yeah literally on her knees in church And we'll shot and kill that's disgusting. Yeah Nine-year-old boy shot on the connector who had been shot before yeah at nine. He had been shot twice two different incidents Not in one incident y'all he had been shot before when he got shot that time I'm I'm done with it. I mean, I'm just it there's I don't know There's shit. It's It's unaccusable it's unaccusable um, all right the Real Sam texts in here. He said what's the exact law on how you how and when you can defend yourself with deadly force in the state of Alabama? You have to Number one, you know, I will say you know, Alabama is a stands ground state But you have to be able to honestly articulate that you are in fear of your life for the life of another period Yep That's uh, you know that and people say well inside your home and there's castle doctrine there But there's there's also Outside your home. There's no way to escape it. There's somebody gonna in it yourself or an innocent is going to be hurt. Right. I said you the main phrase is that you have to be able to articulate that you are in fear of your life or life of another There we go. Um Sean and Baldwin County said why doesn't South Carolina reciprocate with Alabama on pistol permits Ask Anthony and Baldwin County. There we go. I'm kidding. Yeah, by the way, sheriff. Well, he's gonna be coming online two weeks. So yeah, so you know, I There are a number of of states that don't appreciate New York my my Why you can't you can't hold you can't as a sheriff. You can't legally carry in New York, can you? Nope New York and a fake New Jersey, I'm pointing at about it. The sheriff of Mobile County Can't carry there not unless I'm there in an official capacity and you know, which would be strictly job related You know, I gave my my wife traveled to Colorado recently and New Mexico is not a reciprocal state. So we had to plan a route around New Mexico Not that you know, we thought there'd be a problem, but why risk it correct? Tell you what we're running the break here because I got a bunch more questions coming in and we're going to chance to ask them Of sheriff birch will we return right here on mid-day mobile? This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk 1 0 6 5 All right, that 1251 FM talk 1 of 6 5 mid-day mobile continue our conversation with mobile county sheriff paul birch This question from just jumped on me here. Okay, Jason Can or has the sheriff's department conducted roadblocks in known hotspots? We have and you know Those are effective for a very short time. I mean, you know, just say and those are based based off data as well But by the time you're there an hour everybody knows you're there. Yeah, you have to pick up and move elsewhere and so you know Intense saturation of known areas of high crime Seemed to be a much more effective than a roadblock. Okay Because I mean the stats right y'all are always we talk about the high tech in policing But there's also a best practices in policing y'all learn from What works what doesn't it does and but the times that we have and the times that we may What we will not do is advertise when we're going to do it. Right kind of You know defeats the purpose although then people argue that well you can advertise it because the people you're going to get aren't listening To the or pay attention to the news. Well, I take that risk Okay, it takes away my you know, I'm glad I got stopped because I have a My road one of my roadblock stories most of them had nothing ever happened But I got stopped one time and went to get the license register or the registration out of the glove compartment and Is I had a green acrylic thing in there and the officer went? Mm-hmm. What is that? And I said it's a duck call And he's like I mean, it could look like some kind of pipe or something And so I was there blowing a duck call at a traffic at a uh at a stop there at a roadblock So that's uh, you know And he's like yeah, it sounded pretty good. I'm like, thanks That went on about my way All right fire dog said can we get the sheriff approved thunder dome two dirt bags enter one dirt bag leaves Maybe american ninja warrior, but criminals having to run the gauntlet of the ninjas I saw running man back in the eighties. Why do I have to think of these solutions? Uh, this I mean, but I You crystallize it you boiled it down to where I think so many of us are is We've had violence. We've had that But it was I guess in the time it was they didn't bring everybody else into it. No, there was You know, I'm not saying. Oh, there's bad guys. I'm surprised. Of course there's bad guys Yeah, you're right, but but you know the older generations that there were things they just did and didn't do Shooting into somebody's house for something shooting into a church where a woman's in church underneath praying and get shot. Yeah It I just wait and we've had little Blips of this, but I'm waiting for community wide revival of every mobile county person everybody in the city mobile Everybody care what your skin color is to go to hell with this. We're not doing the same more We're not doing the same work. We're gonna figure out how to stop this It needs to get there sooner than later Monte says does the mobile county sheriff's office ever stop and question the late night bike riders that have backpacks Have backpacks in the sims and boomer area. They all make a point to have on dark clothes Everyone knows they're checking for unlock cars just looking for something to steal in general Well, I can say you know sims has their own, you know, police department But you know it is rare to see people on bicycles You know out in the county because usually you know, it's major roads and but certainly if they see people You know, we're in dark clothing at night whether it be on foot or on a bicycle You know if a patrol deputy stops and I would think they would stop and see what's going on and you know, I will say The deputies that we have we we've shrunk the areas that they're responsible for you know a couple years ago So they're very familiar with who is supposed to be in that area and who's not and what they're up to Yeah, you had rolled this out after coming in as a sheriff that you shrunk the areas They had these but then you have a group It was like I think it reminded me of the way we used to do five three defense in high school football You had these positions, but then you had the monster back They called it that they could move to an area like okay the place special operations division Yeah, so and they can work in it like if that deputy is like working Area five, I don't know four whatever and there's a lot of problem there then they come in and assist right correct Um Yeah, and also on the roadway stuff. I don't know how we you know given tickets for being idiots like uh like cb carl talked about earlier, but I don't know what it is people's lack of self-preservation walking across airport or 65 or 10 I've yet to figure that out. I'm way more concerned with the person walking across traffic than they seem to be with their own It's amazing to watch it. Sometimes they just Lacks the days they called just walk across Hoping people gonna stop or anticipate you know expecting them to and not all Number one, you know somebody may be on their phone. You know, yes, no joke Or they just don't react quick enough and and you know because you can't judge the speed of a vehicle that's you know coming at you Now if I if I have to cross the roadway and I'm the situation like that I'm like what is in the charlie daniel song like my Backside's on fire and my hair was catching. Yes, what I click. All right. So before we wrap up to the uh the website here Oh wait one more quick one here. Let's see. Can we get this one in? Uh, quick uh question for the sheriff does the mobile county sheriff's office have a community outreach program and information outreach like panal County sheriff in arizona Uh and does mobile have a traffic unit in the sheriff's department We do not have a traffic unit and you know, I'm not sure which you know outreach program We're talking about after look we do have a citizens academy and we do offer, you know free firearms familiarization courses So which is important people ask me about that. It's free So yeah, people say I bought this. I want to know how to use it. Y'all do that. We do all right website People can go to the website where we leso.com and see who's in jail. See who's in jail You can leave a crime tip anonymously check into those different programs that you know, we just talked about and you know Give us look us up and give us a call. All right. I appreciate your time Thanks for being on with us. Thank you. Thank you all listeners All right, we'll do it again next month with mobile county sheriff paul birch And yes, as I mentioned, uh, sheriff laurie from ballwind county That's starting later this month. He'll be joining us once a month as well. So all the people said Sean I'm gonna talk ballwind county stuff. Well, we will as well. All right coming back. April Marie Fogle joins me right here on bid day mobile So You You You You You You (upbeat music)