Over the past year, Cincinnati Police has made strides in cracking down on crime in the city. They even joined forces with the Hamilton County Sheriff's department in order to bring down the crime rate in Over-the-Rhine.
According to Hamilton County's sheriff, Simon Leis, the next step is to build a new Hamilton County Detention facility that would replace the current one, which many say is not adequate to effectively rehabilitate those who are incarcerated. A sales tax in order to fund the new detentions center is slated to be placed on this November's ballot for approval.
Today's Cincinnati Enquirer gave a break down of the corporations based in here in the Queen City that have given funds to the pro-tax campaign.
Frances Pepper (Com. David Pepper's mom)
$50,000---what is this all about???
Macy's Corporate Services Inc.
$39,200
American Financial
$30,000
Duke Energy Ohio Inc.
$30,000
Western & Southern Life Insurance Co.
$30,000
RBC Dain Rauscher
$25,000
Union Central Life Insurance Co.
$18,500
AK Steel
$17,500
Castellini Co. LLC
$15,000
One Riverfront Place
$15,000
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
$15,000
Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors
$15,000
Frisch's Restaurants Inc.
$12,100
Ohio National Financial Services
$12,100
I guess I should find out how much money it is going to cost to build and run this new detention center before I say this, but with the amount of money that these companies are backing this push for the sales tax, couldn't they just donate that money to the county and build it with that?
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