The leaders of three law enforcement agencies are touting their new cooperation and pledging to maintain it. Cincinnati Police, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced they would work more closely together after crime became a hot topic this summer.

Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey says deputies just spent the last 15 days with police in Over-the-Rhine, Downtown and The Banks.

“We have given out almost 200 warnings. Those are our deputies and police officers approaching people and saying ‘Hey, we’d just like to remind you of this. We’d like you to know this,’ ” she says. “We want to give citizens the benefit of the doubt.”

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McGuffey says deputies did make arrests too during those 15 days, including seven misdemeanors and eig

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