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  • Timothy Loehmann, Police Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice, Joins Force in West Virginia – Cleveland Scene

    Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice more than a decade ago, is now working for two departments in rural West Virginia, as first reported by Dragline.

    Earlier this year, Loehmann, 37, was hired by the Snowshoe Resort Community District and the Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office as a patrolman, a roster sheet for the department shows.

    The hiring marks the latest stop in Loehmann’s often fruitless attempts to get another cop job since November 2014, when the then 22-year-old shot Rice at Cuddell Commons two seconds after hopping out of his cruiser.

    Fired from CPD for lying on his application, Loehmann tried his luck elsewhere— Akron, Euclid, Parma Heights, even the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, where he failed the written exam.

    He then looked outside Ohio. In October 2018, Loehmann held a part-time patrol job at the Village of Bellaire Police Department, then resigned days after news of his hiring surfaced. Similar episodes happened at the Tioga Borough Police Department in Tioga, Pennsylvania, and at the White Sulphur Springs Police Department in West Virginia, both places Loehmann left after public scrutiny.

    Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mom and head of the Tamir Rice Foundation, told the ACLU’s Dragline she believes Loehmann should never work in law enforcement again.

    “It goes back to a broken system and broken officers, corrupt officers being promoted to higher positions or being hired to protect and serve the community that they have failed over and over again,” Rice said. “These communities should be scared for their lives.”

    Subodh Chandra, Rice’s attorney, added: “Timothy Loehmann has no business being entrusted with a badge and a gun. And those who were imbecilic and heartless enough to hire him should be stripped of their jobs, just as has happened in other communities. The Rice family hopes people will rise up and protest, just as they did in other towns where Loehmann was entrusted with a weapon again. And anyone with decency and safety concern should boycott the Snowshoe Resort until it talks some sense into the District.”

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  • Cleveland Police Hire Firm to Look for Potential Bias When Officers Encounter the Public – Cleveland Scene

    Amid public perception that Cleveland police target Black drivers, city officials have contracted with a data analytics firm to help department leaders monitor potential bias and discrimination by officers.

    The move comes one year after a Marshall Project – Cleveland and News 5 analysis of 17,000 police stops found police searched Black people more than three times as often as White people during 2023 stops — despite finding contraband at similar rates.

    Leigh Anderson, executive director of Cleveland’s Police Accountability Team, said the contract delivers on a promise that city leaders made in October 2024 to engage outside experts to review traffic stop data.

    “Our commitment is really to the community to make sure that that wasn’t rooted in racial bias,” Anderson said. “I recognize the weight of public concern when it comes to trust in law enforcement.”

    The new partnership with Sigma Squared adds more oversight to a department under a federal consent decree since 2015, following years of excessive force complaints and paying millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements and judgments for police misconduct.

    A preliminary analysis of 2024 traffic and investigatory stops by Sigma Squared found that Cleveland police did not target Black drivers, records show.

    The analysis also found that police recovered contraband at similar rates regardless of race, records show. The city expects to release a final analysis once it is completed.

    Harvard economists Roland Fryer and Tanaya Devi founded Sigma Squared in the wake of nationwide social justice protests in 2020. Police departments in Louisville and New Orleans also hired Sigma Squared recently.

    Sigma Squared will provide the city with a dashboard where Police Chief Dorothy Todd and her command staff can see the number of police stops in any area of the city. The data will help them analyze whether the encounters triggered an arrest, a warning, a citation or a search and seizure, officials said.

    Todd said she looks forward to being able to examine practices in near real time and make necessary adjustments instead of waiting a year for data.

    “This is our commitment and dedication to compliance with the consent decree,” Todd said. “This shows that what we’re doing is working. This shows the changes that have been made.”

    As shootings continue to make headlines, the biggest task is to reduce violent crime and keep residents safe by targeting crime hot spots — regardless of the location, Todd said.

    Enforcement numbers like traffic stops will rise in neighborhoods with increasing crime, Todd said. She argued that such efforts are not evidence of biased policing or selective enforcement, but rather proactive police work.

    The contract with Sigma Squared is a one-year deal for $289,000.

    Sigma Squared software will track traffic and pedestrian stops and then test that data for signs of bias using formulas developed by social scientists and economists, Fryer said.

    The company said it will use different tests to look for biased policing.

    One test examines stops where police recover contraband. The cases are then compared by race for evidence of bias.

    Another test examines the bar or circumstances an officer uses before deciding to search someone. If different racial groups face different thresholds, that points to bias, Fryer said.

    Prior to 2022, it was impossible to analyze Cleveland traffic stops because the city did not record data. But under the federal consent decree, the city is now required to collect detailed data.

    The news outlets’ previous analysis showed officers often used low-level offenses like broken taillights or tinted windows to search Black people, who were stopped overall at twice the rate of White people.

    Fryer, who has researched disparities in policing at Harvard University, said the chief will now be able to address issues before they become real problems.

    “That’s what the community, in my opinion, should be excited about,” he said.

    In the coming weeks, Anderson said, federal monitors are expected to release a separate assessment of stop data for 2024. She stressed it is another layer of transparency for the city and police force.

    “I will be really trying to convey to the community that this is progress,” she said. “They are coming along with us on the ride. This isn’t the final stop.”

    This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook.

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  • Cleveland Police Chief Says Officers ‘Actively Investigating’ Recent Rash of Car Break-Ins – Cleveland Scene

    Car windows are breaking in Ohio City, Tremont and elsewhere once again.

    Over the past week or so, a string of car break-ins—more smash than grab, police said—has plagued the city, including in Tremont, Ohio City, and University Circle. Videos shared by residents show suspects piling out of cars and quickly bashing in windows en masse.

    Once again, those residents are calling on city officials with the question posed ad nauseum: What are you doing about this?

    “Let us be clear: addressing this issue is not as simple as a quick fix,” Police Chief Dorothy Todd wrote in a letter to the public on Wednesday.

    “While some may feel that not enough is being done, please know that our officers, detectives, and command staff are actively investigating these cases and working diligently to identify those responsible,” she said. “It’s not a matter of if arrests will be made, but when.”

    But for those who woke up Monday morning to a hole where their driver’s side window used to be, Todd’s message of reassurance didn’t quite cut it. Facebook community groups are littered with complaints. Why aren’t there more visible patrols? Given the lack of public visibility, should residents form community watch walks?

    A police spokesperson told Scene this week’s string “predominantly” resulted in broken glass and not valuables stolen. But broken windows are expensive, and annoying, to fix. And the lasting feeling of insecurity—that my block isn’t safe—is a clear threat to quality of life.

    “I don’t care what kind of press releases or smoke and mirrors marketing spins that the Cleveland Police Department puts out there or how much they are telling the news stations about their patrolling efforts,” one resident in Ohio City wrote in an Instagram post on Monday. 

    “This is a MAJOR issue in this neighborhood,” she added, and urged visitors: “DO NOT leave anything in your vehicles and either Uber or take the Red Line in, if you can.”

    Brittany Kraus, another resident of Ohio City, told Scene she’s had her car windows smashed twice this year. She suspects the culprits are teenagers on a late-night destruction spree.

    But she’s adapted since: she keeps nothing but her phone charger in her car. She even started waking up early in the morning to do a spot check, yet stopped out of a sense of distress.

    “All around it’s just a headache, time and resources that I’ll never get back,” she wrote.

    Cleveland police are somewhat limited when it comes to catching and arresting those suspected of vandalism or breaking and entering. Ring cameras struggle to catch legible license plate numbers at night, as do the city’s 100 license plate readers fixed on poles. (Though most are trained to catch licenses attached to active cases.)

    And police chase policy, cemented by the city’s Consent Decree, forbids cops from chasing suspects at high speeds for vandalism charges alone.

    “Criminals know that! So they immediately take off,” Ward 3 Councilman Kerry McCormack told Scene. “They know if I drive away recklessly, they won’t chase me—so that’s what they do.”

    After a policy review by the Community Police Commission this summer, police resumed using drones, though only in high-risk scenarios: missing person searches, serving search warrants or navigating disasters.

    McCormack believes that they could be used to help curb break-ins in lieu of chase policy, usage that could help arrest suspects without the risk of a dangerous car chase across the city.

    “I haven’t seen it at this level in a very long time.” he said. “What’s left out of this conversation is my residents who deserve a safe place to live. Where is their peace? Where are their rights?”

    Cleveland police told Scene they’re looking over video footage and interviewing witnesses. No arrests have been made as of Thursday afternoon.

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  • U.S. Marshals Recover 10 Missing Children in Cleveland Operation

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    Cleveland law enforcement scored a major win in a 30-day mission dubbed Operation TriDENT. U.S. Marshals and the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force recovered 10 missing children and arrested more than 130 violent fugitives. The effort also led to the arrest of 10 sex crime offenders.

    Meanwhile, officials targeted serious offenses. They detained five homicide suspects, 46 individuals facing felonious assault charges, and 20 wanted for firearm-related cases. Additionally, teams seized 11 firearms—including two stolen weapons—and recovered over 3,000 rounds of ammunition.

    U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott praised the coordinated effort. On average, two to three teams patrolled daily across Cleveland, working with local police and federal partners. As he put it, the operation embodies how multi-agency collaboration protects communities. Similarly, Cleveland Police Chief Todd called the results a sign of professionalism and dedication from all involved.

    Mayor Justin Bibb also emphasized the importance of federal-local alliances. He noted the arrests, weapons recovery, and missing child rescues underscore the power of joint operations.

    Among the high-profile arrests, authorities detained Aaron Sharp. He allegedly killed two relatives and shot two police officers in East Cleveland. Meanwhile, Shon Turner, accused of pushing a six-year-old out of a third-story window, also fell into custody.

    In short, this mission combined swift action with community safety. The return of those missing children matters most—and the hundreds taken off the streets mean a quieter, safer Cleveland for all.

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  • Co-Owner of Flats Bar Boarded Up by Bibb Says Establishment Had Nothing to Do With Mass Shooting

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    Play Bar & Grill, at 1051 West 10th in the Flats East Bank, was where Cleveland Police believe a fight originated on Sunday evening, one that left six people shot. Its owner denies any involvement.

    Play Bar & Grill, the venue where Cleveland Police believe a Sunday night confrontation that ended in a barrage of gunfire began, remains covered in plywood as authorities carry out an investigation some say shouldn’t involve the bar in the first place.

    The move comes at the hands of Mayor Justin Bibb, who, some hours after the shooting occurred at 6:12 p.m. Sunday, directed officials to “immediately shut down and board up” Play Bar & Grill as authorities collected shell casings around the block. Six people, including the alleged shooter, were injured.

    “We will hold everyone accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” Bibb said in a statement.

    Such a reaction by the city prompted Play Bar & Grill’s owners to speak out in protest of what they see as excessively knee-jerk and inappropriate.

    The shooting “was not on this property, not on the premises at all,” co-owner David Hill said in an Instagram video on Sunday. “They were shooting down the street.”

    “You can’t make this up, y’all—the only Black-owned business in the Flats,” he said. “Black Mayor Justin Bibb made the decision [to close Play] without no investigation, no paperwork!”

    Hill contended nothing happened in his bar that precipitated the shooting and that the gunfire erupted after Play had already closed for the day due to excessive crowds.

    No suspect has been named in Sunday’s incident, although Cleveland Police said in a statement to Scene that they are amongst the victims taken to the hospital by EMS.

    click to enlarge Cleveland Police reiterated Monday afternoon that they believe the confrontation that sparked Sunday's mass shooting began at Play Bar & Grill, then trickled outside onto West 10th and Front Ave. - Mark Oprea

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    Cleveland Police reiterated Monday afternoon that they believe the confrontation that sparked Sunday’s mass shooting began at Play Bar & Grill, then trickled outside onto West 10th and Front Ave.

    In a press conference Monday afternoon, Chief Dorothy Todd reiterated CPD’s belief that the altercation originated inside Play. Todd also clarified their were six people shot in sum; roughly 40 shell casings, a city spokesperson told Scene, were found around Front Ave. and West 10th.

    “This is still an active investigation,” CPD said. “We will provide additional information as it becomes available.”

    The city can close a business by emergency order. Play’s ownership will have a chance to contest the order, though Hill told media on Monday he yet wasn’t informed of how or when.

    A representative for Flats East Bank did not return a message for comment. Its website does not list Play Bar & Grill as of Monday afternoon.

    Online, many seemed to support Hill’s business and balk at Bibb’s choice to put up plywood as the investigation is carried out.

    “People did the shooting,” one commented. “Why is the bar being punished for it?”

    “That is like charging a driver to fill a pothole,” another wrote, “because they drove over it.”



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  • I-Team: Cleveland officers involved in shooting

    I-Team: Cleveland officers involved in shooting

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    CLEVELAND (WJW) — Cleveland police union President Andy Gasiewski confirmed to the FOX 8 I-Team that officers were involved in a shooting Monday evening.

    Gasiewski said the shooting happened in the 3000 block of Denison Avenue. That’s near the West 31st Street intersection.

    Police sources told the I-Team one suspect was detained and taken to the hospital. A second suspect is still at-large.

    One of the suspects fired on officers, and four officers returned fire, according to sources.

    No police officers were injured.

    Check back here for updates on this developing story.

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  • Behind the Black Shield: The History of a Cleveland Institution

    Behind the Black Shield: The History of a Cleveland Institution

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    Dashaunae Marisa for The Marshall Project

    Vincent Montague outside of the Black Shield Club Headquarters in Cleveland.

    The Black Shield formed in Cleveland nearly 80 years ago. Initially, Black officers came together to support and protect each other from discrimination and retaliation in the mostly White police department. In the 1970s, the association took that battle to court, fighting for a more fair system of hiring and promoting Black officers and pushing for a police force that reflected the makeup of the city.

    The Black Shield has also had outspoken leaders who called out civil rights violations or police brutality. One of those leaders was Vincent Montague, who in 2020 decried racism and police brutality at protests, on panels and in the press. But Montague also had his contradictions, and a history that included shooting a Black man at a traffic stop. Read the story of Montague’s rise and fall, told by Marshall Project reporter Wilbert L. Cooper.

    Cooper’s forthcoming book, “The Black Shield,” will explore what it means to be a Black cop in America, through the lens of the history of one of the country’s oldest Black policing organizations and his family’s own history as Black police officers in Cleveland.

    Below is a timeline of some key events in the history of the Black Shield.

    1866
    A year after the abolition of slavery, according to the Case Western Reserve University Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Cleveland creates its own modern police department. There are an estimated 1,300 Black residents living in the city of about 95,000 people by 1870, according to Case Western Reserve history Professor John Grabowski. But there are no Black members of the city’s police force in its early years.

    1881
    According to the Cleveland Police Museum, William Manuel Tucker, a formerly enslaved man, becomes the first Black person appointed to the Cleveland police force. He’s one of the tens of thousands of Black people who migrated to the city after the Civil War.

    1925
    Social workers and women’s groups successfully lead a campaign to create a segregated Women’s Bureau for the police department, operated by policewomen and focused on diversion and working cases that involve women or children as victims or suspects. The bureau’s first director, trained social worker Dorothy Doan Henry, tells The Plain Dealer that they are seeking women of color to be officers because they “understand the colored problem better.”

    1930
    According to historian Kenneth L. Kusmer’s “A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930,” Cleveland goes from being the nation’s 15th largest city to becoming the sixth, with more than 900,000 people in 1930. During this time, the number of Black residents in the city balloons to 72,000.

    1935
    Cleveland officers form a chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police. Even though the union violates the department’s rules against officers organizing, the chief does not stop the efforts, according to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.

    1945
    The Fraternal Order of Police’s ranks encompass nearly half of the Cleveland police department, according to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Amid this growth, Black officers who are sidelined by fraternal organizations begin to meet on their own to discuss their “unfair treatment,” according to the Black Shield Police Association’s website.

    1946
    According to W. Marvin Dulaney’s book, “Black Police in America,” Black Cleveland cops are galvanized by what was known as the “Euclid Beach Park Riot,” in which Black patrolman Lynn Coleman was wounded during a scuffle with private police while trying to protect Civil Rights activists at the segregated amusement park. Black officers move to create a formal organization called the Shield Club. But the city refuses to recognize the organization or its grievances, and the leaders of the group face harassment for its formation.

    1950s
    Faced with institutional opposition, the Shield Club becomes a social club, focusing on community service and youth athletics, according to interviews with former Shield Club President Alfred Zellner and former Shield Club Secretary Curtis Scott.

    1964
    Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and the organizational efforts of other Black cops across the country, a new generation of Black officers in Cleveland begins to meet to discuss how they can pool their power to get promotions and police their community differently, according to Scott.

    1968
    A firefight between the Cleveland police and a Black nationalist group breaks out in Glenville, leaving several cops and citizens dead. Fearing violent retaliation from police against the Black community, the following night, the city’s first Black mayor, Carl Stokes, makes use of an all-Black squad of officers (including several future Shield Club leaders) to successfully quell unrest in the neighborhood with no casualties, according to Stokes’ memoir “Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography.”

    1969
    The group of Black officers that began meeting in 1964 officially calls itself the Shield Club to honor the Black officers of the past, according to former Shield Club Secretary Scott. The group is chartered as a nonprofit organization, according to Shield Club documents. Scott and former club President Zellner say its original focus is on promotions, social events and community service.

    The same year, rank-and-file officers break away from the Fraternal Order of Police and launch the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association to address their labor concerns. In the wake of the violence in Glenville, they also demand armored vehicles and grenade launchers, according to Stokes’ memoir. According to a 1969 Plain Dealer interview with a White police officer, officers who didn’t sign up for the CPPA were accused of being “[n-word] lovers.”

    1972
    Shield Club President Fred Johnson and Secretary Jean Clayton lead legal efforts to increase diversity in the police department, according to numerous internal Shield Club documents. Clayton files a lawsuit over gender discrimination at a time when police women’s careers are stymied in the segregated Women’s Bureau with unequal pay and little hope of promotion. Johnson spearheads the filing of a suit claiming that the city’s hiring and promotional practices are racially discriminatory — Cleveland’s population is 38% Black, while the police department is only 8% Black, according to court documents.

    1973
    Clayton’s lawsuit causes the city to disband the Women’s Bureau and integrate women into the police department, according to her obituary in The Plain Dealer.

    1977
    After years of litigation, the city drops its appeal of the Shield Club lawsuit and enters into a federal consent decree, agreeing to continue to follow minority hiring and promotional quotas until minority representation surpasses 35.8%, according to court documents.

    1978
    The Shield Club changes its name to the Black Shield Police Association, according to internal Shield Club documents.

    1985
    The Fraternal Order of Police successfully appeals parts of the Shield Club consent decree that apply to officer promotions, dismissing those quotas. But the hiring quotas remain in place, amended to now set the goal of minority representation in the department at 33%, according to court documents.

    1995
    The consent decree’s hiring quotas expire when minority representation in the department surpasses the 33% benchmark, according to court documents. However, since the start of the lawsuit, the city is even more diverse. More than half of the city’s population is Black, Hispanic or Asian, according to a Plain Dealer article.

    1997
    Two years after the expiration of the hiring consent decree, the number of Black cadets in police academy classes in Cleveland drops from 43% to less than 15%, according to a Plain Dealer article.

    1999
    Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White holds a news conference and announces an investigation into reports of bigoted graffiti in police locker rooms and racist symbolism worn by White officers. Black Shield Police Association President Anthony Ruffin supports the claims. A city investigation doesn’t find evidence of organized racism among officers, though many Black officers declined to participate citing safety concerns, according to a Plain Dealer article.

    2014
    A group of White officers involved in the notorious 2012 chase and fatal shooting of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams sue the City of Cleveland for reverse racism. In their suit, they allege the department has a “history of treating non-African American officers involved in the shootings of African Americans substantially harsher than African American officers.” The lawsuit is dismissed the following year.

    2016
    Black Shield leadership calls on the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association to retract its presidential endorsement of Donald Trump. It was the first time in the union’s history it endorsed a presidential candidate. The union doesn’t retract the endorsement, but CPPA declines to endorse a presidential candidate in 2020.

    2018
    Vincent Montague becomes Black Shield president and issues condolences to the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed by a Cleveland police officer in 2014. Tamir’s mother, Samaria, was pushing back on police union efforts to have the officer who killed her son rehired. The Black Shield offers its support and vows to aid in the family’s healing process.

    2020
    After the police killing of George Floyd, in a public forum, President Montague expresses the need for something “extreme, something radical,” to ensure that another person doesn’t die “unjustly by the hands of the police.” The comments generate heated responses from other officers.

    2021
    Montague becomes the first Black Shield president to be fired while in office. According to the city, he was terminated because of involvement in a bribery scheme. (Montague did not face criminal charges in the case.) Montague claims he was fired in retaliation for speaking out against racism and police misconduct.

    2023
    The Cleveland Division of Police is nearly two-thirds White, while Cleveland’s population of people of color grows to about 47% Black and 12% Latino. The city, like many across the country, struggles to recruit officers and launches a marketing campaign to attract more diverse recruits.

    2024
    Under the leadership of current President Mister Jackson, the Black Shield is focusing less on the issues of the Black community and more on internal issues faced by Black officers. “Vince made a lot of dynamic moves,” Jackson told The Marshall Project. “After that, not only myself, but our members have become a lot more cautious.”

    This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook.

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  • Cleveland Police Say No Arrests Made After Playhouse Square Drifter Incident

    Cleveland Police Say No Arrests Made After Playhouse Square Drifter Incident

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    A screenshot from a video showing the Playhouse Square Drifter incident over Memorial Day Weekend.

    No arrests have yet been made after a crew of drivers managed to ruthlessly drift around a circle of fire underneath Playhouse Square’s GE Chandelier for at least a minute on Sunday morning, Cleveland Police said.

    In a short press conference over Zoom, Sgt. Freddy Diaz, a CPD spokesperson, said that police need Cleveland’s help providing names for those involved in a string of defiant drifting events, two of which were recorded on video and uploaded to social media this weekend.

    A 15-second video posted on the Cleveland Remembrance Project’s Instagram page shows about a dozen cars blasting loud music and blocking the intersection of East 14th and Euclid Avenue.

    Though no one was injured, both during the ring-of-fire display in Playhouse Square and after cruisers showed up, many observing Clevelanders lambasted CPD for not preventing or curtailing the ballsy event in the first place.

    “Literally out Bibb’s front window and not an officer in sight … strange,” Eric Shebestak said on Twitter/X.

    “Where were the police? Why did it take so long for them to get to the scene?,” Matthew Lubbeck wrote. “What a total embarrassment for the city of Cleveland.”

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    Sgt. Freddy Diaz said on Tuesday that CPD is still looking for the drifters.

    Diaz reiterated that CPD did show up before any injuries or lasting vandalism occurred. (As of Tuesday, skid marks and fire burns were still slightly visible.)

    “Obviously this is something of a concern for law enforcement and for the community,” Diaz told media. “These types of acts are dangerous, and we don’t condone [them].”

    “And we will enforce the laws that are applicable in those situations.”

    Social media is littered with videos of mostly teenagers engaging in joyriding and easy car thefts, especially during the rise of Kia Boyz phenomena, teens that take advantage of a technical flaw in most Kias and Hyandais. Diaz said he couldn’t confirm whether the Playhouse Square Drifters were in fact teenagers.

    But irritation from Clevelanders revolves around, it seems, an increasing tension between Mayor Justin Bibb’s promise of an “all-of-government” approach to handling summer crime and repeated reports of dangerous activity around the city. Many see the drifters as a bad harbinger of a typical summer increase in crime.

    Bibb’s idea is to concentrate hired officer enforcement in highly-specific areas prone to violent and nonviolent crime.

    “We know, based on research, that approximately 4% of geography accounts for nearly half of all crime. We are taking a targeted, data-driven approach to narrow in on neighborhoods across the city that have historically been affected by violence during the summer months,” Bibb wrote in a press release.

    “Our comprehensive strategy goes beyond just law enforcement,” he added, “as various departments will be prioritizing the delivery of city services in these hotspots—which will be combined with our violence prevention efforts—with the goal of creating a ripple effect in reducing crime citywide.”

    Over the weekend, four men were shot in an incident near East 14th and St. Clair Ave, Channel 19 reported. And in April, News 5 reported, two men were shot after an apparent argument outside the Frozen Daiquiri Bar’s new location near East 7th and Bolivar Road.

    And, in the most insane happenstance of ballsy crime, one man opened fire around 3 p.m. on April 30 on the northern edge of East 4th St, WKYC reported. The two men were apparently arguing about sports, when one man smacked the other. One pulled out a gun and fired. A bystander at the Corner Alley was grazed in the hand.

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  • Cleveland police search for missing 12-year-old boy

    Cleveland police search for missing 12-year-old boy

    CLEVELAND (WJW) — Cleveland Division of Police is asking the public to be on the lookout for Zion Steele, a 12-year-old boy who’s been missing since Tuesday afternoon and is considered to be endangered.

    Zion Steele (Cleveland Division of Police)

    Steele is described as a Black male standing 5-foot-1 and weighing 115 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes, according to a news release from Cleveland police.

    Steele was wearing a tan hoodie, jogging pants and gray shoes.

    He was last seen at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14, in the 1800 block of Haldane Road, which is near the intersection of Euclid Avenue.

    He left his home after an altercation with his cousin, reads the release. Officers checked nearby and at his friends’ homes but did not find him.

    Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to call Cleveland police at 216-621-1234.

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  • 2 people found dead, Cleveland homicide unit investigating

    2 people found dead, Cleveland homicide unit investigating

    *The above video is about Cleveland homicides in recent years*

    CLEVELAND (WJW) — Homicide detectives have launched an investigation after a woman and a man were found dead around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.

    Cleveland police said officers were called to the 12400 block of Phillips Avenue.

    “Two adults, a male and a female, were pronounced deceased on scene by EMS. Our homicide unit is investigating to determine the cause. Information may be released as it becomes available. This information is preliminary and subject to change as the investigation becomes available,” police said. 

    Officials have not released names of the two people who died.

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  • Baby left in car as dad goes to Cleveland casino: PD

    Baby left in car as dad goes to Cleveland casino: PD

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    CLEVELAND (WJW) — A 10-month-old girl was left inside a car at a parking garage while her father went into the casino in downtown Cleveland Friday night, according to police.

    Police received reports of “a child left unattended in a vehicle on Ontario Street…around 10:30 p.m.,” according to Cleveland Police Spokesperson Wilfredo Diaz. “Upon arrival, they (officers) found a 10-month-old girl alone in the car,” Diaz said.

    “An initial investigation revealed that the child’s father had left her in the vehicle while he was inside the casino. Although the child did not appear to be injured, EMS responded to the scene and took her to a hospital for a precautionary checkup. She was later released to her family,” Diaz added.

    Diaz said, the suspect has not been formally charged, and the case remains under investigation

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  • Pressure Mounts on Bibb for Hire of Former Roommate Accused in Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit

    Pressure Mounts on Bibb for Hire of Former Roommate Accused in Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit

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    (Phillip McHugh’s LinkedIn Profile)

    The City of Cleveland has a new Senior Public Safety Advisor in town— former D.C. Police detective, Phillip McHugh—despite allegations of him violating an elderly couple’s civil rights and falsifying police reports, which led to McHugh being the center of a federal civil rights lawsuit back in 2015.

    Mayor Justin Bibb hired McHugh in January with a starting salary of $124,000. News 5 Investigators recently reported not only his involvement in the lawsuit but the fact that McHugh was Bibb’s former college roommate.

    Members of the Cleveland NAACP and City Council members are concerned about the precedent McHugh’s hiring sets for the city, and how it could impact the safety of Cleveland residents.

    “[This] tells me that the [Bibb] Administration is very tone deaf in this racially charged policing environment,” says Kayla Griffin, the president of the Cleveland NAACP, “and that our consent decree and prioritizing, fulfilling it and getting from under it is not in the forefront of their mind.”

    According to the lawsuit, a Black, elderly married couple, Vashti and Eugene Sherrod, were involved in a car accident in the District of Columbia. The other driver, a white woman, made a false police report accusing Vashti Sherrod, who was 75 at the time, of threatening her with a gun after discussing the accident. The lawsuit states that McHugh was aware that the report was false but continued to lead a search warrant for the Sherrods’ home.

    No gun was found on the property.

    “If he could do that to a 70-something-year-old grandmother, I really fear how he would approach our young, Black men who are just navigating and being.”

    The lawsuit was settled and McHugh wasn’t found liable.

    At last Monday’s City Council meeting, both Richard Starr and Kevin Conwell spoke about the controversy.

    “We are in the middle of a consent decree,” Conwell. “What kind of message is the mayor, he’s in leadership, is sending his safety forces? Because we don’t want to violate people’s civil rights, and then you bring him in?”

    Starr added, “This administration is telling us who they are as well as who they value and respect, and we’d be fools not to believe them.”

    The Cleveland NAACP is demanding the immediate termination of McHugh with a petition, which so far as gathered more than 230 signatures. The group seeks to explore solutions beyond meetings and media talking points if the demand is not met.

    “We are still under a consent decree. We still have a police monitor. We still have a citizen review board. There are other options, and this is not a fight that will just easily go away,” says Griffin.

    In a lenghty statement from a spokesperson, the city defended the hire.

    “Mr. McHugh has dedicated his life to public service. His resume reflects continuous advancement, and he has received several commendations, honors and awards throughout his career including as Officer of the Year, two United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Awards for Public Service, and a Life Saving Award for his successful negotiation with and physical rescue of a suicidal youth from a freeway overpass.

    “The administration is aware that Mr. McHugh was a party in a lawsuit stemming from a criminal investigation he conducted in conjunction with the United States Attorney’s Office nearly ten years ago in Washington, D.C. All claims made against Mr. McHugh were dismissed with prejudice prior to the disposition of the matter and there was no finding of wrongdoing by the court or Mr. McHugh’s former employer. Throughout his career, there has never been a sustained finding related to Mr. McHugh’s bias or integrity.

    “The city conducted a thorough search for the Senior Advisor for Public Safety and Mr. McHugh was identified as the most qualified candidate for the role. He brings a unique set of experience, knowledge and new ideas to the city.”
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  • Have you seen this vehicle? CPD asks for public’s help

    Have you seen this vehicle? CPD asks for public’s help

    CLEVELAND (WJW) — Cleveland police said Saturday that they’re seeking assistance from the public in locating and identifying a vehicle suspected of involvement in a hit-skip incident that resulted in serious injuries to the victim.

    The incident occurred around 9:00 p.m. Friday in front of 3892 W 146. Street, law enforcement said.

    Police said the vehicle believed to be involved is a small red SUV.

    “It is likely to have sustained front damage to the grill and/or bumper,” police said.

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    The vehicle was last observed traveling south on West 146th Street from Lakota Avenue, according to authorities.

    Anyone with information regarding this incident or the whereabouts of the vehicle is urged to contact the Cleveland Division of Police Accident Unit at (216) 623-5295.

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  • I-Team: New video shows Cleveland police open fire at chaotic, deadly scene

    I-Team: New video shows Cleveland police open fire at chaotic, deadly scene

    CLEVELAND (WJW) — The FOX 8 I-Team has obtained video showing a chaotic and deadly scene that involved a barrage of gunshots, including Cleveland police gunfire.

    It happened at East 105th Street and Garfield Avenue just before dawn on St. Patrick’s Day. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner said a gunshot killed 26-year-old Antwoina M. Carter.

    Police body camera video gives us the first look at what happened, as it happened.

    Investigators and law enforcement sources said officers saw cars speeding down the block, and they heard gunshots from one car. Then, officers started firing shots.

    On the video, you hear many gunshots before seeing any cars come into view. You also see officers firing shots, taking cover and calling out, “Shots fired. Shots fired.”

    The medical examiner this week said it appears Carter did not die from police gunfire.

    “Preliminary testing does not indicate that police activity was directly responsible for the decedent’s death,” Dr. Thomas Gilson is quoted in a news release.

    The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department is investigating.

    This week, the Sheriff’s Department said police found Carter at a vehicle that crashed at the scene. The other vehicle took off.

    Police had gone there after getting a 911 call just before 4 a.m. from a woman identifying herself as Antwoina Carter. She said someone was sitting outside her house who’d been threatening her.

    Police said they also had been told someone had shot out a car window, but they did not shoot into the house.

    As the city released the body camera video, Police Chief Dorothy Todd also released a recorded statement. She stressed Cleveland police are not releasing many details now, with the case under investigation by another agency. She said the video is only a small part of the investigation.

    Law enforcement sources have told the I-Team the officers believed someone was shooting at them.

    The police union President Andy Gasiewski said he can’t comment on specifics with the investigation pending, but that “100 percent, there was an element of self-defense.”

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  • Cleveland Promised Oversight of Police Surveillance. The Work Hasn’t Been Done

    Cleveland Promised Oversight of Police Surveillance. The Work Hasn’t Been Done

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    Four surveillance cameras are at the intersection of West Boulevard and West 101st Street in Cleveland.

    This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook.

    As Cleveland spends millions on new license plate readers and surveillance cameras, some residents fear that police officers will soon be able to track their movements.

    Activists say police could feed the camera images into facial recognition software to identify people on the street or near crime scenes, leading to discriminatory policing practices, especially in communities of color.

    The concerns are amplified after Mayor Justin Bibb’s stalled efforts in creating a technology advisory committee to address privacy and civil rights concerns over how police use the powerful surveillance tools.

    click to enlarge At a September 2022 news conference, Mayor Justin Bibb discussed steps the city has taken to improve policing in the city. - Daniel Lozada for The Marshall Project

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    At a September 2022 news conference, Mayor Justin Bibb discussed steps the city has taken to improve policing in the city.

    Bibb’s pledge to form the committee from City Hall employees came after The Marshall Project – Cleveland reported in September 2022 that the city lagged behind others in sharing policies and details when police deploy powerful digital tools.

    Kareem Henton, a leader of Black Lives Matter Cleveland, said the city can’t be trusted to operate the cameras and other electronic tools without citizen oversight.

    “We know they’re not truthful,” Henton said. “Look at their past. It’s all intentional. They get these tools and will soon sneak in other ways to use them.”

    Cleveland police have faced numerous civil rights lawsuits and paid out millions to settle excessive force claims since 2010.

    Sarah Johnson, the mayor’s spokesperson, said the committee is designed to increase transparency and foster dialogue about technology being used by Cleveland police. The committee’s work will not be limited to camera deployment, she added.

    A meeting is now scheduled for March 25.

    “Public Safety is our number one priority and we want to collaborate with the citizens, as we all want the same outcome, a safer city,” Johnson wrote in an email. “There are a lot of technological advancements that will enhance our ability to better serve the residents. We want to move forward with transparency.”

    Since early 2023, The Marshall Project – Cleveland has repeatedly asked the Bibb administration for committee updates. Leaders reiterated that planning was ongoing — but it wasn’t, records show.

    In fact, no movement occurred until early February of this year, a week after The Marshall Project – Cleveland again asked about Bibb’s 15-month-old promise.

    On Feb. 6, Jakimah Dye, Cleveland’s assistant safety director, sent emails seeking volunteers for a closed-door committee to meet March 25 to “increase communication, transparency and to provide updates on technology utilized by” police, records show.

    Emails went to members of the Police Department, Public Safety, Information Technology and the Police Accountability Team, records show.

    Among other duties, the committee’s focus is to review technologies already in place, the technology’s purpose, vendor contracts and whether using the tools violates constitutional protections, records show.

    Dye could not provide any details about the Technology Advisory Committee when questioned during the council’s Safety Committee Feb. 7 meeting by Councilman Mike Polensek, who chairs the Committee.

    Polensek told Dye he would like the technology committee to appear before the Safety Committee to discuss its work.

    The following week, The Marshall Project – Cleveland asked then-Safety Director Karrie Howard why his top aide could not provide details on the Technology Advisory Committee.

    Howard acknowledged he had no public records, aside from the emails, that show he did any work toward forming the committee during the past 15 months. But he stressed the committee idea remained at the forefront of his office goals.

    “I had it written on my whiteboard,” Howard said. “That is where I do my best thinking.”

    He also said the committee would not meet in public but would instead issue a report after a quarterly meeting. When asked how taxpayers could rely on the accuracy of the reports compiled from those closed-door meetings, Howard said: “You’ll have to trust us.”

    Weeks later, Howard abruptly resigned.

    The committee will consist of 10 people from the city’s departments of Information Technology, Police, Public Safety, the Police Accountability Team and the Community Police Commission.

    “The Technology Advisory Committee is one of many investments by the Department of Public Safety and the City of Cleveland to provide the most advanced and effective policing to our citizens, maintaining a collaborative spirit in the heart of everything we do,” according to a statement from Bibb’s spokeswoman.

    Many other cities that fell under federal consent decree agreements to reform their troubled departments have become more transparent over the deployment of cameras and other technology.

    The police often explain to citizen oversight panels details such as whether any data will be collected and for how long it will be kept. The police also have to detail any potential infringements on people’s privacy and civil rights, and what safeguards are in place to guard against misuse.

    The consent decree reached between the Cleveland Division of Police and the U.S. Department of Justice in 2015 created a blueprint designed to repair community relationships and reduce excessive force complaints, which have plagued the division and largely triggered the federal intervention.

    Created under the consent decree, the Cleveland Community Police Commission consists of citizen members who gather community feedback and review police policies and training related to transparency, bias and how police interact with the residents.

    The commission can also override police discipline decisions made by the safety director and police chief. The independent body of 13 members draws its budget from the city’s General Fund.

    The Cleveland Community Police Commission urged Bibb in May 2022 to form a technology committee.

    The Bibb administration needs to act quickly to form the technology committee to prevent potential abuses, said Jason Goodrick, interim executive director of the Cleveland Community Police Commission.

    click to enlarge A sign marks the presence of Cleveland police surveillance cameras at the intersection of Detroit Avenue and West 89th Street in Cleveland. - Ross Mantle for The Marshall Project

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    A sign marks the presence of Cleveland police surveillance cameras at the intersection of Detroit Avenue and West 89th Street in Cleveland.

    “The only way to identify misuse is by a committee,” Goodrick told The Marshall Project – Cleveland. “The police commission is taking this seriously. It’s politics above good policy at City Hall.”

    Since Bibb announced his pledge to create the technology committee, the city has spent millions more on new high-tech tools.

    On Aug. 8, the city installed its first Flock License Plate Reader Camera. Within two months, 100 of them were installed across the city at high-traffic intersections, records show. The total cost is $250,000.

    The license plate readers take still photos of passing vehicles to scan their plates. Each scan is logged and cross-checked with a database to see if police are searching for the vehicle.

    If an officer issues an alert for a license plate for things such as a stolen car or an Amber Alert for missing children, the system will signal the officer.

    The city created a policy governing the use of the readers. In a statement, Sgt. Wilfredo Diaz, a police spokesperson, declined to reveal the camera locations.

    As of Feb. 15, the city has deployed 125 in-car dash cameras with license-plate readers. Another 175 cameras will be deployed later. Each camera costs nearly $6,300, totaling nearly $1.9 million.

    The in-car dash cameras have been installed, but they will not go live until a final policy is completed, Diaz said in a statement.

    The city plans to have the Community Police Commission, the Department of Justice and federal monitors review the policy before the tools are activated, the statement said.

    Police Chief Wayne Drummond told the City Council’s Safety Committee on Feb. 7 that police are taking steps to prevent any privacy abuses with the 100 Flock cameras by limiting access to a small number of officials.

    He called the Flock cameras an “invaluable tool” that helped solve 12 homicides since they came online last year.

    Cleveland leaders say they want to avoid lawsuits over the technology filed by residents in other cities.

    “The privacy standpoint is really important to understand,” Drummond, who is now the interim safety director, told the Safety Committee.

    “We’re not looking at individuals. We’re looking at vehicles. We’re not targeting anyone.”

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  • See loose horses run down I-90 in Cleveland traffic

    See loose horses run down I-90 in Cleveland traffic

    CLEVELAND (WJW) — It was quite a sight Saturday for motorists driving eastbound on I-90 along the Shoreway just before the East 55th exit as loose horses ran against traffic westbound.

    Yes, that’s right. Horses galloping on the highway.

    An ODOT traffic camera showed two horses trotting between vehicles as drivers pulled out of the way and traffic slowed to a crawl or even stopped at times.

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    • Courtesy: ODOT

    Officials said the horses were Cleveland police horses and got loose from the department’s stables. The horses were corraled and are safely back at the stables.

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  • New Cleveland Chief of Police, Safety Director Sworn In a Week After Karrie Howard Resigns

    New Cleveland Chief of Police, Safety Director Sworn In a Week After Karrie Howard Resigns

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    Former Chief of Police Wayne Drummond was sworn in as interim Director of Public Safety, replacing former director Karrie Howard who resigned last week following an investigation into an infringement of city policy.

    Dorothy “Annie” Todd, the former deputy chief of Cleveland Police, was sworn in by Mayor Justin Bibb as the city’s new chief of police Thursday morning.

    And former Chief of Police Wayne Drummond was also installed as the city’s new Director of Public Safety, a move that comes a week after former director Karrie Howard resigned, which came days after a Fox 8 investigation showed Howard admitting to violating a city policy he claimed he was unaware of.

    Mayor Justin Bibb, who swore in both Drummond and Todd on Tuesday, framed Howard’s step-down more as a natural path for the former director, who had held his post since 2020, rather than a result of a controversy.

    “Karrie and I spoke frequently about the future of the department, and we often had frank conversations about the leadership that was needed for the department to be successful moving forward,” Bibb said. “Specifically, to reach our ambitious goals, public safety must be focused on delivering for residents and free from distraction. And there must be a high degree of confidence at every level to ensure collaboration.”

    “Karrie felt that now was the right time to make a change in leadership,” Bibb added, “and made the difficult and hard decision to resign.”

    click to enlarge Dorothy "Annie" Todd is the city's newest chief of police, the second woman to hold this role in the city's history. - Mark Oprea

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    Dorothy “Annie” Todd is the city’s newest chief of police, the second woman to hold this role in the city’s history.

    On February 22, Fox 8’s Peggy and Ed Gallek revealed that Assistant Director of Public Safety Jakimah Dye had crashed her city car with her children inside in a violation of City of Cleveland policy that states “employees shall not transport any person other than City employees.”

    In a follow-up interview that day, Howard told the Galleks that he was oblivious to such city policy. He himself, he told Peggy Gallek, had done the same as Dye. “So, I’ve had my son in the car,” he told Fox 8. “We reviewed the policy. I didn’t know their was a policy.”

    Regardless of why Howard resigned, the new roles at CPD and Public Safety come at a seemingly tough time for both departments, when battling violent crime—as both Todd and Drummond said—remains a top priority, all while the CPD navigates an ongoing officer shortage that Bibb himself believes he can budget his way out of. (The city’s still short about 424 officers, News 5 found.)

    “Our new incentives around recruitment and retention, I think, are going to show real dividends to the CPD,” Bibb said. “We’re optimistic that we’ll have a sizable large police class by the end of this first quarter to replenish the ranks.”

    Todd began her career as a CPD traffic controller in the late 1990s, was acting deputy chief since 2022, after taking Joellen O’Neill’s role, and was commander of CPD’s Third District for three years before that. She is the second woman to hold the chief of police role in Cleveland’s history.

    Though less vocal than Drummond, Todd told press in City Hall’s Red Room on Thursday that, as chief, she’s prioritizing preventing juvenile crime, along with convincing the new Department of Justice monitors of “the progress we’re making and made throughout the years” with the Consent Decree.

    All three told press that the near formation of Cleveland’s own Gun Crime Intelligence Center, a copy of a similar center in Cincinnati, is the city’s best bet for taking guns used for criminal activity off the streets—a nod to those used in the West 6th and Public Square shootings downtown last summer.

    Bibb himself fashioned Cleveland as safer than it was three, four years ago, even with 2023’s 200 homicides clocked in. “We’ve seen a 14 percent reduction in homicides in out city,” he said, since 2020.

    As for Dye, the assistant director still has her job in the Department of Public Safety. She’s not allowed to drive her city car during an ongoing internal investigation.
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  • Cleveland Reducing the Number of Police Officer Positions as Hiring Lags

    Cleveland Reducing the Number of Police Officer Positions as Hiring Lags


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    For the second year in a row, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration has proposed stripping more positions from the city’s shrinking police department. Last year, council members criticized, but eventually approved, Bibb’s proposal to cut 142 vacant officer positions from the police budget.

    Cleveland is among several cities since 2020 that has had more officers quit and retire than they’ve been able to recruit. A U.S. Department of Justice report released in October called it a “historic crisis” and attributed it to a slew of issues: the COVID-19 pandemic, a tight labor market, community frustration with policing and concerns about officer health and safety. Cleveland has 25% fewer officers than it did before the pandemic.

    This year, the mayor’s budget proposal cuts 148 vacant police positions, in large part to pay for $11.6 million in officer pay raises and retention bonuses. Despite those increases, and retaining a marketing firm to help recruit candidates, the department currently has fewer than 1,200 officers.

    The administration is proposing to fund a total of 1,350 sworn officers this year, a steep decrease from the 1,640 in 2022. Still, city leaders say it’s unclear whether even that goal can be met.

    City Council President Blaine Griffin called the proposed cuts concerning, especially because the city called in help from federal, state and local law enforcement partners this year to address an uptick in crime.

    Even with the proposed staffing, the $230 million police budget would be about 6% higher and account for about 30% of the city’s total general fund budget of $778 million.

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