It's important, founder Iris Roley said, for the next police chief to understand the kind of work that's been happening to improve policing in the city for the past 20 years.
By 700wlw news
Jun 28, 2021
In a statement Monday, Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said he plans to retire in early 2022 due to his tenure and how the city s retirement system works.
Isaac, who has been with the department for more than three decades, was sworn in as police chief in December 2015 after acting in an interim role for a few months after former Chief Jeffrey Blackwell was fired.
to the truth? here is what he told me. i think he s going to bring in an outside investigator, maybe an ex-doj official or somebody that has had work with collaborative agreements or consent decrees to kind of come in and give him a top to bottom review of his agency, and once he gets that final report, we ll know how to move forward in assisting him and his agency in the reform that is clearly necessary. now, chief jeffrey blackwell, who you just saw right there, i asked him what s the pulse of community right now? he said obviously they are upset, but he says that he and his officers have spent years to formulate that relationship with the community, to get out there, to get to know the people and to let the people know that they are there for them, and he thinks that all that work they ve done has paid off because there is still that bonding in cincinnati with the officers and the community, which he says at this point is a very good thing.