Top Cincinnati university cop urged aggressive traffic stops: report

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:42pm EDT

Top Cincinnati university cop urged aggressive traffic stops: report

BY JUSTIN MADDEN

The former chief of the University of Cincinnati police force encouraged aggressive use of traffic stops to look for guns and drugs, according to a report by a consultant reviewing the department after a white officer shot and killed an unarmed black man during a traffic stop last year.

Former University of Cincinnati Police Chief Jason Goodrich, who resigned in February amid an internal review, pushed the department's officers to make more traffic stops, according to the report by consulting firm Exiger released this week.

Goodrich and the department's No. 2 official, Major Tim Thornton, who also resigned, said they were unaware of the reason for the surge in traffic stops, the review said.

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Robin Engel, the university's vice president for safety and reform, said on Friday that traffic stops can be an effective policing tool but only when used with proper oversight and data review.

Exiger said Goodrich and Thornton were untruthful with both Exiger and the university administration, "misrepresenting their knowledge as to significant increased use of off-campus traffic stops by UCPD officers during the chief’s tenure.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ohio-police-idUSKCN0XC2IS

[LiberalFighter]

1. Are these traffic stops on their campus?

Is that really the best use of their campus cops? I question the legitimacy of any campus police.

[No Vested Interest]

3. No, these stops were off-campus, but on streets very near the University.

Apparently, an agreement had been made with the Cincinnati Police Dept. to permit the campus police to make stops off campus, perhaps because so many students leave on these nearby streets.

[LiberalFighter]

4. So campus police can make money for the department.

[brush]

2. So they lied when they said they didn't know why there was a surge in traffic stops.

They urge their cops to do more aggressive stops, one of which resulted in an unarmed man's death.

Hope they get what they deserve.