Tuesday, 07/17/2001

cincinnati

Remember them? The city with the lovely riots earlier this year? They've been having a perfectly lovely time of it since then, as well:

• 41 shootings in 10 weeks; 59 people ended up on the wrong side of a gun — and all but one were black [...] Black-on-black shootings noticeably spiked after April 7 [...] other recent violent-crime numbers are equally alarming: The city has had 21 homicides this year, compared with 29 for all of 2000, and bank robberies are on pace this year to double last year's numbers.
• Members of Cincinnati's civilian police oversight board say city officials are trying to control what is told to federal investigators. [...] Mr. DeMarco, who is a lawyer, and other panel members say city officials — including the city manager and police administrators — have for years blocked their efforts to conduct thorough reviews of police misconduct cases. They said the city has denied them resources to do a proper job, and recently learned the city has withheld hundreds of citizens' complaints about police officers. Now panel members say officials are attempting to set up private meetings that might violate the Ohio Open Meetings Law in an attempt to influence what is told to federal investigators.

Must be lovely attempting to provide oversight when nobody will either give you information to oversee, and when they actively interfere in your attempts to do so.

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