IPD
Ithaca Police Officers Grapple With Department Overhaul
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“I would have liked to have been more involved with the recommendations that went forward,” Police Chief Dennis Nayor said.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ipd/page/2/)
“I would have liked to have been more involved with the recommendations that went forward,” Police Chief Dennis Nayor said.
In the wake of Ithaca Police Department controversies and months of protests, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and town officials have released a set of proposals which would dramatically alter the structure of law enforcement in the city.
Ithaca Police Department officer Christine Barksdale filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Ithaca on Feb. 4, citing a confidentiality violation when the city motioned to remove her as senior investigator in January 2020.
Currently, Slattery is suspended with pay as IPD conducts an internal investigation. The investigation may conclude with further suspension, without pay.
Ithaca Police responded at 8:15 p.m. to a report of multiple people hitting a man on the ground. One suspect wielded a baseball bat. Upon arrival, officers found three injured men.
Ithaca Police responded to a domestic dispute involving three individuals and a sword on the afternoon of Nov. 11.
Common Council discussed nine expenditures to potentially include in the roughly $80 million 2021 budget, approving the hire of a part time staff member for Greater Ithaca Community Center, increased funding for Community Outreach Center and the purchase of a new fire pumper.
The Student Assembly addressed a resolution related to Cornell’s ties to the Ithaca Police Department.
Ithaca police arrested a suspect on multiple counts of fourth degree criminal mischief as a hate crime related to a recent spree of anti-Semitic and racist vandalism.
In response to a homicide on Oct. 21, the Ithaca Police Department is looking for a person walking a dog or any other witnesses located near where the victim was found.