The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cupd/)
Katia Toussaint claims that her son’s death resulted from improper planning and event supervision, along with the University violating its own security policies.
Cornell University Police and the Ithaca Police Department responded to alleged unlawful surveillance at Westbourne Apartments at 11:12 p.m. on Thursday. According to a crime alert, the victim said an unknown man recorded her with a cell phone through the window of her apartment located on 124 Westbourne Ln. The victim said the suspect is a “somewhat heavyset” white male who wore an orange T-shirt, according to the alert. The suspect was last observed going in the direction of Wyckoff Road. “There are no updates at this time,” Ithaca Police Officer Jamie Williamson, a spokesman, told The Sun on Monday.
Floyd G. Slater Jr., a registered sex offender who was previously arrested by CUPD in 2015 for lewd behavior, was arrested again in early March by CUPD for entering Founders Hall on February 15 and exposing himself to a female student.
The Ithaca Police Department’s deputy chief said it was the first time he’d worked a case like this in his 36 years on the job.
To the editor:
I remember, way back during my freshman orientation at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, how amazed I was by the campus’s blue light system. At the time I was fairly ignorant regarding the sexual assault woes that plague university campuses nationwide. Nevertheless, the idea that I could, from virtually any point on campus, have a straight line of sight to one, and sometimes two or three, blue light boxes inspired a strong sense of safety. It was admittedly also somewhat fun checking out how many blue lights I could see from different points on campus. Needless to say, I was a bit shocked when I came to Cornell two years later, as a junior transfer, and found that the blue lights on campus were, at best, scarce.
The University installed several new Blue Lights that increased the access for the disabled community as part of its effort to update its campus security measure.
Members of the Collegetown Neighborhood Council responded to Collegetown residents’ safety and noise concerns and attempted to contrive solutions at a meeting Tuesday.
Domestic violence, stalking and dating violence reports all more than doubled from 2015 to 2016, according to the report.
Rogers arrived at the bridge over Triphammer Falls and Beebe Lake at about 2:30 a.m. and hoisted a young man back over the railing near Beebe Lake.
An arrest has been made for a homicide investigation after Ithaca Police Department officers discovered the body of a deceased person early Tuesday morning. Ithaca Police Department officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Dryden Road in Collegetown after a report of a dead body, according to an IPD press release. Ithaca Fire Department was additionally dispatched to the site becuase of “indicators that a fire occurred inside the building,” according to the press release. On Wednesday morning, IPD released a statement identifying the victim as Josie Berrios, a resident of Ithaca. IPD began a death investigation on Tuesday, as the cause of death is undetermined, but “appear[s] to be suspicious in nature,” according to the press release.