The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca_police_department/)
The Ithaca Police Board discussed several issues — such as introducing third-party training to the Ithaca Police Department and the Common Council’s call to grant the Board subpoena power — in its monthly meeting on Wednesday.
Local police departments are increasing their presence outside of schools following the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas.
The Reimagining Public Safety Working group, an organization involved in the restructuring of the Ithaca Police Department, spoke about their efforts to improve policing equity in a March 9 panel.
The Ithaca Police Department is currently investigating the fatal shooting that occurred on Tuesday morning. The victim has been identified to be 32-year-old Alan M. Godfrey.
The City of Ithaca and Tompkins County have approved funding for the Community Justice Center, a new establishment intended to implement the 19 recommendations from the historic Ithaca Police Department overhaul proposal.
The Reimagining Public Safety proposal, which has passed both the Ithaca Common Council and Tompkins County Legislature, may fully restructure Ithaca area policing.
The Reimagining Public Safety Plan was passed in a unanimous vote by the Ithaca Common Council Wednesday night,
The Ithaca Police Department has been investigating a suspicious death at the Canopy by Hilton hotel in downtown Ithaca since early afternoon Friday. There is no information that indicates the victim is affiliated with Cornell, according to Cornell University Media Relations.
As you may know, Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick ’09 recently released a plan to replace the Ithaca Police Department with a new “Department of Community Solutions and Public Safety.” The department would be divided between armed “public safety officers” and unarmed “community solution workers.”
The plan has received fulsome praise and withering criticism. It deserves neither. I was part of the process that led to this document. Though the mayor badly botched the rollout, the vision behind the plan is exactly right. If we separate process from substance, we can still achieve meaningful change.
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.