The NEOMG reported this morning that the Cleveland Heights Police Department deliberately concealed the armed robbery of a high school student this week. Directly in the face of a reporter, Chief Brad Sudyk blacked out references to the crime with a black marker on the department’s blotter.
The reporter later waited four hours to speak with police chief Jeffrey Robertson, but Robertson never emerged form his office. This isn’t the first time Cleveland Heights Police has concealed crimes .
From the NEOMG story:
Cleveland Heights police have a history of concealing crimes from their taxpayers and others. A 2011 Plain Dealer investigation revealed Cleveland Heights police had labeled sex crimes as “departmental information” or “miscellaneous reports.” The distinction allowed the city to report 26 sex crimes between 2008 and 2010. But the newspaper investigation revealed the city actually had 88 cases reported during that time.
They’re also well rehearsed in the practice of ignoring and stonewalling media. Doug Brown outlines the elaborate lengths Robertson and Co. went to undermine the investigation of Christina Gaston’s death, and later our reporting, in Scene’s Cleveland Museum of Art story last month. Doug’s section about the Cleveland Heights’ Police stunning ineptitude, appears on page two.
This article appears in Dec 18-24, 2013.
This is the kind of thing journalists are supposed to do. Nice work.
Keep it up Scene! This is great investigative journalism!!
Look at it as hiding department incompetence, not just crime.
Good reporting – but bad copy editing. Please read your story again.
the French were right!
wowsa Nazism
But they’re quick to write a ticket…
Nothing more than cashiers for the city…
I stay the ‘eff out of Cleveland Heights because of those Nazis…
These are important things that should be brought to the public’s attention, not swept under the rug by the Po-lice. Shame, shame.
Cleveland Heights police officer and Rick Wagner entered the bedroom of the minor child 16 years of age after watching me leave my home the entered my daughter’s bedroom why half naked and putting a flashlight on her body parts then saying I’m running an illegal business from my home because I don’t have a city permit after telling me I didn’t need one. Landlord John Gardner started an investigation have you been pull over my Attorneys pull over my computer tech pulling over my friends pulling over my clients in hospice for reinstatement for Medicaid. my child is no longer coming to Cleveland Ohio nor will she Ever forget this being the fact that my daughter is domestic violence victim this an inappropriate content I’ve had to file 3 different complaints I’m asking for Rick Wagner’s badge and the officer who enter the home and the officer who had been pulling over and taking pictures of people who are not affiliated with any type of Illegal crime. I had to pay $5000 to get back into this house after he didn’t pay the occupancy the water the sewer and I’m supposed to be renting to own he has 47 home he is not paying taxes and they are trying to say I’m doing something I’m not I’m a children’s author for special education massage therapist in hospice and I played in will be playing with the New York Symphonies I’ve been classified as a disabled with epilepsy and I no longer have seizures and they’re trying to use That to force me out of my home.160.000 law suite filing this week.
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