December 9, 2025

Judge John West

Rachel Kleindorfer

Director Eliot Isaac

• Personnel Updates
• Uses of Force, Investigations, and Complaints
• 2025 Community Engagement

Judge John West

University of Cincinnati Department of Public Safety

Chief Eliot Isaac
Assistant Chief Dudley Smith
John DeJarnette
Captain Jeff Thompson
Captain Jason Voelkerding
Captain David Hoffman
Maria Madera
Kelly Cantwell
Rachel Kleindorfer
Natalie VanHouten

Community Compliance Council Members

Judge West
Bleuzette Marshall
Joshua Copley
Daniel Burridge
Jack Miner
Gabriel Fletcher

Judge West

Rachel Kleindorfer

CSR NIBRS Offenses

• YTD: UCPD- slight increase across both time frames for property crime
• CPD only a slight increase in person crimes

NIBRS Offenses: Society

• UCPD- main increases with disorderly conduct
• Weapon Law Violations – violation of laws involving manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, concealment, possession, or use of firearms / other weapons
  • (9/2/2025) Student who left a gun in a backpack at CCM
  • (5/21/2025) graduation discharge in vehicle, never had a gunshot wound walk-in
  • (5/16/2025) A high school graduation attendee had a gun in the Corry garage

CSR NIBRS Offenses: Person

• Simple assault numbers
  • many bar-related instances (area of short vine)

CSR NIBRS Offenses: Property

• UCPD main increase for both YTD and the 3-year average is from property
  • Criminal Damaging and theft from a building are the primary drivers
  • Burglary numbers are still up from over the summer
• MVT is down; however, we had higher numbers in September and October
• CSR NIBRS Offenses: Robbery

• National Night Out
  • UCPD was among many community partners to participate in a CUF National Night Out at Bellevue Pavilion on Sept. 30, 2025
• Bearcats and Badges eBowl
  • UCPD hosted the inaugural Bearcats and Badges eBowl, in collaboration with the UC Trademarks and Licensing Office and the 1819 Esports Innovation Lab on Oct. 9, 2025
• Demo Day
  • The CJ Society hosted Demo Day on Oct. 15, 2025, in partnership with UC Public Safety
• Shop with a Cop
  • Our annual Shop with a Cop event was held on Dec. 6, 2025
• UCPD 3v3 Scholarship Classic
  • The second Scholarship Classic tournament will be held on Feb. 21, 2026
• Podcast
  • Bridging the Gap

• Joseph Heidemann, Alexander Guffey, and Christopher Thomas were hired as police officers
• Paty Sanchez was hired as an Emergency Communication Dispatcher

Assistant Chief Dudley Smith

Use of Force

• No use of force for this time period

Display of Force

• No displays of force for this time period

Internal Investigations

• No internal investigations for this period

The next meeting is Tuesday, March 10, 2026.