The clock is ticking for Cincinnati’s top cop.
On Monday’s edition of The Lincoln Ware Show on WDBZ-AM, Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac announced that he plans to retire in 2022. It is expected that he will leave the Cincinnati Police Department early in the year.
“Right now, due to my tenure and how our retirement system works, I plan to retire sometime in the first quarter of 2022,” Isaac said in a statement through the department.
Isaac has been with the CPD since 1988, becoming a captain in 2004 and District Four commander from 2007 to 2012, his bio says. In 2015, he became interim chief when former city manager Harry Black fired former police chief Jeffrey Blackwell. (Black departed in 2018 during the “Gang of Five” texting scandal.)
Isaac has focused on crime reduction within the city, telling Cincinnati City Council in June 2019 that shootings and overall crime were at much lower levels than they had been in previous years.
Cincinnati’s city manager has the authority to appoint a new police chief, but the city has not yet shared plans for hiring Isaac’s replacement.
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This article appears in Jun 1 – Jul 6, 2021.