In its first use of its authority to review discipline of a police officer, Cleveland’s Community Police Commission changed nothing.
The commission’s first evidentiary hearing, held Monday, involved a case from 2024 in which a Cleveland police officer got a six-day suspension following an Internal Affairs investigation that concluded he lied to a police department in another county that was investigating a stalking complaint made by his now-former wife.
The hearing centered on two “specifications,” similar to a charge in a discipline setting. In 2024, Chief Public Safety Director Dornat “Wayne” Drummond reduced the seriousness of one of the specifications and dropped the other one altogether…