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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, Brown University Chief of Police, Rodney Chapman, is now on leave. He served as |
| 0:06.0 | Vice President for Public Safety for the school. Former Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements |
| 0:11.0 | is now returning to the city to fill that role in the interim. The announcement comes a little |
| 0:16.2 | more than one week after the deadly shooting on campus. Two students killed nine more hurts. Several at this |
| 0:22.4 | hour remain hospitalized. Thanks for joining us at 11. I'm Emily Volz. This latest development |
| 0:27.8 | came from Brown University's president who is also outlining enhancements to safety measures. |
| 0:33.5 | The night teams, Leanna Falk is live in Providence with the new details. Leanna? |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah, Emily, effective immediately. |
| 0:40.5 | Former Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements will be stepping into that role. |
| 0:45.2 | It's a familiar name, and it comes more than a week after last week's deadly shooting on campus. |
| 0:50.6 | Now, in a letter to the campus community, Brown University's president, Christina Paxon announced, Chief Rodney Chapman has been placed on administrative leave. |
| 0:59.1 | Clements will now serve as interim chief of police and vice president of public safety. |
| 1:04.1 | He previously led the police department before joining the Justice Department's Office of Community-oriented policing services. |
| 1:11.4 | Now, the letter also outlines a number of steps the university is taking to improve security in the wake of the shooting, |
| 1:17.7 | notably adding more cameras around campus, including the Barrison-Hawley building, where the shooting occurred. |
| 1:23.7 | Most students have now left for winter break, but there are still several east side residents continuing |
| 1:28.2 | to grapple with the shooting we talked with one long time fox point resident who says this decision |
| 1:33.3 | affects her just as much as the students there were so many red flags there were so many |
| 1:39.5 | opportunities for this guy to be caught before anything happened and they were missed and people died and this city is never going to be the same. |
| 1:47.5 | So I think that anything that we can do to try to make sure that doesn't happen again, you know, even if it means somebody having to get a different job, I think it's worth it. |
| 1:56.2 | You cannot have Brown be unsafe and then keep Providence safe in the process. If Brown is not safe, |
| 2:01.7 | the surrounding area isn't either. The change follows mounting concerns inside Brown's |
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