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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, True Crime, Military, Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Brown University Shooting: Why the Police Chief Got Thrown Under the Bus  This episode covers the "latest news" regarding the "brown shooting," with a focus on internal politics rather than the perpetrator or the event itself. We discuss the developments concerning "Claudio Neves Valente" and the impact on the "Massachusetts institute of technology" and "Nuno Loureiro" in this critical "true crime" case in "Rhode Island."

Transcript

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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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