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Security failures _ Brown result in Police Chief being sidelined_

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers the latest news regarding the brown shooting, with a focus on internal politics rather than the perpetrator or the event itself. A fox news segment is also shown, reporting new details emerging in the Brown University shooting probe, which also involved the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, making this a significant true crime case in Rhode Island. The Brown University Chief of Police Rodney Chapman has been put on administrative leave.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff for real crime stories.

0:10.6

I'm your host, retired NYPD, Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

0:15.8

A lot of things going on now in the Brown University shootings, mostly not to do with the perpetrator nor the shooting

0:25.3

but of internal politics and what I call it is the blame game who is going to get blamed

0:36.4

for these nine students shot two students shot dead who's going to get blamed for these nine students shot, two students shot dead?

0:41.0

Who's going to get blamed?

0:43.1

And it's already begun.

0:45.9

It's not, they're not blaming him, the shooter.

0:48.5

They got to find someone who works at the university.

0:52.9

And right now, here we have, the college chief of police,

0:59.4

Rodney Chapman, has been put on leave. Don't know that much about the man where I can

1:05.6

defend him or criticize him. However, he did have in the last few years his employees come out against him

1:13.9

in a no-confidence vote, vote apparently twice. And judging by a lot of the security errors on the

1:21.5

Brown University campus, you can't defend it. But, but is he really at fault?

1:29.7

How about this woman we see here?

1:33.1

The college president, Christina Paxson, $3.1 million a year of college president.

1:41.4

Who sets the tone at a university? What is the culture for security?

1:49.2

Is security that they have the posture at Brown, as they do at many Ivy League schools?

1:54.4

Security should be seen and not heard and not be proactive, just be like scarecrow's standing around?

2:02.3

Because as we find out more things about the errors and about the misgivings

2:08.4

and about the ineptitude of this investigation as well as security,

2:16.0

let's not forget, security is to protect assets and reduce risks.

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