guy its 12:30 and I don't have the energy to give you sources, so if you care look them up yourself. I'd define region by the Cincinnati MSA. My judgement criteria would be arrests per officer, felony arrests per officer, calls/crimes per resident, response time to a call, pick a metric. I'd honestly challenge anyone to find a single police force in the MSA worse than CPD.
Newport gives us stats, not that they are bashing CPD but they compare to them for perspective. Arrests per office are like 4x CPD's. Felony arrests I think are 10x? Our response time is like 4 minutes. That is just one example as I'm vary familiar with them. They constantly bitch (As does Covington) about how how their investigations obviously run into Cincinnati and its like hitting a god damn brick wall. Notice how when you hear about heroin busts etc they don't cross the river either way? Covington and Newport are different dispatches and counties and manage to coordinate that. Why the hell can't we hit the same people in Cincinnati at the same time? Well CPD is why.
Professionally, I interact with a lot of departments. Its real interesting how clermont county sheriffs, springdale, sharonville, reading, lockland, just to name a few I can get an officer in moments who shows sincere desire to work with me on reducing crime etc on properties I am involved with, or even solicits my help. CPD? I've had them not respond to murder tips, not respond at all to serious issues, tell me to call back when someone is threatening to (their words) "beat the fuck out of" a pregnant woman if they actually hit her, until then nothing can be done, leave my wife with a disabled car in front of Union Terminal after dark when no one is around when I said I'd be there in 5 minutes, which btw they told us they couldn't do shit to track down the person that hit her and fled even though we had 4 digits of their plate and the year, make, model and color. I had them request (which I granted) an apartment from me one time to do observation. As a landlord, you know I want that, get rid of the drug dealers. 0 communication, gave me constant shit, wouldn't tell me anything about how long they needed it, wouldn't get keys from me said I had to drop them off, when I needed it back no one returns my calls. Eventually they raid an apartment and do thousands in damage. I have fucking keys! You know how to find! call me! Right after that the story comes out about cops 'requesting' apartments for observation and instead using them to bang teenagers in the explorers program.
They don't care. I guess my judgement criteria is a person who is generally very pro cop and has worked with a lot of departments and been very proud of them who is consistently disappointed by CPD and sees every imaginable statistic back up that they fail as a department. So I guess this sounds harsh, but I say this because EVERY SINGLE EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER HAD WITH CPD SUCKS HARD while I generally like every other police department in the MSA.