Added foot, bike patrols hit Cincinnati streets

Added foot, bike patrols hit Cincinnati streets

Twenty additional police officers went on patrol across the city Friday night.

Many walked; some biked.

Chief Eliot Isaac said he hopes having more officers out in the community will calm Cincinnatians’ nerves and discourage crime after a deadly July 4 shooting in Smale Park.

“Good idea,” said Ingrid Robinson, who went for a walk in the park Friday with her great-nieces and nephew.

“And I think it keeps some of the, excuse my language, riff-raff away, the trouble makers.

They need that down here." Sixteen-year-old Milo Watson died at Smale on July 4.

Police believe he’d been shot by — and was shooting at — 19-year-old Dexter Wright, who died shortly afterward at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Three other teenagers were struck in the crossfire but survived.