Matthew Richmond
Reporter/ProducerExpertise: Police, courts, radio and writing
Education: University of Southern California - Master of Science, journalism
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: In a kayak near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River
Experience:
Matthew Richmond has worked as a journalist since 2011, first as a stringer in South Sudan, then as a public radio radio reporter in upstate New York covering hydrofracking before arriving in Cleveland in 2016.
Highlights:
- 2022 & 2023 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Criminal Justice Reporting
- Reporting fellow for "Guns & America" - a public media reporting project focused on firearms, their role and history in U.S. society and the laws surrounding their distribution and possession in Ohio and nationwide
- Reporting on the criminal justice system in Northeast Ohio, with a particular focus on policing, prosecutors and responses to violent crime
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Phillips was sentenced to 92 years in prison and Sutton to 46 years following their conviction in the original trial in 2007, based largely on the testimony of two Cleveland police officers. -
The two sides are far apart on whether the city is making sufficient progress in addressing issues involving the excessive use of force by Cleveland police. It's ultimately up to a federal judge to decide when the city has met the terms of the consent decree. -
The testimony of two police officers who testified in the original trial in 2007, Daniel Lentz and Michael Keane, has been called into question by two other Cleveland officers. -
The officers, Willie Sims and Alfonzo Cole, allegedly stole from people they had pulled over or during calls for service during 2020 and 2021. -
The new estimate comes two years after consultants pegged the price at $550 million. -
The charges include failure to pay taxes for years, theft and tampering with records. -
Cleveland police have specially trained crisis intervention officers and a co-responder pilot program; advocates want more. -
Antoine Tolbert, a member of the group New Era Cleveland which provides armed security patrols to help prevent gun violence, was arrested in May while openly carrying firearms on Cleveland's East Side. -
Earlier this summer, rates rose from between $350 and $500 to between $750 and $1300. -
As Cuyahoga County reaches a pivotal stage in its planning for a new county jail, critics of that plan are raising concerns that officials are rushing the project.
