A Cincinnati police officer who filed a complaint against Chief Tom Streicher has lost his police powers -- but it's not what you may think.
The officer who filed that complaint has taken a paid disability leave due to the stress of the situation.
Yesterday Officer Aaron Layton lost his police powers but sources tell us that's routine for any officer who takes a stress disability; the department can't risk being sued because it let someone under stress keep his city-issued gun.
Sources tell us even Layton fully expected this, and that few in the police department think this action represents retaliation for Layton's complaints. It's simply policy.
No word today on how the city manager's investigation of all this is going, or whether he or the chief will allow an outside group to look into the original charges that a sergeant asked officers to lie and that the chief let the matter drop.
