{"id":727,"date":"2026-04-06T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=727"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:33:22","slug":"the-cincinnati-woke-police-experiment-fails-facing-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/the-cincinnati-woke-police-experiment-fails-facing-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati \u201cWoke\u201d Police Experiment Fails Facing Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The experiment with implementing the &#8220;Woke&#8221; agenda in the Cincinnati Police Department in the USA &#8220;did not go so well&#8221;\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cincinnati has just learned<\/strong> the hard way <strong>what happens when you assign crime fighting on the streets to bureaucrats<\/strong> instead of real police officers who know the area.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>five-month investigation by an independent researcher appointed by the city<\/strong> officially labeled former police chief <strong>Theresa Theetge<\/strong> as an &#8220;ineffective leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report found her professional performance to be <strong>satisfactory<\/strong> in <strong>bureaucratic matters but dangerously inadequate regarding operational knowledge and street experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most participants stated that she could not return to the force and be effective. Her <strong>rigid, authoritarian approach<\/strong> bred mistrust across all ranks, precisely when the city needed strong leadership to tackle the chaos downtown.<\/p>\n<p>This chaos erupted after a disastrous summer of 2025, with violent crime peaking in the city center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of supporting the officers<\/strong> actually fighting criminals, <strong>city leaders favored politics<\/strong> over policing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They appointed Theetge as the first female police chief, prioritizing image<\/strong> over proven street experience.<\/p>\n<p>She had worked in the Police Department for over <strong>30 years,<\/strong> previously serving as <strong>deputy director<\/strong> and <strong>director.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her family and lawyer pushed back, calling the report a one-sided attempt to distract from the failures of the mayor and city manager.<\/p>\n<p>But the facts speak louder: you cannot lead from behind a computer and dozens of documents in your office when criminals have taken over the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Enough with hires that make statistics look good and with administrative nonsense. Cities need battle-tested leaders who understand real crime, <strong>not politically correct substitutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until voters demand real order and law instead of wasting officers\u2019 time filling out endless forms with gender identity checkboxes, expect more of the same bloodshed and excuses\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Video<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Report: Cincinnati Police Chief Theetge not &#039;an effective leader&#039;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SM7eUdg6CpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati&#8217;s experiment appointing a bureaucratic, politically chosen police chief over experienced officers backfired, worsening crime as leadership lacked street-level insight and trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[625,622,123,624,626,278],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2025-summer-crime-wave","tag-cincinnati","tag-culture-wars","tag-police-department","tag-teresa-theetge","tag-usa","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}