Chief Jacobs is Out
So, Chief Kim Jacobs is leaving her post a few months earlier than previously expected – on February 8, 2019.
The Chief hasn’t been on the job since late October and the department has been operating under acting deputy chiefs. Officially her absence is explained by knee replacement surgery, but that didn’t stop Jacobs from showing up in full regalia at the Michigan-OSU game on November 24.
A Checkered Career
Unlike the Buckeyes, Jacobs had a really bad year.
The Department’s spokesperson was arrested on child pornography charges.
Three members of her Vice Squad were relieved of duty and in an unprecedented move, no doubt with pressure from the Columbus Safety Director Ned Pettus, Jr., Jacobs called in the FBI to investigate Columbus Vice.
A week or so prior to Vice Officer Andrew Mitchell’s controversial shooting death of Donna Dalton in his cruiser, a citizen complaint had come in against Mitchell that he was exchanging sex for rent at one of the apartments he owns.