Jamie Patterson faces two counts of dereliction of duty
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio - The case of a Greater Cincinnati police officer accused of allowing a handcuffed teen in her custody to be whipped with a belt will now go to court on April 22. Middletown Police Officer Jamie Patterson was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday in Middletown Municipal Court , but court officials said it was postponed.
A Butler County grand jury indicted her earlier this month on two misdemeanor charges of dereliction of duty after a state investigation at the request of Police Chief Earl Nelson.The veteran attorney worked at the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office for nearly two decades, from 2006 to 2025. As a chief assistant county prosecutor, he handled cases ranging from minor misdemeanors to complex felonies. In addition to his work inside the courtroom, Broo also helped to create and lead the Elder Justice Unit, working in the community to protect senior citizens from the dangers of scams, fraud, and financial exploitation.She is accused of recklessly and negligently failing to provide for the safety of an arrestee when she responded to a domestic violence incident on Jan 3, according to the prosecutor’s office.Officer Patterson allowed the handcuffed teen’s step-grandfather to whip the teen repeatedly with a belt, according to the prosecutor’s office.FOX19 NOW reached out to her attorney for comment Tuesday and Wednesday, but did not hear back.Since she began policing in Ohio in 2021, Officer Patterson has mostly worked at the Middletown Police Department, besides a brief stint at the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. She resigned in good standing with no pending discipline at both agencies when she changed jobs and then returned to Middletown, according to her officer history page on the Ohio Attorney General’s website. She’d worked in sports medicine and as a trainer in the meantime, but suddenly she found herself jobless and unmoored. That’s when she started back down the path of becoming a police officer, a decision she partially credited to George Floyd’s death and the protests after. “Bringing justice to the community, helping the community... You know, I am from here. I currently do live here. So, anything with protecting our citizens and reducing the crime rate is very fulfilling to me,” she told FOX19 NOW shortly after joining Middletown police in April 2021.The job performance reviews in her Middletown personnel file are mostly positive. She has received regular salary increases that reflect her “continued good performance as an employee of the city of Middletown.” Supervisors wrote that she “led the shift in several categories for 2023,” could be depended on to perform her duties, and handled most calls with little to no assistance. “Officer Peterson knows what is going on in the areas she works and has made some very important arrests recently, which she received accolades for,” one supervisor wrote. In 2022, Middletown’s police chief at the time, David Birk, praised her immediate action after hearing 5-6 gunshots nearby and then pulling over the suspect’s vehicle. It resulted in the fast arrest and confession of several suspects and the recovery of two guns, according to Birk. “Your observation skills and attention to duty were demonstrated in this situation,” he wrote. “Outstanding job performance such as this makes me proud to lead this department. “Your hard work and dedication make the city of Middletown a safer place to live, work & visit. Keep up the good work, Jamie!”Officer Patterson was “written up” and received a one-day suspension after an internal investigation determined she drove 105 mph with a handcuffed prisoner in the backseat of her cruiser on Oct. 22, 2024, other records in her personnel file show. Police supervisors found she violated a police department rule called “Interruption of Prisoner Transports.” Officer Patterson was driving a man, 55, she arrested from Kettering Hospital to the Middletown City Jail when she heard over the radio that officers needed help, according to the internal probe. A suspect was resisting arrest and holding something in his jacket, but wouldn’t show his hands and was assaulting officers on Woodside Boulevard, police records show. She did a U-turn and responded with the prisoner still in the back of her cruiser, telling him to “hold on......my officer is in trouble,” according to a report citing video from her body camera. After the resisting suspect was arrested on multiple charges, including assault on a police officer, Officer Patterson resumed transporting her prisoner to the city jail, the incident report and internal investigation show. “During this time complained to Officer Patterson that he did not have his seatbelt on when she was going over 100 mph to Woodside Blvd,” the report states. Later, the prisoner told a sergeant, “Officer Patterson was driving over 100 mph and that he was scared,” according to the incident summary.A police supervisor asked if she was “aware that she owed a duty of care to the prisoner in her custody. She advised that she thought it was more important at the time to help the officers were fighting with a subject,” the police summary reads. “I advised her that she owed the prisoner a duty of care. I told her that she breached that duty of care when she was traveling 105 mph and also responding to a call where officers were fighting with a suspect that could have possibly been another dangerous event for the prisoner in the back of her cruiser.”“Officer Patterson told me that she thought it was more important to help officers that needed assistance than to continue on transporting to the jail,” he wrote. ”Although I do like that her heart was in the right place, but going 105 mph and taking a prisoner to another possibly dangerous situation is against policy and a breach of care for the prisoner in her custody.”Preliminary autopsy results revealed for American college student found dead in water in Spain15-year-old killed in North Avondale was considered a missing child, police sayUniversity of Toledo researchers seek volunteers for Lake Erie air quality studyDaughters seek answers in their mother’s unsolved Cleveland murder 13 years later
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