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Pornography is hard to find. Topless and bottomless dancing are strictly forbidden. Thus it came as an extraordinary shock when a county grand jury indicted Cincinnati Police Chief Carl V. Goodin, 42, the commander of the vice squad and six other cops last month for charges ranging from bribery and extortion to perjury. At the same time, Larry Flynt, paunchy publisher of the raunchy new skin magazine Hustler, was indicted on charges of bribery and sodomy. Last week the grand jury reconvened, and still more indictments are expected...
Tremendous Shock. "People were kind of horrified," declared City Manager William Donaldson. Goodin and the six other indicted police officers were suspended without pay. Although not linked publicly with any wrongdoing, Deputy Chief Embry Grimes and a district captain abruptly resigned. "It has been a tremendous shock to the city," said Mayor Bobbie Sterne. The grand jury is expected to hand up many more indictments, involving a number of officers as well as some civilians...
...Chief Goodin, facing five felony charges that could lead to as much as 15 years in prison, insisted that "I will be vindicated-I have done nothing illegal, unethical or immoral...
...from-the-ranks officer, Goodin graduated first in his class of recruits and was named chief in 1971. He won nationwide attention with a neighborhood team-policing concept, which involved taking cops out of their cruisers and assigning them to long-term service on beats so that they could get to know their assigned neighborhoods. He also established an alcohol-action project, which included mandatory rehabilitation classes for drunken drivers. His department was a model for other cities in the early 1970s...
...when it began unearthing evidence of corruption, the grand jury took over. What it was investigating was a story of vice cops soliciting bribes and police shaking down people for money, merchandise and prostitutes' services. Under Simon Leis Jr., 41, Hamilton County prosecutor and a personal friend of Goodin's, the grand jury charged the chief and two officers with having lied to the jurors during the investigation...