The city of Ithaca calls on the Cornell University Police Department to turn over sex and violent crime investigations to the Ithaca Police Department. The decision comes as a 2024 sexual assault allegation by a former Cornell student has taken the campus and nation by storm. ↧ Ithaca city council calls on Cornell to report sexual assault inves... The Ithaca city council’s vote comes after a former student’s allegation that she was gang-raped was not shared with local police during the initial investigation.