21st-quarterly-report.pdf

Twenty-First Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department May 4, 2015 Page 51 There is some identifiable disparity in the above data that is clear between the outliers between the margin demographics identified as the white and African American. Moreover, our detailed review of the most recently selected Area data was better than the previous reporting period. First, the overall search recovery rate of the most recently selected Area is at 32% – or, 10% above the overall Department rate of 22% for the squads last reviewed. Second, we noted considerable variance in the search recovery rates of several individual squads within the selected Area, from a low of 3% to a high of 34% with only one squad below 10%. (See illustration below.) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% African American Asian Hispanic White Other Grand Total All 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% Squad A Squad B Squad C Squad D Squad E Squad F Squad G Squad H Average Search Recovery Percentages (excludes incident to arrest searches)