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Twenty-First Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor
for the Oakland Police Department
May 4, 2015
Page 59
9.
All in-custody deaths and injuries;
10.
The results of adjudications of all investigations related to items (1) through (9),
above, and a record of investigative findings, including actual discipline imposed
or non-disciplinary action administered;
11.
Commendations and awards;
12.
All criminal arrests of and charges against OPD members and employees;
13.
All charges of resisting or obstructing a police officer (Penal Code §§69 and
148), assault on a police officer (Penal Code §243(b)(c), or assault-with-a-
deadly-weapon on a police officer [Penal Code §245(c)(d)];
14.
Assignment history and rank history for each member/employee;
15.
Training history for each member/employee;
16.
Line-of-duty injuries;
17.
Sick leave usage, particularly one-day sick leaves;
18.
Report Review Notices or Case Evaluation Reports for the reporting
member/employee and the issuing investigator;
19.
Criminal cases dropped due to concerns with member veracity, improper
searches, false arrests, etc.; and
20.
Other supervisory observations or concerns.
(Negotiated Settlement Agreement VII. A.)
Discussion:
The PAS Unit continues to conduct daily internal audits of the required data and to correct
problems as they arise. It remains unclear, however, whether this process has led to addressing
the underlying system problems that result in errors – or simply data corrections that have not
addressed the basic cause of those problems, particularly with the arrest data. The capacity to
address core causes may be critical as OPD moves forward with its new risk management
database.
The development of the new risk management database has also continued during this reporting
period. The principal contractor, Microsoft Corporation, is in the process of initiating the work,
and the coordination of the project under a second vendor is proceeding after a brief moment of
confusion. The project is moving forward, with the expectation that the new system will be in
place within one year. It appears that the technical issues related to collection and storage of data
are being well addressed. As noted in our last report, a matrix of specific processes and
outcomes has been added to the more general plan to address outstanding issues in the project.