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Twenty-First Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor
for the Oakland Police Department
May 4, 2015
Page 87
compliance since compliance is sent via email. Final information – including declarations,
research notes, discovery granted at in-chambers review, emails, and compliance – are scanned
and saved to the IAD server.
OPD is in compliance with Task 13.
Use of Force Reporting Review
During this reporting period, we reviewed the use of force reporting review recently conducted
by OIG to determine if OPD members were properly reporting uses of force relating to arrests.
OIG selected a random sample of 50 felony incidents due to their potential for a reportable use of
force when apprehending a suspect for review. OIG examined all associated crime and
supplemental reports, PDRD footage, and use of force reports, to identify all uses of force and
verify that each had been properly reported in accordance with OPD policy.
OIG determined that each use of force was properly reported; however, in nine reports, OIG
noted ancillary issues that required corrective action by OPD supervisory personnel. In seven of
the nine reports, officers failed to activate their PDRDs when required. The other two reports
involved tactical issues that created officer safety concerns in potentially lethal situations.
OIG also reviewed use of force complaints from the same time period to determine if IAD had
found any instances of officers failing to report their use of force. In only one of the 68
applicable cases, the investigation found that an officer failed to report a use of force – an off-
duty instance of intentional pointing of a firearm. For this violation, the officer was sustained.