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Seventeenth Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor
for the Oakland Police Department
April 28, 2014
Page 61
This procedure is intended to reduce the number of false positive findings that have created
substantial work for supervisors and, in some cases, required resubmission when the supervisory
reviews were judged inadequate.
With the new policy in place, we look forward to reviewing the results of data collection and the
internal review procedures during our next site visit when a full quarter’s worth of data will be
available.
PAS records for the quarter of October 1, through December 31, 2013 indicate that data were
entered for all of the fields required by Task 40 – including the arrest data. The required data for
the quarter included reports of 346 uses of force. This is a reduction of nearly 20% from the
previous reporting period, and continues a downward trend begun over a year ago. The overall
decline is largely due to declines in Level 4 uses of force. The data for the current reporting
period indicate that there were 3,156 arrests, which reflects a return to levels common before the
decline noted last quarter. In our last report, we expressed concerns over whether that decline
reflected data management problems. As of now, that question remains unresolved – but it
suggests the importance of continuing to closely monitor these data.
A further breakdown of the types of use of force shows that, for this reporting period, there were
no Level 1 uses of force. There were 24 Level 3, eight Level 2, and 314 Level 4 uses of force.
With the exception of Level 4 declines, these are mostly minor differences from past patterns.
As noted, the table shows another significant decrease in Level 4 uses of force: a decline of 25%
from the last report; and a decline of over 70% from the consistently high levels found prior to
18 months ago when the decline began. The data counts for the current reporting period and the
seven prior reporting periods is presented in the table below.
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