ninth-report.pdf

Independent Monitoring Team Ninth Status Report of the Independent Monitor Delphine Allen, et al., v. City of Oakland, et al. May 13, 2006, to November 30, 2006 Page 86 1. Community Policing Plan (Task 47; S.A. XI.) a. Settlement Agreement Requirements • By August 1, 2003, OPD must develop and implement a plan to strengthen its commitment to local communities. The Settlement Agreement sets forth particular requirements the plan must include: OPD must host at least one community meeting per quarter in each Patrol Service Area; each patrol supervisor and officer assigned to a regular beat or geographic area of the City must attend a minimum of one community meeting per quarter in the Area to which he/she is regularly assigned; OPD must develop mechanisms to measure its community policing and problem solving activities; OPD must incorporate positive statistics on community policing and problem solving activities in “Crime-Stop” meetings, along with information on citizen complaints and use of force incidents; and OPD must arrange a meeting within sixty days unless not feasible with representatives of an organization active within Oakland, if the organization communicates a concern regarding specific police personnel or practices. b. Status of Compliance and Assessment The compliance deadline for this task occurred in August 2003. OPD achieved policy compliance with this task in April 2004, by publishing the following policies: General Order B-7, Requests for Meetings and Public Appearances; Bureau of Field Operations Policy 03-03, Community Meetings; and Training Bulletin III-A.5, Community-Oriented Policing and the 2003 Reorganization of the Patrol Division. During the sixth reporting period, OPD provided the IMT with sufficiently reliable training data to enable us to confirm that OPD had trained 95% or more of relevant personnel on this task. During the seventh reporting period, the IMT interviewed officers on all three patrol shifts regarding their understanding of Task 47’s requirements. Based on our interviews, OPD officers appear to have a solid grasp of the most important elements of this task. As a result, the IMT changed its conditional training compliance determination for this task to an unconditional in-compliance finding.