Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

District-Based Investigations in Oakland Rapid and Effective Response to Robberies, Burglaries and Shootings 7Vi/s memorandum outlines a plan for District Investigations Units (DIUs) in each of the Oakland Police Department's five districts. The purpose is to establish a district- based entity that can swiftly and effectively respond to and investigate robberies, burglaries and shootings/assaults at the district level. Introduction The Oakland Police Department is moving to a Neighborhood Policing Plan with the city divided into five districts, each commanded by a captain. The district captains will be the principal crime fighters in the Department, each taking responsibility for crime in their respective districts and each being held accountable for designing and directing responses and strategies to counter crime conditions. The key to this new district-based structure is geographic accountability for each captain - and for their subordinate lieutenants, sergeants, and officers - for a specific piece of ground with its specific crime and disorder problems, its familiar community members, and, to a significant degree, its specific cast of criminal characters. From the crime-fighting point of view, an important goal is to use the new district- based structure to dramatically increase the focus of crime-fighting efforts in identifying, pursuing, apprehending and ultimately convicting and incarcerating chronic criminal offenders, who frequently repeat the same types of crimes over and over again until they are arrested by the police. The policing terms for these criminals and crimes are "pattern criminals" and "pattern crimes." Robbery and burglary, both which have been rising rapidly in Oakland, are classic pattern crimes, and enforcement against both would benefit from an increased focus on pattern crimes as they develop in the five districts. Swift, focused local response, coupled with cogent analyses of developing patterns and targeted follow-up investigations, will have a significant impact on these crimes as focused police action leads to more apprehensions, removing the most active criminals from the scene and serving as a The Bratton Group, LLC 2