Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

deterrent to others inclined to become involved in crime. Shootings can also be pattern crimes, although of a different kind, linked less by modus operandi, and more by locations and acquaintance patterns and the relentless pattern of vendetta and retaliation. In Districts 4 and 5, which are currently operating on the district model, captains have tried to respond to local crime patterns by using the resources available to them. Unfortunately, their current resources are usually not equal to the task. In District 5, the Crime Reduction Team or CRT (currently a sergeant and six officers, although expected to increase to eight officers) is focused on identifying and arresting local shooters, but, as the Bratton Group team has observed in earlier reports, the CRT is available only four days a week limiting its effectiveness. It is also not truly an investigative unit, although the District 5 CRT personnel have written and executed warrants and performed other investigative functions. Captains have also enlisted Problem Solving Officers [PSOs], within the constraints of Measure Y, when a particular crime problem has developed on a PSO beat. PSOs are also only available during certain hours and days of week. Neither of these approaches is particularly effective against pattern crimes because neither can deliver swift response to these crimes as they occur nor focus on the investigative elements of the crimes effectively. If the district captains are going to have the capability to control and reduce crime in their respective districts they will need the assistance of local investigators assigned to a District Investigation Unit (DIU) that works primarily on robberies, burglaries, and shootings that occur within the district boundaries. As part of the current reorganization, OPD has established an enhanced CompStat process. At biweekly meetings, run by Assistant Chief Toribio and Deputy Chief Bershears, district commanders are being called to account for the crime efforts in their districts. In other departments where CompStat has been implemented, the CompStat meeting discussions often turn to the investigative follow-up of cases in which perpetrators have not been caught by uniformed patrol. For the CompStat The Bratton Group, LLC 3