Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

process to work effectively there must be identifiable supervisors responsible for local investigations who can be called to account at CompStat Establishing DIUs in the districts will provide investigative capability at the local level and a means by which the CompStat process can drive forward the investigation of local crimes by sharing accurate, timely information on crime patterns and successful strategies that have led to the arrest and incarceration of local criminals. Current Investigations Virtually all current investigations in Oakland are conducted by the centralized Criminal Investigation Division [CID). The Division, commanded by captain, has four sections or units, each commanded by a lieutenant. Major Crimes Section 1 is responsible for all homicides and gun assaults, as well as suspicious deaths and officer-involved shootings. As the Bratton Group team has observed in a previous report, the section's workload, which last year included 131 homicides and 847 gun assaults, is too large to be conducive to productive assault investigations. While there is some logic to grouping homicides with gun assaults because most homicides result from gun assaults, the large number of incidents in Oakland - which, between homicides and shootings, approaches 1,000 incidents - argues for a more decentralized system for handling shootings, allowing the centralized investigators to concentrate on homicides and on those serious assaults in which the victim has sustained grave injury and is likely to die. The Bratton Group team envisages a centralized homicide unit that works on homicides and serious assaults only, while coordinating with District Investigation Units to share information about shooting cases being investigated at the district level that might be germane to homicide cases. It so happens that homicides and attempted murders are precisely the cases on which the charging district attorney assigned to CID concentrates his attention, so a reduced workload for Major Crimes Section 1 would focus the section's attention on the very cases that are most likely to be charged. The Bratton Group, LLC