A major portion of the council’s special meeting was devoted to the proposed Teams 2 data system, a centralized database the Department of Justice and city staff say is needed to track complaints, officer performance signals and patterns of conduct that can indicate problems such as racial profiling or repeated misconduct.

What Teams 2 is: Staff described Teams 2 as a single, searchable management system that would consolidate arrest reports, complaints, field-interview cards, use-of-force reports and related personnel data so supervisors and auditors can detect patterns ("bells and whistles" that indicate at-risk behavior) and trigger interventions such as retraining or reassignment.

Cost and schedule: Consultants briefed the council during the meeting with a range of options: a small, basic system could be built quickly but would be limited; a comprehensive system would take 36–60 months and cost tens of millions. Staff reported a reasonable estimate for a solid implementation of roughly $12–$25 million upfront and roughly $5 million ongoing; one staff scenario cited 20–24 months to build a usable system. The council asked negotiators to press DOJ for flexibility on schedules and to pursue federal funding where available.

Racial profiling and data collection: DOJ’s draft asked for detailed recording of traffic stops, pedestrian stops and warrantless searches. Council members and staff pushed back on format and scope — whether every pedestrian contact should trigger a report, how to exclude routine officer-safety pat-downs, and whether data collection must be electronic to avoid taking officers off the street. Several council members agreed to a compromise: require electronic, minimal “checklist” fields for traffic stops and for pedestrian interactions that already generate a recorded artifact (arrest report, field interview card or gang-activity card), and phase in fuller data collection for warrantless searches and other sensitive categories after evaluating technical feasibility.

Why it matters: The city and DOJ framed Teams 2 as foundational to many other reforms: auditing disciplinary outcomes, identifying problem supervisors, and testing whether policies (including mental-health response and use-of-force rules) are working. Council members repeatedly asked for staged rollouts, pilot implementations for high-impact features, and explicit cost estimates and funding sources.

Next steps: The council directed negotiators to press DOJ for staged approvals and to allow the city to use interim electronic logs and preexisting databases where they can serve the same management purpose until Teams 2 is fully implemented.