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POST reports 33,000 complaints, board presses for clearer public dashboard
Summary
At its Jan. 16 hearing the Peace Officers Standing Accountability Advisory Board heard a data briefing showing roughly 33,000 complaints, charges and allegations in POST records and urged staff to present that volume in clearer, public-facing graphics and breakdowns.
At the Peace Officers Standing Accountability Advisory Board hearing on Jan. 16, POST staff presented a quarterly statistical briefing showing roughly 33,000 complaints, charges and allegations in its records and urged the board to request clearer, more digestible public reporting.
"Our top 3 areas of serious misconduct allegations remain, physical abuse, excessive use of force, demonstrating bias and abuse of power," Bureau Chief Christine Ford told the board. She said POST has received more than 31,000 agency misconduct reports affecting over 18,000 officers and that about 53% of those are "retro or look back cases." Ford said 22,000 of the 31,000 reports had been assigned to personnel and about 12,000 were open investigations while roughly 9,000 were closed.
Assistant Executive Director Anne Marie Del Munoz described the briefing as part of repeated efforts to refine how POST portrays intake and case…
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