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Committee approves $125,000 pilot for interactive police use-of-force database
Summary
The Innovation and Performance committee approved a $125,000 appropriation from the city—s innovation fund to pilot an interactive, searchable use-of-force database for the Los Angeles Police Department, with committee members citing expected long-term savings over the annual printed report.
The Innovation and Performance committee voted to appropriate $125,000 from the city—s innovation fund to pilot an interactive, searchable database of police use-of-force reports.
The committee approved the appropriation after a presentation from police reviewers who said the online tool would replace the department—s annual printed use-of-force report with a more interactive, searchable dataset. Committee members who recorded votes on the item were Councilmember Rodríguez and Councilmember Bloomenfield; the measure was approved in committee.
Committee members and department presenters said the pilot would make use-of-force data more accessible to the public and could reduce production costs of the annual printed report. A presenter identified in the record as Captain Spanish described the pilot as a move from a static PDF to an interactive, geocoded panel that would allow searches by neighborhood, time, officer tenure bands, and other parameters. Captain Spanish said the department estimated a pilot cost of $125,000 and projected recurring savings versus the printed report format.
Presenters also described scope and maintenance considerations. They said the pilot would integrate multiple departmental data sources and would require initial vendor work and some ongoing validation by department staff. Sergeant Amware and Officer Iván Lucero accompanied the presentation and were listed as attendees from the department.
The committee—s formal recommendation text instructed staff to: establish a new appropriation titled “Department of Police — Use-of-Force Panel,” transfer $125,000 from the Innovation Fund (account 105-10), fund services/contracts (account 100-70-003040) for vendor work, and require the LAPD to separately monitor innovation-fund spending so any unspent funds can be returned. The recommendation also instructed reporting back to the Innovation and Performance Commission on fund accounting, lessons learned and obstacles, and authorized the department to make technical modifications necessary to implement the tool as described in the report.
Councilmembers on the record for the committee vote were listed as Councilmember Rodríguez (yes) and Councilmember Bloomenfield (yes); the committee motion passed.
The pilot will proceed to the next scheduling step for mayoral and full council consideration as required by the city—s process for innovation-fund appropriations.
