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Police internal affairs presents FDRB findings; commissioners ask for mental-health linkage in OIS summaries
Summary
Sergeant Jennifer Jackson presented the Firearm Discharge Review Board's fourth-quarter 2010 review (one accidental discharge found not in policy; four officer-involved shootings reviewed and found in policy). The commission asked staff to clarify which incidents involve mental-health issues and to include that in future synopses.
Sergeant Jennifer Jackson of the Internal Affairs Division presented the Firearm Discharge Review Board's fourth-quarter 2010 report and a current status summary of officer-involved-shooting (OIS) investigations.
Jackson summarized five incidents reviewed in the FDRB meeting on Dec. 21, 2010: one officer-involved discharge on Aug. 9, 2010 (850 Bryant St.) found not in policy; and four officer-involved shootings (case 09-004 on Sept. 5, 2009 at 12 Raymond St.; case 10-001 on Jan. 23, 2010 at 87 Maynard St.; case 10-004 on Apr. 21, 2010 on Reardon Road; and a July 3, 2010 incident at Broadway & Grattan). The FDRB found the four shootings in policy, and Jackson gave brief synopses of the circumstances in each case.
On investigation status, Jackson reported that between the prior report and Jan. 19, 2011 the department completed four investigations and logged five new incidents, leaving roughly 12 open OIS cases and one open officer-involved discharge case. She said the department planned to convene the first-quarter 2011 FDRB around March 15 and anticipated presenting four to five cases then.
Commissioners asked that future synopses specifically flag whether incidents involved a subject with mental-health issues, and they expressed concern about the increase in OIS events in 2010 compared with previous years. Commissioner James Slaughter noted the need to track self-inflicted wounds suffered by officers as part of broader mental-health considerations.
The commission accepted the report and scheduled follow-up questions for future FDRB status updates.
