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Citizens Police Advisory & Review Board reports fewer response‑to‑resistance reviews and seeks community engagement
Summary
The board reported lower response‑to‑resistance numbers this year, reviewed police policies including body‑worn cameras and TASER, and said it will pursue a racial equity assessment and expand outreach.
The Citizens Police Advisory & Review Board (CPARP) told Ferndale City Council that it reviewed fewer response‑to‑resistance incidents so far this year compared with 2024 and highlighted recent work on complaint reviews, policy analysis and community engagement.
Chair Dawn Whitman said CPARP reviewed 11 response‑to‑resistance incidents so far in 2026 compared with 26 in a prior year, and that citizen complaint reviews and appeals remain part of its workload. "We're starting to look at some statistical causalities and seeing if there's any reasons that this would change," Whitman said about the decline in R2R reports. The board summarized policy reviews including body‑worn camera practices, TASER policy and pursuit procedures and said it has developed a standard operating procedure for quasi‑administrative appeals to maintain consistency.
Whitman told council the board secured funding for a pet microchip reader outside City Hall, updated its citizen complaint policy to ensure all complaints are reviewed by CPARP and obtained NACOL memberships for board members via a grant. The board said it will work this year on a racial equity assessment of police policies and expand public outreach and information about the board and its appeals process.
Next steps: CPARP will continue case reviews, pursue the racial equity assessment and ask council for support to improve public visibility of the board’s role and resources for filing complaints and appeals.
