On Tuesday, the public will have an opportunity to hear about uses of force, vehicle pursuits, and other hot-button issues from the Oakland Police Department’s managers and command staff at a citywide risk management meeting.

The meeting will take place Sept. 22 at 5 p.m. at OPD’s headquarters (455 7th St.). The purpose, according to a news release, is to “explain how OPD uses data to identify trends, assess risk, and evaluate departmental policies.”

During the presentation — OPD has already made a slide deck publicly available — department leaders will provide historical context and trends related to the following:

Officers and non-sworn staff on leave

Dispatch, non-dispatch, and intelligence-led traffic stops

Use-of-force incidents

Community complaints of police misconduct

Vehicle chases

Crashes involving OPD vehicles

OPD is inviting community members to submit questions ahead of the meeting to OPDRiskManagement@oaklandca.gov.

The meeting comes just ahead of a Sept. 29 court hearing in which OPD may finally be released from federal oversight. The department has been under the watch of a court-appointed monitor since 2003 as part of a settlement of the infamous “Riders” case, in which officers were accused of beating people, planting drugs, and lying. Last week, the monitor published a report finding OPD had failed to complete a few internal misconduct investigations within the court-mandated deadline, possibly jeopardizing OPD’s exit from federal oversight.

In recent weeks, alleged misconduct and crimes by several OPD officers have made headlines. In August, the department announced it had identified a sergeant who allegedly defrauded the department of $38,000 in overtime. That same month, two officers who were disciplined for mishandling an internal affairs case sued the city, saying OPD had blown legal deadlines to punish them.

Earlier this month, two other officers who served as pilots for OPD’s helicopter unit were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly defrauding the Federal Aviation Administration. The department is also facing a lawsuit from the family of former NFL player Doug Martin, who died after he was arrested by OPD officers last year.

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