Commission on Police Practices<\/a>, which reviews complaints and police policies. A spokesperson said the commission supports \u201cany strategy to acquire testimony, insights, or case studies\u201d that can help with its evaluation of police practices.\u00a0<\/p>\nCPP Media Director, Aaron Burgess Jr., sent CBS 8 a statement:\u00a0<\/p>\n
“While we aren\u2019t deeply familiar with the app, any tool that creates a viable opportunity for community members to file a complaint, express concerns, document an interaction, or approach a solution to repair an injustice done by a law enforcement officer contributes to the process. As a body we are for any strategy to acquire testimony, insights, or case studies that will help us in our evaluation of police practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As far as the complaint process goes, we take them in various forms. A person can complain in person with us or online by going to our website. A person can also complain directly to SDPD. When this happens, the CPP receives citizen complaints made against SDPD officers and therefore has visibility into complaints at the front end of the process. Further, there is definitely room for improvement in this process. Generally, SDPD provides the CPP with case investigations for the categories of cases that fall within Category I and Category II complaints and death-in-custody cases, as applicable. The tough part is that if a citizen complaint is subsequently classified as \u201cmiscellaneous\u201d or is handled informally by the Department, the CPP may have received the initial complaint but may not receive a completed investigative file for review. This is problematic as we want an opportunity to evaluate community concerns as it relates to police misconduct. On our side, we are currently working to implement a complaint management system to strengthen case tracking and prepare the Commission to manage a larger caseload once the meet-and-confer process is complete.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new app called \u2018CopStop SD\u2019 aims to make it easier for San Diegans to report encounters with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-460531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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