This month’s guest speaker was Pierce Murphy, Director of SPD’s Office of Professional Accountability. OPA investigates complaints of officer misconduct ranging from minor to major, such as the excessive force complaints we’ve been hearing about in the last couple years.
OPA was created in 1999 to give the community the opportunity to have some oversight of SPD, to build and maintain trust, communicate to the community, and for the community and police to work together to provide a culture of excellence and accountability.
Later in the meeting, the NP Captain gave us these statistics, comparing last year year-to-date with this year year-to-date:
- Aggravated assault down 26%
- Non-aggravated assault down 5%
- Homicide down 33%
- Rape crime down 38%
- Auto theft down 20%
- Robbery has increased
To see more information from the meeting, read the minutes here.
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