![]() ![]() He described implementation of Measure B as “a massive citywide effort requiring collaboration and coordination between each branch of city government, city employees, employee unions, and the public.” On Wednesday afternoon, City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera announced that on May 22, the council will consider appointments to the commission. In early December, the city opened the application process for new commissioners, garnering 60 applicants for the 25 seats, all of which must be filled at the same time, Case said. The City Council could not fill vacancies on the commission until the ordinance was adopted, which happened last November. The commission’s latest struggles follow nearly two years of challenges, ranging from delays in drafting the ordinance that would guide the commission into existence to concerns over language in the ordinance to disagreements with the San Diego Police Officers Association over specific provisions in the ordinance. “I am stunned by the fact that not only do we not have commissioners but we don’t have a fully functioning commission,” she added. “Every time I think we’re getting ready to move, the City Council slows the process down,” she said. Julian, an attorney and co-chair of San Diegans for Justice, who wrote Measure B, blamed the City Council for not making the commission a priority. ![]() Julian / Photo by Adriana HeldizĪndrea St. “We really need to get new commissioners appointed.” File photo of Andrea St. “We’ve done everything that we can do in terms of streamlining our processes and prioritizing cases,” he said. “Add to that a significant increase in the number of cases that followed the public attention to the George Floyd case … and our declining numbers resulted in the growing backlog,” he said.Īs a result, the commission no longer reviews less-serious complaints and instead has prioritized Category I complaints, like officer-involved shootings, in-custody deaths and excessive use of force, and paused reviews of less-serious Category II complaints. Brews & News: Voice of San Diego Live PodcastsĬase said that the commission has a “significant backlog of cases” - more than 100 - due to several months during the Covid-19 pandemic when commissioners weren’t able to review cases remotely until the San Diego Police Department worked out a system.San Diego’s Police Oversight Commission Is Barely Functioning | Voice of San Diego Close
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