Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An upcoming report on police reforms will criticize efforts to audit the LAPD, prevent racial profiling and train supervisors, a city official said.
However, overall the city is complying with reform efforts required under a federal consent decree, Legislative Analyst Ron Deaton told a City Council committee on Friday.
“I think we are making tremendous strides,” said Deaton’s analyst on the issue, Barbara Garrett.
Deaton provided a preview of the third quarterly report by an independent monitor who is tracking the pace of reforms. The report must be submitted by Wednesday to a federal court that is supervising the consent decree.
Deaton said the report will criticize the pace of a program designed to determine whether officers are engaging in racial profiling. The program uses forms that record information on the race of people stopped by officers.
Because of problems with an automated system, fewer than a third of more than 378,000 forms have been electronically recorded, Deaton said.
Garrett said the monitor also raised concerns about the expertise of people staffing new LAPD audit divisions, and concluded that a training program for supervisors on the consent decree was inappropriate.
The monitor found that the trainers were insufficiently “enthusiastic,” Deputy Police Chief Michael Bostic said.
The training has since been halted.