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OpenGovernmentCommission | 2021-03-01 | 6 | Jennifer Rakowski stated that she was on the Oversight Committee; they did correlate the data to population to understand what the relative risk is for a particular community in terms of being arrested or stopped; whatever race data the City collects is based on the Officer's perception; there are limits to the data; in the coming years, there will be additional requirements for race-based data for stops and arrests to analyze disparities in terms of treatment; encouraged the community to push for immediate transparency as opposed to waiting until the Police Department is required to provide it to the federal government; not all of the data that needs to be collected is housed in the Police Department; it is looking at what complaints went to the Police and which ones went to other parts of the City about incidents with the Police; information is collected at the jail about what restraints were used; said type of information is not retained at APD, but is retained elsewhere; the City encourages having index markers at outside of APD that inform what is happening in the City. Commissioner Shabazz thanked the Committee members for their responses, and even to questions he did not get to yet; stated there are different types of data: quantitative and qualitative; he is interested in qualitative data, including what happened when a person was pulled over, how the Officer interacted, and how it is that measured, i.e., a body camera, cell phone, or Ring doorbell device; there are a lot of ways data can be captured these days; he would like to know the location of the data since it can be housed in different places; the quality of collection is an issue as well; in 2017, the Alameda Democratic Club held an event about policing, particularly about immigration, since Trump was coming into office; he spoke with the Police Chief at that time about the traffic stops and shared data he felt was disproportionate comparing the number of Black people who lived in Alameda with the number of people who lived in Alameda; Black people were stopped more than their number; it was stated that 1) Alameda is next to Oakland and Oakland being a proxy for Black people in some people's geographic imagination; and 2) it was not a good to compare how many people live in a place versus how many people are stopped; he is interested in what other points of comparison are being reviewed; he would also like to know how if the current Police leadership acknowledges the traffic stop disproportionality; the question is important for the incoming Police leadership. Alphonso Mance stated Commissioner Shabazz's questions are very important issues; one of the Committee's recommendations is to have the Crime Analyst and software the Police use make information gathering less subjective; there were certain things APD did not keep; the City has not had a Crime Analyst in a while; he has the same concerns as Commissioner Shabazz with regard to where the information is kept and how reliable it is; he is hoping that having a Crime Analyst keep the information will be more reliable, especially since the data would be input into software which asks specific questions; another recommendation is additional reporting to the FBI, which has pretty strict requirements and will also be more reliable; one of the more critical responses from the survey was that disproportionality does not necessarily indicate bias; one of the things he likes to look at is the number of stops versus the number of citations given; how many were just given a warning provides more information; if an Officer is stopping people and just letting them go, is the Officer just friendly to a certain group of people or because there was not a basis for the stop; there are other figures that could be gathered and Meeting of the Open Government Commission March 1, 2021 6 | OpenGovernmentCommission/2021-03-01.pdf |