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Archived Data and Reports

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Archived Data and Reports

Body worn camera project

The Sacramento Police Department (SPD) is committed to utilizing the latest technology to assist in criminal prosecutions, civil litigation, and bolstering public trust. SPD has utilized in-car cameras in the field since the late 1990s. The department is taking another step in expanding recording capabilities by implementing use of Body Worn Cameras.

Research and evaluation

The SPD began its market research of Body Worn Cameras (BWC) in early 2015. The department participated in several product demonstrations and tested a variety of cameras, however, BWC technology was rapidly improving during this period. New vendors entered the marketplace and many companies debuted second-generation BWC products. These developments prompted SPD to extend its field testing and evaluation process timeline. Through this process, key attributes considered essential to the successful implementation and operation of a BWC solution were identified. A thorough analysis included examining the following features of products currently available on the market:

Full-shift battery life
Field of view
Uniform mounting options
Automatic pre-record ability
Tamper resistance
Cloud storage
Data security
Video and audio quality
Hardware maintenance and replacement
Ongoing technical support from the manufacturer
Vehicle integration
Camera usability
Evidence management system

Multiple vendors and their products were selected for testing by officers. The officers participating in the field tests were representative of a cross section of assignments, including: Gang Enforcement, Bikes, Motors, Patrol, K9, and ShotSpotter. This wide range of testing was completed to measure the compatibility of these products under different conditions and with a variety of uniform types and equipment.

Funding

In the summer of 2015, SPD applied for and was awarded $599,756 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Body Worn Camera Pilot Implementation Program (BWC PIP). The grant had a performance period of October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2017 and required an in-kind match equal to 50 percent of the total project cost up to the total grant award. The intent of the award was to help develop, implement, and evaluate a BWC program as one tool in a comprehensive problem-solving approach to enhance officer interactions with the public and to build community trust.

On October 27, 2015, the Sacramento City Council accepted the BWC PIP grant award and directed staff to evaluate options to fulfill the grant match requirements. The total cost to develop, implement, and evaluate the BWC program over the two-year grant period was $1.5 million. The $599,756 grant award provided partial funding for program implementation. Matching funds of $936,358 were necessary over the two-year grant period to successfully implement the BWC program. The City Council approved the use of Measure U funds to fulfill the required grant match in the FY2016/17 Approved Budget. The funding for the cameras, although approved in 2015, did not become available until the 2016/17 fiscal year. The council report accepting the grant funds is available here: City Council Report 2015-00941. (PDF 556 KB)

On March 7, 2017, the Sacramento City Council passed a resolution suspending competitive bidding in the best interests of the City for the purchase of a body worn cameras and digital media storage solution and authorizing the City Manager or City Manager’s designee to enter into a contract with TASER International, Inc. The council report is available here: City Council Report 2017-00275. (PDF 2.13 MB)

Implementation

The Department has committed to the deployment of Body Worn Cameras as another tool to enhance public safety and ensure officers maintain the high standards of professionalism expected by the department. Additional steps taken by SPD have included:

The development of infrastructure to manage video storage and hardware to support the day-to-day use of the equipment;
The adoption of a training plan to ensure officers understand how to use the equipment;
The department-wide incorporation of Body Worn Camera training.
The integration of Body Worn Camera training and use within the Police Academy

Currently, all officers are issued Body Worn Cameras and are generally required to wear them when conducting enforcement or investigative activity, regardless of their assignment.

The Body Worn Camera policy (General Order 525.07, available on our Policy and Procedures page) was updated on January 16, 2019 and implemented best practices from departments across the state as well as lessons learned from field use. The Department remains committed to maintaining and updating this policy to ensure transparency and accountability to build trust with the community.

Audit of body worn camera footage

An initial 2018 audit of Body Worn Camera (BWC) footage was conducted from a random sampling of videos recorded in October of 2018. This review required managers to watch videos that were generated by 74 officers, from 15 separate calls for service.

Activation of BWC but no written documentation
Failure to voice the reason for deactivation of the BWC
No supplements written when needed
Number of unnecessary BWC activations
No ICC activations
No BWC activations
(Officers) Not attaching themselves to the call

The full results of this audit are available below:

October 2018 Body-Worn Camera Audit Results (PDF, 448KB)

When SPD revised its BWC policy in January of 2019, language was included requiring supervisors to complete a BWC compliance review bi-annually during the completion of each employee’s mid-year and end-of-year performance evaluations. Please refer to SPD’s Body-Worn Camera policy (General Order 525.07, section M, PDF 116 KB) for additional information regarding the structure of these recurring audits.

BWC Audit Results are available below:

2019 Body-Worn Camera Audit (PDF, 90 KB)
2020 Body-Worn Camera Audit (Excel, 64 KB)

Center for Police Equity (CPE) report and response

On July 27, 2021, the Sacramento Police Department (SPD) released a report compiled by the Center for Policing Equity (CPE). CPE spent the prior year analyzing SPD data covering vehicle stops, pedestrian stops, and uses of force that occurred from 2014 through 2019. The department requested CPE analyze this data to identify any patterns in policing throughout the city.

CPE report and responses from SPD

The report from CPE is published below. In addition to releasing CPE’s full findings, SPD has compiled and released information that contextualizes the report, including: demographical information, department-sponsored community programs, officer training courses, and written policies relevant to CPE’s report.

View the Digital CPE Report or download the CPE National Justice Database City Report - City of Sacramento (PDF 11.1 MB)
A snapshot of SPD’s context: SPD Summary Response to CPEs Pathway from Data to Action Guide (PDF 759 KB)
Summary of SPD's context: Summary Report-SPD Contextual Information and Response to CPE City Report 2021 (PDF 1.49 MB)
SPD's full response: Full CPE Contextual Response - SPD Supplemental Report 2021 with Percentages Final (PDF 5.88 MB)

Jaywalking citation statistics

Statistics regarding the Sacramento Police Department (SPD) enforcement of “jaywalking” related to California Vehicle Code (VC) and Sacramento City Code (SCC) sections for years 2018-2019 have been posted online. The data collection includes information on the location, date and time of the enforcement stop; as well as the applicable violation, the sex, race and age of the individual cited. SPD is in the process of converting from paper to electronic citations as mandated by the Traffic Division of the Sacramento Superior Court. The available statistics for years 2018-2019 are from electronic citations only and do not include paper citations, as this data is not readily available.

Jaywalking Citation data is available below:

2018-2019 Jaywalking Citation Data

Vehicle stop data history and information

In July 2000, the Sacramento Police Department undertook a comprehensive study of traffic stops to address perceptions of racial profiling. That study was conducted by the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. The Final Report: Police Vehicle Stops in Sacramento, CA (PDF 937 KB) was completed by Dr. Howard P. Greenwald, Professor of Management and Policy on October 31, 2001.

Background

In March 2004, City Council established a formal advisory commission to provide equitable representation, accountability, and reporting from Sacramento residents on this issue of national importance. The Commission was also established to provide the City with a greater opportunity to be inclusive. In November 2004, City Council confirmed selections for membership on the Community Racial Profiling Commission (CRPC), the purpose of which was to assist the City with its racial profiling vehicle stop study. The CRPC held its first meeting in January 2005.

In February 2006, a second study was initiated. Lamberth Consulting staff studied Sacramento Police Department processes of data collection and mapping, in-car camera recording of pedestrian and bicycle stops, and Police Department policies related to stops. The study’s benchmarking phase used data collected at 25 deployed locations (high traffic stop locations) and 30 random locations, to determine the racial makeup of the driving population at each location. This method is considered to be a more accurate standard of measurement than that provided by using census data. Lamberth Consulting surveyors visited each benchmark location 8 times.

Surveyors were accompanied by an SPD officer who provided transportation, security and lighting during all sessions where the ambient lighting was insufficient for accurate recognition of the race/ethnicity of motorists. The results of their observations provided the data for determining the “odds ratio” (used to determine whether racial profiling is occurring) as the odds of a minority being stopped versus the odds of a minority available in the driving population to be stopped.

Lamberth Consulting staff conducted its study on data collected between December 1, 2007, and May 31, 2008. The CRPC members continued to meet with Lamberth Consulting staff throughout the duration of the data collection project and participated in a series of stakeholder meetings in the community following the study presentation to Council. Throughout the study, Police Department staff reported to the CRPC on the compliance percentages for data collection.

In response to the data collection study, the Police Department and the CRPC members created an electronic Vehicle Stop Data Form that captures 22 points of information for each traffic stop. The form captures the reasons for the stop, date, time and location of the stop, race and gender of the driver, specific driver identifiers, passenger information, search authorities, results of the stop, duration of the stop, call number, and officer identifier.

Lamberth Consulting facilitated a workshop with members of the community and the Police Department on September 22, 2007, to prepare the CRPC, community, and City of Sacramento employees for the methods and meaning of the study. All attendees shared their perceptions of the study and of racial profiling, and provided constructive responses to the possible community response to the roll-out of the study results.

On August 12, 2008, the final report for the Sacramento Police Department regarding the Vehicle Stop Data Analysis Project (PDF 1.83 MB) was presented by Chief Braziel and Dr. John Lamberth, Ph.D., of Lamberth Consulting to the City Council. The report found there was a disparity in the number of African-American motorists that were stopped by SPD versus the number of African-American motorists in traffic and that these stops occurred at a “sufficiently substantial” magnitude. The report also concluded that Hispanic drivers were stopped at a slightly higher rate than their representation in the traffic population but that this difference was not statistically significant. Finally, the report concluded White and Asian drivers were stopped less than what would be expected based on their representation in traffic. In regards to search and seizure, the report concluded that African-Americans and Hispanics were more often subject to search of their person and/or vehicle.

Based on this analysis, Lamberth Consulting made six recommendations for the Sacramento Police Department which have been implemented. The Sacramento Police Department reported on the implementation of these recommendations to the City Council on March 31, 2009.

Current developments

The CRPC was disbanded in 2016 and was replaced by the Sacramento Community Police Commission (SCPC). The SCPC was established for the purpose of providing recommendations to the mayor and city council on bias-free policing and the implementation, evaluation and sustainability of efforts intended to strengthen community-police relations.

Additional information and data

On October 3, 2015, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill (AB) 953, known as the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) of 2015. The Act includes requirements regarding a number of significant law enforcement issue including:

Collection of data regarding citizen complaints alleging racial and identity profiling
Collection of data regarding law enforcement stops and detentions
Creation of the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board

The bill would require each state and local agency that employs peace officers to annually report to the Attorney General data on all stops, as defined, conducted by the agency’s peace officers, and require that data to include specified information, including the time, date, and location of the stop, and the reason for the stop. The bill would require an agency that employs 1,000 or more peace officers to issue its first annual report by April 1, 2019. The bill would require an agency that employs 667 or more but less than 1,000 peace officers to issue its first annual report by April 1, 2020. The bill would require an agency that employs 334 or more but less than 667 peace officers to issue its first annual report by April 1, 2022. The bill would require an agency that employs one or more but less than 334 peace officers to issue its first annual report by April 1, 2023.

The Sacramento Police Department has expanded data collection practices to meet the requirements of this legislation. RIPA data can be accessed through the CA Department of Justice's Open Justice Stop Data Portal.

2017 town hall meetings

In late 2017, Chief Daniel Hahn conducted a series of Town Hall Meetings in four areas of the City of Sacramento. These meetings were held at the locations and dates below:

November 9, 2017 : East Command Town Hall Meeting; Colonial Heights Library, 4799 Stockton Boulevard
November 15, 2017: Central Command Town Hall Meeting; Hart Senior Center, 927 27th Street
November 30, 2017: North Command Town Hall Meeting; South Natomas Community Center, 2921 Truxel Road
December 7, 2017: South Command Town Hall Meeting; Pannell Meadowview Community Center, 2450 Meadowview Road

At these meetings, community input was sought regarding key department priorities, service delivery and steps that can be made with community partners to advance the Sacramento Police Department (SPD). The information gathered in these meetings will be used to help set Department priorities as we move forward. The Town Hall Meeting Report, dated February 2, 2018, summarizes common themes and the Sacramento Police Department’s efforts to serve our City.

What do you think are the top City-wide priorities for SPD?

The three most common priorities that emerged as a result of the town hall meetings are:

What do you think SPD is doing well in your neighborhood?

The community agreed that the Sacramento Police Department has been doing well in the following areas:

Community Outreach, including being present and communication
Technology

What could SPD do better?

There are always areas for improvement. Results of the Town Hall meetings indicate SPD needs to work on:

How can we partner together to serve your neighborhood better?

Two areas came up consistently during the Town Hall meetings. First, it was asserted that Town Hall Meetings were helpful and would help serve neighborhoods better. Secondly, there is a call for more community resources and better communication of the resources available through the Department.

The full itemized list of topics as brought forward by participants in the recent Town Hall meetings are included in the full report available above.

California Department of Justice (DOJ) and International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) reports and recommendatoins

At the request of the Sacramento Police Department (SPD), the California Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted an independent assessment of the department's use of force-related policies, training and practices. The DOJ report provides recommendations to help guide the reform efforts SPD has independently committed to pursue. The report addresses the following six areas: Use of Force Policies, Use of Force Reporting and Investigation, Use of Force Training, Officer-Involved Shooting Incident Review, Personnel Complaint Procedures, and Community Engagement and Transparency. Along with the DOJ's recommendations are the Sacramento Police Department's responses to each recommendation.

Official DOJ Report and Recommendations, Phase I - Sacramento Police Department (January 19, 2019)

Report and Recommendations, Phase I

SPD responses to DOJ recommendations pertaining to the January 29, 2019 Report (PDF)
California Department of Justice: Neighborhood Engagement Strategy Talks Report, released April 2019
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) TRUST Initiative Report
June 2019 Status Update - A brief update on SPD's Responses to DOJ's January 29, 2019 Report (PDF)
September 2019 Status Update - A brief update on SPD's Responses to DOJ's January 29, 2019 Report (PDF)
July 2020 Status Update - A brief update on SPD's Responses to DOJ's January 29, 2019 Report (PDF)
December 2020 Status Update - A brief update on SPD's Responses to DOJ's January 29, 2019 Report (PDF)

Official DOJ Report and Recommendations, Phase II - Sacramento Police Department (July 8, 2020)

Report and Recommendations, Phase II

DOJ’s Phase II Recommendations - A list of the 61 recommendations DOJ submitted to SPD as part of their Phase II assessment (PDF)
December 29, 2020 Status Update – A brief update on SPD’s Responses to DOJ's Phase II recommendations (PDF)
May 6, 2021 Status Update – A brief update on SPD’s Responses to DOJ's Phase II recommendations (PDF)

Archived Data and Reports

Body worn camera project

Research and evaluation

Funding

Implementation

Audit of body worn camera footage

Center for Police Equity (CPE) report and response

CPE report and responses from SPD

Jaywalking citation statistics

Vehicle stop data history and information

Background

Current developments

Additional information and data

2017 town hall meetings

What do you think are the top City-wide priorities for SPD?

What do you think SPD is doing well in your neighborhood?

What could SPD do better?

How can we partner together to serve your neighborhood better?

California Department of Justice (DOJ) and International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) reports and recommendatoins

Official DOJ Report and Recommendations, Phase I - Sacramento Police Department (January 19, 2019)

Official DOJ Report and Recommendations, Phase II - Sacramento Police Department (July 8, 2020)

Archived Monthly Chief's Reports