The extension comes as the department grapples with technological difficulties and the need to add hundreds more sergeants to improve supervisory oversight.
Police officials including Superintendent David Brown maintain they’ve worked diligently to improve those issues despite the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread unrest in 2020. A status report from the independent team that monitors the CPD’s progress is expected to be released in the coming days.
No technical language needs to be altered to add search warrants into the consent decree, the sides have simply agreed it’s another policy that needs to be included and reformed.— Brown said that adding search warrants to the consent decree will help improve training and “our outcomes with the public.”
But the main driver of the three-year extension is the need to meet a consent decree required ratio of one sergeant to every 10 officers within each police district. To do that right, Brown said it’ll likely take “at least three years.” Currently, the CPD is piloting a program in its 6th district in Gresham where they’ve added nine sergeants to try and hit that 10-to-1 ratio. The goal there is to not only improve oversight, but to also increase the consistency of which sergeants are managing which officers.
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