San Diego officials hope a new set of appointments — set to happen during a special City Council meeting on Monday — will help the commission get back on track
Repeatedly and for years, San Diego’s police oversight commission has cautioned that if the city didn’t appoint new members soon, there wouldn’t be enough people to do the watchdog work the group had been tasked with.
Andrea St. Julian, co-chair for San Diegans for Justice and author of the ballot measure that brought the new oversight group into existence, said the city’s failure to stand up the new commission in a timely manner has been “unconscionable.” Council President Sean Elo-Rivera said in a statement that city staffers came up with an “an entirely new process” for community members to nominate applicants, and that once those applicants were in, city officials had to review the submissions to ensure they were eligible.
. The measure replaced the old Community Review Board on Police Practices with a new Commission on Police Practices, an independent oversight board that had subpoena powers and could investigate allegations without having to rely on Police Department resources.that would govern how the new commission operated — a process that included a lengthy meet-and-confer with the police union. For more than a year and a half, the city and community advocates wrestled over the ordinance.
Then that summer, in the wake of Floyd’s death, demands for greater police accountability led to a spike in complaints against police, further burdening the already overworked oversight group. In January 2021, there were 20 interim commissioners. A year later, that number had fallen to 15, but just 13 were doing the work because of family commitments, commission leaders said in a memo sent that month to the City Council.
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