65A - POLICE OVERSIGHT DIRECTION

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#4,9 Figure 5 on page 7 displays which external authorities held by civilian oversight boards among the responding MCCA agencies. What is immediately evident from the figure is that an overwhelming majority of bodies have the authority to hear these external complaints. • All 41 boards had the authority to review the investigations of external complaints of excessive force, while 39 boards (95 percent) could hear all use of force complaints (that is, even when the complaint is not that the force was excessive). • Compared to other types of complaints, civilian oversight bodies were least likely to have the authority to review external complaints about law enforcement officers' driving; only about 80 percent of boards could review this external complaint. • Eleven agencies (27 percent) reported that their civilian oversight board has authority to review other types of external complaints. When specifying "other" types of complaints, department contacts named misconduct/abuse of authority, false imprisonment, improper searches/seizures, harassment, abusive/ offensive language, and death/serious injury. Internal complaint authorities MCCA agencies then reported which internal complaints their oversight body has authority to review. In contrast with external complaints, twenty-four (59 percent) of civilian oversight bodies do not have authority to review all internal complaints. In fact, 17 agencies (nearly 41 percent) reported that their civilian oversight bodies have no authority to review internal complaints. 65A-23