The complaint process, arrest data remain priorities for police inspection

Morgantown is a civil commission for viewing and consultative Council of Civil Police Morggantwn realized that its beginnings would need time and perseverance.

For example, on April 4, 2023, the Council used part of its first official meeting to create a subcommittee, which provides priority to the collection and public of access to the statistics of the Morgantwn Police Department.

Since then, it has been an agenda for each meeting of the Council.

Although the meeting protocol for the last 22 months indicates that there was at least a certain issue between the CPRAB and the MPD on this issue that no significant progress has been made.

Publicly available statistics on the Morgantun police website include the disconnection of arrest data by demographic racing indicators for 2018 and 2019 and a schedule of performance indicators for 2009-2021, which indicates calls for types of services and crimes.

“Even simply results – forget (patrol) zones and all that – how many thefts were done in Morgiltunka in 2024?” Richard Berks’s head said. “It’s a minimum.”

Bob Cohen, a member of the Subcommittee on Statistical Reporting of the Board, stated that he had departed from a recent meeting with Deputy Chief Chris Rumer, feeling that these efforts were directed in the wrong direction.

“What I heard from him is that it is extremely difficult to gather all this information, and it is not really what I heard last May, when I met them,” Cohen said. “I’m not sure how to interpret it.”

Another case is the process by which members of the community can file official complaints – or to provide any real reviews, good or bad – about interaction with police.

This issue has been on every agenda CPRB since March last year. The participants noted that there was no real process; Just a shape that can be difficult to find is unnecessary and potentially intimidates.

They also noted that they did not know about any complaints that are filed with this system.

“I mean what we do, we mostly want an easy shape, working shape, a form that people do not intimidate,” Brooks said. “I mean, that’s really what we are looking for.”

There is some progress on this front.

Catherine Fonseca said she was “surprised and heard” Ruehmer’s reviews about the revised form presented by the Council.

“I think he had really great answers. He had great reviews, ”she said. “The only difference is that we have left understanding, we would look at it, unlike them (MPD) would be to view it. I think his response is wonderful. I think it makes the shape much better. ”

As for the speed at which these efforts are moving, Vice -Chairman Rachel Fetty noted that although these issues are the only focus of the board, they are one of the many issues that are juggled by the MPD management.

“We can insist persistently, but I think we just need to have reasonable terms for ourselves to try to understand when we are going to get this response and what we can actually do. We are unable to introduce a policy on police department,” he said She is.