775 Complaints About Police Weren’t Probed

Nearly 800 citizen complaints filed against the Oakland Police Department have not been investigated, according to a report by a court-appointed monitoring team.

At least 775 entries in the Internal Affairs Division’s database were not assigned case numbers or investigated, with some going back as far as January 2003, the report released Monday said.

Some complaints were not investigated because the department would not take the complaint over the phone, and an official complaint form was never completed. In other cases, the officer who was taking the call believed the caller was mentally ill and disregarded the complaint, the report said.