Interview, police departments, 1992-08-03

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Content OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISOR
TO THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Privileged and Confidential
Attorney Work Product
August 3, 1992
TO: Comparisons Team
Visiting Police Officers
cc: Terry Bird, Paul Bower, Gerald Chaleff, Audrey Collins
LAPD Team
FROM:
RB:
Jan Handzlik, Ken Heitz, Diann Kim, Vince Marella
Inter-Agency Team
Richard J. Stone
General Counsel and Staff Director
Interviews of Police Departments in Other Cities
As we discussed during our meeting last week, based on
our analysis of the 72 cities being surveyed with regard to
demographics, economics, police department statistics, crime
statistics, and experience with unusual occurrences, we have
decided to interview personnel from the police departments in the
following cities:
1. Atlanta
2. Chicago
3. Detroit
4. Houston
5. Miami/Metro-Dade
6. Newark
7. New York
a. Oakland
9. Philadelphia
10. San Antonio
11. San Diego
Based on the same analysis, we are also considering
conducting interviews of personnel from police departments in the
following additional cities:
12. Dallas
13. Las Vegas
14. Phoenix
15. San Jose
Scheduling and Preparation for Interviews
Appointments
Lt. CUrtis McGhee will be responsible for setting up
appointments for interviews with the first eleven departments
listed above. We hope to complete these interviews by August 15 ,
1992. Please work with Lt. McGhee to make arrangements for
interviews in the cities you are assigned to cover. Lt. McGhee
can be reached at (213) 362-7665.
We will be sending a letter of introduction to each of
the departments. Attached to this letter will be an outline of
the topics we plan to cover in the interview. In addition, we
plan to attach a copy of the department's completed
questionnaire, point out in the letter any items in the
questionnaire for which the department did not provide a
response, and ask that the missing information be provided during
the interview.
Interview outline
Sgt. Bryan Morris will be responsible for working with
Tom Hanrahan and other members of the Team to refine the
interview outline. Comments on the draft outline from members of
the Team would be appreciated. Sgt. Morris can be reached at
(213) 362-7659.
Completed Questionnaires and Documents
Lt. Barbara Frost will be responsible for preparing
packages of materials regarding the departments to be
interviewed. The package of materials for each city will contain
the completed Police Department Questionnaire from that city,
including any documents submitted along with the completed
questionnaire, and any other materials we have collected
regarding that city's police department. In addition, Arthur
Andersen will provide a report for each city containing the data
from that city's completed questionnaire. Lt. Frost can be
reached at (213) 362-7663.
Training Session
We plan to hold a training session for those team
members who will be conducting interviews. During this training
session, members of the LAPD and Inter-Agency Teams will make a
presentation summarizing their fact-gathering with regard to the
same subject areas the interviewers will be covering in the
interviews. In addition, we hope to arrange to pair a
comparisons Team member with a member of either the LAPD Team or
Inter-Agency Team for purposes of conducting the interviews.
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Interview Assignments
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We need to finalize interview assignments as soon as
possible. As we discussed during our meeting last week,
tentative interview assignments are as follows:
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10.
11.
Atlanta
Chicago
Detroit
Houston
Miami/Metro-Dade
Newark
New York
Oakland
Philadelphia
San Antonio
San Diego
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O'Neill/Lucas
Hanrahan/Mcwatters
Hanrahan/Mcwatters
O'Neill/Velez-Rivera
Hanrahan/Sacks
Hanrahan/Sacks
Lucas/
Jackson/Marella
Peterson/Burke/O'Neill
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R.J.S.

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