ATHERTON DEPARTMENT OF POLICE
Inter-Department Correspondence
To: Chief McCulley
From: Commander Larsen
Date: February 7th 1, 2024
Subject: RIPA Compliance Audit
Audit Purpose: The purpose of the audit was to measure compliance with Lexipol Policy 403 - Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) with special attention to section 403.2 that states, "It shall be the policy of the Atherton Police Department to collect and report data to the California Department of Justice (DOJ) in accordance with RIPA, which requires officers to complete an entry for each individual detained or searched during a call for service or self-initiated activity.
Audit Scope: The audit compared Veritone RIPA entries with data from RIMS including citations written (warning/traffic/criminal), bicycle stops made and pedestrian stops made between 07/01/2023 through 12/31/2023.
Audit Methodology: The methodology for this audit was as follows: to compare the number of RIPA entries from individual sergeants/officers with their number of citations issued during the period of 07/01/2023 through 12/31/2023. Citations were used as a barometer because the subject being issued a citation is unquestionably detained and a RIPA entry is required. The individual sergeants/officers shall have more RIPA entries than citations to be in policy compliance. The citation data was reviewed as individual statistics and not added together. It was determined that including data from bicycle stops and pedestrian checks could possibly skew the numbers because not all bicycle stops and pedestrian checks could be designated as detentions. Although officers do not call in all of their traffic stops, the number of traffic stops was taken into consideration when determining compliance. A sergeant/officer will have equal if not more RIPA entries as compared to the number of traffic stops made.
Audit Results: Of the twenty-one sergeants/officers reviewed in this audit, eighteen were in policy compliance. Three were out of compliance.
Audit Action Items: I recommend the following:
• Work with the two officers to complete entries within each work week to ensure entries are kept up to date.
• Issue a DOC to the three officers who are out of compliance. • Conduct a monthly check comparing citations issued to RIPA entries, thus ensuring RIPA entries are completed in a timely manner, preferably right after each contact.
• Conduct an audit in July, 2024 to include 01/01/2024 - 06/30/2024.
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Officer Name 7/1-8/31 9/1-10/31 11/1-12/31Total RIPA Citations TSTOPS BIKE PEDCK Krystal Pronske 48 17 29 94 41 56
Igor Davidovich 126 62 104 292 201 244 8 7
Josh Gatto 73 83 103 259 221 15
Diego Romero 92 86 99 277 88 225 3 5
Ken MacDonald 116 171 152 439 441 77
Jon Fong 30 28 30 88 79 39
Eduardo Rivera 63 89 123 275 153 257 9 5
Nikolas Torres 20 18 42 80 121(118) 88
David Metzger 419 264 233 916 795 57
Vaneesh Kumar 45 63 91 129
Karena Shum 108 50 111 145 2
Johnathan Massagli 18 10 53 41
Daniel Rojas 280 192 446 106
Kevan Patel 84 206 1
Bobby Magami 98 232 1 1
Jose Yamsuan 18 161 8
Martin Mijangos 9 56
Dimitri Andruha 0 74 1 3
Henry Tam 8 19
Gina Dutta
Jeff Taylor 0 0
2227 40 25