Long Beach set to hire consultant tasked with improving police complaint commission • Long Beach Post News
Long Beach is expected to finalize a contract in May with a Seattle-based firm that will be tasked with analyzing the city’s Citizens Police Complaint Commission and submitting conclusions on how it can be improved. The report is expected to be finished by the end of the year. - ADVERTISEMENT - The CPCC makes recommendations on how to handle hundreds of cases of alleged officer misconduct annually, but the process of evaluating those accusations has been shrouded in secrecy since the commission’s creation in 1990. Its founders have said that the commission is not operating the way they in...