West Jordan, UT PD Citizen Complaints

Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer filed this request with the West Jordan Police Department of West Jordan, UT.
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From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to Utah’s Government Records Access and Management Act (“GRAMA”), I hereby request the following records:

We are Economics Professors in the College of Business at Ferris State University, and are engaged in an empirical research project on police behavior and citizen complaints. This project requires us to request data from your department. If you have questions about this request or suggestions, we would be happy to discuss them with you.

1. What is the total number of citizen complaints (allegations of misconduct) made against your department’s officers annually for the last 10 years? If your department logs complaints in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.

Please include the type of complaint (i.e., use of force, abuse language, unwarranted search) and the result of complaint (i.e., sustained, exonerated).

2. What is the total number of complaints police officers made against their peer officers (sometimes called internal complaints) in department annually for the last 10 years? If your department logs complaints in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.

Please include the type of complaint (i.e., use of force, abuse language, unwarranted search) and the result of complaint (i.e., sustained, exonerated).

3. How many officer-involved-shootings were there per year for the last 10 years in your department? Any documentation or reports that detail the annual number of officer-involved shootings in your department for the past 10 years would be sufficient.

Please include documentation regarding how many of these officer-involved shootings involved disciplinary action. (Please list officer firearm discharge directed at a person separately from a shooting involving an animal and separately from accidental firearm discharges).

Please include the number of officer-involved shootings resulting in discipline.

4. Which of the above data are published publicly? Please provide a link to any and all publicly available reports containing the data above.

Collecting this information is very important to our research, so we would like to emphasize, if you have questions about my request or suggestions, we would be happy to discuss them with you.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer

From: Doug Diamond

Also by way of explanation. We changed our numbering system in 2012. The PSTB# numbers may not be in sequence as well because we do investigations for other city departments. There are duplicate PSTB# numbers because there were multiple allegations.
Thanks,

Doug Diamond
801-256-2001

From: Doug Diamond

I have attached 2 files that answer requests 1, 2 and 3.

Request 4. We do not publish this data to the public.
Thanks,

Doug Diamond
801-256-2001

From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer

Hi,

Thanks so much for your help with this request! I really appreciate it.

Sincerely,
Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer

From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer

I am writing to follow up on my original request made on 8/23/17.

Thank you very much for providing the information we requested. I am writing to ask for some clarification regarding the data on officer-involved shootings you provided us with. What constitutes an officer-involved shooting in your department? For example, some departments do not count misses while others count all discharges; some include shots at animals. Other departments include intentional and accidental shootings; others do not. Some include all discharges and some exclude missed shots. Please explain to us how your department classifies the OIS included in the numbers you sent to us.

Very Respectfully, Alex Cartwright

From: West Jordan Police Department

In regards to your question, we report an OIS when an officer engages or shoots at another person and whether or not it is intentional and whether or not it is a miss. We do not count the discharge of an animal as an OIS.

Chief Richard Davis
West Jordan Police Department

From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer

Thank you.

From: West Jordan Police Department

Muckrock News,

West Jordan Police Department received the attached GRAMA request from your office via USPS, I would like to get some clarification as to what exactly you are looking for in this request. Please give me a call at your earliest convenience, Ashlee 801-256-2004.

Thank you,

Ashlee Jarvis
Records Supervisor
West Jordan Police Department
801-256-2000
ashlee.jarvis@westjordan.utah.gov

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From: West Jordan Police Department

Hello,

I am just following up on this since I have not received a response. Can you please let me know what you are specifically asking for?

Thank you,

Ashlee Jarvis
Records Supervisor
West Jordan Police Department
801-256-2000
ashlee.jarvis@westjordan.utah.gov

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From: West Jordan Police Department

Hello,

Please find the attached closure response regarding your request.

Thank you,

Ashlee Jarvis
Records Supervisor
West Jordan Police Department
801-256-2000
ashlee.jarvis@westjordan.utah.gov

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