A law passed in 2020 compels the state Justice Department to investigate all incidents in which a police officer shoots and kills someone who is unarmed.
But the department isn’t investigating all the incidents law enforcement agencies are referring to it: In at least 17 cases to date, the state has opted not to investigate.
The exact number and details about those cases are a bit of a mystery, CalMatters has learned. The Justice Department said it had not been tracking each report it received and could readily provide details only for cases in which its agents visited the scene or opened an investigation or reports. After CalMatters began raising questions in November, the department managed to track down some information on the 17 rejected cases, and acknowledged there were more.
CalMatters launched its own tracker to follow the police shooting cases the Justice Department is investigating, which number 31 and counting.
The department now says it has reversed course and begun tracking every report that comes in.
“Given the mandate and the need to rapidly implement a major new statewide initiative, our office focused on … qualifying events,” a Justice Department spokesperson wrote in an email to CalMatters on Jan. 20. “We did not previously consider...
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