PURPOSE OF ORDER
This order establishes guidelines for the creation, retention and distribution of the weekly Assaults with Firearms Reports.
SCOPE OF ORDER
This order applies to all Bureau supervisors.
BACKGROUND
The Bureau began distributing the Weekly Gang-Related Assaults with Firearms Reports in 2003, to facilitate information sharing between Bureau investigators and surrounding law enforcement agencies.
The report now serves as a valuable information source for not only gang investigators but also for Unit Commanders and Department Executives to assist in deployment and resource allocation strategies.
ORDER
Each station OSS Bureau team will create, input and distribute, a Gang-Related Assaults with Firearms Report by 1000 hours each Monday for incidents occurring during the previous week. The report shall also be sent to surrounding law enforcement agencies gang investigation units.
In preparation for the weekly report, a LARCIS query shall be performed for all reports utilizing 011, 051,153, and 055 stat codes from each station. The OSS team supervisors shall determine whether the generated reports were gang-related, in accordance with Field Operations Directive 00-10, and ensure that the 860 statistical code was properly applied and entered into LARCIS.
Any gang-related assault with a firearm or murder will be entered into the OSS Assault Report Database under one of the following three categories:
- Murder: Any gang-related murder.
- Assault: Any gang-related assault with a firearm (245(a)2 P.C.).
- Other: Any other gang-related assault with a firearm or any gang -related assault upon a peace officer
At the conclusion of each weekly report, a fourth category titled, "Analysis and Other Information” shall be included. This section shall be used for non-gang-related incidents and a weekly analysis of gang activity and intelligence for each station.