As of May 1, 2022, local law enforcement agencies will be enacting a new protocol that shifts the responsibility of investigating their own police shootings or in-custody deaths to another law enforcement agency.

Under the new protocol, the San Diego Police Department will investigate incidents that involve sheriff’s deputies or officers from any other local law enforcement agency in the county. The Sheriff’s Department will investigate incidents involving San Diego officers. If San Diego police officers and sheriff’s deputies are both involved, then the Chula Vista Police Department will take the lead.

As our Executive Director Geneviéve Jones-Wright stated “Our law enforcement agencies don’t have the public’s trust. That doesn’t go away when you trade one police department for another.”