Democracy survives through a system of checks and balances. In Long Beach, those checks are lacking when it comes to police accountability.

Neither the City Attorney, the City Prosecutor, the City Council, nor the L.A. District Attorney seems interested in actions that would put them in conflict with the well-funded and politically-adept Long Beach Police Officers Association.

Even the Citizen Police Complaint Commission is rendered virtually powerless by the City Manager's veto power.

Consequently, LBPD's misconduct and mismanagement has gone unchecked.

CheckLBPD seeks to provide a check on the power of the LBPD and provide community groups and activists with data and data-driven policy suggestions as they push for police reform.

CheckLBPD will strive to check on the secret expansion of Police Surveillance in Long Beach—something many other jurisdictions do through Surveillance Transparency Ordinances.

Our site will also host research, public documents, and data visualizations that may be useful to local journalists. All writings and data visualizations are published under a Creative Commons Attribution license; feel free to repurpose them with proper attribution.

CheckLBPD is also where you can search LBPD vendor records and the LBPD’s TigerText metadata—through data dashboards designed to make the data accessible. An in-progress report will provide a much-needed response to the city’s “independent” TigerText review.