A police oversight body in Long Beach says the LBPD should make sure its officers investigate thoroughly instead of arresting both parties during domestic violence incidents where the perpetrator isn’t immediatley obvious.
The recommendation was one of a dozen that the Long Beach Office of Police Oversight submitted to the department in a report based on a review of 100 recent complaints against officers.
In those complaints, which covered closed internal affairs investigations within the last 18 months, the Oversight Office said it found three times when Long Beach police arrested both the victim and aggressor after they told conflicting stories about a domestic dispute.
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Although the number “seems very small,” Francine Kerridge, director of the Office of Police Oversight, said her staff plans to “do our due diligence to see if the issue is bigger” than just the people who filed complaints…