In Philadelphia, oversight of law enforcement is taking a proactive turn with the Citizens Police Oversight Commission's (CPOC) Auditing and Monitoring Unit taking action. The unit, as detailed in a recent report by the City of Philadelphia, has started conducting real-time audits of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) misconduct investigations performed by the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) since July 2024.
The Auditing and Monitoring Unit's tasks include ensuring that the police are held accountable and that investigations are fair, complete, and impartial, as the City of Philadelphia has emphasized. Between July and September, they completed 85 audits, providing feedback in 59 cases and a total of 155 individual recommendations. However, there were cases – 15 out of 85, to be exact, that didn't meet the 90-day deadline set for investigations, though the delays were reportedly justified.
