CP photo: Jared Wickerham
Pittsburgh Police officers during a protest in Downtown Pittsburgh in July 2020
Out of more than 3,100 complaints about Pittsburgh Police officers to the city’s Citizen Police Review Board over the last decade, more than 6% of them came from just 1.2% of officers. Just 11 officers — of the 919 that received complaints between 2010-2019 — had more than 13 complaints each.
One officer racked up a staggering 57 complaints, and is no longer on the force, according to Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb.
The vast majority of officers, 685 of them, had one or two complaints lodged against them. According to the audit conducted by Lamb, most complaints are found to be unsubstantiated. About 58% of complaints were found to be unsubstantiated, about 10% were resolved through mediation, and 1.3% proceeded to a public hearing and then were sustained.