Three members of the UC Santa Barbara Department of Economics drafted a report on the campus police department in September 2020, criticizing the departmentâs lack of transparency â in particular regarding its $10 million budget â and calling for greater public access to basic department information.Â
One of their biggest findings was that the UCPD, though part of a major public university system, did not make information publicly available on how officers spend their time on the job and how its $10 million budget is being used.
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The report was authored by three department members as part of a diversity initiative following the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, and later circulated internally among UCSB faculty in the social sciences division.Â
On Jan. 1, I.V.’s daily case rate, which shows the average number of daily confirmed cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days, was 19.7. On Jan. 22, the daily case rate was 53.7.