California law requires police departments to report the number of citizen complaints and the outcome to the state’s Department of Justice, but no agency audits the data to ensure the figures ...

Kriseman said, "The number of complaints against police officers has decreased on an average when Mr. Baker was mayor from 78 to 14." Those numbers check out for citizen-initiated complaints.

As 1010 WINS' Roger Stern reported, the board found that the total number of complaints was actually down last month. But a record number of those complaints –29 percent – could be substantiated.