PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton says a report written by department analysts that alleges the use of force is higher against black inmates is “incomplete.”
Sheriff Staton says the report was meant to be for internal use only and does “nothing more than mislead the public.” The three people who hand a hand in compiling the report no longer work for the department.
The report was initiated by Staton but he says that the procedures used in putting it together were inadequate and done without input from others.
“I’m not exactly sure how it was put together — I wish I knew. It was put together and all I can do is attest to what was in those pages there but there’s nothing to support it — I don’t know where those numbers came from,” Staton tells KOIN.
The sheriff says the questions he would have liked to ask didn’t make their way into the report and could have yielded very different findings. He also says the reason the analysts no longer work for the department has nothing to do with the content of the report they wrote.
“There was no push back from this office because I didn’t even know the report existed and I wouldn’t push back on something like this,” he says.
Staton plans to compile another more comprehensive review of the use of force against black inmates, one he says will have much broader input.
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