“APD officers, third-party reviewers and many community members all believe that the current system for addressing potential officer misconduct in Aurora is broken, cumbersome and ineffective in promoting a culture of accountability with the department,” the report states. One of the report’s most forceful recommendations is to completely overhaul the department’s disciplinary process to make it faster, more streamlined and more transparent. Instead, the purpose of this report is to identify methods by which that the Aurora community, APD, elected officials and other stakeholders might promote ever-more-inclusive, equitable, effective and just public safety in Aurora tomorrow.” “For that matter, it is unlikely that any one of Aurora’s stakeholders alone has all of the answers. “We do not have all of the answers,” the authors wrote. The report’s authors spoke with 220 officers, city leaders and community members about the department.

The investigators - a group that included former police leaders and civil rights experts - did not investigate McClain’s death or any other specific incident, but instead conducted an overarching evaluation of the department’s use-of-force policies, training, structure and community engagement, among other topics. The city commissioned the investigation in August 2020 in the wake of renewed local and international outrage about the death of Elijah McClain at the hands of Aurora officers.

The recommendations are some of the 47 made by 21CP Solutions in a 158-page report on the department’s policies and practices presented to city leadership Monday. The Aurora Police Department must completely rethink its broken disciplinary process and strengthen its out-of-date policies governing the use of force to improve community trust, according to a sweeping review of the department by outside investigators.

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