Charts: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime
THREE CHARTS
— Homicides in California’s largest cities
— Homicide Detective case loads
— Wages and Overtime for Homicide Detectives
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Special investigation:
-Understaffed Oakland department behind other cities in solving homicides
-Oakland homicide clearance numbers vary
-OPD homicide detectives focus on interrogation, sometimes at expense of other investigation
-Law enforcement reports and statistics are available on the Internet
- CHARTS: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime
Special investigation:
-Understaffed Oakland department behind other cities in solving homicides
-Oakland homicide clearance numbers vary
-OPD homicide detectives focus on interrogation, sometimes at expense of other investigation
-Law enforcement reports and statistics are available on the Internet
- CHARTS: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime
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| Homicides in California’s largest cities,* ranked by clearance rate | ||||
| Cities | Murders in 2006 and 2007 | Murders solved in 2006-2007 | 2006-2007 clearance rate | |
| Oakland | 265 | 108 | 41% | |
| San Francisco | 186 | 91 | 49% | |
| Long Beach | 83 | 47 | 57% | |
| Los Angeles | 875 | 508 | 58% | |
| Anaheim | 27 | 16 | 59% | |
| San Diego | 127 | 76 | 60% | |
| Bakersfield | 39 | 24 | 62% | |
| Sacramento | 101 | 70 | 69% | |
| San Jose | 62 | 43 | 69% | |
| Fresno | 104 | 78 | 75% | |
| Santa Ana | 49 | 44 | 90% | |
| *California cities with populations exceeding 300,000. Murder includes non-negligent manslaughter. A murder is considered solved, or cleared, when there’s been an arrest or when a case is solved without an arrest, such as when an offender dies. A murder is counted in the year it happened. A clearance is counted in the year it happened. Oakland’s solved murders are estimated. | ||||
| Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, California Department of Justice Criminal Justice Statistics Center, Oakland Police Department, Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. | ||||
| Homicide Detective Case Loads* | |||||||
| Cases cleared by homicide detectives in California’s 11 cities with populations of more than 300,000. Ranked by new murders per detective. | |||||||
| Police department | Number of investigators 2006-2007 | New murders per detective (annual average, 2006-2007) | Cases cleared per detective (annual average, 2006-2007) | ||||
| Oakland | 10 | 13.3 | 5.4 | ||||
| San Francisco | 17 | 5.5 | 2.7 | ||||
| Fresno | 12 | 4.3 | 3.3 | ||||
| Sacramento | 12 | 4.2 | 2.9 | ||||
| Long Beach | 10 | 4.2 | 2.4 | ||||
| San Jose | 12 | 2.6 | 1.8 | ||||
| San Diego | 24 | 2.6 | 1.6 | ||||
| Los Angeles | 177 | 2.5 | 1.4 | ||||
| Anaheim | 6 | 2.3 | 1.3 | ||||
| Santa Ana | 12 | 2.0 | 1.8 | ||||
| Bakersfield | did not reply | ||||||
| *Time spent on cold cases varies. Anaheim investigators also work major assaults. Santa Ana investigators also work kidnappings. The number of cases cleared in Oakland is an estimate. | |||||||
| Source: Oakland Police Department, California Department of Justice, Chauncey Bailey Project research | |||||||
| Wages and Overtime for Homicide Detectives | |||
| 2007 wages for Oakland’s 10 current homicide investigators and their rank among 1,000 Oakland Police Department employees, based on total compensation including overtime: | |||
| Oakland Police Department’s homicide investigators had an annual base salary last year of $100,576, before overtime, according to city records. This was in line with a statewide average of about $100,000, according to Dennis Kilcoyne, president of the California Homicide Investigators Association. In San Francisco the base wage was $106,990. | |||
| Officer | Salary* | Ranking | Hours of overtime |
| Trevelyon “Tony” Jones | $267,935 | 1 | 2,214 |
| James Rullamas | $246,916 | 3 | 1,736 |
| James Morris | $232,751 | 5 | 1,569 |
| Richard Andreotti | $229,054 | 6 | 1,652 |
| Caesar Basa Jr. | $222,557 | 9 | 1,253 |
| Louis Cruz | $207,337 | 19 | 1,314 |
| George Phillips | $206,160 | 20 | 1,339 |
| Derwin Longmire | $185,304 | 47 | 985 |
| Todd Crutchfield | $182,330 | 52 | 1,071 |
| Gustavo Galindo* | $136,609 | 264 | 385 |
| *Galindo did not work homicide all year. | |||
| Source: City of Oakland, Oakland Police Department | |||
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