The Community Police Oversight Commission is scheduled to hear the Independent Police Auditor’s informational monthly report at its Aug. 13 meeting, a status update laying out which critical incident reviews remain open, which police policies are moving through review, and how many of the auditor’s past recommendations the Pasadena Police Department has taken up.
The item is listed on the agenda as informational and discussion only, and no vote is scheduled.
For residents, the monthly update functions as a ‘running scorecard’ on police oversight, a single place where the pace of critical incident reviews and the fate of past reform recommendations are set out side by side.
According to presentation slides prepared by OIR Group, three critical incident reviews remain open.
The first concerns the April 13, 2024, shooting of Ricardo Guade Andrade, a 36-year-old San Fernando resident. Officers approached Andrade as he sat in a white pickup truck parked facing the wrong way on the one-way stretch of Hudson Avenue near Del Mar Boulevard, and he drove off, narrowly missing an officer, touching off a short pursuit that ended when he crashed. He fled on foot and forced his way into two homes before officers found him in a backyard on the 700 block of Oak Knoll Circle, released a police dog and shot him after he drew a handgun and refused orders to drop it. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. The case was pending criminal and administrative review, according to the department in 2024.
The second is the Sept. 7, 2025, shooting inside the department’s own parking structure at 240 Ramona Street. One officer shot another in the shoulder as officers prepared to begin a shift; video shows an officer drawing his weapon in quick-draw fashion at an approaching patrol car, after which the seated officer drew his own gun and it discharged through the windshield. Chief of Police Eugene Harris has described the episode as unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay involving loaded firearms, and the wounded officer has recovered. The department withheld the video for more than nine months, past the 45-day window California law generally allows, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in June 2026 that it was reviewing the case. The administrative investigation is complete, while the criminal investigation and force review remain pending, according to Harris in June 2026.
The third is the March 2, 2026, shooting near the Sierra Madre Villa Metro Station. Officers were dispatched after a man was shot while trying to intervene in a sexual assault, and witness video captured a second assault on the same woman before the suspect fled. Officers located Malcolm Buchanan, 32, and during a foot pursuit he turned and fired multiple rounds, prompting officers to return fire. Officer Bryan Vasquez, a five-year veteran of the department, was wounded and underwent surgery. Police said Buchanan was on active parole for armed robbery. Family members have said Buchanan struggled with mental health issues and had stopped taking medication for bipolar disorder, and that he had been diagnosed with both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. That case was also pending criminal and administrative review as of May 2026.
The slides also list policy work in progress. A presentation on artificial intelligence-assisted report writing, including the Pasadena Police Department’s consideration of the commission’s community priorities, is scheduled for the same meeting, as is an item on energetic assisted breaching. Immigration policy and procedure updates are headed to command, a Taser policy is pending implementation and updates to a complaints policy remain pending review.
The auditor is also scheduled to report regular engagement with each of the commission’s ad hoc committees and continued reviews of technology policies, along with work wrapping up on the previous fiscal year that includes a recommendations tracker built for the commission’s website. The slides indicate the tracker would replace the auditor’s recommendation update going forward.
A summary table in the presentation counts recommendations by report. The Use of Force Review produced the largest set at 29, none of them yet listed as implemented, with 26 in progress and three the department disagreed with. The Vehicle Pursuit Review produced 12, with nine implemented, one in progress and two agreed with in concept. The Complaints Review produced nine, none yet listed as implemented, with seven in progress and two disagreements. Smaller sets came from a pretext stop curbing review, a vehicle pursuit policy review, a critical incident review and a complaint case review. Implementation status is listed as to be determined for an immigration policy review, an automated license plate recognition review and a behavioral health review, which together account for 19 additional recommendations.
The agenda for the auditor’s own portion of the meeting lists the review of calls with a behavioral health component as the featured item, with a 2026 technology update, a RIPA data and curbing update, and the resumption of the annual review cycle listed as upcoming work.
Public comment on any item is limited to three minutes and requires a speaker card submitted before comment on that item begins, and the agenda notes items may not be called in the order listed.
The Community Police Oversight Commission is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, in Council Chambers, Pasadena City Hall, 100 North Garfield Avenue, Room S249, in Pasadena. For more information call (626) 744-4124 or visit https://www.cityofpasadena.
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