What I found when we looked closer
Lodi packs 66,348 residents into about 13.9 square miles, nearly 4,500 people per square mile. It is a working wine town with century-old vineyards, a downtown that draws visitors, and a large share of renters, and it sits next to the Stockton area.
Density like that keeps patrol busy, and every call adds to the report queue.
Following one report through the building
The first thing we do with a new department is trace where a report goes after the officer hits submit. Here, it passes through 4 hands:
- 1Patrol officer
- 2Sergeant
- 3Investigations
- 4San Joaquin County district attorney
Every one of those readers needs the same facts from the first draft. That is what shaped what we built.
What we built for them
What we're watching
These are the signals that will tell us whether it's working here:
- Reports finished inside the shift
- Time spent translating statements by hand
- Supervisor returns per report
Figures on this page come from the department's own published materials. We only publish Code Four results after the department reviews them.
