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>> HAVRDA: WELCOME TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING, TODAY IS OCTOBER 10TH.
MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU CALL THE ROLL PLEASE. >>
WILL YOU CALL ROLE, PLEASE. >> CLERK: CHAIR, WE HAVE
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>> HAVRDA: I'M SORRY WE'RE GETTING STARTED LATE, BUT I MOVE PRETTY QUICK. A REMINDER TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WE HAVE SEVEN MINUTES TO SPEAK FIRST ROUND AND THREE THE SECOND ROUND IF NEEDED.
FIRST ITEM IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 19TH.
WE DID SEND OUT A CORRECTED VERSION WITH A TYPO.
WERE THERE ANY CORRECTIONS TO THE MINTS? THE MINUTES? OKAY. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION
TO APPROVE. >> MAYOR NIRENBERG: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR ."
(AYES.) >> VILLAGOMEZ: MADAM, CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THIS ITEM.
BACK IN 2022, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PARTNERED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO TO DEVELOP A VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PLAN.
THIS PLAN WAS IMPLEMENTED IN JANUARY, 2023, AND WHICH HAVE BEEN REPORTING TO THE CITY COUNCIL THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST STRATEGY WITHIN THIS PLAN, WHICH IS COMPLETED EVERY 60 DAYS. SO TODAY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE PRESENTING TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE IS THE MIDYEAR REPORT.
THIS IS THE EVALUATION AND THE RESULTS OF THE PLAN FROM JANUARY 2023 TO JUNE 2023. TO PRESENT THIS RESULTS AND THE VALUATION OF THE PLAN, DR. MICHAEL SMITH, UTSA PROFESSOR FOR CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE WILL BE MAKING THIS PRESENTATION. DR. SMITH?
>> TH THANK YOU, MARIA, AND GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE.
THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AND ALLOWING OUR TEAM TO REPORT OUT TO YOU WHAT -- WHAT THE RESULTS HAVE BEEN OF THE CRIME PLAN TO DATE.
AND, MARIA, THANK YOU FOR THAT INTRODUCTION AS WELL.
YOU'VE ALREADY COVERED SOME OF -- SOME OF MY GROUND.
BUT AS A QUICK REMINDER OF WHAT THE CRIME PLAN IS AND WHAT IT CONSISTS OF, WE HAVE THREE PRIMARY STRATEGIES THAT MAKE UP THE -- WHAT WE JUST IN SHORTHAND CALL THE CRIME PLAN. A SHORT-TERM -- OR A NEAR-TERM HOT SPOTS POLICING STRATEGY, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO INCREASE POLICE VISIBILITY IN SMALL, VERY SMALL AREAS THAT HAVE HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENT CRIME. AND THAT'S THE STRATEGY THAT GOT UNDERWAY IN JANUARY OF 2023 AND IS ONGOING TODAY. THE MIDTERM STRATEGY IS A PROBLEM-ORIENTED PLACE-BASED POLICING STRATEGY THAT, AGAIN, FOCUSES ON VIOLENT PLACES BUT ATTEMPTS TO USE DATA TO UNDERSTAND THE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS IN THOSE PLACES THAT GIVE RISE TO VIOLENT CRIME.
AND THEN TO BRING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM TOGETHER TO HELP ADDRESS THOSE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS. THAT STRATEGY IS ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY, I WOULD SAY. WE'RE CLOSE.
WE'VE -- WE HAVE IDENTIFIED POTENTIAL CANDIDATE PLACES FOR THE FIRST ROUND, IF YOU WILL. OUR TEAM FROM UTSA HAS DONE SOME INITIAL TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS WHOSE AREAS WILL LIKELY BE INVOLVED IN THAT EFFORT. AND THEN WE'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE STEPS THAT I'LL TALK ABOUT AT THE END THAT ARE COMING UP SHORTLY. AND THE LONGER TERM STRATEGY IS OFFENDER-FOCUSED STRATEGY, IT'S DESIGNED TO HELP BREAK THE CYCLE AMONG CHRONIC AND REPEAT VIOLENT OFFENDERS BY OFFERING THEM ALTERNATIVES TO THE LIFESTYLE THAT FOR MANY OF THEM THEY'VE BEEN IN FOR MOST OF THEIR LIVES. WE HAVE NOT GOTTEN TO THAT STRATEGY YET, AND PROBABLY WON'T FOR A BIT YET. SO THAT'S AN UPDATE SORT OF -- OR A REFRESHER, RATHER, FOR WHAT THE PLAN CONSISTS OF AND WHAT ITS
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COMPONENTS ARE. THE HOT SPOTS POLICING STRATEGY, AS I SAID, HAS BEEN IN EFFECT SINCE JANUARY 1ST OF 2023 OF THIS YEAR.WE HAVE DIVIDED THE CITY INTO SMALL 100-METER BY 100-METER GRIDS.
AND THERE'S ABOUT 135, 136,000 OF THOSE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
THOSE ARE THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS FOR MAPPING CRIME AND ALSO SAPD'S ANALYSIS FOR DEPLOYING POLICE RESOURCES TO THOSE LOCATIONS THAT CRIME ANALYSIS INDICATES HAVE BEEN PRODUCING DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNTS OF VIOLENT CRIME IN THE PREVIOUS 60 DAYS. IN SOME CASES, OR IN SOME CASES OVER A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME . SO WE RE -- MARIA MENTIONED THAT WE REDO THIS ANALYSIS EVERY 60 DAYS, AND SAPD MOVES ITS RESOURCES AROUND AS HOT SPOTS BECOME HOT OR AS PLACES THAT WERE TREATED COOL OFF AND ARE NO LONGER HOT, THEY ARE REPLACED.
OUT OF THAT 135,000 GRIDS, THEY'RE TREATING ONLY ABOUT 35 EVERY 60 DAYS. AND THAT'S THE UNIQUE THING ABOUT THIS STRATEGY IS IT'S VERY LIGHT FOOTPRINT IN TERMS OF THE INTERVENTION, THE POLICE ARE SITTING THERE IN LIGHTED PATROL CARS FOR 15 MINUTES DURING PEAK CRIME HOURS AND PEAK CRIME DAYS, WHICH WE IDENTIFY AS PART OF THAT ANALYSIS. AND THEN THEY'RE -- THEY MOVE ON AND GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. AND THAT SORT OF ROTATES THROUGH THE WEEK.
AND THEN EVERY 60 DAYS, WE ROTATE GRIDS. SOME GRIDS ROLL OVER, MANY TIMES WE TREAT THEM ABOU -- ABOUT HALF THE TIME, THEY DON'T.
AND THEY'RE ONLY TREATED IN THAT ONE PARTICULAR PERIOD.
SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK AROUND AND SOMETIMES THEY DON'T.
SOMETIMES THEY ONLY GET TREATED ONCE. SO THAT'S THE STRATEGY.
LOTS OF RESEARCH BEHIND IT AND GOOD EVIDENCE FOR ITS SUCCESS, IN OTHER PLACES AS WELL AS HERE, AS YOU'LL SEE IN A MINUTE.
AND THE GOAL IS TO DETER. IS TO DETER -- DRIVE DOWN VIOLENT CRIME BY DETERRING THOSE WHO MAY POTENTIALLY WANT TO COMMIT VIOLENT CRIME AT THOSE PLACES, BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE POLICE. SO FOR TODAY'S PRESENTATION, WE WILL BE COVERING THE RESULTS FROM -- COLLECTIVELY FOR -- ABOUT FOR THE FIRST THREE PERIODS OF THE CRIME PLAN, SO THAT'S JANUARY 1ST THROUGH JUNE 30TH OF 2023. THAT'S THE FIRST THREE PERIODS, EVERY 60 DAYS.
WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE FIFTH PERIOD, SO THE MONTH OF -- THE MONTH OF JULY AND AUGUST WAS PERIOD 4, AND THEN WE'RE CURRENTLY IN PERIOD 5.
BUT THESE RESULTS ARE UP THROUGH THE MIDYEAR AS MARIA INDICATED.
THIS IS THE MIDYEAR -- HOPEFULLY YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THE REPORT THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT, BUT THIS IS THE MIDYEAR REPORT.
SO FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE CRIME PLAN. SO ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT WITH THE HOT SPOT STRATEGY IS WHETHER THE OFFICERS ARE IN THE LOCATIONS THAT THEY'RE ASSIGNED TO BE WHEN THEY NEED TO BE THERE. WE CALL THAT TREATMENT FIDELITY.
IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE KIND OF STAY FAITHFUL TO THE PLAN.
EVERY 60 DAYS, MY TEAM DOES THE CRIME ANALYSIS, NOT ONLY BY LOCATION, BUT ALSO BY TIME AND BY DAY OF THE WEEK, AND A DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULE IS -- A TREATMENT SCHEDULE IS DEVELOPED. A AS A RESULT OF THAT, AND THEN THE SAPD COVERS THOSE -- THOSE TREATMENT TIMES IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS. THEY USE -- SOMETIMES THEY USE SPECIALTY UNITS TO DO THAT, SOMETIMES THEY USE REGULAR PATROL OFFICERS TO DO THAT, BUT THE GOAL IS TO HAVE OFFICERS AT THOSE LOCATIONS AT THE RIGHT TIMES ACROSS THE DAYS OF THE WEEK AND ACROSS THE 60 DAYS.
AND, AGAIN, WE CALL THAT FIDELITY OR TREATMENT FIDELITY.
AND SO WE TRACK THAT VERY CAREFULLY. AND THE SAPD DOES A GREAT JOB AT BEING FAITHFUL TO THE PLAN. AS YOU CAN SEE THERE, BY PERIOD, THEY'RE TYPICALLY IN THE '90S. PERIOD 3 FELL OFF A LITTLE BIT, BUT THAT'S A BIT OF AN OUTLIER. USUALLY THEY'RE IN THE LOW TO MID 90S IN TERMS OF TREATMENT FIDELITY, SO THAT'S REALLY -- THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE WE HOPED THAT THEY WOULD BE, ABOVE 90%, AND THEY'RE THERE ALMOST -- ALMOST ALL THE TREATMENT PERIODS TO DATE. THIS IS A MAIN SLIDE THAT SHOWS YOU WHAT THE TREATMENT EFFECT HAS BEEN THROUGH THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE CRIME
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PLAN. AND I'LL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. AND I HAVE A POINTER I CAN USE HERE TO SHOW YOU, IF I CAN GET IT OUT OF MY POCKET. OKAY.SO LEFT TO RIGHT THEN, THE SOLID BARS REPRESENT THE TREATMENT EFFECT IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS COMPARED TO THE SAME SIX MONTHS THE YEAR BEFORE.
SO YOU'RE BASICALLY COMPARING JANUARY TO JUNE OF 2023 TO JANUARY TO JUNE OF 2022 IN THE SOLID BARS. THE HATCH BARS REPRESENT THE SIX MONTHS TREATMENT PERIOD JANUARY TO JUNE 2023 TO THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTH AVERAGE. AND THEN -- SO FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, YOU SEE THE CITYWIDE EFFECT, SO VIOLENT CRIME BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE WAS DOWN ABOUT 13% ACROSS THE CITY COMPARED TO THE YEAR BEFORE.
AND IT WAS DOWN ABOUT 9% COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS.
THE NEXT SET OF BARS THERE, READING LEFT TO RIGHT, IS AN AVERAGE ACROSS ALL OF THE TREATMENT PERIODS. SO IN THE TREATMENT -- IN THE TREATMENT AREAS, WHAT WE CALL GRIDS. AND, REMEMBER, WE TREAT ABOUT 35 EVERY 60 DAYS. SO COMPARED TO LAST YEAR THOSE GRIDS THAT R WITH TREATED ARE DOWN ABOUT 42% IN VIOLENT CRIME COMPARED TO WHERE THEY WERE THE YEAR BEFORE. AND THESE ARE THE HOTTEST OF THE HOT SPOTS.
SO THE REASON THAT WE -- THOSE 35 ARE BEING TREATED IS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE HIGHEST CRIME PRODUCING MICROLOCATIONS IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. AND SO THE THEORY BEHIND THIS STRATEGY IS IF WE CAN REDUCE VIOLENT CRIME IN THE MOST CRIME-PRODUCING AREAS, THAT WE CAN THEN POTENTIALLY MOVE THE NEEDLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY. THAT'S THE PATTERN THAT WE HOPE TO SEE, AND AT LEAST SO FAR -- AND WE'RE ONLY SIX MONTHS IN -- OR AT LEAST AS OF THIS REPORT WE'RE ONLY SIX MONTHS IN- IN -- THAT IS INDEED THE TREND THAT WE'RE SEEING. VIOLENT CRIME DOWN IN THE HOTTEST AREAS AND VIOLENT CRIME DOWN CITYWIDE ABOUT 9%. READING THE GRAPH FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, THAT JUST BREAKS OUT THE DIFFERENT TREATMENT PERIODS.
WE'VE HAD THREE SO FAR, AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT CRIME HAS DONE IN THE TREATMENT GRIDS. AND THEN ALSO IN THE CATCHMENT GRIDS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO IN THE ANALYSIS THAT WE PERFORM EVERY 60 DAYS IS WE LOOK AT NOT ONLY WHAT CRIME IS DOING IN THOSE SMALL GRIDS THAT ARE BEING TREATED, BUT ALSO IN ABOUT 1,000-FOOT BUFFER AROUND THOSE TREATED GRIDS. WE CALL THOSE CATCHMENT AREAS, AND WE LOOK AT CRIME CHANGES IN THOSE CATCHMENT AREAS FOR TWO REASONS: ONE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT CRIME HAS -- HAS BEEN DISPLACED.
DID IT JUST MOVE AROUND THE CORNER? AND THERE'S OFTENTIMES PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT NECESSARILY AS FAMILIAR WITH THE RESEARCH AS WE ARE, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE DO -- THAT'S WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT.
WELL, IF THE POLICE ARE ON A STREET CORNER WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF CRIME, WON'T THE CRIMINALS JUST MOVE AROUND THE CORNER? SO WE LOOKED FOR THAT.
WE LOOK FOR THAT DISPLACEMENT EFFECT. AND WE ALSO LOOK TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT MAYBE THE AREAS IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING THOSE TREATMENT GRIDS ACTUALLY BENEFITED FROM THE TREATMENT.
WE CALL THAT A DIFFUSION OF BENEFITS. AND THAT'S TYPICALLY THE PATTERN THAT WE SEE, AND THAT -- IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATA -- OR THE GRAPHS THERE, YOU CAN SEE MOST OF THEM ARE NEGATIVE, THEY'RE IN THE GREEN.
YOU'VE GOT A COUPLE, DEPENDING ON THE COMPARISON PERIOD AND THE TREATMENT PERIOD, YOU'VE GOT A COUPLE OF CATCHMENT AREA SPIKES, UNDER 10%, AND WE SEE THOSE OCCASIONALLY. THAT -- UNLESS WE SEE A PATTERN, WE DON'T TYPICALLY ARE NOT TOO CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE SOOSORT OF TRENDS UP AND DOWN IN EITHER DIRECTION.
BUT THE OVERALL PATTERN IS VERY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE LITERATURE SUGGESTS YOU SHOULD SEE WITH HOT SPOT POLICING, IT'S ALSO VERY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER CITIES THAT WERE ENGAGED IN THE SAME PLAN. SO BY AND LARGE, THE AREAS AROUND OUR TREATMENT GRIDS, THEY ACTUALLY BENEFIT FROM THE CRIME PLAN.
IN SOME CASES, PRETTY -- PRETTY SUBSTANTIALLY, SO YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, CRIME IS DOWN IN PERIOD 1 IN THE CATCHMENT AREAS BY 17% COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, FOR EXAMPLE. SO SOME VARIATION, OF COURSE, BUT OVERALL, WE SEE NO -- NO PATTERN AT ALL OF DISPLACEMENT, NO
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CONSISTENT PATTERN OF DISPLACEMENT. IN FACT, WE SEE A DIFFUSION OF BENEFITS EFFECT FROM THE TREATMENT ITSELF.THIS BREAKS OUT THE MAIN CRIME CATEGORIES THAT WE TRACK.
THIS CRIME STRATEGY IS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS VIOLENT STREET CRIME.
AND THE DEFINITION OF VIOLENT STREET CRIME ARE THOSE CRIME CATEGORIES THAT YOU SEE ACROSS THE TOP OF THE PAGE. MURDER, ROBBERY, NONFAMILY VIOLENCE RELATED AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS, AND DEADLY CONDUCT. THAT'S BASICALLY CRIMES INVOLVING THE USE OF A FIREARM. AND THEN WE -- THE LINES, OF COURSE, CORRESPOND -- THE COLORED LINES CORRESPOND WITH THE CRIME -- AUDIO] -- BUT WE SUMMARIZED THE CHANGE THERE FOR YOU AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE TO MAKE IT EASIER TO FOLLOW. AND, AGAIN, THIS IS CRIME PLAN COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS. SO 14% REDUCTION IN MURDER. ABOUT A 5% DECREASE IN ROBBERIES OF INDIVIDUALS, A SLIGHT UPTICK IN ROBBERIES OF BUSINESSES OF ABOUT 7%.
12 PERCENT REDUCTION IN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND ABOUT A 27% DECREASE IN DEADLY CONDUCT, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE THE USE OF A FIREARM ALSO IS A PRECURSOR TO SOMEONE DYING OF THAT GUN. SO OVERALL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BUSINESS ROBBERIES, ALL OUR VIOLENT CRIME CATEGORIES THAT WE TRACK ARE DOWN CITYWIDE IN -- IN THE TREATMENT MONTHS, THE FIRST SIX MO MONTHS OF THE CRIME PLAN COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS 12.
THIS BREAKS DOWN CRIME BY -- VIOLENT CRIME BY SUBSTATION.
SUMMARIZED ALONG THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE ARE THE CHANGES BY SUBSTATION. WE'VE ACTUALLY PLACED THE NUMBERS IN THE TABLE FOR YOU, IN CASE YOU'RE INTERESTED. WE -- I THINK WE HAD A QUESTION LAST TIME ABOUT ACTUAL CRIME NUMBERS SO WE PUT THEM IN THAT TABLE THIS TIME FOR YOU. SO, AGAIN, COMPARING THE TREATMENT MONTHS, THAT'S THIS BAND RIGHT HERE, JANUARY TO JUNE 2023 COMPARED TO THE SAME THIS BAND. AND THEN THIS JUST SUMMARIZES THE CHANGE.
AND THEN IT'S BY SUBSTATION. SO, YOU KNOW, YOUR LARGEST DECREASE IS IN THE NORTH AT ABOUT 24%. YOUR SMALLEST IS IN THE WEST, ABOUT 3%. FORTUNATELY FOR THIS GO-ROWPPED ANYWAY, THEY'RE ALL GREEN, THEY'RE ALL IN THE NEGATIVE.
THESE ARE YOUR ACTUAL HOT SPOT -- THE PREVIOUS GRAPH WAS BY SUBSTATION.
THIS IS ACTUALLY BY HOT SPOT WITHIN SUBSTATION. AND THERE'S A LOT OF DETAIL THERE, BUT -- BUT BASICALLY, HOPEFULLY THE COLORS TELL -- TELL THE TALE AT THIS POINT. FOR THE MOST PART, EVERYTHING IS DOWN STRONGLY IN THE NEGATIVE TERRITORY ACROSS THE DIFFERENT SUBSTATIONS.
PRUE, WE SAW SOME INCREASES IN THE CATCHMENT AREA CRIME OVER THE -- OVER THIS PERIOD. THE TREATMENT AREAS THEMSELVES ARE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY. CATCHMENT AREA IS UP. AGAIN, THOSE ARE -- SOMETIMES YOU SEE THINGS LIKE THAT AND SOMETIMES YOU DON'T.
I -- YOU KNOW, TO ANTICIPATE A POTENTIAL QUESTION ABOUT THAT, I DON'T KNOW WHY -- WHY YOU WOULD SEE AN INCREASE IN ONE SUBSTATION AREA IN CAPTION AREAS AND NOT IN OTHERS. PRUE IS, AS YOU CAN SEE, SORT OF AN OUTLIER IN TERMS OF THE REST OF THE SUBSTATIONS.
IT'S -- I WOULD CHARACTERIZE IT AS AN ATYPICAL FINDING, BUT -- BUT ALSO NOT UNPRECEDENTED. WE SEE THIS FROM TIME TO TIME, FROM PERIOD TO PERIOD, AND FROM CITY TO CITY.
AND WHAT WE LOOK FOR IS WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S ANY SORT OF CONSISTENT PATTERN WITH RESPECT TO A PARTICULAR SUBSTATION AND CATCHMENT OR TREATMENT AREA. AND RIGHT -- AS SO FAR ANYWAY, WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY KIND OF P PATTERN LIKE THAT. HERE'S SOME RESULTS FOR YOU IN TERMS OF ARRESTS. SO ANOTHER ONE OF THE METRICS THAT WE TRACK AT THE SIX-MONTH INTERVAL IS THE IMPACT OF THE CRIME PLAN ON ARRESTS.
SO, AGAIN, READING LEFT TO RIGHT, THE LEFT-HAND BARS SHOW YOU CHANGE -- HERE. SHOW YOU CHANGE CITYWIDE.
AND THEN BY TREATMENT FOR ALL -- ANY KIND OF ARRESTS.
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AND THE LEGEND AT THE BOTTOM KIND OF GIVES YOU THE COMPARISON PERIOD, BUT OVERALL CITYWIDE ARRESTS WENT UP A LITTLE BIT DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS. TREATMENT AREA ARRESTS WENT UP A LITTLE BIT IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS, BUT SIGNIFICANTLY, CITYWIDE VIOLENT ARRESTS ARE DOWN. AND THEY'RE DOWN SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE TREATMENT AREAS. AND SO, AGAIN, THIS IS A VIOLENT STREET CRIME REDUCTION CATEGORY FOCUSED ON THOSE FOUR CRIME TYPES, AND SO WHAT WE HOPE TO SEE IS EXACTLY THIS PATTERN. WE HOPE TO SEE THAT VIOLENT ARRESTS IN THE TREATMENT AREA GO DOWN AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS. THERE'S BEEN -- THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES BY -- BY ARREST TYPE. WE BREAK THAT OUT BY ARREST TYPE. SO DISORDER ARRESTS, THOSE ARE SORT OF MINOR -- WE CHARACTERIZE AS MINOR OFFENSES. TRESPASSING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO IN THE TREATMENT AREAS, THEY'RE UP SIGNIFICANTLY. DRUG AREA -- EXCUSE ME, DRUG ARRESTS ARE UP SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE TREATMENT AREAS WHILE VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE TREATMENT AREAS. WEAPONS-RELATED OFFENSES -- ARRESTS, RATHER, ARE ALSO DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE TREATMENT AREAS. SO, AGAIN, THOSE ARE THE -- THAT'S WHAT, I GUESS, I WOULD SUGGEST WE HOPE TO SEE. WE HOPE TO SEE VIOLENT ARRESTS AND WEAPONS-RELATED ARRESTS GO DOWN IN THE AREAS WHERE THE POLICE ARE PRESENT. AND THEN THERE'S -- AS YOU CAN SEE, SOME VARIATION ACROSS THE DIFFERENT ARREST TYPES BY -- BY CATEGORY. WE ALSO LOOK AT CALLS FOR SERVICE.SO, AGAIN, WE -- WHAT WE HOPE TO SEE IS THAT CALLS FOR SERVICE, PARTICULARLY VIOLENT-RELATED CALLS FOR SERVICE GO DOWN IN OUR TREATMENT AREAS, AND THAT'S THE PATTERN THAT WE SEE HERE. SO ON THE FAR RIGHT-HAND SIDE, THOSE ARE VIOLENCE RELATED CALLS FOR SERVICE, THESE ARE 9-1-1 CALLS TO THE 9-1-1 CENTER THAT ARE DOWN ABOUT 23% DURING THATT SIX-MONTH PERIOD COMPARED TO THE YEAR BEFORE. AND HERE'S YOUR ALL -- YOUR ALL CALLS FOR SERVICE LUMPED TOGETHER. THEY WERE UP A LITTLE BIT CITYWIDE, BUT DOWN IN YOUR TREATMENT AREAS AND DOWN EVEN MORE IF YOU BREAK IT OUT JUST BY VIOLENCE-RELATED CALLS. THIS NEXT SLIDE IS JUST -- THIS IS -- WE SHOWED THIS TO YOU ONCE PREVIOUSLY ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO. THIS IS JUST A REMINDER OF WHAT CRIME WAS DOING IN SAN ANTONIO PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF THE CRIME PLAN.
VIOLENT CRIME HAD INCREASED ALMOST 50% IN SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT WAS DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS, INCREASES IN AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS AND INCREASES IN DEADLY CONDUCT INCIDENTS, WHICH HAD GONE FROM, YOU KNOW, AROUND 500 TO ALMOST TRIPLE THAT THREE YEARS LATER.
SO THIS WAS PRECRIME PLAN CRIME IN SAN ANTONIO. AND THEN ONE OF THE GOALS, ONE OF THE STATED GOALS IN THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT, IN THE CRIME PLAN ITSELF, WAS TO REVERSE THAT TREND. THAT'S A SHARPLY INCREASING TREND, AND ONE OF OUR STATED GOALS IN THE CRIME PLAN WAS TO SIMPLY -- YOU KNOW, WE ALL GOT FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM FLATTEN THE CURVE, IT WAS TO FLATTEN THE CURVE AND HOPEFULLY MAYBE EVEN SEND IT BACK IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. AND SO I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS I'M HAPPY TO REPORT TO YOU THAT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT'S -- WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS, IS REVERSE THE TREND, THE INCREASING TREND.
AT LEAST IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS. IT'S HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, IT'S DOWN 13% CITYWIDE COMPARED TO THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR, ABOUT 9% COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS ENTIRE 12 MONTHS.
CRIME AND TREATED HOT SPOTS IS SIGNIFICANTLY DOWN, MORE THAN 40%, AND THERE'S NO CONSISTENT EVIDENCE OF DISPLACEMENT OF THE AREAS IMMEDIATELY AROUND THOSE BEING TREATED. IN FACT, MOST OF THOSE AREAS HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE CRIME PLAN TREATMENT.
CRIME IS DOWN BY CRIME TYPE IN EVERY CATEGORY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BUSINESS ROBBERIES THAT WE NOTED BEFORE. TOTAL ARRESTS ARE -- ARE UP SLIGHTLY CITYWIDE AND IN THE TREATED HOT SPOTS, BUT THEY'RE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY FOR VIOLENCE BOTH CITYWIDE AND REALLY SIGNIFICANTLY
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IN THE TREATMENT AREAS. AND THEN CALLS FOR SERVICE, AGAIN, DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY WITH RESPECT TO VIE VIOLENCE-RELATED CALLS FOR SERVICE, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREAS THAT WE'RE TREATING, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO SEE. AND TERMS OF WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, MENTIONED THAT THE PHASE 2 OF THE CRIME PLAN, THAT PROBLEM-ORIENTED PLACED-BASE POLICING STRATEGY IS ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY.WE'VE DONE SOME TRAINING FOR THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS, WE HAVE -- THEY, RATHER, HAVE IDENTIFIED POTENTIAL LOCATION TO START THE STRATEGY IN, AND WE WILL TRAIN A WORKING GROUP, POTENTIALLY MIDLEVEL MANAGERS WITHIN THE AFFECTED DEPARTMENTS, WHO WILL COME TOGETHER AS A GROUP IN THE NEAR FUTURE. WE'LL TRAIN THEM AND THEN THEY WILL WORK TO LOOK AT -- LOOK AT A LOT OF DATA, BASICALLY, THAT THEY HAVE, THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ON CRIME AND OTHER MEASURES AT THIS LOCATION OVER TIME, TO SEE IF THEY CAN HELP IDENTIFY WHAT SOME OF THE UNDERLYING PATTERNS ARE, WHAT'S CAUSING THIS PLACE -- OR THESE PLACES TO BE VIOLENT, AND THEN THAT GROUP WILL BE TASKED WITH IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS. THEY'LL BRING THOSE -- THAT -- THOSE SOLUTIONS OR THEIR PLAN BACK TO THE -- TO THEIR AGENCY DIRECTORS WHO WILL THEN OFFER INSPUT AND THEN HOPEFULLY APPROVE THE PLAN AT SOME POINT. AND THEN IT WILL BE PUT INTO EFFECT IN THE FIRST LOCATION. SO THAT'S -- THAT'S CALLED PROBLEM-ORIENTED PLACE-BASED POLICING. AND IT'S SET TO GET UNDERWAY IN THE NEXT, PROBABLY, I WOULD SAY SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS. WE'LL START WITH ONE LOCATION AND THEN LET EVERYONE SORT OF GET USED TO THE PLAN AND THE STRATEGY AND THE PROCESS, AND THEN -- AND THEN IT WILL ROLL TO OTHER LOCATIONS, OR UNFOLD IN OTHER LOCATIONS AS TIME GOES ON.
AND THE LAST POINT I WILL MAKE, AND THIS IS -- WE HAVE A TABLE, AN APPENDIX, RATHER, IN THE BACK OF THE REPORT, THE SIX-MONTH REPORT, WHERE WE BREAK OUT CRIME -- VIOLENT CRIME BY CRIME TYPE IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN SAN ANTONIO. IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHILE WE HAVE INITIALLY FLATTENED THE CURVE OF VIOLENT CRIME IN SAN ANTONIO FOR -- THROUGH THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE CRIME PLAN, VIOLENT CRIME REMAINS SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER IN SAN ANTONIO THAN IT WAS PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. WE'RE CERTAINLY AT HIGHER LEVELS OF VIOLENT CRIME THAN THREE YEARS AGO, AND THERE'S A LOT OF WORK LEFT TO BE DONE, SO... THAT'S MY REPORT. AND HAPPY TO TAKE ANY
QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. >> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, SO MUCH. I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. I JUST WANT TO FIRST SAY I WAS AN ADVOCATE OF THIS POLICY PROGRAM, BUT I KNOW SOME RESERVATIONS, AND YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THEM IN YOUR PRESENTATION.
I THINK THE BIG ONE WAS DISPLACEMENT, THE OTHER ONE WAS THE LASTING EFFECT. I HEARD TODAY ABOUT DISPLACEMENT, NOT SO MUCH ABOUT LASTING EFFECT. SO MY FIRST QUESTION REALLY IS ABOUT HAVE YOU GONE -- ARE YOU ABLE TO GO BACK, YOU KNOW, SIX MONTHS LATER, THREE MONTHS LATER, AND SEE IF THOSE NUMBERS ARE STILL DOWN?
>> SO THE REPORT THAT I GAVE YOU COVERS THE FIRST SIX MONTHS.
>> HAVRDA: UH-HUH. >> SO IF YOUR QUESTION IS, ARE AREAS THAT WERE TREATED ONCE, RIGHT, DOES CRIME GO BACK UP IN THEM?
YEAH, SO -- IS THAT -- WAS THAT YOUR QUESTION. >> HAVRDA: YES.
>> SO IT VARIES. SOMETIMES, IN SOME CASES, WE TREAT AN AREA ONE TIME, A HOT SPOT ONE TIME, AND YOU NEVER HAVE TO TREAT IT AGAIN.
>> HAVRDA: SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT NEVER HAVE TO TREAT IT AGAIN IS PRETTY BROAD STATEMENT -- OR BOLD STATEMENT. I MEAN, IF YOU THINK YOU'VE -- I MEAN, DOES THE DATA SHOW WHAT YOU JUST SAID?
>> IN SOME CASES, YES. IN SOME CASES WE HAVE GRIDS THAT WE TREATED ONE
TIME. >> HAVRDA: OKAY. >> AND WE HAVEN'T TREATED
THEM AGAIN. >> HAVRDA: OKAY. >> NOW, THAT'S -- IF I CAN FINISH, THAT'S NOT TYPICAL. USUALLY WHAT WILL OFTEN HAPPEN IS WE'LL TREAT A GRID, AND IT WILL -- YOU SAW THE RESULTS LIKE
CRIME GOES WAY DOWN WHILE THE POLICE ARE THERE. >> HAVRDA: UH-HUH.
>> AND SO THEN IT WILL FALL OFF THE TOP 35 LIST, AND IT WON'T BE ON THE NEXT 60-DAY LIST, BUT THEN IT WILL COME BACK AROUND, YOU KNOW.
AND SOMETIMES IT'S THE NEXT 60 DAYS, SOMETIMES IT'S A COUPLE 60-DAY PERIODS OUT --
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DESCRIBING THE PAT ESCH THAT WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER CITIES.>> HAVRDA: IN OTHER CITIES. OKAY.
>> AND THEN THERE ARE SOME GRIDS THAT YOU TREAT REPEATEDLY.
>> HAVRDA: OKAY. >> THOSE ARE REALLY GOOD AREAS THAT ARE -- THEY'RE REALLY GOOD CANDIDATES FOR THAT PROBLEM-ORIENTED STRATEGY.
IT REPLACES THE LONG-TERM PROBLEMS WITH VIOLENCE IN SAN ANTONIO FOR A LONG TIME. AND PUTTING POLICE OFFICERS THERE HELPS LOWER THE TEMPERATURE, BUT IT -- IT'S NOT OBVIOUSLY GOING TO BE THE
SOLUTION THERE. >> HAVRDA: OKAY. THANK YOU.
AND I DID INTERRUPT YOU, SO I APOLOGIZE. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT DATA. NEXT TIME AROUND, IF YOU COULD GIVE US THE DATA ON WHAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW, JUST E-MAIL IT TO THIS COMMITTEE -- OR TO MARIA, AND SHE CAN GET IT TO US, WOULD BE HELPFUL. NEXT TIME AROUND WE DO A PRESENTATION, AS MUCH AS, I THINK, THE DISPLACEMENT INFORMATION IS HELPFUL, I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN THREE MONTHS AND SIX MONTHS.
THE REASON I INTERRUPTED YOU IS TO SAY WE NEVER WILL NEED IT AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW THAT. WE COULD NEED IT AGAIN IN A FEW YEARS, WE COULD NEVER NEED IT AGAIN, YOU'RE RIGHT. I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE DATA ON THIS. THIS IS REALLY WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT FOR US WAS SEEING THIS DATA. THIS WAS A REALLY HIGHLY ANTICIPATED -- FOR ME ANYWAY -- PRESENTATION. IT'S BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN DALLAS, THEY DID IT BEFORE US AND IT'S BEEN SUCCESSFUL THERE. THERE'S ANOTHER TEXAS CITY, I CAN'T THINK OF RIGHT NOW, I THOUGHT, THAT USED IT, TOO, AND
IT'S BEEN SUCCESSFUL. >> NOT IN TEXAS. WASHINGTON, SALT LAKE
CITY, UTAH. >> HAVRDA: I KNOW IT WAS SUCCESSFUL THERE, SO I HAVE BEEN EXCITED ABOUT HEARING THESE RESULTS. I DO SEE -- I DO SEE THE DATA AND IT'S SHOWING THAT IT'S WORKING. MY CONCERN IS THAT IT'S WORKING AT THIS POINT IN TIME. AND SO I'D LIKE TO SEE THE LASTING EFFECT, THE DISPLACEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF BENEFITS ALL INTERESTING AND -- WAS GOING TO BE A QUESTION THAT I HAD IF YOU DIDN'T ANSWER IT, SO THAT IS HELPFUL. I'LL TELL YOU, WE ALL KNOW IN OUR OWN DISTRICTS -- AND OUTSIDE OF OUR DISTRICTS, WE KNOW IN OUR CITY WHAT WE THINK ARE THE HOT SPOTS ARE. SO TO KNOW THAT POTENTIALLY THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING DOWN -- AND LET ME BE VERY CLEAR, EVEN IN THE SHORT-TERM, IT'S GREAT. I'D LIKE TO SEE LONG-TERM, BUT MY CONCERN IS THAT -- YOU JUST SAID IT, RIGHT? IT'S NOT THE SOLUTION. IT'S GOING TO BE MAIBZ PART OF A BIGGER SOLUTION. SO I'LL JUMP OVER TO ANOTHER QUESTION.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE -- YOU SAID THAT THE DATA SHOWED THAT CRIMES WERE DOWN, CALLS FOR SERVICE WERE DOWN. BUT IF I UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY, ARRESTS WERE UP. HOW DOES --
>> IT DEPENDS BY THE ARREST TYPE. SOME WERE DOWN AND SOME WERE UP, DEPENDING ON THE ARREST TYPE. SO I'LL GO BACK TO THE
SLIDE. >> HAVRDA: OKAY. >> THERE IT IS.
SO VIOLENCE-RELATED ARRESTS ARE DOWN CITYWIDE AND SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE TREATED AREAS. FIREARMS ARRESTS ARE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE TREATED AREAS. UP SLIGHTLY CITYWIDE. DISORDER-RELATED ARRESTS ARE DOWN CITYWIDE, UP SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE TREATED AREAS, AND THE SAME WITH DRUG ARRESTS. UP SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE TREATED AREAS, UP A LITTLE BIT IN THE CITY. SO IT'S SORT OF A MIXED PICTURE IN TERMS OF ARRESTS, ARE THEY GOING UP OR DOWN? IT DEPENDS ON THE ARREST TYPE. FOR VIOLENCE-RELATED ARREST, THE STORY IS
QUITE GOOD. THEY'RE DOWN. >> HAVRDA: OKAY.
THAT MAKES SENSE. AND THEN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IN THE HOT SPOT
AND CITYWIDE. >> CORRECT. >> HAVRDA: THAT'S -- OKAY. SO IT'S KIND OF A TECHNICAL QUESTION, BUT THERE'S A -- YOU HAVE TREATMENT AND CATCHMENT. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN TREATMENT -- >> THE TREATMENT ARE THE TREATED GRIDS, THOSE 35 THAT GET TREATMENT. AND THE CATCHMENT ARE THE AREAS RIGHT AROUND THEM.
>> HAVRDA: OKAY. SO THE CATCHMENT IS WHERE YOU'RE MONITORING
DISPLACEMENT? >> CORRECT. >> HAVRDA: GOT IT.
OKAY. AND THEN THE -- I THINK IT WAS SLIDE 15, YOU TALK ABOUT CAUSES OF CRIME. ON THAT SLIDE ITSELF, YOU MENTIONED DATA DRIVEN STRATEGY TO IDENTIFY PROXIMATE CAUSES OF VIOLENCE AT CRIME-PRONE LOCATIONS. IS THAT STILL -- IS THERE DATA ON THAT?
I MEAN, DO WE -- ARE YOU -- >> SO THAT'S THE MIDTERM
STRATEGY, THE ONE THAT'S ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY. >> HAVRDA: OKAY.
SO THAT'S IN JANUARY. >> BETWEEN NOW AND JANUARY.
>> HAVRDA: OKAY. >> THAT GROUP, THAT WORKING GROUP THAT WILL BEGIN TO DIVE INTO THE DATA TO TRY TO FIGURE THAT OUT WILL BEGIN IN
THE NEXT SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS. >> HAVRDA: OKAY.
OKAY. I THINK THAT WAS IT FOR ME.
OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
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COUNCILWOMAN ALDERETE GAVITO? >> GAVITO: THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION, BY THE WAY. CAN WE SEE HOT SPOTS FOR OUR SPECIFIC DISTRICTS? COUNCILWOMAN, IF I MAY, CHIEF AND I CAN VISIT WITH YOU ON --
SPECIFICALLY IN YOUR DISTRICT. >> GAVITO: OKAY.
>> VILLAGOMEZ: WE DON'T SHARE THE LOCATIONS PUBLICLY FOR SAFETY OF THE OFFICERS, BUT WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU AND REVIEW THOSE WITH
YOU. >> GAVITO: OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD.
NO, I UNDERSTAND THE SAFETY CONCERNS, BUT LIKE COUNCILWOMAN CABELLO HAVRDA WAS SAYING, WE ALL KIND OF KNOW WHERE THE PROBLEM AREAS ARE IN OUR DISTRICT, AND SO JUST WANTED TO HAVE THAT GOOD GUT CHECK.
>> VILLAGOMEZ: SURE. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO VISIT WITH YOU.
>> GAVITO: AWESOME. LET'S SEE. ON SLIDE 3 WHERE IT SAYS THAT OFFICERS ARE DISPATCHED DURING HOT SPOTS DURING PEAK CRIME HOURS, WHEN IS IT THAT THE -- WHEN IS CRIME AT ITS PEAK HOURS.
>> SO IT VARIES BY HOT SPOTS. WE DO THAT ANALYSIS BY
HOT SPOT. >> GAVITO: OKAY. >> AND IT DOES VARY BY HOT SPOT. AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE PEAK CRIME HOURS DURING
THE BROAD DAYLIGHT, DEPENDING ON THE PLACE. >> GAVITO: OKAY.
>> AND SOMETIMES IT'S AT NIGHT WHEN MOST PEOPLE WOULD KIND OF THINK IT
MIGHT BE, BUT NOT ALWAYS. >> GAVITO: OKAY.
>> THERE ARE TREATMENT PERIODS PRETTY CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT
THE DAY, THROUGHOUT THE 24 HOURS. >> GAVITO: OKAY.
THANK YOU. AND ON SLIDE 7, IT NOTES A RISE IN ROBBERY ON BUSINESSES. WHAT IS YOUR INSIGHT ON THAT?
>> I DON'T HAVE ANY REAL -- I THINK, DEFINITIVE EXPLANATION FOR THAT GIVEN THE OTHER DECREASES THAT YOU SEE. YOU KNOW, I -- I'LL SAY THIS ABOUT ROBBERY GENERALLY AS A CRIME, AND WE TALK ABOUT THIS.
WE MEET WITH THE SAPD EVERY WEEK TO TALK ABOUT THE DATA AND SO FORTH.
RROBBERY IS A REPEAT OFFENSE. PEOPLE WHO COMMIT ROBBERIES, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THEY DO. THEY'RE ROBBERS.
AND THEY WILL DO THAT REPEATEDLY TYPICALLY UNTIL THEY GET CAUGHT.
AND IF YOU HAVE A CREW, THE STREET TERM FOR GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO GO AROUND ROBBING BUSINESSES IS A CREW, YOU HAVE ROBBERY CREWS, ONE OR TWO OF THOSE CAN BE VERY PROLIFIC. AND IF ONE OR TWO OF THEM ARE ACTIVE AND THE POLICE HAVEN'T YET CAUGHT THEM, THEY CAN -- THEY CAN DO A LOT OF DAMAGE BEFORE -- BEFORE YOU CAN GET THEM UNDER CONTROL.
>> GAVITO: YEAH. I CAN'T REMEMBER, CHIEF, YOU AND I MAY HAVE BEEN HAVING THIS CONVERSATION, BUT ABOUT THAT ROBBERY CREW THAT WAS BREAKING INTO ALL THE CARS UP ON THE NORTH SIDE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THEY -- THEY WERE PRETTY DAMAGING. BUT, OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT.
ON SLIDE 15 WITH THAT TIMELINE THAT STATES THAT Y'ALL ARE GOING TO WORK TO IDENTIFY AREAS BASED ON HISTORICAL CRIME AND ARRESTS AND CALLS FOR SERVICE. ARE 3-1-1 OR CODE CALLS OR ACS CALLS BAKED INTO
THAT? >> NOT FOR IDENTIFYING THE PLACES.
IT'S PRIMARILY VIOLENT CRIME DRIVEN, IT'S A VIOLENT CRIME STRATEGY.
>> VILLAGOMEZ: AND COUNCILWOMAN, I WOULD ADD AS PART OF THE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS TO THE VIOLENT CRIME THAT WE'RE SEEING IN THOSE AREAS, WE ARE INCORPORATING THE 3-1-1 CALLS, CODE ENFORCEMENT, OTHER CALLS THAT THE CITY RECEIVES FOR POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS, BUT NOT FOR THE ORIGINAL
IDENTIFICATION OF THE LOCATION. >> GAVITO: OKAY.
THAT'S HELPFUL. AND, AGAIN, I THINK THAT GOES BACK INTO, YOU KNOW, COUNCILWOMAN CABELLO HAVRDA WAS SAYING, WE KNOW THESE HOT SPOTS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE -- YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE TROUBLE IN A LOT OF THESE DIFFERENT AREAS, SO LAYERING ON THAT INFORMATION WOULD BE HELPFUL. THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU.
>> HAVRDA: THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN ALDARETE GAVITO.
COUNCILWOMAN DR. KAUR? >> KAUR: THANKS, CHAIR. SO ON THAT SLIDE THAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, SLIDE 10, THAT SHOWS THE 17 TO 100% DECREASE IN THE TREATMENT AREAS FOR VIOLENT ARRESTS, THERE'S A LITTLE NOTE AT THE TOP THAT SAYS THESE PERCENTAGE CHANGES ARE BASED ON LOW ARREST COUNTS AND SHOULD BE INTERPRETED WITH CAUTION.
>> UH-HUH. >> KAUR: WHAT IS THE NUMBER THAT WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT FOR THE 17 TO 100%. >> I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT NUMBERS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. THEY WOULD BE IN THE REPORT. THAT IS TRUE, AND WE ALWAYS PUT THAT CAVEAT IN THERE WHENEVER WE'RE DEALING WITH SMALL COUNTS.
DIFFERENCES IN SMALL COUNTS CAN TRANSLATE INTO BIG PERCENTAGE CHANGES.
>> KAUR: 100%. SO DO WE -- IRONIC. DO WE CHECK TO SEE IF THIS DATA'S STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT IN TERMS OF CHANGE?
>> THIS IS JUST A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS THAT YOU SEE.
>> KAUR: OKAY. >> WHEN WE GET TO YOUR POINT, WE DO MORE
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SOPHISTICATED MODELING, DIFFERENCE AND DIFFERENCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES, BUT AT THIS POINT, WE DON'T HAVEENOUGH DATA REALLY TO DO THAT. >> KAUR: GOT IT.
OKAY. THAT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT ON SLIDE 14, THAT'S CALLED OUT AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST, LIKE, MIDYEAR ANALYSES, SO I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING IF THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, 2 TO
10 OR WHAT IS THE NUMBER THERE. >> YEAH.
YEAH, THESE SORT OF INTERIM REPORTS -- WE DO PERIOD REPORTS AS WELL, EVEN AT THE TWO-MONTH LEVEL. WE NOW PUT THEM ON A DASHBOARD, THE SAPD CAN ACCESS THAT. YOU KNOW, JUST TO SORT OF TAKE THE PULSE ALONG THE WAY. BUT AT THE YEAR MARK, WHEN YOU SEE THE YEAR REPORT, IT WILL BR A MUCH MORE VOLUMINOUS REPORT AND IT WILL CONTAIN SOME SOPHISTICATED METRIC KIND OF ANALYSES.
>> KAUR: AND SO I HAD A QUESTION JUST ABOUT THE METHODOLOGY, AROUND THE 35 TREATMENT AREAS THAT YOU DO EVERY 60 DAYS, ARE THOSE TREATMENT AREAS THE SAME ONES YOU DID OVER PERIOD 1, 2 AND 3 OR ARE THEY DIFFERENT AREAS.
>> KIND OF GOES BACK TO THE OTHER COUNCILMEMBER'S QUESTION, IT DEPENDS.
SOME OF THEM ROLL OVER PERIOD TO PERIOD, SOME OF THEM DON'T.
>> KAUR: GOT IT. >> WE LITERALLY GO WHERE CRIME HAS BEEN.
YOU KNOW, THE STRONGEST PREDICTOR OF WHERE CRIME IS GOING TO BE IS WHERE IT HAS BEEN. AND BOTH -- AND WE SORT OF DEVELOPED, YOU KNOW, THROUGH TRIAL AND ERROR, KIND OF A METHODOLOGY FOR IDENTIFYING HOT SPOTS THAT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BOTH SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM TRENDS.
SO THE WAITING GOES TOWARDS THE SHORT TERM, SO IF A PLACE HAS -- BECOMES HOT IN THE LAST 60 DAYS, IT WILL LIKELY BE ON THE LIST TO BE TREATED IN THE NEXT 60 DAYS. BUT BY THE SAME TOKEN, YOU CAN HAVE A GRID THAT MAYBE ONLYON PRODUCED ONE OR TWO VIOLENT CRIMES IN THE PREVIOUS 60 DAYS, BUT AS BEEN A HISTORIC PROBLEM, RIGHT IN SO IF YOU LOOK BACK OVER A YEAR, MAYBE IT'S GOT 20 VIOLENT CRIMES.
THAT MAY MAKE THE LIST BECAUSE OF THE LONG-TERM TREND.
SO WE'VE GOT, AGAIN, SORT OF A FORMULA THAT WE'VE WORKED OUT OVER TIME WHERE WE IDENTIFY HOT SPOTS TO BE TREATED BASED ON THIS SORT OF
COMBINATION OF SHORT- AND LONG-TERM. >> KAUR: SO YOU REASSESS
AFTER EVERY PERIOD. >> EVERY PERIOD. >> KAUR: HAS THE WHOLE LIST BEEN PUBLICIZED AT ALL OR IS THAT JUST PRIVATE DATA.
I KNOW YOU SAID THE BY DISTRICT ONE WAS, BUT I WASN'T SURE IF THE WHOLE
LIST HAD BEEN. >> VILLAGOMEZ: AND I'M SORRY, COUNCILWOMAN.
THE WHOLE LIST OF? >> KAUR: OF ALL OF THE HOT SPOTS, THERE'S
136,000 OF THEM. >> OH, NO, THAT'S JUST THE ENTIRE MAP OF SAN ANTONIO IS 135,000 GRID TION. YOU TAKE THE ENTIRE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BREAK IT DOWN INTO 100 BY 100-METER GRIDS.
>> KAUR: I WAS LIKE, THAT'S A LOT OF HOT SPOTS.
STOP IT. >> CRIME IS HIGHLY CONCENTRATED IN URBAN AREAS, INCLUDING SAN ANTONIO. SO OF THAT 135,000 TOTAL GRIDS, 50% OF YOUR VIOLENT CRIME IN SAN ANTONIO'S PRODUCED BY
ABOUT 3,000 OF THOSE. >> KAUR: GOT IT. SO AT -- IS THE PLAN -- I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THE INITIAL DATA IS CONTINUING TO SHOW POSITIVE TRENDS, RIGHT? SO IS THE PLAN TO MAKE THIS A LONG-TERM
STRATEGY? >> WELL, THAT MAY BE ABOVE MY PAY GRADE, BUT I WILL SAY THIS. THE HOT SPOT STRATEGY WAS OUR NEAR-TERM STRATEGY, BUT IT DOESN'T STOP. AS THE OTHER STRATEGIES COME ON LONG-TERM, HOT SPOT POLICING WILL CONTINUE. IT'S A LAYERED PLAN PURPOSELY DESIGNED THAT WAY. SO AT LEAST AS LONG AS, YOU KNOW, THE CITY DECIDES THAT THIS IS A GOOD STRATEGY, THEN OUR RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE CONTINUE WITH HOT SPOT POLICING.
IT'S THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH EVERYTHING ELSE IS BUILT.
>> KAUR: HAVE WE DONE A SURVEY FOR -- SORRY, AM I OVER TIME? OKAY. OKAY. OKAY.
HAVE WE DONE A SURVEY FOR HOW THE OFFICERS ARE FEELING ABOUT IT? I'VE HEARD FROM, LIKE, JUST SECONDHAND FROM A COUPLE THAT THEY DON'T
LOVE IT. NO? >> I'VE NOT -- WE'VE NOT
SURVEYED THE POLICE. >> VILLAGOMEZ: THAT'S PROBABLY A QUESTION FOR CHIEF MCMANUS, COUNCILWOMAN, BUT, NO, UTSA HAS NOT SURVEYED OUR
POLICE OFFICERS. >> KAUR: IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE JUST WHAT THEIR PERSPECTIVE IS ON IT SINCE THEY'RE ON THE GROUND.
I KNOW THE DATA IS SHOWING THAT, BUT JUST HEARING FROM THEM AS WELL. AND THE OTHER THING THAT I WAS -- THIS MIGHT BE ALSO A CHIEF QUESTION, IF SAFE OFFICERS ARE INFORMED WHEN THE HOT SPOT'S GOING, OR IF ONE OF THEIR AREAS IS IN TREATMENT.
>> THAT WOULD BE FOR CHIEF MCMANUS. >> KAUR: OKAY.
OPEN QUESTIONS. CHIEF, DO YOU -- YES, IF YOU HAVE THE ANSWERS.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: YES, MA'AM, THEY ARE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE SERGEANTS ARE THE ONES WHO ASSIGN THE OFFICERS TO THE TREATMENT PLAN.
SO SAFE IS HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THIS, SO, YES, THEY ARE EVENTUALLY
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AWARE OF WHERE THOSE HOT SPOTS ARE. >> KAUR: BUT ARE THEY
AWARE WHEN THE TREATMENT IS HAPPENING? >> CHIEF MCMANUS: YES.
>> KAUR: OKAY. AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE SURVEY QUESTION ABOUT LIKE ASKING THE OFFICERS IN THE TRENCHES.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: DO I THINK WE SHOULD DO A SURVEY?
NOT NECESSARILY. >> KAUR: OKAY. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT THE CRIME PLAN IS NOT A SEXY, YOU KNOW, ACTION-PACKED PLAN THAT, YOU KNOW, OFFICERS ARE GOING TO HAVE FUN DOING.
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF POLICE WORK'S A LOT OF FUN DOING IT.
THIS IS NOT A LOT OF FUN. THIS IS PASSIVE, ON-SCENE ACTIVITY THAT ONCE YOUR 15 MINUTES IS UP, YOU GO BACK INTO SERVICE.
SO, NO, I DON'T -- YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYBODY'S SUPER EXCITED ABOUT IT,
BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT IT'S WORKING. >> KAUR: OKAY.
THANKS, CHIEF. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: YEAH. >> KAUR: THAW, CHAIR.
>> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. COUNCILMEMBER
MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ. >> RODRIGUEZ: INTERNALLY I'M SCREAMING INSIDE, A LOT OF LAUGHTER, JOYS, EMOTION OF THINGS. I WANT TO THINK OF A MOTION OF REFLECTION, BACK IN 2021 WHEN I FIRST GOT ELECTED WHAT I BELIEVED MY CHARGE TO BE. IT WAS A VERY TU MULE TEUOUS LEER AND TIME PERIOD THERE. BY AND LARGE THERE WAS A CALL AND A CHARGE FOR ME TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF MY CONSTITUENTS AND THE CITY AT LARGE FOR REIMAGINATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND WHAT THAT MEANS AND ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF CRIME AND MAKE VERY CLEAR THAT WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST IS NOT WORKING AND WE NEED TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE AND, YOU KNOW, MAKE A CHANGE. MAKE A CHANGE TO THE WAY THAT WE'RE DOING THINGS. AND I FEEL AS THOUGH WHAT I'VE WITNESSED IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAS BEEN A VERY, VERY SLOW, SLOW TRANSITION TO THAT.
WE ARE GETTING THERE, AND I'M HAPPY ABOUT THAT. I TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THAT IN THE SHIFT THAT HAS HAPPENED WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CRIME AND WE HAVE SHIFTED TO CRIME PREVENTION IN A WAY THAT I DON'T THINK WAS HAPPENING PRIOR TO THAT POINT. AND SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF THE JOY THAT I'M FEELING, A LITTLE BIT OF THE HAPPINESS.
AND WE'RE SEEING POSITIVE RESULTS, AT LEAST PRESENTED, AND SO OVERALL THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO EXPRESS FIRST, FIRST AND FOREMOST.
SECONDLY, I'M THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS WITH REGARD TO OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS AND I'M THINKING -- OR OFFICER-INVOLVED -- YEAH. SO WITH RESPECT TO THE OUTCOMES THAT WE'RE TRACKING, THERE'S A FEW THINGS I WANT TO ASK FOR.
ONE IS GOING TO BE, OF COURSE, WITH GREAT POWER AND RESOURCES COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY TO WIELD THAT POWER WITH RESPECT AND HUMILITY.
AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST AN ADDITIONAL OUTCOME TO TRACK IN EACH OF THESE HOT SPOT AREAS, AND THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO, IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE HAVE TO LOOK FURTHER INTO, BUT CAN WE ADD OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS INTO OUTCOMES MEASURED IN EACH OF THESE HOT SPOT AREAS. AT ONE TIME WE HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT THESE AREAS DIDN'T CREATE A REPEAT OF THE SCORPION UNION FROM MEMPHIS THAT LED TO A DEATH. I THINK THAT'S ONE METRIC THAT WOULD HELP AFFIRM THAT. IS THAT POSSIBLE? COUNCILMAN, I THINK -- I'M SORRY, DR. SMITH. WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS THAT WE PROVIDE THE LOCATIONS OF OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS AND HOW THEY RELATE TO THE LOCATIONS OF THE HOT SPOT POLICING? I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO INTERNALLY, NOT NECESSARILY UTSA, BUT DR. SMITH, IF YOU WANT TO ADD SOMETHING TO THAT.
>> I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, MAPPING -- CERTAINLY POSSIBLE TO DO WHAT MARIA JUST SUGGESTED, WHICH IS KIND OF OVERLAY THE LOCATIONS OF OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS WITH THE HOT SPOT MAP, FOR EXAMPLE.
THAT'S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE TO DO. ACTUALLY, ANALYZING OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS AT THE HOT SPOT LEVEL DOESN'T REALLY MAKE SENSE, BECAUSE YOU'D HAVE -- IT WOULD BE MOSTLY ZEROS, 81, BECAUSE , YOU KNOW, BECAUSE -- AS HORRIFIC AS THEY ARE, AND I'M RIGHT THERE WITH YOU, THEY'RE ALSO RARE EVENTS. YOU'D HAVE COLUMNS AND COLUMNS AND ZEROS AND THEN A ONE. COLUMNS AND COLUMNS OF
ZEROS AND THEN A ONE. IT WOULD LIKE LIKE THAT. >> RODRIGUEZ: I HEAR YOU. ITH KIND OF SIMILAR TO THOSE GRAPHS THAT REPRESENT VERY SMALL NUMBERS BUT STILL DEMONSTRATE A PERCENTAGE. I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THAT, MARIA.
THE SECOND THING I WOULD ALSO BE INTERESTED IN BECAUSE IT'S A
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COMMUNITY-WIDE AND CITYWIDE EFFORT TO REDUCE CRIME, WHAT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN IS IN THE HOT SPOT AREAS, HAVE THERE BEEN ANY MINOR OR MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, INCLUDING STREETLIGHTS, HAVE WE ALLOCATED FUNDS FOR PROGRAMMING AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT IMPACT SOME OF THESE AREAS? OTHER MAJOR INVESTMENTS? I'D ALSO BE INTERESTED -- AND I THINK THIS IS A LATER ON CONVERSATION AS WELL, IS SOME SORT OF ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCE, TOO, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE'LL SEE IS THAT SINCE THE PANDEMIC, WE'VE SEEN CRIME GO UP.AND NOW WE'RE SEEING IT GO DOWN AND WE'RE SEEING PEOPLE STABILIZE.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE SEEING THAT ECONOMICALLY, BUT I WONDER IF -- I WONDER WHAT ROLE DOES THAT PLAY THERE? AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'D BE INTERESTED IN. I THINK ALSO, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT THE OCTOBER OF 2019 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 20, OCTOBER 20 THROUGH '21, '21, '22, WE DON'T YET HAVE JULY, AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER PRESENTED TO US, BUT I KNOW -- AND I KNOW WE STILL HAVEN'T REACHED THE POINT WHERE WE WERE PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC, I WONDER WHERE WE DO FALL IN THAT.
SO WHAT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IS THE CRIMES TOTAL FOR SEPTEMBER OF 2022 TO OCTOBER OF '23, IF THAT COULD BE PRESENTED AT THE NEXT PRESENTATION. I THINK THAT WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT
INFORMATION. >> RIGHT. >> RODRIGUEZ: AND I WANT SO SAY THAT WAS ALL MY COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK. THANK YOU.
>> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. COUNCILMAN WHYTE?
>> WHYTE: YEAH, BRIEFLY. I THINK THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS DATA THAN TO SAY THAT THE PROGRAM IS A SUCCESS. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SUMMARY AND YOU'VE GOT, I GUESS, 12.6% REDUCTION IN VIOLENT CRIME CITYWIDE, BUT 41.5% REDUCTION IN THE TREATED AREAS, I MEAN, AS LONG AS WE HAVE A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT SAMPLE SIZE, I THINK IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT THIS IS WORKING. AND SO I'M REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
WITH RESPECT TO THE BUSINESSES, AND, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THIS IS A QUESTION FOR THE CHIEF, WHAT IS IT THAT WE CAN DO -- WE HAVE A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES IN DISTRICT 10, AND WHAT IS IT THAT WE CAN DO TO MAYBE HELP THEM DECREASE SOME OF THESE -- SOME OF THESE ROBBERIES, I GUESS, THAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING? OR THAT SEEM TO BE ON THE RISE, I GUESS. COUNCILMAN, WE TALK WITH STMA FREQUENTLY ENOUGH ABOUT THIS WHEN THERE'S AN ISSUE. THEY HAVE NOT -- THEY HAVE NOT RAISED ANY CONCERN, AT LEAST WITH ME, ABOUT THE NUMBER OF ROBBERIES, BUT CERTAINLY PUTTING THE WORD OUT ABOUT HOW TO PREVENT -- HOW TO MAKE YOUR ESTABLISHMENT FOR SECURE IS ONE WAY OF DOING IT, AND WE TALK ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME AT BAT NET MEETINGS AND OTHER MEETINGS WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE RESIDENTIAL
COMMUNITIES. WISE OKAY. >> WHYTE: I WONDER IF WE CAN FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WHICH BUSINESSES ARE SUFFERING FROM AN INCREASE IN THESE ROBBERIES AND THEN MAYBE BETTER TARGET SOME REMEDIES, IF WE KNOW WHERE IT'S HAPPENING, THE TYPE OF BUSINESS, ET CETERA. BUT THAT'S IT. THANKS.
>> HAVRDA: ALL RIGHT. ANY FOLLOW-UP? ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY, DR. SMITH.
>> THANK YOU. >> HAVRDA: APPRECIATE YOU.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE, CRIME STATS. COUNCILWOMAN, ITEM NUMBER THREE IS A BRIEFING BY CHIEF MCMANUS ON THE CRIME STATISTICS FOR THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE PERIOD OF JANUARY 2023 THROUGH
SEPTEMBER 2023. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY.
SO LOOKING AT OUR EMERGENCY AND NONEMERGENCY CALLS FOR SERVICE AS DR. SMITH MENTIONED IN HIS PRESENTATION, WE ARE UP IN THE NUMBER OF CALLS BOTH NONEMERGENCY AND EMERGENCY.
OVER A MILLION CALLS FOR SERVICE FROM JANUARY -- EMERGENCY CALLS FOR SERVICE FROM JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR, AND JUST OVER 800,000 NONEMERGENCY CALLS FOR THE SAME TIME PERIOD. AND JUST FOR SOME PERSPECTIVE, 2022 FOR THE SAME TIME PERIOD, WE WERE LOOKING AT 995,000 -- JUST OVER 995,000 EMERGENCY CALLS FOR SERVICE AND 736,525
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NONEMERGENCY CALLS IN 2022. SO TO GIVE YOU SOME PERSPECTIVE ON THE INCREASE. SO IN LOOKING AT OUR NIBRIS NUMBERS FOR THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS, AND THESE ARE NOT -- THESE HAVE NOT BEEN SANCTIONED BY THE FBI AS OF YET, SO THESE ARE UNOFFICIAL NUMBERS, AND THEY MAY CHANGE SLIGHTLY -- DO THEIR WORK, FOR THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF THE YEAR, WE'RE LOOKING AT A 1.5% INCREASE IN OVERALL CRIME IN OUR NIBRIS NUMBERS, THAT'S VIOLENT CRIME, PROPERTY CRIME AND IT'S CRIME AGAINST SOCIETY.AND AS DR. SMITH MENTIONED, VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY, 11%. CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY ARE DOWN ALMOST 2% AND PROPERTY CRIMES IS UP 6%. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT VIOLENT CRIME, WE GENERALLY SEE HIGH-RISK BEHAVIOR.
THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO THIS, DON'T MISUND MISUNDERSTAND ME.
THERE ARE MOST DEFINITELY EXCEPTIONS TO THIS, BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT VIE VIOLENT CRIMES, WE ARE LOOKING AT HIGH-RISK BEHAVIOR THAT GETS PEOPLE INTO TROUBLE. YOUR VICTIMIZATION -- YOUR CHANCES OF BEING A VICTIM IN SAN ANTONIO WHEN YOU'RE NOT INVOLVED IN HIGH-RISK BEHAVIOR ARE -- IS RELATIVELY LOW. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE SEEN OVER THE YEARS. THIS SLIDE SHOWS A BREAKDOWN OF SPECIFIC OFFENSES. WE SEE A SIGNIFICANT DROP IN THE NUMBER OF HOMICIDES NOWRCHLTS NATALIE, NO MATTER HOW HOMICIDES.
UNFORTUNATELY NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT DROPPED, IT'S ONE TOO MANY.
WE SEE A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN SEX OFFENSES AND OUR ASSAULT OFFENSES ARE DOWN AGAIN, I THINK I MENTIONED THAT, 11%. SO WHAT IS A CRIME AGAINST SOCIETY? GENERALLY SPEAKING, IT REPRESENTS SOCIETY'S PROHIBITION AGAINST ENGAGING IN CERTAIN TYPES OF ACTIVITY.
THESE ARE, FOR THE MOST PART, VICTIMLESS CRIMES AND WE SEE A REDUCTION OF THAT, 1.8%. THE BIGGEST DRIVER WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IN OUR PROPERTY CRIMES AREA IS VEHICLE THEFT. THAT REMAINS A NATIONWIDE PROBLEM. AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME -- SOME INFORMATION HERE TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW SERIOUS THIS PROBLEM IS.
SO GOING FROM 2022, WE HAD 31 316 HUNDRED DAYS STOLEN FROM MARCH TO AUGUST. IN 2023, WE HAD 2,332. THE JUMP IS ASTRONOMICAL. KIAS, 305 DURING THAT SAME TIME PERIOD, AND IN 2023 FOR THAT SAME TIME PERIOD, 2496. THE TOTAL WOULD BE 621 IN 2022, AND 4,628 IN 2023. THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT JUMP.
AND, AGAIN, IT'S HAPPENING -- IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE -- ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. AND I THINK A LOT OF IT HAS BEEN TRIGGERED BY THAT TIKTOK CHALLENGE. SO LOOKING AT OUR PROPERTY CRIME BACK IN JULY OF 2023, WE IMPLEMENTED -- WE CHANGED THE WAY WE DEAL WITH PROPERTY CRIMES. BEFORE THAT, IT WAS EACH SUBSTATION HAD A CADRE OF PROPERTY CRIME DETECTIVES. WE DECIDED THAT WE NEEDED MORE PRO ACTIVITY ON THE STREET. WE NEEDED MORE VISIBILITY AND WE NEEDED GREATER COORDINATION WITH THE RESIDENTS, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS.
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JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE IMPROVEMENT -- SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE WITH THE CHANGE, THE HOURS -- THE HOURS PRIOR TO THE CHANGE TO THE PROPERTY CRIMES TASK FORCE WERE 8:00 IN THE MORNING -- 7:45 IN THE MORNING TO 5:45 IN THE EVENING, IT WAS FOUR DAYS A WEEK -- A FOUR-DAY WORKWEEK, 10-HOUR DAYS AND THE COVERAGE ACROSS THE TIMES OF DAY AND THE DAYS OF WEEK WERE LIMITED. WHEN WE MADE THAT SWITCH, COVERAGE WENT FROM -- WENT TO 8:00 IN THE MORNING TO 4:00 THE FOLLOWING MORNING, AND THAT IS NOW A SEVEN DAY A WEEK SCHEDULE.THE DETECTIVES ARE MAKING ROLL CALLS AND PASS INFORMATION ONTO THE PATROL OFFICERS WHEREAS PRIOR TO THAT, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN MUCH.
AND THE PROPERTY CRIMES DETECTIVES REMAINED SILOED BECAUSE THEY WERE DECENTRALIZED IN THE PATROL DISTRICTS. THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN INDICATION OF THE KIND OF WORK THAT THE PROPERTY CRIMES TASK FORCE IS DOING. OUT OF THE 2400 CASES FROM JULY TO SEPTEMBER, NOT QUITE -- NOT QUITE THREE MONTHS, WE HAVE A 22% CLEARANCE RATE, 565 ARREST WARRANTS, 127P, AND YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS DOWN THERE.
PROPERTY RECOVERED JUST SHY OF A MILLION DOLLARS.
THEY'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF WORK IN THE SHORT TIME THAT THEY'VE BEEN IN OPERATION. AND THE NEXT TWO SLIDES ARE WILL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE PROACTIVE WORK THEY'VE BEEN DOING.
THESE AREN'T HIGH PRO MILE CASES THAT HAVE ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF THE MEDIA, BUT THEY ARE CASES THAT PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SOLVED WERE WE NOT OPERATING IN THE TASK FORCE MODE.
SO FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE, WE RECOVERED $1,100 SET OF GOLF CLUBS THAT THE PROACTIVE WORK OF THE TASK FORCE HAS UNCOVERED.
WE HAVE -- HAVE BEEN MILKED OUT OF QUITE A BIT OF MONEY, HAD THE PROPERTY CRIMES TASK FORCE NOT BEEN ON IT. THEY WORKED WITH THE KDP D & D PS TO GET -- TO CLOSE THIS CASE. THE SUSPECT WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED, HE HAD $10,000 ON HIM THAT HE HAD SWINDLED FROM ANOTHER SENIOR CITIZEN.
HE WAS BOOKED FOR MONEY LAWND DERING AND THAT MONEY WAS RETURNED TO THE VICTIM. ANOTHER COUPLE CASES I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT JUGGING IS THESE DAYS. IT'S WHERE CRIMINALS TARGET PEOPLE, UNSUSPECTED PEOPLE. THEY FOLLOW THEM TO A SPOT WHERE THEY CAN ROB THEM, AND THE FIRST CASE HERE ON THE SLIDE IS A BANK OF AMERICA -- IT HAPPENED AT THE BANK OF AMERICA, THE TASK FORCE SPOTTED SUSPECTS WHO RAIWERE TARGETING AND UNSUSPECTED VICTIM AND THEY, WITH THE HELP OF OUR HELICOPTER, THEY FOLLOWED AN INDIVIDUAL TO BOERNE IN KENDALL COUNTY WHERE THEY APPREHENDED THREE INDIVIDUALS WHO STOLE $3,700 FROM THE VICTIM. AND THEN A BURGLARY OF MOTOR VEHICLE, THEY APPREHENDED TWO SUSPECTS THAT WERE IN THE ACT OF COMMITTING A VEHICLE BURGLARY, PROPERTY FROM SEVERAL BURGLARIES WAS COMMITTED -- I'M SORRY, RECOVERED AFTER THAT ARREST.
THESE ARE NOT HIGH PROFILE SEXY CRIMES, R BUT IT JUST SHOWS YOU THE WORK THAT THE TASK FORCE HAS BEEN DOING. OUR AUTO THEFT UNIT, RECENT GRANT FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVED THIS YEAR ALLOWED US TO ADD ONE SERGEANT, TWO DETECTIVESES TO THIS UNIT.
THEY WORK TO ELIMINATE ORGANIZED THEFT RINGS, CHOP SHOPS.
WE HAVE BIG VEHICLE OPERATIONS THAT WE WORK. WE WORK WITH ATF ON THOSE BAIT VEHICLE OPERATIONS BECAUSE OF THE GUNS THAT ARE BEING STOLE FROM VEHICLES. THE FBI, ON ORGANIZED THEFT AND TRANSPORT OF STOLEN VEHICLES TO MEXICO, AND THEN HSI AND DPS ON THE THEFT OF TRACTOR-TRAILERS WHICH ARE USED IN SMUGGLING OPERATIONS.
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SO OUR AUTO THEFT UNIT DOES NOT JUST ARREST PEOPLE, THEY DO PUBLIC EDUCATION AS WELL. WE DO VIN ETCHING EVENTS WHERE YOUR VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER IS ETCHED ON A REAR WINDOW. WE DO INSPECTIONS FOR QUESTIONABLE -- EXCUSE ME, QUESTIONABLE OWNERSHIP OF VEHICLES.WE TRAIN LOCAL BUSINESSES ON WHAT THESE AUTO THEFT RINGS ARE DOING AND HOW TO PREVENT IT, AND WE DISTRIBUTE STEERING WHEEL LOCKS FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN THE VICTIMS OF KIA AND HUNDAI THEFTS.
ON THIS SLIDE AND THE NEXT ONE, WE'RE BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING, EDUCATION IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT PROPERTY CRIME THEFT -- SORRY, ABOUT PROPERTY CRIME. THE SLIDE HERE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMMUNITY EDUCATION -- I'M SORRY, BUSINESS EDUCATION. WE HAVE REGULAR MEETINGS WITH THE HOTELS, HOTEL/MOTEL ASSOCIATION WITH BUSINESS OWNERS DURING OUR BAT NET MEETINGS AND OUR GOAL AGAIN IS TO FACILITATE INFORMATION SHARING IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT -- ABOUT THEFTS AND PROPERTY CRIMES. AND THEN I THINK THIS IS THE LAST SLIDE, COMMUNITY EDUCATION. WE TALK AT HOA MEETINGS, OUR SAFE UNITS ARE OUT AT ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THESE MEETINGS TALKING ABOUT PROPERTY CRIMES AND HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. WE PUT OUT PSAS ON BURGLARY AND HOW TO PREVECHT THOSE FROM HAVING TO YOU, ALSO TALKING ABOUT JUGGINGS, ELDER SCAMS -- ACTION IN OUR PROPERTY CRIMES ENDEAVORS, WE ALSO DO AN EDUCATION PIECE IN THAT AS WELL. AND THAT IS IT FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, CHIEF. I JUST HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION.
BASED ON THE DATA THAT YOU FOUND, ARE YOU -- ARE YOU SEEING ANY STRATEGIES OR INTERVENTIONS THAT ARE MOVING THE NEEDLE ON REDUCING CRIME?
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: AM I SEEING ANY STRATEGIES OR ENINTERVENTIONS THAT
ARE WHAT? >> HAVRDA: REDUCING CRIME, VIOLENT CRIME,
PROPERTY THEFT. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: IT'S HARD TO SAY WHAT IT IS EXACTLY THAT REDUCES CRIME, BUT I THINK THAT ALL COMES OUT AT THE END OF THE QUARTERLY PERIOD OR THE END OF THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR, WHEN YOU SEE CRIME IS UP OR DOWN, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE DOING SOMETHING SPECIAL IN TERMS OF EDUCATION OR SOME SORT OF ENFORCEMENT OPERATION, YOU KNOW, WE GENERALLY TRY -- WE GENERALLY WILL ATTRIBUTE THAT TO THE OPERATION OR
THE EDUCATION. >> HAVRDA: OKAY. THANKS, CHIEF.
ANY OTHER... I'M SORRY. COUNCICOUNCILWOMAN
ALDARETE GAVITO. >> GAVITO: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THE WORK YOU DO FOR THE CITY.
REALLY QUICK, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. SLIDE NUMBER FIVE, THE KIDNAPPING ABDUCTIONS, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY THE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE THAT
ARE UNDER 18 FOR KIDNAPPING? >> CHIEF MCMANUS: SAY
THAT AGAIN. I WAS TRYING TO SHIFT. >> GAVITO: FOR KIDNAPPING ABDUCTIONS, IT WENT UP TO 84, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THOSE, JUST ROUGH
ESTIMATE, WOULD BE UNDER 18. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: NOT A LOT OF THEM. THERE ARE SOME THAT I KNOW OF, BUT NOT THE
MAJORITY OF THEM. >> GAVITO: NOT THAT I'M OKAY OF ANY KIDNAPPING AND ABDUCTION, BUT I'M JUST GLAD THAT IT'S NOT KIDS.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: SURE. >> GAVITO: OKAY. ALSO BUN OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEAR OF A LOT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS IS THE INCREASE IN MAILBOX THEFT. I KNOW THAT'S A TRICKY ONE BECAUSE MAILBOXES ARE PROPERTY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR SOMETHING, SO WHAT CAN SAPD DO
THERE, IF ANYTHING? >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THAT'S BEEN AN ISSUE THAT'S COME
UP QUITE FREQUENTLY OVER THE YEARS. >> GAVITO: UH-HUH.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT REASONS WHY THERE IS SO MUCH THEFT FROM MAILBOXES. AND BECAUSE THE PENALTY FOR IT IS NOT THAT GREAT. YOU'RE BEING PENALIZED FOR THE COST OF THE STAMP ON THE LETTER. BUT TYPICALLY WHAT WE RECOMMEND IS, YOU KNOW, BETTER LIGHTING IN THE AREA OF THE MAILBOX AND THE LOCKS ON THE MAILBOXES ARE, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, THAT IS THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE POSTAL SERVICE. >> GAVITO: UH-HUH.
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>> CHIEF MCMANUS: THE -- YEAH, SO I -- YOU KNOW, THE BEST RECOMMENDATION S THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH IS PROBABLY BETTER LIGHTING IN THE AREAS
WHERE THE MAILBOXES ARE. >> GAVITO: OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD.
AND THEN LASTLY, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS. I KNOW THAT A LOT OF THE SAFE OFFICERS ATTEND THEM AND ALSO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY TOWN HALLS.
I KNOW OUR DISTRICT 7 OFFICES, WE REALLY WANT TO KEEP THAT RELATIONSHIP STRONG WITH SAPD AND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR Y'ALL'S
WORK THERE, TOO. THANK YOU. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THANK
YOU. >> GAVITO: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
>> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS? COUNCILMEMBER MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ?
>> RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU. I WAS REALLY HOPING THAT MORE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE COMMENTS. I THINK MY FIRST THOUGHT, RIGHT, IS REGARDING PROPERTY CRIMES, SPECIFICALLY VEHICLE THEFT, WHICH IS A P UP PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY. SOMETHING I THINK I NOTICED IN READING THIS POWERPOINT IS THE STRATEGIES USED TO CURB MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT SEEM TO BE THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN USED OVER THE PAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN HERE, ALMOST TWO AND A HALF. I SEE THAT -- MY TEAM NOTICED THAT YOU'VE DONE SOME VIN NUMBER ETCHING EVENTS AND DISTRIBUTION EVENTS FOR THINGS LIKE KIA AND HUNDAI VEHICLE LOCK DISTRIBUTIONS, HOWEVER I HAVEN'T AND MY OFFICE HASN'T BEEN MADE OF THESE EVENTS SO I'M NOT SURE IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE HEARD OR BEEN MADE AWARE.
AND WHAT I'M GETTING AT THERE IS THAT PERHAPS, YOU KNOW, TWO THINGS: SAPD COULD USE SOME INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE THESE EVENTS OR EVEN A SOCIAL MEDIA OR COMM STRATEGY THAT COULD IMPROVE OUTREACH TO RESIDENT. THE SECOND ONE IS I PRIDE MYSELF AND MY OFFICE'S EFFORT ON INCREASING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN MY DISTRICT.
AND SO IF THERE ARE EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT WHERE WE CAN INCREASE, YOU KNOW, EDUCATION OF THOSE EVENTS, WE'D LOVE TO DO THAT. I THINK THESE ARE THE KINDS OF EVENT BS THAT WE CAN GET BEHIND AND WE CAN PROVIDE VERY TANGIBLE SUPPORT TO.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: SURE. >> RODRIGUEZ: AND I KNOW THAT MY COMMUNITY HAS BEEN IMPACTED BY VEHICLE THEFT, AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST -- EXTENDING A BRANCH TO YOU. THE SECOND PIECE IS, I REALLY FEEL LIKE A HOLISTIC CRIME PREVENTION EFFORT COULD REALLY HELP YOUR GOALS HERE, AND I WILL SAY I APPRECIATE THAT I DO FEEL LIKE YOU ARE DOING EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO PREVENT CRIME. I BELIEVE THAT YOU NEED ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.
AND SO I WILL JUST ADD THAT THERE. THANK YOU.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: I DON'T HAVE THOSE, NO. THAT IS NOT A NIBRS CATEGORY. WE CAN GET THOSE FOR YOU, BUT IT'S NOT A N
IMPRNIBRS CATEGORY. >> HAVRDA: YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE. PROBABLY TO THE FULL COMMITTEE, CHIEF.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: THANK YOU. >> HAVRDA: ANY OTHER
QUESTIONS? COUNCILWOMAN DR. KAUR? >> KAUR: THANKS, CHAIR.
A QUICK QUESTION ON THE CRIME STATISTIC FOR BLACKMAILING, DO WE KNOW
THAT'S INCREASING 100%. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: I DON'T HAVE THE BACKGROUND ON THAT, COUNCILMEMBER, BUT I CAN LOOK INTO THAT AND WE CAN GET YOU THAT
INFORMATION. >> KAUR: IT JUST SEEMS SO STARK FROM 1 TO 93.
THAT ONE REALLY STUCK OUT TO ME. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THE ONE THING I CAN THINK OF, AND I'M NOT -- I -- THIS IS A -- AN ASSUMPTION ON MY PART, BUT WHEN THERE WAS -- NO, DISREGARD THAT.
NEVER MIND. >> KAUR: OKAY. I'D BE CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING THERE. I KNOW SOME OF OUR SENIORS HAVE BEEN -- WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO SOME FOLKS TO DO LIKE SESSIONS FOR OUR SENIORS AT LIKE, OH, NO ONE'S ASKING YOU FOR MONEY, OR GOING TO SEND YOU MONEY FROM X ACCOUNT. AND SO I THINK THAT'S
IMPORTANT JUST FOR ENGAGEMENT PURPOSES. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: SURE.
>> KAUR: AND THEN THE OTHER ONE THAT I DIDN'T SEE THAT'S STOLEN PROPERTY ACTUALLY SEEMS LIKE IT'S DECREASED. IS PORCH THEFT CONSIDERED
STOLEN PROPERTY? PORCH PIRATES. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: YES, IF WE CAN IDENTIFY IT. SO THE STOLEN PROPERTY MEANS THAT WE MAY BE ON PATROL AND WE SEE SOMEBODY CARRYING SOME STUFF DOWN THE STREET.
I'M GIVING YOU A SIMPLE EXAMPLE. AND WE MAY STOP THEM, MAYBE THEY'RE CARRYING AN AIR CONDITIONER OR SOMETHING, AND WE CAN SHOW THAT IT WAS STOLEN, THAT WOULD FALL UNDER THAT CATEGORY.
>> KAUR: SO IF SOMEONE -- HOW DO WE QUANTIFY THEN IF PEOPLE ARE JUST LIKE -- I'M GETTING A LOT FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOODS OF FOLKS COMPLAINING THAT THEIR PACKAGES ARE GETTING STOLEN OFF THEIR PORCHES.
IS THAT QUAWPTIFIED, OR IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE PERSON, IT'S NOT OR.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: CORRECT. >> KAUR: OKAY. GOT IT.
SO WE DON'T EVEN HAVE DATA FOR THAT. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: NO.
IT'S JUST -- IT FALLS UNDER THE CLASSIFICATION OF THEFT.
>> KAUR: OH, GOT IT. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THE GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF
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THEFT. >> VILLAGOMEZ: I WANT TO SAY THAT WE DO KEEP TRACK OF THE CALLS, COUNCILWOMAN, YES, ALL THE CALLS.
SO IF YOU SEE EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION WE GET OVER 2 MILLION CALLS TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. AND WHAT WE ARE REPORTING TO HERE, THE STATISTICS BASED ON THE CLASSIFICATION FROM THE FBI IS AN AMOUNT MUCH LESSER THAN THAT, BUT THERE ARE CALLS -- POLICE REPORTS THAT ARE FILED -- COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF 9-1-1 CALLS, HAPPY TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU AND ANY MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, SO YOU CAN GET AN IDEA OF THE TYPE OF CALLS, THE TIMES OF DAYS AND THE DISPOSITION OF THOSE CALLS.
>> KAUR: DO YOU -- YEAH, THE REASON I WAS ASKING, BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COME UP IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS A LOT, AND I WAS WONDERING IF THE RING CAMERAS OR THE VIDEO CAMERAS HELP THE SITUATION AT ALL? LIKE IF THEY'RE -- IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE USEFUL BUT NOT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING AFFECTED DON'T HAVE THEM.
AND SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF WE COULD START LIKE A VIDEO CAMERA PROGRAM OR SOMETHING, IF YOU'VE HAD 10 CALLS ABOUT PORCHES, WE CAN COME INSTALL A RING ON YOUR PORCH. JUST AN IDEA. OKAY.
THAT'S IT. I'M DONE. THANKS, CHAIR.
>> HAVRDA: COUNCILMAN WHYTE? >> WHYTE: BRIEFLY, AND I'M SORRY IF I MISSED IT, IN THESE 83,000 PROPERTY CRIMES, DO WE KNOW HOW MANY OF THOSE OR WHAT PERCENTAGE WERE COMMITTED BY REPEAT OFFENDERS?
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: NO, SIR. >> WHYTE: NO.
SO IS THERE A WAY TO GET THAT DATA? >> VILLAGOMEZ: LET US LOOK INTO THAT, COUNCILMAN. I THINK IT REQUIRES SOME ANALYSIS OF THE DATA. WE CAN FOLLOW-UP WITH YOU ON THAT.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: SO THESE ARE -- THESE ARE REPORTED CRIMES, NOT
NECESSARILY ARREST SITUATIONS. >> WHYTE: OKAY.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: BUT THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS, NO.
WE'D HAVE TO GO THROUGH -- WE'D HAVE TO PROBABLY GO THROUGH AND
LOOK -- HAND LOOK, YOU KNOW -- >> WHYTE: SO WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THOSE 83,000 ENDED IN AN ARREST, DO WE KNOW THAT?
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: NO, BUT WE CAN PULL UP ARREST NUMBERS FOR CERTAIN TYPES
OF OFFENSES. >> WHYTE: OKAY. I MEAN, I THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOWWHAT PERCE ENDED IN ARRESTS AND THEN IF WE CAN DIG DEEPER AND DETERMINE DO WE HAVE REPEAT -- REPEAT OFFENDERS HERE, MAY HELP
MOVING FORWARD. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S -- AND IT CAME UP EARLIER, THERE ARE VEHICLE BURGLARS, PEOPLE WHO STEAL VEHICLES AND ROBBERIES, YOU DON'T WAKE UP ONE MORNING AND DECIDE YOU'RE GOING TO GO OUT AND STEAL A CAR OR ROB A STORE. THE -- I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE OF Y'ALL ASKED, BUT THERE WAS A ROBBERY -- WASAS IT ROBBERY SQUAD, WHAT DID THEY CALL THEMSELVES? STICK UP CREW.
THE STICK UP CREW, WHICH WAS ARRESTED EARLIER THIS SUMMER, THE LAST GUY IN THE CREW -- THEY COMMITTED 56 -- 58 ROBBERIES WITHIN A TWO-MONTH PERIOD. AND YOU -- AND THAT'S NOT THE ONLY CREW OUT THERE THAT'S DOING THAT. AND YOU -- IT'S THE SAME WAY WITH VEHICLE BURGLARS, THEY SPEND THEIR WHOLE DAY AND NIGHT BREAKING INTO CARS AND THE SAME WITH STEALING CARS. SO IT'S NOT -- IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, 1,000 INDIVIDUALS GOING OUT AND COMMITTING ONE CRIME.
IT'S THE SAME GROUPS GOING OUT, COMMITTING MULTIPLE CRIMES, WHETHER
IT BE ROBBERY OR PROPERTY CRIMES. >> WHYTE: ALL RIGHT.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: JUST FY I. >> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER WHYTE. ANY OTHER -- COUNCILMAN MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ.
>> RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU. JUST A FEW NUMBERS, SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
CAN YOU GO TO SLIDE 5. SO MAKE NOTE OF THE ONE INCIDENT THAT HAD 53 DEATHS IN 2022. WERE THERE ANY EVENTS LIKE THAT OF EVEN COMPARABLE -- NEAR COMPARABLE SCALE IN 2023?
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: SAY THAT AGAIN? >> RODRIGUEZ: SO LOOKING
AT. >> VILLAGOMEZ: THE ANSWER IS NO, COUNCILMAN.
THE 53 DEATHS, CHIEF, THAT WE HAD IN 2022, THE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED IN JUNE, THAT WAS A MIGRANT INCIDENT. WE HAVE NOT HAD ANYTHING
LIKE THAT IN 2023. >> RODRIGUEZ: GOT YOU. OKAY.
AND THEN SLIDE 7, JUST TO GO ALONG WITH COUNCILWOMAN KAUR'S POINT, SO THE STOLEN PROPERTY, THOSE ONES THAT WERE NOT IDENTIFIED THAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT, LIKE THE PORCH THEFT, THAT WOULD FALL UNDER
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LARCENY THEFT CASE OFFENSES. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: STOLEN PROPERTY FALLS UNDER THEFT. STOLEN PROPERTY ON THE BOTTOM THERE IS WHEN THERE'S AN ARREST MADE AND PROPERTY IS
RECOVERED. >> RODRIGUEZ: SO I'M ACCURATE, RIGHT? LARCENY THEFT. OKAY. I GUESS TO THAT POINT, THAT'S STILL A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE, GOING FROM 39 TO 894 TO 40,000 IN 2022. IS THAT -- I THINK WE SEE IT REFLECTED HERE, IT JUST DOESN'T FALL UNDER THE CATEGORY WE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD HAVE. I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU.
>> HAVRDA: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU, CHIEF. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM 4, BRIEFING ON BODY WORN CAMERA CONTRACT. COUNCILWOMAN, THIS NEXT ITEM IS A PROCUREMENT THAT WE PLAN TO BRING TO THE FULL CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION ON NOVEMBER THE THIRD. WE HAD A PRESENTATION TO THIS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2022 WHEN WE STARTED THE PROCESS OF LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION TO REPLACE THE IN-CAR VIDEO OF OUR POLICE CRUISERS.
WE HAVE CONCLUDED THAT PROCESS, AND WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO TODAY IS TO BRIEF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE ON THE PROCESS AND OUR RECOMMENDED APPROACH TO AMENDING THE EXISTING CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE FOR BODY WORN CAMERAS. WE ALSO HAVE IDENTIFIED SOME ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE CAN DO, SO WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR TODAY -- BRIEFING ON A POTENTIAL AMENDMENT AND EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING CONTRACT WE HAVE WITH TASER FOR BODY WORN CAMERA. SO THIS IS REALLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT -- ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOING TO IMPROVE SOME OF THAT EQUIPMENT IN PREPARATION FOR US BRINGING THIS FORWARD TO THE FULL CITY COUNCIL AGAIN ON NOVEMBER THE THIRD.
CHIEF? >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THANK YOU, MARIA.
BEFORE I BEGIN, I WANT TO INTRODUCE ANDREW GRAYSON, ANDREW, STAND UP AND SAY HELLO. ANDREW IS WITH AXON AND HE'S HERE TODAY TO ANSWER ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS THAT WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO.
SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS -- OF THIS CONTRACT WOULD BE TO, I GUESS IN A NUTSHELL, TO CONSOLIDATE IN-CAR, BODY CORN CAMERAS AND INTERVIEW ROOMS THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY WILL THIS AFFECT CARS AND BODY CAMS, IT WILL ALSO AFFECT THE INTERVIEW ROOMS WHEN WE HAVE TO ENTER A SUSPECT. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING TO RENEGOTIATE TERM PRICING AND REFRESH THE PRODUCT PROGRAMS. THIS CHANGE WILL INCLUDE CLOUD-BASED OPTIONS FOR BOTH IN-CAR AND VIDEO AND VOICE RECORDING EQUIPMENT AND LASTLY TO SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE WITH AXON'S CLOUD BASE DIGITAL EVIDENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ALSO KNOWN AS EVIDENCE.COM.
SO BACK IN OCTOBER, WAY BACK IN OCTOBER, 2010, WE INSTALLED COBAN TECHNOLOGY IN ALL OF OUR PATROL CALLS, AND THE MAJORITY OF THOSE -- OF THAT EQUIPMENT IS AT END OF LIFE STATUS AND IT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
SAPD AND ITSD CONDUCTED AN EVALUATION OF SAFELY COBAN AND THE AXON FLEET THREE CAR LIFE BASED VIDEO SYSTEMS. OKAY.
IS THAT WHERE I AM? OKAY. THE CURRENT IN-CAR VIDEO SYSTEM, OUR CURRENT SYSTEM, IT PROVIDES -- I MEAN, IT'S OBVIOUS WHAT IT DOES. IT SUPPORTS OFFICER SAFETY, ENCOURAGES LAWFUL AND RESPECTFUL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BOTH THE POLICE AND THE PERSON ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA. IT FOSTERS ACCOUNTABILITY. IT ALSO PROVIDES VIDEO FOR INVESTIGATION AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, AND IT ALSO -- THOSE VIDEOS ARE ALSO USED IN TRAINING. AND THEN THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE RIGHT NOW ARE USER INTERFACE IS DIFFICULT, OFFICERS HAVE TO -- WHEN -- WHEN AN
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OFFICER IS USING THAT COBAN, THE OFFICER HAS TO ENTER INFORMATION ON A LITTLE TEENY SCREEN THAT'S PROBABLY ABOUT FIVE BY SIX, SOMETIMES THAT'S -- LENDS ITSELF TO MAKING MISTAKES. IT REQUIRES THE OFFICER TO MANUALLY TAG THE VIDEO ON A PARTICULAR CALL AND THE VIDEO THAT'S UPLOADED, IT'S ONLY UPLOADED AT THE SUBSTATIONS.IT'S NOT UPLOADED DURING THE DAY AS AN OFFICER'S DRIVING AROUND, AND THEN SOMETIMES THAT HARD DRIVE WILL FILL UP AND IT WON'T DOWNLOAD ALL THE INFORMATION ON THAT PARTICULAR -- FOR THAT PARTICULAR TOUR OF DUTY.
THE CURRENT -- THE NEW SYSTEM THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES ARE, IT'S CLOUD-BASED, THE CAMERA OPTICS WILL COVER BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE VEHICLE, AND AS I MENTIONED, IT UPLOADS -- IT CAN UPLOAD WHILE THE OFFICER'S PATROLLING, DOING HIS SHIFT, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE SHIFT. AND THEN THERE'S AN AUTOMATIC REDACTION TOOLS THAT Y Y INCREASES OUR EFFICIENCIES, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT MANUALLY. AND THEN THE BODY WORN CAMERA, BACK IN OCTOBER 2015, 5 YEARS AFTER WE GOT COBAN COUNCIL AUTHORIZED EXCLUES OF A CONTRACT WITH
>> TATE: . >> TAT WITH TAZER WHICH IS NOW KNOWN AS AXON. THE CONTRACT RUNS THROUGH 2023.
IT HAS THREE ONE-YEAR RENEWALS TACTED ON TO IT.
IT ENDS IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR. OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT PUBLIC SAFETY FORWARD IT TO THE FULL CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL, TO ACCEPT THE OFFER FROM THE SELECTED VENDOR AND AMEND IT TO INCLUDE CLOUD-BASED OPTIONS FOR IN-CAR VIDEO SYSTEMS AND INTERVIEW ROOMS.
>> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, CHIEF. THEY'RE NOT ALREADY CLOUD
BASED? >> CHIEF MCMANUS: NO. >> HAVRDA: WHO OWNS
THE -- LIKE THE SERVER? IS IT -- >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THE
CURRENT SERVER? >> VILLAGOMEZ: I'M GOING TO --
TO ADDRESS THOSE QUESTIONS. >> I DON'T LET CHIEF ANSWER MY TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS. THE CURRENT SYSTEM, AS HE KIND OF SAID IS AN ON-PREMISE SYSTEM, WHERE THE IT TEAM OWNS THE DATABASE, THE DATA IS STORED HERE, AND AS HE'S SAID, THERE'S HARD DRIVES IN THE VEHICLE THAT COLLECTS THE DATA, WHEN THEY GET TO THE STATION IT UPLOADS AND EVERYTHING IS ON PREMISE TODAY. SO THIS WOULD BE A SHIFT TO EVIDENT.COM IS A NEW CLOUD-BASED SYSTEM ALLOWED TO UPDATE
THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS YOU GO. >> HAVRDA: EVIDENCE.COM.
AND SO THEY OWN THE CLOUD? >> THE INFRASTRUCTURE ITSELF. SO PART OF THE PACKAGE DEAL IS THE CAMERAS THAT GO IN THE CAR, THE BODY CAMERAS THEMSELVES AND THE NETWORK OR PLATFORM WHERE THE DATA COMES TOGETHER, WHICH IS HOSTED BY AXON THEMSELVES.
>> HAVRDA: DO THEY ALSO PROVIDE BACKUP? >> ABSOLUTELY.
THE I.T. TEAM'S IN THE SECURITY. WE PROVIDE THE SECURITY ASSESSMENTS TO ALL THAT, THE MULTIPLE HOUSING ARRANGEMENTS AND THE
REDUNDANCY. >> HAVRDA: GOT IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THE BRIEFING MATERIAL TALKS ABOUT IT BEING MORE -- THIS SYSTEM BEING A MORE EFFICIENT INTERFACE WITH THE COUNTY.
AND WE'VE BEEN, OF COURSE, TALKING A LOT WITH THE COUNTY ABOUT WORKING MORE CLOSELY WITH THEM, SOME OF THE ISSUES ARE TECHNOLOGY, RIGHT, BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY. DO YOU SEE THIS AS MAYBE LONG-TERM HELPING TO SOLVE THE BIGGER PROBLEM OF KEEPING THE REPEAT
OFFENDERS OFF THE STREET? >> CHIEF MCMANUS: YES.
WELL, IT -- THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS SOMEWHAT PROBLEMATIC.
AXON -- I MEAN, THIS NEW SYSTEM WILL GIVE THE COUNTY ACCESS TO THIS.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY ARE -- THEY ARE AMENABLE TO THAT.
>> HAVRDA: OKAY. I'LL TELL YOU, JUST FROM MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, WHEN I DID SOME CRIMINAL LAW FOR -- ON THE MISDEMEANOR WHEEL, YOU WOULD GET A CLIENT, BUT YOU WOULDN'T GET THE BODY CAMPHOR A WHILE.
I MEAN, IT WOULD TAKE A WHILE FOR YOU TO HAVE THE BODY CAM AS THEIR ATTORNEY. BUT I REMEMBER TALKING TO THE ADAS, IT TOOK THEM A WHILE TO GET IT. SO THE CASE KIND OF WOULDN'T MOVE ALONG UNTIL WE COULD GET THE BODY CAM. SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WITH THIS NEW CLOUD-BASED, THEY WOULD HAVE MORE EXPEDIENT ACCESS AND THEN THE CASE COULD MOVE ALONG AND MAYBE THAT WOULD BE PART OF HOW -- WHY WE
KEEP THE REPEAT OFFENDERS -- >> CHIEF MCMANUS: YES.
>> HAVRDA: MAYBE I ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION.
SORRY. I ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
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ANY QUESTION FROM THE COMMITTEE? COUNCILMANMCKEE-RODRIGUEZ? >> RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU. THE SLIDE SHOW KIND OF HELPED, BUT I WAS GOING TO ASK WHAT THE IN-CAR CAMS, IT STATED THEY'RE ALL ABOUT THE END OF THEIR LIFE EXEC TANSY AT ABOUT 14, 15 YEARS, SO WE CAN EXPECT -- I KNOW WE HAVE THE WARRANTY, BUT CAN WE EXPECT THEM TO LAST 15 YEARS AS THESE ONES DID? .
>> DIRECTOR AT SAPD. SO THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH THE TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM THAT UPDATES THEM AT 60 MONTHS, SO AT 60 MONTHS WE'LL GET A REFRESH AS PART OF THE CONTRACT PRICE OF THOSE IN-CAR
VIDEO. >> RODRIGUEZ: WHAT A GREAT DEAL.
I'LL ADD -- I WAS GOING TO ASK WHAT'S THE STATE OF THE BODY WORN CAMERAS, BUT I MEAN, IF THIS IS -- THAT'S GOING TO BE THE CASE FOR ALL OF THEM, THAT'S FANTASTIC. I DO WONDER -- SO I WAS GOING TO ASK IF THE ISSUE OF THE HARD DRIVE BEING FILLED UP IS ADDRESSED. I DO B WONDER, IS THERE SPACE LIMITATION IN TERMS OF THE CLOUD IN TERMS OF HOW MUCH DATA CAN WE STORE AND WILL WE RUN INTO THE ISSUE OF RUNNING OUT OF SPACE OR --
>> BEFORE I GO DOWN A CLOUD 101 CONVERSATION, EVERYTHING IS MOVING TO THE CLOUD. PLEASE DON'T THINK THE CLOUD IS INFINITE IN AUDIO] BUT WHAT THE CLOUD ALLOWS FOR US IS TO RAPIDLY EXPAND.
SO YOU STILL PAY TO STORE DATA ON A SERVER, IN I.T., I'D HAVE TO GO GET ANOTHER SERVER, HOOK IT UP, IT TAKES TIME TO DO THAT.
BUT IN THE CLOUD, AS WE GROW, IT CAN GROW WITH US.
YOU PAY FOR THAT AS YOU GO AS WELL. SO AS YOU STORE MORE DATA, YOU ALSO HAVE TO PAY FOR IT, BUT IT'S MORE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.
>> RODRIGUEZ: FOR SURE. I APPRECIATE THAT. AND THEN I WONDER -- PROBABLY FOR YOU AGAIN, SO SOMETHING THAT CONCERNS ME ABOUT THE CLOUD, JUST IN MY PERSONAL LIFE AND BUSINESS AND EVERYTHING IS THE ISSUE OF HACKING AND CYBERSECURITY. AND I DON'T WANT -- I KNOW WE CAN'T GET TOO IN DEPTH HERE, BUT WHAT LEVEL OF SECURITY DO WE HAVE? LIKE WHAT -- I WANT TO ASK WHAT SAFEGUARDS DO WE HAVE IN PLACE TO PREVENT HACKING. I KNOW YOU CAN'T NECESSARILY SAY. THESE ARE THE THINGS -- ALL OF OUR SECRETS.
>> YEAH. I'M NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT THAT HERE PUBLICLY, BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHETHER ON PREM, I.T.'S OWNING IT OR WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR VENDORS TO DO THAT, WE USE THE SAME LEVEL OF SECURITY ASSESSMENT. THEY LET US INTO THEIR ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE WE STILL ULTIMATELY OWN IT, I.T. FOR THE CITY AS WE GO FORWARD WITH THAT.
SO ANYTHING CAN BE HACKED, RIGHT? I JUST WANT TO LEAVE THAT REALLY CLEAR. BUT WE HAVE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF STANDARDS THAT WE FOLLOW AND WE PUT THOSE ON OUR VEN VENDORS AS WELL.
>> RODRIGUEZ: THANK YOU. GOING BACK TO THE SIZE OF THE CLOUD AGAIN, I'M GLAD THAT WE HAVE THE FIVE-YEAR REPLACEMENT AND THAT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND WHATNOT, SO WHAT I'M HEARING THEN IF WE GET TO A POINT WE'RE STORING MORE THAN WE ANTICIPATE ON THE CLOUD, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO INCREASE THE SPACE, IS THAT, THEN, GOING TO HAVE TO BE A COUNCIL ACTION WHERE WE
APPROVE -- OKAY. >> THERE'S A COUPLE OF WAYS TO DO THAT, BUT THINK OF IT AS AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION. YOU BASICALLY SIGN UP FOR X AMOUNT OF SPACE, X AMOUNT OF USERS EVERY YEAR.
WE DO THIS FOR OUR MICROSOFT ENVIRONMENT HERE AS WELL AT THE CITY. EVERY YEAR WE TRUE UP HOW MUCH SPACE WE'RE USING AND HOW MUCH USERS. EVERY YEAR THAT COST GOES UP IF YOU'RE CONTINUING TO GROW. USUALLY VENDORS DON'T LET YOU GO BACKWARDS, BUT YOU CAN HOLD YOUR COST. IT BECOMES AN ANNUAL CONTRACT ADJUSTMENT AS WE
GO FORWARD. >> RODRIGUEZ: GOOD THING FOR US TO EXPECT.
THANK YOU. >> MAYOR NIRENBERG: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ. COUNCILWOMAN ALDARETE GAVITO.
>> GAVITO: SORRY, CRAIG, TO CALL YOU BACK. TO PROBE INTO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER WHAT COUNCILWOMAN CABELLO HAVRDA WAS SAYING, WHAT AGREEMENT DID WE COME UP WITH WITH AXON AND HOW QUICKLY WE CAN ACCESS
BODY CAM FOOTAGE FROM THEIR CLOUD? >> SO I WANT TO MAKE ANY PROMISES TO TA YET BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT LOCKED IN ON THE FULL DESIGN OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. AND I ALSO DON'T WANT TO SAY JUST BECAUSE IT'S IN THE CLOUD IT'S FASTER, I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT, BUT AS OUR CURRENT ENVIRONMENT, AS CHIEF HAS SAID, TO COLLECT IT, PUT IT IN THE CAR, AT THE END OF THE SHIFT, UPLOAD IT. PUT IT THROUGH I.T., THERE'S A TIME PERIOD OF THAT. NOW IT WILL BE INSTANTANEOUSLY TO THE CLOUD, THAT DOESN'T MEAN INSTANTANEOUSLY TO THE COUNTY. I HAVEN'T FIGURED THAT OUT YET.
>> GAVITO: THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET TO WHATEVER AGREEMENT WE NAIL DOWN WITH THEM, SO THAT WAY THERE'S NO HOLD UP WITH LAWYERS OR FOR US TO BE ABLE TO SEE -- FIVE, SEVEN HOUR SLA, THAT WAY WE'RE NOT SITTING HERE WAITING WHEN
WE MAY HAVE A POTENTIAL ISSUE ON OUR HAND. >> WE WILL MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT IN OUR DESIGN AS WE GO FORWARD. I WILL TELL YOU IT'S BEEN
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A CONSTANT DISCUSSION IS FILE TYPES. WHAT FILE TYPES THEY CAN TAKE INTO THEIR SYSTEM AND WHAT FILE TYPES WE HAVE TO GIVE, MATCHINGTHAT UP. >> GAVITO: THANKS FOR ALL THAT WORK.
I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY. AND THEN OTHER QUICK QUESTIONS, SORRY, IT WAS ABOUT THE --
>> GAVITO: OKAY. GREAT. AWESOME.
THANKS FOR ALL THIS WORK. THANK YOU.
>> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. COUNCILWOMAN DR. KAUR?
>> KAUR: THANK YOU, CHAIR. QUICK QUESTION ON SLIDE 9, THE CAPABILITY TO GATHER ALL VIDEO EVIDENCE, WHAT DOES -- LIKE WHAT IS NOT BEING CAPTURED THAT IT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO CAPTURE
NOW? >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THE REAR SEAT OF THE PATROL CAR WILL BE CAPTURED. IT'S NOT BEING CAPTURED NOW.
>> KAUR: THAT'S FOR THE IN-CAR VIDEO, RIGHT? BUT FOR THE BODY WORN
CAMERA. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: THE BODY WARM -- YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE SOUND SYNCS UP AND ALL THAT THING.
>> YES, COUNCILWOMAN. SO THE ADDITION TO THE OSP7 PLAN, THE BODY WORN CAMERA WILL ALLOW [INDISCERNIBLE] OF RING DOORBELL CAMERAS, CC TV CAMERAS, PHOTOS FROM CITIZENS ON THE STREET TO ALL BE DIRECTED INTO THE EVIDENCE.COM PLATFORM. THEN THE EVIDENCE.COM PLATFORM THROUGH AUTO TAGGING, EVERY -- THE CASE HAS ALL THAT IN THERE ALREADY.
SO BODY WORN CAMERA, IN-CAR VIDEO, CCTV, RING DOORBELL CAMERA, ALL OF
THAT IS IN EVIDENCE.COM UNDER A CASE NUMBER. >> KAUR: THAT'S AWESOME.
IS IT CHANGING THE CLARITY OR THE ACTUAL VIEW FROM THE BODY WORN
CAMERA AT ALL OR THE QUALITY OF THE -- >>
>> KAUR: IT WILL. IT WILL INCREASE THE QUALITY.
>> KAUR: CRAIG, IS THAT A "YES"? >> YES.
>> KAUR: I READ THE TIMELINE AND IT LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF TESTING HAD BEEN DONE PREVIOUSLY BEFORE WE GOT HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS THE BEST PROGRAM AND THE BEST PRICE, IT SEEMS LIKE.
THAT'S A DECISION THAT'S BEEN MADE, RIGHT? OKAY.
JUST CHECKING. THANKS. >> HAVRDA: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. ANY OTHER FOLLOW-UP? ALL RIGHT.
THANKS, CHIEF. OH, I'M SORRY. DR. -- I'M SORRY,
COUNCILMAN MCKEE-RODRIGUEZ. >> RODRIGUEZ: OH, NOT A DOCTOR. DON'T PUT THAT ON ME. I GUESS CLARIFYING QUESTION BASED OFF OF WHAT I HEARD, WILL THIS SYSTEM -- AND I THINK THE ACCESS TO THE CLOUD ALLOWS US TO GIVE INDIVIDEOS TO IMPACTED FAMILIES SOONER WHEN THERE ARE INTERACTIONS.
I SEE A HEAD NOD. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: ARE YOU TALK ABOUT WHEN IT COMES
TIME FOR THEM TO LOOK AT A VIDEO. >> RODRIGUEZ: UH-HUH.
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD MAKE IT ANY SOONER.
IT'S NOT REALLY DELAYED. >> RODRIGUEZ: SO NO TO LITTLE IMPACT --
>> CHIEF MCMANUS: CONSTRICT. >> HAVRDA: IS IT FAIR TO SAY IT'S NOT DO GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY TECHNOLOGY, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE FASTER BY
TECHNOLOGY. >> CHIEF MCMANUS: RIGHT. >> HAVRDA: ALL RIGHTY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHIEF. THANK YOU, EVERYBODY.
GREAT MEETING TODAY. VERY THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS AND APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATIONS. MEETING'S
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