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          COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GRO HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER VEO HDA. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. 
          AND CHAIRWOMAN SANDOVAL HERE. 
          WE HAVE A QUORUM. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          DENISE. 
          I WANNA WELCOME EVERYBODY TO THE FIRST, UH, CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING OF THIS COUNCIL TERM. 
          I ALSO WANT TO WELCOME BACK COUNCILWOMAN VIA GRAND. 
          YOUR PRESENCE ON THIS COMMITTEE HAS BEEN MISSED, AND WE ARE GLAD YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE US YOUR SAGE EXPERIENCED ADVICE, UH, ON THIS. 
          THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. 
          THANK YOU SAGE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          ? YES. 
          UH, COUNCILWOMAN. 
          ANDREW SULLIVAN IS, UH, NOT HERE TODAY. 
          AND, UM, SHE MAY BE ON HER WAY. 
          RIGHT? SHE'S OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, JUST A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT. 
          UH, THERE ARE SOME, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THE ELECTRONIC MAILING LIST FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE AGENDA. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE A SIGNUP SHEET AND THERE'S, UH, MY STAFF BIANCA'S HOLDING IT UP. 
          UM, IF YOU DON'T WANNA GO AND CHECK REGISTRAR EVERY TIME TO SEE IF THE AGENDA'S POSTED, IT'LL COME STRAIGHT TO YOU AND IT NOTIFIES INDIVIDUALS OF UPCOMING COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ANY OTHER TOPICS RELEVANT TO, UH, THIS COMMITTEE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          [1. 19-6499 Approval of the May 22, 2019, Public Safety Committee Meeting
minutes]
UH, MOVING ON TO ITEM ONE, APPROVAL OF THE MAY 22ND, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES. 
          IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION TO APPROVE? SECOND. 
          ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. 
          AYE. 
          MOTION PASSES. 
          UH, THERE ARE NO CITIZENS TO BE HEARD RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, AND I, UH, ALSO NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT ASSISTANT, I'M SORRY, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER MARIA VIAGRA GOMEZ IS NOW OUR, UH, COMMITTEE LIAISON. 
          YES. 
          SO WE ARE VERY GLAD TO HAVE YOU, MARIA. 
          WELCOME. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL . 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, WE'LL 
          [2. 19-6502 Review of topics presented to the Public Safety Committee since
August 2017 and committee discussion on potential future topics]
MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER TWO. 
          UH, MARIA, PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. 
          THIS FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS REALLY TO PROVIDE THE COMMITTEE WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE TOPICS THAT WE HAVE PRESENTED AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, UH, OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS. 
          AND THIS IS, UH, AGAIN, JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF THE TOPICS AND THE DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE PRESENTED. 
          SO, UH, WE DID AN ANALYSIS OF ALL THE TOPICS THAT, UH, WERE PRESENTED TO THIS COMMITTEE SINCE AUGUST OF 2017 TO, UH, JUNE OF 2019 BEFORE WE, UH, TOOK THE JULY BREAK. 
          SO, JUST IN TOTAL, JUST SOME NUMBERS. 
          WE HAD A TOTAL OF 20 COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME AND A TOTAL OF 43 AGENDA ITEMS THAT WERE REVIEWED. 
          JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF THOSE ITEMS. WE HAD THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO PRESENTED 12 OF THOSE, AND THAT INCLUDED PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE MOBILE INTEGRATED HEALTH PROGRAM, OUR FIRE PREVENTION DIVISION AND PROGRAMS. AND ALSO WE DID A TOUR OF THE FIRE TRAINING ACADEMY. 
          THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PRESENTED OF A TOTAL OF 23 TOPICS DURING THIS, UH, TIME. 
          AND SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE OUR VIOLENT CRIME TASK FORCE, OUR INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS. 
          UH, WE ALSO DID A, UM, AGENDA ITEM ON, UH, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION, OUR SCHOOL BUS PROGRAM, AND, UH, AND OTHER IMPORTANT, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY ITEMS. AND THEN WE HAD, UM, AN OVERALL OF, UH, EIGHT ITEMS FROM A COMBINATION OF DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, HUMAN SERVICES, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. 
          AND SOME OF THOSE TOPICS INCLUDED, FOR EXAMPLE, A UH, REVIEW OF, UH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN TERMS OF THE COORDINATION BETWEEN CITY DEPARTMENTS, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HUMAN SERVICES, AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          AND THAT REALLY STARTED THE CONVERSATION, UH, IN MAY OF LAST YEAR TO WHAT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF CITY COUNCIL FOR THE UPCOMING, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2020 BUDGET. 
          SO AGAIN, THIS WAS JUST TO GIVE YOU A VERY, A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THOSE ITEMS. AND, UH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU. 
          I UNDERSTAND YOU WANTED TO HAVE A, A CONVERSATION WITH THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN TERMS OF TOPICS THAT COULD BE ADDED TO, UH, THIS YEAR'S AGENDA. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARIA. 
          UM, AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF ANY, IF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANY OF THOSE ITEMS ON THAT LIST. 
          IF YOU DO, NOW IS A, A TIME TO ASK. 
          UH, SO FOR INSTANCE, I SEE THERE WAS, UH, THE C C R ON THE MALE THEFT TASK FORCE COMES UP A COUPLE OF TIMES. 
          IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S STILL PENDING OR IS THAT, UH, IT'S LAW. 
          IT'S LAW OUT, YES. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GREAT. 
          YOU'RE ALL UP TO SPEED. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          AND THEN, UH, IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS ON THESE, I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE ANY ITEMS THEY'D LIKE TO SUGGEST FOR DISCUSSION IN THE FUTURE. 
          COUNCILWOMAN  CHAIRMAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, I GUESS WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW IS JUST AN UPDATE OF, UM, 
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'CAUSE THE SCHOOL BUS CAMERA PROGRAM THAT WE HAD, IT WAS WITH CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
          I WANNA KNOW IF THAT'S, MAYBE WE CAN GET AN UPDATE, UM, MAYBE HERE COMMITTEE OR MAYBE IN A MEMO FORM OF WHAT OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE DOING, IF THEY'RE CONTINUING TO DO THAT, OR IF THEY'VE, UH, DISBANDED USING SCHOOL BUS CAMERAS OR NOT. 
          AND IF WE COULD GET JUST AN UPDATE OF THAT, OF WHAT'S HAPPENING, WE CAN PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION. 
          COUNSEL. 
          COUNSEL? UM, YES, MA'AM. 
          UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE HERE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE THAT ISSUE ABOUT THE, UM, JAIL AND, UM, PROCESSING, UM, COMBINED FACILITIES, WHETHER WE'RE GONNA DO THIS OR NOT, AND INVITE THEM HERE AND, AND WITH THE CHIEF AND, AND GET, GET ALL THE PARTIES TOGETHER AND LET'S GO THROUGH IT AND SEE WHERE WE'RE AT AND WHAT, WHERE WE'RE GONNA GO. 
          WE'LL DO THAT, COUNCILMAN. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WELL, TODAY'S NOT THE LAST TIME TO GIVE YOUR INPUT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, SHARE YOUR INTEREST ON THE RECORD. 
          UM, IF YOU HAVE FURTHER SUGGESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SEND THEM TO MARIA OR, OR, AND OR MYSELF. 
          AND WE'LL TRY TO, UH, FIT THEM INTO, UH, INTO THE UPCOMING AGENDA. 
          CHAIRMAN, ONE MORE, ONE MORE THING. 
          UM, AND I THINK I MENTIONED THIS TO THE CHIEF BEFORE. 
          IS THERE A WAY WE CAN GO EVEN FURTHER BACK THAN 2017, JUST SO WE CAN SEE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN WORKED ON FROM 20 15, 20 16 UP TO NOW THAT WE'VE DONE ON THIS, UH, COMMITTEE JUST FOR REFRESHERS? AND MAYBE WE TRIED SOMETHING IN THE PAST BEFORE WE THOUGHT, NO, NOT AT THAT TIME, BUT MAYBE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW AND REVISIT IF IT'S NOW AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO IT NOW, JUST TIMES ARE DIFFERENT. 
          SO IF WE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT JUST KIND OF LIKE THIS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND JUST TO, TO SHARE WITH BOTH OF YOU, SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US BRING FORWARD, UH, IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, HAVE TO DO WITH ANY GUN SAFETY INITIATIVES THAT THE, THAT THE CITY TAKES ON, OR ANYTHING WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IN THAT REGARD. 
          UH, AS WELL AS GUN SAFETY. 
          I SAID GUN SAFETY MM-HMM. 
          , UM, AS WELL AS, UH, UPDATES ON THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WORK. 
          AND WE WILL BE EXPECTING A REPORT ON THE SITE AND RELEASE, UH, THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF THAT. 
          SO, UH, YES, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, SITE AND RELEASE. 
          OUR PLAN IS TO BRING THE FIRST QUARTER REPORT TO THIS COMMITTEE IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, RELEASED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          OKAY. 
          YES, SIR. 
          MARIA, WHEN, WHEN YOU SAY THE FIRST QUARTER REPORT, IS THAT GONNA BE, UM, IN THE FORM OF METRICS OR SOMETHING? OR HOW, WHAT FORMAT? IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THAT FORMAT PRIOR TO THE MEETING JUST TO SEE HOW THAT'S GONNA BE REPORTED. 
          AND, UM, UM, THERE MIGHT BE SOME SUGGESTIONS ON CHANGING THE FORMAT A LITTLE BIT OR, OR, OR, UM, LOOKING AT SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. 
          SO I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE THE, THE METRICS OR WHATEVER, HOW YOU'RE GONNA PRESENT THAT BEFORE THE MEETING. 
          UH, YES, COUNCILMAN, WE CAN DO THAT. 
          WE ARE TRACKING, UH, PERFORMANCE DATA, UH, RELATED TO THE PROGRAM AS WELL AS DEMOGRAPHICS, UH, CONCERNING TO, UH, THOSE BEING CITED OR ARRESTED AS PART OF THAT PROGRAM. 
          AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO, UH, SHARE WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY TRACKING, UH, TO WITH THIS COMMITTEE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN VARDA, WE'RE JUST, UH, TAKING INPUT ON ITEMS. SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IN THE FUTURE, PLEASE LET US KNOW EITHER NOW OR LATER. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , I'LL, THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT, GREAT. 
          COUNCILWOMAN, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I THINK WE'RE GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          GREAT. 
          WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARIA, FOR, FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. 
          I THINK, UH, WE HAVE A GOOD START FOR, FOR THE NEXT TERM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, WE'LL 
          [3. 19-6501 Briefing and possible action on the update of the April 2018
Independent review of the SAPD Special Victims Unit. [María
Villagómez, Deputy City Manager; William P. McManus, Chief of
Police]]
MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE. 
          YES, COUNCILWOMAN ITEM NUMBER THREE IS AN UPDATE ON AN APRIL, 2018 INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. 
          UH, POLICE CHIEF MCMANUS AND HIS TEAM ARE GONNA PROVIDE THIS COMMITTEE WITH, UH, SOME CONTEXT AND SOME, UH, BACKGROUND ON THIS PARTICULAR REPORT. 
          UH, WE HAVE REPORTED IN THE PAST, UH, TO THIS COMMITTEE, WE, WE CAME BACK IN JANUARY OF 2018. 
          UH, THERE WAS A, A REPORT IN A PRESS CONFERENCE IN APRIL OF 2018. 
          SO WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY AT THE REQUEST OF COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ IS PROVIDING AN UPDATE SINCE THE LAST, UM, PUBLIC, UH, MEETING 
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THAT WE HAD ON THIS TOPIC, WHICH WAS APRIL, 2018, TO LET YOU KNOW THIS ENHANCEMENTS AND, AND THE CHANGES THAT WE HAVE MADE WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO CHIEF MCMANUS. 
          THANKS, BUDDY. 
          SO, UM, GOOD AFTERNOON AND, UH, THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO PRESENT THIS TO YOU. 
          UH, BEFORE I START, ON MY LEFT, FAR LEFT IS CAPTAIN KAREN FAS, CAPTAIN, UH, WORKS IN THE CHIEF'S OFFICE, UH, ON SPECIAL PROJECTS. 
          AND RIGHT NOW SHE'S HEAVILY ENGAGED IN OUR TECHNOLOGY UPDATES AND SHE'S GOT A, A PIECE OF THIS PRESENTATION. 
          TO MY IMMEDIATE LEFT IS CAPT, UH, CAPTAIN HECTOR, UH, SOLAS, UH, CAPTAIN SALAS, UH, RIGHT NOW WHERE HE ALSO WORKS IN THE CHIEF'S OFFICE. 
          HE'S THE, UH, PATROL CAPTAIN, THE COORDINATOR OF ALL THE PATROL SUBSTATIONS, WORKS FOR THE, UH, FOR THE ASSISTANT CHIEFS AND THE DEPUTY CHIEFS. 
          AND TO MY RIGHT IS LIEUTENANT JESSE SALAME. 
          AND BOTH CAPTAIN SALAS AND AND LIEUTENANT SALAME HAVE, UH, EXTENSIVE EXP INVESTIGATIVE EX EXPERIENCE IN THE AREA THAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT TODAY. 
          UH, SPECIFICALLY AS FAR AS CAP, UH, LIEUTENANT SOLAME GOES, HE WAS A SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATOR, OR A SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT INVESTIGATOR, UH, HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR FOR, FOR OVER 10 YEARS, OR NEARLY 10 YEARS. 
          UH, AND IS AGAIN, IS A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT, UH, ON THIS ISSUE. 
          AND THEN THERE'S ME, SO WE HERE IN RES TO TALK ABOUT THIS IN RESPONSE TO COUNCILWOMAN, UH, GONZALEZ'S REQUEST. 
          SHE MADE IT BACK IN JUNE. 
          I SAW HER SITTING HERE SOMEWHERE THERE. 
          SHE'S OVER THERE, UH, FOR AN UPDATE, UH, ON, ON THE, UH, ON THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT AUDIT, WHICH WAS DONE, UH, BACK A, A YEAR AND A HALF OR SO AGO. 
          AND THE, THE AREAS THAT, THAT THEY LOOKED AT WERE OUR STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. 
          AND WE WILL REPORT ON OUR STANDING OPERATING PROCEDURES SPAN OF CONTROL, OUR CASELOAD AND THE TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE, THAT WE'VE MADE AND ARE GOING TO MAKE IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING, ACTUALLY. 
          SO LET ME JUST LAY THE FRAMEWORK, ESPECIALLY FOR THE, UH, NEWER COUNCIL MEMBER MEMBERS, UH, WHO, UH, AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH THIS OR MAY NOT BE AS FAMILIAR WITH IT. 
          SO, BACK IN 2017, UH, WE DISCOVERED, WELL, ONE OF OUR DETECTIVES BACK IN 2017, WHO HAS SINCE BEEN FIRED, UH, HE WAS, UH, INVOLVED IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          HE WAS INVOLVED IN A DOMESTIC, GIMME ONE SECOND. 
          EXCUSE ME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HE WAS INVOLVED IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, UH, INCIDENT. 
          AND SO HE WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO STAY IN THAT UNIT, IN THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT WHILE HE WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR THAT. 
          SO WE MOVED HIM OUT IN LOOKING TO REASSIGN HIS CASES. 
          THE SERGEANT WENT THROUGH ALL OF HIS, HIS CASES THAT HE WAS INVESTIGATING, AND FOUND THAT, UM, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THEM THAT, THAT HADN'T BEEN WORKED ON. 
          THEY WERE IMPROPERLY CLASSIFIED, AND, UM, UH, IN CASES THAT WERE JUST KIND OF, THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT WAS IN HIS DESK THAT HADN'T BEEN TURNED IN. 
          SO IT, IT WAS, IT WAS, UM, UM, IT WAS A BIG ISSUE. 
          SO AS A RESULT OF THAT, WE DID, WE, WE, I ASKED FOR AN, A, A, AN AUDIT OF ALL OF OUR STANDING, OPERATING, OPERATING PROCEDURES, UH, AS THEY PERTAIN TO NOT ONLY THE INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS, BUT ALSO THE SUPERVISORY OVERSIGHT OF THE UNIT. 
          SO AT THE SAME TIME, OR SHORTLY, SHORTLY THEREAFTER, UH, THERE WAS AN OUTSIDE AUDIT, INDEPENDENT AUDIT THAT THE CITY MANAGER ASKED FOR. 
          SO AS A RESULT OF THAT OUTSIDE AUDIT, THERE WERE 10,000 FELONY CASES THAT WERE REVIEWED. 
          IT WAS A, IT WAS A RANDOM SAMPLING OF 30,000. 
          AND WE, WE REVIEWED 10,000 OR THE, OR THE, THE AUDITORS WHO WERE ALL FORMER PROSECUTORS, UM, REVIEWED 10,000 FELONY CASES, AND THEY REVIEWED 1500 MISDEMEANOR CASES. 
          UM, THOSE, UM, CASES EXTENDED BACK ALL THE WAY TO 2014 THROUGH 2017. 
          AND THE, THE FINDING OF THAT, OR THE 
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CONCLUSION OF THAT INDEPENDENT AUDIT BY THE FORMER PROSECUTORS WAS THAT THERE WAS NO DISCERN. 
          AND THIS IS A QUOTE, NO DISCERNIBLE PATTERN OR PRACTICE OF DETECTIVES MISHANDLING CASES, SAY, FOR THE ACTION OF ONE DETECTIVE. 
          SO THERE WERE NO SYSTEMIC ISSUES, UM, UH, THAT THAT RE UH, THAT CAUSED THAT, UH, OR THAT WERE PREVALENT THROUGH THE ENTIRE UNIT. 
          UM, THE ACTIONS THAT WE TOOK AS A RESULT OF, OF FINDING THAT DETECTIVE, UH, FALLING DOWN ON A JOB IS, UH, WE FIRED HIM. 
          WE REASSIGNED ALL THE SUPERVISORS IN THAT UNIT. 
          ONE RETIRED IN LIEU OF BEING TRANSFERRED. 
          THERE WERE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS MADE, AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THEM AS WE GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. 
          AND THERE WERE RESOURCES THAT WERE ADDED, UM, SPECIFICALLY, UH, ADDITIONAL STAFFING AND ADDITIONAL SUPERVISION. 
          UM, UH, LIEUTENANT SALME IS GONNA STEP IN AT, UH, AND COVER THIS SLIDE. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          UH, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE PUBLIC, UH, SAFETY COMMITTEE FOR, UH, HAVING US HERE TODAY. 
          SO, UH, TO FURTHER, UH, WHAT CHIEF SAID, UM, SO CHIEF MCMANUS, WHEN THIS HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER OF 2017, CHIEF MCMANUS ORDERED A PROACTIVE REVIEW OF OUR SOPS, OUR STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. 
          AND WHAT THOSE BASICALLY ARE, THEY EXIST WITHIN EVERY UNIT WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THEY'RE SPECIFIC TO THAT UNIT. 
          UM, THEY DESCRIBE THE FUNCTION OF THE UNIT, THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE UNIT, AND IT'S BROKEN DOWN TO THE LEVEL THAT IT DESCRIBES EVEN THE FUNCTIONS AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE INDIVIDUALS ASSIGNED TO THAT UNIT. 
          AND SO THIS WAS GOING ON CONCURRENTLY WHILE THE, UH, INDEPENDENT, UH, UH, REVIEW WAS, WHICH WAS BEING CONDUCTED BY LISA TATUM. 
          THE TATUM GROUP WAS CONDUCTING THE, THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT REVIEW CONCURRENTLY AS WE WERE REVIEWING OUR, OUR SOPS. 
          AND WHAT WE FOUND, UH, AND AGAIN, I, I LED THE GROUP AND ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER, UH, SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS, UH, ALL FORMER INVESTIGATORS WITH, UH, A LOT OF EXPERIENCE AND A LOT OF UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHERE WE WERE, UH, POTENTIALLY HAD AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND WHERE WE WERE, WHERE WE MIGHT'VE HAD AREAS WHERE WE MIGHT'VE BEEN VULNERABLE AND WHAT WE, AND THAT WAS OUR, THAT WAS OUR TASK. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE WERE, UH, UH, LOOKING FOR. 
          AND WHAT WE FOUND THAT, UH, OUR SOPS OVERALL WERE, WERE SOUND, THEY WERE WELL WRITTEN, UH, BUT WE DID FIND AREAS WHERE WE COULD FIND, UH, FOR ENHANCEMENT. 
          AND I'LL, I'LL TALK ABOUT THE, THE THREE MAIN AREAS THAT WE FOUND. 
          UM, WHAT WE, THE, THE FIRST THING THAT WE DISCOVERED IS THAT THERE WAS A, A BETTER WAY. 
          SO A LAYERED ACCOUNTABILITY. 
          SO THERE'S ENHANCED SUPERVISORY VIEW OF CASES. 
          IN THE PAST AS A DETECTIVE, YOU WOULD SUBMIT YOUR CASES FOR REVIEW TO YOUR IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR, WHICH WOULD'VE BEEN YOUR SERGEANT. 
          UM, WE NOW MADE IT TO WHERE THE LIEUTENANT HAS THAT RESPONSIBILITY TO BE THE FINAL APPROVING AUTHORITY FOR, UH, THE FILING OF, OF CASES OF THE, UH, CLOSING OF CASES. 
          UM, THEY'VE GOTTA BE INVOLVED IN THAT. 
          THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DELEGATE THAT AUTHORITY TO THE SERGEANT ANYMORE. 
          AND AGAIN, THAT'S FOR THE, THE MOST, THE, THE, THE MAXIMUM LEVEL OF ACCOUNTABILITY THAT WE CAN PROVIDE. 
          WE ALSO ESTABLISHED A CASE AUDIT SCHEDULE, AND WE ARE DOING MONTHLY CASE AUDITS. 
          AND SO THAT THOSE ARE BEING DONE PER UNIT. 
          AND AGAIN, WE'RE TALKING NOT JUST, UH, THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. 
          WE'RE TALKING HOMICIDE, ROBBERY, FORGERY. 
          UM, ALL OF OUR MAJOR CRIMES UNITS ARE, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING THESE MONTHLY CASE AUDITS. 
          AND IT FROM THERE, THAT'S, IT'S VERY EASY TO TRACK THESE CASES MONTH TO MONTH AND MAKING ANY DETERMINATIONS AS TO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S, THERE'S A PARTICULAR REASON WHY SOME SOMEBODY'S NOT WORKING THEIR CASES OR SOME CASES ARE NOT BEING SOLVED, TO REALLY DIVE INTO THAT AND FIGURE OUT KIND OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH, WITH THOSE PARTICULAR CASES. 
          AND, AND, AND THERE'S ALWAYS REASONS BEHIND THAT. 
          UM, AND, AND THE LAST THING, AND I THINK IS, IS, IS ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IS WE WANTED TO ESTABLISH AND, AND KIND OF ENHANCE OUR VICTIM COMMUNICATION GUIDELINES. 
          AND WE DID THAT IN THE FORM OF PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
          UH, WE UPDATED OUR WEBSITE. 
          WE WANTED TO MAKE IT VERY EASY FOR VICTIMS TO KNOW, UH, WHERE, WHAT RESOURCES WERE AVAILABLE AND WHERE THEY COULD GO IN THE EVENT THAT THEY NEEDED SOME ASSISTANCE. 
          UH, ALSO HOW TO FILE A COMPLAINT IF THEY HAD, UH, ISSUES WITH A, THE DETECTIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT THAT WAS VISIBLE, MAKING SURE THAT THAT WAS EASILY ACCESSIBLE. 
          AND, UH, LASTLY, AND THIS WAS, UH, UH, COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL HAD YOUR ADVICE. 
          WE, UH, SOLICITED INPUT FROM ADVOCACY GROUPS AND OUTSIDE, UH, STAKEHOLDERS TO NOT, NOT JUST TO VALIDATE OUR WORK, BUT TO TAKE A REALLY CRITICAL LOOK AT WHAT IT IS THAT WE HAVE THE, UH, PROPOSALS THAT WE WERE SUGGESTING, AND THEN, AND GET SOLICIT FEEDBACK FROM THEM. 
          SO WE HAD, UH, UH, ROBERT RICO, WHO'S A PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE OVER AT U T S A. 
          UH, WE HAD H DREW GALLOWAY OVER 
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AT MOVE SA, AND WE HAD, UH, SEAN PRICE FROM WEST END HOPE. 
          AND, AND SO WE, WE FEEL LIKE WE WERE ABLE TO GET A GOOD CROSS SECTION OF, UH, OF GROUPS FROM THE COMMUNITY TO SORT OF GIVE US SOME FEEDBACK TO TELL US FROM A ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVE, FROM A, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, ORGANIZING PERSPECTIVE AND FROM AN ADVOCACY PERSPECTIVE, UM, WHERE WE COULD, UH, IMPROVE. 
          AND SO IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, THE CHIEF WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR WORK WAS DONE. 
          AND SO HE COMMISSIONED AN OUTSIDE CONSULTANT, AND I, AND I'LL, I'LL KICK IT BACK TO THE CHIEF. 
          SO WE, WE, WE, WE DIDN'T WANT TO, TO, UM, CODIFY THESE, UH, SOPS THAT WE HAD REVISED, UH, ON OUR OWN. 
          WE WANTED TO GET AN INDEPENDENT LOOK FROM AN EXPERT ON THESE. 
          AND THE, THE PICTURE YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE IS A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF ROBERT STEWART, WHO IS A 25 YEAR VETERAN OF THE, THE, UH, DC METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON, DC. 
          HE LEFT THERE IN, UM, I DON'T KNOW, IN THE, MAYBE THE EARLY NINETIES TO, UH, TO, UM, BECOME CHIEF OF POLICE STAND IN FLORIDA. 
          AND I BELIEVE HE WAS CHIEF OF POLICE IN TWO CITIES, TWO SEPARATE CITIES IN FLORIDA, UH, OF COURSE, DURING DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS. 
          AND, UM, ROBERT'S QUOTE, UH, AFTER REVIEWING, UH, THE, THE SOPS THAT WE HAD PUT TOGETHER AND, AND, UH, AMENDED WERE THESE REVISIONS, MAKE THEM, MAKE THEM SOME OF THE STRONGEST SOPS I'VE SEEN. 
          AND, UM, THE, THE SOPS, I THINK JESSE MIGHT HAVE MENTIONED THEM, OR LIEUTENANT SALME MIGHT HAVE MENTIONED THEM, UH, DURING HIS TALKING POINTS, WAS THEY ESTABLISHED A MORE DEFINED SUPERVISORY PROCESS, MADE THE SUPERVISORY PROCESS, UH, LAYERED TO, TO QUOTE HIM, TO QUOTE, UH, JESSE. 
          IT IMPROVED CASE MANAGEMENT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE AS WELL. 
          AND THEY ACHIEVED THE DEPARTMENT'S OBJECTIVES OF MAKING, UH, SURE THAT THE INVESTIGATIONS WERE THOROUGH, UH, THAT THEY WERE ACCURATE, AND THAT THERE, THAT THE, THE VICTIM WAS SATISFIED WITH, UH, WITH THE DETECTIVES THAT DID THE WORK. 
          UM, OUR DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVE IS TO BUILD TRUST IN THE COMMUNITY BY ENSURING A THOROUGH INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS AND ENHANCING CUSTOMER SERVICE TO VICTIMS. UM, I'M GONNA FLIP IT BACK OVER TO, UH, LIEUTENANT SALAME AND CAPTAIN SALAS TO, UH, WORK THIS SLIDE OVER A LITTLE BIT. 
          SO, AGAIN, ON WHEN WE COMPLETED WITH OUR REVIEW, WE WERE STILL WAITING ON THE FINAL, UM, UH, REPORT FROM LISA TATUM'S GROUP. 
          AND AGAIN, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HIGHLIGHT HERE THAT, UH, HER INDEPENDENT REVIEW WITH, WITH ALL OF THE CASES AND, AND ALL OF THE WORK THAT WENT INTO IT, THAT SHE FOUND THAT THERE WERE NO SYSTEMIC ISSUES WITHIN S WITHIN THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT WITH DETECTIVES THAT WERE MISHANDLING CASES. 
          AND SO, I, I, I JUST WANT TO, UH, JUST KIND OF DESCRIBE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, SO, SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, THEY DON'T JUST HANDLE CASES THAT INVOLVE, UM, CRIMINAL, UH, OFFENSES RELATED TO SEXUALLY, UH, SEX CRIMINAL, SEXUALLY SEXUAL OFFENSES. 
          THEY ALSO INVESTIGATE FAMILY VIOLENCE AT THE TIME OF, OF THIS REPORT. 
          AND THEN I'LL HAVE, UH, CAPTAIN SALAS TAKE OVER IN A MINUTE. 
          THEY HANDLED ALL FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES, SO A FELONY AND MISDEMEANOR. 
          AND SO THEY, THEY, THEY'VE GOT A DUAL ROLE. 
          THEY WERE, THEY WERE HANDLING, UM, CASES INVOLVING SEXUAL, UH, CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT AND FAMILY VIOLENCE. 
          AND, UM, WHAT LISA TATUM'S GROUP FOUND, UH, THERE WAS SOME FINDINGS THAT WERE RELATED, SPECIFIC TO SPAN OF CONTROL AND TO CASELOAD. 
          NOW, WHAT SPAN OF CONTROL IS THAT REFERS TO THE RATIO OF SUBORDINATES THAT REPORT TO ONE SUPERVISOR. 
          SO THAT'S THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE AS A SUPERVISOR FOR, FOR OVERSEEING ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS. 
          UH, THE CASELOAD REFERS TO THE NUMBER OF CASES THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO A DETECTIVE. 
          AND THE WAY WE TYPICALLY TRACK THAT IS MONTHLY. 
          UH, SO THE, THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF CASES THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO A DETECTIVE MONTHLY. 
          AND SO, IN ORDER TO ADDRESS, UH, SOME OF THE FINDINGS THAT SHE HAD IN HER, UH, REPORT, WE, UH, MADE A, UH, WE REQUESTED AND, AND, AND RECEIVED A, UH, MID-YEAR FISCAL YEAR 18 BUDGET IMPROVEMENT, WHICH GAVE US TWO ADDITIONAL, UH, SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT SERGEANTS. 
          AND THAT HELPED US TO REDUCE THE SPAN OF CONTROL. 
          UH, AND IDEALLY, THE LESS PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SUPERVISE, THE MORE OVERSIGHT AND THE MORE ACCOUNTABILITY YOU CAN PROVIDE TO EACH OF THOSE DETECTIVES, THE MORE ATTENTION YOU CAN GIVE TO NOT ONLY THE DETECTIVES, BUT TO THEIR CASES. 
          UM, IN, IN, IN FISCAL YEAR 19, WE MADE A BUDGET IMPROVEMENT AND ADDED ADDITIONAL COMMAND OVERSIGHT WITHIN THE MAJOR CRIMES, UH, DIVISION. 
          AND WHAT THAT DID IS, IS PROMOTE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY. 
          IT REALLY 
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STRENGTHENED THE COMMAND SUPERVISION ACROSS MAJOR CRIMES. 
          UH, THERE WAS ONE CAPTAIN ASSIGNED TO MAJOR CRIMES, AND THAT CAPTAIN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ALL THE PERSONNEL IN HOMICIDE AND SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT AND FORGERY. 
          UH, VE UH, WE, THAT, THAT'S A LOT FOR ONE CAPTAIN. 
          AND SO WE, WE SEPARATED THAT, AND NOW THERE'S, UH, ONE CAPTAIN EXCLUSIVELY FOR HOMICIDE AND ONE CAPTAIN EXCLUSIVELY FOR SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. 
          AND THEN THEY'VE TAKEN SEVERAL UNITS. 
          AND AGAIN, I GUESS I THINK THAT PROMOTES, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, MORE EFFICIENCY IN, IT REDUCES THE SPAN OF CONTROL AT THAT COMMAND LEVEL. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WITH REGARDS TO THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT HANDLING ALL FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES, UM, WITH REGARDS TO CASELOAD, WE MADE AN ENHANCEMENT, UH, WITH THE ASSIGNMENT OF DETECTIVES TO THE, UH, C R T UNITS. 
          AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO CAPTAIN SALA TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN GREATER DETAIL. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          AND A, UH, OFFICER'S, UH, THAT WOULD PRETTY MUCH PROVIDE OUTREACH, AND THEN THEY, AND THEN THEY WOULD, UH, PACKAGE THE CASE TOGETHER AND SEND IT OVER TO S V U FOR FILING. 
          UH, CURRENTLY THE, THE DYNAMIC IS THAT THERE'S A DETECTIVE ASSIGNED. 
          SO THERE, ONE OF OUR FIRST OBJECTIVES WAS TO, UH, REDUCE S SVUS CASELOAD, UH, BY HANDLING ALL, UH, MISDEMEANOR FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES, UH, THAT, THAT MEANS THAT THE DETECTIVES ARE NOW OUT IN THE SUBSTATIONS ARE FILING CASES FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON THE MISDEMEANOR SIDE. 
          UH, SECOND WOULD BE TO, UH, MAKE DETECTIVES MORE ACCESSIBLE OUT IN THE FIELD, UH, BY, UH, MAKING SURE THAT IF THERE'S A VICTIM THAT WALKS INTO THE SUBSTATION, NOW THE, THE CASE CAN BE INVESTIGATED. 
          ALSO, STILL PROVIDING OUTREACH SERVICE, OUTREACH SERVICES WITH OUR C R T CIVILIANS AS WELL AS THE DETECTIVE. 
          THEY, THEY DO PROVIDE THAT, THAT OUTREACH AND THEN VICTIM ADVOCACY WHEN THEY REACH OUT TO THESE GROUPS. 
          AND THIRD OBJECTIVE WAS TO PRETTY MUCH REDUCE THE DELAY IN FILING CASES, UH, PRIOR TO THE CHANGE. 
          UH, THE OFFICERS WOULD PACKAGE THE CASE, SEND IT OVER TO SS V U, AND DEPENDING ON RDS OR, YOU KNOW, UH, PERSONNEL IF THEY TOOK OFF, SOME OF THOSE CASES MAY HAVE NOT BEEN FILED RIGHT AWAY. 
          SO NOW, CURRENTLY THE, THE CURRENT PROCESS, THE DETECTIVES, ONCE THEY'RE FINISHED WITH IT, THEY FILE IT RIGHT AWAY WITH THE DA'S OFFICE, THUS CREATING, UH, REDUCING THAT DELAY IN FILING THOSE CASES SO THAT WE KNOW IF THERE IS A PERPETRATOR OUT THERE, THEY'RE PUTTING A ARREST CASES TOGETHER AND THEY'RE FILING ON THEM. 
          THAT'S ALL I HONESTLY, AND, AND THAT ALLOWED, UH, FOUR, WAS IT FOUR DETECTIVES, FOUR ADDITIONAL DETECTIVES THAT WERE INVESTIGATING MISDEMEANOR CASES TO MOVE TO SS V U TO INVESTIGATE FELONY CASES. 
          SO IT ADDED FOUR DETECTIVES ON THE FELONY SIDE WHILE INCREASING THE DETE, WHILE INCREASING THE DETECTIVE'S ABILITY IN THE, IN THE SUBSTATION TO INVESTIGATE THOSE CASES FROM START TO FINISH. 
          'CAUSE AS, UH, UH, CAPTAIN SALAS MENTIONED WHEN AN OFFICER WAS ASSIGNED TO THAT DUTY, THEY CAN ONLY TAKE A CASE SO FAR BEFORE THEY HAVE TO TURN IT OVER TO A DETECTIVE TO FILE. 
          SO WE, WE GAINED DEFICIENCY THERE BY REPLACING THOSE OFFICERS, PUTTING THEM BACK ON PATROL, REPLACING THEM WITH DETECTIVES, AND FREEING UP FOUR, UH, ADDITIONAL FELONY INVESTIGATORS FOR S V U. 
          TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEXT SLIDE HERE WITH, UH, WITH WHAT THOSE CHANGES DID WITH OUR METRICS. 
          UM, AND SO LOOKING AT THAT WOULD, AGAIN, UM, THERE'S NO FORMAL GUIDELINES. 
          THERE'S NO NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STANDARD WITH REGARDS TO SPAN OF CONTROL OR EVEN CASELOAD FOR THAT MATTER. 
          UM, THERE'S A LOT OF RESEARCH OUT THERE, BUT, UM, IT, IT, THERE'S TOO MANY VARIABLES AND THE DEPARTMENTS HANDLE CASES VERY DIFFERENTLY. 
          BUT, UM, WHAT, WHAT LISA TATUM'S GROUP HAD, HAD, UH, HAD COME UP WITH IS THAT, UH, KIND OF WITH RESPECT TOCA, UH, SPAN CONTROL, IT'S SORT OF GENERALLY ACCEPTED THAT A NINE TO ONE RATIO, UM, IS, IS PREFERRED. 
          AND AGAIN, THAT WOULD BE NINE SUBORDINATES TO ONE SUPERVISOR. 
          UH, IN 2017, UM, WE WERE AT 11 TO ONE FOR THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. 
          AND SO, UH, WITH THOSE CHANGES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WITH THE, UH, WITH THE, YOU KNOW, WE ADDED SOME SUPERVISORS THAT GAVE US MORE CAPACITY, ALLOWED FOR BETTER SUPERVISION THAT WAS GONNA REDUCE HISPANIC CONTROL. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO TOOK AWAY THE MISDEMEANOR CASES AND SENT THOSE OUT TO THE, UH, SUBSTATIONS AT THE, UH, WITH EACH RESPECTIVE C R T UNIT, UH, THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE CASELOAD. 
          AND SO, WHAT, WHAT YOU SEE NOW, IN 2018 WHEN WE MADE THAT CHANGE, AND EVEN TO DATE 2019, WE'RE LOOKING AT A RATIO OF EIGHT TO ONE. 
          SO WE ARE, WE ARE LOWER, UM, PROBABLY THAN WE'VE EVER BEEN. 
          AND I WOULD, I WOULD VENTURE A GUESS BASED ON SOME OF THE RESEARCH I'VE DONE, AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE I'VE TALKED TO, UH, AT OTHER MAJOR CITY POLICE DEPARTMENTS, UM, THAT IS A, A VERY LOW NUMBER. 
          UM, AND THAT IS A, THAT IS A GOOD NUMBER. 
          EIGHT, EIGHT DETECTIVES OR EIGHT SUBORDINATES UNDER ONE SUPERVISOR. 
          THAT IS EASILY MANAGEABLE. 
          AND, AND IDEALLY, THAT'S WHERE 
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WE WANT TO, WE WANNA BE, AND THAT'S WHERE WE WANNA STAY. 
          AND, AND, UM, THE OTHER COMPONENT TO THIS WAS THE TECHNOLOGY PIECE. 
          AND I'M GOING TO, UH, ASK, UH, CAPTAIN, UH, FAS TO TALK ABOUT THAT. 
          THANK YOU, JESSE. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT I HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY PIECE OF THIS. 
          AND SO, UH, THE RECOMMENDATION THAT CAME FROM THE AUDIT IS THAT SS A P D MAKE CHANGES TO THE TECHNOLOGY COMPONENT THAT SUPPORTED THE INVESTIGATIVE UNITS, AND THAT WAS THE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT THE CHIEF REFERRED TO. 
          AND TO THAT, ON JULY 17TH OF THIS YEAR, UH, OUR DEPARTMENT WENT LIVE WITH A UPGRADE TO OUR RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND OUR FIELD-BASED REPORTING SYSTEM, WHICH IS, UH, THE SYSTEM THAT THE OFFICERS WRITE THEIR REPORTS IN. 
          AND WE NEEDED TO DO THAT UPGRADE SO THAT SS A P D COULD GET TO THE NEWEST VERSION OF THE SOFTWARE, SO WE COULD MAKE CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS FOR BOTH OUR OFFICERS AND THEN OUR DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE. 
          AND ONE OF THOSE CHANGES THAT WE MADE TO THE R M SS AS A RESULT OF THIS SS V U AUDIT WAS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO RECONFIGURE THE R M S SO THAT THESE MAJOR CRIMES DETECTIVES, UH, COULD NOT CLOSE THESE CASES WITHOUT THEIR SUPERVISOR'S APPROVAL. 
          SO IN ADDITION TO, UH, THIS TECHNOLOGY CHANGE AND TO FURTHER OUR ADVANCEMENTS CURRENTLY, UH, WE'RE UNDERWAY IN THE R M S PROCUREMENT OF A NEW R M S SYSTEM. 
          UM, TO SAY THAT OUR SYSTEM NOW IS ARCHAIC, THAT'S KIND OF AN UNDERSTATEMENT. 
          SO WE'RE OUT LOOKING FOR A NEW SYSTEM, AND THIS NEW SOLUTION, UM, THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS GOING TO OFFER MUCH MORE FUNCTIONALITY THAN WE HAVE CURRENTLY. 
          NOW, IT'S GONNA BE WEB-BASED, IT'S GONNA BE HOSTED IN THE CLOUD, WHICH MEANS THAT WE'LL NEVER HAVE ANY DOWNTIME, UH, FOR UPGRADES OR FOR UPDATES, THAT SORT OF THING. 
          UH, IT'LL BE DEVICE AGNOSTIC, WHICH MEANS WE CAN USE IT ACROSS ANY PLATFORM OF TECHNOLOGY THAT WE NEED TO. 
          UH, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS IS THAT THE REPORTS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE, UH, WHICH MEANS THAT WE CAN ASSIGN THEM QUICKER, MORE EFFICIENTLY TO THE DETECTIVES. 
          CURRENTLY, IT TAKES ABOUT A WEEK TO A WEEK AND A HALF FOR THAT REPORT TO BE WRITTEN AND TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE PROCESS, THE WORKFLOW. 
          UH, SO WITH THIS NEW SYSTEM, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO, TO WORK FASTER, QUICKER, UH, MORE EFFECTIVELY, EFFICIENTLY. 
          AND SO HOPEFULLY, UM, AS I SAID, WE'RE UNDER THE, WE'RE IN THE R S, UH, THE R F P PROCESS RIGHT NOW, SO THERE'S NOT MUCH, I'M ON THE SCORING COMMITTEE, SO I SIGNED A CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT. 
          SO THERE'S NOT REALLY MUCH I CAN TALK ABOUT THE VENDORS AND EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE. 
          UM, BUT HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET THAT TO COUNCIL. 
          UH, BY OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR. 
          I, AND AS PART OF THE, UH, FISCAL 2020, UH, PROPOSED BUDGET ENHANCEMENTS, I BELIEVE CITY, UH, COUNCIL'S AWARE OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS AS A WAY TO IMPROVE SERVICES TO OUR VICTIMS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE WOULD BE TO, UH, ADD AN ADDITIONAL SIX NEW, UH, SERGEANTS TO OUR C R T AND THEN ADDITIONAL 10 NEW SAFE OFFICERS. 
          UH, REASON BEING IS, UH, OUR, CURRENTLY OUR SAFE UNIT, UH, UH, THE C R T FALLS UNDER THE SAFE UNIT. 
          AND WITHIN THAT, UH, YOU, A SERGEANT, UH, TWO SERGEANTS ON AVERAGE, UH, SUPERVISE, UH, 16 TO 18 OFFICERS, AND AS WELL AS SIX C R T PERSONNEL. 
          UH, THAT'S A RATIO OF ABOUT ONE TO 12. 
          AND, UH, IF SOME, IF A SERGEANT TAKES OFF, THEN IT, IT INCREASES THAT NUMBER ON THAT SPAN OF CONTROL. 
          UM, THE IDEA WOULD BE TO, UH, HAVE THAT SERGEANT, UH, UH, ASSIGNED TO C R T ASSIGNING CASES AND ALSO BEING MORE ENGAGED, UH, ESPECIALLY ON THE ONSET OF THE INITIAL CASE ASSIGNMENT, BECAUSE, UH, THAT'S WHERE THE SERGEANT CAN, UH, RUN THROUGH THOSE CASES TO SEE WHICH ONES NEED, UH, ATTENTION RIGHT AWAY BASED ON THE SEVERITY OF THE CASE, UH, BASED ON THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE 10, THE PROPO, UH, THE, THE POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE SO THAT THE, THE SERGEANT CAN ASSIGN THOSE CASES RIGHT AWAY. 
          ALSO, UH, ON, UM, HIGH RISK CASES, WE REALLY WANT OUR, OUR SAFE SERGEANTS INVOLVED. 
          I MEAN, OUR C R T SERGEANTS INVOLVED SO THAT THEY, UH, WHEN WE NEED TO REACH OUT TO MAYBE SWAT S V U OR, UH, OUR ROPE, UH, UH, UNITS THAT THEY COULD BE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THERE AND BEING THE ADVOCATE FOR OUR CRTS, UH, ON THE DETECTIVE SIDE AS WELL AS THE CIVILIAN SIDE. 
          UH, AND THEN THE 10, UH, 10 NEW OFFICERS WOULD BE, UH, TO, UH, INCREASE THAT OUTREACH, UH, GOING, UH, BEING ASSIGNED UNDER THE SAFE, UH, UMBRELLA, BUT THEN ALSO HELPING OUT C R T WITH HOME VISITS, UH, OUTREACH PROGRAMS, UH, MAKING SURE WE'RE, WE'RE SPREADING THE MESSAGE OUT IN THE SCHOOLS SO THAT, UH, WE ARE MAKING THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OUR PRIORITY SO THAT WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE INFORMED AND THAT WE CAN, UH, MAYBE PREVENT THAT IN THE FUTURE FROM, FROM HAPPENING. 
          AND THAT WOULD BE THE IDEAL, ESPECIALLY OUR, OUR CIVILIANS THAT, UH, ARE NOT ARMED AND THEY POTENTIALLY, UH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A, A, A DANGEROUS SITUATION. 
          SO WE REALLY WANT ARMED OFFICERS WITH THEM. 
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UH, THEY DO GO OUT AS TEAMS SO THAT THEY CAN REACH OUT TO THESE, UH, VICTIMS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE. 
          AND, AND JUST TO, JUST TO ELABORATE ON THAT, UH, EVEN FURTHER, UM, THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALLS, THE FAMILY VIOLENCE CALLS. 
          UM, IT, IT'S, IT'S NOT A, IT, IT'S NOT JUST, IT'S LEGITIMATELY THE MOST DANGEROUS CALL THAT WE GO TO. 
          AND SO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO CANCEL COVER ON THOSE CALLS. 
          THE MINIMUM OF TWO OFFICERS ARE DISPATCHED TO EVERY ONE OF THOSE CALLS. 
          IT MAKES SENSE FOR US TO HAVE DEDICATED OFFICERS TO, UH, WE WOULD NEVER SEND A, A CASEWORKER CIVILIAN OUT TO A, A CALL LIKE THAT BY THEMSELVES. 
          AND SO THIS IS ANOTHER ENHANCEMENT. 
          THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE. 
          AND THIS ALLOWS US TO, UH, NOT ONLY DO THAT OUTREACH, BUT OFFER THEM THE PROTECTION THEY NEED SO THAT THEY CAN DO THEIR JOB, AND THAT THEY CAN GET THE PERSON THE HELP THAT THEY NEED AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SOMEBODY TRYING TO CAUSE THEM HARM FOR HELPING. 
          AND THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION, AND WE'RE OPEN FOR QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU, MARIA. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF, AND ALL OF YOU. 
          THAT WAS A VERY THOROUGH PRESENTATION. 
          UM, UH, I'D LIKE TO INVITE COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ TO, TO JOIN US UP HERE. 
          THANK YOU, UHHUH. 
          YEAH, THAT ONE RIGHT THERE. 
          AND, UM, COUNCILWOMAN WOULD GO AHEAD AND TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS FIRST. 
          THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS ON, BRINGING THIS FORWARD. 
          MM-HMM. 
           WERE ANSWERED. 
          UM, WHAT I DO, UM, I WOULD LIKE SOME CLARITY ON, UH, HOW THIS FOLDS INTO OUR NEW, UM, SORT OF CONCENTRATION OR EFFORT TO DEAL WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          I MEAN, I THINK THIS HAS STEMMED FROM THAT, AND THAT WAS WHY I WANTED AN UPDATE, BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT THIS WAS GONNA BE A PRIORITY FOR US, UH, IN THE NEXT YEARS TO COME. 
          SO, UH, I, I, I, I KNOW THAT WE'VE ADDED SOME NEW OFFICERS. 
          UM, WE'VE ADDED SOME NEW SAFE OFFICERS, AND THEN WE HAVE THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, UM, SORT OF TASK FORCES. 
          AND SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS A LITTLE BIT MORE BROAD. 
          AND, UM, WE HAD HAD SOME PROBLEMS IN THE PAST, WHAT SEEMS LIKE THEY WERE, UH, ACCORDING TO YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY, MORE OF PROCEDURAL. 
          UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE A VERY BIG PROBLEM IN OUR CITY WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          SO THOSE TWO THINGS MAY SEEM LIKE THEY'RE SEPARATE. 
          UM, BUT COULD YOU JUST, THE QUESTION HAS TO DO MORE WITH LIKE, THE PRIORITIZATION OF THESE, THIS KIND OF CRIME. 
          GOSH, WHEN I THINK, I THINK THAT WE'VE LOCKED DOWN AND, AND CLOSED ANY OF THE GAPS THAT WE MAY HAVE HAD IN THAT UNIT THROUGH, THROUGH THE AUDIT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, I GUESS THE SILVER LINING IN THAT HORRIBLE MATTER WITH, WITH THE DETECTIVE THAT WASN'T, UH, INVESTIGATING THE CRIME, I GUESS THE SILVER LINING IS THAT WE'VE DONE A THOROUGH REVIEW, WE'VE BROUGHT IN OUTSIDE EXPERTS, WE'VE HAD INDEPENDENT AUDIT TO, AGAIN, TO, TO CLOSE ANY GAPS THAT EXISTED BACK THERE. 
          AND I BELIEVE THAT OUR PROCESS RIGHT NOW IS ABOUT AS THOROUGH AS YOU CAN GET. 
          UM, IF, IF YOU, IF YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT, UH, UH, I THINK, I DON'T REMEMBER QUITE HOW LONG AGO IT WAS, BUT AUSTIN, UH, PD HAD A, HAD AN ISSUE UP THERE WITH, WITH THEIR, UH, INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS, UH, SOME TIME AGO, NOT LONG AGO. 
          BUT, UH, AND, BUT AGAIN, I'M, I'M CONFIDENT THAT, THAT THE PROCESSES THAT WE USE NOW AND THE, THE, UH, LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF EVERYBODY THAT WORKS IN THAT UNIT IS ABOUT AS HIGH AS IT CAN GET ON HOW IMPORTANT THIS ISSUE IS. 
          SO, IS, SO IS A SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT THE SAME UNIT THAT WE WOULD, UM, ACTIVATE IN THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE CASES? JUST YOU WANNA ANSWER THAT? YES, MA'AM. 
          SO THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT HANDLES ANYTHING THAT'S, UH, GOT A SEXUAL CRIMINAL COMPONENT, AND IT ALSO HANDLES THE FELONY FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES, SO FELONY INJURY TO A CHILD, UM, ENDANGERING A CHILD, UM, THOSE, ANY, ANY, ANY OTHER THING. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER RELATED OFFENSES. 
          IT'S NOT JUST, THERE'S, THERE'S, UH, THEY'RE STRANGLING, UM, THERE'S ASSAULT, SERIOUS BODILY INJURY. 
          SO THERE'S A, A, A MYRIAD OF, OF DIFFERENT CASES THAT THEY HANDLE. 
          BUT IF THERE'RE, IF THERE'S A RELATION, WHETHER THROUGH BLOOD OR MARRIAGE, IT'S GOING TO BE HANDLED AND IT'S A FELONY OFFENSE, IT'S GOING TO BE HANDLED OUT OF THAT UNIT. 
          BUT TO EXPAND A LITTLE BIT MORE ON, ON YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE OVERALL PLAN, UM, I'M ALSO ASSISTING IN, 
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IN REPRESENTING, UM, AND THE CHIEF ON THE CITY COUNTY COLLABORATIVE EFFORT. 
          AND SO I'LL TELL YOU THIS, THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND THERE, THERE'S GONNA BE A FULL PRESENTATION. 
          I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME BRIEFING ON IT, BUT JUST BEING OUT THERE AND, AND CAPTAIN SALAS AND I ARE MEETING WITH THE C R T FOLKS ON, UH, REGULARLY TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WE MADE SOME CHANGES. 
          UH, WE, WE CHANGED THE WAY THEY OPERATED AND, AND ONE, AND, AND SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WITH THOSE CHANGES, IF THERE'S ANY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THAT WE STAY ON TOP OF THAT AS WELL. 
          AND THERE'S ONE THING THAT WE NOTICED AND, AND WE TALKED TO THE CHIEF ABOUT IT, AND THAT HE, AND HE APPROVED IT RIGHT AWAY, BUT AS OF AUGUST 1ST, UM, WE MADE IT MANDATORY. 
          WE, AND, AND OUR, OUR UP OUR UPDATES INTO THE, UH, GENERAL MANUAL AND THE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. 
          IF YOU ARE ARRESTED FOR A FAMILY VIOLENCE OFFENSE, WHATEVER THAT IS, WHATEVER THE FAMILY VIOLENCE, OFFENSE, ANYTHING THAT I MENTION, AND IF IT'S A FAMILY VIOLENCE OFFENSE, THE OFFICER IS REQUIRED, THE OFFICER SHALL APPLY FOR A MAGISTRATE'S ORDER OF EMERGENCY PROTECTION AT THE TIME OF THE ARREST. 
          AND, AND THAT WAS BORN OUT OF TALKING TO THE ADVOCATES, LISTENING TO THEM HAVING, YOU KNOW, HAVING ISSUES WITH TRYING TO SERVE SOMEBODY AFTER THE FACT, AND THEY DON'T HAVE AN ADDRESS THAT WAS TALKING TO, UH, UH, BEXAR COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER. 
          UM, THE REALITY IS A PROTECTIVE ORDER IS, IS IS NOT A, A A IS GOING TO STOP SOMEBODY, BUT IT MIGHT MAKE THEM THINK TWICE. 
          AND WE'RE, AND WE'RE OBLIGATED TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO TRY TO ASSIST THE VICTIMS. AND THAT'S JUST ONE THAT I CAN THINK OF. 
          ONE SMALL ENHANCEMENT THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE, AND IT'S BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE. 
          AND, AND WE, WE HOPE THAT IT'S GOING TO LEAD TO OTHER THINGS THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY AS PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          AND, AND, UH, I THINK EVEN JUST THE PRIORITIZATION OF THIS TYPE OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY, I HOPE WILL SHOW A SHIFT IN EVERY DEPARTMENT, UM, OR IN EVERY WAY THAT YOU HANDLE THINGS. 
          AND I GUESS JUST THE LAST QUESTION, UM, REGARDING THE TECHNOLOGY. 
          UM, LIKE, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR AN UPDATE IN OUR SYSTEM, IN YOUR DEPARTMENT, LIKE IN CITY DEPARTMENTS SINCE FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS, LIKE SINCE I GOT HERE. 
          SO, I MEAN, WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG? I MEAN, AND IT'S, IT'S RELATED BECAUSE I, I, I SUSPECT THAT MANY OF THE PROBLEMS THAT AROSE THAT WERE PROCEDURAL HAD TO DO WITH THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO INPUT DATA. 
          I MEAN, IS, IS THAT, AM I WRONG OR RIGHT ABOUT THAT? IT, I MEAN, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU, YOU HAVE, UM, THERE WERE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE, THE DATA ENTRY PROCESS, BUT MY, MY SENSE IS THAT IT TAKES TOO LONG TO MAKE A REPORT. 
          AND I'VE BEEN HEARING THAT WE'RE GONNA UPDATE OUR SYSTEM NOW FOR SIX YEARS. 
          SO I, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU COULD ELABORATE ON THAT. 
          SURE. 
          I, I'LL ELABORATE AS MUCH AS I CAN. 
          THE, THE, UH, THE, THE INPUT ISSUE WHEN INTO THE R M S, THAT WAS NOT A, A TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM, THAT WAS A SUPERVISOR PROBLEM, AND THAT WAS RESOLVED WHEN THEY WERE ALL TRANSFERRED OUTTA THERE, AND WE REVISED THE SOPS. 
          UH, WE ARE RIGHT NOW IN THE PROCESS, I THINK AS, AS CAPTAIN FALK SAID, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW OF GOING OUT FOR AN, UH, AN R F P FOR, UM, UH, MATTER OF FACT, WE, WE DID THE INTERVIEWS THIS WEEK FOR AN UPGRADE TO THE A F R, UH, R M S SYSTEMS. AND SO THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE NEARING THE, THE, UH, I GUESS THE, THE, I DON'T KNOW, HALFWAY POINT, MAYBE THREE QUARTER WAY POINT. 
          SO IT'S, IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S JUST BEEN AN ONGOING, AND, AND LIKE THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BECAUSE IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT, THE WHOLE, ALMOST ALL OF OUR, THE WAY THAT WE COMMUNICATE WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS IS DEPENDENT ON A MORE ACCURATE SYSTEM. 
          AND I HEAR A LOT OF OUR DEPARTMENTS COMPLAIN THAT THE SYSTEMS DON'T FUNCTION WELL, THAT THEY'RE THESE ANALOG SYSTEMS THAT ARE, UM, JUST LIKE REALLY ARCHAIC. 
          I THINK THAT WAS THE WORD THAT YOU USED. 
          AND THAT'S NOT JUST IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. 
          SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT NEEDS TO GO TO INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY. 
          I MEAN, I, I FEEL LIKE WE KEEP GETTING UPDATES THAT IT'S COMING, BUT SIX YEARS LATER WE STILL DON'T HAVE IT. 
          AND SO, UM, HOPEFULLY THAT WILL COME UP SOMEWHERE. 
          COUNCILWOMAN, I'M GONNA LET MARIA, UH, COMMENT ON THAT COUNCILWOMAN TO, UH, ADDRESS SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS. 
          AND I'LL START SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHEN THE, UH, INTERNAL, UH, REVIEW WAS COMPLETED IN APRIL OF 2018 AND MADE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO ENHANCEMENTS TO THE POLICE, UH, UH, RECORD SYSTEM. 
          AND, UH, IN SOME OF OUR, THE, THE MAINFRAME AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH I T S D TO MAKE THOSE UPGRADES WITHIN THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE, KNOWING THAT WE NEEDED TO DO A FULL REPLACEMENT OF THE SYSTEM. 
          THOSE UPGRADES WERE COMPLETED IN JULY OF 2019. 
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AND THE, SO JUST LIKE A MONTH AGO. 
          A MONTH AGO. 
          AND ONE OF THE PRIMARY ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE DID WAS THAT NOW THOSE, UM, CASES REQUIRE THE APPROVAL OF THE SUPERVISOR BEFORE THEY'RE CLOSED IN OUR SYSTEM, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUDIT. 
          IN TANDEM WITH THAT, WE STARTED TO THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS TO DO THE ACTUAL REPLACEMENT OF THE SYSTEM. 
          AND AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED, WE, UH, CONDUCTED INTERVIEWS THIS WEEK, AND WE ARE PLANNING TO COME TO THE FULL CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL OF THE PROCUREMENT OF THE SYSTEM IN 2000, IN OCTOBER OF 2019. 
          THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM IS GONNA TAKE PROBABLY A MINIMUM OF 12 MONTHS. 
          SO ONCE WE GET THAT APPROVED, THAT FROM THE COUNCIL, WE ANTICIPATE TO HAVE THAT, UH, AVAILABLE FOR OUR OFFICERS TO UTILIZE, UH, PROBABLY BY DECEMBER OF 2020. 
          AND THEN WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE NEED TO DO NOW, THAT IS JUST SPECIFICALLY FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          IN TERMS OF, UM, OTHER SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, WE HAVE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, WE CONSTANTLY LOOK AT SYSTEMS THAT NEED TO BE REPLACED IN OUR ANNUAL BUDGET. 
          WE HAVE ABOUT $5 MILLION FOR REPLACEMENT OF SYSTEMS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          UH, WE ARE A LARGE ORGANIZATION, AND SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE SYSTEMS TAKE A LITTLE LONGER. 
          I'LL SHARE WITH YOU ONE OF THE ONES THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF REPLACEMENT IS OUR LIBRARY SYSTEM. 
          VERY LARGE SYSTEM THAT WILL BE, UH, COMPLETED BY FEBRUARY, MARCH OF 2020. 
          BUT WE'LL BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THE COUNCIL AS A FOLLOW UP TO THIS QUEST, TO THIS MEETING, SOME OF THOSE, UM, MAJOR SYSTEMS THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING, AND IF THERE'S ANY OTHER GAPS THAT, THAT WE HAVE AS AN ORGANIZATION. 
          OKAY. 
          GREAT. 
          WELL, THANK YOU, UH, MARIA, THANK YOU ALL, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          AND, UM, WE JUST LOOK FORWARD TO PRIORITI PRIORITIZING, UM, THIS ISSUE. 
          'CAUSE WE KNOW THAT IT'S, UM, JUST VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU ALL, UH, FOR BRINGING THIS ONE FORWARD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILWOMAN. 
          COUNCILWOMAN, UH, . 
          IS THAT RIGHT? THANK YOU, CHAIR. 
          I HAVE SOME, UH, QUESTIONS A LITTLE, I'D LIKE A LITTLE MORE DEPTH, UH, TO THE S O P REVISIONS. 
          UM, WELL, ACTUALLY, I'M GONNA START WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 
          THE, THE EMERGENCY T R O PROCEDURES, WHEN DID THOSE START, OR HAVE THEY ALREADY BEGUN ABOUT, UM, WHEN, YEAH. 
          SO THE, YEAH, THE, SO, UH, THE MAGISTRATE'S, THE ORDER OF PROTECTION THAT STARTED IN, UH, WE STARTED THAT AUGUST 1ST. 
          OKAY. 
          MA MAKING IT MANDATORY TELLING OFFICERS THEY SHALL APPLY FOR A MAGISTRATE'S ORDER OF EMERGENCY PROTECTION. 
          AND SO ULTIMATELY THEN THAT'S UP TO THE MAGISTRATE, WHETHER OR NOT THAT ORDER IS ISSUED, THEY ACCEPT IT. 
          OKAY. 
          OR THEY APPROVE IT. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND HOW LONG IS THAT? I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT IT LAST TIME. 
          IS IT, IS IT 48 HOURS? THE EMERGENCY? NO, IT'S, IT'S, UH, 60 DAYS. 
          OH, 68, 60 DAYS. 
          OH, FANTASTIC. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THEY FILE FOR PROTECTION ORDER FOR THE FULL ONE. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND, AND COUNCILMAN, THE REASON THAT THIS IS SO BENEFICIAL IS BECAUSE YOU CAN ONLY APPLY FOR A PROTECTION ORDER DURING BUSINESS HOURS MM-HMM. 
           AND, AND THE WEEKEND IS OFF. 
          SO, SO THIS, THIS HOPEFULLY REDUCES THE POTENTIAL FOR RE-VICTIMIZATION MM-HMM. 
           AFTER THAT ARREST. 
          YEAH. 
          I JUST A QUICK COMMENT. 
          I THINK IT'S, UM, REALLY INNOVATIVE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, UM, I'M AN ATTORNEY, I DO TSS FOR MY CLIENTS, AND THEY TAKE FOREVER, AND IT'S ONLY DURING BUSINESS HOURS, SO IT'S REALLY NICE TO KNOW THAT THEY'RE BEING PROTECTED, UM, ALMOST INSTANTLY. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO MY, MY GOING BACK TO THE S O P REVISIONS, THE, THE AUDITS THAT ARE SCHEDULED, WHO'S CONDUCTING THE AUDITS OF EACH DEPARTMENT? SO THAT IS BEING, THE SERGEANTS AND THE LIEUTENANTS ARE COMPILING THAT AUDIT AND THEY'RE SENDING THAT UP TO THE CHAIN OF COMMAND. 
          SO THAT ULTIMATELY GOES TO THEIR, UH, DEPUTY CHIEF, TO THE ASSISTANT CHIEF, AND THEN IF THEY WILL BRING ANY ISSUES OR ANY DIS ANY, UH, PROBLEMS OR CONCERNS TO THE CHIEF OF POLICE. 
          SO IT SOMEWHAT OF A SELF AUDIT, IT'S THE SERGEANT AND DETECTIVE OF THE SAME DEPARTMENT OR COUNSEL. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE DONE MONTHLY MM-HMM. 
           AND, UH, UH, SUPPOSED TO BE DONE ROUTINELY. 
          I MEAN, THAT'S WAS THAT WAY WHEN I WAS BACK IN WASHINGTON, DC SO YOU DO A MONTHLY CASE AUDIT, YOU GO OVER EVERY CASE THAT'S ACTIVE WITH YOUR DETECTIVES AND ANY ISSUES OR, UH, CONCERNS AS DISCUSS OR DISCUSSED WITH THE SUPERVISOR. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WHAT WE'VE DONE ALSO PROACTIVELY IS WE'VE, UH, WORKING IN, IN, IN CONSULTATION WITH OUR CITY ATTORNEY THAT'S ASSIGNED TO US AS WE'VE DONE, WE'RE WORKING ON DOING DIFFERENT AUDITS. 
          SO RIGHT NOW THERE'S A HOMICIDE AUDIT THAT'S UNDERWAY, AND THEY'RE LOOKING JUST, AGAIN, SAMPLING OF CASES. 
          OKAY. 
          LOOKING AT THE AVERAGE CASE LOAD, LOOKING AT HOW LONG IT'S TAKEN TO CLOSE. 
          AND AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S, THERE'S SO MANY VARIABLES WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHETHER IT'S AN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT OR A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION, UH, MAYBE IT COULD BE SURE. 
          CLOSED IN A DAY, IT COULD BE CLOSED IN, IN TWO YEARS. 
          AND SO, UH, THROWING OUT THOSE, THOSE OUTLIERS AND THEN JUST REALLY FOCUSING ON THE DAY-TO-DAY THINGS. 
          AND, AND SO THAT, THAT'S 
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SOMETHING THAT WE'RE PROACTIVELY DOING AND, AND LOOKING TO DO MORE UNITS AS WE, UH, AS WE GET, UH, GET, GET ON TRACK. 
          BUT I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR, THE SERGEANTS AND DETECTIVES THAT ARE CONDUCTING THE AUDIT ARE, ARE SUPERVISORS OF THAT DEPARTMENT, RIGHT? YES, MA'AM. 
          SO SERGEANTS AND THE LI LIEUTENANTS CHAIN? YES, MA'AM. 
          AND THEN, OKAY, I GOT IT. 
          UM, THE ADDITIONAL ME MEASURES TAKEN TO ENHANCE A SUPERVISORY REVIEW OF CASES, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE, WHAT ARE THE ADDITIONAL ME MEASURES, UM, TO ENHANCE? WELL, WE SPOKE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO, UM, I THINK THIS, YOU KNOW, AND I'LL, I'LL JUST GO BACK TO THE TECHNOLOGY PIECE FOR A SECOND. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UH, WHEN WE, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT IT AND WHEN WE FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, WHEN WE GOT OUR GROUP TOGETHER, OF, OF PEOPLE THAT HAD WORKED WITH IN INVESTIGATIONS THAT HAD WORKED WITH THAT SYSTEM, UM, THE BIGGEST QUESTION WAS, HOW DO YOU CLOSE YOUR OWN CASE? I, I NEVER, IT NEVER DAWNED ON ANY OF US TO TRY IT. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          AGAIN, I, I, WHEN I WAS A, A BRAND NEW DETECTIVE, UH, UM, UH, SERGEANT FOX AT THE TIME WAS MY MM-HMM. 
          WAS MY SUPERVISOR, EVERYTHING RAN THROUGH HER. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN IF THERE WAS ANY OTHER, I, IT NEVER DAWNED ON ME THAT I COULD JUST CLOSE MY OWN CASE. 
          AND, AND SO I THINK THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE JUST, IT, IT, YOU KNOW, IT JUST SPEAKS TO THE ISSUE AND THE, THE FACT THAT ONE PERSON WAS BEING DISHONEST AND, AND TOOK ADVANTAGE AND, AND FOUND A WAY TO DO THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT, AND, AND TO GO BACK TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION MM-HMM. 
          , UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE, UH, THE SUPERVISORS ARE, ARE NOW THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN CLOSE THAT CASE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, IT, IT, THEY'VE GOTTA REVIEW IT. 
          AND SO THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S A, A WAY THAT SHOWS UP ON THERE WHEN A CASE IS OPEN AND PENDING, IT'S GONNA SHOW UP ON THE SUPERVISOR SCREEN. 
          THERE'S GONNA BE REMINDERS AS TO WHEN IT'S DUE AND HOW LONG IT'S OPEN. 
          AND IT GOES FROM GREEN TO RED WHEN IT'S BEEN OPEN, PAST, YOU KNOW, 30 DAYS AND, AND SO ON. 
          AND SO THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO IT. 
          AND THEN ULTIMATELY, THE LIEUTENANT, WHO COULD JUST SORT OF LET THE UNIT RUN, UM, HE OR SHE'S GOTTA HAVE MAXIMUM ACCOUNTABILITY ON THAT. 
          SO ULTIMATELY THEY'VE GOTTA SIGN OFF ON ALL OF THOSE AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          AND IF THERE'S ANY ISSUES, UM, THEY'RE GONNA BE THE ONES TO, TO HAVE, TO BE, TO ANSWER FOR IT TO THEIR CAPTAIN, TO THE, THE DEPUTY CHIEFS AND TO THE CHIEF. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THIS IS ADDITIONAL STOP CHECK. 
          THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S NEEDED. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THAT'S FANTASTIC. 
          OKAY. 
          THE LAST ONE IS, UM, THE, THE VICTIM COMMUNICATION GUIDELINES. 
          IS THAT LIKE, UM, A DOCUMENT THAT YOU, THAT YOU HAVE MAY SEE THAT DOCUMENT? IF YOU HAVE ONE , WHAT ARE THE GUIDELINES? WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE GUIDELINES? WELL, WELL, THEY'RE DIFFERENT FOR EACH UNIT. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IN, IN THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, UH, YOU'VE GOTTA CONTACT SOMEBODY WITHIN 24 HOURS. 
          OKAY. 
          AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT THOSE ARE FOLLOWED AND, AND STRICTLY ADHERED TO. 
          AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I CAN, I CAN PROVIDE YOU COPIES OF THE DIFFERENT SOPS. 
          I THINK ROBBERY UNITS WITHIN 72 HOURS, THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S DIFFERENT, DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF THE OFFENSE, OBVIOUSLY MM-HMM. 
          , BUT, UM, AGAIN, IT, IT VARIES FROM UNIT TO UNIT. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , MY CONCERN THERE IS FOR THE, UM, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS, AS YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY DON'T ALWAYS, UM, FOLLOW UP WITH A CASE. 
          SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU HAVE AN SO, OR YOU HAVE A, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE A GUIDELINE TO CONTACT THEM PRETTY QUICKLY TO GET YES, MA'AM. 
          THE CASE, YES, WITHIN 24 HOURS IS, IS IS WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY THERE'S SOME TIMES WHERE IF IT'S, IF IT'S A REPORT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, AND THAT'S NOT THE INITIAL CONTACT, BUT WITH FOLLOW UPS, IF IT'S ON A NIGHT OR A WEEKEND WITH RESPECT TO C R T, THEY'VE GOTTA DO IT WITHIN 72 HOURS. 
          BUT THERE'S SOME AUGMENTATION WITH SERVICES, WHETHER IT'S A FACT VOLUNTEER ON THE NIGHTS AND THE WEEKENDS, OR IF IT'S WITH OUR NIGHT DETECTIVE UNIT THAT CAN, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, ALL OF OUR OFFICERS ARE TRAINED IN, IN CRISIS RESPONSE AND UNDERSTAND THE VICTIM'S ADVOCACY ROLE TOO, AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE REFERRALS AFTER HOURS. 
          GREAT. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILWOMAN, COUNCILWOMAN VIDA. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIR. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, FIRST I THINK I WOULD LIKE, UM, JUST AN ORGANIZATIONAL CHART FOR YOU ALL AND ALL THE DIFFERENT UNITS TOO THAT YOU HAVE AND WHO RESPONDS TO WHO, BECAUSE I KNOW WE'VE ALSO, UM, YOU'VE CREATED DIFFERENT TASKS GROUPS, TASK FORCES AND, AND GROUPS. 
          SO I THINK I WANNA JUST KEEP THINGS CLEAR AS, AS WE'RE TALKING THROUGH THINGS. 
          UM, SO I GUESS I'LL JUST GET STARTED ON, UM, THE, UH, THANK YOU FOR, I THINK LISA TATUM WAS REALLY A GOOD CHOICE FOR THAT INDEPENDENT REVIEW. 
          AND I'M GLAD YOU ALL WENT THROUGH ALL OF, UM, THE S O P CHANGES THAT YOU DID DO. 
          UH, BUT GOING BACK TO, UH, THE WHOLE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED IN THE BEGINNING, AND I THINK YOU'VE ALREADY GIVEN ME AN ANSWER TO THIS IN THE PAST, BUT, UM, WE, ARE THERE ANY, I KNOW YOU HAD 2014 TO 2017 SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS ONE PROCEDURES THAT WERE NOT, UM, THAT WE FOUND GAPS IN, BUT THEN ALSO, UM, AN ACTOR WHO WAS NOT DOING WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING, UM, MAINLY. 
          AND SO DURING THAT TIMEFRAME, WERE THERE ANY OF THOSE EITHER FELONY MISDEMEANORS OR ANY FILES THAT THEY HAD THAT WERE, THAT WERE OTHER INCIDENTS ON THOSE CASES THAT WERE NOT LOOKED INTO? WHETHER IT BEING A FELONY, A MISDEMEANOR, OR EVEN A NINE ONE ONE 
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CALL THAT MAYBE ONE OF THOSE VICTIMS WHOSE CASE WAS NOT, UH, FILED BY THAT, UM, THAT OFFICER. 
          UM, WERE THERE ANY FINDINGS OF THAT REPEAT, UM, VIOLATIONS, ANYTHING OF A, OF A, UM, A MISDEMEANOR, A FELONY OR A CALL, A 9 1 1 CALL. 
          THERE, THERE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY 9 1 1 CALLS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THROUGH THE AUDIT, BUT THERE WERE, UH, 139 CASES THAT WE FOUND DISCREPANCIES WITH WHEN WE INTER, WHEN WE REVIEWED THAT DETECTIVES, THAT FORMER DETECTIVES CASELOAD, 93 OF THOSE CASES WERE APPROPRIATELY INVESTIGATED. 
          MM-HMM. 
           12, ACTIVE INVE, THERE WERE 12 ACTIVE INVESTIGATIONS AT THE TIME OF THE REVIEW. 
          34 OF THOSE CASES WERE IMPROPERLY CLOSED, OR EVIDENCE WAS MISHANDLED. 
          OF THOSE 34, 30 WERE REASSIGNED AND APPROPRIATELY INVESTIGATED AND COMPLETED. 
          AND FOUR CASES HAD, UH, REACHED THE, UH, STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. 
          UM, THE, THE, THE ONE CASE THAT I REMEMBER WAS THERE WERE TWO, TWO BROTHERS WHO WERE SEXUALLY ASSAULTING EACH OTHER. 
          AND IT WAS ANOTHER, IT WAS AS IN, IT WAS ANOTHER COUNTY, OR NO, IT WAS IN THIS COUNTY, RIGHT? MM-HMM. 
          . 
          YEAH. 
          UH, I THINK THEY HAD MOVED TO ANOTHER COUNTY, BUT, UH, THAT WAS ONE OF THEM. 
          AND THE OTHERS, I DON'T RECALL. 
          UM, I DON'T RECALL WHAT THE OTHER ONES WERE AT THIS POINT. 
          SO OF THOSE THAT HIT THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, DID WE FOLLOW UP AND FIND OUT, UM, WERE THERE ANY OTHER VICTIMIZATIONS THAT HAPPENED TO THOSE, THOSE INDIVIDUALS? DO WE KNOW? WE, WE FOLLOWED UP, SORRY. 
          WE FOLLOWED UP TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND, AND TO ALSO OFFER OUR SERVICES. 
          OKAY. 
          AND, UM, TO MY KNOWLEDGE THERE, THERE WAS NO OTHER REPORTS AND THAT THERE WAS NOBODY THAT, THAT TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THAT. 
          BUT I, I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK AND DOUBLE CHECK THAT FOR YOU TO MAKE SURE IF YOU COULD YES. 
          YES, MA'AM. 
          AND ALSO, AND JUST, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT WE DID OUR PART AS WELL TO LET THEM KNOW OF WHATEVER RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY THAT THEY NEED, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET THAT IN CASE THEY STILL NEED IT. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO IT TALKED ABOUT, UM, I WANTED SLIDE NUMBER FOUR. 
          YOU TALKED ABOUT THE, UM, THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND, UH, A LARGER ACCOUNTABILITY, LAYERED ACCOUNTABILITY. 
          AND I, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          AND I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF MY, UM, FIRST, UM, UH, CONCERNS, UH, WHEN LOOKING AT THIS AND HEARING ABOUT THIS ONE THING THAT I WAS VERY, UM, NOT HAPPY ABOUT, UH, WITH THE ACCOUNTABILITY HERE. 
          AND SO WE HAVE FAMILY DISTURBANCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND THOSE ARE THE SAME, CORRECT. 
          THE, WELL, NOT EXACTLY THE SAME, BUT IT'S STILL ALL UNDERNEATH HERE IN SEX S V U. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WE, SS V U IS, YOU KNOW, A, A FAMILY DISTURBANCE ESSENTIALLY IS MAYBE JUST A CALL, BUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS ACTUALLY A CHARGE, RIGHT. 
          SO, BUT ONE, YOU KNOW, ONE COULD LEAD A DISTURBANCE COULD LEAD TO A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE IN EXPLAINING THAT. 
          I KNOW YOU ALSO WANT TO DO THE CORRECT LEGAL TERMINOLOGY WHEN WE'RE DOING ALL OF THIS AS WELL. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UM, AND YOU, SO YOU SAID LAYERED ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT THIS LAYERED ACCOUNTABILITY, IT WILL NOT ADD MORE TIME, WILL IT? NO, IT'S, IT'S, CAN IT ACTUALLY STREAMLINE THE PROCESS THEN? YES, ABSOLUTELY. 
          BECAUSE AGAIN, IF, IF YOU KNOW, YOU, I, I'LL TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, EVEN, EVEN JUST KIND OF GOING BACK FURTHER, UM, WHEN, WHEN I GOT PROMOTED, UH, AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE A PLACE TO GO, UM, SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT WAS WHERE YOU WENT, UM, IT, IT WAS, IT WAS ONE OF THOSE PLACES BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS NOT AN EASY JOB AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN'T WANNA TO DO THAT. 
          YOU DIDN'T WANNA HAVE TO. 
          UH, AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT SINCE, SINCE NOW, WHENEVER THERE'S AN OPENING, A VACANCY ANNOUNCED, YOU MIGHT HAVE 40 TO 50 DETECTIVES APPLYING MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO, UM, IT ALLOWS US TO PICK THE BEST AND, AND, AND THE BRIGHTEST AND THE ONES WITH THE MOST POTENTIAL. 
          AND, AND SO I THINK THAT WE SORT OF TOOK FOR GRANTED THAT THAT DETECTIVES WERE GONNA BE DOING THEIR JOB. 
          AND, AND AGAIN, THIS GOES BACK TO THE SUPERVISORY ISSUE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND, AND, AND I THINK THE SUPERVISORS, YOU KNOW, UH, IS NICE PEOPLE, BUT, UH, YOU, YOU'VE GOTTA, YOU'VE GOTTA DO YOUR JOB SOMETIMES. 
          AND, AND SOMETIMES THAT MEANS MAKING HARD DECISIONS. 
          SO GOING BACK TO THIS, IT'S NOT IF THIS IS GONNA STREAMLINE THE PROCESS, BECAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THERE'S GONNA BE MAXIMUM ACCOUNTABILITY. 
          NOW EVERYBODY SAW THAT. 
          EVERYBODY SAW THAT THERE WAS A CONSEQUENCE, UM, TO WHAT HAPPENED. 
          AND SO THIS IS NOT GONNA DELAY OUR INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS. 
          IF ANYTHING, IT'S, IT'S STRENGTHENED. 
          IT, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE, UH, WE'VE LEARNED FROM. 
          AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE, UH, IDENTIFIED THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE HAD A VULNERABILITY WITHIN A SYSTEM THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW EXISTED. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND 
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SO IT, UH, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, IN SHORT, NO, IT'S, IT'S NOT GONNA SLOW DOWN OUR PROCESS AT ALL. 
          OKAY. 
          OR FOR CASES OR FOR HELP WITH THE, WITH THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE CALLING ON US? N NO, MA'AM. 
          NOT AT ALL. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO YOU'RE SAYING THEY'RE DETECTIVES AT ALL SUBSTATIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          DON'T WORRY. 
          I'LL SAVE MY SUBSTATION QUESTIONS FOR LATER , UM, AT THE BUDGET TIME. 
          UM, AND THEN I'M VERY, UH, HAPPY TO SEE THAT, UM, YOU'RE ALSO LOOKING AT, UM, THAT YOU DID THE ASSESSMENT AND THAT PART OF THE ASSESSMENT THAT CAME FROM THE ADVOCACY GROUP WAS TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION WITH CRTS. 
          AGAIN, I'M GOING TO SAY, I THINK WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH CRTS ON THE WEEKENDS TO HAVE C R TS SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW ON THE WEEKENDS, UM, AT OUR SUBSTATIONS, UM, TO SEE WHAT THAT, THAT LOOKS LIKE. 
          AND ALSO GETTING RECOMMENDATIONS AND IT TALK IN THE TECHNOLOGY, IN THE SOPS, THE RECOMMENDATIONS, AND I'M SURE YOU DO THIS, BUT I'M GONNA RICKY REITERATE, REITERATE AGAIN HERE ON THE RECORD TO GET THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE FLOW FROM OUR OFFICERS, FROM THOSE THAT ARE, THERE ARE DETECTIVES ARE SAFE OFFICERS, EVERYONE TO SEE WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING, WHAT IS STREAMLINED, WHAT IS NOT STREAMLINED. 
          'CAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S SOMETHING, I MEAN, YOU ALL REPORT TO US AND WE SEE IT AT A LEVEL THAT IS VERY MUCH A DIFFERENT LEVEL THAN WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN PLAY ON, ON THE GROUND WHEN PEOPLE ROLL UP TO CERTAIN THINGS. 
          SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THOSE. 
          UM, IF YOU'RE DOING, GETTING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, CAPTAIN, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? YES, MA'AM. 
          UH, CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, SINCE THE CHANGE HAPPENED IN JUNE OF 2018 MM-HMM. 
          , UH, ONCE THAT IMMEDIATE HAPPENED, WE FORMED, UH, FOCUS GROUPS AS WELL AS WORKING GROUPS, JUST SO THAT WE CAN SEE IF WE CAN IMPROVE ON THOSE PROCESS, INCLUDING C C R T CIVILIANS AS WELL AS THE, THE DETECTIVES OUT AT THE SCENE, AND THEN SOME SUPERVISORS. 
          SO, UH, CURRENTLY WE ARE WORKING ON THE S O P, IT'S A LIVING DOCUMENT AND WE KNOW THINGS ARE GONNA CHANGE. 
          SO, UH, THAT THAT'S IN PLAY. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE OUR, UH, OUR COMMITTEE FOR TRAINING. 
          WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT OUR CRTS RECEIVING, UH, THE BEST TRAINING THAT'S OUT THERE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UH, WE BROUGHT IN MARK WYNN, UH, A FEW MONTHS AGO, UH, AND TAUGHT ON STRANGULATION, UH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RELATED ISSUES. 
          SO, UH, WE ARE TRYING TO IMPROVE THAT PROCESS, GET THEM, UH, SOME GOOD TRAINING FOR THE DETECTIVE AND THE, THE C R T CIVILIAN AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN, UM, THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, I THINK I'M TALKING ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR, OR FAMILY VIOLENCE OR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SORRY, UM, TRYING TO GET IT RIGHT. 
          UM, THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM, WILL THIS HELP ADDRESS THE ISSUES WITH FIREARMS THAT ARE BEING RELEASED FROM THE PROPERTY ROOM? BECAUSE SOME OF THE, UM, THE ORDERS THAT YOU GET AT THE MAGS OFFICE AREN'T GETTING TO THE PROPERTY ROOM, AND SO BECAUSE THEY DON'T GET 'EM AT THE PROPERTY ROOM, FIREARMS MAY BE RELEASED TO THOSE WHO ARE LEAVING AND SHOULDN'T BE RELEASED. 
          IS THERE A WAY THAT THIS TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP WITH THAT IF THEY'RE NOT GETTING ORDERS THAT'S TIED IN? YEAH, I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S TIED IN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN MM-HMM. 
          , BUT I, THE, THE, WHEN, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF ANDY'S STILL HERE OR NOT. 
          ANDY'S HERE, UM, I SHOULD PROBABLY SAY THIS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SO I WON'T SAY IT HERE. 
          SO LET'S, LET'S HAVE ANOTHER CONVERSATION ON THAT. 
          AND IF YOU ALL I, SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S MY QUESTION AND I'LL NEED TO HAVE SOME, UH, DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. 
          GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, UM, VERY MUCH. 
          AND THEN, UH, FINALLY, NO, TWO MORE THINGS. 
          ONE, I, I LOVE IT THAT YOU HAD THESE ADVOCACY GROUPS. 
          AND WHO WAS THIS OTHER PERSON? SEAN PRICE. 
          I KNOW, UM, THE OTHER TWO. 
          HE'S, HE'S A, HE'S A, HE'S A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AT THE WEST END HOPE. 
          OKAY. 
          OVER AT THE FRANK GARRET CENTER. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, I LOVE IT THAT YOU HAD THAT, AND OF COURSE, I'M VERY HAPPY THAT LISA TATUM WAS THE INDEPENDENT REVIEWER, BUT YOU ALL DO NOTE THAT I NOTE THAT ALL OF THEM WERE MEN WHO DID THE OTHER, UM, ADVOCACY GROUP REVIEW. 
          SO JUST TO BE SENSITIVE. 
          AND WHEN WE'RE GETTING OTHER PEOPLE TO COME AND REVIEW THAT, WE HAVE A MIXTURE OF, UH, DIVERSITY THERE AS WELL. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, WE KNOW WE DID THESE REVIEWS, WE MADE THESE CHANGES. 
          YOU LOOKED AT IT, BUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO, WE'RE DOING A REGULAR ASSESSMENT SO WE DON'T GET INTO THIS SITUATION AGAIN. 
          SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO HAVE THIS BUILT IN AND NOT COME UP TO ANOTHER SITUATION? WHERE DO WE DISCOVER IT? UM, SO THE, THE, THE SOPS ENSURE THAT, I MEAN, EVERY, IF, IF, IF A LIEUTENANT, UH, OR A, OR A DEPUTY CHIEF OR A CAPTAIN IS NOT GETTING THAT REPORT EVERY MONTH, THEN THEY'RE, THEY'RE WALKING DOWN THE HALL, KNOCKING ON THE DOOR WANTING TO KNOW WHY. 
          SO THEY, THE SOPS ARE IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. 
          AND, UH, I, I THINK THAT THERE'S NO ONE IN THE DEPARTMENT AT, AT LEAST ON THE INVESTIGATIVE SIDE AND THE SUPERVISORY SIDE OF THE, UH, THAT LOOKS OVER THE INVESTIGATIONS THAT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND 
          [01:05:01]
HOW SENSITIVE THIS, THIS IS AND THAT, THAT HOW CONS, HOW GRAVE THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE IF IT WERE TO HAPPEN AGAIN. 
          MM-HMM. 
           AND CHIEF AND, AND MARIA, SO WE'RE DOING ASSESSMENTS LIKE THIS IN ALL OF OUR, UM, OTHER AREAS OF THE S A P D AS WELL. 
          WE ARE COUNCILWOMAN. 
          AND, UH, JUST TO ELABORATE MORE ON WHAT THE CHIEF SAID, THEY, SINCE THIS INCIDENT OCCURRED, WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED MORE INTERNAL, UH, CONTROLS, UH, AND SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY IF THERE'S ANY ISSUES IN A, A TIMELY MANNER SO WE CAN ADDRESS THEM. 
          UH, I WILL EMPHASIZE THAT WHEN THIS INVESTIGATION STARTED, STARTED INTERNALLY, IT WAS THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO IDENTIFIED THAT THERE WAS AN ISSUE. 
          SURE. 
          THEY DID THEIR, THEIR INITIAL, UM, UH, REVIEW. 
          AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, UH, REQUESTED AN INTERNAL, UM, UH, THIRD PARTY REVIEW OUTSIDE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL. 
          BUT SINCE, UH, IT'S A COMBINATION OF WHAT WE'RE DOING AND THE OTHER, UM, UH, PROGRAMS WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO CONTINUE OUR INTERNAL REVIEWS, BUT ALSO TO HAVE THOSE, UH, EXTERNAL, UH, THIRD PARTY REVIEWS TO, UH, ENSURE THAT WE ARE DOING, UM, OUR, OUR WORK TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY. 
          AND ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UH, MEETING THE EXPECTATION EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CITY COUNCIL, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS TRUST THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO TAKE CARE OF THE ISSUES THAT THEY'RE FACING. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, MARIA. 
          I KNOW Y'ALL ARE WORKING ON THAT, AND I APPRECIATE THIS PRESENTATION. 
          UH, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          THANK YOU, MA'AM. 
          GREAT, GREAT. 
          REPORT ON, YOU KNOW, THE INCIDENT, WHAT ACTIONS YOU TOOK. 
          AND CHIEF, I, I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU WHEN, WHEN Y'ALL FIRST DISCOVERED THIS, THE ACTIONS THAT Y'ALL TOOK AND THEN THE FOLLOW UP ACTIONS THAT YOU TOOK ON THE AUDIT, THE, UM, AND THE ACTIONS THAT YOU'RE CONTINUING TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN. 
          I I THINK THAT, UH, THIS COUPLED ALONG WITH THE, THE NEW REPORTING SYSTEM WHERE YOU HAVE IT, IT AUTOMATED WHERE IT'S NOT JUST PIECES OF PAPER STUFFED IN SOMEONE'S DESK, I THINK IS GONNA BE A GREAT HELP TO THE SITUATION. 
          SO I'M, I'M VERY SATISFIED WITH WHAT Y'ALL HAVE DONE AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING HOW THIS IS, UH, PLAYED OUT HERE IN THE FUTURE. 
          UM, I DID, DID HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THOUGH ON, EH, LOST A SLIDE. 
          IT'S A SLIDE WITH THE, UH, THE REDUCTION OF THE NUMBERS. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, THE TOTAL CASES THERE. 
          NOW THIS IS THE TOTAL CASES AS OF 2017. 
          UM, YEAH, SLIDE SEVEN, SORRY. 
          UM, AND AS I UNDERSTAND THIS, YOU'RE TAKING THE MISDEMEANOR CASES AWAY FROM THIS UNIT, SO YOU'VE BASICALLY REDUCED HALF THEIR WORKLOAD AS I, AS I SEE THIS, IT MIGHT NOT WORK OUT TO HALF, BUT HALF THE CASES THAT THEY'RE HANDLING WERE WHAT THEY WERE HANDLING BEFORE, WHAT THEY'RE HANDLING NOW, WHERE DID ALL THESE CASES GO NOW? THE HALF OF THEM, THE MISDEMEANORS? YES. 
          MISDEMEANORS ARE INVESTIGATED BY C R T DETECTIVES IN THE SUBSTATIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THIS WORKLOAD HAS BEEN SHIFTED TO THE SUBSTATIONS. 
          AND DO WE TALK YEAH, I I, I JUST, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY, SOMEBODY'S TAKING AN EXTRA WORKLOAD. 
          THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HERE. 
          WHERE, WHO'S GOT THE EXTRA WORKLOAD? THE, THERE'S NO ONE TAKING AN EXTRA WORKLOAD. 
          THE, THE C R T DETECTIVES ARE, ARE, ARE, AGAIN, THEY USED TO BE OFFICERS, BUT THE C R T DETECTIVES ARE IN THE SUBSTATIONS. 
          WE'RE PUT IN THE SUBSTATIONS TO HANDLE THE MISDEMEANOR, UH, S V S V U CASES. 
          OKAY. 
          THE, THE MISDEMEANOR FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES, VIOLENCE. 
          AND SO, YEAH, SO WE, WE TOOK, UH, ESSENTIALLY IT, IT, IT'S, IT'S REDUCED THE WORKLOAD AT HEADQUARTERS AND IT DECENTRALIZED THE ABIL, THE, THE, UH, THE FAMILY VIOLENCE MISDEMEANOR, UH, A ABILITIES FOR, SO A CITIZEN THAT LIVES IN D 10 CAN GO TO THEIR NEAREST SUBSTATION AND NOT HAVE TO EVER COME DOWNTOWN TO FOLLOW THAT REPORT OR TO FOLLOW UP, OR TO GIVE A, A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT, UM, THAT CAN, THAT MISDEMEANOR CASE CAN BE HANDLED, UH, AT, AT THEIR, AT THEIR NEAREST SUBSTATION. 
          AND SO, AND, AND HANDLED FROM BEGINNING TO END AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO DO ALL OF THE WORKUP. 
          AND THEN BECAUSE OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS, NOT BEING ABLE TO PUT THAT LAST SLIP OF PAPER ON THERE TO FILE IT, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A DETECTIVE. 
          UM, AND, AND YOU'VE GOTTA BE, YOU GOTTA BE ABLE TO, UH, HAVE THE DETECTIVE RANK TO FILE CASES AT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO AGAIN, I'M, 
          [01:10:01]
I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS. 
          THE, THE WORKLOAD USED TO BE AT DOWNTOWN, THE 11,000 CASES, AND NOW IT'S BEEN REDUCED DOWN TO ALMOST 6,000. 
          SO THE WORKLOAD FROM DOWNTOWN, I'M SORRY, COUNCILMAN, THAT, THAT'S JUST YEAR TO YEAR TO DATE. 
          SO THESE ARE TOTALS FOR THE YEAR, RIGHT? FROM, YEAH, SO THIS IS JUST, IT'S, IT'S NOT, IF I, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. 
          THIS IS JUST EIGHT MONTHS. 
          IT'S EIGHT MONTHS AS, SO WE'RE MISSING FOUR MONTHS. 
          WE STILL HAVE FOUR MONTHS OF DATA. 
          SO IT, IT MAY, IT, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA COME CLOSE TO, ALRIGHT, WHERE WE'RE AT BEFORE, WELL, EVEN FROM 2017 TO 18, THERE WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, A PRETTY GENEROUS NUMBER THAT IT WAS MM-HMM. 
           REDUCED BY, AND I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, YOU'RE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IT'S BEING SENT OUT TO THE SUBS NOW OUT YES, SIR. 
          LIKE THE NORTH SUB. 
          DID WE ADD A PERSON OR ADD ANY PEOPLE TO THE SUBSTATIONS TO HANDLE THIS ADDITIONAL WORKLOAD? WE DID. 
          WE, WHAT WE, WHAT WE DID WAS WE, THE OFFICERS THAT WERE HANDLING THAT, WE MADE, WE, WE MADE THEM, WE PUT THEM BACK ON PATROL OR, OR ANOTHER, WHEREVER UNIT THEY ENDED UP AT. 
          AND WE SUBSTITUTED THEM FOR DETECTIVES TO ACTUALLY HANDLE IT, TO SEE, TO SEE IT THROUGH. 
          SO WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T LOSE ANYBODY. 
          UM, WE, THE, THE STAFFING STAYED THE SAME. 
          AND WITH THE, WITH THE ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THIS YEAR, WE'RE ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL, UM, SERGEANTS AND THE ADDITIONAL OFFICERS TO HELP, UM, NOT ONLY MANAGE THE WORKLOAD, BUT TO HELP AUGMENT AND ENHANCE THE PROCESS. 
          WELL, AND THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS MM-HMM. 
           WHERE, AND I KNOW IN THE 2020 BUDGET WE'RE ASKING FOR, WHAT WAS THAT? UH, SIX NEW SERGEANTS AND 10 NEW SAFE OFFICERS. 
          ARE THEY GONNA BE OUT AT THE SUBS OR DOWNTOWN AT THE SUBSTATIONS? SO IS EACH ONE OF 'EM GONNA GO INTO A DIFFERENT SUBSTATION? YES, SIR. 
          EACH SUBSTATION IS GONNA GET ONE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          AND THEN FOLLOWING ON WITH THAT, I MEAN, WE JUST DON'T HAVE SERGEANTS AND SAFE OFFICERS SITTING ON THE BENCH READY TO DO THIS. 
          HOW ARE WE GONNA FILL THOSE POSITIONS? WELL, THEY'RE THE, THE ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IN THIS YEAR, IN THIS COMING BUDGET. 
          I MEAN, WILL, WILL YOU HOLD THE SPECIAL PROMOTIONS OR SOMETHING TO FILL THESE POSITIONS OR, I, I'M TRYING TO, 'CAUSE IF, IF IT, IF THESE ARE BRAND NEW AUTHORIZATIONS YES. 
          WHERE ARE THE ACTUAL BODIES GONNA COME FROM TO SIT IN THOSE AUTHORIZATIONS? ARE WE GOING TO HOLD A, SOME SPECIAL PROMOTION OR SOMETHING TO PROMOTE SIX NEW SERGEANTS AND, UH, 10 NEW SAFE OFFICERS? THAT'S CORRECT. 
          THAT'S WHAT I'M, THAT'S WHAT I'M, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT'LL, THAT'LL OPEN UP ADDITIONAL POSITIONS BELOW THEM. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          HOW ARE WE ON OUR TOTAL AUTHORIZATIONS VERSUS PHIL'S CHIEF? WHERE ARE WE AT? WELL, WE JUST GRADUATED 45 THIS MORNING. 
          GREAT. 
          AWESOME. 
          AND I THINK WE'RE 20, 25 DOWN RIGHT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          CLASS OF 72 WITH TWO ADDITIONAL ARSON FOLKS COMING INTO, UH, THE ACADEMY ON THE T ON THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER. 
          SO THIS, SO IN SEPTEMBER WE'LL HAVE A CLASS OF 72 POLICE, OR 72 CADETS AND TWO ARSON INVESTIGATORS, WHICH REALLY DOESN'T AFFECT OUR NUMBERS, BUT WE'LL HAVE 72 COMING IN AND AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          UH, GOING INTO CLASS. 
          YES. 
          STARTING CLASS. 
          YES. 
          SO WE GOT 25 VACANCIES RIGHT NOW, AND WE'LL, WE'LL BE ADDING 16 TO THAT LIST IN OCTOBER WHEN THE NEW BUDGET IS DONE, CORRECT? YES. 
          CORRECT. 
          ALRIGHT, GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MA'AM. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, YOU'RE ALMOST DONE. 
          YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB. 
          UH, EVERYBODY, UH, JUST A REAL QUICK QUESTION ON SLIDE FIVE. 
          UH, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, SOME OF WHAT YOU WANTED TO ACHIEVE THROUGH THE SS O P REVIEW. 
          UM, IN THE SECOND BULLET, YOU TALK ABOUT IMPROVED CASE MANAGEMENT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE. 
          UM, I DIDN'T HEAR SPECIFICALLY HOW YOU WERE GOING TO BE GAUGING CUSTOMER SERVICE. 
          COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO? IT'S, IT'S THE, THE, UH, CALLBACK RESPONSE, UH, KEEPING, YOU KNOW, THE FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S ESSENTIALLY, UH, WHAT CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INVESTIGATION IS ALL ABOUT, KEEPING THEM, KEEPING THE, THE VICTIM, THE COMPLAINANT, UH, UH, UP TO SPEED ON WHERE THE CASE IS AT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO DO, IS THERE ANY, UM, PROACTIVE WAY OF HEARING BACK FROM, UH, I GUESS THE CUSTOMER, LIKE SOME SORT OF SURVEY OR EVALUATION THAT THEY EVER CAN? WELL, THE, YEAH, I MEAN, IF, IF, UH, ACTUALLY THE, THE, UH, THAT, UH, 
          [01:15:02]
SPIDER TECH TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE, UH, UH, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S OUT FOR R F P RIGHT NOW THAT WOULD A, ACTUALLY GIVE US THE ABILITY TO CONDUCT SURVEYS AS WELL. 
          AND SO LET ME JUST REAL QUICK ON HOW THAT WORKS, IS YOU CALL IN TO, TO REPORT WHATEVER IT MAY BE, UH, FROM A NOISY NEIGHBOR TO AN ASSAULT. 
          UH, YOUR INFORMATION IS IMMEDIATELY ENTERED INTO CAD WHEN THE, WHEN THE CALL TAKER HANGS UP THAT PHONE, YOU'RE GETTING AN INSTANT TEXT MESSAGE OR AN EMAIL MESSAGE SAYING THAT YOUR CALL IS RECEIVED, UH, FOR, FOR WHATEVER IT MAY BE. 
          HERE'S YOUR CASE NUMBER. 
          UH, HERE'S HOW TO GET AHOLD OF YOUR DETECTIVE, DEPENDING UPON WHAT THE, WHAT TYPE OF CASE IT IS. 
          UM, AND, AND THAT AS, AS, AS THE LONGER THAT SYSTEM IS IN PLACE, THE MORE DATA IT'S IS BEING BUILT UP. 
          AND AS WE GET MILLIONS OF PEOPLE CALLING IN, WE CAN SEND OUT SURVEYS TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CALLED IN. 
          UH, COUNCILMAN, IF I MAY ADD TO WHAT THE, UH, CHIEF MENTIONED, THIS PARTICULAR, UH, SOFTWARE THAT HE'S DESCRIBING WILL, UH, SEND A TEXT NOTIFICATION TO THE VICTIM IF, IF THAT IS THE WAY THAT THEY WANT FOR US TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM, TO LET 'EM KNOW THE STATUS OF THEIR, UH, OF THEIR CASE, AND TO HAVE MORE, UH, INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH THEM THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY DO TODAY. 
          UM, SURVEYS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AS PART OF THAT PROCESS, BUT I GUESS TO ADDRESS YOUR SPECIFIC QUESTION, UH, WILL WORK, UH, WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO COME UP WITH SOME WAY OF, UH, MEASURING HOW THAT LOOKS LIKE IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF CONTACTS, AND THEN THE QUALITY OF THOSE CONTACTS AND REPORT THAT TO, TO THE COUNCIL AS A FORM OF THE, UH, METRICS THAT WE CAN ADD TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARIA. 
          UM, NOW THAT THE, OR WHEN THE NEW DATABASE, UH, COMES ONLINE OR THE CONTENT, SORRY, RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, THE R M SS, UH, COMES ONLINE, WILL IT BE EASIER FOR US TO, OR FOR YOU TO REPORT ON, SAY WE HAVE X AMOUNT OF OPEN CASES, WE HAVE Y AMOUNT OF OPEN CASES, THESE HAVE BEEN OPEN FOR THIS LONG, THAT KIND OF, THOSE KIND OF MEASURES? YEAH, DEFINITELY. 
          THE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT, UH, WILL BE IN USE WILL BE MUCH, HAVE MUCH MORE FUNCTIONALITY THAN WE DO NOW. 
          AND SO, UH, THE SUPERVISORS WILL BE ABLE TO, TO TELL VERY GRANULARLY HOW MANY CASES ARE OPEN, HOW MANY ARE CLOSED, UH, WHY THEY WERE CLOSED, AND, AND KEEP TRACK MUCH BETTER THAN, THAN THEY CAN. 
          YEAH, WE CAN'T DO THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          RIGHT. 
          VERY OR VERY EASILY. 
          IT'S, IT'S LABOR, IT'S, IT'S NOT AS EASY, BUT, UM, WITH THE NEW SYSTEM, IT'S GONNA BE A MUCH EASIER PROCESS. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, GREAT. 
          SO WHEN THAT'S ONLINE, I'LL HAVE A LOT MORE QUESTIONS  ABOUT THAT. 
          AND THEN JUST, UH, MY LAST QUESTION. 
          SO THE LIEUTENANT CONDUCTS THE AUDITS, UM, BUT THE SUPERVISOR CAN APPROVE THE CLOSURES. 
          SO DO THE CLOSURES GET AUDITED? DO THOSE ROLL UP INTO THE AUDIT AS WELL? OKAY. 
          YES, MA'AM. 
          UH, EVERY EVERYTHING'S LOOKED AT. 
          SO IF YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU HAVE ONE DETECTIVE THAT JUST SEEMS TO HAVE ALL OF THEIR CASES THAT ARE CLOSED, THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD IN INDICATION TO, TO FIND OUT WHAT TYPE OF CLOSURES. 
          AND THERE'S A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF CLOSURES. 
          UH, EITHER THE CASE WAS FILED, UH, AT LARGE, EITHER SOMEBODY WAS ARRESTED, IT WAS CLOSED, PENDING, FURTHER INVESTIGATION. 
          AND SO ALL OF THOSE, ALL OF THAT MEANS SOMETHING. 
          AND SO IT'S, THAT'S INCUMBENT UPON THE SERGEANTS AND THE LIEUTENANTS TO REALLY, UH, DIVE INTO THAT AND, AND MAKE SURE THAT THOSE CASES ARE BEING PROPERLY INVESTIGATED. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR ANSWERING ALL THOSE QUESTIONS AND FOR YOUR VERY THOROUGH, UH, PRESENTATION. 
          AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE ON A VERY GOOD PATH. 
          SO THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MARIA. 
          [4. 19-6500 Briefing and Possible Action on the SAPD Traffic Safety Programs
[María Villagómez, Deputy City Manager; William P. McManus, Chief
of Police]]
COUNCILWOMAN. 
          THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS A, UH, BRIEFING ON THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAMS. AND TO PROVIDE THIS OVERVIEW, WE, UH, ALSO GONNA HAVE, UH, OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UH, FROM T C I ART REINHARDT TO, UH, ALSO COMPLIMENT THE PRESENTATION TO NOT ONLY SHOW, UH, EXACTLY THE PROGRAMS THAT SS A P D DOES IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC, BUT ALSO THE TRAFFIC RULES AND REGULATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS, UH, ENFORCEMENT. 
          SO WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO CHIEF MCMANUS. 
          THANKS, MAN. 
          UM, SO ALL OMAR RIGHT IS CAPTAIN CHRIS BENAVIDEZ, AND CHRIS IS, UH, OVER THE, UH, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT SECTION AND TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE, OR THERE WE GO, UH, IS RESPONSIBLE. 
          UNDER TRAFFIC COMES THE, UH, YOUR HIGHWAY GUYS WHO AND GALS WHO ENFORCE, UH, TRAFFIC REGULATIONS ON THE HIGHWAY. 
          YOU GOT YOUR MOTORCYCLE DETAIL, UH, YOUR INTERDICTION DETAIL. 
          THE INTERDICTION 
          [01:20:01]
DETAIL WAS, UH, PUT TOGETHER FAIRLY RECENTLY. 
          AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT, UH, IT ACTUALLY LOOKS FOR, UH, SMUGGLERS AND TRAFFICKERS OF NOT ONLY NARCOTICS, BUT ALSO OF PEOPLE. 
          SO THEY'RE OUT THERE WORKING. 
          UH, YOU'VE GOT YOUR HELICOPTER DETAIL COMES UNDER TRAFFIC, UH, D W I AND YOUR, YOUR E O C IS ALSO UNDER TRAFFIC EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER. 
          AND THEN LASTLY, BUT NOT LEASTLY, YOU, OUR SCHOOL CROSSING GUARDS. 
          AND I, I THINK THE THING THAT'LL JUMP AT US HERE ON, ON THIS NEXT, UH, CHART OR THIS NEXT, UH, SLIDE IS THE REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF TICKETS ISSUED, UM, UH, YEAR TO DATE. 
          AND THE, THE REASON THAT THEY ARE DOWN IS BECAUSE UNDER THE NEW GRANT, UH, STEP GRANT, UH, UM, RULES AND REGULATIONS, THEY NOW ALLOW FOR WARNING TICKETS. 
          WHEREAS BEFORE, THEY DID NOT. 
          IT WAS ONLY WRITTEN CITATIONS, UH, THAT WERE, UM, UM, ALLOWABLE BY THE GRANT. 
          NOW THEY DO WARNINGS. 
          SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF WARNINGS TICKETS ISSUED, UM, UH, AS A RESULT OF THAT. 
          SO, SO YOUR ACTUAL CITATIONS MAY BE DOWN, BUT IF YOU ADD ON THE WARNING TICKETS AS WELL, UH, THERE IS NO REDUCTION IN, IN, UH, IN, IN WORK. 
          AND THEN THE, UH, THAT'S, THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, THE STEP GRANT, THE SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM GRANT, UH, GRANT, IT FUNDS SUCH PROGRAMS AS D W I ENFORCEMENT. 
          UH, THERE'S, UH, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH EVENTS THAT WE DO. 
          AND, UH, WE, WE COME TO THE COUNCIL ON A REGULAR BASIS. 
          AS, AS YOU KNOW, WITH THESE GRANTS, UH, AS WE, AS WE RECEIVE THEM, UH, SINCE 2008, WE'VE RECEIVED ALMOST $10 MILLION IN, IN GRANT FUNDING AND OUR, UH, CROSSING GUARD PROGRAM. 
          EVERY NOW AND THEN WE HEAR ABOUT, UM, UH, AREAS NEEDING CROSSING GUARDS. 
          WELL, IN ORDER TO FILL A SPOT, UH, WITH A CROSSING GUARD, WE NEED TO DO A SURVEY, UH, THAT'S THIS, THE SURVEY IS DONE, UH, IN THE MORNING AND IN THE AFTERNOON TO GET ACCURATE COUNTS OF TRAFFIC. 
          UH, AND THEN ONCE WE DO THAT, WE'LL MAKE A DETERMINATION ON WHETHER OR NOT A PARTICULAR CROSSING NEEDS A GUARD OR NOT. 
          AND THE CROSSING GUARDS MAINTAIN COMMUNICATION WITH THE SCHOOLS. 
          UH, THERE'S A LOT OF TURNOVER. 
          UH, IT'S A PART-TIME JOB AND A BACKGROUND CHECK IS REQUIRED. 
          A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T QUALIFY ONCE THE BACKGROUND CHECK IS DONE. 
          SO OFTENTIMES KEEPING A, A FULL CADRE OF CROSSING GUARDS IS SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF THE TURNOVER. 
          THESE ARE, SOME OF THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE, WE DO FOR EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. 
          UH, EACH OF THESE IS A P S A, UH, THAT MIDDLE ONE IS TRAFFIC TIPS, NOT TRAFFIC TOPS, UH, WITH S A P D. 
          AND THEN, UH, OUR TRAFFIC ALERTS THAT GO OUT ON A REGULAR BASIS. 
          AND OUR PREP PROGRAM PREP STANDS FOR PUBLIC RESOURCE EDUCATIONAL PACKAGE. 
          AND THEN OUR, UH, OUR PREP PROGRAM. 
          WE REACH OUT TO HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. 
          WE HAVE TRA, UH, SPECIAL EVENTS TO PROMOTE TRAFFIC SAFETY. 
          A LOT OF, A LOT OF THE EVENTS THAT WE DO HAVE TO DO WITH, UH, DRINKING AND DRIVING AND SEATBELT USAGE. 
          ALRIGHT, THIS ONE'S YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, THANKS, CHIEF. 
          UH, GOOD AFTERNOON COUNSEL. 
          UM, BEFORE I GET STARTED, I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, GREG REIGER, HE'S BACK THERE IN THE BACK. 
          HE'S OUR PRINCIPAL PLANNER. 
          HE'S THE LEADER OF OUR VISION ZERO TEAM, AND HE, AND I THINK A COUPLE OF MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM HERE AS WELL. 
          AND THEY'RE DOING A LOT OF AFTER HOUR WORK ON WEEKENDS AS WELL, REALLY TRYING TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT. 
          SO I APPRECIATE THEIR WORK. 
          UM, SO VISION ZERO, I THINK MOST OF THE COUNCIL'S FAMILIAR, UH, WITH IT. 
          NOW, THAT WAS AN INITIATIVE THAT WAS REALLY CHAMPIONED BY COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ BACK IN 2015. 
          IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT THAT STARTED IN THE 1990S OVERSEAS IN SWEDEN, AND HAS MADE ITS WAY TO THE STATES. 
          UM, ABOUT 40 CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY NOW HAVE ADOPTED VISION ZERO. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST A A A ONE DEPARTMENT LED EFFORT. 
          T C I, UH, IS HAS BEEN ADDED AS WELL AS S A P D. 
          AND THERE'S A COUPLE INITIATIVES I'LL MENTION. 
          UM, BUT WHAT WE KNOW IS THERE'S, SINCE WE ARE DEALING WITH HUMAN BEHAVIOR, THERE'S NO SINGLE APPROACH. 
          SO WE'VE TAKEN THIS FIVE E APPROACH THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN THAT'S A COMBINATION OF EDUCATION, ENCOURAGEMENT, CONTINUOUSLY GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT THERE. 
          THERE'S OBVIOUSLY THE ENGINEERING COMPONENT AS WELL. 
          UH, THERE'S THE ENFORCEMENT COMPONENT. 
          AND THEN LASTLY, THE EVALUATION COMPONENT. 
          AND THAT'S WHEN CRASHES DO HAPPEN. 
          UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE, THE THINGS WE'LL COVER ON THE NEXT SLIDE ON HOW WE, UH, PARTNER WITH S A P D. 
          SO, UH, THE, THE PROGRAM STARTED IN 2015. 
          WE, WE'VE WORKED, UH, CLOSELY WITH SS A P D ON EFFORTS IN 2016 AND 2017. 
          WE DID A DON'T BLOCK THE BOX PILOT PROGRAM, UH, WHERE WE PARTNERED WITH SS A P D TO, UH, DO SOME EDUCATION 
          [01:25:01]
OUT THERE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT BLOCKING INTERSECTIONS AND CROSSWALKS. 
          UM, MOST RECENTLY IN 2018, WE PARTNERED AGAIN WITH S A P D ON SEVERAL KEY INTERSECTIONS AROUND THE CITY WHERE, UH, T C I HAD DEVELOPED THESE INFORMATIONAL PAN PAMPHLETS ON TRAFFIC SAFETY AT INTER OUT THERE. 
          UH, NOT ONLY PROVIDING THAT MESSAGE, BUT THEN ALSO DOING SOME, UH, ENFORCEMENT AND WARNINGS AS WELL ON UNSAFE BEHAVIORS. 
          SO, UH, JUST A COUPLE EXAMPLES OF THE PARTNERSHIP WE'VE HAD. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO ON A, ON A DAILY BASIS, YOU, I'LL START IT AND THEN YOU YEAH. 
          ON DAILY BASIS, UH, WE ARE WORKING HAND IN HAND. 
          UM, I MENTIONED THE, THE CRASH REVIEWS. 
          SO, UH, EACH AND EVERY TIME THERE'S A CRASH, UH, OUR TEAM GETS THAT DATA FROM THE DATABASE, UH, AND REVIEWS WHAT HAPPENED. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE ALSO WORKED ON THIS YEAR WAS, UH, WORKING WITH THE CHIEF TO DO A ROLL CALL VIDEO AND EXPLAINING THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE CRASH REPORTS, UH, MAKING SURE THE OFFICERS UNDERSTAND, UM, HOW OTHERS USE THEM AS WELL. 
          WE GET THE DATA, WE TRY TO SEE WHAT THOSE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE. 
          UH, WAS IT, UH, WAS IT DARK, WAS IT RAINING? UH, WAS SOMEONE IMPAIRED? AND WE TRY TO ALSO PIECE TOGETHER WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. 
          WAS IT INFRASTRUCTURE RELATED ISSUE OR WAS IT JUST TRULY A HUMAN RELATED ISSUE? SO, UH, JUST ONE EXAMPLE. 
          AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, CHIEF WANTED TO MENTION A FEW THINGS AS WELL. 
          YEAH, NO, WHENEVER THERE'S A THANKS ART, WHENEVER THERE'S A COMPLAINT, UH, ONE OF THESE SIX, ONE OR MORE OF THESE SIX THINGS HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF THAT COMPLAINT. 
          UH, A SIMPLE COMPLAINT THAT, HEY, IF SOMEBODY'S SPEEDING ON MY BLOCK, OR, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S KIDS DOING WHEELIES OR THAT WILL GET CALLED OVER TO TRAFFIC, AND TRAFFIC WILL PUT, IF THERE'S A SPEEDING COMPLAINT, TRAFFIC WILL PUT THAT ON A LIST AND THEY'LL, THEY'LL DO REGULAR, UM, UM, UM, INTERVALS OF CHECKING THOSE DIFFERENT SPOTS. 
          CHRIS, DO YOU WANNA ADD ANYTHING TO THAT? YOU KNOW, HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? PRESS IT. 
          HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? HERE WE GO. 
          CHRIS, YOU HEAR ME NOW? OH, HERE WE GO. 
          HOLD DEAR. 
          OKAY. 
          SO DEPLOYMENT COMES IN A NUMBER OF, UH, DIFFERENT WAYS FOR THE, FOR THE TRAFFIC UNIT BASED ON NEEDS INTEL, UH, CRASH DATA REQUESTS, AND THEN COMPLAINTS. 
          SO, UH, WE DEPLOY BASED ON SEVERITY, BASED ON THE COMPLAINTS THAT ARE COMING IN. 
          AND THEN WE DO INTERVALS, AS CHIEF MENTIONED, UH, WE'LL GO OUT PERIODICALLY AND CHECK IT AT DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT DAYS, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CATCHING THE ENFORCEMENT, THE PROPER ENFORCEMENT. 
          AND THAT, THAT PRETTY MUCH WRAPS IT UP, UH, EXCEPT FOR YOUR QUESTIONS, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE THEM RIGHT NOW. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          WE'LL START WITH COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          THANK YOU, MA'AM. 
          UH, ART, YOU'RE ON THE M P O. 
          YOU GOT A COUPLE OTHER REPRESENTATIVES HERE FROM THIS, UH, CITY ON THE M P O ALSO, UH, THE U T P WAS JUST APPROVED, AND, UM, IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, THERE'S $600 MILLION THAT THEY'VE SET ASIDE TO TRY TO REDUCE FATALITIES ON TEXAS ROADS. 
          HOW, HOW CAN WE, HOW CAN WE GET A PORTION OF THAT 600 MILLION HERE IN SAN ANTONIO TO HELP HELP, UH, WITH SAFETY ON OUR ROADS? HOW, HOW, HOW CAN WE GET OUR HANDS ON A PORTION OF THAT? YEAH, SO THE, THE 600 MILLION IS, IS HUGE. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY DOUBLING THE FUNDING THAT THE STATE'S BEEN PUTTING FOR, IT'S ACTUALLY SPLIT THOUGH 300 MILLION OVER THE NEXT TWO FISCAL YEARS. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, IN THE, THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS STILL COMING. 
          UM, BUT IT'LL BE VERY SIMILAR TO A PROGRAM THAT TEXO HAS OFFERED IN THE PAST CALLED THEIR HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH THE CITY HAS APPLIED AND GOT PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH. 
          UM, EACH OF THE 20 SOME ODD DISTRICTS IN THE STATE FOR TXDOT ARE DEVELOPING BASICALLY A FOUR YEAR SAFETY PLAN. 
          AND SO THAT WILL SPELL OUT THE DETAILS OF HOW THAT, THAT FUNDING CAN BE ROLLED OUT. 
          A LOT OF IT WILL BE ON TXDOT ROADS, BUT SIMILAR WITH THEIR OTHER PROGRAMS, WE BELIEVE THERE'S OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO HAVE SOME ON OUR LOCAL ROADS AS WELL. 
          SO, WHO HAS A LIST OF THOSE PROJECTS AND WHO'S WORKING ON 'EM? SO THE WAY IT'LL, IT'LL WORK IS, UH, MOST LIKELY, UM, THERE'S DIFFERENT CRASH TYPES. 
          AND SO BASED ON THE CRASH HISTORY, TXDOT DOES AN ANALYSIS AND BASED ON, UM, THOSE TYPE OF CRASHES, THERE'S PREVENTATIVE MEASURES THAT COULD BE SELECTED TO RE REMEDY THOSE CRASHES. 
          SO IT'S NOT THAT THERE'S A LIFT LIST OF PROJECTS, PER SE, THERE'LL BE AN APPLICATION PROJECT OR PROCESS THAT WILL COME, AND ELIGIBLE LOCATIONS WILL, WILL BE, UM, PUT FORWARD BASED ON CRASH HISTORY. 
          AND SO THAT'S THE PROCESS THAT WILL GO FORTH. 
          UM, AND, AND THERE COULD BE THINGS SUCH AS SIGNAL, UH, SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS WHERE WE'RE ADDING A PROTECTED LEFT TURN LANE, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UH, SO IT'S BASED ON CRASH HISTORY. 
          WELL, YES, BUT I WOULD EXPECT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE OUR OWN LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS ALREADY THAT SHOULD BE READY TO GO WHENEVER THEY MAKE THE CALL FOR THE DATA, UH, IN THESE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS. 
          SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHAT NEEDS TO GO ON THAT LIST TO BE SUBMITTED TO TXDOT SAYING, HEY, THIS IS WHERE WE NEED, WE NEED SOME HELP WITH THE FUNDING. 
          AND A CLASSIC EXAMPLE 
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OF THAT IS THAT DADGUM TRAFFIC LIGHT DOWN THERE ON TOPPER WINE THAT'S ACTUALLY IN LIVE OAK, RIGHT? BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE USERS ON THAT ROAD AND THE CRASHES THAT HAVE HAPPENED, THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE FROM SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE, AND I KNOW WE'RE WORKING THAT NOW, BUT THAT TO ME, IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE NEED TO WORK TO ESTABLISH AND IDENTIFY THOSE PROJECTS HERE WITHIN OUR CONFINES THAT WE NEED HELP FROM TE TXDOT. 
          SO I, I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE SOMEBODY WORK ON A LIST AND, AND SHOW ME A LIST OF WHAT WE WOULD RECOMMEND AS PROJECTS TO GO FORWARD TO TDOT TO ASK FOR FUNDING. 
          UH, AND I'LL JUST TOUCH ON ONE MORE THING. 
          SO WE, WE DO HAVE A, A LOT OF DATA ALREADY. 
          UH, GREG AND THE TEAM HAVE DONE QUITE AN EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS. 
          WE, LAST YEAR ISSUED A, WHAT WE CALL OUR SEVERE PEDESTRIAN INJURY AREA REPORT, UH, WHICH WAS REALLY FOCUSED ON SEVERE PEDESTRIAN INJURIES AND FATALITIES. 
          UH, AND THERE'S JUST THIS VERY ALARMING STATISTIC, 33% OF THOSE SEVERE PEDESTRIAN INJURIES AND FATALITIES OCCUR ON 1% OF OUR ROADS. 
          UH, SO WE KNOW THOSE AREAS. 
          AND SO THAT'S THE TYPE OF PROJECTS THAT WE'VE BEEN TACKLING THROUGH OUR VISION ZERO PROGRAM. 
          WE'VE ALSO DONE SIMILAR ANALYSIS ON INTERSECTIONS, UH, PARTNERING WITH U T S A TO, TO TELL US WHERE OUR HIGH CRASH INTERSECTIONS ARE. 
          UH, AND GREG AND THE TEAM ARE WORKING ON THE SAME ANALYSIS WITH BICYCLES RIGHT NOW. 
          SO WE DO HAVE DATA, AND SO THAT WILL HELP, UH, GENERATE THOSE PROJECTS WHEN, WHEN THAT PROCESS COMES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, YES, AS SOON AS YOU HAVE SOMETHING PUT TOGETHER OF RECOMMENDED PROJECTS, I THINK YOU NEED TO BRING THOSE BACK TO THE COMMITTEE HERE, BECAUSE I, I WOULD CERTAINLY LIKE TO SEE THOSE PROJECTS THAT THEY ALL Y'ALL WILL BE RECOMMENDING OKAY. 
          TO GO FORWARD TO TXDOT. 
          I THINK THAT NEEDS TO COME THROUGH THIS COMMITTEE SO THAT WE CAN, UM, HAVE A CHOP ON THAT, UH, BEFORE IT, BEFORE IT HEADS ON OUT. 
          UH, AND ALONG WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, I, I HEAR A LOT ABOUT THIS VISION ZERO, AND YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE DATA THAT, THAT YOU'RE DOING. 
          I, YOU KNOW, I REALLY WANNA SEE THE METRICS ON THIS STUFF ARE, AND I'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT BEFORE. 
          WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY, UH, ON VISION ZERO, BUT I DON'T SEE ANY METRICS TO SUPPORT. 
          IS IT DOING ANY GOOD OR IS IT NOT DOING ANY GOOD? DO WE NEED TO DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING, OR DO WE NEED TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING? MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE THE, YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT THE CRASH DATA ANALYSIS, UH, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'RE HAVING ACCIDENTS, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE PUTTING INTO THIS, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THIS, THIS DATA. 
          IT'S EITHER GETTING WORSE, STAYING THE SAME, OR IMPROVING MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND THAT THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO SHOW, UM, HOW WE'RE INVESTING OUR MONEY ON, ON THIS PROGRAM. 
          GREAT PROGRAM, DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT, BUT I WANNA SEE RESULTS. 
          RIGHT. 
          IT, UM, SO JUST A COUPLE THINGS I'D LIKE TO TOUCH ON. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN PART OF THE, WE ADOPTED THE PROGRAM IN 2015, SO IT TAKES A WHILE TO SEE TRENDS, BUT WHAT, WHAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU, AND UNFORTUNATELY REALLY THE, ONE OF THE ONLY METRICS WE HAVE TO LOOK AT RIGHT NOW IS FATALITY. 
          SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN LIVES. 
          UM, BUT SINCE 2016, WE HAVE SEEN ABOUT A 25% REDUCTION IN FATALITIES ACROSS ALL MODES. 
          SO THAT'S PEOPLE WALKING, DRIVING, BIKING, MOTORCYCLES WITHIN THAT, SOME HAVE GONE UP, SOME HAVE GONE DOWN. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S STILL A 25% REDUCTION IN FATALITY. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THAT ONE MEASURE, THERE HAS BEEN A DECREASE. 
          NOW, WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. 
          THE AVERAGE IS ABOUT 159 PEOPLE EVERY YEAR LOSE THEIR LIFE. 
          UH, SO THAT, THAT'S A COUPLE EVERY WEEK. 
          UM, SO THERE'S STILL WORK TO BE DONE, BUT WE, WHAT WE CAN'T MEASURE IS THE LIVES THAT WE HAVE SAVED. 
          SO, UM, SINCE 2017, WE'VE BUILT ALMOST 20 OR SO SPOT PROJECTS, MOSTLY MIDBLOCK, PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS, UM, PRO PROVIDING REFUGE WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO CROSS IN BETWEEN SIGNALS. 
          AND SO AT, WE HAVE LOOKED AT THOSE AND THERE HAVE BEEN NO SEVERE, UM, PEDESTRIAN INJURIES OR FATALITIES AT THOSE LOCATIONS. 
          SO IT'S DIFFICULT TO, TO SHOW. 
          UM, WELL, I, AND I KNOW IT'S UNCOMFORTABLE TO PUT, YOU KNOW, REDUCTIONS IN DEATHS BECAUSE YOU'RE DEALING WITH HUMAN LIVES, RIGHT? MM-HMM. 
          , BUT YOU CAN'T FORECAST HOW MANY YOU SAVED. 
          SO THE ONLY MEASURE IS, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY ACCIDENTS AND, AND HOW MANY INJURIES THAT YOU'VE, UH, REDUCED OR HOW MANY DEATHS THAT YOU'VE REDUCED. 
          I MEAN, TXDOT MEASURES THAT ALL THE TIME. 
          I MEAN, YOU SEE IT ON THE ROAD SIGNS OUT THERE, HOW MANY DEATHS THERE'S THERE BEEN IN EACH YEAR. 
          UH, SO, UH, WE REALLY NEED TO START NAILING THAT DOWN. 
          I MEAN, IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN ADOPTED. 
          WE OUGHT TO HAVE SOME DATA AND SPECIFICS TO HOW MUCH WE'RE SPENDING AND WHAT THE RESULTS ARE. 
          WE NEED TO START TRACKING THAT. 
          AND, AND I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE NOT TRACKING IT. 
          ART, WE NEED TO START VISUALIZING IT. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, FOUR YEARS WORTH 
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OF DATA. 
          I, I THINK WE OUGHT TO HAVE SOMETHING TO START SHOWING. 
          UM, WHEN, UM, I, I, I MEAN, I GOT A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS. 
          I, I WAS GOING DOWN NACODOCHES THE OTHER DAY, AND HERE'S A NICE BOX, STOPLIGHTS, CROSSWALKS, EVERYTHING. 
          AND HERE'S THIS LADY A HUNDRED FEET AWAY FROM THAT CROSSES THE ROAD SHE'S STANDING IN. 
          THERE'S NO MEDIAN. 
          IT'S JUST DOUBLE YELLOW LINE AND TRAFFIC ZIPPING BUYER. 
          AND THAT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF YOU'RE NOT GONNA, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SAVE EVERYBODY, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO OUT THERE, YOU'RE STILL GONNA HAVE PEOPLE THAT AREN'T, YOU KNOW, PAYING ATTENTION AND BREAKING THE RULES. 
          IT, IT'S, WE'RE NOT GONNA, WE'RE NOT GONNA REDUCE THIS DOWN TO ZERO, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE PUT IN THERE. 
          SO I WAS VERY FRUSTRATED. 
          I HONKED MY HORN AND, UM, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T DO ANY GOOD. 
          I, HEY, IT, IT, IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS BAD. 
          IT WAS REALLY BAD. 
          BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA SOLVE IT FOR EVERYBODY. 
          WELL, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW. 
          IT WAS JUST FRUSTRATING TO ME TO SEE THAT HAPPENING A HUNDRED FEET AWAY, A CROSSWALK. 
          SO, UM, OKAY. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MA'AM. 
          COUNCILWOMAN VIEN. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          UM, CAN WE, CAN YOU GIVE US A BREAKDOWN OF THE CROSSING GUARD PROGRAM, THE 256 CROSSING GUARDS CITYWIDE? WHERE ARE THEY LOCATED? IF WE CAN GET THAT, AND THEN MAYBE IF THERE HAS BEEN A REDUCTION, UH, BECAUSE YOU SAID OF THE TURNOVER, IF WE CAN SEE MAYBE FROM ONE YEAR TO ANOTHER, AND THEN WHAT SCHOOLS MAYBE HAD ONE FROM ONE YEAR, AND WHICH ONES DIDN'T HAVE ONE. 
          JUST SO WE CAN HELP, UH, WHERE WE CAN IN THE COMMUNITY, IF THE COMMUNITY STARTS REACHING OUT TO US, UM, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT. 
          AND THEN, UM, THE OTHER ON THE SLIDE FOR ENFORCEMENT NUMBER THREE. 
          SO, UM, I JUST WANNA READ THIS CORRECTLY WHERE IT SAYS ARRESTS, THE ONLY ARRESTS THAT YOU'VE BEEN MAKING ARE FOR THE DWIS, IS THAT CORRECT? THE ARRESTS ARE UNDERNEATH, CORRECT? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, SO YOU, WE WENT DOWN FROM 4,650 ARRESTS FOR DWIS IN 2018 TO HALF OF THAT. 
          THAT WAS TOTAL FOR, YEAH, 2018. 
          OH, AND THIS IS YEAR TO DATE, AND THIS IS YEAR TO DATE. 
          I GOT IT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. 
          UM, BUT ANY OF THESE, UH, OKAY, SO, SO THAT, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          NOW, JUMPING TO THE TEXTING AND, UM, THE TEXTING FROM, UH, 10,000, OR FOR YEAR TO DATE, WE IDENTIFY, OR YOU ALL IDENTIFY IF THESE ARE REPEAT OFFENDERS, IF THEY'RE, THEY'RE TEXTING IF THEY HAVE A TE A TICKET IN THEIR REPEAT OFFENDERS. 
          AND IF THEY ARE REPEAT OFFENDERS, LIKE THIS IS THEIR SECOND OR THIRD FOR TEXTING AND DRIVING, DO FINES GO UP OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? DO YOU KNOW? OR IT'S JUST THE SAME? I DON'T, UH, I DON'T BELIEVE SO. 
          NO. 
          I, I, I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY AGGRAVATED PENALTY FOR THAT REALLY. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          AND FOR THE, THE CHILD RESTRAINTS, UM, DO YOU, WHEN THEY, UH, WHEN YOU DO GIVE A CITATION OR A WARNING, ARE THERE ANY THINGS, DISCRETION THAT THE OFFICERS, WELL, NOT THAT THEY CAN HAVE, THEY'RE EITHER IN A RESTRAINT OR NOT, BUT IS THERE ANY INDICATION WHERE INDIVIDUALS SAY, HEY, I CAN'T AFFORD ONE, OR, HEY, I JUST, I DON'T HAVE, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? DO THEY GET ANY INDICATION FROM THE RESIDENTS OR THE PERSON DRIVING? DO YOU KNOW? YES, MA'AM. 
          WE, WE ACTUALLY DO, WE HEAR ALL KINDS OF, UH, EXPLANATIONS. 
          UH, I'M SURE YOU DO. 
          YEAH. 
          . 
          SO, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE GIVE THE OFFICERS THE DISCRETION TO EITHER MAKE THE ARREST, CALL SOMEONE ELSE OUT TO THE SCENE, UH, ISSUE THE CITATION, OR WARNING OR WARNING. 
          UM, WE OFFER WHATEVER SERVICES WE CAN. 
          SUBSTATIONS HAVE CHILD SEATS SOMETIMES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE TRY TO OFFER SERVICES WHENEVER WE CAN WHEN WE SEE THE, THAT THERE'S A NEED. 
          UH, BUT, UH, YOU CAN IMAGINE WE, WE HEAR JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. 
          UM, I'M SURE. 
          I'M SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, I THINK PART OF THE ISSUE TOO, WE GET A LOT OF CALLS ALL OVER AND IT'S SPEEDING. 
          THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE SPEEDING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SPEEDING IN MY SUBDIVISION, AND IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE SUBDIVISION, YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE THE ONES SPEEDING IN YOUR SUBDIVISION. 
          SO WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER AND 
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SELF, UH, POLICING AND MAKING SURE EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          AND THEN, UM, ALSO LOOKING AT WHATEVER TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES THAT WE CAN DO, EITHER WITH SPEED HUMPS OR, UH, THE ROUNDABOUTS OR OTHER, UM, ITEMS THAT WE CAN DO TO HELP LESSEN THE SPEEDING, UH, WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. 
          AND, UH, TO, TO THE, UM, ANOTHER THING, UH, WHAT IS, IT WAS ON HERE, WHERE WAS IT? YOU MENTIONED, OH, IT'S ON THE FIRST PAGE. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN, WHAT IS THE HIGHWAY INTERDICTION DETAIL YOU WANNA EXPLAIN IT, CHRIS? SO, HOW HIGHWAY INTERDICTION FOLKS ARE OUT THERE, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY MAKING TRAFFIC STOPS BASED ON, UM, SOME OF THE OTHER COMMON TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. 
          YOU SEE, UH, THEY'RE TRAINED TO LOOK FOR CERTAIN KEY ASPECTS TO, UH, INVOLVES, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT I, I COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT, UH, DRIVING HABITS, LICENSE PLATES, UH, CARGO. 
          SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THEY'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT ULTIMATELY THEY'RE LOOKING TO STUFF TAILLIGHTS THAT AREN'T WORKING. 
          SURE. 
          SO THEY'RE LOOKING FOR DRUGS AND, AND PEOPLE BEING TRAFFICKED. 
          OH, THAT TOO. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, AND THEN TWO, I GUESS MY COUNCIL, WELL, COUNCIL MEMBERS QUESTIONS. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY ON VISION ZERO. 
          UM, ART, REMIND ME, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, YOU DID ALL GIVE US THE BOOKLET OF THE INFORMATION, UH, ON VISION ZERO, JUST UPDATE. 
          AND I KNOW THAT THERE WERE SOME, UM, AREAS ON PLEASANTON ROAD THAT DID HAVE FATALITIES, UH, ACROSS THAT AREA. 
          AND I'LL GET TO THAT LATER AT A DIFFERENT TIME WITH YOU. 
          UM, BUT ON ROOSEVELT AVENUE, WHICH ON ROOSEVELT OR 2 81 SOUTH, WHICH IS SOUTH OF FOUR 10, A STATE HIGHWAY STILL, UM, THAT HAS HAD A FATALITY, AND THAT THE RESIDENTS ARE ASKING FOR SOME SORT OF MEASURES TO POOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. 
          IF THERE IS THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THE STATE IS LOOKING AT, I THINK THAT'S AN AREA WHERE WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH TXDOT. 
          TXDOT IS ALREADY PUTTING MONEY INTO THAT TO MAKING IMPROVEMENTS. 
          SO IF WE CAN GET MORE MONEY FROM THE 600 MILLION TO LOOK AT MORE SAFETY MEASURES THERE, LET'S LOOK AT MORE SAFETY MEASURES FOR PEDESTRIANS IN THAT STRETCH OF ROOSEVELT AVENUE. 
          AND I SAY THAT CHIEF, BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S A, IT'S A VERY INTERESTING, UH, MAKEUP SOUTH OF FOUR 10 ON ROOSEVELT, BECAUSE PART OF IT'S THE CITY, RIGHT NEXT DOOR IS THE COUNTY, AND IT'S A COUNTY, IT'S A STATE HIGHWAY. 
          SO WE HAVE TO ASK FOR COVERAGE FROM THE, THE CITY. 
          AND THEN THE RESIDENTS ARE LOOKING FOR COVERAGE TO STOP THE SPEEDING, THE SPEEDING TRUCKS, THE 18 WHEELERS THAT ARE CUTTING THROUGH THERE FROM THE CONSTABLES, FROM THE SHERIFF, AND FROM SS A P D. 
          SO I THINK THAT COORDINATION, UM, JUST IN THAT ONE IN PARTICULAR, AND THE COORDINATION IN OTHER SITES ALONG THE CITY THAT KIND OF FIND THEMSELVES IN THAT SAME SITUATION, UM, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THAT? OR WHAT, HOW CAN WE HELP WITH THAT COORDINATION AS WELL? BECAUSE I KNOW I GET CALLS FROM THE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE ASKING ME, HEY, CAN, I'M GONNA SEND OUT MY SHERIFF AND THE CO AND THE CONSTABLES OUT THERE CAN JUST TO HAVE A PRESENCE OUT THERE, MAYBE YOU SLOW PEOPLE DOWN. 
          CAN YOU TAKE OVER WITH THE, THE CITY? AND THEN THE SENATOR, UH, OUT THERE IS ALSO TRYING TO HELP PUTTING SOMETHING OUT THERE. 
          SO A COORDINATED EFFORT. 
          SO WHAT CAN WE DO? OR SHOULD WE DO SOMETHING MORE STRUCTURED WITH A COORDINATED EFFORT COUNCIL? WHAT I, OUR, OUR DEPLOYMENT, UH, CENTER IS PRETTY MUCH AROUND COMPLAINTS. 
          OKAY. 
          AND, AND DATA. 
          AND I, AND, UH, CAPTAIN BENAVIDES CAN PROBABLY ANSWER THIS. 
          I, I, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH YEAH. 
          COMPLAINTS IN THAT AREA, OR, UH, CONVERSATIONS WITH EITHER CONSTABLES OR SHERIFFS. 
          YEAH. 
          SO MAYBE, MAYBE CHRIS KNOWS. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I'M, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE ROOSEVELT BEING CALLED OUT TO THE ROOSEVELT AREA, BUT WE HAVE D O T OFFICERS THAT SPECIFICALLY, UM, TARGET, I SHOULDN'T SAY TARGET, THEY, THEY SPECIFICALLY LOOK FOR VIOLATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO 18 WHEELERS. 
          SO IF WE HAVE A COMPLAINT IN THAT AREA, WE'LL DEFINITELY SEND OUR D O T OFFICERS IN. 
          YEAH. 
          'CAUSE SOMEBODY DIED CROSSING THE STREET IN THAT AR IN THAT AREA. 
          UH, A COUPLE OF TI WELL ONCE AND THEN, UM, OTHER ACCIDENTS AND OTHER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HIT. 
          SO I KNOW WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE TOWN HALLS ON THAT. 
          AND I KNOW YOUR SAFE OFFICERS HAVE BA BEEN OUT THERE TO THESE TOWN HALLS. 
          SO I THINK, UM, IT'S A MATTER OF COMMUNICATION TO YOU ALL AND, UH, MAKING SURE THAT YOU ALL GET THIS INFORMATION AND WE CAN DO OUR COORDINATED EFFORT AS WELL. 
          SURE. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIR. 
          UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UH, JUST A QUICK REQUEST 
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FOR INFORMATION. 
          SLIDE THREE HAS, UH, YOUR CITATIONS AND WARNINGS, UH, FOR TWO YEARS. 
          WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO GET THAT FROM THE TIME OF THE INCEPTION OF, UH, VISION ZERO? SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN SLIDE SIX TALKS ABOUT YOUR, UM, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. 
          SO THE FIRST ONE IS ABOUT MOTORCYCLES IN THE IMAGE THAT YOU'RE SHOWING US TRAFFIC TIPS WITH SAN ANTONIO POLICE. 
          I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT'S ABOUT. 
          AND THEN TRAFFIC ALERT. 
          AND, AND THE REASON I'M ASKING CHIEF IS I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOMETHING THAT TALKS ABOUT LOOKING OUT FOR CYCLISTS, LOOKING OUT FOR SCOOTERS, AND LOOKING OUT FOR PEDESTRIANS. 
          SURE. 
          WE, WE'LL WORK WITH PIO O TO GET THAT DONE. 
          OH, EXCELLENT. 
          AND THEN, UM, MM-HMM. 
          . 
          YES, SIR. 
          I'LL JUST MENTION THROUGH, THROUGH THE OUTREACH FROM VISION ZERO PERSPECTIVE, WE, WE TOUCH ON, UH, BA AND SCOOTER SAFETY AS WELL. 
          AND THEN ALSO WE PARTNER WITH THE ALAMO AREA, M P O FOR THEIR STREET, UH, STREET SKILLS, UH, PROCESS AS WELL. 
          SO THERE IS SOME EDUCATIONAL WORK THAT'S ALREADY BEEN ONGOING. 
          I THINK THAT'S GREAT. 
          IT ALSO HAS A DIFFERENT IMPACT WHEN IT COMES FROM THESE GUYS. 
          UH, SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, THAT BADGE THAT THEY HAVE NO OFFENSE TO YOU GUYS, BUT, BUT IF I THINK THEY'RE GONNA, THEY'RE THE ENFORCERS. 
          SO, UM, I THINK IT, IT JUST SENDS, IT HELPS. 
          IT HELPS. 
          LET'S JUST SAY IT HELPS. 
          SO WE, WE'D LOVE TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          AND I'M GONNA ECHO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN EVIE'S COMMENTS. 
          UH, THERE IS, UH, SO MUCH WE HEAR, UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE DOOR TO DOOR ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE TOP THINGS, IF IT'S NOT MY ALLEY IS FLOODED, IT'S, UM, EVERYONE IS SPEEDING DOWN MY STREET, EVEN THOUGH IT'S THEM OR THEIR, OR THEIR NEIGHBORS. 
          AND, UH, CHIEF ART, UH, WE NEED YOUR HELP. 
          UH, WITH THAT, PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO WALK ON THEIR OWN STREET BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT THE CARS ARE GONNA KILL THEM. 
          SO WE HAVE, UH, SPEED HUMP REQUESTS, UH, LIKE CRAZY ALL THE TIME. 
          I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A PROGRAM FOR, UH, TRAFFIC CALMING. 
          UM, BUT IT'S NOT FAST ENOUGH AND IT'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY. 
          SO I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR A MOTION FOR A REQUEST OF SOME KIND OF SPEEDING MITIGATION, UH, PROGRAM THAT CAN COME BACK TO, TO COMMITTEE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PUT INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS. 
          I LOVE THAT. 
          MOTION TO MOTION TO SOMETHING. 
          YEAH. 
          MOTION TO THAT. 
          , CAN YOU FIND THE WORDS, MOTION TO CHAIRWOMAN, MOTION TO BRING SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR, UH, A STUDY ON, UH, TRAFFIC MITIGATION TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE QUESTION. 
          OKAY. 
          CHAIRWOMAN, WHAT I CAN SUGGEST IS, UM, I'LL HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH JEFF COYLE, UH, AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS COMMITTEE WITH SOME ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, COUNCILWOMAN , JUST A QUICK QUESTION. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          QUICK QUESTION. 
          DO YOU, DO WE HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY AS A CITY TO REDUCE SPEED LIMITS IN NEIGHBORHOODS FROM SAY, 30 TO 30? UH, 25, UH, COUNCILWOMAN. 
          SO BY STATE LAW, UH, THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT'S 30 MILES AN HOUR. 
          THERE IS, UH, AN ALLOWANCE IN THE, THE TEXAS STATE TRAFFIC CODE TO REDUCE IT TO 25. 
          UM, HOWEVER, UH, A COUPLE THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN AT FOR TWO LANE ROADS ONLY. 
          UM, THEN ANNUALLY THE CITY HAS TO SEND FORTH THE NUMBER OF CITATIONS AND, UH, TICKETS AND CRASHES THAT OCCUR ON THOSE STREETS. 
          SO IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, UM, IS REALLY RESOURCED. 
          AND ALL. 
          THE LAST THING I'LL MENTION IS WE DID PILOT THAT IN THE 20 13, 20 14 TIMEFRAME. 
          WE PICKED, UH, 10 NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND THE CITY AND WE SAW MIXED RESULTS. 
          WE, UH, WE PUT UP A 25 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT SIGN. 
          SOME LOCATIONS, SPEED WENT DOWN, SOME WENT UP. 
          UM, BUT WHAT THAT GOES TO SHOW US IS WE KNOW TO REALLY AFFECT HUMAN BEHAVIOR, YOU HAVE TO PHYSICALLY CHANGE THE ROADWAY. 
          SIGNS ALONE WON'T DO IT. 
          UM, SO THAT'S REALLY WHERE OUR TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM COMES IN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          I'M GONNA HAVE TO CHALLENGE THAT A LITTLE BIT. 
          IF I'M IN ALMOST PARK, OR AM I, I'M IN ALAMO HEIGHTS AND IT SAYS 25 MILES AN HOUR. 
          I DON'T SEE PEOPLE SPEEDING. 
          I'LL, I'LL TELL YOU WHY THEY DON'T SPEED IN VERY SMALL JURISDICTIONS BECAUSE THEY DON'T . 
          THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M ASKING FOR. 
          SHE, 'CAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE MUCH ELSE TO DO, TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU. 
          UH, THERE'S RED, VERY LITTLE OTHER TYPES OF ACTIVITY. 
          I MEAN, YOU KNOW THAT YOU DON'T SPEED GOING DOWN BROADWAY THROUGH, THROUGH ALAMO HEIGHTS. 
          YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SPEED GOING THROUGH TERRELL HILLS BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA GET A TICKET THAT COULD, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY FOCUS ON. 
          OH, OH, YOU MEAN THE POLICE OFFICERS OFFICER HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO? THE POLICE OFFICER. 
          YEAH. 
          , THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY FOCUS VERY, VERY, VERY HEAVILY ON TRAFFIC. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL I'M SURE THE RESIDENTS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, ALRIGHT, WELL WE LOOK FORWARD TO, TO SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND ALSO SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE THAT, UM, STATE FUNDING. 
          UH, JUST ONE QUESTION ON THAT. 
          OUR, UH, A FEW MONTHS AGO AT 
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THE M P O, WE ADOPTED A SAFETY, UM, GOAL OR A TARGET AND THERE WAS A DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL AND THE REST OF THE M P O. 
          WE THOUGHT IT WASN'T AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH, THEY SAID, LET'S PLAY IT SAFE AND NOT EXCEED THE STATE'S GOAL. 
          NOW THE STATE'S GOAL IS ZERO. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , SO IT SOUNDS LIKE OURS CAN BE A LOT MORE AGGRESSIVE. 
          UM, COULD YOU, UH, POSSIBLY, UH, ADVISE US ON HOW TO ADOPT A MORE AGGRESSIVE GOAL AT THE POLICY BOARD LEVEL? SURE. 
          SO I'LL, I'LL HAVE TO FACT CHECK MYSELF, BUT GENERALLY I BELIEVE THE, THE, IT'S A PERFORMANCE MEASURE RE REQUIREMENT NOW. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S ANNUALLY GOING TO BE REVISIT. 
          IT'S EITHER ANNUALLY OR BI-ANNUALLY THROUGH THE M P O AS PART OF THE LONG RANGE PLAN. 
          SO THERE WILL BE, UH, THERE WILL BE ACTION THAT WILL COME BACK TO, TO THE M P O FOR THAT. 
          SO, UM, LET ME FOLLOW UP AND GET BACK WITH YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU CHIEF VERY MUCH. 
          UH, THANKS A LOT EVERYBODY. 
          UH, JUST ONE LAST, UH, ONE QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT IS, UH, COUNCILMAN IZE IS HOSTING A THIRD TOWN HALL ON GUN SAFETY. 
          I'M INVITING, AND HE IS INVITING THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING TO ATTEND AND LISTEN. 
          UH, THAT WOULD BE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND JUST NOTICE IT BECAUSE OF OUR ATTENDANCE, WE MIGHT BE THERE. 
          AND IF, UH, WE COULD SEND AN INVITATION TO, UH, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 
          UM, THIS WILL BE ONE OF, UH, SEVERAL, UH, LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WE'LL BE, UM, PARTICIPATING IN AS A PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. 
          AND MARIA, IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD, CHAIR, CAN I ADD SOMETHING? YES, MA'AM. 
          ANOTHER, ANOTHER TOPIC I WAS THINKING ABOUT IF WE COULD HAVE, UM, BROUGHT TO THIS COMMITTEE IS AN UPDATE ON, UM, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEX TRAFFICKING AND A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN DOING RECENTLY. 
          UM, AND COL COLLABORATING WITH OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TOO. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO DO THAT. 
          THANK, UH, WE'RE GOOD. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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