Okay, everyone, uh, let's call this work session to order.

Today is Friday, September 25th.

Uh, we are noticed today from 10 30 to 11 30 a.m.

Uh, this is the first of uh multiple items we have today.

Uh the topic for today is the uh uh basically just continued discussion that we started at the public safety committee on the independent review by 21 CP solutions um and use of policy use of force policy reform.

So uh we will do uh member introductions and then uh move through our our business.

Cameron Perez for Dio, Zach Johnson, Donald Handlin, Terry Bulland.

Anna Brawley, and uh I know we have uh member Scout in the room, I'll mention when she gets back.

Uh and then uh on the phone we have uh Mr.

Martinez.

Present.

Thank you.

Mr.

Gerger.

Sure, thank you.

And Ms.

Silvers, thank you.

And uh anyone else on the phone that I missed.

Okay, not seeing any right now.

Uh also joined in the room by our police chief who'll be presenting shortly.

Um, members of clerk's office, assembly council, members of the public, um, attorney, and uh mayor's office.

So with that, I will I think just kick it over to Chief Case.

Uh and I'll note also we do have a presentation, I believe it's online.

Um it's slightly updated from the one that was at the committee, so um, you may want to re-download it if you haven't already.

Thanks.

Go ahead, she case.

Thank you.

And uh uh before I start, Madam Sheriff, I'm gonna kind of leave uh leave it up to you just a little bit.

If I I know there's a lot of questions, and I know some of the report has been absorbed now, and certainly the PowerPoints have been out for a little while.

Uh would you prefer that I go through this PowerPoint or just start addressing the questions because I I feel like we're gonna have a lot of them and I don't want to take up time necessarily going through slides if we have 45 to 50 minutes of questions.

Good question.

I think um, and we do have an hour today and some other things after this.

So I think maybe we move through and then I'll just ask members' discretion a little bit.

Is it something specific to that slide before we move on, or is it a more general kind of question or comment?

And of course, folks on the phone, please feel free to text me or flag me down in the room.

Okay.

Uh so although this um update is is on the 21cp solution uh independent review of the the use of force policies and training for the Anchorage Police Department.

I think it's important to back up a little bit and look at it this with just a little bit of a wider lens.

Uh you know, we started working on things that are involved in this particular document, you know, two and a half years ago.

Uh and in so although there are a lot of policy recommendations that are in here, uh that's one of the reasons why a lot of the recommendations were implemented when we started receiving the drafts is some of them were being worked on and implemented prior to 21 CP getting involved.

And then obviously when they were involved and we're working with them throughout the course of approximately a year, uh we were adding those recommendations uh into our policy project that we already had going.

And then uh it's also important to note that you know the policy and training recommendations, they're they're one piece of a use of force project.

They're usually the easiest piece to look at and measure and determine whether or not they've been implemented.

But when it comes to use of force, there's uh just a lot of things outside of the scope of just a policy recommendation uh and as well as how we do training that impacts uh whether or not uh police use of force can be impacted out in the public.

So I'll kind of touch on those a little bit as we go, but just keep in mind this is a this is a pretty narrow focus on uh on a much larger picture.

Uh so to start with, I'll take you back to an update that I gave in June, June 11th, 2025.

Um if you recall, we had that 15-year OAS study that we started uh in the latter parts that were it was done at the end of 2024.

Uh at that point in time, uh it was an update on what recommendations that we had uh made within to ourselves and what kind of where we were at with those particular recommendations.

Uh and I and I I bring these up just so that you can see there's some consistency with what we're doing prior to 21 CP, as well as some of the recommendations that 21 CP came up with in their report as well.

Um that 15-year OAS study that we did that was completed in at the end of 2024, all of those 13 recommendations have been uh implemented uh and implemented prior to the report from 21 CP.

And then we also had the Chris Darcy report again in 2025 when I when I presented this information uh to this to the public health safety committee meeting.

Uh we had 11 recommendations.

They weren't all completed as of that particular time uh, but they uh they are all completed now and we're prior to 21 CP conducting the report.

And you can see even from the first bullet point there after the recommendations, that's a theme that we also saw on the 21cp report was enhanced training for for sergeants and lieutenants and things that they can learn and glean in training uh that will help them better put officers in positions to potentially reduce use of force.

So these are these are recommendations that uh we've been working on through several different sources uh throughout the course of the last two years.

Uh we also gave an update, or I gave an update on February 4th, 2026, and and we talked about all of the uh particular projects that we had been working on.

Uh we also provided um this is a current slide here of the recommendations of all the current updates that we had.

We're we're at approximately 230 recommendations in the last two and a half years.

Uh and we've updated or accomplished, implemented, if you will, 198 of those.

And it's also important to talk about real quick.