Good afternoon, Mayor.

This is a warp session to help address uh answer questions with regards to standing trends, crime trends, and strategies to reducing crime.

And I am happy to turn it over to Chief Henderson to lead us in the presentation.

Thank you, City Manager.

Good afternoon, mayor, commissioners, city manager, deputy city managers, and chief of staff.

Appreciate the opportunity to be here to really uh discuss.

I think it's something that we haven't done in a while to really discuss kind of our staffing, how our staffing is deployed, um, kind of where we're at this year thus far with crime, and then also kind of what my vision is and where I want to head towards uh as far as our crime uh reduction strategy.

So um what you'll see it'll be a multifaceted approach.

So I'll go ahead and step into it.

So uh the objectives for today we'll talk about cost of service, staffing update, crime trends, and then like I said, the crime reduction strategy.

Uh so I'll start first with our citizen generated calls of service.

So most of the data you'll see here is from January 1 to May 31st of this year.

So the chart on the left shows that our calls for service are trending up.

So the 2026 were about 49,500 calls of service already this year, and those are citizen generated.

So this does not include self-initiated calls for service.

So this is when a citizen either calls 911 or calls a non-emergency line and request for an officer to either contact them or to respond to their address or location.

It's up 10% um since pre-COVID.

So and that's what we're noticing that it's trending up in that manner.

The chart to the right shows the patrol obligation by district.

Uh so you'll see starting from the left, central, east, west.

Um, the red um portion of the graph shows the percentage of time officers spend in those districts on citizen generated costs or service.

So in central, they're spending 20% of the time.

Um, in east, they spend 50% of their available time, and then west is 60% of their available time on citizen generated costs or service.

The green will be proactive.

Um, as you can see, downtown, they have a little bit more flexibility because they're um they're not necessarily focused on the costs or service coming in, they're focused on the level of activity.

If you look at the number of locations we have downtown that have a lot of people at events like Dayer Ballpark, Schuster Center, Oregon District, Levitt Pavilion.

So downtown staffing model is not just based on cost of service, it's based on some of those high visibility needs that are downtown.

East, um the the green is a little around 10%, it looks like for proactive time, and west is around the same.

And then the gray portion of the bar shows the time that officers spend on admin time.

So that's complete and report that's going to the fuel line or taking care of other administrative duties that are required.

Um, I can tell you at times that's probably the most difficult thing to track, just because sometimes some officers may take care of admin stuff while they're available for a call for service or in between calls where they're actually free.

So um, and when we're looking at this stuff uh at this data, because everything we have, this is based on actual data that our business analyst is able to pull from the CAD system, our computer aided dispatch system.

Um they're pulling the actual labor hour spent on each call or each call type, and that's how they're able to pull this information.

Best practices, um, the international county uh managers, uh city and county managers association um says that any time you're over that 60% threshold, you're essentially a reactive police department, or you're only reacting reactive in nature and not very proactive in nature.

And it's difficult at times when you're at that threshold to do some of the things that we need to do, like you know, participating in uh community engagement or non-enforcement events or attending community events, but at the same time, you know, I think all myself included, you know, we all try to make sure that uh we're always trying to do the best we can with what resources we have.

So then I'll move on to patrol staffing.

So I know there's been some discussion.

Um we've been on the 10-hour day schedule, I think since 2016-2017, um, which was a big change in how we previously deploy deployed our resource resources.

We were on eight-hour shifts, and we had three shifts in each district of eight-hour days.

So in the I think it was 2016-2017 is when we changed the 10-hour shifts, and we went to four reliefs in east and west district.

Um, for a short time, I think we had three reliefs downtown for 10 hour days, but then we transitioned to two 10-hour reliefs downtown to provide more visibility during the peak hours when there's a lot of people out and about.

So at the time that worked pre-COVID, um, that deployment strategy.

So we tried something different this year.

We switched from the four 10 hour reliefs to three 10 hour reliefs.

Um, what we um were hearing and seeing is that um officers felt that there was not basically the roll call sizes were not necessarily on a larger size.

So when officers are show up for the beginning of the shift, um, at times there would be only six officers sitting there.

Well, there were still officers on the street also, but at times it's one of those things is you only sometimes you only see what's right there next to you or beside you.

So um, and also to look at how can we kind of flatten some of our issues with paying overtime, with having to uh require people to come in to work over time and covering other gaps.

So we wanted to test to see if we could flatten that out some.

So we switched the three, 10 hour reliefs.

Um, so the top on the top left-hand corner that shows how many officers per relief per day a week at three reliefs.

So I'll start just walking you through this because this is a little busy.

I mean, it takes me a second to make sure I understand.

So, but uh so the top left um central, uh the number to the right of central is 30.

So that's the number of officers that are assigned to Central Patrol or Central Business District.

Uh relief one, um, that is going to be your uh your midnight shift, uh relief two is your day shift, and relief three is your evening shift.

So relief one on Sunday night, there's three officers working scheduled.

Um, but as you know, at times, I mean, this is if everyone shows up.

If someone takes off time, vacation leave um and uh or some other type of leave, those numbers at times will go down.

And what we work on is trying to set recommended staffing levels, and if we reach a critical level where we think that we need more bodies there for visibility or for responding to 911 calls for service, we'll pay overtime to fill those gaps.

Um so walking, just kind of stepping down.

I'll go to east, uh, the next section is east.

So there's 65 officers uh assigned there on the paper.

Um, at time this number fluctuates because we have a number of people that are uh injured or that are working in other assignments uh because of some of their uh other issues that are going on, and then at times those numbers fluctuate between east and west or other assignments.

Um so right now, when we pull this, that's the best number.

But I could tell you come June, come tomorrow night or Monday next week, those numbers will go up.

East will have an additional nine um uh nine, eight officers at it, and West will have an additional 17 officers at it.

So because we'll be graduating a class of 25.

So those numbers will increase come Monday.

Um so West has 74 officers, and you can see the roll call sizes for that day a week there.

And then when you go to the graph or the table below officers for reliefs, that shows the numbers that would have been sitting in roll calls if we were still on the four relief schedule.

So I can tell you there's no, there's really some schedules that are more efficient than others.

Uh, I can uh be open and honest, the four 10-hour day uh schedule is more efficient, but at the same time, is efficient always the best.

Sometimes is it about being more effective and making sure?

So uh this was a test phase.

Um, like I said, so we're evaluating um this.

We formed uh uh FOP president Cal Thomas uh in collaboration with him and uh assistant chief Johns led um met uh last week with uh uh labor side, labor group and some of our management side and look at our schedules, and that's gonna be a routine meeting where we're constantly reviewing this, but not only that, um, what my plan is to bring in some training uh for staffing analysis, staffing, how we come to these numbers, but uh just to show that what we're doing is based off of best practices, but I don't want to just I don't want them just to take our word for it for it.

I want them to hear from other folks that that do this type of work.

Um, and then I'll talk about the efficiency uh the efficiency um at the bottom right table.

So uh ideally we would like to be at 42% obligation per hour max.

That's so that's per hour.

We're not going above 42% time spent on a citizen generated call for service.

And I can tell you at times that's a struggle.

Um, when we're in our slower months, like January through March, um, you know, those are our slower um calls for service times.

We're getting closer to that, but we're still above that.

But I can tell you when we enter July, June, June, July, August, we start, you know, we're closer to 80 to 90 percent of obligation time per hour.

Sometimes we're actually hitting that 100%.

And ways we look to re to take some load off of the patrol is having our telephone reporting unit, having those folks in our real-time crime center um take some of those calls for service.

And then sometimes we'll have to call people in early just to try to stay on top of those calls for service.

Uh, but it's a balancing act.

So I'll go to that bottom right hand table and I can explain this in detail one-on-one later if it helps.

But so the East number of three 340 for and four hyphen 10, that's four release on a 10 hour day.

So to meet that 42% obligation rate today, we would need to add 340 lab extra labor hours to that week just for East Patrol.

So when you think about that, how many extra officers would that take to meet that?

And when you look west at the 410s, it's 887 hours of extra labor hours.

We would need to staff to be able to meet that 42% obligation rate.

And then 310s, um, you can see it does uh it's not as efficient when we go to three tenths east, but it's actually not that far off west of 907 versus 887.

And I can tell you originally we we received complaints from some of our officers about our our deployment redeployment strategy.

But what's weird is we were talking to some folks west and we weren't receiving that same feedback.

If you look, this data kind of shows that that there was not much of a change uh last when we changed from that uh four tens.

Just one thing I wanted, I mean, I think there is no doubt that the four relief is more effective because you're getting officers there in the right time.

But one issue we have with the force relief is officers were being held over more after work because of the smaller numbers, whereas on the three release, you have more people there, officers are held over uh at the end of their shift unless if you have a child at home that you have to get home to that was uh so you know it's a both.

I think four relief is more efficient, but like Chief said, we have some officers like the for relief and some like the three for various family reasons.

So citizen generated calls for service, just wanted to take a look just to show you kind of where we're at today for how we're trending.

Um priority four calls for service is our highest level.

And I could tell you so priority four, we have nine priority calls for service.

So anytime a citizen calls dispatch, the reason why dispatch is asking specific questions because they're looking for what call category that specific incident falls under, and then they're also looking for key indicators to decide is this a priority one where we need officers dispatched within two minutes running license iron, or is this something that could hold for an officer to call them on telephone and reporting unit, which would be our lower priority calls for service?

So um our party fours, and those are going to be our our car accidents with no injuries, um, are certain alarm calls.

Um, so there's there's uh I think missings uh where there's not suspicious uh circumstances.

I can tell you shots calls where because again, we we get a number of shots calls where someone calls, they're important to receive when we get that they're in a certain area, um, or if we think they came from here.

Um, so that's why, like if a citizen calls on when they hear shots fired, the dispatch is asking, did you hear anyone yelling and screaming?

Did you hear you know a car pulling away?

Did you hear what did you hear?

What did you see?

Because that will bump those calls up to a higher priority.

Um priority ones are going to be your a traffic accident with injuries, um, someone's shot or stabbed.

Um, party two is gonna be uh a little bit lower larger, but they're still those have to be dispatched within two minutes of uh dispatch receiving them uh to an available offer, and those are gonna be sorry about that.

Those are gonna be like domestic violence calls um where the suspects on scene and climate progress where we're trying to get officers there.

So, like I said, we're at 49,000 uh of those calls, and then we looked at top top call types.

So it's welfare checks, so those are calls where a family member may be calling in saying, Hey, can you check my family member?

I haven't heard from or situations like that.

Disorderly conduct is just what it says, or disorderly subject.

But you can see how we're trending there.

And then the top call type increases, we are seeing an increase compared to our five-year average, also in some of those call types, domestic violence.

But at the same time, I hate to say, is that always a bad thing?

Because that's domestic violence is one of those call types that are generally underreported.

So if people feel more comfortable calling us, sometimes so it's with some of this data, it's hard to say if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but um, but I I still think it's good that we're able to respond to those and and handle them in the best way possible.

Um, but West takes 50% of the calls, east 42%, and then um uh welfare checks is nine percent of the total calls here today.

So just looking at some highlights of some of our crime statistics.

Uh so we've already hit on the citizen generated calls for service homicide at the time we were at 15 at the end of May.

Um, we're now at 17 for the year, which were so we're up one versus last year.

Um, so we are up um a little bit there.

Um, our part one violent crime, which includes our uh homicide, um rape, um, robbery, ag robbery, um, aggravated assaults were up 13%.

So we've had 537 crimes.

And this is all compared to the five-year average, because I think that's it's a lot easier to look at trends when you're comparing it across because there's things that will cause, you know, kind of momentary spike.

So I think it's it's what we found it's a lot better to compare to those trends.

So we can tell if something is just a momentary spike or if this is a lasting trend.

And then uh what's important though, um, so starting in 2023, strangulation um became uh uh it's always been a crime to obviously, you know, if someone is strangled or um choked, um, but it was up to kind of the facts whether or not it was a misdemeanor or a felony.

A lot of times, if there was no relationship, it was classified under assault.

So some could be a misdemeanor, but depending on the severity, it could be a felony.

Well, now it's automatic anytime someone's choked or um strangled, that it's an automatic fail felony, it's an aggravated assault um category.

But we wanted to break those out.

So when you look at part one violent, and it says uh EXCL uh uh STRNG, so excluding strangulation, we're actually below our five-year average and part one violent when you take those numbers out.

We're down by four percent.

Um, and then you can look at the other numbers there.

Um I think what's important um some of these categories are driven by one or two crime types.

I can tell you part one property um is mainly driven by our motor vehicle theft.

Um, our part two violent is uh is mainly driven by our um menacing type crime.

Um, and then uh part two property is mainly driven by our, I believe our criminal damaging issues.

So when looking at uh violent and gun crime, this is just kind of highlighting that again.

So this actually breaks out the aggravated assault, the table on the top left uh with the red box shows the strangulation numbers, but above that, you'll see our aggravated assaults are uh 221 of those uh times this this year versus 211.

So we are up 5% there.

Uh we are down in agar robberies first to five-year average.

We're up slightly on the robbery, um, 16%.

Um, and then shooting in habitation, um, we're down 2% versus the five-year average.

Uh total gun crime, that's any crime involving a gun, we're down 13%.

Although, yeah, you know, obviously what's transpired over the last couple of weeks, you know, you know, again, I mean, it's yes, this is the stats, but I mean it's different sometimes than what you're actually seeing.

But this is what's categorized here.

And then what um our crime analyst also did that's uh we wanted to take a look at down at the bottom left is how many are domestic violence related and how many are non-domestic violence related.

So you can see that's why I think it's important to talk about some of our domestic related crime, because we're seeing an increase there, 0.4% um of our aggravated assaults are related to people that live together or have a child in common.

Um the other uh part aggravated assault non-DV, we're down 9%.

So those are more there still could be a connection, but obviously it's not um intimate connection.

And then wanted to take a look at hot spots just to show that you know, uh I always want to make sure I'm framing this correctly, uh, especially from folks that are not from our community or are not familiar with our community.

This does not affect every single neighborhood the same, and it it may not even affect the same block the same.

So I think it's important that that we all we we all realize that there's there's certain sections of our city that have or small sections of our city that have these um ongoing problems, and then looking at how can we look to solve those.

So um if you look uh the North Riverdale area where the cure violence global, uh felons with the future future, so there's multiple hot spots up in that area um along there.

Uh and then if you look in West Dayton uh generally has more violent crimes than Central East, um again, the North Main Corridor, Miami Chapel, Summit Square.

So that uh that um red area all the way to the left of your uh of the map there, that's gonna be Summit Square.

So we have ongoing issues.

We've we're always working with them.

We I we have access to the cameras, we have, but it's it's an ongoing challenge that we're it's we'll get kind of foothold and then management will change.

So a lot of you know, I'll I'll kind of touch on that here shortly too.

But the area that's growing or that has the yellow in the bottom um center of your or in West Dayton, that's gonna be the soda bass, that area.

And we know uh GDPM is investing a lot of money um to help you know, really um improve that area.

We did have a homicide there um recently, which is unfortunate.

Uh, but I I think at the same time, I think in the long run, I think some of that investment is going to help improve that.

Um, but you so you could take your time.

We've had some recent issues in um uh Northridge estates, uh, Eagle Ridge apartments.

Um, so that area is something that we're gonna be paying attention to in East Dayton.

Um, but um I think that's something you can obviously if you have any questions later, I'll be more than happy to answer.

And then looking at uh DV versus non-D on the next map, um, just kind of shows the difference.

There is some difference, um, but at the same time, some of it collapse also because the non-domestic DV, you can see that North Riverdale area uh really uh main street world.

And that's why you know, when it was in your conversation about you know where was the and that's why I think it's important to look at the data to understand it, because um well, the not saying that certain programs won't hurt, but is it the right one for DV related domestic violence related?

So I think that's why it's important to look at all the all of this information.

And then I wanted to talk about our demographics of our crime victims.

So these are individuals that call us report crime and or or victims of crime, and anytime our officers go out, um the um they they have to fill this information in um for our reporting.

Um so for all um uh violent crime, you know, the black black community members in our in our community, um, the much or the majority of our violent crime victims, 67 percent.

Um our black community, 87 percent are homicide uh of our victims are are black of our homicide victims, and of our ag assaults 66 percent, and then females make up the majority or 59 percent of the victims of violent crimes, and that's primary primarily due to uh domestic violence related crimes.

So then males make up a majority 53 percent of the victims for ag assaults.

So, you know, a lot of times you'll hear um and and I'll I'll say it, you know, disproportionate treatment.

Well, our victims of our community are disproportionately um black that are in our community.

So and what we find is a lot of times, um, you know, regardless of where you live or what usually if you're victimized, you're victimized by someone you associate with or connect to.

So, and that's what I think we have to pay attention to.

So, I'll show you some additional data here.

So you'll see homicide assaults there, and then also the age group.

I am you know it is good this year.

We have not uh had a single homicide victim under 18.

If you recall, we have 10, I think in 2024.

We saw a reduction in 2025, and in 2023, we had two under 18.

So we saw 23, 2, uh 24, 10, 25, 4.

So we have seen a decrease there, um, but still way too many um that our community is dealing with, and then looking at the violent crime victim demographics uh for domestic related versus non-domestic.

So that's there also.

So just let you take that in.

So now I'll move to the violent crime offender demorative demographics.

So this comes from our reporting from interviews that are arrested from the crimes that are reported to us, and that are described to us that are suspects.

So violent crime offenders basically that that first bullet point hits that, but uh it's skewed significantly male and and black as individuals that are committing crimes in these small pockets of our community.

So I think it's important to see this information because again, it just goes back, you know, usually the the victim of the crime uh likely knows their offender.

So this kind of correlates to that data.

And I have the next shows that from domestic related and non-domestic.

And then uh actually I wanted to take a look at I kind of jumped ahead of myself.

So this is a slide about the juveniles.

Um we wanted to take a look to see because I think one year we had 100 um youth that we arrested that had a firearm.

So we had uh you know under 18 years old carrying a firearm that our officers encountered uh with a firearm.

Um so um generally speaking, under 21, you should not possess the handgun.

So you know, this when we saw that big spike, you know, that's a challenge.

And and what's scary at times, you know, we've heard that sometimes it's easier to buy a gun than it is to buy food from somewhere.

So which is scary when you think about it.

And um not only that, when you look at you know development, you know, generally speaking, you're not fully developed until you're age 25.

So um, and you look at when there's conflict, how you respond to conflict.

So I think you know, any time we're dealing with these issues is making sure that how can we take a step back and yeah, this that is here, but what needs to be done with it to kind of and it's not it can't just fall on law enforcement, obviously.

It takes a lot more than us to solve some of these issues.

Um so as I previously previously stated in the table on the bottom, um, we've had zero um under the age of 18.

We have had five victims of robbery under 18, 36 victims of acsault, and then 21 victims um of strangulation.

And there has been an increase in that.

Um, we have not dug deeply into that yet to see what's driving the average, but that increase is alarm.

And then I think just a touch on property crime just to show how we're trending there.

So first the five-year average, we're down in residential broader DE theft from motor vehicle, motor vehicle theft, which was the huge challenge after that TikTok video came out.

Um, so uh we went years with seeing seven to eight hundred um vehicles stolen in our community.

And then we when that video came out, we jumped over to 2,000 vehicles stolen from our community.

And I I always like to point out that motor vehicles are being stolen, but they're being utilized in other violent crimes.

We've seen where they've been used for shooting habitations or ag robberies or homicides.

So at times it's that balancing act um of making sure that we're focused on trying to reduce those just for that simple fact because it's used as a mode of transport transportation, and then we are down in um the vandalism and criminal damaging.

So um we're constantly working with our state legislators.

Um I know our folks, uh, Lieutenant Brandy Bean uh was a big advocate.

Uh, we've had issues with uh digital key programming devices.

Um there's a brand called autel devices being utilized where basically someone's able to buy these things off Amazon, reprogram them, and still a vehicle without a key in the car.

So we're working with uh um representative Andrea White right now on legislation to address that.

Um it's it can be charged with criminal damaging, but it's harder when it's you don't have an actual crime that's occurred.

So we're working to try to strengthen that.

So it's past the House is currently in Senate and um Andy Sexner, our general counsel and detective Melissa Boys actually, I think last week on Wednesday went up and testified, gave proponent testimony on that.

So that's something we're always focused on too is what can we do with change of legislation.

And then this just kind of shows that heat map.

Um generally speaking, east has always southeast specifically has been uh kind of our more area for some of our property crime.

Um so that's been our focus, and you can see there's a location um that we'll be working closely with to try to reduce some of their property crimes on Wayne Avenue.

Um so I'll talk about our crime reduction strategy here shortly to kind of explain how we work on that.

Any questions as far or would it be best just to keep going?

Okay.

Excuse me, sir.

Join the learning mentioned there are no more questions that will be posed.

And if you have any questions you can pose in questions at the mission meeting, and then we will take that back and follow up with you after I'll get rolling to the basically our crime reduction strategy.

So it's a stratified reduction strategy.

What this means is each level is responsible for some type of activity within our and this what I like about this strategy, it really defines who's responsible for what and how we can have accountability at each level.

So starting at uh really, I would say the base of this is our officers.

So our officers are the ones that are out on the front line every day, responding to every single incident, any time of citizen calls.

So they're responsible for that initial response.

And then each step up, there's additional responsibility.

So for sergeants, you'll see significant significant or repeat incidents.

So anytime there's a shooting incident where someone's shot, or um, there's a SWAT call out or someone like a barricade type situation.

Sergeants have to respond, and they assume command of that scene.

So they provide direction to the officers.

Anytime we start looking at repeat incidents.

So if we like the the address on Wayne Avenue, so that will be assigned to a sergeant to look at to see, hey, we're having you know 35 incidents at this location.

What can we do to reduce this type of activity?

They still may deploy, utilize the officers to assign them to provide, you know, either directive patrol or certain tasks.

And then it moves up to a crime pattern.

We have crime analysts that are um that are contract staff, they're going through reading some of our most significant reports, like ag robbery, aggravated robberies, burglary reports, um, even our homicides reports, looking for any type of patterns that are occurring, and then they are putting out information to our detectives and to our officers.

And then those are also, depending on what the focus of the pattern is.

Um, it goes to the division leadership, and then they assign it, and they actually have to provide updates with what they're doing as far as did they provide directed patrol, did they provide foot patrol?

Um, did they make business contacts?

Um, have we pushed stuff out on social media to educate the community?

Because it's not always about enforcement, it's also looking at how we can uh partner with the community.

And then it goes all the way up to obviously offices, chief of police, live position, and I'll kind of go into details here that explains that.

So this spells out how the uh responsibilities are divided.

So my office uh will set you know overall goals and accountability.

Um, the majors and our police department, they overseed the long term uh problems uh strategy, like Brian when he was the major out east, you know, the heroin epidemic uh epidemic really started taking off.

So he was kind of he oversaw a lot of the the strategy deployed um when dealing with that.

Um Lieutenants oversee the short-term problem strategy, so they'll make sure that you know the crime patterns are signed out, that those are being followed up on.

Uh again, sergeants uh will make sure supervised initial significant incident response and deployment, and then our officers detectives you know, deal with the some of the immediate things at hand um that they're faced with.

And then our crime um analysts, um, they're responsible for uh identifying crime patterns and patterns and sharing that information.

And then we have community engagement officers, and their primary task is going out to neighborhood groups or uh to businesses providing education, um, as simple as providing bar safe training to a bar where we've received numerous complaints after the business closes closes about fights and things like that.

So going in there, providing that training.

Um, I can tell you an example of that training we did years ago.

We were having issues with um delivery drivers being robbed.

So we went out and to actual businesses and provided that training.

Um, and they're also very creative, like our safe exchange zones.

So pushing that information out on social media, so we have at our district offices locations so that someone's engaged in selling things online.

They they have a place where they can meet and make those type of exchanges.

And the uh the two uh uh I guess pictures on the right hand side just kind of spell out kind of what I like about the stratified approach is it's not a uh one size fits all.

Um stratified really incorporates all of our uh potential strategies within the uh the law enforcement community.

Um so you hear hot spots policing.

Well, hot spots policing may work for some things, but it may not work.

Um problem oriented policing.

Um that's where we're looking at seeing what best practice evidence base, um, what research is done, what other communities has already done to to target that type of situation and adding that to our response strategy and seeing how that um fits into um intelligence led.

That's looking at our repeat victims or repeat offenders, seeing how we focus on them.

Uh the and then cop stat, um, you heard a lot about this back in the mid-90s in New York.

That was a real big push about paying a lot of police departments prior to you know, NYPD in the mid 90s, they had all these numbers, but they did nothing with them.

So it's you know, utilizing crime stats similar to how we use information with uh dealing with financial issues.

Um, and then the types of problems that just kind of the bottom right just spells out just the uh delineation of those different type of problems, just so you can kind of see that from your own.

And then I'll move on.

Uh just one of the things that's kind of wrapped into this is also our SARAPOP process.

So it's it's scanning, so it's seeing what this basic, what what's the problem?

What's and then analyzing it?

Are we missing something?

What other partners out there?

What community members can be at the table to kind of help?

Um what data are we missing?

You know, what does what's uh one of the things that uh I could tell you that probably happened years ago is we would have a uh a burglary issue in a neighborhood, and we would just pay overtime for every shift, you know, for someone to stay in that that neighborhood.

But when you do the analysis, you show, well, for last month, we were only having this problem Tuesday night between 10 p.m.

and 3 a.m.

So that's when we should be deploying our resources to that neighborhood.

And then respond is what what type of responses are uh are we, how are we going to respond to that?

So it's it's not just enforcement, it's educating our community.

Like I said, providing training, um, crime prevention through environmental design.

A lot of crime reducing things to prevent crime can be done by some changing some environmental, like adding lighting, um trimming bushes back from a house.

Um and even with traffic issues, when you look at Gettysburg, and I always say this, uh, we're very fortunate since the traffic speed tables.

I know there's some folks in our community that don't like it.

We've had zero traffic fatalities on Gettysburg since those went in in June of 2022.

So I mean, it's looking at things like that.

So instead of us, yeah, so a lot of times we'll get called, we want you to come out here and write tickets, but is that always the best solution?

Is there something else?

Could a stop sign change some behavior?

Could putting, you know, we're re utilize photo enforcement, could putting a know your speed sign, so things like that.

So not just going out and saying we're gonna cite everyone that's that's uh violating us.

Let's look at how we can prevent it.

And then the bottom starts the enforcement, so directed patrol and bike control, um, at least for visibility.

Um, and then uh hot spot policing.

Uh we do uh violent uh reduction initiatives where we partner with the sheriff's office with Ohio Highway State Patrol.

So some of our hotspots where we've had spikes in our violent crime, we're spending some extra time there.

Uh we've partnered with our federal uh partners to look at federal prosecution for our teeth prolific offenders.

I know Brian has taken a lead um with some of those issues um over the years because we'll see people numerous times that have shot multiple people that are found possession of gun possessing a gun that are still out and that we know are committing crimes, or we know that may have committed a homicide, but we don't have enough evidence to prove it.

Um so uh that's why that's a good tool.

But again, is it always the best tool?

It's not.

And then I uh curfew is something that I know uh when I started 27 plus years ago, there was a big focus on curfew.

And you know, it's now there's additional conversations about that because of some issues we're starting to see in our community because between the hours of 11 p.m.

p.m.

and 5 a.m., you know, that's when we start having some of our uh vehicles being stolen a lot of times.

So and we'll catch individuals under 18.

So it's just like I think we have to make sure we're holding folks accountable because it has to be the guardian or uh parent that's also held accountable.

And then um technology.

Um obviously um license plate.

I know uh that's something that we're working through.

Um, I know it's a challenge, but those are things that help um our officers and it helps our detectives and they're investigating some of these serious crimes.

Um, because I can tell you what what could what could take days for a person to do can take minutes with technology.

And when you look at our staffing challenges, technology helps uh basically fill that gap.

Um we deploy bait devices.

We have a bike, we have other devices where we'll deploy because let's say downtown Dayton, we will have stuff that's stolen out of a remoter vehicle.

So there's at times we'll deploy bait device inside a vehicle and see if someone steals that.

So because likely if you're going around stealing, if you stole the bait device, you've probably stolen other things from other people.

So we'll work on those type of issues also.

And then what's on the horizon, Joan is a first responder.

That's something I want to make sure that we I think that's something that can help not just the police department, the fire department, um, and other departments in the city when we're especially when we're calling for service because it's able to respond out and observe what's going on to provide additional information to our officers that are responding.

Um, and that would be something that's integrated into our real-time crime center.

And then I've already spoken about the spoken about the legislative changes, but the stunt driving, we were the big proponent on that legislation in Cincinnati has been having problems recently.

And they've um they've actually uh addressed that utilizing our the state legislation, but they've actually I just heard recently they're looking at even enhancing that even more with some of their local legislation to address some things because they're still seeing some of that spike.

And then we're always seeking grants.

There's a grant um on that's on the agenda tonight for violent crime reduction where we're partnering partnering with Ohio State University to really look at some of our crime data, our violent crime data, and kind of identify some of our micro hot spots and things like that.

Nothing set in stone there because we were hoping to get more funding there.

So we have to work with them to really fine-tune um what that grant will cover.

And it will also cover some overtime dealing with some of our hotspot issues.

But then with all this, there has to be an assessment piece.

So we have a monthly crime problem solving meeting where that information is shared.

Um, we're reviewing it as uh the lieutenants and above and we're looking at our crime data and also what we're hearing from the community as far as assessment.

But just on the right, this is a continuous cycle.

If something's not working, we always have to be going back and looking to see what else we can do or what we need to change, what data we need or who we need at the table to address these issues.

So in closing, um, violent crime um remains one of our one of our department's top priorities.

Um we want to be data driven and evidence-based.

So looking to see what's out there, what's research-based, you know, the prime orient policing is a really a great um avenue for that to see how things have been addressed, see if it actually reduces, uh, has work to reduce issues.

And then we want to make sure we're out continuing to strengthen partnerships and uh you know with uh community businesses and our regional partners.

I presented to the Dayton Chamber, their executive board this morning.

Um I think it's important to continue to educate um as many people as possible about our challenges that we have, but also some of the the things that I think it's also good to show some of the opportunities we have also.

So it's not always doom and gloom, but some of the things that are going well for us in this community.

And then our current challenges, I think it's important to talk about.

Um so we have recently undertaken uh the responsibility for investigating animal cruelty complaints.

So this is something that was uh previously mainly handled by the animal resource center and um also somewhat by humane society.

Uh so we've had to pull an officer from patrol and assign them to a detective to start investigating uh these uh these complaints.

And uh based on the volume, it looks like we may have to add another.

Um so and this these are jobs that not necessarily a sworn officer has to do because they were previously um, I think professional staff if properly when they're properly trained, can do some of these investigations.

But not only that, it speaks to um something that's becoming a challenge for our agency, especially we don't have a place to take these animals to.

So we're having to partner with outside resources um and other you know kennels, and uh we have to our officers, we have the detective is transporting animals or dogs to the vet for care, and also um has to then transport them to a kennel or and then if it's something where it's an investigation where we have to maintain that dog for evidence, we have to find a kennel and store it, and that's coming out of our police budget at this time.

So this is something that was previously not in our budget, not our concern that we're now having to deal with.

So this is a challenge and something that we're continuing to have conversations with about, but I think it's important that the sure the community is educated about because we want to make sure you know we're doing it right also.

Um but at the same time, I are there legislative changes that are needed to, you know, especially when there's funding that's allocated for certain things dealing with dogs, um, but the city does not receive that.

So I think that's uh for conversations for future traffic fatalities.

I I spoke about you know Gettysburg.

We had 25 traffic fatalities last year.

Um previously the trend has been the majority of those were in West Dayton.

Those are starting to transition to East Dayton.

So it's trying to understand what's going on there.

We have we've had seven traffic fatalities this year.

Uh three of them have been motorcycles, and we've had some other series.

So that's something that you know, I'm gonna challenge our folks to we need to push some information out on that.

Well, wear your helmet, things like that, slow down.

Um, we are looking at photo enforcement.

We're in a process of moving transition to a new vendor where every school zone have a photo enforcement camera, and that that's operational during the school hours and outside of the school hours, and that will be citywide.

And then there will also be red light um photo enforcement cameras also within those school zones.

And that will be the first time we've had those in 11 years, because we're finding a lot of our traffic crashes are caused by either speed andor um uh red light.

But then also the other part of that is distracted dragging.

Um, and I could tell you our traffic services unit, uh, Lieutenant Tom Cope is who's the active major over that division.

Um there uh the his traffic services unit is focused on um when time allows grant funds allowed, going out and addressing some of those distracted driving issues.

And then you saw with the data yourself, the domestic related crimes.

Um major or assistant chief Johnson's now started the family justice center uh several years ago, but uh it's looking at ways how can we make sure that we're we're providing on the back end providing a service, but at the same time, you know, how can we prevent some of these crimes also from occurring?

So this is just a very small list of our challenges.

Um, but at the same time, um, it's good to have such a dedicated staff um that go in day out um in the community and serve.

So open it up for questions.

Thank you all.

Um questions, Commissioner Beckham.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh thank you, Chief and City Johns for uh very thorough and confidence and presentation.

I certainly would uh like us to continue doing some version of this thing's helpful uh to really understand what you all deal with.

Um I have a couple of questions, um I'm sure my colleagues will cover a number of these as well.

Um I'm curious over the summer, uh, as I was just attending neighborhood meetings, uh, one of the neighborhood I one of the neighbor meetings I attended, um there was an officer there from the Vermont Department who was speaking particularly about uh some version or variation of shot spotter uh coming back to the department.

Um I haven't really heard much about that since then.

Um so was curious um if if that is valid, where those conversations might be if the department is still pursuing some type of technology.

So that is on the table.

We we had grant funds allocated towards that, but again, um it's also where we spending our resources also.

So it's something that if there's a big push, that's something we can definitely bring to the table.

But what we've and but what was good why we wanted to look at bringing that back again because it was layered with license plate reader technologies and things like that.

So because what we found when we implemented north um the North Main Street corridor, it works.

Um it it actually got us, you know, to respond to uh unfortunately an individual ended up passing away, but where the original call came in first where we actually found them, we may not have found him to at least render aid and give them an opportunity to survive.

So shot spotter is uh or technology like that is valuable, but layered with license plate reader technology and things like that, so you know who actually is committing these crimes because what we find is you know, we'll I didn't talk about Niven because um that's you know national integrated ballistic information network where so if a casing is found and we submit that, we're able to link that to other crimes.

So if we get someone with that gun, we may be able to show that they committed this felony's assault or aggravated assault or this shooting and habitation.

So there's benefit, but I just think it requires more discussion.

Um I know earlier this year we should approved uh I think a second iteration or another phase of uh the cultural assessments that we were doing across the entire organization, key keys uh specific data key departments.

I'm just curious.

I know uh the one that we approved for dating police department was specific, obviously, to the data police department.

So I'm just curious uh where that work is as well.

So the cultural assessment part of the whole city.

So what was coinciding with that was a strategic plan, also.

So that's in the process of being rolled out.

Um so there's still a lot of work to be done to get that completely covered.

Gotcha.

Yeah, some some level of an update one with that strategic plan is rolled out, potentially even in uh subsequent presentations like this would be great.

Right, and I can tell you, I think just last week on Friday we met.

Is that right, Brian?

So because uh one of the things I wanted to make sure is that that what the measures of success is something that we can actually track or pay attention to.

So um a lot of work went into it from um you know, 40 plus officers on our department and supervisor frontlining folks that went into providing input.

So none of that was changed, but we wanted to change um as uh to make sure that we're able to see it were happening in that changing things.

Um really briefly, uh last two things.

Um I mean, you spoke heavily about trends, she said, and I'm just curious.

Uh you know, as of late, obviously, um, I think some of the high profile homicides that have happened in our city, uh, at least from what I've seen, right?

Is kind of sparked a conversation um about uh people that have been killed, and unfortunately um situations that have yet to really be um figured out or solved, or people brought to justice, whatever have you I'm just curious what what trends and what are you what are you all dealing with in terms of some of these situations where um the case is unsolved, right?

And and we have families and neighborhoods and communities still wanting uh some level of justice, and uh you know, we we had not unfortunately um found the perpetrator rather than the battles.

So I'm just curious on that.

Yeah, and the thing is is you know, one of my priorities is building trust.

Also, sometimes that goes back to that.

Um, because uh I could tell you the majority of the crimes, yeah, we saw them through technology, we saw them through forensic evidence, but a lot of times it takes that community member coming forward and saying, I saw this and this is who did it, because there's times where we have you know evidence, but we're missing that critical piece that we may know yes, this person did this and this person, but we take it to you know the uh prosecutor's office to examine it, and they may say, Hey, we need this, or we and we just can't get that.

Um, there's also um what I did not talk about, that's another challenge is technology.

Um, because I can tell you these these things they're a wealth of information, but sometimes they take years to get into.

So um there's a lot of um, so one of the things that we've done in the last month, I don't think we've selected the individuals, but we've actually posted internally for two um digital forensic detectives, because uh what we're finding is like in our homicides and and things like that, there's so much information that we need to make sure that we're we have someone that's trained up to do this type of stuff.

So um that's one of the things that the honest with you is 10-15 years ago, this is something we probably needed, but now we got to focus on that also because there's a lot with the number of just think how many uh videos uh people have doorbell cameras now, just cameras on their houses, all of this stuff takes time for someone to go out and collect, but then once we get it, it takes time for someone to physically go through it, and we're seeing more and more data, just more and more coming in.

So uh that's one of our challenges too.

And um we have to stay stay ahead of that.

And so I mean, basically, I mean what I what I gathered from that, it just sounds like in certain circumstances, the community's not coming forth, right?

And actually collaborating with you on some of these, some of these cases.

I mean, but I want to be careful with that too, because I think at times um I can tell you, let's talk about Marcy's law.

So one of the conversations I had about Marcy's law, it's about protecting crime victims.

Yet uh, so if someone files a you know, a report aggravated assault, their name can be redacted from the report.

But um, guess what?

When someone calls 911 and a dispatch records created by Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that those can't be redacted.

So those that audio is playing on the news media.

So if someone calls in with something and and there's a public records request, you know, I mean, let's face it.

I mean, people want to feel safe and secure too.

And and you know, we can't be everywhere.

So that's what I'm saying.

So I think there's some some other changes that are needed to help also.

So I don't want to put all the ones on, of course.

No, thank you for that.

Lastly, um I'm just curious what other potential legislative um avenues or or focuses might colleagues and IBM helped advocate for.

I know so much of what data is out dealing with, right?

Are uh state policies, right?

Um state jurisdiction and/or uh home rule type situations where things have to be changed for you all to do your jobs better.

Um so I'm just curious.

I don't know if some things were in there, but I saw who's uh the legislation that uh I do recall going to Columbus about.

Um, but is there anything in addition on the radar right now uh from a legislative standpoint?

You know, and I'll uh I'll speak to that point.

And I really, as far as legit legislation goes, I don't know how we do this, but I will say from being here for a long time, and especially the last 10 years, there are so many firearms on the streets now.

It's scary.

If you look at the number of firearms that we've recovered uh through arrest and what have you, especially they continue to increase, especially like the chief said, sometimes in the hands of juveniles who probably don't think things through having four kids and know very well, they don't think things through very often.

But if there was something we could do it, like around the whole whole firearm issue, what drives me insane sometimes is irresponsible, handgun owners, they will keep a gun in a motor vehicle, they will keep it unlocked, that gun gets stolen, that gun gets passed around our community from one person to the next, and eventually someone will get shot with that gun because the owner didn't take proper care and storing his firearm in a secure place.

But if there's something you could do around the whole firearm issue and uh the number of them in our streets and dating and other places, that would be amazing.

So I had no answer for that.

I wish I did.

No, I appreciate it.

The the only other one I will add is dealing with the rates of change with Agress Law, the to see what uh the to ensure that the language of there is clear enough, especially with who's responsible for storing uh dogs at that all.

She can just give any context because this is recently come on my radar.

I haven't admittedly done to understand how we got here.

Um, but if I had a last question, it would be you know, what what was the logic?

What was the train of thinking for putting this responsibility now on municipal law enforcement?

So I I think there was so there's a lot of positives that came out of this law.

So I don't I don't want to I want to make sure, but I think it's you know, it's one of those things I I think should at times should law enforcement be involved in these investigations, yes.

Does it need to be every time?

So I I think what we're also finding out though is that we may be unique and in this area.

So um, and I think we need to dig into that more also.

Um so I don't have all the answers.

Um we're working through it, but I think um having um some legislative support in that in that the avenue.

Any additional data you can provide us just as you all are now starting to do with these slides to be all just thank you.

Those are my questions.

Thank you.

Um thank you, Commissioner Beckham.

Commissioner Fairtout.

I'm looking at the clock, and so I'm gonna be mindful of time.

I'm gonna outline my questions.

I'm not gonna expect you to answer them all in this setting.

You can choose which one can be answered.

Um, but in the two by two, if you could bring some additional information be helpful.

I'm looking at page, and thank you for the presentation, and because I think this is a great start.

Um on page four, it says all schedules provide the same work hours.

Um what we're gonna see in the presentation is to call me by hour during the day.

So we have the shifted appointment, but we won't see the hours, and I'm curious, particularly when three and four of the deployment of officers shifted away from the most the highest call volume times.

So we increase officers to those time call times, or did they decrease?

And I I would just say there's some times where it may have increased, or sometimes where it may decrease, but it flattened out.

That's why we wanted to test this it's not something that's set in stone but that's why we're having more conversations the exact reason but you can get that overlap during the most uh the highest call volume so it seems to me if we we were back then we would reduce the overlap during the highest call volumes and so it'd be helpful to see that like I'm looking at um three each and in the west we got 17 officers working in midnight to wouldn't be off six 30 6 30 so from 3 a.m to 6 a.m you've got 17 officers out there curious what the um call volume is around that time that's really maybe it is with the flating but it'd be helpful to see that um looking at the deficiency model at the bottom slide four and looking at the obligation model and I'm curious what the data was in 2025 that suggested we should move officers into four officers in downtown because looking at both that deficiency model where there's no deficiency at central and you see over obligation in east and west and under um central it seems to be that I'd really be curious to see the data that justified making that change from east and west to the central we did add officers uh to uh downtown uh early 2026 uh for the midnight shift so we did have four so we had 26 before that we didn't have cover to downtown from like two to two or three o'clock in the morning till 7 a.m we added four officers to provide actual midnight coverage for 207.

Yeah I could tell you the so um I was involved in the previous discussion when it went from re-release to two release downtown and um you know a lot of it was due to visibility but we're you're also seeing is that there's more residential downtown now also so uh if you have a residential coupled at the the the incidents um like or large scale events like they are ballpark shooter center those things so there's more people out and about at times downtown so it's not just about calls of service at times it's about visibility or or the number of influx of folks into an area right um so that'd be helpful to see but even though if you look at the um the obligation the central is under obligated the east and west are overobligated is pair that up with the call volume we have data to justify if that degree but right now what you doesn't get from what I can see justified that decision um you got um calls for service but we don't have them looking at uh east west and central I think that'd be helpful particularly we're looking at these obligations how that matches that yeah we can provide all that data it's just a matter of how can we present it so that's easily I mean we have it broken down by I'm curious naturally speakers they go talk about unreported crime do we have any have we ever done that date of the how much unreported crime we have that research is uh that national crime victimization survey that data is usually supplied there's I'm not aware of any local jurisdiction jurisdictions that do do that research in the sense that the date would be all international yeah I don't know if it reports there but I know that report's published so that's something generally speaking that we refer to um for that type of kind of goes to your question earlier around um people not going forward to report incidents but also victims not coming forward for you can see and so within our data we are maybe missing significant yeah I mean I've read before of investigations for a long time where I've read recently where they believe only about 50% of all water crime is ever reported to the police which is astonishing.

So that that's the kind of data I was seeing on question like how how do we just our policing um I appreciate uh pressure Beckham talked to him interested in our data around how many crimes we solve does it seem like we invest a lot of resources into investigations and trying to solve it'd be interesting over time to see are we getting better at solving crime are we the same at solving crime as we put more resources there bring on new technology you know what are the pieces that are helping to solve crime and it's the resources in solving crime do they better be utilized and preventing crime so that's something I think the conversation for us to keep looking at sure if I could add back in 2022 we actually did do an adjustment uh we reduced I think our um investigations division um from uh I can't remember the exact number but I know it was reduced down to 69 total um so I think

And is the resources in solving crime to better be utilized in preventing crime?

So that's something that conversation for us to keep looking at.

Sure, if I could add back in 2022, we actually did do an adjustment.

Um we reduced, I think our um investigations division um from uh I can't remember an exact number, but I know it was reduced down to 69 total.

Um so I think it was close to 90.

So we've we've reduced our investigation staff and put them more out on the front lines.

Uh did we look at the data in terms of the number of crimes solved?

Did it reduce the number of crimes solved by taking people away, or are we the same or right?

We have that we can take a look at that information.

I'd asked in the email I had sent around the use that we have in terms of stop and risk and Terry stops, and I was curious if we increase those, decrease those, they've been the same over time.

What kind of instruction does command staff give on those tech or those techniques?

So I think going back to um really the way we address crime problems is not there's not one size that fits all.

So we're not, I know let's say NYPD back to the 2000s, you know, where they there was specific stock for us.

That's not something that wholly will um a lot of times what we don't know is at times officers may observe something, see something that we may not be aware of in those interactions that prompted them to at least make contact.

But in order to actually uh the detain someone, there has to be reasonable article suspicion that the person has committed a crime, so he's about to commit a crime, and then to pat them down, the officer has to be able to articulate that they believe the person was armed and dangerous.

Um they can't our officers cannot just go up to someone and just start, they would have to be able to articulate why they're doing that activity.

Right.

We have increased that we've had some social media posts, it seems like they had a you know the slew of them at one point.

It seemed like they fell into these categories.

Um is it just a coincidence that we saw the kind of higher incident of these social media, or was there a change in tactics within our so there's been no change of tactics.

Uh, we do track field interview arts, and then we also track calls or service that are designated as subject stops.

So um, I'm not aware of any there's been no focus from our office that there has to be um this type of activity, but again, our officers are all are out when time allows, providing proactive patrols um, you know, to address some of our either crime patterns or other issues.

So officers do have discretion, but they still have to follow our policies, they have to follow you know, they saw and all explaining.

So um, I think there were some high profile events.

Um that was that was something that that just occurred, but I can tell you there's no straight focus on just going out and stopping interesting people.

I thank you.

I appreciate that.

And last question, I appreciate the kind of the overall template of how we're going about crime prevention.

I didn't know if we could apply that to the increase and increase in the trend on gun violence, or I appreciate uh um John's talking about gun.

Like how does this template go that we're actively working to reduce guns on the street or violence in our neighborhoods?

Um responsibility that the poll officer have, the sergeants, the command staff, the chiefs.

And that's what's so good about the stratified model that the chief talked about.

It kind of spreads that accountability across all of our department, and it's really our entire community responsibility as well.

I mean, it's like those hotspots that you see, and that's how we deploy our officers to these hot spots.

If it's like uh we have crime patterns for like shootings, for example, we have a large number of shootings in a specific area, like five oaks, whatever.

We have sent officers to those areas to try to reduce those kind of violence incidents.

Thank you.

I mean, I think there's more that could be there, but it was something more.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, thank you, uh, Chief, uh, for this presentation, and thank you for this report.

Um, that's uh feels like it's very thorough, but I know that you'll be sizing it and working through any bugs or and and then providing more data to us because I really do appreciate the commission's questions about this.

I think we should be framing a lot of these decisions, these policy decisions um around the data.

And and I think that you know, as lay kind of professionals here, we want to kind of be able to understand that in a more much more meaningful way.

But I do appreciate this.

This is a great start.

Um the commissioner's uh point as well.

Um I'm interested in in seeing or knowing what what is the clearance rate for homicides at least so far this year.

So uh I don't have the numbers this year because there's a lot that goes into that.

Um, we're also looking at making sure our numbers are accurate from last year, but I can tell you historically they've been 60 plus percent.

So that's something that we're we're paying attention to.

I just um had a conversation um today about that.

So uh one of the strategies, and I think going back to so as far as our gun violence reduction strategy, we we have a strategy to reduce, but looking at uh best practices too, Columbus.

Um, for instance, they now have uh basically spun up what's called non-fatal shooting um uh teams.

So actually they're treating any non-fatal shooting like an actual full homicide.

Where I can tell you on a homicide, our detectives go out, they're spending, you know, they're working that until there's nothing else to work.

So we're I mean we're paying overtime our folks, I mean, they take this this type of work very serious um because they want to provide closure to the examinants.

So but at the same time, last year we had 92, non-fatal.

Well, the staffing that we have in our investigations, if we were to do that for all that, there's no way we could do that.

So it's looking at, but at the same time, you know, I've talked to uh major Malson who oversees our investigation division.

Is there a way we can bring that where it's looking at specific areas?

Or if we know we had a person that uh there was an incident where the individual shot within twice within two week period.

So it's just like, should we we we need to make sure we're putting all effort into that too?

Because likely there's be uh there's gonna be retaliatory shootings from those.

So um, yeah, so I I think it's important that uh we're paying attention to that.

That's something I'll take a closer look at as our great.

Well, kind of along that line then, um, is there an opportunity, or maybe you could tell me if there's a there are any barriers to um providing like a homicide um for violent crime um dashboard kind of indicates where we are um in relation to some of the I know that there's some sensitive information that probably couldn't be uh, but I just like to hear from you.

Is there an opportunity for like a public facing dashboard for where the citizens could actually track where we are in some of these cases?

Yeah, we're we're sharing through Lexus Nexus actually on our website.

There's a public crime map that has some of that data there, but it does not have the analysis.

And it's so nuanced when we close a report out, also.

So at times, if the detective does not clear correctly, it may not show correctly.

So it may actually be solved, but it's not not correctly.

So I I think some of it's also uh we have to make sure that our program is is accurate in tracking some of this.

So it's not something that we can't take a look at, but we are providing some of that crime data out there, which is not uh uh maybe the clearance rate information.

That's good.

Okay, we'll we can talk about that in the two by twos too.

So that'd be good.

Um he talked about traffic calming on Gettysburg and that there are zero accidents or zero uh on Gettysburg.

What is would you consider the same for Main Street, the traffic calming that we've done on uh main street?

Uh I have to dig into that.

I know it was so relatively new last time we took a took a look at it, but uh right off the top of my head, I can't answer that.

But that's something I know that that's being looked at and tracked.

Um, but don't have that right now.

Okay, that's good.

I would like to learn more about that.

But I can tell you, it did slow the traffic down from my recollection.

Sure.

I just would have stood on the data on something different for sure.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, but I just wondered if there are some kind of data points now that you would have.

And that I get it if you don't have those yet, but I would like to understand um I have a variety of uh kind of traffic calming tools are working out.

Uh and then finally, because I know we are very short, so I'm gonna stay time for the mayor and everybody.

Um, what are your thoughts on scaling the um the cure violence program across the city?

Um, especially based on the heat maps that you presented here today.

I mean, what's possible on an opportunity to do that?

I can tell you when we had initial conversations with Cure Violence, um, there they they state very early on, stick to the program, stick to the way it's been successful.

The way it's been successful is that there's different pockets that operate in different neighborhoods.

So if we're gonna stand up in another neighborhood, there needs to make sure that there's dedicated resources to that neighborhood.

Because if you start, if you take on too large of an area, um, it becomes overwhelming.

So, and then there's also hospital response models also, because I can tell you at times we'll respond to a hospital on a person shot and they'll tell us, you know, they won't tell us what occurred.

So it's you know, how do we so there's other facets that I think can be explored?

So the to do that.

But I I think we have to be careful about expanding too quickly.

Um at least unless we have other enough resources deployed that will stay in those areas.

Yeah.

So I'm gonna leave it right there and save time for my colleagues, but uh thank you for this.

Great, all great questions.

Can you just brief here?

First, I want to I'm glad my colleagues are talking about uh the importance of working with the state legislation right inspection, whatever we can do with that stuff.

Uh second uh I uh brought up just a little bit earlier, about a few years ago.

We we put more investigation staff pushing them outline, but I really am curious what that has looked like.

I don't I can't recall ever seeing the data about how that's like how that's fascinating.

So I'd like to see what that's done.

Uh and finally, uh this is something actually I talked to a city manager about uh just maybe a month ago, and I was glad to see that uh as one of your solutions, you have the prevention by environmental design.

We spent a long time about a decade ago working on that and had some good success.

And I know that uh bringing departments together to work on environmental design in the right way is is tough and sometimes expensive.

But boy, some of the results that we saw, uh the work that we did do and the work that was done in other cities really seemed promising.

So if there's a chance to look into that more, that's all I think in the French.

Okay, thank you.

Uh thank you to all and my colleagues, a lot of great questions.

Thank you, Chief, uh, deputy, John's uh really appreciate the the briefings name and to the entire command staff.

I have a number of questions, but I'm going to hold that until we go into our our two by two.

But I just I really do appreciate all of the data that you have provided, especially when the breakdown in front of uh citizens uh calls the patrol we staff.

Um remind me again very quickly, how many officers that you said that will after Monday, we have 15 more 25.

Excuse me, thank you.

Uh, how many more agents?

How many more offering in quests?

Eight beats and 17 west.

That's what you said.

Okay.

Um my question around that and get an understanding of the numbers is so what we're hearing on the ground, and I'm sure my colleagues can attest to it, is where are we in the more of a progressive means or mode of community police?

Like actually, we see good bike patrol more seeing more visibility in some of our our neighborhoods, i.e.

some of the areas of where there is great concern.

Um, and then that also leads to my next question.

Like, what are the strategies?

You laid out those hot hot spots.

What are the strategies?

What are we doing to make sure that we are again and we Mr.

Paul Lett and I had this conversation, right?

We know the police is responsive, but how do we collectively work together so that we're more proactive and there are some various different things that we're doing collectively so that uh we can reduce those those number of calls and then ultimately really targeting those hot spots.

Yeah, and I think you so the traditional in my mind, community policing where you have the same officers in the same beat, the same neighborhoods.

Yeah, and I want to be open and honest.

We need more cops.

So to be able to do that, because if not, our folks are going call to call the call.

Now we but at the same time, I don't want to use that as an excuse because we have a community services division that has community engagement officers where they should be spending that extra time.

And I've had a conversation with assistant Chief Johns about how can we make sure to have some bike patrols out in neighborhoods and things like that.

So um, so at the same time, I say that, but we know there's other competing priorities.

So but um to do it in a traditional sense where you can have the same people responding and everything.

We need that folks.

So help me understand from what if you can share it with me and looking at the numbers, the recruitment class, the 25.

We have actually have our 365, right?

We will actually be over our 365.

So that's not right.

No, that's right.

Okay, but that's not enough to deploy a community, a pure community based policing strategy because you need a lot more officers because you've got officers who are responding 60, 70% of the time to just calls.

And then you would need officers who are out into the neighborhoods responding, being walking the beat, doing the right.

So that's what you know.

We've looked at numbers, and I don't remember them, but we've talked about this before.

The needs are pretty high if we're gonna deploy something like north of 425 officers over our 365.

We could we have our two by I just want to do a deeper dive on that.

So I'm sure I'm trying to I understand completely, but what other maybe it is not that progressive model of the community policing, but how do we scale down to fit where we are with the 365 that we will seem to be at?

I believe it is the end of the summer or is the end of the year, we will be at our 365.

But we actually have one more officer can coming back.

I think we'll be at least 69 coming one day.

So and then we also have an academy class of 22 in right now, too.

And another class late at the start of 14 of them.

So we're we're going as far as our authorized staffing, we're doing a lot better than a lot of agencies around the state.

Congratulations.

Yeah, but a lot of agencies are still hundreds of officers off post-COVID.

And that number, mayor, understand is very fluctuating.

Understand because we have attrition going on constantly, we have injuries that happen.

We have so we are constantly going up and down.

We try to maintain an average of 365 officers per year.

Just real quick to answer your question as far as like the bike patrol, those crime hot spots for violent crime by end of June, Google CLC bike patrol folks in those hotspots.

And again, I don't I'm gonna, we have two minutes.

I mean, I just really want us to find a way to get a point, right?

And you all into this in your reading, how do we build the trust?

And we know that that is going to be something that is going to take time.

Um are there best practices?

Are there more conversations?

How do we really start?

I think to your to your point, right, which you just presented, is that we in those hot spots we would see the bike patrol, we would need more visibility for some of those areas.

Um, and so the question is are there other things that we can start putting into play that we deploy to help those us where there are individuals who are uh victims of crime where they in fact witness any crimes that they have that the reassurance one of safety, right?

Also gonna be, and then there is that level of trust that they know that chat's in mind took up to so yeah, I'll hold it for thank you.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you.