Councilmember Renata Miller has been noted as absent.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago is noted as absent.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

President.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Present.

Council President Pro Tem Call Me Young in a second.

Here.

Council President James Tate.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum.

Thank you.

We have a quorum, which means we're now back in session.

Uh colleagues, if we can note that we are at the uh quorum limit at this moment.

So we are locked in.

Uh please, please, please, unless you have an emergency.

I'll stick around so that we can continue these budget hearings.

And we will start uh the PM budget hearings with the police department.

Uh Chief Edison and team, please come on down.

Commissioner.

Good afternoon, Chief.

Thank you for being here and you and your team.

I don't know.

Do you have a PowerPoint that you all are gonna be running?

Yes, we do, Mr.

President.

I'm gonna make sure we set it up.

And you have anyone joining online?

I mean, y'all came deep in the room, so we we brought the whole team discussing.

I don't want any technical difficulties.

Understood, understood.

Okay, prepared.

I heard my tech man is he's here also in the back trying to get the PowerPoint up.

So Jackson.

We are been having some challenges as of late.

My team is uh going to assist him.

Let's see if we can get everything going.

Boom.

Floor is your chief.

To this honorable body, thank you for having us here today.

Um start out with um we'll switch to the next slide.

Um in recognition of Mayor Sheffield's Rise Higher Platform.

Uh the Detroit Police Department is proud to stand in alignment with Mayor Sheffield's Rise Higher Platform and Vision for Detroit.

Safe and just communities.

DPD will continue to evaluate existing programs and expand programs, services such as expansion of our mental health co-response unit.

I'm sorry, Chief.

I'm sorry.

Um can you remove that gentleman in the in the back, please?

He's distracting.

I just gave you one.

That's not a warrant.

I just did.

Bye.

That's another part of the law.

Run it up the chain, run it up the chain.

You may be released.

Thank you.

Sir, you may continue.

Thank you, sir.

Um, expansion of our mental health co-response unit.

Currently, um, it doesn't cover 24-7, and so we're moving to ensure that um we have access to 24-7 our residents when they call 911 for specialized officers with specialized training and with co-response, meaning that unit has a behavioral health specialist in the vehicle as well.

We anticipate benefits to include enhanced officer and resident safety, diversion from the justice system, reduce burdens on the health care system, operational efficiencies.

Furthermore, DPD will continue to collaborate with the Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety to make it the best, the best in the country while continuously striving to further reduce violence and property crime.

DPD is committed to serving with integrity, working strategically across the city and with our community partners on prevention, intervention, enforcement to ensure all Detroiters will feel safe where they live, work and play.

This is in alignment with Mayor Sheffield's RICE higher platform.

Um the Detroit Police Department's mission statement.

As you can see, the folks who picked this picture of me right here can caught me in a very, very happy happy moment.

Um I looked at, I was like, wow, and that's my walk of mile Wednesdays out.

Nothing makes me more happy than actually being out amongst the community, being able to circulate with the citizens of Detroit, which goes hand in hand with our mission to encourage thoughtful decision making and a strong sense of community responsibility through education, equity, empathy, professionalism, transparency, and policing standards properly informed by community input and civic leadership.

That's our mission.

That's what we stand for at the Detroit Police Department.

Detroit Police Department, our core values, characteristics, as you can see.

And community and policing, that forms the unbeatable team.

When I say community, it's all stakeholders.

So it's council, it's other law enforcement partners, it's our CVI, it's our radio patrol.

It's just the residents, it's every single person in the city of Detroit, whether you are business, have any ties here, you're visiting.

If you have the heart and the goal to make our city better, that's who we're catering to and working, and that's what helps us achieve our goals.

Now the next slide is our report card from year 2025.

I came before you all for the budget hearing then.

Um been chief for a little over a year and a half, somewhere around there now.

But when we look at 24, um, the numbers were continuously going down, but with 25, um, we had a record year when it comes when it came to um reduction in homicides, 165.

That's the lowest I've ever seen it, but of course that's not good enough.

Um, Council President, you stood with me at the press conference where we had everyone there.

Um, really a mark and and and showing other entities, law enforcement agencies how to do it because the DPD wasn't there alone taking credit or highlighting success.

It was there with everybody who had a hand in it.

Um, city council, and I say city council because you approve the budget.

You give me the resources that I need so I can ensure that the men and women of the Detroit Police Department have what they need.

Um, and I I have to also highlight my professional staff.

They're called civilians or have been called civilians, but they're really professional.

I mean, I have to say I have one of the most educated police departments in the country.

With our partnership with Cleary University, Wayne State University, the men and women of DPD have consistently went back and got their bachelor's degrees, their master's degrees there, um, MBAs.

And matter of fact, I'll invite counsel out to one of our graduations in May, and you will be astounded at how many DPD members are graduating.

It is absolutely amazing.

Um, and director Director Pertillo can talk a little bit more about that when we get to the HR side of the house.

Um, but in every category in 2021 for part one crimes, um, it was a reduction, and it stayed that way um throughout the year.

Uh of particular under the Sheffields administration, it's not just gonna be a focus on the violent crime, and we have been focusing on property crimes, but it's gonna be a particular focus this year on our our our retail fraud and other types of property crime that also affects Detroiters.

You know, we want you to understand and and and and know and feel that regardless of where you live, if you live in the city of Detroit, we care about your property as well.

Um so that's that's a highlight.

Motor vehicle theft in 2025 went down 23 percent.

Um, our larceny is 1.9 percent, and our carjackings, which is a particular um problematic crime when an individual takes your vehicle at gunpoint, um reduction of 45.8 percent.

And so we continuously push that down, and we will continue with that.

Next slide.

This is our org chart.

Um, the Detroit Police Department's organizational chart.

As you can see, it's a lot of different entities under the DPD, and we do have a ledger.

I don't know if folks can see it from here, but with the ledger, it shows um what each entity actually is because in the police department we use a lot of acronyms as well, but you're able to see that, and it's also posted online as well.

Next slide.

Uh gun violence reduction overview.

Um, being innovative, the strategies, technology, the partnerships, these are a few of the things that we highlight to show some of how we're actually reducing crime.

Um it's a lot of work being done by the men and women of DPD.

Good old-fashioned police work mixed with technology as well, but 2,932 investigative leads were generated using or putting gun shell casings into our national integration integrated ballistics information network, which we call NIBAN for short.

Basically, it traces the bullet, lets us know which gun the bullet was fired from, and it can and it can connect crime guns.

And so that gives us a lot of insight as to be able to be able to close cases.

And so we're one of the leading in the country.

And with shot spotter technology, oftentimes we'll get there, we'll find the shell casings.

We even had a little metal detector thing so that we get each and every shell casing, and we run each and every one of those through our NIBA system.

And so it's been instrumental in crime linkage analysis when it comes to guns and ultimately closing cases.

From that, we have had 256 arrests from shot spotter notifications.

But I want to highlight something else too, because we talk about the prevention aspect of it.

And we have seen where the number of um shots fired have started to go down in neighborhoods where we have shot spotter, but also it has a life-saving component of it as well.

We all we we know that sometimes residents don't call 911 when they hear gunshots.

Shot spotter alerts us whether 911 call is made or not.

But if you were injured as a result of a gun being fired in the city of Detroit, and nobody called 911, you know what could happen.

So from a life saving standpoint or providing aids by first aid by first responder.

I have in 2025 114 instances where our officers arrived at the scene and um provided emergency life saving aid to residents who were wounded by gunfire, and then ultimately getting them to the hospital.

So I gotta believe that that ultimately led to the save to saving some lives.

That started back at I believe 2015 with eight gas stations.

Today we have 1,088 green light locations in the city of Detroit.

Um switching to the next slide, personnel and recruiting.

I'm gonna hand this over to Director Petillo.

Good afternoon.

Um for our personnel and recruiting, um, give you so a couple of snapshots since 2023.

In 2023, we hired 335 officers, 2024, 293, 2025, 219.

Currently, we um for this year we've hired 44.

We want to put a class in on this coming Friday, somewhere between 25 and 30 more students.

Uh we average um about 97 to 98 percent staffed um for our diversity demographics.

This is as of March the 11th for our male um sworn, 73.5 females, 26.5, black, 55 percent white, 37.5, Hispanic, 5.9, and other populations 1.5.

And so, as you know, that we're we're constantly in the community, uh, we're constantly uh recruiting.

Uh we're at high schools, colleges, partnerships with um military academic um athletes.

Um we've been out to some of the city council and men and women, uh some of your events as well.

And then for our clearing um university, so we've graduated over 400 um since we since the inception of that program.

That's not including students that are enrolled right now.

Uh, that program uh is for sworn and their family members, so both can um obtain an education.

Um we do advertise it to our students that um our police candidates that are gonna enroll into the police when we do our orientation.

So we do talk about the clearing program.

Uh they can get they bring their credit from another institution, they'll take a look at that as well.

Um so we've had very great success with that program.

In addition, we have the Wayne State Leadership Program as well.

So a lot of us haven't gotten our master's degree or a DPD leadership certificate from uh for that.

And with the programs and with the programs that we offer, um, that's a great recruitment aspect of it as well.

Um, we actually hire at the age of 18, and so kids oftentimes thinking about going to college young men and women, you can come to the Detroit Police Department, and we have tuition reimbursement assistance, which will allow them to still get their education, and then um at a um greatly reduced rate.

And so we believe that you should be able to do the and you can become a Detroit police officer, and you can still get your higher education.

And I believe that that's a pretty good recruitment and also retention aspect of it as well.

And it's on site as well, so collaborative once a week they get together.

The next slide, um, I didn't get a chance to introduce my the folks all at the table with me, but of course, my office, Office of the Chief of Police, responsible for directing and controlling um resources and providing the maximum level of service to the public.

The Office of Support Services, that is Assistant Chief Ewing, and that is the business side of the House.

And so AC Ewing, um, if you can wave your hand, he's over there.

Um human resources risk management, disciplinary administration, office of workplace and community resilience, office of enforcement operations, assistant chief, first assistant chief Chubb Fitzgerald, Charles Fitzgerald, um, responsible for deployment of resources throughout the city personnel provide general police services, community, motorized foot patrol, enforcement of laws, ordinances statute, prevention of crime apprehension to offenders, community policing, um also our Metropolitan Division, Criminal Investigations Bureau, a lot of the specialized functions within the department, the bomb squad, etc.

And then um Assistant Chief Franklin Hayes, who is over the Office of Strategic and Policing, where you have the real-time crime center, our crime intel specialists falls up under Assistant Chief Hayes and working on the strategic aspect within the department.

Next slide.

Neverith Nazarko.

Thank you, Chief.

Uh Mr.

President, Honorable Council.

Uh you heard the Chief's priorities and uh accomplishments, as well as the uh director's uh Patillos personnel uh numbers.

Uh the chief uh believes that the uh budget as presented to you uh supports the activities of the police department.

Uh the total budget among all funds uh that we are asking this honorable body to approve is 4607 million dollars approximately and broken down uh 437 million uh is for salaries, wages and benefits, operating supplies 15.1 million dollars, professional and contractual services 8.7, capital equipment and outlays 3.1 million dollars, and other expenditures in the amount of uh 2.9 million dollars again for the total of uh 467 million dollars.

Uh what percentage of the budget those uh categories represent are on the uh right-hand side of the slide.

That uh, as uh everybody can guess is the salaries of wages and benefits, uh, it's uh 93.6 percent of the budget, and the rest are the operating expenses.

Next slide, please.

Police department operations is supported by five funds.

Uh the big one, the the uh most uh uh fund general fund is the uh the one that uh supports uh almost 95% of the operations, and uh uh general fund uh expenditures that are uh asked to be approved by uh by your honorable body are 447 million dollars, followed by the Homeland Security Grants Fund, as you know that is a new fund that came on the police side uh uh this uh fiscal year 2027 in the amount of eight hundred and seventeen thousand dollars, police grants fund in the amount of six point five, drug law enforcement fund uh less than a million dollars, eleven point four for two special revenue funds that uh namely are the toll fund and the uh E911 fund uh combined 11.4 million dollars.

So the total, as we indicated uh in the previous slide, is 467 million dollars across all five funds.

As far as the personnel and the support of the respective fund that supports it, the general fund uh of course has the bulk of uh supporting the personnel in the um uh 3,451 personnel uh in the recommended budget.

Uh one is supported by Homeland Security Fund, police grants fund uh are supporting 40 full-time employees and a part-time uh so half time, drug enforcement fund, seven uh employees and uh personnel, and then uh between the toll fund and E911, another 99 employees.

Uh one of the initiatives that is new on this uh to uh 2027 budget is a mental health corresponse uh for sworn training uh in the amount of 291,000 dollars, uh dollars that as you are very well are is slated to train our mental health correspondence team for their activities and to be up to date with the all uh ongoings in the mental health field.

With uh that uh as I uh indicated before uh we're here to present uh as you heard the budget of the high level overview, but more importantly to listen to uh your uh uh questions and concerns and the public as well.

Chief.

Um at that point we're open for questions.

All right, thank you so much, and we will start off with uh member waters.

Okay.

Thank you, thank you, Mr.

President.

Um my questions are really really quick.

Um just tell me a little bit about your focus to recruit um Detroit residents to become police officers.

That is a top focus, and so that is the reason that um our recruitment officers that work recruiting um the team that we even select, um, they are um diverse and they look like members of the community, and we send them all into the community, and we partner with all community stakeholders.

I'm talking about the churches, I'm talking about um colleges, Wayne County Community College.

We are um at the high schools, and um we have our various programs where um inside the schools and through our our our PAL, our explorers being able to break down the stigma so that Detroit's become interested in being um police officers.

One of the things that we've done well with compared to most departments, and when I'm out and about um talking to other chiefs, they're really amazed at the fact that we have been able to um keep our recruiting numbers up.

Um we're at 97 percent right now when it comes to being um fully staffed, so we hover between 97, 98, 99 percent.

And but our effort is really on recruiting um Detroiters.

The the what percentage are we at right now for Detroiters?

Do you know?

Where are we for those who actually live in the city?

So I don't have the numbers for actually how many we recruit.

Um, but if you're asking for the police officers that are the um Detroit residents, I do have that number, and that number is for Detroiters, we have 593 of the 262 number of the 2600.

Okay.

And in all transparency, um, you know, oftentimes that other industries have had the same experiences.

Um you can recruit Detroiters, and as salaries go up, sometimes they end up picking other places to live.

That is true.

And and so, you know, I look at the the demographic and really proud of the fact in working on it, you know, that when you look at our officers, do they represent the racial makeup of our city?

And so I know we're hovering like 87 when um 86 percent African American, somewhere around there when it comes to the city of Detroit's population, and with DPD, um we're at 55 percent African American, roughly 35 percent um white, and um you know what would reflect back on the numbers, and then the other breaks down into other categories.

But we work very, very hard to ensure that um when you see a Detroit police officer, it's reflective of actually um the residents of the city of Detroit.

All right, I I I wanted to bring that up because you know it it does matter when officers are sensitive and they understand the community a little a little little bit better.

You know, it it actually helps.

But um, I just have one other quick little question.

It's a pet peeve of mine and of many of the residents here, the private tow trucks.

Can you help us with that?

Because you know what they do, Chief.

They run around through the communities, they they tow cars.

Sometimes, like if you go into some of these little little areas, um, they just go in and tow the car.

A friend of mine, I know it happened to her, she was just on loading her groceries right in front of her own her own uh unit, right?

And she came back out, her car was gone, just gone, and they they they told her car and it cost her about six seventy-five to get her car back, and it has happened to many people, and sometimes when you ask these the management companies at some of these places, they say, hey, we didn't give them permission to come in and told the car.

So I don't know why it's happening, but I gotta judge who's a big offender of it, and that's gouchy.

I I've heard so many things about them.

I mean, what can you help us do about that?

Because it caught it's costing residents a lot of money.

And I and I just don't like that.

I mean, if I could throw them all out, I would.

Um through the chair, um, council member waters is regulated by the state.

The private property tours, and so um I know that you were a state legislator.

Yes, but if you had the management company said they didn't invite them in, I want to know how we can prevent some of that stuff.

I mean I would be willing to work with you and um you know, utilizing the power of my seat and working with you and the power of your seat in this council body talking to some of our state legislatures because it it's uh um it is a problem.

Yeah, and um definitely um some things that occurs in that toll world um is very very nefarious.

And um I welcome working with you.

We can have a a single purpose meeting to really come up with some strategies to give Detroit a some relief.

But definitely we're gonna have to change some state laws.

Yeah, okay.

Well, I'm willing to help do that.

And so you know, I love going up there telling them what we need.

Call on them.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, uh Waters.

Chief, I know uh we received the mayor's EOP that indicated that one of the areas was the Homeland Security.

I raised the issue, and you may have heard about it, raised the issue of the name Homeland Security, because our Homeland Security does something totally different than what uh folks who see Homeland Security roaming around our communities, and I was I'll not editorialized.

Uh roaming around our communities at this moment doing something a little bit different.

Can you describe to the those who are watching right now?

What is the role, responsibility, the function of our Detroit Homeland Security that's under DPD?

Emergency preparedness and response to manage critical incidents.

And um if you reflect back to last February when we had that massive flood on the southwest side of Detroit, um that's the type of thing that our homeland security responds to to coordinate all city resources, all departments to um be that unified command for evaluation of residents, making sure that they get the resources that they need.

Um that's the purpose is for a large-scale emergency response.

And from that lesson, um Director Kincaid uh with all water main brakes because we all had PTSD because I didn't know a water main break could do what it did, but that was a 55-inch main.

Um he gets a notification on every water main break in the city of Detroit.

I don't care if it's you know a a little trickle and and his team there they're working in coordination with the um Detroit Water and Sewage Department, Gleewood, etc.

to ensure that the resources are there quickly in this court need and fire EMS, all response that need to be appropriate, whether small scale or large scale, to um ensure that it can be prevented where it can be or mitigated when it starts to get out of control, and um that we minimize law of life, but in short preparedness all the time so that we're ready and um response.

Thank you.

And and I bring that up because we have the EOP that's coming that has come before us, and thankfully um uh IOS under uh Chairwoman uh Callaway has already had the public hearing, and now it's time for us to send back our uh recommendations of any changes.

And I absolutely am looking to change the name of Homeland Security.

I understand that we do receive Homeland Security dollars, um, which may be a bit problematic based upon uh the name, uh, but there should be some adjustment.

There should be some some level of adjustment to that particular name of that entity.

And I'm and I say that because we have uh emergency alert systems that we're asking people to sign up to.

And uh most folks right now are not, I'm sure, and I I'm not asking for a um uh an audit, if you will, today, right now at this moment, but I'm I'm certain that the numbers have dropped of folks who are looking to uh sign up to any program that uh homeland security is operating based upon what they see around this nation, even though we do something completely different, it's about emergency preparedness.

So I I bring that up as well, colleagues.

We'll be sending out a memo to everyone to submit your uh changes that you're looking in the EOP to LPD uh for a resolution.

Uh we have until the 7th to get those changes uh to the administration, otherwise everything we see goes through with no issue whatsoever.

But that's one you're gonna be seeing for certain.

So there will be a positive.

Oh, I'm no, I'm no, we gotta say we gotta cycle through.

We gotta cycle.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am.

Um that that absolutely is something that I'm gonna be looking to see.

Uh change was already submitted to uh LPD and Mr.

Whitaker.

Um so that's one thing.

Wanted to put that on the record what they actually do for the public who's watching, uh, so that they know that it's different when they see uh our homeland security reaching out to them asking them to participate in our programs.

Uh, my second question is regarding CVI.

I think they do a great job of had a wonderful relationship with many of these organizations before they came under the umbrella of the official CVI, they've just been out there plugging away doing the work.

Um the question I have though is how do we determine when we see these historic numbers, when you see these numbers that are dropping, and I know it's a collaboration, you all at the police department do a tremendous job, the communities doing their thing, you know, uh, mom and pop in the neighborhood.

Um, but then we also have our CVI organizations, so it's multi-layered.

How do we know that the drops that we see in a neighborhood?

If we're talking about you know, reduction of 10%, 20%, 50%, 100%.

How do we attribute those numbers to the CVI organizations?

It could be, and I've said this in the past, it could be that the shooter got shot himself and now he's off the street.

It could be the shooter moved somewhere because it was too hot, so now he's not or they are not in that space.

Could be the shooters in jail, locked up, um, now is no longer able to come out and victimize.

How do we determine if the CVI, the the level of uh impact that the CVI groups had to reducing those numbers?

It's one thing that we can draw uh uh a direct correlation between I stopped X you know this person from doing this, and here's some evidence.

But some of it is a little bit more cloudy than that.

It's it's it's it's preventative work, and it's hard to show um, it's hard to draw correlations to preventative work uh all the time.

So talk to us about how we're we're outside of the formula that, or maybe you can talk about the formula, but I'm I'm curious to know how are we um how are we so certain that the drops that we have uh when we see the CVI organizations receive the additional funding, how are we certain that it's is because of them?

Well, council president, thank you for that question.

And as we created and architect the program, that was always the thing.

How do you measure it?

And how do you attribute their work to them?

And so nationally, um a lot of cities have struggled with that.

Um when I was a deputy mayor, I had the opportunity and it had 27 years of law enforcement at the time to say that hey, when we create a CVI program for the city of Detroit, I want to have some real hardcore metrics where we're able to distinguish CVI and what they do versus whether it was police, whether it was technology and in and how um and so we did a five-year look back of hot spots, and I only looked at two categories because if you look at every category, it can get murky.

So it was only two categories, and we looked at the most violent of crime, and that was somebody getting shot, um a homicide of so homicide and um non-fatal shootings.

And when you do a five-year look back, what we saw was that regardless of what the police had did, whether it was FBI, ETF, all of every operation restore order, whatever we called it, and whenever we attack that area, it was a theory that okay, it will be a displacement, like we can move the crime out.

When you looked at the data, the crime didn't move, it just stayed right there.

So what I came on 30 years ago is a rookie police officer over on the east side in our area called 9-5.

It was hot then, and throughout my whole career, it had been hot.

So I said, what if, what if, based off the hot spots, these CVI groups, they have to go there.

And so we give them an area and put them there, and if something changed, then that would be the variable.

But then you will say, what is crime is going down across the country, so it's a crime trend or it's going down or going up.

Now you look at the citywide trend.

What is police?

What is the collaboration?

What is everything else doing?

What is um um green light?

What is uh license plate reader, all this other stuff.

So that's spread throughout the city.

So our CVI groups, they have to beat the citywide trend.

So if the citywide trend is down um 30%, let's just say it's down 30%, then they have to beat that 30% by an additional 10% or 20%.

Well, some of our CBIs in the most violent of the most violent areas between three and five square miles, roughly about 4.5 square miles.

Um some of them consistently beat the citywide trends, some by 70%, um, um 75%.

Now, everyone every quarter didn't do that, but we've had some consistent results from like Force Detroit, um, and over on the east side, I've never in those hotspot areas seen crime down this low.

And it's been in those areas, and so if you got a gang war going on, and I never mentioned the gang's names, but I've seen them actually go in there and inspire these young folks to get them to stop shooting at each other.

And so it's it's in my opinion, um, based off the data.

The the numbers have shown that you know it the model is working and it has contributed to the overall reduction in crime in the city of Detroit.

Now, is it the end all?

Absolutely not.

Does it need to evolve?

Absolutely, we have to do more.

I always say, I got an iPhone, but ain't nobody in this room has an iPhone um two or three because it constantly evolves, just like CVI, we'll add additional layers and they have to evolve as well, just like law enforcement has to evolve.

But um, this count, this council, with what you've given this department, we have been able to do some amazing things.

And so when we comstat, we look at the crime and we put the cops where it is, and we do all our smart policing stuff.

What my commanders and captains who don't have CVI say, when I'm on them about lore and crime, they say, Well, we'd like to get us a C VI group.

So because the whole city doesn't have CVI, it doesn't have a CBI group.

But um my commanders, my captains, at first, I don't think that they were true believers.

You know, when you introduce something new, it was like, how is this really gonna work?

How do we know?

But based off of the relationship, the sharing of information, um, just being able to call them in with them helping, they have really stepped up.

And I would say that we have the best CBI model in the country.

And even though we have that, we're not going to rest on that.

We're gonna continue to do more, and we still have ceasefire also, which is gun violence intervention.

It's a different model, but they're right there the um in the mix as well.

So, what does that evolution look like?

I mean, we're expanding um and we've expanded thus far.

What does the evolution look like on the part of the CBI?

And and again, I don't want to take anything away from them because I think they do great work.

I've been out there with them uh and have uh been honored to be awarded by some of them as well, side by side.

But again, how how how many times have we taken to the fact that maybe the folks who are doing the crime got arrested or killed themselves?

Well, it's you can you can say you know, um, council president, we're catching folks.

The Detroit Police Department, we're great at identifying and capturing and taking those individuals out, but it's always somebody to take their place.

The CVI group gets to the whole household.

And so the little brother, the little cousin, the little other one that's willing to come right up behind them, they'll take it out.

When when I say take it out, they're they're the they're they're mentors, you provide wraparound services, you deal with that trauma so that they don't become the next shooter, that they don't become the next violent person, and so they're in those neighborhoods, they know who they are.

It's not a lot, it's one to two percent of the population that's driving the violence, but it's a walking crime wave.

If you don't stop and get apprehend or inspire and get the individual to stop doing that, then they continue and you get more victims, and victims today become shooters tomorrow.

That's what that's what they're doing.

Um this past summer they started a CBI basketball league, and you know, invite any of the council members out there.

I know council member waters came out.

Um those young people, they absolutely had the right population, and it taught them how to work together, conflict resolution, and then when they're on the street, they're not as quickly to they're not as quick to attack other members, and it grew.

Um because of that, PAL now, our PAL league, we're gonna have basketball um leagues where it captures the rest of the city so that we keep our young people occupied and inspiring them and providing mentors and coaches in their life.

We're gonna continue on with that, also with Grove Detroit Young Talent.

Our CBI groups are connected directly into them so that some of the young individuals that are most at risk, we're gonna end up getting them um summer employment, giving them something to do over the summer.

And so things of that nature where you continuously engage, moving also into the juvenile um detention facilities.

That's another aspect where our CBI groups are doing tremendous work.

It's not just on the street so the ball from just being on the street.

Now we're partnering and working with Wayne County as well.

And for a shout out, um, CEO Evans has been phenomenal where we've started it and implemented our CBI group in the city of Detroit, but the county has an aspect of CBI now as well.

And then we really pushed and and worked with the state of Michigan to get the public safety trust fund passed where they earmarked money for CVI and also for the schools.

So considering where the city of Detroit started with our CBI, how the state of Michigan came online with their office of violence prevention, and they pushed and funded CBI.

They actually looked at the Detroit model when they built the state model.

So once again, I thank this council for believing in it, for seeding it, and now we're watching it grow, but we're not done.

Thank you.

And the first council member you heard talk about it.

So I'm just saying.

Yes, yeah, yeah, you you you um were the chair of the gun violence prevention task force.

Um you have been there.

I didn't say it for any kudos.

I'm just gonna go.

No, no, but you shout you shout out to everybody else.

I want to shout out too.

That's all that's all I have to do.

Yep.

Yeah, you and you.

You you you were there, you were there um every year, first day of school before it invited me out, and and I didn't even make everyone.

So, but you you were there.

I appreciate you, Chief.

That's uh thank you.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I don't want to burst your bubble, but um I have some concerns about the CBI groups in my area, but we'll talk about those another time.

Um I do want to talk to you first.

I want to say thank you for you and your team and some of the police commissioners for sitting down with a constituent to address the missing persons uh process and how DPD uh goes through that process to provide support um for loved ones who has um reported a family member that is missing.

So I know we had a really good conversation.

You all took your time to explain what transpired um that really helped her.

I want to be sure that we continue the conversation just to make sure we can improve our internal processes as best as possible because that is a very difficult and challenging time that residents go through when um a loved one is missing.

Um so I do want to talk to you about.

I have a number of different questions.

I'm going to send most of them to you, and I'm in my head trying to figure out which two questions to ask you.

Um but the first one I want to talk about is ShotSpotter.

Um, because there are some police commissioners who sent over an email who aren't supportive of ShotSpotter.

Um I know it was a very close vote when it was approved.

Um so can you talk about how um Shot Spider is going?

And I know that the contract expires in June.

Um, and so as you consider whether or not to continue with the program, talk about um what you use to measure the program's effectiveness.

Um through the chair, council member Johnson, yeah, ShotSpotter is going exceptionally well.

Um for residents that don't have shot spotter in their neighborhood.

Um I hear from those residents like why don't we have shot spotter?

We want shot spotter earlier in the presentation.

Um, and I I don't like highlighting necessarily because I don't measure my success based off of arrests because an arrest is in my opinion is um that's the last resort.

But with our shot spotter in 2025, um those are instances oftentimes where citizens are not calling 911.

Um our officers are getting to a shot spotter run roughly between within two minutes because they get notified instantly when the shot goes off.

And so you don't have to wait for the 911 call.

Um they're notified, it's not a uh a delay with the call taker, NQ officers are there very, very quickly.

Um as a result, like I said, they it was 256 arrests last year from shot spotter notifications, and individuals' lives have been saved as well.

Um, oftentimes nobody called 911 and I got somebody bleeding out.

And the officers are there and able to render aid and get that person to the hospital.

But for shot spotter alert, um, we probably would have um a higher homicide number.

So um shot spotter, in my opinion, is working well.

Um when I'm out, like I said, residents are saying like we wish we had shot spotter.

So um I I know that the contract is coming up.

Um is shot spotter expensive?

Yes, it is, but um, you can look at the data in the research to that family of potential lives saved and individuals being caught in the act from firing um gunfire.

And it's another thing that shot spotter does too that I really want to highlight.

Shot spotter tells the truth.

Shot spotter notifies us where the scene is.

We have so many reports and it helps us close cases because folks will show up at the hospital shot, and they'll say it happened over here.

But it didn't happen over there.

There's no video, it was no shot spotter alert, but we did get a shot spotter alert where it happened over there.

We go back to the scene, end up getting video assets.

And so the individual at the hospital who said this were, and sometimes it's the shooter who shot somebody and other things, but it's a tool that allows our investigators to actually close cases, get justice, and um identify the who, the what, the where and the how.

But for that shot spotter alert, probably wouldn't even be able to find the scene because oftentimes people who are engaged in um certain activity will not tell you where the scene is because when you find the scene, you can properly investigate and ultimately close the case.

So without shot spotter, I probably wouldn't have the closure rate that I have, and it would be a lot of families who don't have the justice that they deserve.

Thank you for that.

And I know you have a great action.

A situation need to uh temporarily address.

So I'd like to recess to the call of the chair.