I'm gonna call this meeting public safety to order.

And the first item we have is presentation from our police chief Trig on uh crime stats.

Yes, we do we have it up here.

Thank you, sir.

All right, thank you.

Good afternoon.

Get right to it here.

Okay, uh getting into the uh stats here.

Uh the numbers auto thefts continuing to trend down, which is a a good thing, um, as you see from 2023, kind of where we are uh today, the 108, and uh a lot to do with uh also our staffing levels increasing, which is big, which I'll you'll hear me mention a lot.

Uh that's just basically uh showing the monthly uh trending down as we stated, uh continuing that, which is great work by our autos and uh our detectives and accountability is key for all these uh things when people see that they're held accountable.

We should drive these numbers down.

Uh robberies, um, once again, uh numbers are down uh trending from the the high of of 2024 55 to the the 44 we are at currently this year from January through April.

Uh person shot.

Um obviously looking at these these numbers, uh we know five of these um were um horrific.

They're all horrific, but these were part of two incidents.

Uh one was the triple um we had, and then the the recent uh double.

So uh go forward to this is showing by where they occurred in the city, uh as you can see, which is a good map to to look at something new that we've added, but it shows our non-fatals and our our fatals on the map, service areas there, north, uh central, south, east, and west.

Uh the ones we've lost uh due to these violent acts, right?

It's uh the names have meaning.

Uh and when I look at these numbers, uh the thing that jumps out to me right away is half of these are our youth, teenagers, uh 15 years of age and and younger.

Although any life lost is a tragedy, but definitely when it involves our our young people.

It's it it uh it always sits a little bit different, and it's it's why we want to do the work as a city and and make sure that we can try to limit this as much as possible.

Uh our clearance rates.

Obviously, the national average uh seems to hold at 55 percent.

And uh GRPD is always well above that, which I'm proud to uh to report.

Obviously, last year 71%.

So far this year uh at a at 100%, but I don't look at it as a hundred percent.

I look at it as a uh well, I look at it at the percent, but it's accountability, as I said earlier.

Uh, because I think that's something that um drives crown crime down more than anything.

Word spreads uh if you commit a crime in this city.

Uh there's just gonna be accountability uh and uh it's gonna be addressed and um so that's where we're at with that.

Uh 13 reported fatal overdoses year to date, and 127 illegally possessed guns recovered uh through April.

So um crime is still trending down, which is a good thing.

We'll keep it to add the bodies.

You got men and women that are going out there doing the proactivity that I think is is driving these numbers down, which we could speak to more um, you know, at future uh updates, but I think it's it's key for our our department and uh our city.

So big weekend, although I missed it on uh Friday because I was out of town.

We had uh the the amphitheater, which is great for our city, and I know there was a lot of concerns moving into it, but uh from the reports I got and from what I was following uh that night via radio traffic, all went well.

Uh some of the traffic concerns that were unknowns.

Uh the the ingress and egress all worked smoothly.

Um and people were able to come into our town, visit our city without any major problems, no major traffic congestion, no uh groups of you.

There are any troubles downtown, uh, which was good to hear, and hopefully uh uh that's what you guys are seeing or hearing on your end that it was a good experience and Lionel Richie was able to uh perform.

Well, I'm sorry I missed it.

I'm a Lionel Richie fan, but uh but no overall good good uh good event uh staffing-wise.

We we had it staffed properly.

I think we maybe get another show or s uh two under our belt before we drastically uh you know cut the staffing.

Uh, but I'll I'll continue to uh get information on that, see if we can adjust that.

But all everything went went great.

I don't think it can go any better from from what I've heard.

So I will invite Chief Brown up to give a perspective on the fire department side.

Thanks, Chief.

You're welcome.

Yeah, so much like police fire did staff up as well.

Uh we had one engine located down at the amphitheater, and then we staffed an additional engine, so a third unit at headquarters station LeGrave.

Uh amphitheater, happy to respond.

Uh, we had one medical that fire dealt with, a handful of medicals that AMR dealt with, and then the third rig at LaGrave was quite busy that night, given all the people downtown.

Uh, emergency operations center was activated.

So we have police, fire, national weather service, uh, Eagle.

Uh we we had a host of people up there.

Uh the county was able to provide some real uh live drone footage for us.

We were watching the movement of the people, the pedestrians.