Well, good morning, everyone.

Welcome to the uh October 7th meeting of the Board of the Public of Public Health and Safety.

My name's Andrew Merkley, Director of the Office of Public Health and Safety.

First, Abby, can you please call the role?

Make sure we have core.

Good morning here.

Well, sir.

Present.

Thank you, Abby.

Well, this is Scott's last meeting with the board.

So thank you for for all you've done with the Board of Public Health and Safety.

And now we will have a difficult time filling your shoes.

But congrats on what comes next for you.

Has everybody had an opportunity to review the minutes from last month's meeting?

Okay.

Any discussion or changes that need to occur?

Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to adopt last month's minutes.

So move.

Do

we have a second?

All in favor?

Any opposed?

Hearing none, uh minutes are adopted.

Okay.

Uh we'll move into the first item on our agenda, which is item number one zero zero seven two sixa.

And we are joined by IMPD.

Hi,

I'm Seth Ferrari.

I'm the commander of administration technology.

I've got all your agenda today, so you'll be talking to me a lot.

Okay.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm Deputy Chief Adams oversee the criminal investigations division.

Great.

So uh this item we're asking to enter into a professional services agreement with the IU School of Medicine to conduct uh research and analysis on our non-fatal shooting advocacy program.

Uh this is a grant funded program by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Uh this uh project will analyze the non-fatal shooting trends monthly, evaluate our uh our advocacy program, uh, and conduct final reports for the grant.

Uh the not to exceed amount is 100,000 uh and the scope of work and will be uh December 31st of this year.

And uh Chief Adams with me if there's any questions about the ask or the program.

Any questions?

Strikes me as a fairly short window of December 31st.

I don't know, regrettably we have a fair amount of shootings, but is that enough data to make uh make an assumption or make some changes or

yeah, uh that's a good question.

And I mean that was one of the um considerations we uh discussed when we were looking at the uh all the uh candidates that had submitted a proposal.

Fortunately, Dr.

McGee has a existing relationship with IMPD and already has existing MOUs and data agreement in place uh to include the IRB uh which is an institutional review board, um, and she already gets our data today, and so that

uh

that window will go back one year uh as of and uh current year.

So we believe that's enough time to um analyze the data.

You know, the the other part of this that we find unique is that she'll be able to also talk to our detectives uh because a part of it is obviously talking to victims.

We definitely want to hear from them and their experiences.

Actually, have the non-fatal shooting advocates uh here today.

I'd love for them to introduce themselves here in just a minute, but a part of uh that made her pitch appealing was also the ability to talk to our detectives to see what their thoughts on the program were uh and how we can improve uh our outreach to victims, even through our detectives.

So we feel it's enough time certainly to uh analyze the data because of the existing relationship we have with Dr.

McDee.

Long-winded answer.

There's been some significant reductions, right?

I mean that the numbers are moving significantly well in the right direction.

Yeah, we've seen a 30% reduction in homicides and nearly a 40% reduction in non-fatal shootings, and every time I talk about these numbers, I also remind people the these are people's lives that have been saved.

They're not just numbers.