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Minneapolis Public Safety, Civil Rights & Emergency Management Committee Meeting
A
Alright
good
afternoon,
it's
135
or
maybe
a
little
bit
late
in
terms
of
starting
this
meeting,
but
we
now
have
a
quorum,
and
so
this
is
a
regularly
scheduled
meeting
of
the
public
safety.
Civil
rights
in
emergency
management
committee
today
is
februari
15
2017.
My
name
is
Wong
yang
I'm,
the
chair
of
this
community
and
with
me
today
or
council
members
Palmisano
Gordon
in
Quincy,
and
there
are
four
of
us,
and
so
we
have
a
coin
and
we
can
start
the
businesses
in
this
committee.
A
Council
members
right
in
Council,
President
Johnson
may
join
us
in
a
little
bit,
but
we
might
be
done
before
they
get
here.
So
we
will
continue
on
with
this
agenda.
Today.
We
have
for
consent,
items
and
I'm
going
to
read
the
content
items
before
and
I'm
going
to
pull
one
off
for
a
discussion,
but
we
will
vote
on
the
other
three
consent
items
and
then
we
will
take
care
of
that
discussion
item.
The
first
item
is
the
sex
trafficking
investigation
grant
acceptance
from
the
Department
of
Public
Safety.
A
The
second
item
is
a
contract
amendment
with
SMG
from
SWAT
services
at
US.
Bank.
Stadium.
Third
item
is
a
contract
amendment
with
SMG
for
police
bomb
in
911
dispatcher
services
at
US,
Bank
Stadium.
The
fourth
item
is
a
contract
amendment
with
SMG
for
perimeter,
security
at
US,
Bank,
Stadium
and
again
I'm
going
to
I'm
going
to
pull
item
one
out
for
discussion
and
we
will
vote
on
item
number
two.
Three
and
four.
A
C
C
Think
that
we
have
been
working
on
this
for
a
while,
but
I
was
particularly
interested
how
it
connected
back
to
a
resolution
that
I
think
we
passed
back
in
December
of
2013
I
think
we
actually
were
quite
proud
of
the
work
that
we've
been
doing
in
this
area,
and
we
were
understanding
we
had
our
own
unique
model
and
I
believe
we
established
a
coordinating
committee
of
some
kind
that
was
going
to
help
oversee
this
I
think
my
notes
say
was
we
called
the
Minneapolis
Coordinating
Committee
to
prevent
juvenile
sex
trafficking,
so
I'm
just
curious
about
how
this
connects
to
that
greater
work
and
I
also
how
it
might
connect
future
planning.
B
Thank
you,
cultural
member
I,
appreciate
your
comments.
I
appreciate
the
question,
the
resolution
that
you're
referring
to
and
those
of
you
that
were
here
that
passed
that
I
appreciate
that
those
were
very
exciting
times
for
us
in
particular,
because
Minneapolis
was
really
at
the
forefront
of
a
wave
that
has
continued
to
sort
of
sweep
and
I.
B
One
of
the
direct
initiatives
that
came
out
of
that
was,
frankly,
it
was
this
idea
of
really
formalizing
collaborative
efforts,
and
some
of
the
the
well
certainly
is
a
one
article
that
you
spoke
to
about
the
Super
Bowl
issue.
You
know
we're
right
now
at
the
process
of
standing
up
that
whole
initiative
and
I'm
the
one
that's
taking
care
of
the
planning
for
Super
Bowl
trafficking,
which
you
know
I
can't.
B
Thank
you
guys,
all
enough
for
allowing
me
to
do
that,
and
my
bosses
and
everything
it's
a
great
opportunity,
the
the
biggest
problem
that
we
are
going
to
have
those
one
of
aberration.
I
was
at
the
super
bowl
in
Houston
a
couple
of
weeks
ago
and
the
major
failures
that
I
witnessed
there
were
all
related
to
an
inability
to
correctly
address
what
the
individual
needs
of
all
the
collaborative
partners
were
going
to
be
the
one
of
the
big
takeaways
for
me.
B
Was
you
don't
do
something
in
the
short
term
that
you're
not
doing
in
the
long
term
so
meaning
we
can't
invite
a
bunch
of
partners
together
and
plan
operations
that
we
don't
do
every
day,
and
so
that
was
really
it
seems
so
simple.
But
yet
it's
such
a
significant
impact
on
how
we
do
day-to-day
operations.
So
just
this
week,
I
brought
in
16
different
departments,
all
of
whom
are
going
to
be
participating.
We
sat
down.
We
hammered
out
a
plan
and
I
was
actually
very
surprised
at
how
far
we
got
on
it.
B
B
I
haven't
attended
it
frankly
for
about
a
year
because
of
all
the
other
stuff
that
I
needed
to
do,
and
frankly,
it
made
more
sense
to
have
a
command-level
person
in
that
room
than
it
did
for
a
person.
That's
going
to
go
out
and
pull
somebody
out
of
hotel
rooms.
So
that
could
answer
your
question
directly.
That's
how
it
relates
the
grant
that
we're
talking
about
right
now
would
not
have
been
possible
but
or
a
partnership
and
an
MoU
that
exists
now
that
didn't
exist
before
between
the
st.
B
Paul
police
department,
the
washington
county
attorney's
office
in
the
Minneapolis
Police
Department
about
two
years
ago,
I
got
a
phone
call
from
the
washington
county,
attorney's
office
and
they
said
hey.
We
really
want
to
start
doing.
Sex
trafficking
and
I
live
in
Washington.
Calling
that
couple
that's
great,
but
we
don't
really
have
anything
out
here
that
I'm
aware
of
so
I
went
and
I
sat
down
with
their
attorneys
office
and
Pete
orbit
said
I'm
willing
to
assign
a
prosecutor
to
this
full
time.
B
We
just
show
us
how
it's
done,
and
so
I
started
working
cases
collaboratively
with
them
in
the
aftermath
of
that
they
did
something
that
has
not
been
done.
Anyplace
else
in
the
country,
and
that
was
dedicating
a
project,
prosecutorial
team
and
designating
an
analyst
that
all
they
do
all
day
long
is
spend
time
embedded
in
the
marketplace.
Well,
we've
been
talking
about
that
for
some
time
we've
been
talking
about
how
if
what
this
is
really
about
is
recovering
victims-
and
it's
not
frankly,
are
the
top
tier
of
our
objective
is
not
to
arrest.
B
From
all
you
know,
gender
orientations,
and
it's
it's
a
tragedy
that
we
haven't
been
able
to
really
figure
out
a
good
approach
to
that.
This
analyst
is
going
to
help
us
do
that,
and
so
that's
a
big
part
of
it.
The
second
part
of
that
and
I
apologize,
I'm
talking
a
lot
and
I'll
be
quiet.
You
can
ask
questions
if
you
have
it.
B
The
majority
of
those
questions
are
ones
that
we
can
answer
collectively.
For
example,
we
have
a
back
page
yet
with
a
with
a
do,
and
we
think
it's
a
young
lady,
how
do
we
identify
this
person?
Well,
that
I
don't
need
to
take
a
phone
call
for
30
minutes
and
walk
some
way
through
the
process.
I
can
create
a
video
I
can
create
an
online
resource,
create
a
protocol,
all
of
which
we
can
disseminate.
B
So
the
whole
idea
of
a
portal
is
having
a
secure
location
online,
where
we
can
provide
not
only
technical
assistance,
but
we
can
provide
a
place
where
people
can
come
in
and
share
information.
Well,
we
would
call
a
deconfliction
tool.
Today
is
a
prime
example
of
that
literally
I
came
from
an
apartment
in
st.
B
louis
park,
where
we
pulled
two
chinese
women
non-english
speaking
out
of
this
situation,
where
they
are
being
exploited
literally
for
the
last
week
since
they
arrived
in
the
country,
and
they
were
brought
here
and
there
being
kept
in
this
apartment
and
they're
being
trafficked
I
found
out
about
this
at
eight
o'clock
last
night
we
had
seven
different
jurisdictions
that
are
on
site
right
now,
and
everybody
worked
together
to
make
this
happen.
That
would
have
not
been
possible,
except
for
those
relationships.
B
What
I
found
out
in
the
process
of
doing
that
is
that
four
different
jurisdictions
had
information
about
this
case,
one
of
the
new
motor
related
apartment,
another
one
knew
about
a
phone
number.
Another
one
had
actually
identified
the
trafficker
and
another
one.
The
last
one
had
identified
that
this
phone
number
rings
in
Flushing,
New,
York
and
as
part
of
a
it
as
part
of
a
on
what
we
would
call
a
scheduling
service,
which
is
the
more
and
more
popular
because
these
women
don't
speak
English,
and
so
you
know
that's
how
they
do
this.
B
So
we
can
do
operations
like
that,
but
we
need
to
find
a
way
to
get
all
that
information
together
and
that's
what
the
purpose
of
the
Portland.
So
when
I've
got
a
case
rather
than
then
reinvent
the
wheel
and
duplicate
other
people's
efforts,
I
can
put
out
an
alert
on
that
portal.
That
will
notify
other
people
and
it
will
and
they
can
they
can
respond
appropriately.
You
know
what
I
had
that
case:
I
had
I've
heard
that
nickname
before
we've
had
a
run-in
with
that
person.
B
We
are
missing
that
juvenile
or
we've
got
a
case
involving
that
juvenile.
It's
a
I
apologize.
They
get
really
kind
of
excited
about
what
we're
going
to
do
with
this
portal.
It's
a
pretty
throwing
thing
because
we've
never
been
able
to
do
it
and,
more
importantly,
an
this,
hopefully
will
excite
you
guys
to
nobody
around.
The
country
has
been
able
to
pull
this
off
and
so
for
us
to
be
able
to
do
it
with
what
we
said,
how
much
it's
going
to
cost.
This
is
actually
pretty
exciting.
B
So
we're
talking
about
being
able
to
connect
with
people
on
in
the
oil
patch.
You
know
where
we
have
a
lot
of
our
victims
go
the
Super
Bowl
is
coming
up.
Imagine
if
you
will
an
opportunity
for
people
from
around
the
country
who
are
working
trafficking
to
be
able
to
say
you
know
what
we
got.
Intel
we've
been
following
the
facebook
or
we've
been
following
this
text
message
string
and
we
got
Intel
that
they're
going
to
be
leaving
and
coming
to
Minneapolis.
B
C
Know
this
is
fantastic.
I
really
appreciate
the
information,
I'm
very
excited
about
it
too,
and
very
hopeful
I
guess.
My
last
question
is
because
we
haven't
heard
much
about
this
in
a
long
time,
I'm
wondering
if
we
made
any
progress
over
the
years
I
think
there
was
a
report
that
we
study
that
was
done
in
2010.
It
was
talked
about
the
number
of
victims
there
were
in.
The
estimate
that
I
have
here
from
the
resolutions
is
213.
Girls
are
sold
for
sex
an
average
of
five
times
per
day
in
in
Minnesota
and
I'm.
C
B
That's
another
great
question:
tell
Webber
garden
and
I,
both
in
being
completely
transparent
and
honest
with
you.
I
will
tell
you
that
the
statistic
that
you
cited,
I
think,
is
inaccurate,
but
I
didn't
do
the
study.
I
think
that
there's
it's
underreporting,
the
number
of
victims
that
we
actually
have
when
we
talk
about
are
we
ahead
of
where
we
were
two
years
ago.
B
I
would
love
to
sit
here
and
tell
you
that
I
think
that
we
there
are
less
victims
today
than
there
than
there
was
them
there
simply
isn't
and
part
of
the
reason
for
that
is
because,
at
the
same
time
that
we've
learned
about
sex
trafficking
and
the
same
time
that
we've
developed
a
passion
and
the
same
time
that
we've
been
out
there,
building
collaboration
and
community
around
this
issue
and
getting
people
who
are
willing
to
make
a
phone
call.
At
that
same
time,
traffickers
have
been
honing
their
skills
and
they've
been
fine-tuning
their
recruitment.
B
Facebook
is
a
prime
example
of
that.
When
I
started
doing
these
cases,
we
maybe
had
one
case
a
year
where
there
was
a
facebook
connection,
literally
in
their
last
year,
every
single
case
that
I've
done
has
had
a
facebook
nexus
to
it,
whether
it's
recruitment,
whether
it's
actual
trafficking
right
on
facebook
Messenger
in
many
cases,
that
all
that
communication
is
happening
is
happening
there.
So
when
you
just
look
at
it
in
terms
of
the
problem,
I
do
believe
that
the
problem
is
expanding.
B
However,
I
I
cradle
a
lot
of
Hope
about
it,
because
what
we
have
now
that
we
didn't
have
then
is
I
can
make
a
phone
call.
I
can
start
out
a
chain
email
to
a
bunch
of
people
and
look
what
happened
by
8
30
last
night,
half
an
hour
after
I
received
this
tip.
I
had
seven
different
jurisdictions
involved:
ida
county
attorney,
who's
been
at
home
for
four
hours,
no
offense
to
the
comments
about
attorneys,
but
most
of
them
won't
return.
B
My
phone
calls
and
emails
after
hours,
and
this
guy's,
like
hey
whatever
you
need,
we've
got
it
I'm.
You
know
this
is
what
I
found
in
our
records.
That's
pretty
encouraging
because
a
lot
of
five
years
ago
those
emails
would
have
gone
unanswered
until
the
next
day,
but
today
we're
in
a
completely
different
place
and,
and
frankly
it's
because
of
how
we've
responded
to
them.
B
When
they've
called
me
at
two
o'clock
in
the
morning
and
said:
hey,
we
just
require
squad
just
recovered
a
girl
and-
and
we
think
she's
been
traffic,
but
we
don't
know
what
to
do.
I
got
up
and
went
in
and
helped
him
out
and
now
they're
willing
to
do
the
same
fret.
So
so
we're
ahead
of
where
we
were
I
can't
tell
you.
Is
that
we've
diminished
the
number
but
I
think
we're
getting
to
them
faster,
and
we
know
more
about
what
those
environments
are
and
I
think
that
the
key
partnerships
are
in
place.
B
C
B
Mean
that
seriously
I
know
and
I
appreciate
that
mr.
mr.
chair
I'm,
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
answer
this
in
hold
to
what
I
believe
to
be
the
importance
of
me
being
directly
honest
with
you
and
also
and
I,
don't
want
to
set
anybody
up.
I
feel
like
we
have
their
response
to
that,
and
and
yes,
but
still
we're
in
the
process
of
solving
that
issue.
I've
tried
to
be
very
transparent
about
the
fact
that
you
know
what
I
do
want
to
retire.
B
D
You
mr.
chair
so
decided,
I
barely
recognize
you
and
your
smart.
Looking
typically
see
you
in
these
sex
trafficking
meetings
that
I've
been
participating
in
for
the
past
few
years.
I'm
curious
and
I.
Don't
know
if
you'd
be
the
right
person
to
ask
answer
this
question,
but
this
grant
award
is
it
a
it
says
it's
for
one
year
starting
this
year?
What
makes
me
concerned
about
some
of
the
oj
p
grants
is
that
some
of
them
are
basically
being
threatened
to
be
taken
away
by.
B
D
B
B
I
will
tell
you,
however,
that
the
commitment
of
the
state
has
been
that
they
intend
to
continue
this
grant
for
another
two
years
after
that
now
we
don't
have
a
firm
commitment
because
that's
how
they
work
this,
but
we
were
with
our
partnership
in
this
we're
really
set
aside
and
we
really
stood
apart
from
many
of
the
other
grantees
that
were,
but
it
really
wasn't
that
many.
So
the
bulk
of
the
award
went
to
really
three
places,
and
that
was
us.
It
was
washington,
county
and
saint
paul
pd,
and
they
recognized
that.
Yet.
B
Just
yesterday
I
was
invited
into
a
meeting
with
the
BCA
where
we
sat
down
and
had
some
very
direct
conversations
about
the
trajectory
of
training
and
reaching
the
low
density
populations
and
environments
in
the
state
to
include
tribal
and-
and
those
are
all
places
that
that
we
haven't
even
really
started
to
scratch.
The
surface
on
my
hope
and
frankly,
my
confidence
is
that
this
is
not
going
to
be
a
one-year
grant.
They
from
the
presentation.
People
understood
that
that
this
is
part
of
a
process.
B
D
This
may
have
been
an
oversight
to,
and
now
I
see,
it's
really
Minnesota
Department
of
oj
p,
not
the
federal
one
grown
so
so
that
gives
me
comfort.
This
is
something
that
they're
committed
to
on
a
on
a
statewide
level.
I
also
just
think
it's
so
neat
in
this
sex
trafficking,
workgroup
that
we've
been
convening
it.
C
D
C
It's
very
disturbing
to
think
that
Facebook
can
be
somehow
a
vehicle
for
all
of
this,
and
yet
nobody
can
get
to
facebook
to
help
them
root
it
out
or
whatever,
and
so
there
may
be
other
other
ways
that
we
could
somehow
help,
and
so
I
just
wanted
to
put
that
out
there
as
you
develop
new
strategies
or
ideas
or
potentials
I
think
you'll
have
some
receptive
voices.
Yes,.
A
Right
so
with
no
other
questions
sergeant
offenders,
thank
you
so
much
for
being
you're,
the
one
thought
I
had.
Wouldn't
you
were
just
talking
about
all
of
this
up?
Was
it
it's
so
much
more
to
have
somebody
here
but
doing
the
presentation
of
just
the
item?
I
mean
this
is
so
much
more
than
RCA
and
kind
of
nice
to
see
that
so
I.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
being
here
cast
members.
A
I
will
just
move
on
to
number
one
for
approval,
I'm
any
questions
or
discussion
I've
seen,
then
all
those
in
favor,
please
say
aye
any
opposed
motion
carries
and
with
that
we
are
done
with
our
meetings.
So
with
no
further
business
before
this
committee,
we
will
adjourn
this
committee.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Everybody.