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From YouTube: From City Hall - Ward 6
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Oklahoma City Ward 6 Councilwoman Meg Salyer learns about the Oklahoma City Police Department's HOT Team, a special unit working with and helping the city's homeless population.
B
C
At
the
time
my
lieutenant,
who
is
now
captain
Tompkins,
had
had
heard
about
a
Colorado
Springs
program,
and
so
he
started
doing
the
research
into
into
exactly
what
they
were
doing
in
their
City
and
and
pretty
much.
We
modeled
our
program
after
them
and
Colorado
Springs.
What
they
had
is
they
had
a
camp
with
600
people
camping
on
the
river
in
a
high
tourist
area.
The
city
initially
didn't
like
it,
and
they
were
just
at
wit's
end
of
how
to
shut
it
down
or
get
rid
of
it
and
and
and
they
tried
and
tried.
C
Well,
they
ended
up
deciding
that
they
would
come
up
with
trained
officer
specialty
and
what
resources
are
available
for
the
home
was
further
chronically
homeless
and
and
they
could
go
in
there
with
those
officers.
Armed
with
that
knowledge
talked
to
the
people,
offer
them
alternatives
to
what
they
were
doing
and
and
and
after
I
think
about
two
years
there
was
six
people
left
living
on
the
river.
What.
A
A
great
success
story-
and
we've
certainly
seen
some
of
that
here
I.
You
know
I,
know
working
with
chief
city
that
he
has
a
passion
for
this
subject
as
well,
and
so
it
was
quick
to
embrace
the
idea
that
there
were
some
best
practices
and
other
communities
that
we
could
could
take
on
and
I
just
really
want.
B
Have
I've
been
their
supervisors?
Are
there
lieutenant
for
a
short
short
period
of
time,
but
I've
gotten
to
go
out
with
them
a
couple
of
times
watch
what
they
do
when
I
go
out
and
see
them
interact
with
the
homeless,
I've
gone
to
some
camps
with
them.
Some
people
just
on
the
street
they
have
been
able
to
just
in
a
short
period
of
time,
establish
a
lot
of
trust.
They
the
homeless,
know
that
they
are
there.
They
know
who
they
are,
and
they
know
that
they
can.
They
can
go
to
them.
B
A
Of
the
things
that
I
love
is
that
in
your
squad,
cars
and
I'm,
not
sure
this
is
just
a
hot
team.
I
think
it's
most
of
our
police
officers
have
food
in
their
cars,
and
the
hot
team
does
for
sure.
You've
got
food.
You've
got
MREs,
you've
got
pet
food.
You've
got
clothing,
talk
a
little
bit
about
that.
C
We
actually
partner
with
the
Regional
Food
Bank
and
they
provide
the
food,
the
MREs
for
us
and-and.
We
pick
up
cases
of
those
we
keep
them
in
our
cars
when
we
find
people
who
can't
get
to
food
resource
because
there's
great
there's
great
places
in
and
around
the
downtown
Oklahoma
City
area,
mostly
cut
the
West
West
End
of
downtown
that
serve
hot
meals.
You
can
get
there's,
there's
no
reason.
C
C
Yeah,
that
is
beautiful,
I
mean
if
you
haven't
volunteered
or
been
in
it.
I
would
say
everybody
should
take
a
look
at
what
what's
in
there
and
and
but
we
also,
we
carry
the
food
and
if
somebody
calls
us
and
they
weren't
able
to
make
lunch
or
they,
they
think
they're
going
to
struggle
over
the
weekend
where
we
can
provide
them
with
MREs
to
get
them
through.
We
can
give
them
I
think
our
greatest
resource
is
transportation.
C
Even
even
today,
this
morning,
I
took
a
chronically
homeless,
23
year
old,
female
to
a
job
interview
and
and
and
I
invested
about
a
hour
and
a
half
time
getting
her
to
and
from
and
in
that
same
trip
trying
to
take
a
bus.
It
was
on
the
south
side
of
Edmond.
So
if
she
was
to
take
a
bus,
she
would
have
had
to
catch
a
connecting
route,
two
from
23rd
and
a
two
to
the
central
facility
down
at
420,
Northwest
fifth,
to
catch
a
hot
route
to
the
Edmond,
and
that
would
have
taken
her.
C
She
would
had
to
start
her
journey
two
hours
earlier
at
had
about
six.
Thirty
seven
o'clock
in
the
morning
is
when
she
would
had
to
start
trying
to
get
to
her
job
interview.
That
was
at
ten
o'clock.
So
I
pick
her
up.
I
take
her
up
there.
She
she
got
the
job,
all
right,
back
home,
yeah
fabulous.
She
was
excited
and
I
hope
now.
C
Well,
that
is
a
deal
she's
been
working
with
the
church
and
she
thinks
there
might
be
some
church
members
that
will
help
her
out,
but
also
I
I
have
some
some
resources
of
some
money
that
was
donated
to
us
through
the
homeless
alliance.
So
I
can
buy
her
a
14
or
30
day
bus
pass
right,
so
she
will
be
able
to
make
her
work,
appointments
and-
and
so
that's
just
the
first
step-
and
if
she
needs
work,
pants
or
or
work
shoes
or
anything
I
can.
C
B
B
That's
a
that's
a
common
thing
with
with
sergeant
Prater
and
Clint
garst
who's,
the
other
member
of
the
team,
is
almost
on
a
daily
daily
basis.
They'll
receive
a
phone
call
from
somebody
needing
a
ride
to
a
doctor's
appointment
or
to
a
job
interview
so
different
things
that
they
are
able
to
provide.
That
goes
beyond
a
lot
of
people,
look
at
that
police
and
they
think
it's
just
about
enforcement
and
we
drive
people
to
jail.
But
that's
that's
not
necessarily
the
case
all
the
time,
especially
with
with
these
two
officers
I.
A
Think
the
approach
that
was
taken
here
was
such
an
important
step
to
say
if
we
can
begin
to
build
some
bridges
of
trust,
which
is
a
word
I've
heard
from
both
of
you,
that
we
can
perhaps
begin
to
direct
some
of
these
folks
to
the
services
that
are
provided,
and
you
know,
I
want
to
continue
to
get
the
message
across
that
Oklahoma
City
is
so
incredibly
generous
and
we
have
so
many
social
service
providers
in
a
full
spectrum.
You
mentioned
a
few
of
them,
but
who
are
some
of
the
other
folks
think.
C
We're
there
you
hear
that
term,
all
the
time
Oklahoma
standard
and
Anna
and-
and
it
just
shows
over
and
over
again
you
for
the
Catholic
Catholic
Charities,
the
women's
sanctuary,
and
they
also
have
some
some
transitional
housing
projects
that
they
have
in
the
area
that
help
get
women
and
children
off
the
streets.
Positive,
tomorrow's.
You
know
a
school
that
that
helps
homeless.
Children
go
to
school
because
there's
their
struggles,
you
can't
just
if
you're,
if
you're
chronically
homeless,
family
and
have
children,
you
know
trying
to
go
to
to
fillmore
elementary
or
anything
like
that.
C
When
you
haven't
taken
a
shower
or
when
you
you
know,
when
you
don't
have
food
to
eat,
how
are
you,
how
can
you
expect
a
child
to
learn
if
they
didn't
have
a
healthy
breakfast
or,
if
they're
not
getting
the
nutrition?
They
need
in
the
evenings
at
home?
So
positive
tomorrow
is
another
great
program:
the
homeless
alliance.
That's
where
my
partner
and
I
we
are
office
at
the
homeless
alliance,
so
we're
right
in
the
thick
of
things.
People
caseworkers
can
come
down
and
ask
us.
C
If
someone
goes
missing,
they
can
they
have
a
direct
line
of
communication
to
talk
to
us
and
we
can
try
to
help
them
find
if
they're
looking
for
somebody
or
or
even
if
somebody
does
accept
additional
help
before
out
talking
to
a
panhandler
or
we
find
some
chronically
homeless,
individuals
and
camps.
We
can
talk
to
them
and,
if
they're
ready
to
go
right
that
minute
they
get
in
the
car,
we
give
them
a
ride
down
to
effect
to
the
intake
specialist
with
the
homeless
alliance.
So.
A
C
I
mean
ten
year,
I've
been
on
with
our
department
for
ten
years
and
and
I
really
think
you
know
you
go
into
it
and
you're
in
patrolling
and
you've
never
heard
of
anything
homeless
outreach.
But
there
was
so
many
times
when
I
was
in
patron.
I
remember,
being
a
young
officer
and
and
running
across
people
who
were
who
were
in
their
car
living
in
their
cars,
living
in
parks,
living
in
tents
and
and
what
do
you
say
to
him?
You're
like
hey,
they
want
you
arrested
for
trespassing
to
either
have
to
leave
or
be
arrested.
C
That
was
the
option.
I
would
give
them
and
then
now
you
know
you
talked
to
a
few
people
you
find
out
what's
available,
you
know
what
what
social
services
are
out
there
and
when
you
approach
them
in
a
camp
you
could
talk
to
find
out
what
their
situation
is
and
let
them
know
what
what
program
might
fit
them
better
and
encouraging
them.
And,
like
you
said,
I
use
the
food.
I
use
the
coats.
C
I
use
the
dog
food
as
an
avenue
to
build
trust
because
the
people
have
had
so
many
negative
experiences
with
officers
that
they
will.
That
will
take
those
items
and
they're,
like
man
and
officers,
never
are
giving
me
a
meal
before
an
officer's.
Never
given
us
dog
food
or
or
offers
anything.
So
that's
where
that's,
where
that
building
the
trust
and
getting
them
and
it'll
take
multiple
contacts
and
over
and
over
again
we
hand
them.
C
We
have
City
phones
that
were
provided
to
us,
so
we
have
cards
in
my
year
of
doing
this
job
I
painted
out
1500
business
cards
with
my
information
and
my
partner
sergeant,
Garcia
information,
and
it's
a
phone
call
us
anytime
anytime.
You
have
something
anytime,
because
everybody's
situation
is
unique
and
I
can't
I
can't
tell
them
what's
going
to
help
them
out
of
homelessness
only
they
know,
and
once
they
decide
what
that
is,
then
I
try
to
help
film
thing.
A
B
When
he
talked
about
patrol
officers
and
how
regular
patrol
officer
will
interact
with
a
homeless
person,
a
lot
of
times
with
patrol
officers,
they're
dealing
with
so
many
other
things
may
be
bouncing
from
called
called
call,
but
they
have
a
really
limited
amount
of
time
and
resources
to
point
them
to
some
sort
of
help
or
to
take
them
somewhere
other
than
jail
or
detox.
And
so
that's,
where
a
lot
of
times
it
seems
like
more
of
a
negative
interaction,
but
that's
what
the
patrol
officer
has
to
work
with.
B
Well
now
that
we
have
these
two
officers
that
are
that
are
a
resource.
I
get
phone
calls
emails
almost
you
know,
at
least
on
a
weekly
basis,
and
some
come
from
other
members
of
the
department
from
some
of
the
patrol
divisions
that
they
have
a
homeless
camp
or
they
have
a
panhandling
problem
that
they
need
dealt
with.
Some
of
them
come
from
City
Council
from
the
different
wards.
I
get
calls
from
citizens
wanting
to
know.
Where
can
they
donate
food?
Where
can
they
donate
sleeping
bags
and
coats?
B
And
so
that
gives
the
department
of
resource
to
say?
Here's
the
number
to
the
the
hot
officers
you
can
give
them
a
call
or
I
will
forward
the
email
and
they're
very
quick
to
to
respond
to
that,
and
they
know
exactly
what
to
do
how
to
handle
it,
and
so
it
goes
beyond
that
enforcement.
Where
okay,
you're
trespassing,
you
go
to
jail.
Okay,
you're
drunk
you
go
to
detox,
so
it
goes
well
beyond
that.
A
Investment
in
being
able
to
connect
people
with
the
services
they
need.
So
a
couple
of
times,
I've
heard
the
word
panhandlers
and
we've
recently
passed
and
are
enforcing
a
MTG
safety
ordinance
to
address
some
of
those
issues.
Bobby
heavier.
Have
you
seen
any
change
at
all?
How
do
you
have
any
anecdotal
evidence.
C
I
think
it
really
is
around
the
the
I-240
corridor.
You
used
to
see
on
the
on
the
turnarounds
there,
which
would
be
considered
a
median.
There
would
be
a
panhandler
every
you
know
every
day,
every
evening
and
and
I'd
go
out
and
I
make
contact
with
every
panhandler
that
I
see
when
I'm
driving
around
when
I
go
up.
Morial
I,
240,
I,
35
I-44
all
the
exits
we
stopped
when
we
talked
to
him
and
we
find
out
what
their
situation
is.
Well,
like
I
240.
C
C
I
got
a
job,
I'd
helped
his
wife
get
prescription
eyeglasses
and
taking
her
to
a
couple,
different
appointments
and
and
taken
her
to
the
social
security
office
because
will
help
if
they
lose
their
social
security
card
or
birth
certificates
IDs
that
stuff
that
will
help
with
this
well,
but
but
back
to
the
paint
hailing
situation.
It's
it.
It
seems
to
be
making
a
difference
and,
like
say,
I,
always
my
biggest
reason
why
I
was
against
is.
C
A
C
A
Yet
provide
opportunities
for
people
to
get
the
services
that
they
need,
so
I
am
so
grateful
to
you
both
for
coming
down
today.
This
is
a
really
innovative
program
and
I.
Just
won't
really
want
everybody
to
know
that
you
know
your
oklahoma
city,
police
department
is
working
hard
to
be
creative
and
thoughtful
and
innovative,
and
this
is
just
a
wonderful
example
of
how
we're
reaching
citizens
and
making
a
difference
in
people's
lives.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
being
here
today
is.