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From YouTube: From City Hall - Ward 3 - June 2014
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Oklahoma City Ward 3 Council Larry McAtee talks with Major Jeffrey Baker and Sergeant Robert Skalla of the Oklahoma City Police Department about neighborhood safety.
A
Hi
I'm
Larry
mcatee
Ward,
3,
City
Councilman.
What
a
delight
is
today
to
have
two
of
our
finest
patrol
officers
here
from
our
Police
Department
major
Jeff
Becker,
head
of
commander
of
the
Hefner
division
right
Jeff.
Yes,
sir
and
Master
Sergeant
Bob
scowl
of
the
community
relations
officer
and
what's
the
real
official
title
of
your
position
bomb?
Yes,.
A
Police
Community,
Relations
Officer
and
we're
here
to
talk
about
a
very
exciting
program
and
some
very
positive
results
that
are
being
garnered
in
the
area
of
law
enforcement
before
we
do
how
about
giving
our
viewers
just
a
brief
snapshot,
Jeff
of
why
are
you
involved
in
law
enforcement?
In
your
background?
Well,.
C
It's
the
only
career
that
I
ever
wanted
to
get
into
only
job
that
I
wanted
and
I've
been
on
the
department
over
26
years
and
I've
loved
every
minute
of
it.
No
regrets
and
I
got
into
it
because
I
wanted
to
help
people
as
clichéd
as
that
sounds,
and
I
wanted
to
stand
up
for
the
little
guy.
Who's
can
be
victimized
by
crime.
Hey.
B
How
about
yourself,
yes,
I
became
a
police
officer
to
make
a
difference
to
give
back
to
the
community,
much
like
the
major
to
stand
up
for
that
little
guy,
because
I
was
that
little
guy
in
school
I
got
picked
on
all
the
time
when
I
was
younger
because
of
my
freckles
and
it's
an
opportunity
for
me
to
give
back
to
the
community
I
believe
in
the
rule
of
law
and
our
way
of
life.
For.
A
A
C
Police
Department
had
an
opportunity
to
get
some
funds
that
were
appropriated
by
the
state
and
it's
called
a
safe
Oklahoma
grant.
It
was
directed
through
the
Attorney
General
and
we
identified
a
particular
area
in
oklahoma
city
that
had
some
violent
crime
challenges.
The
area
is
meridian
to
counsel
and
melrose
Northwest.
Twenty
seventh
Street.
We
looked
at
a
five-year
period
and
found
that
they
had
a
high
amount
of
violent
crime.
So
we
selected
that
area
to
work
on.
C
C
We
have
found
that
how
how
the
community
feels
about
their
neighborhoods
impacts,
how
much
they
report
crime
and
what
they
allow
to
have
happen
around
them,
and
so
the
funding
is
paying
for
a
part-time
code
enforcement
specialist
that
is
strictly
dedicated
to
this
4.4
square
mile
area
and
the
person
filling
that
role
has
done
a
great
job,
working
hundreds
and
hundreds
of
violations
like
dilapidated
houses,
junk
cars
high
weeds
graffiti
things
like
that.
Now.
A
C
That
with
any
part
of
town
that
has
some
older
housing
at
some
point,
if
somebody
doesn't
stay
diligent
about
maintaining
it,
if
they,
if
they
do,
that
deferred
maintenance
and
put
it
off
it
gets,
it
can
get
dilapidated.
You
know
with
the
weather
in
Oklahoma
and
and
other
issues
that
certainly
that
that's
a
factor
and.
C
There
are
in
that
4.4
square
mile.
We
found
that
there
were
39
occupied
apartment
complexes,
and
so
we
went
back
and
did
some
crime
analysis
and
found
that
about
fifty
percent
of
the
violent
crimes
were
occurring
on
apartment,
complex
properties
and
the
other.
Fifty
percent
were
in
the
neighborhoods
and
other
business
areas.
Now.
A
B
There
are
currently
six
officers
that
work
random
shifts
throughout
the
week.
Major
Becker
has
strategically
identified
the
days
and
times
where
most
of
the
violent
crime
is
occurring.
So
we
are
targeting
those
hotspots
and
looking
at
it
on
a
monthly
basis,
and
so
those
officers
that
are
working
the
program
do
so
on
a
volunteer
basis.
B
They
want
to
work
the
program,
they
believe
in
the
program
and
they
are
doing
proactive
law
enforcement,
not
so
much
taking
the
911
call,
although
they
are
monitoring
the
radio,
they
are
proactively
going
after
those
with
some
of
the
most
violent
warrants
and
intercepting
drug
transactions
seizing
guns
out
of
apartments.
So
this
is
pro
active
law
enforcement.
B
C
A
A
B
I
can
tell
you,
as
a
direct
result
of
this
grant,
the
Greenville
Neighborhood
Association
has
stood
back
up.
We
had
a
meeting
about
three
weeks
ago
where
we
had
roughly
60
individuals.
We
are
getting
ready
to
stand
up
a
neighborhood
watch
patrol
in
this
area
and
there
are
a
lot
of
motivated
residents
that
are
eager
to
take
back.
There
I'm
also
working
very
closely
with
the
apartment
managers
in
the
area,
and
we
are
providing
notification
processes
to
them
when
we
make
an
arrest
on
their
property
of
their
tenants.
B
Several
have
were
not
keeping
up
with
the
numbers,
but
we
had
our
community
meeting.
May
the
19th
and
prior
to
that
I
went
to
each
of
the
39
complexes
and
to
not,
to
my
surprise,
many
of
them
have
new
managers.
That's
part
of
the
challenge
in
this
area
is
the
large
turnover
rate
of
the
managers.
We
have
some
great
managers
down
there
and
some
that
really
haven't
been
trained
up
and
doing
those
evictions
like
they
really
need
to
now.
A
B
Very
much
a
true
statement:
a
lot
of
voluntary
contacts
are
taking
place
in
the
apartment
complexes,
a
lot
of
officers.
They
go
in
to
two
three
four
units.
At
a
time
they
get
out,
they
walk
the
complex.
We
do
voluntary
contacts.
We
may
get
the
information
of
some
subjects.
We
check
them
for
warrants.
One
person
had
a
gun
in
his
waistband
and
took
off
running
which
one
of
our
officers
chased
him
down
and
he
had
warrants
out
for
his
arrest.
So
there's
a
lot
of
proactive
things
that
are
happening
that
are
preventing
future
crimes.
C
A
number
of
things:
not
only
are
we
tracking
violent
crime,
and
by
that
we
mean
homicides,
rapes,
robberies,
aggravated
assaults,
but
we're
we're
tracking
the
code
enforcement
results
and
we're
tracking
what
the
officers
go
out
and
do
each
day.
And
since
we
start
november
for
2013,
as
of
today,
we've
arrested
110
felony
crimes
and
we've
made
more
than
200
misdemeanor
arrests.
So
that's
300
rest
just
from
this
program,
and
these
extra
officers
are
over
and
above
what
the
normal
on-duty
officers
are
doing.
C
In
that
area,
we've
made
about
1500
foot
patrols
and,
like
Bob
mentioned,
that's
an
officer,
stopping
the
police
car
getting
out
walking
through
an
apartment,
complex
or
stopping,
and
talking
to
people
we're
not
going
to
learn.
What's
going
on
just
driving
the
speed
limit
through
an
area
and
not
stopping
so
about
1500
times
so
far,
we've
done
that
we
have
done
over
a
thousand
field
interviews
again
stopping
and
talking
to
people,
sometimes
that's
in
response
to
suspicious
activity.
Sometimes
it's
just
being
proactive
and
that's
how
we're
going
to
learn.
C
Well,
how
do
you
do
that
than
other
than
our
presence,
which
helps
what
we've
done
is
kind
of
drilled
down
and
looked
at
the
contributing
factors
that
result
in
the
two
most
frequent
violent
crimes
in
this
area
are
robberies
and
aggravated
assaults
and
when
we
look
at
what
contributes
to
those
two
crimes,
there's
some
common
denominators:
drugs,
drug
sales,
the
money
that
goes
along
with
that
and
illegal
guns.
And
since
we've
started
just
the
officers
working.
This
program
have
seized
seven
illegal
guns,
I've
used
in
the
commission
of
a
felony,
one
of
which
was
stolen.
C
They've
seized
money
the
drug
dealers
had,
and
so
it's
kind
of
a
cycle
that
we're
trying
to
break
the
drug
activity,
and
it's
it's
not
just
in
this
area,
but
the
people
that
are
the
buyers
of
the
drugs
then
in
earn
oftentimes
commit
property
crimes
to
fund
the
drug
purchases.
So
we're
really
trying
to
impact
those
cycles.
That's
going
to
cut
down
on
all
crime
to
include
violent
crime
very.
A
B
In
fact,
we
have
an
outreach
program
with
this
badge
here
that
we
have
really
passed
out
to
the
community,
the
apartments
and
the
residential
areas.
It's
a
magnetic
badge
they
can
put
on
their
refrigerator.
We
passed
that
out
and
we
also
have
the
non
emergency
and
some
drug
tip
line
numbers
there
as
well.
We
also
have
our
community
resource
guide
here
and
we're
emphasizing
to
our
citizens
to
sign
up
for
citizens
alert
through
okc
gov.
We
are
proactively
soliciting
the
help
of
our
community.
B
In
fact,
the
reason
why
this
program
is
so
successful
is
there
are
key
citizens
in
the
community
that
are
standing
up
that
are
organizing
and
making
a
difference.
We
have
partnered
up
and
we
are
targeting
the
apathy
that
once
was
in
this
area.
People
are
starting
to
believe
and
their
Police
Department
again
they're,
calling
us
more
and
they're
giving
us
that
vital
information,
so
we
can
go
after
the
ones
that
are
committing
those
violent
crimes.
You.
A
B
We
have
to
put
a
lot
of
energy
in
there.
These
problems
are
very
systemic
and
deep-rooted,
and
basically
we're
looking
for
sparks
in
the
community.
People
that
are
willing
to
stand
up
and
say,
hey
I
will
I
will
make
a
difference.
This
morning,
I
met
with
the
green
Vale
neighborhood
patrol
coordinator.
They
are
standing
up
a
neighborhood
watch
patrol
for
the
first
time
in
their
neighborhood
in
many
many
years.
This
will
make
a
huge
difference.
B
A
And
as
I
hear,
you
saying
it
throughout
this
whole
thing.
What
I'm
catching
from
from
both
of
you
is
you're,
given
the
neighbors
in
this
area,
real
hope
that
things
can
change
and
there's
positive
results
behind
it
that
you
were
sharing
in
those
statistics
and
I
want
to.
Personally.
Thank
you,
Bob
and
you
Jeff
for
your
commitment
and
what
you're
doing
out
there
and
neighbors
I
hope
you
caught
their
enthusiasm
and
that
comment
that
Bob
made
just
a
minute
ago
of
sparks.
A
It
only
takes
a
spark
to
get
a
fire
going
and
if
we
can
get
everybody
in
Oklahoma
City
the
good
people
to
be
sparks,
we
can
drive
these
criminals
to
another
area.
Thank
you
for
what
you
do.
God
bless
you
as
you
continue
as
ministers
of
his
and
I
hope.
You've
got
there
in
theories
in
let's
make
a
difference.
Thank
you
for
watching.