City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Police Commission, 15 Feb 2022

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2.15.2022 Police Commission

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Now do we actually get real badges.

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It's important.

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Good evening, everyone.

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Welcome to the february police commission meeting for the city of portsmouth, I would look forward.

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To calling the meeting to order- and I would like to make a motion that we suspend our rules.

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Second and move up the business of swearing in our latest newest officer, we need a motion.

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And then a second, oh I I moved to uh suspend the rules uh for the purpose of swearing in.

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An officer nice second thought all in favor, aye aye. So with that chief, we'll turn it over to you.

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I'm going to take this down.

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Officer swearing in certainly for our newest officer, sarah stark.

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Cyrus is a lateral transfer from chicago illinois. Sarah served as a detective.

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At the northwestern university police department for the past three years.

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She's, a graduate from purdue university with a bachelor's degree in both psychology and sociology.

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Nice to give you the oath, let's raise you right out and repeat after me,.

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I sarah stark hi, sarah stark the above name appointee, the above name, appointee.

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You solemnly swear: do you solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially that I will.

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Faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me discharge and perform.

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All duties incumbent of me as a police officer, constable and night watchmen of said city of.

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Portsmouth as a police officer constable and night watchman of said city of portsmouth, according to.

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The best of my ability, according to the best of my ability, agreeable to the rules and regulations.

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Of the constitution agreeable to the rules and regulations of the constitution and laws of the.

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State of new hampshire and laws of the state of new hampshire so help me god so help me. God.

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By virtue of the authority vested in me, through the police, commission and rsa 105-c,.

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Trusted in your integrity and fidelity do hereby constitute and appoint ua police officer.

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Constable and nate watchman of said city of portsmouth, with all the power and.

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Authority and subject to all the duties and liabilities provided by law. Congratulations.

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Take a picture jackie, you want to get a picture of us.

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Immediately at like 4 30. right.

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Well, for those watching at home, we just got word that the mask mandate.

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In the city has been lifted, so I'm choosing to remove my mask at the moment. So people can hear me.

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And I'm fully vaccinated and boosted for the record so.

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Let's start by pledging allegiance, since we didn't do that before we do the swearing-in.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to.

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The republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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And I'd like to uh ask for a motion to accept the minutes from the meeting held on january 18th.

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2022. I moved to accept the minutes of the meetings held on january 18th, 2022.

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um Can I get a second second, I'm sorry, okay, all in favor, aye, aye, aye, great um and.

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Why don't we open it up to public comment? I know we have a presenter here, but before we.

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Go through the presentation, anyone else want to just make public comment unrelated.

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Not seeing anyone, I invite you up to give a presentation.

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And first let me thank you for your great work and your efforts to.

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Help with this data gathering, we look forward to hearing what you found.

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Thank you very much hello. My name is amanda tellyer. I am a masters student in the department.

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Of mathematics and statistics over at the university of new hampshire a year ago, I.

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Got an email asking if I would be interested in working on a project looking in potential.

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Any racial bias in arrest or conviction, data with the city of portsmouth and considering.

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With everything that has been going on the last couple years, I definitely thought it was a very.

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Interesting project, but also one that should be done, so I was very glad to take on this project.

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I officially started working on collecting data for my project back in back in september, so.

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Start of the fall 2021 semester. uh During that time, I was able to collect data for.

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Arrest data and convictions for the year 2017, and so in my project tonight I'll be focusing.

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On the data that I have for the year 2017 and explaining what I've been doing and what my.

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Data set looks like terrific, thank you, so much so just kind of just reiterating all this.

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All right so, starting with the basics, uh the program that I've been using to do my analysis.

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Has been the statistical software jump 15 and currently update to the latest version 16 a few.

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Weeks ago uh so I've been using non-personal data added from the excel data table. Centaurus.

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Court dispositions arrest- and this was provided to me via I.t, due to attorney the orlando being.

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On leave at different times during 2017 and 19, which resulted in not all cases being accessible.

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So they were very nice to compile all the arrests and dispositions for me into one convenient file.

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uh And then I've been going through and with the imc record system, I've been adding.

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Type and class of offense, if they are male female, what race they are if they.

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Are hispanic non-hispanic date of birth and also if they have any prior convictions and arrests.

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And then I've also been working to make sure that identities of the accused or found guilty are.

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Protected, especially when it comes to no contact and or entry with, if they have no contact with a.

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Certain business establishment I just put with business with establishment with hotel just to.

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Leave a little more anonymity, so that way someone can't figure out hey is that so-and-so.

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All right so for my data table I have the following variables. I have offense.

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uh Typing class arrest number that one's more for me to keep track of data points. If.

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I have to go back and fix an error at all the arrest date disposition date, sex race.

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Ethnicity, if they are resident of the state of new hampshire date of birth, prior arrest, juvenile.

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And or adult prior convictions, juvenile and or adult plea found if the case was placed on file.

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Fine find suspension, jail time, jail time, length, jail time, suspension community service. If.

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Lea can destroy and or return evidence if there's a loss of license if id, cmp or ldac is ordered.

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Drug and etoh toxin, counseling, no contact and or entry and further sentencing, that's more.

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Also, if there's any other notes to note in sentencing that I don't have a data table for.

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And since, if I had had my laptop right now, I will be able to show you more. The full.

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Picture of the data set, so I provided a screenshot, so this is part one of my uh data set.

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And this is the second half of it, showing all the data data variables.

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All right and so from here I present to you the distribution of what each variable looks.

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Like with histograms, this one is a little more tough to see just for the fact that there were.

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Over 187 offenses recorded uh you can see here. These are more the top tier ones that we have a.

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Possession of controlled narcotic drugs was the number all number one overall offense.

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Listed for 2017, followed by driving under the influence uh driving after revocation.

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Or suspension default or breach of bail conditions and simple assault and then.

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Followed by domestic violence, simple assault, those were my top tier for the year 2017.

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And then this just shows the distribution of typing class, uh sex, race and ethnicity.

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I found that with ethnicity. Non-Hispanic was definitely the more common.

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More people who were listed as white were also arrested along with men and the most common.

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Type and class of offense was misdemeanor class, a followed by misdemeanor class b.

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And then this just shows if they are in fact the resident of the state of new hampshire.

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The vast majority of those arrested are from the state of new hampshire.

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And then maine and mass were close. Second and third surprisingly, we have a lot of.

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Florida people that were also charged in crimes, but it also makes sense if.

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There are snowbirds at all might be traveling back and forth between the state.

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This also, then, shows prior arrests. One of these cases that are going on.

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They have not had prior convictions at the time and then we have a good number that were.

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Arrested prior as an adult prior convictions, same thing: we have not many people having prior.

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Convictions, at least in the state of portsmouth. I should also note that prior convictions and.

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Arrests are only for portsmouth pd, they might have been arrested somewhere else in the state or the.

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Country, but I have no way of knowing that this is more just if they were arrested in portsmouth.

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And then we have plea, most people chose to plead guilty or there was.

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No plea entered due to possibly being uh put on fine yeah put on file or uh null process.

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And uh we have found different types of findings.

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Mostly guilty being the most common followed by an all-profs, and then we also have no finding, because.

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That means that was placed on file for a specific time, which then brings into usually most cases are.

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Not put on file, but if they are put on file, the most common type is one year for good behavior.

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uh Fines were kind of all over the place if there usually there was no fine, but.

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If there was a fine, the most common fine was 500 plus penalty assessments.

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uh Fine suspension uh usually not available or no, it was not given if there was no penalty and.

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If there was a penalty suspension, usually it's uh all for one year, good, behavior or.

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250 dollars for one year ago, behavior uh jail time, usually there's not jail time.

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So, usually, there's no recommendation for a jail time length since there's no jab time.

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But most common jail time length if there is jail. Time is 12 months.

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I have the same with jail times. Sorry, fine suspension, uh it's a little all over the place, but.

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Most common type of jail suspension that I felt was.

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All were just all the entire sense was suspended for two years with good behavior.

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And then this just looks at community service. uh If you can destroy evidence or return it loss of.

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License uh if idcmp or ldac was ordered and then drug and et o h and talks counseling were ordered.

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And usually no for drug and alcohol.

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Vast majorities, yeah, no no was the most common answer. If.

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Idcmp or ldac was ordered.

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Idcmp was the most common case, ordered that's more. The driving suspension class.

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And then no contact inter entry, usually no there's, no anything put on record that they can't.

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Contact or entry and usually with the victim, is the most.

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Common right and then uh now I will shall go into some just exploratory data analysis. I did with the.

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2017 data, the first type I did was looking at type in class of offense by sex uh men, are definitely.

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Committing more crime from as seen as the distribution histogram before.

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They are definitely committing more felonies, more felony class, a and b.

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Yeah up women are more than the minority here, but they're also less arrests for women.

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All right, and then uh I like the type and class by race or this, the city of portsmouth.

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The majority of the arrests and cases were with those who identified as white, so.

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We can definitely see that more white people were charged with felonies misdemeanors.

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uh If it was not applicable or violation or city ordinance,.

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And then looking at type and class by ethnicity uh with ethnicity, I found that.

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It seems to be a non-factor in a way, since the vast majority of those arrested are.

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Non-Hispanic with a few unknowns and only a handful of those who identify as hispanic.

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You can see here that there's definitely wide range in non-hispanic.

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And then in this one it's a little hard to see because it's offense and there's 187 different.

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Offenses recorded, but this is going by sex and I chose to look at the top tier.

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Fences so looking more at uh free default or breach of bail conditions. Looking at driving well.

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uh Yeah so driving with suspension, drive, drink drive, stretch, intoxication driving.

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While intoxicated and then possession of controlled or narcotic drugs and simple assault.

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More men are definitely being arrested for each of these crimes presented.

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And then so are the same thing going by races.

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More those who identify as white that are being charged with these top tier offenses.

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And then looking at plea by race, since there are more white people, there are more likely to.

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Say that they are guilty just enter plead guilty for those who are unknown race, they.

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Don't want to exactly say what they identify, as they are also more likely to just plead guilty.

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The number of those who identify as black.

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Look to appear to plead guilty as often as those who are white and haitians also.

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Plead guilty a little more and then we also have a wide variety of null profs and uh no, please.

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And then findings more so we have signs of guilty or no process being the most common.

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uh With those who identify as being white guilty and all prosper, a little more common.

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And then, currently, what I'm working on now is right. Now, I'm working on 2018 data collection.

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I'm still looking to collect data for at least three years to see if there definitely is any.

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Trends with the data, because with one year data, you can only make certain assumptions you can't.

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Say definitively if there's anything there or not, my ideal goal would be to have five years.

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But that's going to depend on time. I would like to try and collect data from the years 2016 and 2020.

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I know 2020 with the pandemic. There may not be as much data, but it's also interesting to see if.

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Potentially, there might be an increase in like domestic violence cases, because that.

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Has been seen across the country since people have been shut together that might cause more.

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Domestic violence calls so that would be interesting to see, and so my time frame for.

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This is to still work on this, the rest of the spring semester, which ends in mid-may for this.

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I most likely also will be working into summer 2020 and possibly into the fall 2020 semester.

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All right and does anyone have any questions or comments? Well. First, thank you, amanda that.

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Was a robust body of work and it's been especially illuminating. I don't know.

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How much you followed this, but we're working to update our cad rms system and so.

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Seeing any kind of data in recent years is is really helpful to us uh without having to do.

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All the elbow grease it requires for the team to be going through that. So thank you very much.

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You're welcome uh and I'm grateful to see that you're sticking with it. My question was gonna, be.

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Can we get other other years, so it's nice to see that you're still committed to seeing this through.

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um My one question is hey: do we can we get copies of the full report, so we can see the jackie, maybe.

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Do you already have a copy okay? So if you wouldn't mind sharing yeah, I can definitely email this out.

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To uh jackie and I'm sure she'll be glad to share it with all of you great. That would be terrific.

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And then we can also talk about whether it makes sense to have it live on the website um which, if.

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You're willing that would be great yeah, definitely um and then my other. I had a couple questions.

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About the data set itself, so you said you know, especially specifically when you were looking.

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At likelihood of taking a plea or or receiving a conviction- and you know we're a predominantly.

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White community, so when you, when you're looking at those, um even though they're smaller numbers.

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People of color, who are more likely to either take a plea or be found guilty. Can you speak more to.

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That to the to what the analysis showed, because it was kind of hard to see from here yeah also.

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To note with this data, set too, is that it records like the offense for each person that is arrested.

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So someone who is being arrested could have like up to like 30 charges against them, because I have.

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Someone in my desk that got arrested for like multiple cases like stalking and.

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Witness intimidation, so it is looking at like each offense, but some of these can be committed by the.

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Same person, so that can also, sadly, inflate the male and female, but it is looking also, I like each.

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Offense sure, and that's also showing like how is that also being charged compared, because you.

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Can have one charge, that's like null crossed or plug guilty because they have more evidence for.

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One case, as opposed to the other charge that makes sense. That's helpful commissioners who.

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Other questions, I guess um I would just like to start by saying thank echo um commissioner.

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Shaheen sentiments of thank you so much I mean I, you know, there's an enormous amount of work that.

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Undoubtedly went into distilling the data set and that's that uh powerpoint presentation.

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That we got to just analyze the finished data yeah um I'd like to I mean really thank you.

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For all your efforts and work, um I was actually just my question was gonna dovetail with that.

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You know the frequency of the null process, as it relates to charge bargaining and clinging to.

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Something else is there um some way to access or do are you are you kind of do you have any.

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Collection or analysis of parsing it out the null process that are a product of a plea, negotiation.

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Yeah, in a way, that's also why I have the for further sentencing uh calm. I know I didn't.

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Really show it too much, but that's also more like anything that was it related to the case.

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But it didn't fit exactly into a column, so if it was like null process, I usually put why it.

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Was an alpraso? Usually it was either they pled to another charge to not get that charge charged. Also.

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Or if uh they had a different set of charges that were coming up, that they thought they.

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Could get a conviction on? They would usually now cross those ones and focus on the ones they can.

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Get yeah, or it's also usually two. It's usually part of a plea agreement that a charge will be.

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Null process, if the defendant agrees to plead guilty to another charge or charges.

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Oh, that's really, that's perfect! Thank you and again, thank you so much. I think if we put it.

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On the website, it would be great- I mean you're, making us so much data accessible to the public.

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Which is really an important thing, so thank you. You are very welcome. I'm glad to help commissioner.

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And I want to uh second uh what uh commissioner shaheen and commissioner coyle have said. um You.

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Know I I think data is really important in making decisions in the criminal justice system and.

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For a host of reasons we don't need to get into new hampshire is really been behind and collecting.

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Data like you've collected so this is, you know uh I love data because it it it. uh It tells us.

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Things that sometimes it states the obvious that we ignore and other times we learn things that.

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We didn't really realize so. uh Thank you for doing this and I look look forward to drilling down more.

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On this you're very welcome, yes, please send copies, so we can get our hands in it all right. I'll do.

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That when I get home tonight, so you all have it by tonight. Thank you so much I mean. I appreciate it.

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You're very welcome just real quick, and I I thank you again as a commissioner. I thank you. I'm very.

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Impressed with the amount of information that you've been able to pull out of our system and.

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You would know better than all of us that it's not easy in our current uh cat rms system.

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So I appreciate the effort that you've put into it. The one question I just asked is: did you find.

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Any disproportionate numbers, uh not necessarily, I think I was more surprised that I saw more.

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Possession of controlled narcotic drugs as the main offense in the date for in the data for the.

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Year, 2017, but also this was at the time when the opioid crisis in new hampshire was still at a high.

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So it kind of surprised me, but it also doesn't surprise me and also too then I.

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Think the most surprising was seeing that driving intoxicated was like the number two overall charge.

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Well, thanks and thanks for your continued effort and we'll look forward to getting more.

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Data, actually, I have one more question: are you getting credit for this? I am getting credit this.

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Is uh for my math 898 class, so this my master's project, so this is all going towards graduation.

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Great well, if there's anything more, we can do as a commission to help your efforts. Please let us know.

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I will let you know. Thank you very much. Thank you amanda. Thank you all right. Well, we just so the.

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All of us know we have a hard stop at 6 30 because we have another meeting coming in behind us. So.

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We'll try to be as expeditious as possible. Zba is right in behind us after tonight, so.

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We'll move on to police, commission business and facilities update anything new to report on the.

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Facility chief there's not too much since the last meeting, we're still doing the mold remediation.

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You know due to the restraints on the availability of contractors, we're still in.

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The process of remediating the detectives division- uh we've got everything cleared out of there, but.

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We're just waiting for our contractors arrive, which hopefully should be by the end of the month.

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Great any questions on facilities update, I was going to say I was just going to add that the.

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I.T office has just about done the conversion from the parking division and, if you'll remember,.

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Daisy's office was the one that had lots of floods. Her office ceiling was the rat run.

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When we had rodents so she's going to be very, very, very happy to be moving into her new space.

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That's a great point, and uh yes, I did notice that it's it is taking shape and I do remember feeling.

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Very concerned about our I.t, when I toured the old office back in the day, because uh it's location.

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And proximity and steam pipes, steam pipes and ift don't seem like they go very well together. Yeah.

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So that's great uh also for those who've been following along relative to the.

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Community groups set of recommendations and priorities which were adopted by the previous.

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Commission and have carried forward with the new commission uh in the last meeting. We.

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Went through each and every recommendation and divided the work associated with some next steps.

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Specific to some of those recommendations, so we're going to have as a standing uh meeting agenda item.

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Community priorities and it'll be a review of the work that we're doing relative to those.

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Recommendations. uh The first we're gonna highlight tonight is the mobile crisis response update, which.

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I'll turn over to buzz in a minute, but also want to share report out for the group that stephanie.

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Houseman and I had a chance to meet with dennis who has been leading the charge on behalf of.

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Seacoast mental health relative to mobile crisis response and he agreed to come and present.

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As as a little more time gets under their belt and they've had a little more experience.

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Providing crisis response it just began in january, um so stay tuned for a presentation.

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From him and buzz I'll, let you share what more you've learned. Yes, I I also had a meeting with.

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Dennis walker from seacoast mental health very helpful meeting- uh and uh I spoke with eric.

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Eason, I believe his name is who is managing in the state uh he's working with beacon health to.

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Implement the uh over time, the 988 call-in system, which will be a a special number to call for.

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People when there's a concern about a person in crisis and what they're engaged in there are.

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Rapid response mobile crisis units out there um they are still doing training.

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For dispatchers um and the the 988 number is not yet active, it's still uh being managed by 911.

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Dispatchers and that takes uh an upgrade in their training to get them oriented to how they use the.

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System system and how to make the referrals to the to the mobile crisis unit, the idea being.

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Mental health professionals will be responding to certain calls, depending on uh how dispatch.

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Judges, the judges that call in uh about a person in crisis. So it's a it's a slow buildup. The.

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Expectation is sometime in july the 988 number will go active and live uh and practically.

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Speaking, I think we're looking about at about a year for the on the seacoast, the mobile crisis,.

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Units to be fully operational and fully staffed, um there are uh there's plans afoot to make sure.

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That there is cross-pollination between regions in new hampshire. So if there's an inordinate number.

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Of calls coming in the seacoast region, uh the uh they might be able to tap into some of the units.

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In in manchester or uh in stratford county, um so it's a very extensive planning process.

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uh But I you know, I think we all look forward to dennis walker's presentation uh to describe.

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uh What we're going to be seeing in terms of additional response to people in crisis calls.

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And I just want to also add that we should give a shout out to lieutenant kevny who's really been.

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uh The point person on behalf of the department in working with sico's mental health and tackling.

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How best to approach mobile crisis response through the standpoint of the department so.

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Thank you to him and to the chief for his leadership and making that happen.

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Do you have any questions on that front? I don't okay, thank you um and then we'll move on to the.

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Nda update uh the non-disclosure agreement update uh it's an examination in on how much information.

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If there's a claim against the police department, how much information can be uh made public.

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Historically, there's been these boilerplate non-disclosure agreements where essentially.

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Almost none of the information about what actually happened um is disclosed and.

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uh There has been some interest uh from the community group and others uh to.

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See to what extent that practice can be changed in the interest of transparency. I've met with.

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The city attorney on a couple occasions and we have a meeting scheduled with the.

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Lawyer for the primax, the insurance carrier for the police department to see what we can work.

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Out so that's in progress, it may be by the next meeting. We we have something more solid to report.

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Great any questions on that friend, I don't okay, um so we'll move on to the discussion of the budget.

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Work session and planning uh for those of you, who've been following at home. We, we did have a.

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Public work session on the budget very recently, and so I'll, maybe turn it over to you. Karen.

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To give us an update on where things stand now relative to that process. um Well, tomorrow we have.

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Our public hearing and incorporated into that will be the recommendations, um not only the things that.

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We have held off for the past couple of years due to covid bringing in two officers a crime analyst.

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And and whatnot plus the discussion that we did on the mobile crisis initiatives and the.

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Body cams and how we'll go about incorporating that into our budget process? um Can you clarify.

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Public hearing what time and where for people watching it's 5 30, I believe tomorrow night here.

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And we tune um yeah, so we basically go over what we did during the work session and then just a.

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Little bit more on that um in terms of our budget, our narratives and other information is due to the.

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City friday for the budget book, then we have a meeting with the city manager on february 23rd.

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Because it is her budget that goes forward to the city council.

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And then, on february 7th the city council decided to delay or keep open the public.

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Hearing on the cip- and we have several initiatives there, which you asked for us.

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To discuss tomorrow night at the public hearing, so we'll we'll get those discussed um then and then.

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We're preparing for the work session in may with the city council, so a lot of there'll be a lot.

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Of changes between now and then um you know, we, I think we have some retirements, that we didn't plan.

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On initially so, there'll be some savings there, so we're just there's some adjustments that we're.

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Going to make between now and may and summarize them thank you questions for chief or karen no.

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So point for those watching at home, uh I know tune in tomorrow to learn more about the detail.

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And you'll hear both what we're requesting in the operating budget as well as.

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The capital improvement community investment plan all right last item for the commission is.

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A discussion of the recent grant opportunities for body cameras. This is part of the planning.

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Work that will be presented more relative to the budget tomorrow, um but there have been some.

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Public announcements of grant opportunities for body cameras at the state level and I.

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I don't know chief or karen if you've got any new updates. On that front um I haven't. I did get.

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An email recently um in reference to that and a lot of vendors have been contacting us saying: hey.

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There's all this money available, but I think, as we discussed in the work session, that it's.

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Not just the equipment, we have to plan out all the different components of implementing body.

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Cam, so I think we were going to meet later um and get that prepared for next year's cip.

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Put it in our strategic plan this year as a thing for next year and then plan over the.

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Summer because the cip starts in august, so we'll get more firm costs in reference to.

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What's needed for staffing and equipment and and whatnot, and commissioner coyle can I turn.

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It to you, because I know this was one of your priority areas from the community. Yes, and so.

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D3, which was um became effective on january 28, 22 of this I mean yeah of this year,.

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Provides up to 50 50 000 in grant money for the purchase of cameras.

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So the considerations for the you know for the police department and the commission is sort.

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Of balancing the cost of cameras with the infrastructure, the software, the storage and.

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Sort of managing that, and so we spent last night not last night, um the last our budget meeting.

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Discussing that and how we can get it into the capital improvement project so that we can get.

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Budgeted for the additional um you know, requirements of management of the system as.

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Well, as the infrastructure that costs my research is sort of, uh is that, while you know the cameras.

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Itself are about a thousand dollars per unit, but it can be another. You know three thousand dollars.

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In addition to that, for the the aspects of the manage, the storage and the management.

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Of the system so we're continuing to look at other grand opportunities in the meantime and.

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Trying to build it into the budget and get support.

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From the you know, city council, to to promote this, so that's where we're at thank you so stay.

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Tuned for more information on that front as well, um I think the bottom line is the.

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The grant opportunities you may have seen or heard about in in recent weeks are a great start, but.

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They're, not all that is needed in order to make this a reality here, so more planning is required.

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All right, so, chief we've covered the first two agenda items under your name.

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uh Let's move on to maybe the monthly traffic the uh monthly traffic stops uh for january stats. We.

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Had 925 motor vehicle stops 45 summonses and 42, reportable motor vehicle crashes.

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The 925 stops is a significant number. uh There's been a lot, a big push uh by our patrol officers.

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To uh do some more additional traffic enforcement, and I think it's very apparent that you know the.

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Number there that it's being effective- and I think um people are seeing our officers out there and.

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Realizing that we are out there trying to make our roads safe and our communities safer,.

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Any any questions on the traffic stats: none, none! Okay! I think it's just worth highlighting because.

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You know this is consistently a debate relative to the role of the.

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Police department and traffic enforcement- um you know it continues to be the thing.

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We hear the most about people, don't like cars, speeding on their. You know in their.

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Residential neighborhoods they're concerned about safety, and so it's helpful to see these.

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Numbers relative to enforcement, so thank you on that front. Chief.

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Nixon's financial reports.

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I'll be very quick: last month we were two percent below the cap. This month were about three percent.

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So it's moving in the right direction. Our overtime, on the other hand, again absorbed in the budget, is.

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26 percent over the cap for this period I do watch. I take the total expenditures on overtime and the.

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Total in salary savings and the net is still good, um but it's a lot closer than it was last year.

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At this time, so we have about a hundred thousand dollars to play with so we'll see well and again,.

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For those watching at home, I think what you're hearing and seeing is very consistent with what.

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Organizations and businesses across the country are contending with the people who are retiring.

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We have people positions that are hard to fill as you've heard us talk about in recent meetings.

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The challenges with filling you know covering dispatch and needing firefighters,.

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To step in and help us cover that it's it's been a big challenge, but.

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uh We're lucky we have the room to make that possible and and karen's never never gone over. So.

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She's just decided we're gonna, make it interesting this year, for you all right anything for karen on.

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The financial report itself- I don't okay, don't either okay um and so we'll move on to strategic.

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The strategic plan- that's still in process again. The budget work session last week assists in that.

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And we'll be adding in the new initiatives and then also the initiatives that have been delayed.

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Since covet so and grant applications update um we're still working on the voca grant, uh that's.

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Due by the 24th- and I can't remember if I said last week last month, that lieutenant kinsman.

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Was contacted by the state and there is a second round of icac internet crimes against children.

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Arpa funds, so we're going to be applying for that. The amount is to be determined at this point.

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So we should have that hopefully done before the next meeting great.

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Terrific any questions on those topics.

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All right, well, we've made good short order of this, I'm glad we had amanda here. That was great.

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12 minutes, yes, uh so any other miscellaneous business anything else we want to highlight.

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I think it's just worth noting in preparation for tomorrow night's public session on the budget.

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You know we have had a long-standing request relative to the facility, the the portsmouth.

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Police department facility and are really committed to working through.

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The the space and facility needs of the department you've you've, heard us every meeting for as.

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Long as I've been on the commission raising a facilities, update uh and hearing the challenges.

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Of the current constraints here in this facility relative to the water damage and the mold and and.

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The need to just get the space um up up to code and and make it work just to the degree it can.

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At the same time that everyone in the department has been working amidst this construction day,.

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After day after day, so we're hoping as part of the cip planning process that will have.

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A clear line of sight relative to how best to handle the department facility needs moving.

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Forward and we can work toward those in a swift and efficient way as I've shared before I was.

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On the city council, when this was first being evaluated, and that was now nine years ago, I.

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Hate to say um so, we got we got a lot of work to do on that front and I look forward to that part.

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Of the budget debate um as well as you heard karen mention this, you know we we are not yet at a point.

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Where we have as many officers as we did back in 2007 and yet we have had a community, you know our.

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Community continues to grow and the demands are more and more complex and difficult to navigate so.

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You'll see a request for the restoration of those two positions in the proposal as well. So we look.

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Forward to the process, we encourage everybody to participate and and give us feedback and.

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With that we'll, hopefully just at the beginning of this, the debate as as karen said, how things look.

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In may are very different than how they look in february in more ways than one any other business.

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None from me, congratulations to our newest patrol officer, sarah glad to have her here.

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Relocated from chicago has fun tonight anything else I do all right. Can I get a motion to.

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Adjourn, I move to adjourn second, all in favor all right, hi. Okay, we are adjourned thanks. Everybody.

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