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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-10-02 PD CAC MinutesRoxana Kennedy Chief of Police MEMBERS: Ray Aragon Martin Barros Gustavo Bidart Norma Cazares Patty Chavez Takisha Corbett Jose de la Garza Henrietta Harb Marla Kingkade Peter Mabrey Anthony Millican Gerry Sablan STAFF: Captain Vern Sallee Captain Phil Collum Captain Eric Thunberg ASM Jonathan Alegre DCA Carol Trujillo SAS Cathy Miller MINUTES A REGULAR MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHULA VISTA POLICE DEPARTMENT 315 FOURTH AVENUE CHULA VISTA, CA 91910 CALL TO ORDER: 2:04 PM ROLL CALL: 3'd floor training room October 2, 2019 2:00 PM Present: Martin Barros, Norma Cazares, Takisha Corbett, Jose de la Garza, Henri Harb, Marla Kingkade Peter Mabrey and Gerry Sablan Not Present: Ray Aragon, Gustavo Bidart, Patty Chavez and Anthony Millican City staff present: Roxana Kennedy, Eric Thunberg, Phil Collum, Vern Sallee, Jonathan Alegre, Joseph Walker, Carol Trujillo and Cathy Miller PUBLIC COMMENTS: Two members of the community attended, as well as retired member Ternot MacRenato. Community members Ms. Aurora Murillo and Dr. Eric Oneal were thanked for attending. Dr. Oneal, retired from the Navy after 23 years was doing doctorial research on community policing and was interested in CVPD. Ms. Murillo had an incident occur and made it a priority to attend with the suggestion of additional education to the parents of the community with police procedures in order to build trust. 1. Approval of minutes of March and June 2019 minutes. Motion to approve the March 2019 minutes was made by CAC member de la Garza and seconded by CAC member Barros. All accepted no abstentions. Motion to approve the June 2019 made by CAC member Cazares and seconded by CAC member Barros. All accepted no abstentions. 2. Chief's Comments: Chief Kennedy recognized Ternot MacRenato for his 16 years of service to the Chief's Community Advisory Committee and to the community of Chula Vista. He was presented with a Chief's coin. Mr. MacRenato was proud to serve on the committee and thanked the members and the chief for allowing him to serve and is available for any kind of support needed by either the committee or the police department. Chief mentioned working on a long-term staffing plan to present to council on 10/15/19. Measure A will allow hiring of additional officers to keep the community safe. Thanked those who supported the Measure A 1/2 cent tax to give more officers. Discussed Priority 1 (P1) and Priority 2 (P2) calls and response times. GMOC goals are to respond within 6 minutes for Pts and 12 minutes for P2s. CVPD would only meet these thresholds if there were additional officers but have made progress by creative community policing. CAC member Corbett asked what is the difference between a P1 and P2. P1 is emergency calls regarding immediate life and death calls (shooting, rape). P2 slightly less danger to a person (DV with no reported injuries or weapons or a disturbance of a person or some crimes occurring but not life and death). Captain Collum will be attending a three-month FBINAA academy and will return at the end of December. Command usually goes through this leadership training. Discussed the Drag Queen Story Hour (DASH) protest on 06/19/19. Concern over the community had police stage a safe area for children as well as keeping both sides of the protestors protected. Was extremely organized and safe. Overtime costs were $20,400. Command was extremely pleased of how the department stepped forward and kept the community safe even though tempers and emotions were high. CAC member Cazares appreciated how everything was handled and was grateful no one was injured. CAC member Kingkade said you can not put a cost on a person's life being injured so $20,000 might appear to be a lot but in the long run it was worth the pound of prevention. Mr. MacRenato asked if the preparation was due to the news media and if this is usual. Captain Collum said the preparation was calculated as the potential of what could happen, the same as if active shooters and drive by shootings. DCA Trujillo reminded the board this was not just a library event but there were events before and after the DASH protest with the potential of a large amount of people blocking traffic. It was a complicated effort to plan based on the event and the history seen in other communities. Chief Kennedy said CVPD even brought in DCA Trujillo to watch the drone feeds and believed it went well for what could have happened. Chief Kennedy gave the following staffing figures since her promotion to Chief in 2016: • 49 recruits • 20 laterals (from other organizations) • 37 professional staff • 60 promotions 18 are in field training • Unique diversity— 15.49% female officers Chief Kennedy invited members to the 10/22/19 grand opening of the new dispatch center. An outlook invite will be sent for 2:00 pm to see the new state of the art center. CVPD is ADL compliant and the department has been trained. CVPD does four times more the training within SD county. Members were invited to attend National Coffee with a Cop 10/03/19 from 8:30 to 10:30 (2326 Proctor Valley Road). CVPD attends 4 events a year — once in each district. 3. SANDAG Community Survey — A third party survey was sent to 4000 community members in March 2019. Results were given July 2019 and is available on the CVPD website complete with GMOC response times and stats. The community appears to be satisfied with the department. Community concerns include homelessness, drugs and crimes in parks. 2 Crime levels might be inaccurate due to social media posts rather than contacting the police directly. Police cannot respond to crime if no one catts it in. CVPD is trying to educate the community on reporting and requests CAC members make sure to remind others in their spheres to report to police and not just on social media. Community also requested more visible patrols, focus on traffic and faster response times. CAC member asked if Measure A will provide additional officers across all the district and reduce time threshold. Chief Kennedy said PD wants to improve response times and additional officers will put the community at peace when they see an officer in the area as well as being a deterrent. Captain Collum said the SANDAG survey revealed a greater wish of involvement between the community and law enforcement. Some of the programs the police department has is quarterly "Coffee with a Cop" events or working with the schools on educational meetings. CAC member de la Garza asked if patrol vehicles cross over into other districts. Captain Sallee discussed how the city is broken into 4 sectors where uniform will stay in that sector for their shift. CAC member de la Garza asked about the Dispatch Real Time. Captain Thunberg discussed the new computer upgrades which will show the location of the vehicles and their driving speeds. CAC member de la Garza asked when a body worn camera (BWC) is activated and if it is manual. Every officer has a BWC and will activate it depending on the call for service. Another possibility in the future is to supply vehicles with a camera. Mr. MacRenato brought up homeless issues in Chula Vista and asked about local government help. Chief Kennedy reminded CAC members being homeless is not a crime and of a recent grant awarded to NCPD and CVPD which partners with "Alpha Project" who provides services and case management to the homeless. PERT clinicians are assigned to the team as well. SPSA Walker discussed a dashboard a SANDAG study posted on the CVPD website that shared a study out of 834 homeless interviewed, 313 don't wants services and 37% don't want help. 4. Drone Program: Captain Sallee discussed the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) that has allowed CVPD a lot of positive recognition on being the only city approved by the FAA to fly drones as first responders on Priority 1 and Priority 2 calls. Chief Kennedy and Captain Sallee were presenters at the IACP conference in Chicago on the work done in CVPD. CVPD has 2 drone sites and the program is a powerful descalaton tool. CVPD recently reached 1000 flights and assisted in approximately 126 arrests. As of right now the department is researching a possible site out east and is looking for funding. It was asked if Southwestern College can be used as a third site. As of right now, expansion would be too expensive for equipment and staff. Latest beta testing is "Live911" which lets the drone operator immediately dispatch UAS to 911 locations in the city. Working out the bugs now (location pinpointing and geofencing). Experienced operators can determine demeanor of phone call (high stress situation) and advise responding officers. V CAC member Corbett asked about the problems with cell coverage with Verizon and the effect on the drones. The drones do not use Verizon, it was media misrepresentation and the drones will not be impacted. CAC member Kingkade discussed the county wide best practice policy on descalation and commended the department for using the UAS. Chief Kennedy discussed CVPD being the pioneer of UAS and in five years it will be mainstream but working with the FAA to tailor to the organizational needs is important as well as keeping it funded. CAC member Harb asked about manned helicopters. UAS will be used 75% of the time and be just as efficient. CAC member de la Garza asked how many UAS does CVPD have. The total is 4, the newer ones are more compact and are more reliable in flying and longer battery life. Cheaper to send a drone than a helicopter. CVPD has done information on the website. Dr. Oneal mentioned research on UAS with battery life should CVPD get a third site such as Southwestern College. CAC member Sablan asked about the removal of line sight if CVPD did have a site out east. Captain Sallee discussed the need for air space awareness and the need for visual site (no more than 400') to ensure safe flight operations. 5. New Neighbors Platform: Captain Collum discussed MOU with the Ring platform (purchased by Amazon). The platform is a social media post in which you can share a video or post a text. The website is designed for each neighborhood, which a customer would sign up for on-line. The police are not able to obtain any specific information of the poster unless shared by them. They are not able to see the exact address and a map shows only generalities. CVPD can send out to the platform, just like Twitter, information to share with the community. The difference between Ring and Nextdoor are the videos. CAC member Sablan asked if this could be used in lieu of calling the police. The police do not monitor any social media platform 7/24 so community must call into dispatch for immediate response. Ring also does not have someone monitor all posts. CAC member Cazares asked if there ACLU issues with Ring and UAS. Captain Collum said ACLU did express concern however the police do not have access to anything specific if it is not shared. The police see what any member of the community would see which is public domain. CAC member Corbett asked if there was potential for profiling. Ring members can opt out to share footage with police. CAC member Sablan asked how is CVPD and the Ring MOU linked. The MOU outlines certain restrictions the police can do. For example, no advertising. Facts are provided in order to dispel any misinformation or concerns. CAC member Harb asked if at the next meeting CVPD could provide if there has been an increase in crime. CAC member Kingkade would like officer wellness discussed at the next meeting. The meeting concluded at 4:02 hours. The next scheduled meeting will be Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 5:00 pm. fv"Xi, - Cathy Miller Sr. Administrative Secretary 4