Consider Directing Staff to Prioritize Efforts to Increase Safety and Reduce Crime.  (Mayor Spencer) [Not heard on May 15, 2018 or June 5, 2018]
One one it sounds like. Okay, okay. The next motion. I'm sorry. The next item nine be. Considered directing staff to prioritize efforts to increase safety and reduce crime and to do the same as place on agenda at the request of mayor. This is another one that I had placed on that I had submitted quite a while ago. Um. So who's going to vote against prioritizing safety and reducing crime? Okay. So then so that a motion. Okay, their motion for my. Yes. Well, hang on a second before you do that, because I want to make sure that's I just want to make sure that the referral I want to see what the action is in the referral before we. That's more my reaction to. I think it was a moot point maybe. I think they're doing that for the. There's any I just haven't seen any thing to tell me that we're not doing that and the chief's not doing that, and the department's not doing that. Thank you. Yes, very. Sorry. I mean, I would agree with my colleague, Mr. Martin. I mean, I don't I don't see anything that our, you know, police department is not doing to either solve crimes that happen or prevent crimes from happening. But I did want to point out that I think there was some discussion offline about Prop 47 in a study that came out by the PC. And, you know, the. The headline. You know, one is that violent crime has not increased in California due to Proposition 14 or Proposition 47. And the other headline, even though some people are touting this on the right, that some of these property crimes have increased, it's important to note that, you know , they've increased. They went from the lowest on record and the increase was to the second lowest on record. So even though there may have been a slight increase, which you may or may not attribute to Prop 47, we are still in a really good period when it comes to property crimes, especially when you compare it to the rates back from the seventies and eighties. So I just want people to, you know, not get caught up in the in the data because Mike McMahon used to tell me there's lies, damned lies and statistics. So I just want to make sure we don't rely on statistics to prove some point. And I don't know, one on this council did. So I'm not saying anything about anyone on this council, but there was some offline communication that I received from some of the outside the council. Vice mayor. I of course, support reducing crime, but I draw the line at Fourth Amendment protections and civil rights. And if this is a resolution to push forward or somehow bolster support for expediting the cameras, I'm not going to be in support of this because I think that that's a conversation that we still need to have and it's already on the agenda. And certainly one thing that we did hear from our chief at our budget workshop was that it looks like we're going to be at full staffing and that we have new recruits coming in. Right. And I think that that's a significant step forward, because we do know that community policing, having trained officers who are out in the community, is is the most effective thing that we can do. And also working with our citizens to make sure that, you know, that that they know what to look for and what to report and how to engage or, you know, to to improve their safety is another thing. And so I don't I also don't want this to be kind of a. Read as a comment against our department and the work that they've done. To get up to staffing and to go out and actually do the do the good work that they're doing. Hey. Well, I brought I actually don't know when I submitted this. I know it was a while ago, but I do want to I think it is important that we prioritize efforts to increase our safety and reduce crime. And that's why I brought the referral to get it to have it come back. And my understanding was at some point this can come back like in December or something. And I think maybe it was moved up in one of our meetings. I'm not really. Sure. So I mean, I think the general idea of supporting, you know, to prioritize efforts to increase safety and reduce crime, I mean, we I think we can get behind that. I'm not sure what we would bring back. We are, um, you know, on the uppers. We had discussed that on the 18th. We plan on bringing back the policy as well as, um, if there's a RFP. So I think we're clear on that. So I don't think any of it we wouldn't be planning on bringing anything back on this. And when a staff planning to bring that back at this time, that. Is coming back in, I believe, in September. At a nice handed engagement. They. Yeah. Yeah. So personally, I don't know if it's possible to move that up, but if it works out that it works where he has the twenty-fourths and sooner and my preference would be to have it come to this, you know, whenever, as soon as possible. So but I think the referral honestly was written quite a while ago. This has been. You can tell. Yeah. So it sounds like it's coming back on September 4th. That's about as quick as your as we're going to get. Great. Okay. So September 4th sounds good. I know it had been later date at some point and we moved it up, so I appreciate that. Okay. Nine C visitor directing staff to draft an ordinance banning the use of gas powered.