 Today, we have three fabulous gentlemen from the security and police force that has been working here in Sheboygan County. I'm going to lead into that by explaining that I don't know if you've gotten to see Sheboygan Press this morning, but this was perfectly timed. We have the man charged with homicide and the heroin overdose and the legislative committee okays the trio of heroin bills right on the front page. If you don't get a chance, if you haven't had a chance to read those two articles, they're timely. They're going to actually be discussed a little bit touched on this morning. So if you would help me welcome the three gentlemen who are here to speak with us. We have Sheriff Todd Priebe. He has been in the service for 23 years and three years, the last three years as our sheriff. Chief Domagowski has been in the service for 25 years. You're not even going to raise your hand. You're just going to pretend that I'm not talking about you. Good. Help me out here. He's been in service for 25 years and he has been our chief of police for the last four. And we have Chief Taucek who has been in the service for 34 years and he has been seven years the chief of police in Plymouth. So if you give them a warm welcome, thank you. Welcome. Thank you for allowing us to give a presentation to your group this afternoon. Everything will work all right with our laptop. The person that set it up just to break this open a little bit said it showed us how the remote works. I said, well, I just got two slides anyways and he had a funny look on his face and he spent a lot of time but I thank him for getting there working. As you can see with the slide, I'm going to talk a little bit about today about drug trends here in Sheboygan County and what occurs in Sheboygan County is occurring a lot throughout the state of Wisconsin. I've got some local statistics for the last three years in the city of Plymouth from April of 2011 through the end of this year and in the city of Plymouth we've had 73 drug incidents just locally that does not include any of the drug arrests or drug incidents at our local MAG unit. If you're not sure or not familiar with the MAG unit, it's the multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement group and that's comprised of two officers from the city of Sheboygan, two sheriff's deputies and one officer from the city of Plymouth that are assigned full time to that unit and they do some of the more complex drug investigations in Sheboygan County. Some of the statistics I also have from that unit. They also work hand in hand with other adjoining counties with the State Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation and DEA so I'm sure throughout the year in the press you've seen some news releases concerning them. Part of the MAG unit, when I talk to their MAG units, their statistics heroin over the last three years, especially in 2013 last year has jumped almost tripled. Right now since April of 2011 to this point heroin is the major drug that our MAG unit has been working with. Marijuana is still available, cocaine, but they've seen the biggest increase in the heroin use. Some of the slides today I'll point them out. Also I obtained from the, if you're familiar with the grant that the city of Sheboygan received on the heroin initiative and we'll touch a little bit on that but I'm going to try to just talk about generalization and how some of the issues that's occurring for business people, it may be your employees, it's going to surely be your customers and some of the things and incident that recently happened in Plymouth a week ago on Monday kind of illustrates some of the problem with this heroin here. You know you as business owners, family friends and adults or your parents, you're going to see some things in the community or some see some things with your customers or family members. Some of the warning signs are visual indicators and those visual indicators can be blood shot eyes, impaired coordination, dilated, constricted eyes. Next area you want to watch are changes in daily patterns. Maybe a person isn't sleeping anymore like they normally do or they're sleeping at different times. Eating habits have changed or not eating at all and in the business setting your workers, your employees, their productivity, you know you can see some change in their productivity or lack of it or maybe if you have a family member, school or maybe it's an employee that is also going to school and their school productivity is dropping. Another area is financial problems. Right now I'm talking to one of the meganin investigators, if a person with heroin it's about a $40 a day habit that it's costing them and you're using heroin about two or three times a day for an addict and you can see some of the financial problems would be that they're always in a need for money behind under bills, maybe you're having a collection agency calling an employee and you'll see some taking checks a lot of times you maybe have some worthless checks that are coming through your business if you take them and also you may see a lot of fraud on credit card fraud that type of thing. So suspicious behavior is another indicator where people are lying, they're not telling you about different activities or doing things, they're telling you they're going to go one place and they're actually not going there or they're real secretive, you ask them what they've been doing, who some of their friends are or associates are, they aren't telling you anything, they're kind of changing the subject and going in another direction. Another thing would be missing items within your home or business, missing cash, jewelry, maybe some prescription medication, that type of thing, anything television sets are a real hot item if they can get the newer television sets, they can sell those pretty quick for cash and then once again poor attendance at either work, school, maybe have an employee that the person is calling sick a lot on a Monday or after a big event, something that's going on when they're using the drugs and you can also see that with a lot of your customers at times. And the problem, this is a slide, some of the information is from the heroin initiative, it's a region, state and county problem. In 2011 the substance abuse and mental health administration reported 8.3% increase of heroin, persons 12 or older in the Midwest. Interesting to talk to the regular investigators, the people that they're investigating and arresting the average age is between, the heroin years is between 18 and 30 years old. Wisconsin teens 12 to 17 have tried heroin, that's been up 300% since 1999. This is some local survey from Shevegan County. October of 2013 through the city of Shevegan did the survey. 1,354 residents, 27 of the respondents personally knew someone who had been a victim of heroin, 27% knew someone who had sought treatment for heroin and 9% knew someone that had used heroin in the past 30 days. Just slide here, a week ago Monday you probably saw an article in the paper where Marshall's gas station in the city of Plymouth, they had an attempted robbery. And I'd have heard about seven o'clock at night and a party came in, he was wearing a hood, it was cold out, he had a t-shirt over his face, he had sunglasses on and there was a one female employee in there. And what happened was, he came in, there were several other customers in there, I had to talk to another resident of the city that said he was in there at the time but didn't see anything. But what this person did, he came in and he walked through the store, still kept his face covered, looked up and down the aisles, looked waiting for the customers to leave, walked in the bathroom, came back up and then once everybody left, he was in there for about four or five minutes, then he first went up and approached the clerk and came around the counter and then when he saw that the clerk was hitting the panic button, he left. Well, we got some information actually through our mega unit investigator and then we were able to make by the next afternoon to get a search warrant and make an arrest. I had also talked, the party stepfather came in two days later and I talked to him for a short time and he said he had been having problems with his stepson where he was taking things from the house, taking his checks and cashing his checks. I asked him if he was going to have him prosecuted and he wasn't going to have him prosecuted, but it just goes to show he was, he needed money for his heroin. Our investigator talked to him. He was pretty desperate. That clerk there was, in my opinion, was pretty lucky nothing happened to her. He had a knife that was in his pocket, but how hard is it to choke somebody? So, those are some of the things that, if you have people that are in the community that say, well, it won't happen here in Shabuagin County. It's here, it's happening here, it can happen, and it doesn't take long. Something like that, if it's a clerk or you're telling your employees, if that happens, first thing I would do, even with a suspicious party, down 9-1-1, explain to the dispatcher that you have a suspicious party here. I would, I, and I'm sure I can speak for the city of Shabuagin, the sheriff's department, law enforcement would rather have you call on something like this, and this is suspicious walking with a mask all the way through the store waiting for everybody to leave. We'd rather have you call on something, you know, tragic happen. Heroin use leads to death, state of Wisconsin, 29 deaths, between 2000, 2007, 199 deaths in one year, 2012. I also, one of our, to make you an investigator, said, everybody they talked to, heroin, you ask them the same question. Are there any 50-year-old heroin users or addicts? And everyone answers them and says, no. There's only one reason why they say no. None of them are here anymore, they're all dead. I think I touched on this a little earlier. Users are between 18 and 30 years old, and more than 70, and I guess the second statistic there, that's kind of, that's really alarming. More than 75% of those who try heroin once will use it again. And I think the problem with heroin, it's a, it's a cheaper drug form. It's, you know, it can, it, the effects last longer, they don't have to buy as much, but the sad part is, and the tragic part, look at how addicted it is. And when you have these people that are addicted, that's causing our crimes to increase. High violence, you have shoplifting issues, you have internal thefts. The big thing with internal thefts is that, do your due diligence when hiring people. I have some handouts over on the table if you'd like it. One of them is from the Wisconsin Department of Justice. It's an online records check system. Some of you are probably aware of it. You can check on a person's criminal history. You might want to use it if you aren't now to check on your employees. I don't know if individually on your agencies, if you can do a drug test, I'm sure you all have employees assistance program or access to them. But that's one of the things is doing a good background, check on a person. Credit check, those types of things. If they're, you know, if it's a bad credit, they're behind in bills. There might be something there that's causing this in a lot of addiction. Once again, when you deal with these individuals, they're all desperate. Something to share with your employees. I don't know what each and every business here is, what your protocols are. But if a person comes in, give them what they want. Be a good witness. You know, take good notes, have paper and pencil, dial 911 and share that information with law enforcement. Law enforcement can't survive without everybody working together. The community, business community, citizens, schools. We all need each other's help here. And the next slide is, how can I help? Education leads to prevention, foster open communication about the negative effects of addiction to prescriptions, drugs and heroin. And you're already here. You're helping by being here, education, use your local law enforcement agency, crime prevention. All the officers are trained in crime prevention. Invite them in to give talks to your group or to your employees. If you're with a service organization, invite them in to give some talks to those organizations. Even individually, we get a lot of calls from parents, teachers, members of the business community. If they have a question, never feel afraid to call and ask an officer a question. We're here. We're around 24-7. We're here for you to answer your questions, to give you advice, to give you some information to share. The other thing is, you should, all businesses and even yourself, you should practice good crime prevention techniques. Don't make yourself a victim. We were talking a little bit earlier at the table. When I'm walking through stores, grocery stores or coals or whatever, I see a lot of purses open on a shopping cart or set down. You look around and the owner of that purse is nowhere to be seen. Same thing for with men or anybody. Lock your items into the trunk. Try not to make yourself a victim. And why should we talk about this in our community? Families are torn apart due to watching a loved one steal a lie and slowly kill themselves through addiction. Business and property owners are victims of crime driven by addiction. It's costing you employees. It's costing you money. It's costing everybody. So once again, everybody in this room and in the community, we all need to work together. Schools, law enforcement, business, and other community leaders, local and at the state level, to work on not only drug trend issues, but good practices throughout whatever business you're with and in our community. I have a slide with some information. You can read that, several different places. We have locally, Sheboygan County, mental health. And the other thing is, you can always call your local law enforcement agency. We get calls just because you live in Plymouth, doesn't mean you can't call Sheboygan vice versa. If you live in a township, call the agency that you feel most comfortable with. I also have another hand note if you want to look at it or take one, they're on the corner here. And that's from, you can join the Wisconsin Crime Alert Network. And they can either send you faxes or emails. That's, I believe that fee is $12 throughout the year and that'll help with crime, prevent crime, finding stolen property, locating missing persons, et cetera. And there's a large group of membership in here. It's something that you, if you want to grab it or go online, both of these forms are available online, but I also have a pencil over there. I think I'm out of time here. Now we're going to move into how is this affecting our local retailers? What we have going is some, some, oh boy, I can hook you back. Okay, current crime trends in our local retailers. The heroin is feeding right into our shoplifting that we're seeing. The attitude that these addicts have for users, the heroin users are, is that careless, I don't care, carefree attitude. Plano is just walking into, especially our box stores along I43 and Fort Harden Highway 41 corridor, I'll get into that in just a bit. But they are basically walking in, taking what they want with an attempt to walk out of the store, hopefully unnoticed in the current going and off the aisle. Okay, very blazing. The target, expensive, high-end items, flat out walk out and they may end up having tools. These people know what it is that they're doing. They'll carry the tool that they need because they know some of the techniques used by retailers to curtail their shrinkage. And one of the things you will notice with the heroin users is they may appear to be under the influence of controlled substance. Another trend that we're seeing is the organized crime, typically coming out of Milwaukee, teams of individuals using the I43 corridor, along with 41, and they're making big moves, what they're doing. They are actually going into the stores with a shopping list. They know specifically what it is that they want. They're bringing the tools that they need in order to accomplish their task in completing their list. They target those high-end items and they're going after multiple items. It's just not what they want. It's as much as they can get and gone they go. What they're doing is once they get back to the Milwaukee area is they're actually repackaging the stuff and going out into what is called a great one. All right, reactive strategies, news travels. If you have a retail store and you're not following your own policies, you are not enforcing the shoplifting protocols that you have or you're lax on your loss prevention program, news travels. You will continue to be targeted. You can talk to a high school kid and find out, hey, what stores can you shop from? They'll tell you. And once you get into the county jail, oh yeah, that's quite an education. You basically don't want to find out anything about it. News travels. So if you're lax on your protocols, you can bet that you are going to end up being a target. We used to have a store in town that was so relaxed. This is no exaggeration, I heard. It was right straight from the loss prevention office. That if their store policy was that if somebody was stopped for suspicion shoplifting or stopped because they actually have a problem with cost of shoplifting, corporate would send a gift certificate for that individual for their store, whether or not a business anymore. I won't mention any names, but I'm sure through the process of elimination, you can figure it out. So that being said, what are our strategies? Knowing that news travels out there, if you've got a lax store, you're going to end up having a problem, customer service number one. You've got somebody that's in the store and you suspect, we'll get into training in a bit, you suspect that somebody may be shoplifting, the best thing you can do is have your staff, may I help you? And they say, oh, no, I'm fine, well, I'll tell you what. That's the time you start folding the clothes, straightening out the hammers, you hang on that area long enough. You will disturb that person from wanting to hang around and they will leave. You do that in a consistent manner, you will disturb that person from coming back. But it's got to be persistent, it's got to be continuous, okay? And prostitute, you stop somebody, you generally stop somebody, you've got to get to the right posture. Because if you don't, there's no travel, okay? Proactive strategies. Now, there is, I'm going to use cold as an example. If you are, I'm sure everybody's been cold, but if you look at where that cash register is, where is it? Not very close to the exit, right? It could be a little closer, right? What you want to do is you want to locate your high shrinkage items as close to the register as possible. Now, you will end up having problems with corporate or the actual manufacturers because they want to do a certain location, okay? But if you want to reuse your shrinkage, you're going to have to think outside of the box and, okay, what's the best way to store it? We're going to hammer it on a shrinkage of this particular tank top. What can we do? Well, moving into the cash register closer to where there are staff available will help with that shrinkage. Now, training of the personnel, your associates that are working on the floor, this is critical. There's such a high turnover in retail that it's got constant effort, but you've got to teach them what to look for, okay? One of the things to look for when it comes to, I'm going to use cold as an example, you look at that layout. Those that are shoplifting are going to seal within, or conceal within somewhere within the store, and they're going to use that back wall to get to the exit. And when they follow the thing about it, picture colds. If you follow that back wall, where is the leisure? Right to the exit. Unconfronted by any of the staff in the zero cash register. Too far away from the exits, okay? Look at targeting. Target is a better setup. A little bit more difficult to use that back wall, because you're going to have to go through a checkout, okay? Keep that in mind, but it's concentrating the other staff what to look for, okay? Knowing what it is they're looking for, and then following the protocols that you have set in place for prosecuting the individuals. I'm going to take that a step further, that if you have somebody that caused a disturbance within your store, these teams come in. They will cause a distraction. These teams disorganize through. They will come in and teams. One of the things that they want to do is cause a distraction. I had a daughter that was really ticklish. If I wanted a tickler, I'd get her looking over here, because my hands were going, right? And then I'd cover up and I'd tickle her to this hand. Well, that's what they're doing. Well, it did take long for my daughter to figure out, oh, don't watch that, man. This is the hand I watch, okay? And that's what we want to do. We want to realize right off the get go that if there's a disturbance over here, or there's a distraction, we need to be watching what's going on over here, okay? And it's a constant reinforcement of this stuff. And then what to do in the situation if there is a shot with me? Are your hands on? Are your hands off? What are your protocols? There needs to be a clearer understanding of what it is that a store wants their associates to do it. You don't have a loss of prevention personnel, okay? The store, it seems to be reinforced on a regular basis. The more you do this, you're sending the message to the organized crime and the users, and you're a school student, you're out here. There's a wide range of people that are out there seeing them, okay? But you're sending the message to these folks, we're attentive of what's going on, we're going to make sure that you're arrested, and I would highly suggest that if your corporate office allows you, and I know we've got this in the city, you should go again, you put them on a criminal trust pass warrant, which means for a designated period of time that you step, they are not allowed to come back onto the property, and if they do, they are arrested immediately for criminal trust pass. Now, don't do what some stores do and keep them out for a week, okay? You're not always sending a message. I say, ban them. Now, you can evaluate it at the time, situations are a little different, I get that, but make it meaningful enough that it has an impact, news will travel. The other thing, require receipts for your returns, and signage, use the signage, letting people know that you're prosecuted, letting them know they're on camera, okay? Proactive strategies, continued anti-shoplifting technology, boy, there's a lot of stuff out there, however, it can be defeated, and it's always attempted. Video surveillance is certainly one option to go, anchoring the merchandise, this is less desirable, but can that is both convenient to the customer. You're dealing with the cables and all this kind of stuff, but also it takes time in moving the merchandise. The time that it takes your associates to realign the store or move things around, it's very time consuming. The best combination you have is to take an alarm system along with the closed circuit TV, and combination of those two, you can help make an impact on your shrinkage. So those are some of the proactive strategies. I'm running out of time, I've got this gift to gather, I can really talk a long time on this stuff. One other thing I wanna add before I'm done is communication, it was just by the chief to get involved with some of these groups out here with information sharing, but also locally. There are retailers that meet on a regular basis, and you can share this information with each other, who to look for, you can share photos, as long as it doesn't leave the store, you can share photos of suspects. Just don't be putting it out, they're posting it out there for the whole world to see, no, it's gotta be kept within the office area, but let your associates know who is your threat. But now, we've got this organized finance working 9.43 and 41, if you get a phone call from Grafton and say that, hey, such and such is on their way out, this is the time that you can put your people into action. There's actually nothing wrong with having a stored person out or in your loss prevention officer right out there at the entrance, looking for the person that you know is coming. Send that message right off the get go, I don't know how to wait for you. Send that message, deter that person or that group from wanting to come back to your store, make it a hard target. Now, if you've got that organized group and they're inside your store, they're causing a problem, there is nothing empty, he says, call us. We wanna know who these people are too. There is nothing wrong with that, but I can't guarantee that you're gonna get an officer there ready to slip. But by the, okay, so they end up leaving the store by the time we get there. But they're passing that squad car as they're leaving. They know, oh my gosh, they call the cops. You're still sending the message that the management there, the loss prevention team, the store clerk and your associate, somebody, fall. And that's raising a red plate for that pain. Do we really wanna go back to the store? Well, I'll tell you what, we'll find another target. So communication amongst the store, working together, who are your threats? What is their timeline? Hey, they're on their way. You got hit, you're a full story, you just got hit or you just saw a suspect and you know that you're making that wrong. Maybe that's called a green bank. Matter to our pain, just to let you know. So I'm so, it was just here, they made me on their way. Do you want me to look out for it? I'm sure I've exhausted my time. Oh, there you go. Oh, my God. They were a little concerned that if you didn't show up, they didn't know what they were saying. I'm just throwing it out. He went through the cracker. Question so far. There's a number of financial institutions. From what you've said about retail, what kind of advice do you have for financial institutions? And I'm sure that they're probably a lot more proactive because steel and money is a little bit riskier than steel and shirt or something like that. What? Okay, financial institutions, this is going to cut it in a country. Financial institutions, just as with retailers, you want broadcast that your store has been a target partner, that you have done things and put things in this place and made it able to cope with chocolate. That's who you want to communicate with financial institutions also. Such as, you have somebody that's working at the desk at the sooner the door, but only they can be sure and come in. I want to warn you, welcome to person night or whatever the case may be. That's that. Right, contact, okay? That reading at the door is critical. That is the personification of the bad guy that, oh, they recognize it. They lay in the eye contact. We actually know of one situation and here's bad. That robber actually went into, he was Norwest at the time or something like that. They walked in and the plan was that this individual was actually going to rob that financial institution first. However, when he was asked, well, you went into, you went into, I want to see what's Norwest. You went into Norwest, what'd you learn? And the response was, that's because I was greedy. Who's greedy? And that surged him right off the get go. Then he went over to community event. So, when they do walk into a financial institution, they're looking for the attentiveness of the personnel. Are they making the eye contact? Are they greedy? They're looking for the cameras, okay? Now, always give everything up, okay? But I don't want to. It's your protocol, you make the decision. Your financial institution has to call when you're gonna push that button and activate the panic alarm, okay? However, I can't speak enough about actually going through a mock robbery with your staff. I have seen where, because on an animal basis, you are required to do robber training, correct? Every financial institution, okay? With that being said, when the employee police department started doing training with that mock robbery from financial institutions, I saw this myself. Every time I went into a financial institution for the first time, they've all been trained in what to do. However, when it came to the actual test, they're kind of like, oh, no. Robbery occurred, the bad guy, he shot some rounds off, we even got somebody that decided they were going to be a hero and make eye contact with the guy, totally violating and basically going against what the orders of the bad guy were. I actually instructed him, shoot him. You got a guy that is making that eye contact and you told him, get out of the ground and he's on it again, you shoot him because that's what's gonna end up happening. Make an example out of it and then you've got people that are just, but I'll tell you what, when I went in the second time, everybody was boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. They knew what to do. There was no hesitation, everything went into motion. I got a colony board meeting next month. We are actually gonna do this. We're going to prepare for an active shooter situation. We're going to prepare the colony board. I'm gonna find out anybody got any medical conditions or anything like that. I need to be aware because in February, you're gonna be put to the test. You're gonna talk about what to do. Okay? And you're gonna do it because I don't want people pausing and linking if it was when it really happens without having that role play. So there's something to be said about actually physically doing the role play of actual burglaries. It pays off. That's why I started out speaking to it. All right. Sorry, Chief. All right, thanks. Good afternoon, everybody. First thing that I wanna touch on is to share with you some of the ongoing and emerging issues in law enforcement. So once a month, all the chiefs in the sheriff within the county get together. We have a state organization that Chief Rifle is currently the president of. And then we have a Wisconsin police executive group that I'm the current chair of that's of cities 20,000 and over. And then of course, national groups. And one of the interesting things is every, no matter if it's at the county level meeting or at one of the national meeting, it's the same issues that are being talked about across all segments here. And so Jeff talked a little bit about their eyes in the heroin issue, really a crisis throughout the entire country, not just here. One of the big issues that keeps coming up that if you read the papers is the lack of services to people with mental health issues and how that bleeds over into everything else, corrections, law enforcement, really it's a big problem. Lots of issues with implementing emerging technologies both from the positive side, understanding what's there, but then also as you're reading the paper, a lot of the privacy issues that come up. So law enforcement's use of cameras in the cars and now the emergence of body worn video by a lot of law enforcement personnel. Cities putting up surveillance cameras downtown. Cities either getting access through investigation or cooperatively to all the surveillance cameras that businesses are putting up to protect themselves. Bison plate readers, there's been a lot of talk about that in the news. Big data, afraid of government overstepping, but like any business, if we want to try to be effective and maximize what we have in this type of economic situation where budgets are tight and we're cut in personnel and we're trying to be more effective, it's important that we take advantage of a lot of those technologies to use them too. So lots of interesting things going on there. One of the big topics for the last several years revolves around employee wellness and resiliency. So wellness just like you would deal with it as a business to try to reduce your healthcare costs and we would deal with as a city, but also building up resilience so that the officers who are exposed to ongoing trauma all the time understand the effect that it can have on you and the things to do to reduce that so we're not paying those bills and getting people going off on disability and dealing with that. So understanding what systems we have to put in place to protect ourselves from that. One of the big things over the last couple years is the movement within the criminal justice system to evidence-based practices. So the idea that we just don't do something and not pay attention to the results but actually gather data, measure how we're doing and use research-based methodologies to ensure that the conclusions that we're coming to about whether or not what we're doing is successful has something to back it up and then when we find something that's working to share it throughout the community so other law enforcement agencies can use it and it becomes a base of knowledge that everybody has. So now the next thing that I wanna talk about part of it is really about using some of those evidence-based practices to build a better system. Lots of issues within the criminal justice system that need to be improved, including disparate data systems. One of the areas that we're really lucky is that in Sheboygan County we're all on the same records management system so that if something happens in Plymouth we have access to the information and the data and we can share it and notice some of those trends earlier but as a criminal justice system as a whole that's really a problem in that throughout the state very few of us have access to each other's data so we have to try to build interfaces to be able to run queries and get to some of that and it's really the same on a national level where if we all had one records management system that we could share it would be a lot more effective for some of these people that are moving across the country or changing communities and doing those types of things. So what I wanted to talk about is some of the work that we're doing on the reentry issue. So reintegrating people that have been incarcerated back into the community and I thought that would be timely due to the fact that a lot of the chamber events that I come to a lot of the talk and focus is on the shortage of workers and the shortage of workers with skills. So how do we build a safer community, reduce crime and reduce recidivism if we're operating on the belief that the way to deal with criminals is really to lock them up and punish them. At some point we have to understand that it costs a lot of money to lock people up and if they're getting out at some time and we're not sure that they have the skills and the support to be successful what's gonna end up happening is they're just gonna go back into the life of crime that they were already in so we're back in that same position. So the idea here is really is again to understand some of the information out there. So that about 8% of the population commits 80% of the crime and then out of that group there's still a whole scale here where about 20% of the people are essentially one time criminals so very low risk involved there. You have another 8% there that are chronic offenders that it doesn't matter to a large degree what's gonna happen, they're gonna be in the system and then you have that whole middle group there that is really what we would call medium risk but high needs. So they have some kind of issues that we really need to address and if we don't address those issues that causes the risk to go up so we're talking about again drug and alcohol abuse problems, low educational attainment and antisocial cognition so basic things that if we supervise them correctly and provide programming for the needs hopefully we can get them into a position where they can transition into a normal lifestyle where they're not trying to prey on everybody else. So as a system in the county we're working on some of these things. We have a couple different groups that work together to try to get everybody on board and moving in the same direction. There's a criminal justice advisory group that myself, the sheriff, the judges, health and human services, the defense attorneys, district attorney, everybody sits on it and is working on it and then when we talk about this it's really happening at two different levels so the local level through the county jail the county detention center and then at the state level with the department of corrections so the prisons and community corrections so probation and parole. The first step is trying to identify screening tools and processes and so what the screening tools really do is help us to measure risk. Again that's that scale that we're talking about is this group is really first time offenders very low risk because of other factors they have stable jobs, they're married and have families that they're supporting they have a good support network there's very low risk that they're really gonna offend we really have to find them guilty and put them in a low risk supervision program and not waste a lot of money on them. We have another group as I mentioned that's high risk chronic offenders they need to get locked up and stay there and then there's this other group that we need to then use our assessment tools and processes to really try to find out what those needs are and make sure that those needs are being met. At the local level again two levels here that we're talking about we're talking about people in a predispositional stance so somebody that's essentially been accused of a crime but is awaiting trial or a plea or whatever it might be. In those cases we have something that's called bail that usually a bail is set on somebody the purpose for that bail is for two-fold number one to get them to show up at court and then two to make sure to reduce the risk so that there's not harm to the community so identify is this somebody that needs to stay in jail or is this somebody that needs to go out and so we need to be making good decisions about what people's risk are so again we're not spending all kinds of money to keep the wrong people in the detention center so it doesn't make any sense for somebody who's arrested on a second or third time OWI to keep them in the county jail for a period of time before they're found guilty if they have a full-time job that they're gonna lose because they stay there and they have a family that they're supporting that they're not gonna be able to support. We're really only making it worse. We have other tools that we're using to ensure that they are showing up at court and then that they're following their bail conditions which most of the time means no contact with alcohol and things like that so using new technology such as ankle bracelets that can monitor the perspiration on their skin to determine if they are using alcohol and if they are to send a signal to the detention center that tells us that they're violating the bail so that we can send somebody there to enforce it. Using day reporting centers to get people out of the detention center again who have jobs and have those things going on that we can still monitor them daily or weekly, give them drug tests, whatever it might be needed so that we're not spending all the time keeping them there. The second issue is after disposition so somebody that's been sentenced again what's the most effective way to sentence them and then what's gonna happen when that sentence is over? So if they're in the detention center it's usually less than a year that they're gonna be locked up so we know in the near future they're gonna be getting out and we have to figure out what to do with them so that they're successful. So determining if they have educational needs and providing that education right now through LTC and trying to expand some of that, trying to line up vocational services so that they are capable of finding employment if they don't have it, making sure that we have the capacity to provide the AODA needs that are out there and not just putting on somebody on probation with a condition that they get drug counseling and we don't have access to it for them. So lining up all of those support services so that we can get them out if they don't have the skills and the support to have jobs and do that. So really those are many of the things that we're doing and one of the reasons I mention it is because you're the business community and here comes the contradiction. Earlier we told you make sure that you're doing checks on everybody and don't be hiring the wrong people and now I'm standing up here telling you that some of these people get to the point in their life where they're ready to make a change and we gotta have people that are willing to take a chance on them with the knowledge of what their situation is and then with us providing a partnership through law enforcement corrections and the other services that we set up so that when they start falling off the wagon or going sideways, you have somebody that you can reach out and say, I took a chance on this person, they're starting to go, something's gonna happen bad here and we can get that support network in to keep them going straight so that we can reduce crime and the recidivism throughout our community. Thanks. You're just kidding. So we can actually ask you guys questions. That'd be awesome. Thank you. While they're getting situated, I'd also like to thank Prevea for sponsoring our meals again. They always are so generous with us so thank you Prevea. And a great big round of thanks to The Bowl because this is our first program out at The Bowl and they've done a lovely job. I think the meal, everybody would agree the meal was delightful and the situation, the setup is really very welcoming so thank you very much to The Bowl. And we're gonna open the floor to questions. They've organized the steel TVs, the arrivals, receiving that TV and doing whatever they do with it. And I've done a lot more for a student job. What that tells me is that that part is very difficult and someone described what happens with that TV when the addict sells it. There's markets out there just like there's a market in my entire product. So those markets might vary. Some of what we would commonly see is what's popular now would be the game systems. So we and Xbox, something like that. The first thing that we do is go to these sellers within the community and check them. And again, we're talking about making gas systems to make us more effective. So one of the programs that we use is written by a previous office officer who is called New Purs. Don't ask me what it stands for at this point, but it is an elementary system. So if we have items that are reported to us as stolen, they get entered into New Purs so that retailers can sign up for it and go on their book and see what's stolen. And then the retailers as part of city ordinances or county ordinances are also required to enter that into their sole. We can assign an office or a detective to check periodically because if it's stolen, they should avoid it. A lot of the dumb criminals will go to some of our places and they'll stop putting up a market here or some of those places and sell it for 80 bucks, I think 80 bucks is a lot of things there. But some of the smarter ones are more organized around the market. So here they're gonna take a degree of aid or they're gonna take a total of clarity. This lets us then marry them off. Same thing with the Scram dealers. So the Scram dealers system. We're gonna pay for what it's engraved on a seamless turn at the end of my job. The actual technology in that way is really how this move a lot faster in these things. But there's also a secondary market where they're selling it to drug dealers who are using it in their houses and they're selling it to drug dealers. And there's also Craigslist. You can check a lot of things on Craigslist and some of these people who are desperate for money. Couple days after the next day they'll go right back to the store if they still have a TV and want to return it and get some money back on it. Once again, share of previous presentation require sales. I would say something that's based on our experience of the faster money. And all a lot of corporates don't like to do it is asked for a current floral identification. Because we've got it in the past for people who have been in the holiday season. They get their cars broken into, there's a receipt in there, they go back to the store. You see how they say that they have to take this. This is years of old, along with what our credit cards are used for. I'm more so not cashed. If you get the cashed back, they do them a slip of paper and they put their name in an address down. They sign it while it's off their tissues. And I'm not in that in the business. You know, sometimes it's a burden. It's easier to get to return things but that's just salivations there sometimes. There's a market for this. They'll even send these people up with specific things to pick up in these stores. That's why you can see a lot of your larger stores. They're ready to use. Right now they're like, unless they're a little bit Walmart store, just have all of them. Soulfuls, everything's all locked in there. Paper money. We accept a lot of people pay their bills with paper. You know, other than a full counterfeit and we have certain things, I should be doing as a service to the banks or the people running money. Is that a big thing anymore? I would say, I would suggest that you keep up with the currency and the changes in the currency. There's a new $100 bill out there and there's security measures in there. And I would make sure that the staff knows what are those security things within each of the bills and each one's a little different. And I would not overlook those either because there's some pretty good stuff out there. With today's good printers and viewers who use that nature, they're putting out some pretty good color fit. So you want to not depend just on that marker. I would suggest that you also understand the characteristics of those security measures in each one of them. Some of them, they've got that thread that goes through that you can't see without pulling up to a light. There's microfibers in there that they're not put in by a marker. And they are actually microfibers and they took it very nearly naturally removed. There's various things that you can look for. Where do you get that itchy sheet then? So do you get it in the bank? The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve has a really nice brochure. Okay. Check it through the bank and see if they had those brochures with them. And what the sheriff says is, you can't rely on just the bill for that last year in Chihuahua. You've got a negative effect. Also keep in mind that much like people trying to buy alcohol or tobacco and they're underage, they'll target the new associate or the young employee, much like passing. The busier that line is or the busier that person is, the more likely they're going to miss something. The pressure is on to get people through because customers are getting anxious and stuff. That is when we've got to be the most cautious because that's when they're going to trust us. I'll pretend that there's a robbery of some sort in the corner of making deals with all of the neighborhood protection programs and the neighborhood policing and things like that. Is there a way, if something happens at a location, do you have a way of getting information out to the residents in that area to put them on alert for activity? Just to make sure you don't block your doors and things like that? We have a system called Nixall. So what you would do is go to the Sherwooden Police to our website, Sherwooden Police dot com. You can sign up and then if you sign up then we can send out alerts, press releases, information about people and things. You get to select if you want to send out as a text message on your phone, if you want an email, whatever, so we're constantly sending that out. It's a good way to get information. Isn't that so? Wait a minute. It's for the city, I should wait a minute. You know what I mean? This Wisconsin Crime Alert Network that Jeff talked about a little bit is a statewide system where some of these things that we're talking about where there's organized crews targeting businesses, they'll send out alerts throughout the whole state about what's going on so that you can get. We haven't developed the Nixall yet. We had a big project within the village of Harmsboro, in right from Harmsboro. We had done a door door there where the problem was thefts on the real theft that what we had decided to do for the village of Harmsboro was build a database on emails and we're gonna use that as a way to communicate in an event that had occurred in getting that out to the village. Now each one's gonna be a little different than how well it's received on the village of Harmsboro. I don't think we got a single denial in providing an email. Now right now our staff is working on putting together the emails and being able to get information out via email. Nixall is nice because you can get that alert right over your phone. It's getting people to buy into it though and actually sign up for it. So I encourage you to do it because it is. And I would add one other thing because the mayor would yell at me if I did it in the city where the mayor's leading an initiative to push out an application called Nixdoor so it's a social media application to connect neighbors and government pushes one way on it. So you have to be verified as living in the neighborhood or having a business in the neighborhood to participate and then you get to talk to all your neighbors about what's going on, ask questions, look for advice and then if government wants to push out information you can push the information one way to make sure you can get the information out right now. Since our audience here is relatively small and you've set some pretty valuable things we'd like to make sure that we can get that information out to the chamber world anyway through a funding monitor. So if there's things that we should know about that are the missing audience, needs to know, I appreciate having all of those links and things like that. Couple other things I'd just mention that one of the things that John said is for higher level issues with cyber crime, the FBI is going to be at LTC on January 21st talking about intellectual property and cyber crime and some of those things that would be a little bit more of a platform. And then for some of the issues that I was talking about I brought some information on a fatality body so that's a program that the state legislator put together so that if you want to take a chance on somebody that has a criminal record, you can get free bonding on them for six months up to $25,000 so if they end up needing to protect them for trying to help them out to get some of their job done. And to get back to your question, well we've done a couple times in putting up a smaller geographical area. We had several changes to your hands. Issues were pretty easy in ours. Individuals were angry and fired, stealing what they can and going in garages smaller area. We shared that information on the city's webpage Facebook but we did one thing. We created our own brochures advising people lock their doors, lock their garage, lock their vehicles and we actually had, when the officers had time, we went into those neighborhoods, went door to door, made contact, if nobody was there we left the flyer at the door. After was contact, we said if you have the opportunity share this information with your neighbor, call your neighbor, but we have the luxury of a smaller neighborhood. We still do some of those things because a lot of times, you can't reach a lot of the population through emails and most types of things. Every night, I always have my own cell phones that I used to be years ago. So, but that's some of the things that we do to help share some of that information on. Thanks. And just so everybody knows, the next door program works sort of like a Facebook page. So you can join as a business in your new group. You can also join as an individual in the new group you live in. It's a very nice setup. Our business and our ourselves personally and our family have been a part of that for over a year now and it's been very helpful. Dan, can you still have a question? Yes, I'm wondering, with the retail test situation, the safety of employees, is that true that the situation changes drastically if that person gets into the parking lot and or the waiting vehicle, as far as helping the anti-judicial situations, all of these, does that change quite a bit once they are able to get out of the store? Boy, the potential of it becoming violent is definitely there. Most often, they want to be able to escape. It's when you start going hands-on that it's extremely elevates the possibility of a hands-on possible injury. They just want to get at it. So, I would say that the potential of a shop worker at any time getting by the ocean is there. Each store should have their own policy on how it is that they handle those types of situations. We can't dictate that to you, but nevertheless, that's the time when you call law enforcement and if you've got a hands-on policy that you're not gonna bring them to law enforcement when they start getting battered like that, which I'm fine with, then the person needs to be attentive enough to get the description of the individual, the car that they're getting into, the license plate number, the direction that they're traveling, and give law staff information so that we can end up hopefully locating them nearby, or at least having a license plate number getting registered or anything. I'd once again like to thank Sheriff Preby and Chief Demogowski and Tatchuck for coming to talk with us today. If you have a few seconds after the meeting, please feel free to step up here and take advantage of the pamphlets and information that they gave you and take a few seconds to talk to them. Thank you again, gentlemen.