 All right, everybody. Good morning. Thank you all for being here For this very very special announcement. We have four speakers for you today. We'll begin with the Aurora police chief chief Nick Mets They will have dinner police chief Paul Payson followed by US Attorney for the district of Colorado mr. Jason Dunn and The acting assistant special agent in charge mr. Jeff Russell, so if you could please hold your questions until all of the Presenters have presented so at this point. I'd like to invite up Thank you Good morning, and again first of all, thank you for taking the time to be here this morning This is a very important topic to us Two nights ago for people in Aurora were shot Fortunately all survived. It's another sad reminder of the number of high-profile youth related Shootings that we are seeing throughout our metro region And I was watching the news last night and one of the reporters that actually comment commented that Something to the effect of our society seems to be getting Numb to the news of this kind of violence going on in our region particularly as it pertains to youth and I want to Take the opportunity today to tell you that that may be the case, but law enforcement in our metro region is not numb to this Human toll human lives have been shattered human families have been shattered And so the the impact that this is having on our region is staggering And so we want to make sure as law enforcement partners throughout this region that we are taking extra steps To do that to take care of this. We're very fortunate in the metro region that our law enforcement partners work Very well together our local and federal partners Strategize together and work well and communicate well together, and you don't see that in all parts of the country We have a number of task forces here in our area. We have task forces that work on bank robberies human trafficking Internet crimes against children those kinds of things and now we have a task force that is going to be dedicated to combatting violence particularly gun violence in our communities For years, we've had the MGTF otherwise known as the metro gang task force That that task force was primarily Dedicated towards eradicating gang violence We want to take this one step further and so we've basically put MGTF aside and we've created a new a new Initiative in which we are calling Raven and Raven stands for regional anti-violence enforcement network It's not only going to work on gang violence But but primarily it's going to be it's going to focus on gun violence in our region The difference primarily well, let me back up here Primarily, we're going to continue to do the things like the boots on the ground the investigations all the things that that MGTF Used to do but with one added component and that added component is going to be the use of science and the use of our crime labs Whether it's a Denver crime lab or the new unified Metro Metro crime lab Located in Centennial through our ATF partners in the crime gun intelligence Center So Raven will be taken a multi agency approach and in partnership with the US Attorney's Office and partnership with ATF HSI and many other local and other federal partners We are coming together to to do our best to combat and and read significantly reduce gun violence in our communities You remember when I started off. I said we had four people shot in Aurora two nights ago That again was a very staggering event for us and one that we put all our resources toward When we got the call about this shooting one of the things that we did immediately it was we contacted Raven and we told Raven We needed them to take part in this investigation And so Raven made a played a significant role in cooperation with our major crimes unit our SWAT our fast teams And we were able to arrest a suspect this morning who was involved in that in that shooting There was some great work done and again This is just one example of many and then you'll hear about some later the great work that Raven has done Right now, I'd like to introduce Chief Paul Payson of the Denver Police Department And he's going to explain in a little bit more detail what Raven is Chief Thank you. So good morning all. Thank you very much for being here. We're very excited about this This is the first of its kind anywhere in the country. It's bringing together innovation and collaboration so we can more effectively address gun violence Gun violence doesn't stay in Denver or Aurora. It impacts the entire Metro region and for us to maximize our effectiveness We have to work together in order to address this and as you heard innovation technology CGIC the metro region has been a national leader with the CGIC model And we're now taking that next step enhancing What has already been a great program and making that better? What it means by better is getting that technology side of things linking those guns together But more importantly finding out that human intelligence side who the shooters are our goal with this is to get Shooters people that are creating harm to our metro area off the street in Hours and days not weeks and months and by working together collaboratively Holding people accountable whether that's through the Denver district attorney's office a Rapa ho Adams Douglas or the U.S. Attorney's office. That's how we are going to make the metro area much safer by working together I now have the great pleasure of introducing our U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn Good morning I've been the U.S. Attorney for about eight months now and when I came in one of the things I realized immediately was that We're really fortunate in Colorado and in somewhat unique across the country because we have truly great partnerships and collaboration among state and federal agencies and local agencies here in the district of Colorado And so that makes my job a lot easier and it makes it easier for I think All of us to make Colorado a safer place And so when I came in I talked to my staff and I said look we're going to prioritize Whatever we can do to have the biggest impact we can on public safety And so when we were asked to be part of this effort, I full-heartedly said absolutely we're going to do that We're going to dedicate resources to it because we think this is a great effort This is smart enforcement and it's a way to have a significant impact on public safety as the chief said Primarily these cases will likely be bought brought At the local level by the district attorney's office, but we're here to be a partner in that and offer Federal law where it is most appropriate work and have the biggest impact a couple ways we can do that We have at the federal level we have felon in possession charges So if you have someone who has committed a fire a prior felony And then is in possession with a firearm we have mandatory minimum sentences at the federal level We can use as a as a tool to get those particularly dangerous people off the street We also have statutory charges we can bring when someone uses a gun In an act of violence or in connection with Drug trafficking where we can get mandatory minimum sentences We have RICO charges and vicar which is Acts of violence in in relation to organized crime And then also at the federal level we have what are statutory presumptions about detention So when someone is arrested is in this pending federal proceedings Whereas at the state level they might be more easily able to bond out particularly in rural parts of the state But also here in the metro area We can there's a there's a federal presumption of detention And so we can get dangerous people off the street pending Federal proceedings, so we're appropriate. We're going to work closely with our our local partners and help implement Raven and I think you'll see a significant impact on public safety. So we're happy to be part of it. Thank you I'll turn it over to now The special agent in charge Dave booth with alcohol tobacco and fires Thank you I'm just going to give you a brief overview of a type of case that raven works and has worked That is depicted over here on the timeline as well as the the chart the map Back in april 2017 through march of 2018. There are a series of 13 seemingly not connected shootings These shootings involved aggravated robberies aggravated burglaries armed burglaries and multiple homicides But these these cases were all tied together by raven by the use of forensic technology Nyebin and other advanced investigative techniques Ultimately all these shootings were tied to to one criminal street gang The investigation led to the arrest of 19 defendants Currently 15 of those defendants have pled guilty To their charges for a total of 115 years combined They're not only were they charged individually. They were charged with the colorado organized crime control act which enhanced their sentences This case is again, it's a great example of the collaboration and the regional Connection that we have here with raven At this point, I'd like to ask if anyone has any questions for any of the speakers Correct so you heard cjic mentioned before it stands for crime gun intelligence center This exists has been existing for several years here in the metro area Raven is just has expanded upon that and we've taken in more partners and we're just we're trying to put the message out It's it's not just denver. It's not just aurora or lakewood. It's everyone in the surrounding counties