 Yeah, it wasn't too, phones at 61, iPads at 42. That's fine, devices are routinely below those numbers. High standards, that would be good. Okay, I see them on. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. I made it. You good? Made your day, didn't it? Gonna break my note during council meetings. Glory's evening in the service center. Sure. I'd like to call this meeting of the Durham city council to order. For at seven o'clock. On April the second 2018 and certainly want to thank all of you all who are here in attendance tonight. Could you please join me now as we pause for a moment of silent meditation. Thank you. I want to ask council member Reese if he would lead us in the pledge to flag. Thank you, Mr Mayor. We have some representatives from Boy Scout Troop 411 from Union Baptist Church here in Durham. If they would join me up tonight, that would be great to help us with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, gentlemen. Great job. Thank you. Thank you very much. To our Boy Scouts and leaders and to council member Reese. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll? Mayor Schuyl. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Johnson. Here. Council Member Alston. Here. Council Member Caballero. Here. Council Member Freeman. Present. Council Member Middleton. Here. And Council Member Reese. Here. Thank you very much and we'll now have the ceremonial items. Mayor Pro Tem, if you could come with me and Council Member Freeman. Good evening, everyone. I'll be presenting the proclamation for National Fair Housing Month to Mr. James Davis, our Human Relations Manager. Whereas Title 8 of the Civil Rights Act known as the Federal Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful for housing providers to discriminate in the conditions for acquiring housing because of a person's membership in a protected class. And whereas this civil rights legislation was passed on April 11, 1968 in the wake of the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. one week prior. And whereas the month of April is recognized as National Fair Housing Month to celebrate the anniversary of the Fair Housing Act and to commemorate the life of Dr. King through the recommitment of providing equal housing opportunities in every community. And whereas the City of Durham is committed to providing equal housing opportunities to all residents through the enforcement of the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Fair Housing Ordinance of the City of Durham. And whereas housing discrimination incidents continue to be reported in spite of the local and national efforts to eradicate unlawful discriminatory practices. Now therefore I, Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, to hereby proclaim the month of April 2018 as Fair Housing Month. In Durham and hereby affirm that Fair Housing is not an option. It is a right that should be availed to every resident in every community. Thank you again for the proclamation. I would invite you to come to the uneven ground exhibit that is out in the hall or in the lobby area of City Hall. So you can see some of the history of the housing discrimination that occurred right here in the City of Durham. Out of love for the City and for one another, let us link ourselves together to continue building the City that eradicates discrimination and systemic oppression so that we can all be free. Thank you again. We have a lot of ceremonial items tonight, which is fun and keeps us busy. The second one is for the Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation. And I believe I'll be presenting this to Wayndrop. Is that true? Come on up, Wayndrop. I want to let you know that we have James here too. Okay, great. And James Lim, who's not quite as interesting as Wayndrop. I will let you know that Wayndrop and I made a film day and ad on Good Friday when Wayndrop was supposed to be off of work, but came anyway. And you'll be able to see it on television and you'll probably hear a little bit about it later. National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation. Whereas the City of Durham continues to explore ways to manage residential water consumption to inspire its residents to preserve and protect our natural resources, especially our water supplies. And whereas the City of Durham is an EPA water-sense partner, encourages our community to conserve water and be water efficient whenever possible. Whereas the Weiland Foundation has sponsored the National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation for six years, promoting healthy competition among cities of all sizes across the nation to reduce water use by the adoption of water efficient behaviors and practices. And whereas from April 1 to 30, 2018, the City wished to inspire its customers and its neighboring communities to participate in the challenge by making a series of online pledges to reduce their impact on the environment by decreasing water use and striving to be more water efficient for the period of one year. Now therefore, I, Stephen M. Schull, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, proclaim that the City is an active participant in the Weiland Foundation National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation and encourage all Durham residents to take the conservation challenge between April 1, 2018 and April 30, 2018 by making a series of online pledges at MyWaterPledge.com to reduce their impact on the environment and see immediate savings in their utility bills. This proclamation shall be effective immediately. Witness my hand, the Corporate Seal, the City of Durham, North Carolina, this, the second day of April, 2018. And now I'm going to turn it over to James for a few words. So I'll speak on behalf of Wayne and Water Management. Thank you Mayor Schull, Council. Not just for the proclamation tonight, but also for actually challenging our residents to participate in this important cause. Last year, 4,800 cities across the United States took part in this challenge, including Durham, with residents making simple pledges to be more water efficient and protect our watersheds. And I can assure you that all of those simple, easy things that we're asking you to do as part of this challenge really do make a difference. And if that's not reason enough to participate, it's an opportunity to win some really cool stuff. They're giving away $50,000 in prizes this year. So get your pledges in. You can do that by April 30 at MyWaterPledge.com. Encourage your friends and neighbors to do so as well. And you can follow our progress in the challenge by visiting DurhamSavesWater.org or by following Durham Water on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you. All right. And our next proclamation will be given by Council Member DeGreana Freeman, National Service Recognition Day Proclamation, which will be presented to Colleen Herbert, Program Director Eagle Court, North Carolina Central, Mike Schifflett, advisory council member. And I believe those are our two, are either of those two folks present? So for National Service Recognition Day, whereas service to others is a hallmark of American character and central to how we meet our challenges, and whereas the nation's local leaders are increasingly turning to national service and volunteerism, as a cost-effective strategy to meet their needs, and whereas AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps participants address the most pressing challenges facing our communities from educating students for the jobs of the 21st century to fighting opioid epidemic, to fighting the opioid epidemic, to responding to natural disasters, to supporting veterans and military families, and whereas national service expands economic opportunity by creating more sustainable, resilient communities and providing education, and leadership abilities for those who serve, and whereas AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps participants serve in more than 50,000 locations across the country, bolstering the civic, neighborhood, and faith-based organizations that are so vital to our economic and social well-being, and whereas national service participants increase the impact of the organizations they serve, both through their direct service and managing millions of additional volunteers, and whereas national service representatives a unique public-private partnership that invest in community solutions and leverages non-federal resources to strengthen community impact and increase the return on taxpayer dollars, and whereas national service participants demonstrate commitment, dedication, and patriotism by making an intensive commitment to service, a commitment that remains with them in their future endeavors, and whereas the Corporation for National and Community Service shares a priority with local leaders nationwide to engage citizens, improve lives, and strengthen communities, and is joining with the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, Cities of Service, and local leaders across the country for the National Service Recognition Day on April 3, 2018. Now, therefore, Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim April 3, 2018 as National Service Recognition Day. And I'll just share a few words. Good evening. As a program director for one of the AmeriCorps programs represented in this proclamation, one of which is 18. There are 18 AmeriCorps programs in the City of Durham, and there are 40 locations, 40 different either nonprofits or churches or other organizations that the AmeriCorps members serve, and we have 91 members who are serving in those various locations, adding to the impact in the Durham community. So what this does also is bring $1.2 million, including educational scholarships into the community as well. So we appreciate you providing this proclamation for us. Thank you. Good evening. I'm Delphine Sellers, and I stand here before you to represent Senior Corps. This is really an honor for me, and I'll give you a little secret, especially today, since it is my 65th birthday. I feel doubly honored to stand before you. I thank you, and the seniors in Durham County and worldwide, thank you for this proclamation, and thank you for recognizing all that we still have to offer. And we have a lot to offer as seniors, and not only do we have a lot to offer the community, our youth, our community, our organizations, but it helps us also to remain vibrant and help us to remain engaged and help us keep going. So I thank each of you, Mayor, City Council, for this proclamation, and let it be known that it is an encouragement to us seniors to keep on keeping on. Thank you. Thank you all so much. And we are the beneficiary here in Durham of a couple of AmeriCorps members who are with Keep Durham Beautiful and are doing a tremendous job. So we know how important that is. Our next proclamation is for Community Development Week as our Community Development Week proclamation, and I believe that this will be presented to Reginald Johnson, our Director of Community Development. Reginald, nice to see you. This proclamation recognizes Citizens Advisory Committee. Oh, I'm sorry. I got that wrong here. What I'm, what I really mean is I need to recognize the city, the community, the Citizens Advisory Committee members in the audience with the Citizen Advisory Committee members in the audience, please stand. Thank you. Reginald, do you want to introduce them? Yes. Or would you like them to? You go ahead and I'll do it. All right, that's great. These are volunteer residents of our community who review and advise on the Department of Community Development Activities, including the allocation of federal and local funds for our annual action plan. And our annual action plan public hearing is also tonight, so you all will hear that as well. The Citizens Advisory Committee and the Department of Community Development staff will be participating in activities during the week that highlights some of the community development activities being carried out in Durham. Whereas the week of April 2nd through April 6th at 2018 has been designated as National Community Development Week by the National Community Development Association to celebrate the Community Development Block Grant program and the Home Partnerships Program. And whereas the CDBG program provides annual funding and flexibility to local communities to provide decent, safe and affordable housing, a suitable living environment, and economic opportunities to low and moderate income people. And whereas the home program provides funding to local communities to create decent, safe and affordable housing opportunities for low income persons with over 1 million units of affordable housing. Having been completed nationally using home funds and whereas over the past five years the City of Durham has received a total of 9,44,650 dollars in CDBG funds and 3,999,852 dollars in home funds. And whereas the City of Durham has used CDBG and home funds directly or in partnerships to address issues surrounding homelessness, including veterans homelessness, to promote home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income households, to develop hundreds of affordable rental units for low and very low income households, to provide repairs to homes of very low income seniors, to help revitalize neighborhoods and to leverage millions of dollars in additional public and private investment within Durham neighborhoods. Now, therefore, I, Stephen M. Shul, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim April 2, 2018 as National Community Development Week in Durham in support of these two valuable programs that have made a tremendous contribution to the vitality of the city's housing stock and the economic vitality of our community. Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina, this second day of April 2018. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Before the members of the CAC seated, I would like them to introduce themselves if you just say your name. Thank you. Thank you very much for your service. The Citizens Advisory Committee is pointed by the City Council and the Durham County Board of Commissioners to advise the Community Development Department on funding such as CDBG and home, and we definitely want to thank them for their service. Community Development Week is important for the City of Durham. We will be recognizing and honoring the programs that we have used CDBG and home funding for such as the Widditt School, which houses seniors, the neighborhood revitalization in Southside, also the Piedmont Reynolds Project, which is also in Southside. We've done quite a bit of work including Eastway Village, and so we in Durham have used our funding for transformation. And this week is important because as communities all around the country are doing, having honoring their programs and recognizing their programs, it all rolls up to Washington. And so if you were paying, have been paying attention in the bill that was just signed by the President, the funding for CDBG and home actually increased despite the conversation that occurred earlier. And it's because of activities that we're doing here in Durham as well as activities all around the country. So I just want to thank the Mayor and thank the City Council for this recognition that this is important work and we want to thank everyone for their service and their support. And finally, we have their proclamation for National Crime Victims Rights Week, and I'm going to ask Assistant Chief Delma Allen to please come forward to receive this proclamation. And I believe, Chief, that you are also in attendance tonight along with Victim Services staff members who would you like them to come forward as well? I would definitely love for them to stand up and introduce themselves. Great. Great. Thank you all so much for being here. We really appreciate it. This year's national theme is expand the circle, reach all victims, and this observance is a way for communities to demonstrate their commitment to promoting and securing essential rights and services that are necessary for the recovery of victims and of witnesses to crimes. This year, Durham's Police Department's Hispanic Liaison Officer and the LGBTQ Liaison Officer will each be hosting outreach events with a goal of fostering strengthened police community relationships within the respective populations. For details about the week's events, residents can visit the Police Department website, www.durumpolice.com. And now let me read the proclamation to be given to you, Chief Allen. Whereas Americans are the victims of 20 million crimes each year affecting the individuals and communities. And whereas years of investment in crime victims' rights and services have developed a system of victim response that can help victims recover from crime. And whereas reaching and serving all victims of crime is essential to supporting thriving communities because those who receive holistic services and support are more likely to remain invested in their communities. And whereas dedicated victim service providers are working every day to meet the needs of crime victims, yet there are still too many victims without meaningful access to rights and services. And whereas many victims face barriers such as isolation, distrust of authorities, language limitations, lack of transportation or cultural barriers, they keep them from accessing the services and criminal justice systems that can help them recover from crime. And whereas the mission of the Durham Police Department is to minimize crime, promote safety, enhance the quality of life in partnership with our community. And whereas the formation of the Durham City of Durham Police Department's Victim Services Unit in 1997 demonstrates the department's strong commitment to providing essential services to victims and witnesses of crimes and to ensure that they are treated with respect, compassion, fairness and dignity. And whereas we must make a dedicated effort to expand the circle of those prepared to respond to victims and to link them to the resources that can help them recover. And whereas the City of Durham Police Department recently implemented two full-time liaison officer positions to foster heightened outreach to both the LGBTQ plus and Hispanic populations and whereas engaging a broader array of healthcare providers, community leaders, faith organizations, educators and businesses can provide new links between victims and services that improve their safety, healing and access to justice. And whereas National Crime Victims' Rights Week provides an opportunity to recommit to ensuring that all victims of crime, especially those who are challenging to reach or serve, are afforded their rights and receive a trauma-informed response. And whereas the City of Durham Police Department is hereby dedicated to strengthening victims and survivors in the aftermath of crime, building resilience in our communities and our victim responders and working for justice for all victims and survivors. Now, therefore, I, Stephen M. Schulmeyer of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim the week of April 8 to 14, 2018, as Crime Victims' Rights Week. And reaffirmed by the City of Durham and the Durham Police Department's commitment to creating a victim service and criminal justice response that assists all victims of crime during Crime Victims' Rights Week and throughout the year and to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation for those community members, victim service providers, and criminal justice professionals, including the folks who are here tonight, who we appreciate so much, who are committed to improving our response to all victims of crime so they may find relevant assistance, support justice and peace. Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina. This is the second day of April, 2018. Chief. We thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council for this proclamation. I'm going to keep this very brief. This is an opportunity for the National Victims' Crimes Week is an opportunity for us to really do more education as it relates to rights that our victims and witnesses have in this community. We have a strong group of advocates who, who every day go out and are passionate about their responsibilities and ensuring that our victims and witnesses of crimes in our community are very much aware and educated on what their rights and responsibilities are. You don't have to be a citizen of this community. You have to be a resident of this community. You have the rights that are given by the state of North Carolina to receive certain compensations as a victim or witness of a crime. So every day this group strongly goes out with the passion to be a liaison and advocate for those people who have been victimized within our community of violent crime. So we again thank you for this proclamation. All right. We had a busy ceremonial schedule tonight. Are there any priority items by the city manager? I'm sorry, I missed announcements. Are there any announcements by the council? Council members, any announcements? Councilmember Rees? Yes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. I hope my colleagues are doing well. Have you had a good Easter? I would like to announce that I am an alterably of the position that Searsucker season begins on Easter Sunday. And anyone who has a problem with that, the line will form outside the council chamber as soon as our meeting is done. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You said that last year and I just have to disagree with you, Councilmember. You're here. Any other announcements? Just an additional announcement to note that for a national service recognition that Eastern Children's Initiative actually has the pleasure of hosting five of those AmeriCorps members as well. Great. Thank you. That's wonderful. Any other announcements? All right. We will now move on to priority items. Any priority items by the city manager? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of council, good evening, everyone. No priority items. Mr. Attorney? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. No priority items. And Madam Clerk? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. No items. All right. Thank you very much. We will now move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda can be approved by a single vote of the council. And all the items will be approved unless one is removed by a council member or member of the public for separate consideration at the end of the meeting. And now I'll be reading the titles of each of these items. Item 2, Durham Cultural Advisory Board Appointments. Item 3, FY18-19 Budget Development Guidelines. Item 4, U-338 NC 55 Austin Avenue Widening Supplemental Agreement. Item 5, February 2018 BID Report. Item 6, Fund Balance Policy for General Fund and Operating Reserve Requirement for Water and Sewer Fund. Item 7, Cell Tower Release and License Agreement with Sprintcom, Ink for 801 Ellis Road. Item 8, New Leases at 807 East Main Street, Golden Belt City of Durham Departments Community Development. And Neighborhood Improvement Services at Landlord, LRC, GB, LLC. Item 10, Street and Infrastructure Acceptances. Item 11, Contract SWDR 2018-01 Stormwater Control Measures, Renovation and Rehabilitation. Item 12, Supplemental Agreement Number 4 for North Carolina Department of Transportation, NC 147 Pedestrian Bridge, TIP Number U-4445. Item 13, Capital Improvement Projects, CIP Ordnance and Member for Carvesty and Extension, ST 257. Item 14, Recycling Services for Electronic Equipment Agreement with Powerhouse Recycling, Inc. Item 15, Yardways Facility Operations Contract with Atlas Organics, LLC. Item 18 can be found on the General Business Agenda for Public Hearings. Item 20, Resolution and Support of Public Employees Collective Barting Rights and Rights for Employee Organizations. And that is those are the items on the consent agenda. I will now entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. Move to approve. Second. Is there any discussion? If not, Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you very much. We will now move on to the General Business Agenda for Public Hearings. I have it. It says signage. Okay. So, Madam Clerk, it looks like Technology Solutions is already over there working on it. Thank you. I'm going to take a voice vote. Anybody have any objections? Yeah. Well, why don't we do that? Why don't we take a voice vote? So we have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Thank you very much. The ayes have it. The motion passes unanimously. Thank you for that suggestion. Now we'll move on to General Business Agenda for Public Hearings. Item 18 is a resolution improving an installment finance contract and providing for certain other related matters. Good evening, Mayor and members of City Council. I'm Emily Desiderio, Treasury Manager in the Finance Department. This public hearing is being held to receive comment relative to the consideration of a resolution authorizing the issuance of limited obligation funds in an amount not to exceed 150 million. All the details associated with the transaction have been previously provided to Council, and staff has no additional information to provide, but we're happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you very much. You have now heard the report of staff, and I'm going to declare this public hearing open. And first, I'm going to ask Council members, are there any questions or comments for staff? Alrighty. Is there anyone in the public who wishes to speak on this item? Is there anyone in the public who wishes to speak on this item? I will just say that, as Ms. Desiderio said, we have had a discussion of this item at our budget retreat, and we were able to fully discuss this. So much appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. This public hearing closed, and the matter is back before the Council. We need to adopt the resolution authorizing the issuance of the limited obligation funds. Do I hear a motion? So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we adopt the resolution. Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you. And good job from technology solutions getting down there and saving the day. Appreciate that working. Thank you. Now we will move to a supplemental item, which is our 2017 fourth quarter annual crime report presentation, and we will hear from Chief Davis and members of her staff. We do have one speaker on this item, and after the report I will call on Chris Tiffany to speak. Welcome, Chief. We're glad to have you. Thank you, sir. Good evening, everyone. Before I get started, I want to take a quick opportunity to introduce the executive team for the Durham Police Department. We've had some recent promotions, and we've had some recent elections, so I think it's important that you know who the individuals are that are leading different departments or different areas of the Durham Police Department. First, we have Deputy Chief Anthony Marsh. He is over the administrative investigative services. We have Deputy Chief Todd Rose, who is newly promoted. He's over field operations. Assistant Chief Ed Sarvis, who is over support services bureau. Assistant Chief Terrence Simbley, who is recently promoted, and he's over patrol services bureau. Assistant Chief Kevin Cates, who is recently promoted, and he is over investigative services bureau. Our analytical services manager is here tonight as well, Jason Sheese, who will be reporting on traffic stock data. And our public information manager is also with us tonight, Mr. Will Glenn. Thank you. How about Chief Allen? Did you want to introduce him? Did I leave Chief Allen out? Where are you? Community services. You messed me up. I'm so sorry. And Chief Allen, who is over community services division. So, tonight I'm going to not just go over to fourth quarter, sort of a high level of fourth quarter, but also to do the annual crime report for you. We're going to start with our performance measures. Our six performance measures in the police department is part one violent crime, part one property crime, part one index crime, clearance rates, response times to priority one calls, and staffing levels. So part one index crime is a total part one violent crime and part one property crime. Index crime was up by 2% in 2017. There were decreases in homicides, robberies, and burglaries in 2017 compared to 2016. Our reported burglaries were at a 20 year low. Homicides in Durham were down for the year 2017. This chart illustrates the annual part one violent crime and part one property crimes per 100,000 residents. This is a good depiction of the overall downward trend over an 18 year period. The part one violent crime rate dropped 11% since 2000. The part one property crime rate dropped by 49% since 2000. This particular chart illustrates last year's trends by the week. It illustrates the weekly crime changes compared to 2016. As you can see, you've seen this chart before some of you. And at the beginning of the year, we had a significant uptick in violent crime. But as you can see during the year, we had a nice steady. Thank you. We had a nice steady downward trend towards the end of the year. Part one violent crime includes reported homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults. Violent crime was up just slightly as we close out the year by approximately seven crimes for 2017. Homicides were down by 50%. The robbery task force, which was formed in 2016, can be credited for the arrest of several individuals responsible for the increased number of pedestrian and commercial robberies in the Durham area. This centralized unit arrested 121 people and cleared 241 cases in 2017. With the assistance of the Durham County DA's office, many of those arrested were charged with committing multiple robberies. Not just connected here in the city of Durham, but in other jurisdictions as well. We also continue to work closely with our federal partners on cases involving violent gun crime. In 2017, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives, ATF, as it's known by acronyms, adopted 84 cases from the Durham Police Department with 95 defendants for federal prosecution. Cases included armed drug trafficking, armed career criminals, armed robberies of commercial businesses, and car jackings and firearms trafficking offenses. There were 28 homicides in 2017, but the official number is 21 due to three 2016 and four 2017 cases being cleared as self-defense in 2017. Two of the homicides involved domestic violence, six cases from 2017 remain open. Rapes were up by 28%. There was no indication of any serial type cases last year, nor does the increase appear to be the result of increased numbers of stranger sexual assaults. I took the privilege of highlighting those numbers from 2016 and 2017, the 103 as opposed to the 132. It's our assessment that victims now are feeling safer. I think we've had this discussion a little bit before and more comfortable in reporting sexual assaults to law enforcement in part as a result of the Me Too movement. And the reason we feel this is the case is because last year, around the mid part of the year, we had a significant increase in belated sexual assault reports. As we started looking through our data, we discovered that in the year 2017, we had 19 belated sexual assaults reported, and in 2016, there were only six belated sexual assault cases. The other caveat to that is that the cases were not just from last week reported belated. They were belated from sometimes six years, three years, two years, a few months. But it was significant enough for us to see that individuals are obviously feeling more comfortable coming in and reporting crimes that may have occurred some time ago. The 132 rape offenses represent 5.8% of the total violent crimes in 2017, which did impact the overall percentage increase. Councilmember Reese, you and I kind of talked about that. It did impact the overall percentage increase, which sort of put us in a, even though we were half a percent of those additional cases made a difference as well. We have quite a few help services for our sexual assault victims. We have a sexual assault response team, our SRT team, our crisis intervention team members. And also we work very closely with the Durham Crisis Response Center to make sure our victims get the type of follow up that they need in order to get through these various types of incidents. The difference of the 12 cases alone, as I mentioned before, would have probably changed our violent crime numbers just slightly. We experienced also a slight increase in the number of aggravated assaults but the number of multi-victim firearm incidents dropped by 13% from 181 incidents in 2016 to 158 in 2017. But keep in mind also that not all victims in these incidents are actually injured. Sometimes they're considered a victim just by virtue of the potential that they could have been injured. This chart illustrates the number of times a firearm was discharged during various types of crimes, 2016 versus 2017. So to explain the colors just a little bit, of course the chart shows that in the red you have your aggravated assaults. In the green you have vandalism where a property, a vehicle, or a home, or some type of property was actually struck by a weapon where a gun was used. Weapons use, that could be a situation where there were shots fired, no one was hit, no vandalism or anything, but we still did a police report based on the fact that a weapon was used. Robberies are in the blue and then our homicides are also in a lighter color blue. These are all incidents where firearms were used. Part one property crime. Part one property crime includes burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Property crime was up by 3% in 2017. Our burglaries were at a 20 year low. We did have increases in larcenies and motor vehicle thefts. The increase in larcenies was mostly due to motor vehicle break-ins, keys and vehicles, vehicles running as mentioned before in other forums. We continue to urge everyone not to keep items such as electronics, cash, purses, many of the things that we've mentioned before in plain sight to tempt individuals to break in cars. We created a safe car checklist as an initiative to hang from the interior of vehicle mirrors to remind motorists of crime prevention steps they can take in order to make sure that their vehicles remain safe. We provided this sort of prevention mechanism in English and in Spanish. Part one property crimes. Again, our motor vehicle thefts increased during 2017 and more than 40% of the cases, the keys were left somewhere inside the vehicle. More than 40% of the cases. As you can see, we had a decrease in burglaries, larcenies up 6%, vehicle thefts 10% and property crime overall 3%. We compare our department's clearance rates to other departments our size. In 2017, our population grew and we are now in the category of cities with population from 250,000 to 499,000. The 2016 FBI statistics are provided because the 2017 numbers are not available yet. So we're using these clearance rates just for comparison. Our clearance rates were better than the averages for homicides, rapes, burglaries, larcenies, motor vehicle thefts and overall part one property crimes. We had 882 aggravated assault incidents in 2017 and 1256 victims, which are the offenses, as explained before, one incident may have 10 offenses. The difference in the clearance rate between incidents and offenses is caused by multi-victim incidents, which tend to be non-domestic and involve a firearm. Our experiences are gang related. Many are drive by shootings and sometimes retaliatory in nature. This category has tends to have a very low clearance rate because of the uncooperative spirit of the individuals involved, whether they're victims or the suspects, many times associated with gang activity. There were also more of these type cases in 2017 than 2016. Clearances for domestic incidents was 73%, which sort of shows the difference in the ease of being able to solve some of those types of incidents, and also incidents without a firearm being involved. That number was 51% clearance rate. Priority 1 calls for service. There were 9,311 priority 1 calls for service in 2017, which was a slight decrease from 9,373 calls the prior year. Our average response time was 6.2 minutes, which was below the target of 5.8 minutes, but an improvement over the 6.3 minutes in 2016. We answered 52.1% of our priority 1 calls in less than 5 minutes in 2017. Although that did not meet our 57% target, it was an improvement from the previous year of 51.2% in 2016. Our staffing levels at the year's end. Our sworn staffing was at 93% filled at the end of 2017. We currently have 95% of our sworn positions filled in the Durham Police Department. We currently have 27 recruits in Basic Law Enforcement Training Academy and an additional 18 new B let recruits graduated in February of 2018. We tested 290 potential B let recruits in 2017, which was a 15% increase over the 252 tested in 2016. Our recruiting unit participated in more than 75 job fairs throughout the country in 2017. We also are working to add early pre hire recruits to the department to encourage them to stay with DPD and not go elsewhere. Most of our recruits are in processes in other places as well with other departments. We are still taking A let applications. The A let application is for our lateral officers, individuals who are already state certified working with some other agency that want to come to the Durham Police Department. We have an abbreviated academy for those individuals and we call it the A let training. DPD hired 80 sworn officers in 2017, which was a 70% increase over the 47 hired in 2016. The average sworn attrition rate in 2017 was 4.75 per month. How do you divide a person up into a quarter? The average sworn attrition rate was 5.67% per month in 2016. Our non sworn staffing level was at 89.5% at the end of 2017. It is currently at 89%. DPD hired 17 non sworn employees in 2017. This is a pie chart that I thought would help illustrate the current demographics of the Durham Police Department. 66% of DPD sworn officers are white, 27% are African American, 6% are Hispanic and 1% are Asian, Native American and other nationalities. Durham's percentage of female officers is at 17%, which is higher than the national average, which is 13%. We continue to enhance our recruiting efforts and setting goals to better diversify our department. Some of the highlights for 2017 in the fourth quarter, DPD employees both sworn and non sworn participated in numerous community outreach holiday initiatives during the fourth quarter. They handed out crime prevention holiday safety tips to make the holiday season brighter for our residents and safer as well. We deployed two new dark blue specially designed vehicles for our liaison officers so that they could be readily identified in the community. These vehicles that are illustrated there look very different from the regular patrol cars and these particular vehicles have emblems to represent the LGBTQ community and also Hispanic community with Spanish language on portions of the vehicle for our Hispanic community. On October 4th residents from throughout the city met with officers at various locations to have friendly conversations, ask questions about our work. This was part of the coffee and cop initiative that took place several times last year besides the fourth quarter. During October we celebrated crime prevention month by holding various events including one of our favorites, the seniors versus the police over at a local senior citizen home and the Durham Police Department gets beat every year in every game. But it's always fun, probably more fun for us than it is for the residents there. Our sworn officers completed a mandatory eight hour mental health first aid for public safety training class during the third and fourth quarters of last year. As DPD's comprehensive approach to mental health awareness, the class is designed to address the law enforcement population that provided general awareness of mental health issues. On many occasions during the year last year some we've discussed where our officers utilize these skill sets in de-escalation of force and also crisis intervention and negotiating with individuals that are attempting to commit suicide, identifying when it was appropriate to use communication skills in various types of volatile situations and we will continue with this type of training as we see that it is very impactful in the way we do our work every day. The DPD currently has 217 officers that are crisis intervention certified, which translates to 45% of all sworn personnel and almost 50% of all uniform patrol. This is well beyond the national standard of 20% as set by CIT International. Our community engagement unit is now working in Medugal Terrace housing community. The unit which consists of two supervisors and eight officers was formed this year to build trust with community residents, attend meetings, address quality of life concerns, respond to calls for service, post educational symposiums and provide other community policing duties. We plan to eventually expand to other Durham housing authority communities in an effort to build strong relationships and reduce crime. Our police athletic league is being expanded into a full-fledged dedicated unit. The program offers basketball, baseball and soccer. Last year we added a successful golf mentoring program and we anticipate adding a track program this year. Last year we outfitted all sworn officers from the rank of captain below with body worn cameras. The department's VBU solution site is currently housing more than 136,000 interactions in nearly 24 terabytes of storage. Average video length is just over 10 minutes. Body worn camera evidence was provided in about 800 criminal and internal cases in 2017. The department is preparing to begin a pilot test of VBU's next generation body worn camera, the LES. Use of force investigations. Our use of force investigations, both department generated and citizen generated decreased in 2017 compared to 2016. The number of department generated investigations dropped by 22%. The number of citizen complaints dropped by more than 50% during 2017. The number of taser deployments also dropped in 2017. There were 15 in 2016 and 8 in 2017. In an effort to assist the investigation and successful prosecution of certain crimes, the Durham Police Department will review applications for U non-immigrant status. This program is known as the U visa process. It is the process for victims of certain crimes who are currently or who have previously assisted law enforcement or who are likely to be helpful in the investigation of prosecution of criminal activity. By reviewing and certifying applications, the department seeks to secure the assistance and testimony of crime victims who may otherwise become unavailable due to their immigration status and their reluctance to participate in the process with law enforcement. On January 15, 2018, the Durham Police Department updated its U visa policy for certifications. Historically, most cases were denied due to a lack of workable leads. The new policy allows for qualifying cases less than four years old to be certified even if the case is inactive. As a result, more requests for U visa certifications are being received and more are being approved. As you can see, the first quarter, first three months of this year, there's a significant increase in the numbers submitted and also the numbers that were actually approved. And that concludes my presentation. And should we ask answer questions now or would you like? I think there's a follow-up presentation as well. Okay. There is a follow-up presentation. Actually, it's the traffic stop data. Oh, great. The analysis, a brief analysis of last year's traffic stop data. All right. I think before we hear that, we'll hear Mr. Tiffany because I believe he's probably going to comment on the report and then we'll do the traffic stop data report and then we'll have questions from council and council. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you very much, Chief. Thank you. Mr. Tiffany, you have three minutes. Chief Lopez and Smith both told City Council in the work sessions, we don't have to document use of force against pedestrians. And students commuting to Durham Tech and NCCU were not allowed to speak or to complain to City Council when signed up to speak in the committee room or in the more public council chambers when racial profiling was on the agenda. For Mayor, City Manager, Police Chief on down, the complaint process is riddled with problems that would get people fired in the private sector. Complaining is often ineffective and can be dangerous. And just a few days ago, another cop told me they still don't have to document use of firearms, pulling weapons on pedestrians. But you place the responsibility for use of force reporting on civilian complainants. You can't possibly take use of force reporting seriously when you still don't require cops to document use of force against pedestrians. And complaints are obstructed top down and bottom up. Durham One Call professionals can take, file, track and track complaints for any department except the police department, which can make complaints and complainants go away. Listen to the ABC 11 Town Hall meeting at NCCU. The Chief said she'd love to hear more about letting Durham One Call professionals do their jobs. But off camera, she's like police and politicians who make complaints and complainants go away. It's like, don't tell me I don't want to know or you don't care to know. Is that what it is? You don't care? How can you manage a department when you let your employees keep secrets from you? Willful ignorance is irresponsible. Don't blame bad cops for bad management. Thank you, Mr. Tiffany. All right. And now we have a follow up report on the traffic stop data. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Jason Shees. I'm the analytical services manager for the police department and I'm going to be providing you our 2017 traffic stop report. The intent is to give you a high level trend analysis of our total traffic stops, our searches and the contraband that is discovered as a result of those searches. So first of all, in 2017, we had 11,578 total traffic stops in the city of Durham. That's a 22% decline from the year before in 2016 and a 64% decline from 2010 when we had just over 32,000 total traffic stops. Excuse me, I'm sorry. Would you suspend just for a second? Do you have any graphics? Did you intend on having graphics up on the? Yes, it's up on this screen. I'm not sure. Here we go. I'm sorry. Thank you. My apologies. I didn't know. Absolutely. I'm not up there. So just again, a quick review, 22% decline in 2017 over 16, 64% decline from 2010. Of those 11,578 stops in 2017, 58% of the drivers were black, 39% of the drivers were white and 10% were Hispanic. Those demographics are relatively unchanged over the eight year period that you see in this graph. But as you can tell from the line graph, the overall reduction in traffic stops has been pretty continuous over that eight years, other than a slight increase in 2013. Something else that we track is the general reason for the traffic stop, such as safe movement violations, speeding, and two of those categories are vehicle equipment and regulatory violations. In 2010, 39% of the total traffic stops came from these two categories combined. In 2017, that ratio had declined to 26%. The most frequent reason for the stop in 2017 was speeding at 45% of the stops. Next is the total searches by year. When total traffic stops go down, then you would also expect total searches to also go down, and that is what we have seen over the eight year period. But there's a bit of a bifurcation in this particular graph. So from 2010 to 2013, things are relatively stable and constant. These are major search categories. There are other types of searches that can occur, but they're much less frequent and have remained relatively unchanged. So first I'll direct your attention to the green line, and that represents the multiple search type category. This occurred predominantly prior to 2015 in which an officer was able to select more than one type of search in the computer software. Starting in 2015, they were no longer able to do that. They had to pick only one type of search. Most of the situations in which this occurred were a combination of both consent and probable cause searches. So you'll see that that line has now dropped down to zero in 2017 from the high point in 2012. The next line I'll draw your attention to is the blue line, which is the consent searches. This has also seen a very dramatic and regular decline over the eight year period with the most dramatic decline occurring from 2013 to 2015. In 2010 we had 823 of these types of searches, and in 2017 there were only 34. And then finally the red line is the probable cause searches. Starting in 2013 and really from 2014 up to 2015, there was a spike in this category and then it has come back down. When you're looking at this data, I think it's helpful to look at the 2013 period for all three categories and compare that to 2017. You'll notice that probable cause searches are relatively the same in 2017 as they were in 2013, but the other two categories have dropped dramatically to near zero. So there's a couple of things that work here. One is the change in that multiple search category where that's gone down to zero and an officer had to pick either probable cause or consent or whatever the predominant search was. Another thing going on here was a policy change in October of 2014, and that was when written consent to search became policy. Those two items together have had a significant impact on this data since then. This is now the percent of stops with a consent search. So the previous slide was total stops and this is now a ratio. So the top number being the total number of stops with a consent search and the bottom number being the total number of stops. So again, there was a change in our policy in October of 2014, which contributes to this data. And what you see is that and for all three of the racial and ethnic groups, the predominant ones, black, white and Hispanic, the highest ratio was observed in 2011. With black drivers being at 3.79% white drivers at 1.78% and Hispanic drivers at 2.66%. However, in 2017, those ratios have come down significantly less than a half a percent. So for black drivers, 36 out of every 10,000 stops results in the consent search for white drivers, 22 out of every 10,000 and Hispanic drivers, 33 out of every 10,000. And all three of those groups are now very close together in those rates. So significant declines over especially the period from 2013 to 2017. I'll also point out that the hit rate, which is essentially contraband that is found as a result of the search, that has gone up from the last few years. In 2017, 26.47% of consent searches resulted in contraband being found and that's up from only 11% back in 2014. This next graph is the percent of stops with a probable cause search. So it's the exact same as the prior graph accepted we've switched from consent searches to probable cause searches. Very different story here. So for really in 2013 as we started seeing increases were as relatively stable prior to that. For 2016 that represented the highest percentage for both white and Hispanic drivers in 2015 was the highest percentage for black drivers. Again, a large impact on this is likely the change in the policy and also the fact that the multiple search types went away and officers had to pick only one type of search. The hit rate for probable cause searches has remained relatively stable. In 2017, 44.5% of probable cause searches resulted in contraband being found, which is only slight down slightly from 2014 when 45.42% resulted in contraband being found. This puts everything together. This is all types of searches put together as a rate of traffic stops. So the additional line is the purple line, which is all drivers put together. So when you take everything and combine it 4.21% of all traffic stops in 2017 resulted in some type of a search. What you also see here is that for all major demographics represented 2017 was the low point over those eight years. While searches with black drivers occurred at a rate 2.8 times higher than that of white drivers in 2017, the total number of searches for black drivers dropped significantly from 650 in 2016 to 390 in 2017. That's a 40% decline in total searches for that particular demographic. Finally, we get to contraband. So this is the total percent of searches with a hit. The definition of a hit is defined as any search in which contraband is found. That could be money, drugs, weapons, any type of contraband, and as regardless of whether it was the type originally being sought for the search. What you see here is a significant increase over the last four years in that overall hit rate. And the lines have nearly converged for all major demographic groups. They're nearly all together in terms of the total hit rate from those searches. What you also see here is that in 2017 compared to 2013, there's a 10% higher percentage rate in 2017 for these hits. So the searches that are occurring are better quality searches that are producing results in the way of contraband being found. So in summary, traffic stops are down significantly over the last eight years. The overall search rate in 2017 at just over 4% is also the lowest over the last eight years. And the hit rate for searches has climbed steadily over the past four years. So the major takeaway is that there's less traffic stops, there's less total searches. When the searches are occurring, there are better quality searches that result in contraband being found as compared to prior years. And that's all I have. Mr. Sheece, thank you for an excellent and very interesting report. I'm looking forward to getting the data. I'm sure the manager will make that available to us. Council members, we've heard two lengthy reports and I'm now going to ask you all for any questions. How would we like to do this? Maybe we'll start with the traffic stop data fresh in our mind. Maybe we'll ask questions about that first. So I'm going to ask any council members with questions or comments about the traffic stop data and search data. Council member Reese. If I could, Mr. Sheece, I'd prefer just to comment about the exact data, but then the other maybe components of that. I think, gee, Davis would be better prepared to respond. Sure. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Council member Reese. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Again, Jason may respond to some of the data questions, but I didn't want him to necessarily have to respond to the policing questions. Y'all can tag team. Exactly. Okay. Council member Reese. Manager, that's well taken because I suspect some of my questions will be more on the chief's purview. Absolutely. First of all, thank you for both those presentations. The traffic stop data was particularly interesting. First of all, I would love to get that presentation. Obviously, the mayor said the data, but I'm looking to get that presentation. I was like, you're swiping the monitor, trying to go back slides, working for me. But if I remember what we saw tonight correctly, what I thought I saw was that as between black and white drivers when they're stopped in a traffic stop, that black drivers are almost three times like there to be searched, whether it be written consent, probable cause or whatever. And at the same time, the hit rate is almost identical. Does that sound right? That is correct. So 2.8% times more likely for a black driver to be searched in a white driver in 2017. And yes, the hit rate is nearly the same for all of those groups. Great. I think the next question is probably for chief data. Unless we accept the premise that African American drivers are driving around giving off more probable cause to search than white drivers, but having contraband at almost identical rates to white drivers, what do you think is responsible for the disparity? Well, as we continue to look at the data and continue to scrub the data and make it apparent to our officers that we're paying attention to the numbers and the types of stops that they're making, the locations that they're making stops. Of course, we have problems in certain areas where we depend on our data to make sure that our officers are patrolling in those areas. The probable cause stops, of course, are up significantly compared to the numbers that they have been in the past, which means to me that they're making more quality stops based on probable cause. The ratio or the numbers is a question that I think we'd have to look closer at the data to see whether or not we have any other problems or any other disparities that would say that an officer might have a tendency to search one car more so than another. Looking at the numbers, I understand where your question originates from, but these are the types of analysis that keep us looking further to see whether or not there are some other things that we need to look at. Thank you. Councilmember? Other councilmembers? On the traffic stop data. Councilmember Freeman. I just wanted to know specifically on the traffic stop data within the city limits for the sheriff's department, do you get any of that? Is that included in your data at all? No, man, this is just city of Durham Police Department data. Could you go back, Mr. Chase, to the slide where the one of the very first slides, which was the overall reduction in searches. That one right there? In stops. Yeah. So in 2010, we had 32,000 stops. In 2017, we had 11,000 stops. So we had about a third, roughly a third as many stops in 2017. And then could you go to the search, the total searches as well? And so, again, you highlighted the year 2013, where we had about 1,300 searches. And then in 2017, we had about 400 searches. So I write about 1,300 searches. We're down about 400. So I think that's really important and really worth noting. First of all, I want to just say, when we put in our written consent search policy, it was controversial. And I think that it was, you know, we saw what happened the very first year out with the probable cause searches surging, but now have settled back down to a level even, well, below 2013 before we had this new policy. And so I just want to say that I really think that Durham is a leader in this. And I want to call out a couple of my council colleagues, council member Middleton and council member Reese, who were two of the advocates before they were on city council for this written consent policy. And I think it's really serving us well. The fact that we are having fewer searches and a significantly higher hit rate is a good combination. And I want to thank you, chief. And I want to thank the whole department for how you are carrying out this policy because I know it's hard to make a significant change like that. It was really a kind of a cultural shift, but I think you all have done it. And I think it really matters to thousands of people, literally thousands of people in terms of the number of stops and searches that were having the city. And so I really wanted to highlight that that's an enormous change and enormous change in the lives of thousands of people. I do think that the appreciated council member Reese's question, I think this is something that we need to continue to pay attention to is the racial disparity in the stops and searches. But for all groups of people and that then and then that especially means our minority communities, because it's down in every area. I think that we are doing trying to do a different kind of policing now. And I think that that these numbers are a tremendous tribute to that. So I want to thank you. Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, thank you, sir. If I might thank you for the shout out to Charlie and I want to just say and I know that counselor Reese would agree with me that we were part of an incredible coalition of voices in this city chief among them the Fade coalition who were working tirelessly. Some of us may have gotten more headlines or recognition but there were hundreds, thousands of people who pushed really hard on getting written consent and the other recommendations passed as well. So I certainly appreciate the shout out but but I would be remiss not to point out the Fade coalition and others who fought so hard and valiantly on this. With that said, I also do want to just it was very dramatic seeing the spike in probable cause searches after written consent was initiated. And there were many of us in the community that speculated that some of our offices were just getting creative. Now that you had to have a receipt, so to speak, to have a written consent. There were many in the community that were concerned that probable cause became more probable. And you had more cause now that you had to get a receipt for written consent. So I'm glad to see the numbers come down. I want to echo in the spirit of counselor. I want to piggyback on counselor Reese's question with just a statement. While we've made progress, there's more work to be done. Chief, we're grateful you're here into this command staff. And I know I know a lot of you personally, I know the values that this command staff has. But let's continue to just keep the work going and continue to in our culture, our police culture in the city to make it known from the top down that Durham, this council, this citizenry just will not countenance any treatment other than fair treatment and across the board treatment for any of its citizens. This council simply will not countenance it. And the patrol level officers need to know it and command level officers need to know it. And Chief, I think you've done a marvelous job in modeling that and this command staff. And as long as we're working towards that, you'll have no fierce or allies, I think, on this council than many of us up here. But if we don't, we're going to be a problem. We're going to be a problem. We're going to be a problem. And so, I guess, I see in the dominant public. It's me chief among them, but I'm heartened by the work that's been going on and heartened by the cultural change in it's not. It's not easy. It's hard work to change the culture. But I am heartened by the work that is that's been done and and the way the numbers are moving and let's keep them moving that way. presentation we just saw indicated that a quarter of the traffic stops that were initiated in Durham during 2017 were for equipment and regulatory violations. Do I have that right? Is that about 26%? Yes sir. Great. Are those, those are almost always, it's less than a misdemeanor. I was a prosecutor. I know that I should know this word. Thank you. Thank you. I'm horrible. In fractions, those are almost always in fractions. Thank you Chief Sarvis. I feel bad. Is that right? They're most always in fractions. Have you considered the possibility of encouraging officers to do something other than a traffic stop for that kind of equipment and regulatory violation? I know at least one other community in North Carolina has tried this recently. City of Greensboro began doing something different and finding other ways to notify drivers of those kinds of violations other than a traffic stop. I also know Greensboro changed its mind earlier the last year and began traffic stops again for those types of violations. It occurs to me that it might be a little bit more paperwork for officers to note the type of violation and the license number and then have a follow-up process by which that driver's notified of the violation but it's just another way that we can kind of manage these numbers a little better. I wonder if you have any thoughts on that? Well I do. Of course the officers use their discretion as it relates to what types of infractions or citations they write but on many occasions our officers stop individuals just to let them know. Many times people don't know that the brake light is out or whatever the case might be and sometimes you know officers go so far as to assist individuals on how to correct these things but that's part of that culture that you know we're talking about. We're more interested in public safety than putting an additional burden on somebody who can't afford to deal with you know a vehicle or equipment failure or something of that nature. So to your point I'd be willing to look at what other agencies are doing looking at best practices to see if there are some other alternatives out there that are working for other cities other jurisdictions to potentially bring that here. The other thing that comes to mind is that for most folks in our community getting pulled over by a police officer for broken tail lights not a big deal but for a number of members of our community specifically those who may be undocumented in our community that kind of traffic stop is is a can be a pretty big deal and if there are ways that we can reduce those kind of interactions over something so minor as an infraction involving an equipment violation I encourage you to take a look at it. In addition I just want to piggyback a little bit about on what the councilmember Milton the mayor said about where the statistics are heading on traffic stop data the aside from the disparity that I asked you about at the beginning of the questioning I want to say that echo the mayor and say that the numbers are otherwise amazing they do show a point to a true culture shift and how we are engaging in these types of interactions with our residents as a police department and I know that that this is a change that happened before you got here that started before you got here but that it's something that you have bought into and so I want to thank not only you but also your command staff and every patrol officer that's out there doing the hard work of being a police officer in this city the the numbers show that this change in attitudes and in policing strategy is is working and I'm really excited about that and also want to echo what councilmember Middleton said that as long as we keep making progress we will be in your corner all the way so thank you for everything you're doing on this thank you mr. mayor thank you and could I say before we leave off of this the subject I think that the feelings and the positions that are shared tonight are mutual amongst my command staff these are individuals that work daily to take a close surgical look at their staff to make sure that we're treating people fair we're constantly looking at data Jason see she's I can't thank him enough for being able to extract this type of data for us to examine some agencies don't even look at data like this so we don't just extract it we're using the data so that we can take a closer look in ways that we can make changes but I have to command the staff because they oversee all of these officers and they make sure we do our work the way it should be done every day and I can't say how proud I am of their agility in the changes that have taken place in the Durham police premises I've been here thank you very much chief and mr. she's thank you so much for your report it was excellent and we have work to do but we have made a tremendous amount of progress and it's really appreciate your analysis of it yes you need her presentation back available say one more time you want to go back to the questions Richard David's presentation sure other we may have some questions of that thank you so much oh absolutely so council members questions or comments on the chief's first report on the fourth quarter annual a fourth quarter an annual crime report presentation mr. Ross thank you have a question and a comment briefly when are you ready for the mental health training that you referenced is that a one-time training or is that something that will that's continually available to know it is not a one-time training and we plan to continue it annually we've had several different renditions of the training some in the classroom some some that that was actually offered on the computer mandatory for all of our officers as well but we continue not just to have the regular mental illness training but also we're working to have all of our officers crisis intervention certified as well so it's ongoing terrific thank you and just a comment it's in your report and not in the presentation I just want to acknowledge the great work that your department's doing to refer people to the misdemeanor diversion program so appreciate it those numbers and while it's not directly within the scope of the department's responsibilities I just want to say that you know that that program is a great program and you know I think has the potential to have a positive and meaningful impact on on folks of any age so I just hope that we as a community can move towards expansion of that program in the future and just want to thank you for your the department support thank you thank you very much councilmember Austin other comments and questions I have a question thank you mr. mayor chief from the drop from 2016 to 2017 of citizen complaints for violations with the use of policy over 50 some odd percent what why do you think that is I think a combination of things I think it's you know a shift in in culture a shift in you know what we see around the country you know officers being more cognizant of other options and alternatives to use of force the training that we're providing the de-escalation training that we're providing we are currently looking at less lethal munitions as well to implement in the Durham police department if you're not paying attention you know I think officers get and if you don't have to use force then you shouldn't so I think utilizing some of the training you utilizing commands and and putting distance between yourself and a person who could be potentially volatile or dangerous I think there are a lot of different scenarios that are playing out right now and the department continuously holds our supervisors accountable for making sure that any time an officer uses force whether there's a complaint or not we initiate the investigation to make sure that the officer utilize the appropriate protocols and policies and procedures in the use of that force thank you and let me know if this is privileged information but as as assistant chief Kate said anything to you about an ice cream truck you let me know if this is privileged I don't know did you mention an ice cream I didn't mean to start anything but I know he had some ideas deeper on that one okay thank you chief thank you chief how about body cameras is that anything to do with the use of force reports well and to that point when I said several things probably have something to do it up I believe so I think our officers and community members are more cognizant of being recorded during their interactions you know with with police officers so videoing always sort of adjust the behavior of an officer who knows that any infraction or any wrong behavior will be evaluated and there's some ramifications for for it so it's I'm sure a shape and behavior on both sides all right any other questions or comments calcium breeze councilmember Caballero yeah I just wanted to is this the first time that the U visa information has been added to the crime report it absolutely is I wanted to say thank you I think it's valuable information and I am very impressed with the data that I'm seeing here and I I know that the Latino community specifically is is very encouraged by this well good thank you thank you yeah yeah I was gonna I wanted to let her first yeah so she did now it's my turn thank you hi chief Davis hello sir have you received any requests to view body camera footage from city residents pursuant to the general order that governs these things I don't think we've asked recently I ask all the time and we have not had requests as of yet media requests anything like that that's right there was an insurance company that made a request probably we accommodate that that's good I don't think there's I don't think the statute allows it so it's good the use of force complaint data is very encouraging I think that's fantastic but I only heard one actual statistic about use of force itself and that was in taser deployment but you noted that there was a decline in taser deployment in 2017 over last year is that right yes does the department track other uses of force yes we do they track it however it has to be sort of broken down we use we use a system that tracks it but I do have some information here that might help shed some light on some of our numbers we make sure I got the right slide duty at least I thought I had it let me see you know I thought it was here this is more demographic information however I can get that information for you to break down those numbers to see whether or not it was soft hands or whether or not it was you know some other type of deployment of you know an aspartan or something of that nature and do you have any sense of what the what those data would tell us about use of force in 2017 versus 2016 you know off the top of my head I don't but I would hope that it would show the continuum of force you know that we are utilizing different techniques different types of you know ways to mitigate a situation without using extreme force chief I am I'm all done with difficult questions but I did want to say just a few things about the longer report that you and your staff put together it's always fantastic I did want to point to the continued progress the city's making specifically the police department in reducing drug violations that number has almost cut in half from 2015 to 2017 I think part of that has to do with the increased use of the misdemeanor diversion program which again as council member Alston mentioned is a fantastic program and we really appreciate your support of it another I know has been the encouragement of officers to use other means other than criminal charges to address some of those misdemeanor drug charges and so I just want to say as a member of the council that's been concerned about that for a while it's great to see those numbers and where they are and I know that it's a credit not only to you but your command staff and the folks that are in the field I also wanted to mention I can get over here on page 22 of your report you know you guys do a great job putting together specific instances of officers going above and beyond the call of duty I wanted to call out officers Hunter and Beckett of the CAT unit on to page 22 of your fourth court report they're specifically called out for a couple of instances of homeless outreach over the last couple of months I've been fortunate really lucky to get to know some of the folks that live at one of the homeless encampments here in town and they've had a number of encounters with the Durham police officers over those months and they have been uniformly positive and I know that has not always been the case in interactions between the Durham Police Department and our homeless neighbors and so I just want to thank your department for the way that you are treating our neighbors and residents who don't have a stable place to live it's really important to me personally and I know many folks in the city feel the same and just I again that's really important to me and I thank you for doing that thank you we have a great crisis intervention team thank you all right any other questions I have a couple of comments this is this is the Passover season chief and in Passover we have four questions but I actually don't have four questions just trying to scare you just a couple of comments and really to Charlie mentioned already the extent to which the drug violations are down that's great and Renetta mentioned the misdemeanor diversion program and how important that is and and then also and Javier I mentioned the U visa statistics and I want to thank you for bringing us a new U visa policy we've needed a new U visa policy for a while and I just want to thank you for what you've done to usher in that policy and I know that I've heard from some of our advocates about the improvement in the policy and I think it's going to serve as well I think it's going to help keep our community safer because people will feel like they can come out of the shadows and that they can and and they will be and they will be fairly treated for that and so I appreciate it and and then finally just the that you had a slide in here that we did not have previously to that that we not that we did not get our original report which is the diversity of the force yes and I think that continues to be a concern I appreciate all the recruitment efforts that we're making to diversify the force but we need to of course be continuing to do that and I just want to put a punctuation mark on that absolutely and and finally though I just think you know if you look at the big picture this report that the very first chart in the report is the is the is the raw numbers by which crime has gone down in Durham over the last 20 years that is that there is that time period of the last 17 17 years and what you're looking at there is a raw number and at the same time as the there's a raw number decline the population of Durham has been increasing at a very high rate and so I would be interested if this is only if this is easy but I would love to see the crime rate decline over the same period of time this is the raw number decline as I understand it did I get that wrong mayor it oh gosh per hundred thousand got it you already had it for me thank you always ahead of me thank you very much so what we see in this report overall is we see over the last years violent crime down 11% crime rate property crime rate down 49% but in then in more recent years we see and in this last year last last few years we see traffic stops declining precipitously we see searches declining precipitously we see you visa certifications up we see drug offense use drug offenses down we see misdemeanor diversion court use up I just think that this is increasingly a very community friendly police department and I want to commend you I want to commend the command staff and I want to consent to commend the members of the department for making these change this is a profoundly different department than we we have had and I just want to thank you all for it because I think this is nothing is more important in Durham than this work and really appreciate you doing it all right any other questions or comments the bear pro tem I thought I saw her I did everyone has already said all the things I was going to say I just wanted to reiterate that with it with very few exceptions all the numbers in this report are moving in the right direction and I think that's a real accomplishment and as as a numbers person I really appreciate that I think more than anything else that this is some real concrete evidence of the changes that are being made in the city and that I think that they're gonna have a really significant impact on the folks in this community so thank you and thank you to your staff for for taking this seriously and for for making this happen thank you thank you thank you very much thank you chief thanks to everyone all the members of the department who are here we're grateful to you and thanks for sticking with us so long their chief thank you sir and I believe that that is the final item on our agenda and if there is no other business to come before this council I will only before adjourning warn my council and colleagues that the next council next Monday is a very large and long agenda so we'll be getting out of here later than this so with that I will say that the meeting is adjourned at 841