 Thank you all for for being here. The purpose of this briefing is to discuss and provide updates on several recent shootings in our city. Unfortunately, gun crime remains our greatest threat. Both in the city and in the county. I'm joined by Sheriff Leon Lott, Major Frank O'Neill with State Law Enforcement Division, Major O'Neill command sleds narcotics alcohol and vice division. I'm going to describe our gun crime picture over the past week. And through this weekend, discuss some current steps being put in place to provide us a better capacity and operational tempo to prevent and solve crime moving forward. I want as I as I go through this crime summary, I want you just to I hope this resonates with you just the extent of the issue we're having with with gun crime. Going back to August second, discharging a firearm, Covenant Road, it's in the metro region. Multiple rounds were fired property damage. Discharging a farm, Magnolia Street Metro region, multiple rounds fired this charging a farm, Lorick Circle, North region, 26 rounds fired property damage. August 3rd, pointing and presenting a firearm on Saluda Avenue, discharging into a dwelling on Norman Street, five casings recovered property damage, discharging into a dwelling on Howe Avenue Metro region, four casings recovered property damage, attempted murder on Bailey Street, one victim injured in the leg with non life threatening injuries. Discharging a firearms Spears Creek Church Road in the east. On August 4th, just charging a farm Duke Avenue. August 6th, discharging a farm Rosebud Street North 19 casings, property damage and armed robbery at the Scotchman on Divine Street South region, the handguns used on August 7th, pointing and presenting on Abraham Street North region, murder on Putnam Street in Metro one victim 76 year old Alfonso row shot. He was he not the intended target. His son, Devin row was Devin rose been arrested on a burglary charge. He has not been cooperative. His father was killed because somebody is targeting him because his criminal behavior. He's not cooperative. August 9th pointing present homes Avenue in the north region. Shooting attempted murder following springs in the north region, one injured. They've on green. African American male 21 years old uncooperative. August 10th pointing present Gabriel Street in the north region shooting five points. One injured 17 year old high school student two casings recovered shooting Lester Drive north region. One seriously injured multiple rounds fired. Corey McCrae African American 36 years old in serious condition with wounds to his head. August 11th point present Center Street Metro region and discharging a firearm better betterdale Avenue for casings property damage. We also had 18 shot spotter alerts, 58 rounds recorded fired numerous casings recovered and entered in the diamond. Four gun seas three of them being stolen. One of the instance of the shot spotter alert involved a group of people gathered at a grave site overall Farrow Road, where the uncle of one of the folks surrounding the grave fired a gun purportedly in recognition of the anniversary of the death of his uncle. Responding officers made a traffic stop and arrested him with a gun. So what are we doing presently? We continue to leverage our law enforcement partnerships and technology that's available to us. You're continuing to see seamless operational investigative cooperation. Unlike you've never seen before with the Sheriff's Department, we know the same offenders commit crimes in both jurisdiction. We also recognize the collaborations imperative that is reinforced always from the sheriff and myself. With the weekly crime meetings, our officers, deputies, investigators, agents and prosecutors all meet. That's never been done before. Our gang task force will continue to focus on validating gang members. And most importantly, those that are associated with the validated gang members will continue to leverage our real time initiative with our federal partners with ACF, ATF, and our ceasefire. Colombia is our offender calling. We will have another offender call in next month. We're currently reviewing our violent felons that reside in Colombia. As I stated before, 634 violent felons are on probation or parole in Colombia. 634 316 reside in two nine 203 another 50 are on federal probation. We have between 15 and 30 youthful offenders and juveniles that are on probation that are in our neighborhoods. We've made 825 home visits since the first of the year, putting our eyes on these useful offenders, making sure they know that we know where they are and they're supposed to be where they are. We're going to continue with our partnership through the Project Safe Neighborhoods with the US Attorney's Office they have provided significant prosecutorial resources to our efforts, continue to exploit ShotSpotter technology will remain data driven and intelligence driven and focusing on the prolific offenders, our trigger pullers and gang members. What else are we doing? We're up staffing. I issued a directive yesterday requiring all administrative sworn personnel, including lieutenants, captains, majors, deputy chief and myself to work Friday and Saturday nights until further notice will work in all crime hotspots in our city, particularly in the north metro region, Millwood corridor, five points, this entertainment area. We're introducing Alistar technology. This technology is a common operating picture technology that combines multiple programs used into one picture. We have a lot of different systems that we use, but they've always been siloed and this technology and there's a snapshot of it up here on the board integrates with our CAD with our dispatch. So our commanders in the field can have operational awareness, situational awareness of where all our assets are. They know where our people are and where our cars are and they'll be able to direct resources accordingly. The other feature of this is they'll be able to from from desktops in our crime center be able to monitor pan tilt zoom cameras in our hotspots that will be deploying this week. We're also after discussions with with the sheriff. We're also appointing Jack Shear. He's a sergeant with the police department right now. He's and he's in the promotional process for for Lieutenant. He's being named as assistant commander at Midland's gang task force. We think this will bring even greater continuity of service and seamless command and control of gang operations. We created an alert system for alcohol enforcement violations with sled and DOR incorporating criminal violations for establishments throughout the city to potentially develop into administrative violations in five points in the surrounding area. This past week we've seen Alan and Benedict just moved in. We have USC moving in the next few days when we're currently involved in college education and crime prevention meetings with the kids in the schools. We will begin a welcome back operation in the next few weeks and five points where officer interactions will involve warnings and then strict enforcement. Sled will be a constant presence along with the gang task force in both undercover and uniform capacity will have real time monitoring of our surveillance cameras in our entertainment districts but also in our city wide crime hotspots. You'll also see traffic enforcement in entertainment areas to include DUI enforcement distracted driving and reckless driving city wide and in our entertainment areas. Gang members and associates can expect to interact with law enforcement. We will make lawful interactions every single time we identify you. We'll continue strict enforcements of nuisance ordinances and rental ordinances. We're down to eight late night establishments and five points. An example of a recent nuisance situation was Lakeshore Village. Lakeshore Village is an apartment complex out off Garner's Ferry Road. We annexed it in the middle of 2017. Since that time it has been a significant drain on police resources. We've had over a thousand calls for service. 143 document and criminal offenses and 177 code enforcement cases. We've had a meeting with their management and their their legal team. Very productive meeting. They're taking some immediate steps to mitigate some of the problems but we have every intention of moving forward if we don't see a dramatic change in the immediate future. That's a drain on resources. Those are resources that we can have in other places. We're seeing some some promise in our hot spot or excuse me in our in our shot spot or area with some crime reduction. We need that to become city wide. We recognize that our violent crime city wide is up six percent. Our property crimes are flat meaning the same as this time last year. So we have some work to do. We still think it's important to focus on the prolific offenders and and continue that that intelligence led course of action. Sheriff do you have anything you want to Chief Holbrooks went over what we're doing the programs we've got the technology that we've got but I want anybody to think that this is a law enforcement problem. This is a community problem. The violence we got in our community has to be dealt with by everybody in the community not just us in law enforcement. We're doing our part and we're going to continue to do our part. We need help from the community. We need help from parents. There's no reasonable explanation for a 14 15 16 year old child to be out two or three o'clock in the morning. We see that all the time. They're out. Parents have no clue where they're at what they're doing and what they're involved in. And we're out at that time of night. They usually out there getting in trouble. Either committing a crime or they become a victim of crime. All too often we have drive by shooting. Somebody's house gets shot up. We go interview the people in the house. They have no clue. That they'll tell us about but they actually know exactly who did the shooting. You know parent. You know. Ask their child. I can't make that young person in the house. Tell us who did the shooting or what they're involved in. That parent can. That's what a parent's supposed to do. But they're not doing that. And then from that shooting that drive by shooting they will have retaliation. We don't have parents in our community being parents. We need parents to step up. Be parents. These young people we've got out here that are victims and that are causing a lot of these crimes. It's going to take this community to come together. Elected officials or churches or schools. Our parents our neighborhoods. The only way we're going to be successful is everybody gets involved in this effort. We're going to do our part but we can't stop it by ourselves. We can continue to lock them up. We continue to seize guns. But if we don't have the community backing us and we don't have the community involved in it. It's just going to keep going and going. So my plea to everybody is you got to get involved. If you don't then it's going to continue. So help us. Become a partner. Become a partner what we're trying to do. Be part of the solution not part of the problem.