Two recommendations. There should be a dedication to the research and development of solutions to mine Law Enforcement databases for information that will not only reduce and solve crime, but help keep our officers safe. This cannot be a one time endeavor, but rather a continual process. In addition, we must look for and publicize best practices and use of social media. Currently, there is no better way to connect with the citizens. In Law Enforcement we are only as strong as our relationships with the community. If they trust us they will call us when something is amiss in their neighborhood. So, the question that begs to be answered is how do we build that trust. It begins with understanding ourselves and the citizens we serve. To this every Law Enforcement officer should be mandate aed to complete the course entitle td fair and impartial policing. Its to show that everyone has biases and that luiu critical for officers to recognize this, make every attempt to set them aside when ser
Im proud to be a part of. Its jointly under the auspices of the cops office and the bureau of justice assistance. This is done tremendous good in training more than 15,000 officers across this country. Finally, hes increased the federal grant money thats gone to groups like ours and others who are focused on officer safety and wellness. Those are just some great examples of the leadership hes provided. I dont think its any coincidence that as a result of all of those efforts, the last two years now, weve seen fewer Law Enforcement fatalities than any year for the last 50. Thats a great credit to leadership and to this group and so many others focused on this issue. A lot more work clearly needs to be done. I look at canada as a great role model for us here in the United States. Ive attended their memorial service, two out of the last three years. Two years ago, they honored all the officers in canada who had been killed in the line of duty. One officer during a 12month period killed in
Commissioner right down the hall. One of one of the true princes in the Police Department right there. Will you be available for questions later . We all have a lot of questions r for you. What was he like . He did tell me once if i got to be chief i would have gotten to play more. [laughter]. Important to know thank you both. Thank you. Anything further, chief. No thank you. Inspect tore please call the next line item. 5 bocc directors report discussion and review of recent activities and presentation of occ fiscal reports and summary of cases received in january and february of 2015 and mediation in january and february february 2015 and adjudication of complaints and the companion report. Good evening director hicks. Good evening president loftus and members of the commission chief and members of the audience. As you are aware the chief here has pointed out there is an interim report from the president s task force on 21 st Century Policing and president obama signed an executive or
Justice should provide Technical Assistance and collect best practices and be prepared to help cities create this structure potentially with some matching funds and theres a detailed letter that was provided to the task force with several recommendations and were very pleased that the task force did include civilian oversight as a key recommendation in its report. Im now going to move away from that report into some recent activities that my staff and i have been involved in i recently participated in a symposium as a panelist and cosponsors by the league of california cities and Chapman University and the panel i participanted i participated on was Police Misconduct and i stressed that a Risk Management tool is to use civilian oversight to develop policy recommendations as we do in could as we do in conjunction with the Police Department and the Police Commission and last week Deputy Director served as a prerpt a presenter and spoke on the San Francisco Police Department crowd control
The companion report. Good evening director hicks. Good evening president loftus and members of the commission chief and members of the audience. As you are aware the chief here has pointed out there is an interim report from the president s task force on 21 st Century Policing and president obama signed an executive order on december 18th, 2014, establishing this task force because of risks in the relationships between Certain Police departments and members of the communities that they served and the task of the task force was to develop a road map for best policing practices that can promote effective Crime Reduction while ensurg and Building Community trust and the task force had 90 days to complete the report and they have actually received input from the organization in which i serve on the board and thats the National Association for the civilian oversight of Law Enforcement and received this input by getting written and oral testimony and the president delivered oral testimony i