City Council Listening Session - December 2, 2024
Council Rejects Internal Investigation Into Police Data Concerns
Traffic Safety and Community Policing
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Property Tax Increases and Legislative Advocacy
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Votes (2)
Resident Concerns Regarding Police Data and Internal Investigation Request
Dissent: Sally voiced strong opposition to the decision not to conduct an internal investigation.
Sally expressed alarm about her name being in a nine-year-old CAD report, asserting it constituted police surveillance and lacked a legal basis. She requested an internal investigation, which the council deliberated. The Mayor and other council members explained the difference between CAD reports (for directive patrol based on command staff requests) and formal surveillance (part of an investigation). They noted officers could not recall the specifics due to the passage of time. The council ultimately decided not to pursue an internal investigation.
Adjournment
Standard motion to adjourn the meeting.
Notable Quotes (5)
Can officers anyone for any reason under police surveillance?
I don't think this does not constitute police surveillance. I think police surveillance I think is decisions made at the command staff level, and your name being in what do we, they weren't even police reports they were called a CAD. The roll call notes is not the same as notes, it's a CAD report.
There has to be a legal reason my name is in report. And what's really disturbing is I don't feel like any of you guys see how important this is, how really disturbing is.
Your next question, does this warrant an internal investigation? I don't believe it does.
When you get to roll call, they are given data as part of turnover. And that turnover data includes these cads that say, hey, we've been asked by command staff to do, to do extra patrols in these areas for a variety of reasons. That could be because of previous complaints.
Ordinances & Resolutions (5)
Computer-Aided Dispatch report, central to discussion on police data and surveillance.
Information given to officers at roll call, including directive patrol requests, referred to as CAD reports.
Staff development and organizational change model previously used by the city.
Budgeting model, distinguished from the HPO model.
State credit mentioned in context of property tax relief that automatically goes out to people.