Board of Police Commissioners, Evening Community Meeting, 3/13/2025
10:30PM Mar 13, 2025
Speakers:
Keywords:
Board of Police Commissioners
community meeting
invocation
roll call
agenda approval
minutes approval
Chief of Police report
crime statistics
mental health calls
overdoses
recruiting
search warrant policy
community engagement
special orders extension
unappointment motion.
Yeah.
It is 630 March, 13, 2025, the board of police commission meeting is called the order. We have commander, Chaplain Mike, Cadet ca dote will provide the invocation this evening. You can tell us recording in progress.
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Mike? Could that? Could that Okay?
Thank you, sir, to you and to the through you. To the Board of Commissioners and to those gathered here today on this a very holy time where so many are fasting, praying and discerning the call of God. We give thanks for this meeting and ask for God's blessings. Upon it, may God bless this honored Commission and the work that they do that they do that is so important to the police department the citizens of the city of Detroit, may God, may your wisdom flow through them and your peace flow through them and touch their minds and their hearts as they do this most important duties. Tonight, we also ask for your wisdom to travel with our police officers and our police department, and ask your blessings upon them, and may your angels travel with all of our officers and keep them in all of us free and safe from any and all evils before them, behind them, beside them, beneath them and above them. We thank you for their service. I also pray, Oh Lord, for peace and love to be upon all the citizens of the city of Detroit and those gathered here tonight at the conclusion of this important meeting and when the work is concluded, I pray for safe travels home for all of us, and may we all find peace, love and joy in our home lives as well In your most holy and exalted name. I pray, Amen,
Commissioner banks. Present Commissioner Bell is excused. Commissioner Burton is excused. Commissioner Carter here, Commissioner Moore present. District seven, mission, sorry. Commissioner Hernandez,
Commissioner Dewas present.
Eight present, sir, we have
a quorum. I entertain a motion for the approval of March. 13, 2025, agenda so moved, moved by Commissioner Moore, second by Commissioner Bernard. Any discussion? All in favor? Say, aye. Aye. Anyone opposed, the motion is carried. I entertain a motion for the approval of minutes of March. 6. 2025, support. Second Motion moved by Commissioner Smith and supported by Commissioner Hernandez. Any discussion, all in favor, say, Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed. The motion is carried, introduction of Bo PC staff, Chief of Police, elect officials or representative community leaders
present at this time. Chairman through the chair. Attorney, Dante Goss chief investigator, Jerome Warfield, senior, Drew freeze, Felicia Tyson, Theresa blossom, Candace, Hayes, armisia, Joshua, johnya Underwood, investigator supervisor, Ainsley Cromwell, DPD, HR director, Katrina Patillo, Deputy Chief, Jacqueline Pritchett for Chief of Police, Todd medicine, our interpreters on Zoom today are michikata and Dr Stephanie Beatty core reporter, Don handy side, audio visual, Henri Jackson, media services, Charles Henry, elected officials and representatives registered at this time, armory overall, of Office of State Representative, Tyrone Carter, Freedia Butler, I believe is here, President, second precinct community relations, Ladon Davis, Office of city council member, Fred der Hall, the third I don't believe I saw either union president here as of yet and former Detroit Police Commissioner William Davis. That ends
the list of officials and representatives. Okay,
like to thank Commissioner Moore, Commissioner Carter, for their great, great leadership and providing a meal for
everyone today,
to two special commissioners who someone both I admire a great deal and really thankful, thankful to them to be able to serve in this capacity. And I know that we are in I think you guys shared the districts together. How I split it off? Commissioner Moore,
ladies first with Commissioner Carter, Mr. Chair,
me first, yes. Well, just welcome to the 10th precinct. Thank you all for being here. Really appreciate all of you. It takes a village for everything. And glad that everyone is here tonight. Thank you absolutely.
And I'll just like to add, you know, as for commissioners that represent the 10th precinct, and I'm glad that Commissioner Carter heard the call to assist. So this is my last year, as you well know as police commissioner, I didn't want to leave y'all saying, well, who's going to be next? Who going to be next? So the two candidates that might one who might get elected or will get elected, are present today, so get a chance to meet and greet them. I'm not leaving you high and dry. I live in the 10th precinct, so you'll be seeing more of me. Thank you and God bless each and every one of you.
All right, yes, sir,
Commissioner, more. Who are the two?
Well, I try. I want us to go to jail. There's too many police here. Okay, I got one more
commissioner
and Commissioner Carter, just want to ask you, what did you get the delicious food that?
Well, Mr. President, folks, when I put out the email, he responded. He said, Hey, I know a great guy, Chef CJ, and that's chef CJ in the middle. So if y'all like the food, give him a round of applause. All right,
I gave them a good tip, man,
so they deserve it. Service is the rent we pay for the space that we occupy. Certainly, they are in a service field to be able to make people feel better. So we really thank you guys for your hospitality and your service was nothing but impeccable. Your smiles make it better for us. So let's get to the chief of police report, Deputy Chief Pritchett
through the chair. These stats are from today's date. So homicides were down 15 incidents of 16% our nine fatal shootings were down, 25 incidents for a total of 28% our robberies were down, 28 for 15% reduction. Our carjackings were down, eight for a reduction of 33% and our overall, part one, violent crimes were down 227, incidents for a total of 12% for the community updates on Tuesday, March 11, at approximately 5:45pm officers from the 10th precinct responded to a home in the 8700 block of DeSoto for a dead person. They spoke with the female resident, who said she left the home for about an hour and returned to find the door locked. She entered through the window and saw a male in his 60s, deceased. She then left and called 911, officers from the 10th person responded, went into the home and found additional victim, a female in her 60s, also deceased. We're investigating this incident. Asked anyone with any information to call a major crime division at 596, 2260, Crime Stoppers at one 800 speak up or Visit Detroit rewards.tv so on Friday, March 7, we held our women's walk. Celebrated International Women's Day and all the female members of DPD. It was a successful event, with a great turnout. Chief Benn, other department executives attended. So on Saturday, Last Saturday, March 8, our neighborhood police officers in the St Vincent and Sarah Fisher center gave away school supplies, clothing, toys and other items to more than 200 members of the community. So chief medicine also met with other police chiefs from around the state at the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, chiefs of police this week, but we know we have officers that are visiting schools periodically for help to help with reading. So officers from seven, several of our precincts, continue to visit schools across the city and read the students for reading month. So this is our recruiting event. So this week, we had our DPD great readiness program event where we welcome those interested in applying to DPD to learn more about the application process. Chief better send was there and spoke to the prospective applicants on Saturday, March 15, from 7am to 5pm at our training center. Is our one day hiring event. This is where those interested can apply to DPD and complete a large portion of the hiring process in one day. We encourage anyone who is looking for a rewarding career to come out on Saturday and join a DPD. Also, we have one member who is at at home. She was assigned to the fifth precinct, and on February 27 at approximately 2:42am she was the passenger in a fully marked Scout car responding to a 911 dispatch police run, and she was reared. They were rear ended while stopped at a red light. She sustained head, neck and back injuries. She was conveyed to Dr H for treatment. She's scheduled to follow up at DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan on March 19. So she's currently at home recuperating. So that is our report.
Any questions? Yes,
a couple of
comments and one question. I'll start with the question and the calls for service. DEPUTY ASSISTANT CHIEF, it indicates that we have had 3045 calls for mental health related reasons. Of those, approximately 829 were were, I'm sorry, were non violent, but 1200 of those were violent. And the second part, the other thing I want to call it to the tension of our of our community, is the fact that we've had 1024 just this little year to date, overdoses. My question number one is with the overdoses related to fentanyl or what? And then my second question related to the first point regarding mental health related calls, several a number of those, they say were not, were not responded to. And I'm just wondering why we would not service calls versus unservice calls through
the chair, ma'am, I really don't know the cause of the overdoses, what drugs they were taking. I can find it out and get it back to the to the board. And secondly, I don't have the information in front of me to see what you're looking at. As far as calls not service, it's my understanding, whenever 911 is called, cars are dispatched. Those runs are are answered, unless the call is canceled or EMS gets there and the person is conveyed to the hospital.
Okay. The other thing is that, can you tell us what happened on the 15th on Well, it's coming up. I'm sorry I wanted to know about that, but my real question, you're in the future. Why are we still recruiting when we have all the officers, all the positions filled?
You know, I think we're at a 98% through the Chair. I'm sorry, I think we had like a 97 or 98% fuel rate, but we have officers that are 2728 years of service are deciding to retire, so we have to constantly hire to replace that due to attrition.
But as I understand it, M calls is back to more than 1000 people just trying to do certifications on people. Well, it's a long time. It's going to be a long time before we can hire anybody, if we're going to hire only after they've passed. Im calls
through the chair. Ma'am. We had a hiring on March 10 there in Academy, and they started Monday, so we are currently hiring.
They don't have to be they're not, they're M co certified after they start. Here is that what you're saying through the
chairman, once they complete the academy and pass the post test and they become M co certified?
Okay? Thank you and license security.
Any further questions? There are no other Oh yes, sir,
thank you to the chair. My question may be a bit granular, but it was a response to a CCR that I read. I know that is one of the special orders that is here to be considered upcoming, but there was an incident where someone was having their property to be searched. There was a warrant for the search. However, the search began before the owner of the property arrived, and she was requesting to see the search warrant, but the officers declined to provide her the search warrant upon her request, but said it would be left in the property. And obviously there was no violation of the policy, because the policy didn't detail that the officers were required to provide the search board upon request. But I was just wondering what would be the rationale as to why officers wouldn't provide a search warrant to an individual when requested, as opposed to just saying it would be left once the search is completed,
through the Chair, I'm going to have commander, Michael parish, part legal team to answer that question.
Good evening, everyone. We have to remember when a search warrant is being executed, there is a lot going on at a particular house, and sometimes it is simply safer for the officers to finish what they are doing at the scene and then leave the search warrant in a conspicuous place inside. That way you don't have personnel having a discussion while the while the search warrant process is still being played out. You're right, Commissioner. There is no legal requirement that we give them a copy of the search warrant at the time they ask for it, but our policy is always to leave a copy of the warrant and a copy of the return in a conspicuous place of no other place at the conclusion once the search warrants been executed.
Thank you. And so in response to that, our Chair of our policy committee might want to make a notation of that, because that might be of interest to citizens as we do review that policy coming forward, whether or not citizens are okay with the understanding that there's a lot going on, I definitely sympathize with that. But again, on behalf of the citizen who are seeing a lot going on and not knowing whether or not that documentation is available, that may be something to be considered
and if I could add sometimes it depends on the type of crime that's under investigation. So how a narcotics location is rated differs substantially from a house that might be entered or a business that might be entered for something that's not easily disposable, like if you're looking for stolen tires. Can be very hard for somebody to throw a bunch of them away while you show them the warrant. But when we get into narcotics, guns, these are things that can be destroyed, concealed, thrown out, displaced in a hurry. So like I said, depending on the type of warrant, the type of location being searched, that could dictate how things are performed. Thank
you. And again, through the Chair, I recognize that's very granular, and it's on a case by case basis, but again, knowing that that policy is upcoming, I just figured that that might be something that we would consider. Thank you. Thank
you. But a search warrant is required to to to search a car, a residence, or anything like that. You have to have probable cause, unless it's something you're looking at just looking at him, token me, then you could arrest Right, absolutely.
And as I understood the commissioners question, it was not an issue of whether a warrant is generally required to enter a home. Of course they are, and of course, that's our policy. It was at what point in time did we have to show a search warrant to somebody that comes to the location in the middle of the search that's how I interpreted the question. Correct.
Yeah. And I think through what I'll about say, through the chair,
through all these chairs.
I think that you we can have a robust discussion on that during the policy meeting. And I'm sure it's a balance that could happen when whenever possible, type language. And so look forward to having that discussion in the policy meeting. So thank you. Very kindly, Deputy Chief. I want to it been brought to my attention that the MDL C is getting out of the contract in terms of housing or securing DDC through the Chair. Yes, yeah, and it's, and that's a public, great public interest, in a sense, that BPD will be going back into the, you know, the housing business, and I know that they're going to be looking for a number of staff members to house that facility, to be able to make sure that they have people, officers, or, I don't know what they will be classified, and I'm sure that'll come out through HR, and there'll be some postings on that, but be on the lookout, as it relates to I'm told It's going to be probably about 45 positions available. You know, Wayne County Sheriff, have you know, they house folks the way they house them. But DPD is going back then, is just going to continue to be centralized and all that right, right through the Chair. Yes, sir, yep. So have at it. You want to, you want to say something on it, Mister
Chairman, I'm happy to answer any questions you have just
there to posture, and I'm sure that something to come out very, very soon on that. But that is of great public concern. You know, one of the issues that has gotten us into, you know, federal oversight in terms of how we detain and those who are in custody, and so we're going to make sure that there's strong, robust policy to be able to protect citizens and also protect the staff in Those in that place right now. So you have something to say before we move on,
Mr. Chairman, I just guarantee it. We will have strong policy in place. We will never go back to consent judgment days. Praise the Lord.
All right. Till precinct, excuse me, I'm so sorry. Commissioner banks, all right
through the Chair, thank you. Chair. Through this year, we're down in criminal homicides. We had 22 criminal homicides this year versus last year, 31 aggravated assaults. We had 1335, now last year we had 1499, and burglary. We're at 727, this year and 845, this year. I just wanted to say the new administration with Mayor Todd. I mean
chief Todd. Bet I'm sorry, Chief
Todd got too many folks.
Chief Todd medicine, yeah. Chief Todd Bennison, the new administration is definitely paying dividends in this in this season here. So that's wonderful. Crime is going down and things, but he also has a good core to surrounding him, and just wanted to
put that out to DVD through
the Chair. Thank you. You know we're still following some of the policy set by the prior chief, and you know he has a great executive team. We have some officers out there doing phenomenal work, and our number shows that we are engaged. We're trying to keep the citizen this city safe as we possibly can without violating any of their rights. So I think, you know, Chief medicine is, is Chief medicine. You know, we all love him, and we embrace Him, and the work that we did prior to him coming here will continue while he's here. I thought we going
by all the policy of Chief better said, you know, I know we ain't going by the pride TV. That's the old. We got the new coming in. I'm just joking, you know. But you know, these are chief medicine policies now, and it's a new sheriff in town, and his name is Chief Petterson. Let's go to the 10 precinct.
Mr. Chair, before I forget, our staff worked hard to put this menu together. I forgot all about our staff, and I surely apologize, Madam Secretary, Ms blossom, John, y'all, I appreciate y'all for the logistics of this. It's not easy. No, you know, to put something like this together. So before the captain begins, I just want to say thank you to the staff for
absolutely let's give them a hand
and attorney Dante cost as well. Yeah,
have at it, sir. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. Thanks to the mill rights and carpenters for letting us come here today. Kind of a little side note, my son is actually in class right now upstairs. Oh, wow, that's huge. Yeah, taking advantage of the opportunity. It's great, great place. So thanks the mill rights, and thanks to the board for letting me come and speak tonight. And thanks to the chief through DC, Pritchett, for having me represent the 10th precinct. I've been a captain of the 10th precinct for about a year now, and the CEO commanding officer for the last four months, while our currently assigned commanders out fighting a medical illness. So been leading, leading the troops for a few months now, and very proud of our big reductions in 2024 leading into this year. 2025 12% down in part one crimes overall, with 394 incidents this year, 450 last year. So continually making that improvement in part ones. Unfortunately, we are up in homicides year to date. In this two and a half month span, we have four incidents known, excuse me, four incidents so far year to date, plus the two from DeSoto the other day. Unfortunately, three out of those four incidents previous were known offenders. So these happened inside houses or due to like arguments or domestic domestic violence partners. So definitely on our radar to try to bring these, these crimes to justice. Three out of those four known offenders, cases previously are solved now, are closed. Now at 75% closure rate, and I know that I talked to the homicide detectives this morning about the DeSoto incident, they have a few leads, but they're working on that as well. For non fatal shootings this year to date, we have three last year at this time, also three. Pardon me. Oh, sure. Even better is the first one of the year was on New Year's Day, and it was the person admitted to accidentally shooting himself. And buddy won't tell us where, where he shot himself, so that will be backed out or closed. Once we get him to come forward, we can get it like officially closed. And the other non fatal shooting, we have two in custody for for 100% closure rate so far. Year to date, a robbery stats are showing a current 38.5% increase with 18 incident I'm sorry, 18 victims over 13 robberies from last year. However, there's only 16 incidents. They count the number of victims, not just the incidents, four of which are believed to be false reports. We're working on the investigative piece to get those closed and backed out. So our robbery numbers should be improving very shortly. Our sex assaults for the year are down 16 and a half percent. Aggravated assaults are up around 13% the deep dive on the aggravated assaults, we have 122 aggravated assault victims covering 92 incidents, 77 of which have known offenders, which makes about 85% either intimate partner violence or some sort of argument based so we're looking to close we're right around 60% closure rate between The domestic violence unit, as well as our detective bureau at number 10. And in carjackings. We have two carjackings on the year, this year and zero at that this point from last year. They both occurred in the month of January. So we've been about a month free of that incident for property crimes. We are down 23 and a half percent in burglaries from 2024 and the burglaries that we've had in the 10th precinct over the last two years, where our focus of attention, with our mayor's initiative and strategies, we were up a brown 25% last year. So with showing a 24% reduction this year, so far, we've got an improvement about 45 to 50% just in the last few months alone. So very proud of that, larceny is down 10 and a half percent from last year, and motor vehicle thefts down around 22% our strategies for violent crimes, we do targeted enforcement and high crime hot spot areas which are 10, 210, three, primarily the Davidson corridor, and 10 five, which is the middle of the precinct the Boston area, those are typically and historically been the high crime areas for the 10th precinct. We put a lot of attention into those areas. We've made 242 total arrest precinct wide, year to date for guns and gun related crimes. We've taken 35 guns off the street, including search warrants, Shot Spotter warrants as well as arrest for carrying concealed weapon illegally. We increased patrols throughout the Davidson corridor, as I mentioned, with our precinct motor units, issuing around 1800 tickets so far this year. Precinct wide to help suppress accidents and speeders, keep keep motorists safe. We conduct warrant sweeps and M, D, O, C, home checks to focus on perpetrators of gun crimes. We have a cease fire gang initiative, when aimed at disrupting and dismantling groups or gangs, we target high impact and known offenders with our federal partners, the ATF agents, we seek to bolster and seek federal charges against the most heinous of our crime. I'm sorry, of our gun violence offenders, we also have we've leveraged three enforcement grants for federal federal funding, the first being the burn criminal justice innovation was a traffic enforcement business special attention in designated areas. We also run a community based crime reduction grant, which includes traffic enforcement, be any surveillance and enforcement and blight abatement. We also have a burn discretionary housing relocation assistance through a pilot program with our social worker. We use our our detective bureau, the chaplain Corps, and a resource coordinator under that grant to help relocate victims of crimes and even offer some services, including counseling for for the perpetrators of crimes to try to break the cycle of violence. Our strategies for property crimes, again directed patrols based on the data that we find in areas experiencing the increase in property crimes. Our deployments are focused on those hot spots I mentioned before, and strategies are developed by platoon and by day of the week. In some circumstances, collaborative investigations covering multiple precinct and specialized units are also conducted with commercial auto theft, vice and other detective bureaus from other precincts. We do a robust Project Green Light initiative, including physical and virtual checks. So the virtual check is where officers on the desk will monitor multiple Project Green Light locations, and when they find either disruptive behavior or even sometimes spot people carrying concealed weapons, they can immediately radio to street officers will have a response pretty, pretty quickly. And we've made several arrests doing it that way for for gun related crimes. And we also do physical checks. Each platoon is required to have a certain number of checks per day for the whole week, so every single one of our project green lights should be checked multiple times throughout the week. Our community engagement piece, our community meetings are held the first Thursday of every month throughout the winter months. We did them via zoom, and I believe we're going to be starting soon with in person meetings. We have a youth explore program, facility facilitated citywide program, facili by one of our own, NPOs, Roberto Barry, we did participate in the women's walk, as DC Pritchett mentioned. We are also in the beginning stages of implementing the skip grant, as I mentioned before, which is going to be centered on reducing gun violence through education and gun safety through schools and other means. Our embedded social worker. Again, I mentioned that already, but that's that's also another piece of our community engagement that we have daily. Current NPO programs, we run Coffee With A Cop two times a month, one at in harmony Cafe on Dexter and the other one on the at the congregation on Rosa Parks, where the NPOs myself come and speak with any citizens that may have questions. We try to give them updates and answer, you know, and
handle any complaints they may have.
NPOs handle. Have done a senior movie night at the Northwest Activity Center, an ongoing Gleaners and goodwill donation drives. And throughout the summer this year, our bigger community events and planning stages. We have the police week coming up in May, and national night out later in this later in the summer, probably in around August, and we may plan a third, larger event in the parking lot of our building or of our precinct due to last year's unfortunate rain out, we had it. So we have lots of stuff going on this summer, and that's the report out from number
10. Good. Man, that was a long report. Man, I'm sorry,
yes, sir, through
the chair
for the commander here.
You mentioned hot spot areas. Yes, Sir, where are your high criminal I mean, your high crime areas in the city of Detroit? Well, for the 10th precinct, it's a long I mean, I mean the 10th precinct, I'm sorry,
sure the 10 two and 10 three corridor is primarily Davidson, Dexter Davidson, all the way through from the east side of the precinct, or the west side of the precinct to the east. So lot of businesses there, lot of population, lot of lot of houses that are occupied. So we have a lot of unfortunate victims, you would say, because we have the highest population in our precinct and highest number of businesses in the area. So we have a lot of, I mean, it's a lot of traffic. Anybody's driven through Davis and liver noise knows how many cars are running through there all day long. There's no break. So that's, that's our primary areas for for our crimes.
Hey, liver, noise in Davidson, yes, sir.
Commissioner Moore, are you done? Commissioner banks, yeah, I'm all set. Thank you. Okay, Commissioner Moore, thank you,
Mister Chair, yes, sir. You know when I greeted the captain coming in today, I called him the hardest working captain and DPD, because at one point he was running the 10th precinct and still assisting the sixth precinct. Wow. So he was very busy, I haven't forgotten that. And then you were still answering complaints your MPOs work on Saturday sometimes. So 10 is a very hard working, productive precinct. You know, they're very responsive, and that's what I look for, is responsiveness. Yeah, you know, sometimes you can give somebody a complaint, and it might take them a week to get back with you. And I don't like that, and the citizens don't like that either. But not you, Captain. You have risen to the challenge, and I look forward to seeing you going to bigger and better things.
Thank you, sir. Very, very powerful, especially some decades ago. You know, it used to be the infamous 10% now it looked like the good 10% any anything else before we move on? Yeah? Alright. Have a blessed one. Thank you for your service. Thanks everybody.
Y'all can give them an ad. No,
we're going to oral communications. Please note that inappropriate language or comments may delay TV broadcast and meeting video posts.
Miss Underwood. We ready? Yes,
sir, Mr. Chair, we have three speakers. Former commissioner, William Davis, Miss Williams and Victoria Camille, okay.
Hello there. Hello. I'm not going to start off saying anything bad about y'all today. Praise the Lord, because I got some good food today. That don't mean anything about next week. But I would like to see a greater effort, you know, to do something about the homeowners insurance and auto insurance in the state of Detroit, if crime is steady going down, and I believe it is, and if there's a number of things going on, I think the next step in order to help, especially with auto insurance, is to have a greater effort to deal with people running red lights and traffic enforcement, because we have to cut down the number of People running red lights and cut down on vehicle accidents, also speaking of mental health. Yesterday, I was part of a forum that was at second Ebenezer, that U of M was helping the sponsor, and we had people from all over the eastern happy United States. But this particular forum was dealing with mental health and black males, because far too often, too many of our black males don't seek the help that they should seek. And you know, so we need to do more to help, to encourage people to get the help and assistance they need. So other than I don't have nothing else to say,
great job. For today. For today.
Next speaker.
Hello, everyone through the chair. Hello, I'm going to be nice today. I'll wait until next week. You guys have a good day. Praise the Lord. You you
good evening, honorable board and community members. My name is Victoria Camille, and I am the president of the Grand River community block club, and I'm also a candidate for police commissioner in district seven. Very glad to be here today. Thank you. Thank you. So as we know, the First Amendment protects the rights of speech, religion, press, lawful demonstrations, labor union strikes and things like that. And we're in a time when from the federal level, the protection of First Amendment rights are under attack and have become very subjective, and it's more important now than ever that at the local level, community and government agencies and law enforcement are aligned with protecting constitutional rights and civil liberties. So mid last year, myself, along with some other community members, presented to the BL PC policy committee a draft policy to protect First Amendment activities for the police department, and at that time, we were very focused on making sure we pull the protection of those rights to the forefront of that policy and to ensure that no one is retaliated against based on their beliefs being different from those in law enforcement or in government.
So I want to thank
Chief bettson, who is not here today, but I want to thank him and his staff as well as the board for being open to considering that policy that we draft, and we're definitely looking forward to an update on that draft. I do believe that together, we can create and maintain a Detroit that is safe based on our local values. Thank you again. Victoria Camille, absolutely,
yes. Yes, Commander parish of that we passed that out of committee. Where is it? Is still in your office?
The draft that was prepared
on first amendment
rights through the chair. I don't recall the First Amendment directive going through the committee. I believe it was discussed. We did have a meeting with Miss. I was about to call her mission, Miss Camille and her colleagues. It is still in the draft phase. We do intend on having it submitted. We are adopting an overwhelming majority of the ideas and concepts that they are suggesting. So Miss Camille, I can assure you that that is being done. So I, I anticipate we could probably get that submitted to the board within the next week or two. That's priority for the board. We'll make sure we treat it as such.
Will we send it to you tomorrow? One that we approved we
have that we may have it. Yes. In fact, we met with Miss commissioner and her colleagues. That was discussed at length, was it resolved? I wouldn't say there was ever any conflict. I think that we were just trying to reach understanding as to what they were proposing and why. We had a very good meeting. I did commit to them that we would start with their draft instead of the department's draft, and build off of that again. I I can't put an exact number on it, but the overwhelming majority of the draft that they provided is going to be adopted into policy.
Well, is the priority item now, obviously, because of what's happening in New York and in other cities, and we need to be clear about our position on First Amendment rights of protesters. So maybe we can talk about it, not this evening, but maybe tomorrow or something, and see if we can't move it along. I asked Felicia to do the same thing. And Madam, Madam Secretary,
yep, what we have done our due diligence on it already. They just finished doing what they need to do with it to get it to us. And because it's you've done a great, great job. The Policy Manager, Victoria Camille num, in terms of what is our team effort? You know, what's revolutionary about this process has been a community effort, and when they can come to the table with the policy committee, with the policy manager, with the chief of police, with Commander parish and and we sent it out to all the silver liberties organizations to get let it get scrutinized. That's how you create policy. And I, you know, I did it, I had a discussion about that today, in terms of not just this particular policy, but the community is welcome as we take a deep dive on all these policies, and the department has been working as well as our policy chair and in the committee has been doing a deep dive on these policies. And I really, really, I know when it was birthed and how was a birth and why was birth, and it was a very powerful policy, so and accept that it would be good to us within a week, so that we can take it across the finishing line. You know, so, but everybody has done their job on it. And so thank you very much. And thank you, Miss Camille, for that engagement. You and your team was very much engaged in that process, and we deeply appreciate that, and we welcome this entire community to continue to work with us on that level, so that we can be able to have a we versus us and not I, of my concept when it comes to policy. Thank you so much. Let's go to the
Mr. Chair, Miss Betty Varner and Mr. Robert olive, yes.
y'all a short story that was been working. I had planned and made all my plans. My member over there and good friend, neighbor, uh, Mister Leroy. He my family wasn't available to bring me to my meeting this evening, so he stepped up, alright, get on my I've been blessed to have a lift, elevated lift. Get on my lift, and it starts moving and it stopped. Now I'm stuck on my lift outside of my house on my way coming here, could not open up the door because it's a safety wants to start moving the door locks. Had to call, well, I call the people who installed it. No technicians. Nobody can't get nobody out there till tomorrow. I'm stuck on the elevator. It's getting cool. I'm cold. All right, they say you have to call 911 I called 911 and, you know, asked me all the questions and everything. 10 precinct was out there within five minutes, five minutes, and I did not have to stay. There was some shooting and going on. They came out because there was a senior, 75 years old. I am proud of it, in distress, and the fire department, and they actually had to lift me up
over
the, you know, my my lift and everything. And I'm here the unit, that's the word, and I'm here, so I thank God for it. I'm very proud of my 10th precinct. I'm very proud to be here. I want to thank Commissioner Moore, he has been just on his job. I appreciate the work that he does and how he is supportive of my neighborhood. I appreciate all of the NPOs, not just office of Sumter, all of them, because that's right, they own the job. They support my community and the captain. And if I had to complain about anything, the only thing I'm wishing that we can get us a commander, because I build and I network, I want us to have a commander that's going to be at the 10th precinct where we can build that relationship and continue to do all that is necessary to improve our neighborhood. And we are now, just this week, we're starting to have a problems with shooting again, so I'll be talking to the 10th precinct about that. And I know y'all heard on the TV about two dead bodies found on DeSoto, but I'm president of DeSoto Ellsworth black Association, proud of it, and a proud city resident of the city of Detroit. Thank you for this time. Thank
you so much. Mister Robert olive, thank you so much.
Oh, you're so very welcome. Thank y'all. Yes,
the commander, I mean captain, about to come help you out. You know,
they better. Hey, will want no smoke.
Good evening. Everyone. Good evening. Just want to commend the work of this commission, and as well as the 10th precinct, not just the NPOs, but the precinct overall for the work that has been put in. Once again, my name is Robert olive. Reverend Robert olive just wanted to let the community know that starting the beginning of next month, I have a team of young men who I've been mentoring and working with that has decided that from now into the fall, at least once a week, we wanted to identify a senior or two who is in need of some additional help around the house, as far as raking up the leaves and other yard work or things like that that they might can't do on their own. So want to make sure that if you know anyone, please feel free to let me know I have my card out, so that way anyone can contact me with that or they can go to my nonprofit organizations website, which is righteous sons.org to feel free to leave that information at the section that says, contact us, so that way we can assist with that. Um, also the second Tuesday of every month at 16129, Plymouth, which is assembly, assembly, Church of God in Christ. We'll be doing a food giveaway, as well as giving other necessities away to those who are in need. That starts at 11am and that's available while supplies and everything last. So please feel free if you all know anyone who is in need of any resources or food that they can come there the second Tuesday of every month at 11:11am, into a run out. And if somebody needs don't have transportation, we can also provide a way for that. Lastly, I am also candidate for your district seven police commissioner, and so win or lose, most definitely would love to continue to be a part of this community. So thank you for your time. Thank you so much.
Go get you some food and get your grass cut. That
was your last speaker. Mr. Chair.
Okay? None online. No, sir. Oh, my Lord, God is good.
Is today is Luther Keith's viewing. Luther Keith is what rise Detroit, he was a strong, strong community leader. It's my intentions. I didn't want to leave here early, and that's why I said God is good, because I want to try to stay here for the entire meeting, but I want to go pay homage to that great, great leader. Is that Kim funer home and his friend was at fellowship chapel tomorrow, one of the greatest leaders that this community ever produced. Very, very good family. Uncle was Judge Damon Keith, his niece, his daughter is Aaron Keith. Very, very powerful leader in this community. So thank you, Pastor, Pastor, you going to start cutting grass too, Doc, you know, but the public comment is over. Let's go to the report from the board secretary.
We have under tap in under tab six in your binder tonight, the listing of the incoming communications is there for you also within your binders, a reminder the young people in 21st century policing our youth advisory panel of the board of police commissioners at Wayne Law School this Saturday, from 11am to 1pm great panel, and I'm sure we're going to support them this weekend.
Hold on one second, Theresa. Do we have flyers of Theresa blossom, they're at the table, okay, yes, yeah, please, please, go out and support these young people. These young people are vitally important. They voices matter, and you would love them. Please support those young people if you can, and get a flyer. You on social media, any of those type of things, tweet it out, eat it out, exit out, or whatever you guys do you know, and
please support them. Mister
Chair, if I may. I think the best way to support is to also bring another young person absolutely with you, because, again, to see their peers engaged in that way gives them hope and optimism of what they're able to do as well. So if you got some cousins, some nieces and nephews, it would be great to have them to tag along with you as well. Thank you, Chair.
Yes. The other announcements
for today are, the next board meeting is next Thursday. March 20 will be at 3pm at Detroit Public Safety headquarters. The next community meeting is next month. Thursday, April 10, 6:30pm will be we will be in the ninth precinct at Ford Community Center East on Madeline Street in Detroit. The next committee meeting, which prior to now a lot of conversation, the policy committee meets this coming Tuesday, March 18, at public safety headquarters at 5pm that ends the announcements for today, sir.
Thank you very much. Unfinished business.
This Commissioner Bernard. Oh,
ladies and gentlemen, unfinished business is really a very, very brief item. I move that the special orders as listed on attachment to seven a which are all police special orders with the expiration date of March 25 2025 be extended for 90 days to June 27 2025 we cannot possibly get through almost 40 orders without an extension, and we do not want the existing orders to lapse. The department is in agreement with this, as is the committee. So I move that the board authorized the extension of the orders to give us an opportunity.
Second, by
the wash, okay, it is.
It has been moved. And second, it's been moved by Commissioner Bernard that special orders listed on the attachment seven, eight, with the expiration date, March 2522 520, 25 be extended to June 27 2025 and it was supported by Commissioner the wash discussion through
the Chair, just very briefly. Is there any impediment to extending beyond just 90 days? Or do we have to come back after 90 days to do this again? Potentially,
there's no impediment, except for the fact that we want to review them. Everything will have expired. So we want to be as diligent as we can to meet make sure that we review the special orders and that we get new special orders. I'm only trying to extend them for the 90 days. I appreciate it. And any any board member we have, the department was kind enough to to present two. I have one, but a big binder with all the policies in us, you can just come in and flip through, and I'm going to ask that we put them online. If there's any community comment on any of the it's like 38 or 40 special orders. So we'll put them online so you can communicate back with us if you have any comments, concerns or recommendations,
yep. And then when you say put them online, it's the numbers, the memo that we have, because they can pull offline. The Special Orders already, because they already posted, and so this put up what we're updating, but all in favor say, aye, aye. Anyone opposed, the motion is carried, and I want to thank this robust. This is a I don't know if it's happening like this, and in the state of Michigan or in the country, where this a body oversight body is working hand in hand with the department as well as with the community. And we're not talking about No Fly By Night community folks, you know. We talking about some folks who going to scrutinize the periods and the commerce, you know, in these policies and to be able to give real feedback, you know, and so I really appreciate this process, and I believe that once it's finished, that we will have that in place, and it's going to be something big for the citizens of the city of Detroit. Having said that under new business, I would entertain a motion to unappoint Supervising investigator Anthony Cromwell without calls from his current position as supervising investigator, effective immediately supervising crime, investigated crime was eligible, eligible to revert to the previous position he held prior to his current appointment, moved by Commissioner Moore, second, second by Commissioner Presley. Any discussion? All in favor? Say, aye. Anyone opposed, the motion is carried. Okay. One opposition, the motion is carried.
After that. What is the pleasure of the
board? Motion to adjourn,
motion made by Commissioner more, to adjourn second, second by Commissioner Smith. Any discussion? All in favor? Say, aye. Anyone opposed? The motion is carried. We are adjourned.
