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so we have a resolution honoring Dr. Willie White. Whereas, Willie White, Dr. Willie White has dedicated his lifelong career in education, educating the youth within the community. He has a year garden service to community and wanted to do so at a deeper level. Many of the issues faced by students are rooted in trauma sensitive triggers that are in our society. To that end, Dr. White personal experience are liable to the students population that facilitates and allows him to service those. The students perform community outreach activities that includes assistant Gleaners and other nonprofit organizations. And whereas Will Dr. Willie White graduate from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in and health administration's Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration masters additionally, Dr. Willie White Kings Park fellow graduate with Wayne State University and a doctorate in education, Educational Research and Evaluation whereas he his career in education, commenced his substance teachers with Detroit Public Schools. He received teacher's certification and pilots and political science, social science and health education while teaching at the Detroit Public Schools hashtag High School during his tenure at at Cass Technical High School. Many of his students were among the highest achievers of the state of Michigan. Social Studies meet as emanation. He also was the department head of social studies at Henry Ford High School where he was in a mess, very instrumental and developing programs that increase that increased a student's school social studies MEAP scores for four consecutive years. He's also the principal right now at Franklin Douglas High School right here in the district, where she'll say in the present but also the district. So therefore it be resolved that the Detroit board of police commissioners speaking on behalf of the citizens of the great city of Detroit recognize and honor lifelong contribution and commitment to excellence and public service of Dr. Willie White. His display of unwavering Waveland community spirit has improved the quality of life for the citizens of each raid. We thank you and congratulate you. 
the chair Jerome Warfield representing the Office of the Chief Investigator, our report is regarding our investigations can do in the month of November, and the mission and some of you on our reports are certainly on the back table if you haven't gotten gotten one but there are a hand there are handouts of the PowerPoint presentation that we're going over. The mission of the Office of the Chief Investigator is to fairly effectively and objectively receive investigate and make recommendations regarding complaints concerning the Detroit Police Department and his personnel. It is the goal of OCI to assist in improving the quality of law enforcement services by instilling citizen confidence in the integrity of the Detroit Police Department. We want to start off by looking at our overall numbers for the month of November. As relates to the open cases that we have, we have 1436 open cases in our office. Our cases that are between zero and 90 days. have decreased to 424. Our H cases are 1012 which has went up slightly when we look at those cases that are close versus those cases that are submitted and the actual staffing that we have on our investigative team. And we have our supervisors who leave their teams. And the thing that we see here is that we are for the month of November. We only had 12 Investigators inside of OCI with three supervisors. And still were able to close and or submit 78 cases and I do want to explain what it means to submit case. Once the investigator actually writes their findings. They submit their cases to their supervising investigator for review. The supervisor investigator then will review their case and then return it for corrections or we'll send it on to our quality assurance reviewers. And our quality assurance reviewers will take a much more in depth look at the case and then after they do that. They will either make recommendations for corrections or send it to my desk once it gets to my desk. I'll review it myself. And if I see things that needs to be corrected, it'll go back for correction or it'll go on to the board. And so that number of 78 cases represents the workload of all of the cases that have been touched and reviewed by the investigators in our office. The next slide deals
with the 2023 receipts versus closing versus staffing. And as you can see there in the month of November, we had 149 Citizen concern we play complaints come into our office of those 149 complaints. We do not have those but we actually close 44 complaints again, with a total staff of 12 investigators. The good thing is we have hired four additional investigators that we'll start on January the eighth and then we're posting to hire seven additional investigators besides the four that will start early next year. Our budgeted staff of investigators is 18 and our monthly close rate for November and you can see it right there is 2.4 cases a month. And our weekly closure rate was point six. A number of our investigators had gone to Chicago for the Neko Conference, which is why our closure rate took somewhat of a little bit dip because we were gone for a week in Chicago. When we look at the total allegations that we receive, again, we had 149 citizen complaints, but we had a total of 357 allegations to investigate. And we investigate every allegation that come into our office. And as you can see by
the chart that's in front of you 70% of our allegations deal with demeanor, procedure and service as relates to procedure. One of the things that we're seeing good trending in is body worn camera footage, violations. And so we'll talk about that a little bit a little bit later. But we're also seeing a little bit of an uptick as relates to language and some of the complaints that citizens are filing as results to how they officers demeanor has been. Next slide please. The next slide breaks out the allegations by precinct and by unit and you have all the numbers there in front of you. And this helps us look at the trends that we're seeing in the various precinct and in the other command level units that are out there. And and you can see there just by those numbers that are highlighted, you know where we're getting the bulk of our citizen complaint reports from and those units and those precincts that are not reporting many allegations at all. Next slide. This slide is very important, because it deals with the number of complaints that come in versus the number of complaints that have been
sustained. And when we say sustained basically those are the allegations that based on the facts of the investigation reaches the or matches the preponderance of the evidence that has been shown do that fact finding to show that the allegation did occur, and in the month of November, we had an uptick and sustain allegations to 20%. In October it was 9% but in November went up to 20% primarily because of body worn camera footage. And what we're seeing is we have officers that are either not turning their cameras on when they're on a scene interacting with citizens or they're turning their cameras off before the scene is cleared. And of course both of those are against policy. And certainly we use this as a measure to pass it along to disciplinary Norther that messages may be sent. That that is a great trend that we're seeing as the complaints are coming in the next slide is allegations versus close. And we we track this from January all the way through November. And you can see the trends there from January of 2022 all the way through November of 2023 again, and you can see that in the month of November 20% of our allegations closed as sustained cases which is which is fairly significant. If you if you look at the numbers prior to that next slide. That's all I have are there any questions?
can everybody hear me? Yes we can. Okay, I'm the president of the third precinct, police community relations console. I want to talk to you a little bit about the console. But first, I want to talk to you about the third precinct. Okay, the third precinct is a unique precinct in the city. First of all, we have two captains. We have the third precinct and we have downtown services. They all report to our commander Michael chambers. We have two districts five and six. So we have Willie Burton, and Lisa Carter as our commissioners. We have two city council districts five and six. We have six zip codes. But the main impact in our precinct is the fact that we have 40,000 residents but on a given day because of Workday, commuters, students and visitors. We can have over 100,000 And if there's a special event, we have 300,000 or more in the precinct. We have three borders, Detroit River, Highland Park and Hamtramck. No outside borders. We have many forms of transportation in the precinct. We have Amtrak DDOT people over the queue line, and smart we also have many local bike rentals sets stations in this in the precinct. They also are the home to Americans first, electric charging street or road weather I guess it's called which does happen I think last week. If you look at the the next slide, we have a list of historical and no notable neighborhoods in the precinct. First of all, we have four neighborhoods that are on the National Registry of Historic Places. We have other key areas in the Nate and the precinct. The one I'm most fond of stuff is the Cass corridor where I live, which is also called Midtown.
building, the Fisher building houses the Detroit Board of Education, plus the fishing Fisher theater. Right across the street is the Catholic place, which has the state of Michigan offices. And just across the expressway from the third precinct is Henry Ford Health which is as you probably know is going to have a huge expansion of their area into a whole campus there. It's across the expressway but it's definitely going to affect the third precinct. We have the Detroit Medical Center but all of us hospitals, not listed here by accident is the Veterans Hospital which is also part of the Detroit Medical Center. We have the Lexus valent velodrome down in that area. When we get to the downtown activities, as I said, earlier, we have to two areas in the precinct, the third precinct and downtown services. As I said before, we have one Captain Michael chambers. In these two districts, we have three casinos, one in the third precinct and two downtown. If you look at all the sports activities in the precinct, we have little caesars arena, Comerica Park and Ford Field. We also have Hart Plaza in Huntington place, GM headquarters in the
rent set, great opera house, the Fox Theater and Music Hall. We also have Greek town, and I could go on and on. As you can see on a busy day, now picture the Detroit Lions or the Taylor Swift concert, that Thanksgiving Day Parade, the fireworks, the marathon that runs in the third precinct partially on those days, we can have over 300 to 400,000 people in the precinct. And that's all 100,000 people that are pleased after project and we are very proud of them and the job that they do protecting all these people that come into the precinct. We're gonna talk a little bit now about the police community relations console. We meet once a month during the year except for July and August. At these meetings, we've had many presentations notable is compass securities, who made a presentation on behalf of DTE gas meter inspections which are going on in the city. He also distributed to his and we thank him for he distributed light bulbs to all of the residents that were in in the meeting. We had Barry Blackwell, from Henry Ford Hospital, talk about their expansion, that they're working with the pistons and MSU and a sweeping excuse development. As I said it's across the expressway but it's definitely going to affect the third precinct. We had the state of Michigan project engineer come and make a presentation about a project that they're working on. They're going to combine bus carriers such as Greyhound in with the existing Amtrak state train station, at word we're in Baltimore. The new project that they want to have will also go down into tech center and they're going to have a huge parking area and bus station there. So this is going to be a very good change for to combine these two transportation entities. We've had representatives from Cathy carrots Wayne County Clerk's Office, children's spa, also had Detroit Public School representatives come and talk about how things that happen in the community extended the schools in our community. We have the data of security of Detroit public libraries come and make presentations. Nikka Chapman Mills from the Detroit library, made a presentation about how her library has commute computers that residents can come and use and they also can loan out laptops, so you don't have to do it in the library. You can get a laptop in your home. Quite I got two more slides. Anyway. We have any council person many of us are government officials come to our meetings including contract Council persons. We have officers appreciation lunch every year as part of Police Week. We have other activities around Police Week. We've had a walk on by with the chief we and our precinct itself we have cycled for the community chests in the community. Our one of our biggest fun activities is Trump retreat. This year we had over 300 I'm sorry, over 800 ghosts and goblins of all ages. We had quite quite a good time that night. We have the DEA Jake back prescription drug drugs in April enact Tober we have coffee with the commander and last week we had a meet and greet and then a precinct where the commander and the captain commander Gil Gilbert when she was in our precinct. She started a series of girl empowerment workshops called Girls time. It was for girls 12 to 18. He had a couple of activities in the precinct. And I hope now that she's downtown, she continues that activity. We also have national night out in the precinct. Okay, as I said before, we meet the third Tuesday of every month, except for July and August is six to eight in the precinct, which is at the West Grand Boulevard in the Lodge Freeway. At our meetings, we recite a Community Pledge. I'll recite it now. As we come together we will use our considerable talents and experience to improve our community. And we pray for strength, strength and guidance in our efforts. We resolve to be supportive of each other as we work together toward our goal. Amen. And with that we we started all of our meetings. Thank you so much he speak about the third precinct and the police community relations.