* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. UM, SO AT 603 [00:00:01] AND, UM, I WILL GO AHEAD [CALL TO ORDER] AND CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. COOL. SUPER QUICK. AMANI, I I'M IN HERE AS CHRISTINA AND THE LITTLE THREE DOTS TO RENAME MYSELF. AREN'T AREN'T SHOWING UP. I DON'T KNOW IF MAYBE, OH, JUST KIDDING. SORRY. NO WORRIES. IT'S ALL GOOD. UM, SO I JUST GOT A MESSAGE FROM A COUPLE PEOPLE AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WERE HAVING THE SAME CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW, AND SO THERE'LL BE, THERE'LL BE JOINING US SHORTLY, BUT, UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. CAUSE A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION, UM, IS FAMILIAR TO THOSE FOLKS AND, UM, YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL JUMP IN. UM, SO [1. NEW BUSINESS] JUST A FEW UPDATES FOR OUR JANUARY PROJECTS. UM, WE WERE WORKING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE, UM, WHO CONTRIBUTED, WE WERE WORKING ON OUR MENTAL HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS AND SO WE HAVE PUBLISHED THOSE AND THOSE WILL BE SHARED OUT TO NIGHT. UM, BUT THIS IS OUR FIRST ROUND OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING. AND A LOT OF, UM, TO GIVE SOME CONTEXT, A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE'RE MAKING AROUND POLICY, UM, REALLY SPECIFICALLY THE PRACTICES. AND SO THIS IS KIND OF A TWOFOLD RECOMMENDATION FOR THIS COMMISSION AND WE'LL BE FOLLOWING UP IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. WE'LL BE GETTING INTO THE GEOS SPECIFICALLY ON, OKAY, WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THE CHANGES THAT CAN BE MADE REALLY AS TO WHAT APD IS DOING TODAY AND WHERE DO WE SEE KIND OF THAT ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT? UM, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE BEST PRACTICES THAT WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT. SO THIS FIRST ONE IS REALLY ABOUT THE INTERACTION WITH THE COMMUNITY AND OUR FOLLOW-UP IS GETTING REALLY GRANULAR INTO THE POLICY AND THE GENERAL ORDERS, UM, IN SO REALLY QUICKLY I WILL RUN THROUGH OUR RECOMMENDATIONS. UM, THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION WAS TO AUTHORIZE A REFRESHER COURSE FOR THE CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING BY ANNUALLY. OUR SECOND RECOMMENDATION WAS TO REVIEW AND IMPLEMENT, UM, REVIEW IMPLEMENT AND TRAIN OFFICERS ON RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROTOCOLS, UM, INCLUDED IN THE SUICIDE BY COP PROTOCOL, IN TRAINING FROM THE POLICE EXECUTIVE TRAINING FORUM. AND SO THEY GIVE SOME REALLY GOOD PRACTICES THAT FOLKS RESEARCHED. UM, OUR THIRD RECOMMENDATION WAS TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY REPORT. SO THAT WAS A REPORT THAT, UM, HAD GONE OUT PREVIOUS TO OUR RESEARCH AND OUR RECOMMENDATIONS. AND SO JUST WANTING TO GET AN UPDATE FROM APD ON WHERE THEY ARE IN IMPLEMENTING A LOT OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS. AND IN OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, WE ECHO A LOT OF THOSE SAME THINGS. SO JUST KIND OF ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY AS IT RELATES TO MENTAL HEALTH. UM, OUR FOURTH ONE WAS TO REVIEW AND IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICES FOR OUR CRISIS TRAINED OFFICERS, UM, AND LOOK AT OTHER CITIES TO GAIN LEARNINGS ON WHAT CAN WE BE DOING BETTER. UM, AND WHAT AREAS CAN WE REALLY IMPROVE? UM, WHAT APD IS CURRENTLY DOING THE FIFTH RECOMMENDATION WAS TO HAVE ROUTINE MENTAL HEALTH CHECKS AND EVALUATIONS FOR OFFICERS EVERY THREE YEARS. UM, SO NOT ONLY WANTING TO REALLY BOLSTER THE INTERACTION WITH OUR COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO, UM, THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL. OUR SIXTH RECOMMENDATION WAS AT A MINIMUM OF SIX HOURS OF TRAINING WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES. AND THIS IS ONE THAT WE'LL BE FOLLOWING UP IN OUR POLICY RESEARCH AND REALLY GETTING INTO AND GETTING FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY ON HOW WE CAN BEST GIVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND SOME GUIDANCE AROUND THIS, AS WELL AS IMPROVE THE CURRENT, UM, GEOS THAT WE HAVE. AND THEN OUR SEVENTH AND FINAL WAS REVIEW THE CIT TRAINING TO INCLUDE CULTURAL COMPETENCY. UM, SO THIS IS RELEVANT BEING MET IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH. UM, JUSTIN, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD AS A CITY, THAT WE ARE BEING AS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE AS WE CAN IN ALL OF OUR PRACTICES. SO THAT INCLUDES OUR TRAININGS AND SPECIFICALLY MAKING SURE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO MENTAL HEALTH, WE'RE NOT LEAVING ANY COMMUNITY BEHIND IN MAKING SURE THAT OUR TRAININGS ADDRESS THE DIFFERENCES IN HOW SYMPTOMS MAY SHOW UP FOR PEOPLE AND HOW THAT INTERACTION MIGHT PLAY OUT WITH APD. UM, SO I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THE COMMISSION. ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON KIND OF OUR JANUARY PROJECTS OR SPECIFICALLY OUR MENTAL HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO MAKE? YEAH. I JUST DO WANT TO THANK THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO PUT IN ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO, UM, FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY IS SO IMPORTANT. AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AUSTIN COMMUNITY. SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO BE ENGAGED [00:05:01] WITH US. UM, I DO APPRECIATE THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD OUT. UM, YOU KNOW, UH, THIS COMMISSION, UM, SPOKE, UM, TOGETHER PRIVATELY JUST ABOUT THE NOTION OF THERE BEING SUCH A VIABLE OPTION AS SUICIDE BY COP. AND THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER DISCUSSION THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY NEED TO HAVE AROUND POLICING AND THE CULTURE OF POLICING. UM, AND, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO DIGGING INTO THAT A BIT MORE, UM, THE FACT THAT THERE ARE PROTOCOLS AND TRAINING AROUND THAT SPECIFICALLY, UM, UH, SHARE, WE CAN ALL RECOGNIZE THAT AS PROBLEMATIC. SO, UM, WE'D LIKE TO REALLY TALK ABOUT, UM, WHY THAT IS AND WHY IT IS EVEN, UM, A THING OUT IN THE WORLD. SO IT'S WANTING TO PUT THAT OUT THERE, SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT AS WELL. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. I THINK THAT COMMUNITY INPUT IS SUPER IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY AS WE GET MORE DETAILS OF THIS WORK AND GET SUPER SPECIFIC, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY ON WHAT THEY'RE OBSERVING AND WHAT THEY'RE SEEING. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, OR THINGS YOU'D LIKE TO ADD ABOUT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS? NOPE. WELL THEN WE WILL MOVE TO OUR AGENDA ITEM TWO AND THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR COMMISSION MEMBERS WHO REALLY PUT IN THE WORK AND THE RESEARCH AND HELP TO CRAFT AND, AND GUIDE THIS TOGETHER. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO PART TWO, SO WE WILL GO AHEAD [2.a. APD Training Videos Community Review Report] AND MOVE TO OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM. AND, UM, WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO DO IS BEFORE WE HAVE THE, UM, COMMUNITY MEMBERS COME AND SPEAK ON, ON THAT VIDEO AND TRAINING REPORT, THEY DO, I'D LOVE TO READ A QUOTE FROM THE EXECUTIVE KIND OF SUMMARY, JUST TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO THE WORK THAT THEY DID AND KIND OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS. SO, UM, THIS IS JUST A SNIPPET TAKEN FROM THAT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THAT REPORT. AND IT SAYS, AND DOING SYSTEMIC RACISM REQUIRES SYSTEMIC CHANGE. IT REQUIRES A CULTURAL SHIFT TOWARDS COMMUNITY RESPECT, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRUST. IT REQUIRES SHOWING TRUSTWORTHINESS BEFORE A CRISIS OCCURS, NOT A SLAP DASH EFFORT AFTER THE FACT, IT REQUIRES DEEP LISTENING, AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE AND CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMUNITIES MOST DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY POLICE VIOLENCE. IT REQUIRES THE COURAGE AND SKILL TO HOLD DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT AND TO CONFRONT WORLDVIEWS THAT PERPETUATE THESE BIASES RATHER THAN TAKE A COLOR BLIND APPROACH. IT REQUIRES A SHIFT FROM WHAT CAN I LEGALLY DO TO WHAT DOES THE COMMUNITY NEED ME TO DO? SO I THINK THAT THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT CONTEXT FOR US TO HOLD, UM, AS WE GO INTO THIS PRESENTATION AND AS WE CONTINUE TO DO THIS WORK, UM, AND, AND LATER WHEN WE DISCUSS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FOR US TO DO RESEARCH INTO, UM, RACIAL BIAS AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN THE POLICE, BUT, UM, I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE, I WANT TO SAY IT WAS MARION COMING TO SPEAK. UM, IF SOMEONE CAN CORRECT ME ON THAT TO GIVE WHO'S GIVING THIS PRESENTATION. YEAH, WE HAVE ANGELICA RAZO AND PHIL HOPKINS SPEAKING TODAY, AND I'M GOING TO PROMOTE THEM TO PANELIST RIGHT NOW AND SHARE THEIR PRESENTATION. AWESOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHRISTINA. HI, GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M JUST GOING TO ALLOW MY COLLEAGUE PHIL HERE TO MAKE SURE HIS MIC WORKS GOOD TO GO THERE. ALL RIGHT, PHIL. WELL, UM, HOW DO YOU EVERYBODY? GOOD AFTERNOON WHEN I STARTED THIS, UH, MY NAME IS, UH, ANGELIC RAZO AND I'M ONE OF THE SIX COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE A PART OF THESE PRESENTATION. SO IF WE CAN GO INTO A FULL SCREEN AND THEN GO INTO THE SECOND SLIDE HERE, WHICH SAYS MEET THE TEAM. UH, SO OUR, OUR GROUP CAME TOGETHER, UH, FOR RESOLUTION 66 P PASSED BY COUNCIL TO REVIEW, UM, SIX MODULES THAT WERE SELECTED, UH, BY APD AND APPROVED BY THE OFFICE OF POLICE OVERSIGHT, WHICH TOTAL A TOTAL OF 112 VIDEOS. UM, OVER A SPAN OF SEVEN MONTHS, WE LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT ORIGINALLY WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THIS WHOLE PROJECT, 112 VIDEOS IN TWO MONTHS, OUR, OUR GROUP, UM, WANTED TO HAVE MORE TIME TO [00:10:01] MAKE SURE THAT WE DEDICATED, UH, OUR MONDAY EVENINGS TO PROVIDE THE BEST EQUITABLE SCOPE THAT WE COULD, UH, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY TEAM MEMBERS HERE. UM, JOE MAYA, PHIL, ANDREA, MIRIAM, AND MYSELF, UH, HAVE EQUITY BACKGROUNDS. UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE A VERY RANGE OF PERSPECTIVE, SO IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WASN'T A RUSHED APPROACH, BUT THAT WE TOOK OUR TIME, UH, AND PROVIDED FEEDBACK AND ASK QUESTIONS. UM, IN THE BEGINNING, UH, WE DID, UH, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT UNCLEAR AROUND, UH, WHAT OUR SCOPE WAS. WHAT DID THAT LOOK LIKE? YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS THE EXPECTATION? UM, AND WE RESULTED IN, UH, COMING TOGETHER WITH A COMMUNITY REPORT AND THEN ALSO HAVING LIFE WHEN YOU ARE A FACILITATOR, UH, BE A PART OF THE PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO, UM, GET EVERYTHING COLLECTED. BECAUSE AS AT THE BEGINNING, WE WERE JUST COLLECTING THINGS FROM A SURVEY. UM, BUT AFTER A WHILE, WE WANTED TO HAVE VIDEOS BE REMOVED, SOME VIDEOS NEEDED TO BE EDITED, AND WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ANNOTATE AND DOCUMENT THESE THINGS. SO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY TO PLEASE REVIEW THE FACILITATING REPORT, UH, RANDY AND, UH, SHERWIN PAXTON DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB. WE THINK, UH, PUTTING THAT INFORMATION TOGETHER, WE WERE ALSO SHORTLY JOINED BY NIKIA WINFIELD AND REBECCA SANCHEZ, UM, WHO LEFT BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE SITUATIONS IN REGARDS TO HOW THE GROUP, UM, TREATED SOME OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. WE DID EXPERIENCE SOME ISSUES WITH THE AUSTIN POLICE ASSOCIATION. UH, SOME OF OUR GROUP FELT THREATENED, UM, WITH THE COMMUNICATION, WHICH LED TO LACK OF TRUST, UH, WHILE WE WERE LOOKING INTO THIS PROCESS. SO, UH, JUST WANTING TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION, IF WE CAN GO INTO THE NEXT SLIDE REALLY QUICKLY NOT TO CUT YOU OFF ANGELICA. THANK YOU. UM, CHRISTINA, CAN WE RESHARING THIS PRESENTATION? IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN A PRESENTER VIEW. SORRY ABOUT THAT. EVERYBODY WANTS A SECOND. WE'LL GET RIGHT BACK ON TRACK. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE. THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHRISTINA, FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT'S, IT'S A MONDAY VERY CLEARLY WITH OUR TECH, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE ALL WORKING THROUGH IT SO VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. YEAH. LOOKS LIKE IT'S COMING BACK. YES, WE GOT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. UM, SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO COVER TODAY IN THE PRESENTATION IS I'M JUST GOING TO SHOW SOME OF THE GRAPHS AND MY COLLEAGUE, PHIL WAS GOING TO GO INTO SOME OF THE PATTERNS AND WE REALLY WANT JUST TO BE A DIALOGUE, LEAVING SOME TIME FOR Q AND A TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU ALL MIGHT HAVE FROM THE 112 VIDEOS THAT WE REVIEWED. WE REVIEWED USE OF FORCE, UH, AS WELL AS TACTICAL COMMUNICATION, DEESCALATION STRATEGIES, CRISIS INTERVENTION, AND ARRESTING CONTROL. UH, WHAT WE CAN [00:15:01] SEE HERE IS THAT FROM THE VIDEOS, UM, WE RECOMMENDED THAT OVER 50% OF THE VIDEOS BE REMOVED, UH, WE DIDN'T, UH, IDENTIFY ANY WAYS TO EDIT THOSE VIDEOS OR COULD FIND A JUSTIFIABLE REASON TO KEEP THEM, UH, FROM THE ADDITIONAL 50% OF THE VIDEOS THAT WERE KEPT. UH, WE, UH, HAD RECOMMENDED, UH, FOR THE MAJORITY OF THOSE VIDEOS TO BE EDITED, UH, TO MIND ONLY TWO TO THREE VIDEOS. UH, WE RECOMMENDED TO BE ON EDITED FOR, FOR THE REST OF THE VIDEOS THAT WERE KEPT. WE SAID, PLEASE EDIT THESE VIDEOS, WHETHER IT'S SMALL PORTS, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL SAY, CAN WE BLUR PEOPLE'S FACES? UH, BECAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF VIDEOS WHERE PEOPLE IN, UH, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, UH, YOU KNOW, IN, IN MOMENTS OF CRISIS, UH, WERE BEING SHOWN, UH, LIKE THEIR FACES WERE BEING SHOWN. UM, THERE WERE, THERE WERE ISSUES IN THE VIDEOS AS WELL, WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION, THE VENDOR, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEIR, THEIR VIDEO NAME WAS ON THERE. THERE WERE VIDEO, THERE WERE VIDEOS AS WELL WHERE, UH, WE JUST REALLY DIDN'T SEE THE PURPOSE OF KEEPING THEM, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, THERE WERE VIDEOS, UH, BY ANDY GRIFFITH, UM, UH, WHICH IS A 1916 TYPE OF SHOW, RIGHT? UH, WHERE IT REALLY PORTRAYS, UH, KIND OF MORE FOR THE WHITE POPULATION OPPOSED TO BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE, POLICE OFFICER CADETS, THAT COULD BE IN THE COURSE. SO THAT'S KIND OF SOME OF THE VIDEOS THAT WE SAW PORTRAYED AS WELL. UH, AS WELL AS LIKE THE LAST SUMMER I VIDEOS AROUND THE LAST SUMMER I SANFORD AND SONS, UH, WE JUST DIDN'T REALLY SEE THE ACADEMIC VALUE OF HAVING THOSE VIDEOS IN THE CURRICULUM. SO WE REQUESTED FOR THEM TO BE REMOVED. UM, ALL, A LOT OF THE VIDEOS AS WELL WERE ALSO VERY HARD TO SEE, UH, SOMETIMES EVEN HARD TO HEAR COULDN'T REALLY SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND THAT'S BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE VIDEOS WERE OUTDATED. UH, THEY, UH, THEY WERE VERY OLD, UH, TYPE OF VIDEOS AND WE RECOMMENDED THAT THEY BE REMOVED. UM, SOMETIMES THE ONLY THING YOU COULD DO WAS HEAR WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE VIDEO, BUT YOU COULDN'T SEE THEM, OR IT WOULD BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND. SO, UM, REALLY, UH, QUESTIONING THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE FOR SOME OF THESE VIDEOS AND WHY THEY WERE BEING HIGHLIGHTED. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS VERY CLEAR WAS THE OVER REPRESENTATION OF PEOPLE, OF COLOR BEING HIGHLIGHTED, UH, IN, IN THESE VIDEOS, UH, WE CAN SEE THAT OVER A 44%, UH, OF, OF THE VIDEOS, UH, PORTRAYED AFRICAN-AMERICANS, UH, AS WELL AS 9% OF THE VIDEOS, UH, FEATURING LATINOS AND 42%, 32% FEATURING CAUCASIANS. WHY IS THIS THE ALARMING FOR OUR GROUP WAS BECAUSE THE, IN AUSTIN, WE HAVE AN 8% POPULATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS BASED ON THE 2010 CENSUS. AND THAT INFER, THAT IS WHAT WE KNOW THROUGHOUT THE, THE TIME IS THAT THAT INFORMATION HAS DECLINED. THE POPULATION HAS DECLINED. SO WE'RE SEEING, UH, AN OVER-REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE VIDEOS, BUT IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE OVER-REPRESENTATION, IT'S ABOUT THE EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE THAT WE SAW AGAINST COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, SPECIFICALLY BLACK MEN, UH, THE MAIN, UH, VICTIMS OF EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS INTO VIDEOS PORTRAYED OR PORTRAYED WERE AFRICAN-AMERICANS ONE VIDEO THAT REALLY STANDS OUT, UH, WAS A POLICE OFFICER KILLING AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN AT A CONVENIENCE STORE. UM, WITHIN SECONDS OF INTERACTING WITH THEM, RIGHT THERE, THERE WAS NO ATTEMPT TO DEESCALATE THE SITUATION. UH, THERE WAS NO ATTEMPT TO TALK OR COLLECT INFORMATION. UM, AS SOON AS THE POLICE OFFICERS GOT INTO THE CAR, THEY WERE SHOOTING, UM, AT THIS, UH, GENTLEMAN. AND IT WAS REALLY ALARMING BECAUSE THROUGHOUT THE VIDEOS THAT WE WERE SEEING, UM, I QUESTIONED THE DEESCALATION, UH, MODULE REALLY DIDN'T REALLY SHOW A LOT OF WAYS TO DEESCALATE SITUATIONS. UH, A LOT OF THE VIDEOS THAT WE SAW HIGHLIGHTED WHAT NOT TO DO, RIGHT, VERY LIMITED VIDEOS ON WHAT ACTUALLY TO DO AND FOR THE VIDEOS THAT WERE WHAT TO DO. UM, WE QUESTIONED SOME OF THE LEGALITY WHAT THE CURRENT AUSTIN POLICY AND WHY THEY WERE BEING SHOWN. UH, THIS VIDEO WAS ALSO VERY ALARMING BECAUSE WE, WE SAW ANOTHER VIDEO WHERE THERE WAS AN CAUCASIAN MALE WHO WAS, UM, IN THE MIDDLE OF VERY SUSPECT BEHAVIOR. HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GOING TO RUN AWAY FROM THE POLICE OFFICER YET HE WAS GIVING SEVEN MINUTES OF GRACE WAS NOT DETAINED, WAS NOT SHOWN EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE, UH, COMPARED TO, UH, THIS YOUNG MAN WHO WAS KILLED WITHIN MINUTES OF INTERACTING WITH THE POLICE. SO THE OVER-REPRESENTATION OF THE USE OF FORCE AND NEGATIVE OUTCOMES WAS THE MAIN THING THAT WE SAW AS WELL AS JUST THE CONSTANT REPETITION OF, OF THE DISPLAY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR INTO VIDEOS. [00:20:02] UM, WE ALSO REQUESTED TO EDIT A LOT OF THE VIDEOS JUST TO TRY TO BE AS COLLABORATIVE AS WE COULD BE, UH, WITH, WITH THE GROUP. UM, BUT THERE WERE SOME VIDEOS THAT HIGHLIGHTED, UM, VERY TYPE OF ALARMING LOGOS, LIKE THE THIN BLUE LINES, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, WHICH IS KNOWN, UH, YOU KNOW, ACROSS SOME SPACES AS WHITE SUPREMACY TYPE OF GROUP. UM, YET THIS WAS A TYPE OF A LOGO THAT WAS HIGHLIGHTED IN ONE OF THE VIDEOS THAT WAS BEING SHOWN. THERE WAS ALSO, UH, AN OVEREMPHASIS WHEN IT CAME TO RACE RELATIONS ON A WINNING, UH, RIGHT TO, TO ASSERT CONTROL OVER, UH, THE SUBJECTS THAT WERE BEING DETAINED OPPOSED TO TRYING TO FIND DIFFERENT WAYS TO DEESCALATE THE SITUATION. AND THIS IS VERY ALARMING. UH, I THINK, UH, PERSONALLY FOR ME RIGHT NOW, AS WE'RE SEEING WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH MY GRANDMA'S, WHAT WE SAW HAPPENED WITH ALEX GONZALEZ, UH, I REALLY JUST QUESTIONED, UH, THE, THE AUSTIN GENERAL ORDER POLICY SHOOT TO STOP POLICY AS WELL AS DID THEY ASK THE ESCALATION WHEN IT COMES TO COMMUNITY OF COLOR AND JUST THE OVER-REPRESENTATION OF RACE SPECIFICALLY IN A CITY, UH, WHERE THERE IS A VERY SMALL AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION, ABOUT 7.8, UH, CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, YET 44% OF THE MODULES, UH, FEATURED AFRICAN-AMERICANS NEXT SLIDE. UM, ONE THING THAT ALSO CAME ACROSS VERY CLEARLY, AND I THINK PHIL WILL GO INTO IT AS WELL, IS GRACE, RIGHT? UH, WHO WAS SHOWN GRACE, WHO WASN'T, LIKE I MENTIONED THAT ONE VIDEO WHERE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN WAS SHOT WITHIN SECONDS. WE WERE SEEING THESE TYPES OF VIDEOS REPEATEDLY ACROSS THE MODULES. AND I WANT TO POINT TO THE OPO GRAPH, WHICH WE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED IN OUR REPORT, WHICH SHOWS HOW THIS TRAINING THAT'S CURRENTLY BEING PROVIDED. THE TRAINING THAT WE SAW IN THE VIDEOS CAN CORRELATE TO SOME OF THE POLICING BEHAVIORS WE SEE IN THE CITY. FOR EXAMPLE, THIS GRAPH HIGHLIGHTS MORE GRACE BEING SHOWN TO PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN WEST AUSTIN, WHICH IS PRIMARILY WHITES COMPARED TO EAST BOSTON, WHERE WE DO SEE MORE DIVERSITY OF PEOPLE OF COLOR, UH, YET IN EAST AUSTIN, WE DO SEE MORE, UH, WARNING OUT MORE, MORE ARRESTS BEING PROVIDED IN THAT AREA. AND WE CAN SEE HOW THE TRAINING DIRECTLY CORRELATES TO THAT SPECIFICALLY, JUST BECAUSE OF WHO'S PROVIDED GRACE AND WHO'S NOT PROVIDED GRACE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UM, WOULD THAT BE INSTEAD, I'M PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE SOME MORE THINGS THAT I I'M GOING TO WANT TO SHARE IT TOWARDS THE END. UM, BUT I'M GOING TO PASS IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE, PHIL, WHO'S GOING TO GO INTO SOME OF THESE PATTERNS THAT WE SEEN AND THAT WE CAN MOVE INTO Q AND A, TAKE IT OUT, TAKE IT OVER TO PHIL. NOPE. THANKS ON HANUKKAH. SO I'M GOING TO BRIEFLY TOUCH ON THE OVERALL PATTERNS ON HELICOPTERS TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THEM ALREADY, BUT I WANT TO LEAVE ROOM FOR DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO A GREAT DEAL OF DETAIL ABOUT THEM. SO FEEL FREE TO ASK FOR MORE DETAIL OR YOU'RE MOST INTERESTED. BUT OF COURSE THE PRIMARY PATTERN THAT WE SAW WAS THE PATTERN THAT HELICOS ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE WAY IN WHICH LARGER DOMINANT CULTURAL NARRATIVES ABOUT THE INHERENT DANGEROUSNESS OR SUSPICIOUSNESS OF PARTICULAR BODIES, RIGHT, IS REFLECTED IN THE TRAINING MATERIAL AND REFLECTED IN A WAY WHERE IT JUST WASN'T OF NOTICED OR OBSERVED AS PROBLEMATIC. UH, WE SPENT THE FIRST COUPLE OF MONTHS SORT OF GETTING THEM TO SEE WHAT THEY WEREN'T SEEING WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THESE, RIGHT. THEY, THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE LOOKING AT THESE VIDEOS IN A COLORBLIND WAY AND, AND NOT RECOGNIZING THE WAY IN WHICH THE RESPONSE TO PEOPLE OF COLOR DIFFER RADICALLY FROM THE RESPONSES TO WHITE PEOPLE. AND, AND THEY WEREN'T UNDERSTANDING THAT THOSE WERE THOSE DIFFERENT RESPONSES WERE GROUNDED IN DIFFERENT WORLDVIEWS AND DIFFERENT PERCEPTIONS THAT THE OFFICERS BRING WITH THEM TO THE TRAINING. AND THAT WERE NOT EXPLICITLY SORT OF ADDRESSED IN THE TRAINING, RIGHT. NOT CHALLENGED AND NOT CONNECTED TO ANY SORT OF SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF, OF OUR, UH, BIASES, RIGHT. UH, IMPLICIT OR EXPLICIT. AND SO, SO WE ALSO NOTICED THAT WHEN WE WOULD BRING THESE UP AT FIRST, UH, THE RESPONSE WAS TYPICALLY WHERE WE HAVE A SECTION ON THAT. RIGHT. AND, AND SO RATHER THAN SORT OF LOOKING AT EACH TRAINING VIDEO AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE DYNAMICS THAT ARE BEING PORTRAYED IN THAT VIDEO, RIGHT. UM, THE FOCUS WAS VERY NARROW AND, AND, UH, UH, AN EXCLUSIVE OF THE LARGER DYNAMICS. AND, AND THERE WAS THIS REPEATED REFRAIN OF, WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT SOUNDS LIKE ETHICS, AND WE HAVE AN ETHICS SECTION. AND SO ONE OF THE MAIN CONCERNS WE HAD WAS THAT THERE'S JUST, THERE WAS AN UNKNOWN, THEY WEREN'T AWARE OF THE NEED TO DO THIS KIND OF ANALYSIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH ACROSS MODULES. AND WITH EVERY VIDEO, [00:25:01] WE ALSO NOTICED A PATTERN OF SORT OF DEHUMANIZING FOOTAGE, RIGHT? PARTICULAR BODIES WERE ALLOWED TO SORT OF BE MORE HUMAN AND WERE INTERACTED WITH IN MORE HUMANISTIC WAYS, RIGHT. AND OTHER BODIES. AND AS ON HELICOS ALREADY SAID, UH, WE NOTICED THAT THE MOST RAPID ESCALATION OF FORCE OCCURRED WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR, PRIMARILY BECAUSE PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE SORT OF VIEWED AS INHERENTLY DANGEROUS AND, AND THE KINDS OF RESPONSES THAT THEY OFFERED, ALTHOUGH IN VERY SORT OF OBJECTIVE WAYS, NO DIFFERENT FROM THE RESPONSES OFFERED BY WHITE PEOPLE, UH, WERE VIEWED AS A THREAT AND RESPONDED TO IN THAT WAY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. UM, SO I'VE ALREADY COVERED SOME OF THIS. WE ALSO NOTICED SOME PATTERNS OF GENDER STEREOTYPES. THERE WAS VERY POOR GENDER REPRESENTATION ACROSS THE VIDEOS. UH, THERE WERE VERY FEW, UH, UH, WOMEN POLICE OFFICERS IN THE VIDEOS AND IN THE CUP OF WHERE THEY WERE HIGHLIGHTED, THEY WERE SHOWN, UH, SORT OF, UH, IN WAYS THAT SORT OF DISREGARDED THEIR AUTHORITY AND THEIR ADVICE. UH, AND, UM, AND THEY WERE SHOWN, UH, IN WAYS THAT MADE THEM APPEAR IN EFFECTIVE PRIMARILY BECAUSE THE MALE OFFICERS INVOLVED JUST WEREN'T LISTENING TO THEM. UH, WE SAW ANOTHER SORT OF PATTERN ABOUT WHO IS ALLOWED TO BE IN CRISIS. AND THIS BROKE DOWN ACROSS GENDER LINES. IT BROKE DOWN ACROSS SORT OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC LINES, RIGHT. IT BROKE DOWN ACROSS CLASS LINES. UM, THERE WAS IN THE CRISIS INTERVENTION SECTION IN PARTICULAR, RIGHT. THERE WAS A KIND OF PRIORITIZATION OF WHAT I SORT OF GOT TO THINK OF AS THE APPROVED SORT OF CRISES, RIGHT. OR THE APPROVED, UH, UM, UM, UM, DIFFERENTIAL ABILITIES. AND, AND SO PEOPLE LIKE, UH, ISSUES LIKE ALL TIMERS DISEASE, RIGHT. OR AUTISM, UM, HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SORT OF, UH, PEOPLE CAME ON AND SHARED THEIR STORY. UH, BUT, UH, OTHER KINDS OF CRISIS, PARTICULARLY SORT OF RACIALLY, UM, MARKED AND, AND, UH, ORIGINATING CRISES, RIGHT. WE'RE NOT SHOWING THE SAME KIND OF GRACE AS JOE WAS ALWAYS PUTTING IT, RIGHT. SO SOME ARE VALIDATED, BUT SOME ARE NOT NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UH, THE PATTERNS THAT I WAS PERSONALLY SORT OF MOST CONCERNED ABOUT WAS THE WAY IN WHICH, UM, UM, TRAINING MATERIAL AND THE TRAINING VIDEOS BOTH EMPHASIZED WHAT IS OFTEN CALLED THE DANGER IMPERATIVE AND IN THE ANALYSIS OF, OF POLICING WHERE, UM, WHERE POLICING IS PRESENTED AS BEING, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, A HYPER DANGEROUS JOB AND, AND POLICE OFFICERS ARE PRESENTED AS PUTTING THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE. AND, AND THEY HAVE TO BE CONSTANTLY WARY, CONSTANTLY READY FOR DEADLY THREAT. AND, UH, RESEARCH SIMPLY SHOWS THAT THAT POLICING IS A SOMEWHAT DANGEROUS JOB, BUT IT'S THE 20 MOST DANGEROUS JOBS. IT'S THE 20TH. AND IT'S EXCEEDED BY JUST JOBS LIKE ROOFING AND GARBAGE COLLECTION, RIGHT. OR FISHERIES, UM, UH, MANY MORE PEOPLE DIE AT MUCH HIGHER RATES, UH, IN MANY OTHER OCCUPATIONS. AND THOSE OCCUPATIONS ARE NOT PRESENTED AS SORT OF, UH, PRESENTED AS HAVING A DANGER IMPERATIVE, RIGHT. WHERE THE, THE PEOPLE EMPLOYED IN THEM HAVE TO CONSTANTLY BE READY TO EXERCISE AND DEADLY FORCE THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. AND THAT WAS JUST ONE OF THE ASPECTS OF A KIND OF BROADER US VERSUS THEM MENTALITY. I THINK THAT THIS BROADER MENTALITY GROWS OUT OF THE HISTORY OF POLICING, RIGHT? THE WAY IN WHICH POLICING ORIGINATED TO SEGREGATE AND CONTROL. AND SO, UM, POLICE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PUBLIC ARE SEEN PRIMARILY AS SITUATIONS IN NEED OF CONTROL. AND THE FOCUS IN THE TRAINING WAS ON OFFICERS GAINING THAT CONTROL PRETTY MUCH AT ANY COST AND SORT OF WINNING THE CONFRONTATION RIGHT. WHICH NECESSARILY SETS THE PUBLIC UP TO LOSE THE CONFRONTATION. RIGHT. IF THE POLICE OFFICERS HAVE TO WIN IT. AND WHEN WE SAW IN THE VIDEOS, POLICE OFFICERS SORT OF, UH, ACTING EGREGIOUSLY, RIGHT. UH, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IN, IN, IN A SORT OF VIDEO AFTER VIDEO OF WHAT WAS PRESENTED AS WHAT NOT TO DO, UM, FIRST NO OTHER OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THOSE VIDEOS SEEM TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT EGREGIOUS BEHAVIOR. RIGHT. AND THEN IN DISCUSSING THAT BEHAVIOR, THERE WAS NO ACCOUNTABILITY. IN OTHER WORDS, AND IN DISCUSSING THAT BEHAVIOR, THE, THE POSITION WAS BASICALLY, YES, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THOSE OFFICERS. RIGHT? LIKE THEY WERE OUT OF LINE AND THEY NEED TO BE GOTTEN RID OF, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND THE IDEA THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPROVE POLICING BY SOMEHOW SORT OF IMPROVING TRAINING, RIGHT. WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE FUNDAMENTAL DYNAMICS OF POLICING AND ITS HISTORY. RIGHT. UH, I THINK IS, UM, THAT'S WHAT I CALL THE FEW BAD APPLES. I SEE IF WE COULD JUST SORT OF GET RID OF THOSE, AND OF COURSE THAT [00:30:01] THAT'S NOT GOING TO SOLVE ANY OF OUR PROBLEMS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO I'VE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE, WHAT NOT TO DO VIDEOS. AND I THINK THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH WHAT NOT TO DO VIDEOS IS, UH, UH, VIDEOS ARE A POWERFUL PEDAGOGICAL TOOL, RIGHT? I MEAN, WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING HAPPENING THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN JUST BEING TOLD ABOUT IT. AND IF YOU WATCH VIDEO AFTER VIDEO OF WHAT NOT TO DO WHAT YOU SEE GETS IMPRINTED, RIGHT? YOU, YOU SORT OF ABSORB THAT BEHAVIOR, IT DESENSITIZES YOU AT LEAST. AND IT SORT OF, UH, FUNDAMENTALLY MAKES YOU SORT OF, IT CHANGES THE BOUNDARY OF WHAT SEEMS LIKE APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR TO YOU. IF YOU SEE PARTICULAR KINDS OF BEHAVIORS REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN, WE ALSO SAW A PATTERN OF A VERY INEFFECTIVE LANGUAGE, RIGHT? UH, POLICE OFFICERS IN THE VIDEOS WERE CONSTANTLY BE SHOUTING, STOP, RESISTING, STOP RESISTING. AND MANY TIMES THERE DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE ANY RESISTING AT THAT MOMENT. AND SO, UH, THE PHRASE STOP RESISTING, I THINK, COULD BE INTERPRETED AS A KIND OF RIGHT TO COVER YOURSELF AND LEGITIMIZE WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO, UH, WHATEVER ACTION YOU'RE ABOUT TO TAKE. BUT, UM, BUT EVEN WHEN THE OFFICERS WOULD SORT OF PRESENT PHRASES, LIKE I'M HERE TO HELP, RIGHT? MOST OF THOSE WERE SOMEWHAT DISINGENUOUS. LIKE I'M HERE TO I'M ON YOUR SIDE. LET ME, LET ME SORT OF, UH, LET'S GET THROUGH THIS AND GET YOU ON YOUR WAY SORT OF THING, CONFESSED TO ME. UM, BUT SOME OF IT WAS ALSO SORT OF GENUINE I'M HERE TO HELP, BUT, UH, THE OFFICERS SEEM TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE PHRASE I'M HERE TO HELP IS SIMPLY GOING TO BE READ DIFFERENTLY IF YOU'RE STANDING THERE IN A UNIFORM WITH A BADGE AND A GUN, THEN, UH, IF YOU'RE, UH, YOU KNOW, IN A DIFFERENT KIND OF SOCIAL DYNAMIC. AND SO THERE WAS, UH, THERE WAS A LACK OF AWARENESS ON THAT AS WELL. AND WHEN, WHEN THERE WAS A KIND OF EMPHASIS ON W LET'S TREAT PEOPLE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, THE EMPHASIS WAS VERY SORT OF TRANSACTIONAL, RIGHT? LIKE LESS PEOPLE TREAT PEOPLE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS. SO THEY'LL BE NICE TO US IN RETURN, RIGHT. OR SO THAT WE CAN, UM, AVOID COMPLAINTS AGAINST US, OR WE CAN BUILD A GOOD CASE, UH, TO ADDRESS ANY SORT OF CRIMINAL CHARGES THAT MIGHT BE BROUGHT AGAINST US LATER. RIGHT. AND THEN FINALLY, UM, I THINK THE, THE INAPPROPRIATE USE OF THE MASS MEDIA CLIPS ON HELICOS TALKED ABOUT BEFORE THERE WERE, IN ADDITION TO WHAT SHE TALKED ABOUT, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF SORT OF NEWS CLIPS AND NEWS CLIPS WERE PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE NEWS IS PROBLEMATIC, RIGHT? THE WAY IT'S PRESENTED AND PROBLEMATIC, IT'S PRESENTED TO FOCUS ON SENSATIONALIZATION AND FEAR-MONGERING RIGHT. AND THEY USE THAT NEWS FOOTAGE HOME, RIGHT? LIKE THEY WOULD, THEY LET THE NEWS ANCHOR SORT OF COMMENT ON WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND THE WAY THAT NEWS ANCHORS COMMENT ON THE WORLD IS BY REPEATING THE STORIES ABOUT THE WORLD, THAT THE DOMINANT CULTURE SORT OF CONSTANTLY SPREADS AMONG ITSELF. AND SO THAT SEMI GOES OF AUTHORITY REINFORCING THE BIASES THAT THEIR CADETS BROUGHT WITH THEM AND SEEING IT UP THERE ON THAT VIDEO WAS I THINK, DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC. BUT PRIMARILY I THINK THE PROBLEM HERE WAS JUST THAT I THINK THE TRAINERS ARE PUT TOO MUCH ON THEIR SORT OF OWN RESOURCES HERE, RIGHT. JUST SORT OF SCRAMBLE AROUND AND FIND VIDEOS, RIGHT? THERE'S A LACK OF A LARGER SORT OF PEDAGOGICAL OR CURRICULAR, UM, UH, STRUCTURE, UH, AND, AND, UH, SORT OF A SET OF LEARNING OBJECTIVES TO EMPLOY AND, AND A LACK OF RESOURCES FOR GATHERING UP, UH, UH, RELEVANT, CONTEMPORARY, CURRENT VIDEOS THAT ARE INFORMED BY THE LARGER COMMUNITIES THAT THE POLICE INTERACT WITH. RIGHT. AND INFORMED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS, RIGHT. UH, IN THE VARIOUS, UH, FIELDS OF ANALYSIS THAT COULD BE HELPFUL TO THE OFFICERS AND TO THE TRAINING ACADEMY. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ON HELICOPTER, I'LL JUST SORT OF PASS IT BACK OVER TO YOU. I THINK WE'RE DONE WITH THAT PART. DEFINITELY. THANK YOU, PHIL. UH, I MEAN, THE MAIN THING THAT WE SAW WAS, UH, I THINK PHIL TOUCHED ON, IT WAS AROUND REALLY LARGE SYSTEMATIC CHANGES NEED TO HAPPEN. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT TRAINING. UH, WE SAW A VERY PROBLEMATIC, UH, REPETITIVE ISSUES OF THE CULTURE OF APD. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE OVEREMPHASIZE THAT TRAINING. IT'S JUST ONE STEP, BUT THERE'S VERY LARGE SYSTEMATIC CHANGES THAT NEED TO HAPPEN BECAUSE IF YOU'RE JUST TRAINING THE CORE CADETS, AND THEY'RE GOING INTO A SYSTEM WHERE THERE'S VETERAN POLICE OFFICERS THAT TELL THEM, LET ME TEACH YOU HOW IT'S REALLY DONE OUT HERE. AND THEIR, THEIR, UH, TRAINING JUST KIND OF GOES OUT THE WINDOW. WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME OF THESE REPETITIVE THINGS THAT WE'RE CONSTANTLY SEEING RIGHT NOW WHEN IT COMES TO POLICING. SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE CADETS NEEDING TO SEE A BETTER TRAINING, BUT IT'S JUST ABOUT A SYSTEMATIC CHANGE WITHIN MPD, APD THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. AND FOR OFFICERS THAT ARE CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW ON THE FIELD, UH, ANOTHER THING THAT WE ALSO SAW WAS JUST AROUND HOW ETHICS, UM, UH, THE, THE, THE CONCEPT OF ETHICS WAS SEPARATE FROM THE MODULES ETHICS WASN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT. WE ASK QUESTIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE, UM, [00:35:01] A LOT OF THESE VIDEOS SHOW SOME PROBLEMATIC CONTENT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD AN APD OFFICER DO? UH, IF, IF YOU SEE THEM USING EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE AGAINST A PERSON OF COLOR, THAT'S NOT JUSTIFIED. AND THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, WE COVERED THAT IN THE ETHICS COURSE. AND WE THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT IT'S NOT JUST A SEPARATE MODULE, JUST LIKE THE ESCALATION IS, BUT SOMETHING THAT'S CONSTANTLY TALKED ABOUT REPEATEDLY AS WELL AS RACE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE MODULE IS THE CONCEPT OF ETHICS AND RACE AND DEESCALATION, BECAUSE WHEN YOU TREAT THEM AS SEPARATE MODULES, THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THESE PATTERNS HERE. UM, SAME THING WITH CRISIS INTERVENTION. THAT WAS, I THINK ONE OF THE ONLY MODULES WE SAW, UH, PEOPLE BEING TREATED IN A HUMAN WAY, RIGHT. BEING TOLD THAT THIS IS HOW YOU KIND OF TALK TO SOMEBODY IN STRESS AND FOR US IN THE COMMUNITY, VIEWING THESE VIDEOS, WE THINK THAT'S HOW POLICE OFFICERS IN GENERAL, UH, SHOULD TREAT PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE PROVIDING A SERVICE OF POLICING. UM, BUT IT WAS VERY SEPARATE, UH, COMPARED THROUGH THE WHOLE MODULE, UH, OF HOW TO INTERACT WITH SOMEBODY IN DISTRESS. UH, THIS, THIS, THIS REALLY SHOWED FOR US, UH, WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE VIDEOS, ESPECIALLY A WOMAN WHO, UH, LOOKED TO BE EXPERIENCING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. UM, AND REALLY, WE JUST SAW IMMEDIATE EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE TO USE AGAINST HER, BUT IT WAS IN A SEPARATE MODULE, UH, OUTSIDE OF CRISIS INTERVENTION. AND THE TOPIC OF MENTAL HEALTH DIDN'T EVEN COME. UH, WE, WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION. SO THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW KIND OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING, THAT EVERYTHING, ALL THESE MODULES WORK IN SILOS, UM, AND THAT WHEN THEY ARE REVAMPED AND UPDATED, UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE CADET CURRICULUM THAT WE'RE SEEING, BUT ALSO HAVING A LARGER DISCUSSION, UH, AROUND THE APB CULTURE THAT WE WERE CURRENTLY SEEING IF WE'RE PUTTING CADETS OUT, UH, IN PATROL. SO, UH, WOULD THAT BE AND SAID, UH, I JUST WANT TO TRANSITION INTO QA, UH, SEE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, ANYTHING THAT WE CAN ANSWER FOR THE GROUP. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND HELICON PHIL FOR COMING AND SHARING. UM, I WILL KICK IT OFF. I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND THEN I WILL OPEN IT UP TO EVERYONE HERE TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS. UM, IN THE BEGINNING OF YOUR PRESENTATION, YOU MENTIONED HAVING SOME CHALLENGES WITH THE APA AND SOME OF YOUR TEAM FEELING INTIMIDATED AND THREATENED, AND I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO EXPAND ON AND SHARE SOME OF THAT EXPERIENCE AND, AND WHAT YOU ALL, UM, KIND OF WENT THROUGH, IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO THAT. UH, DEFINITELY JUST VERY HIGH LEVEL. UH, WHAT WE SAW HAPPEN WAS, YOU KNOW, UH, WE WERE, WE WERE KIND OF PUT INTO THIS PROJECT WITH A LACK OF DIRECTION. WE THINK, RIGHT. RAY, ARIANO HAD TO COME IN AND KIND OF, UH, BETTER PRESENT TO US WHAT OUR ROLE WAS BECAUSE WE CAME IN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LIKE, OKAY, WE'RE REVIEWING 112 VIDEOS. WE DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT OUR INPUT WAS GOING TO BE, WHAT THE CHANGES WERE GOING TO BE. IF THIS IS ANOTHER REPORT THAT'S JUST SHELVED. UM, SO WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT COMMUNICATION STYLES BETWEEN US AND APD. UM, AND, UH, IT TURNED INTO A LACK OF FRUSTRATION. I THINK A FRUSTRATION FROM APD SIDE WITH US PUSHING BACK REPEATEDLY, BECAUSE THERE WAS A LACK OF DIRECTIVE OF WHAT WOULD BE DONE WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE PROVIDED. UH, AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, APA CAME OUT WITH A VERY MISLEADING STATEMENT, UM, ABOUT OUR GROUP, NOT ALLOWING APD TO COMMUNICATE, UM, WITH, WITH US TO, THEY WERE SUPPOSED THAT THEY WERE TOLD TO BE SILENT. UM, AND THAT'S JUST VERY, UH, MISDIRECTED. THAT'S NOT ACCURATE. THEY WERE CONSTANTLY PROVIDING INPUT TO US. WE WERE ASKING THEM QUESTIONS AND WE WERE ASKING FOR THEIR OPINION. UM, SO IT JUST, IT MADE THE GROUP PRETTY UPSET TO SEE THAT THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING, ESPECIALLY WHEN A LOT OF COMMUNITY GROUPS PULLED OUT. AND WE TOOK A CHANCE TO ACTUALLY COME IN AND COMMIT OUR MONDAYS TO SEEING VERY TRAUMATIC CONTENT. UM, AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE RESULTS IS AN APA KIND OF BACKLASH ON OUR GROUP AND HOW WE INTERACT WITH APD PHIL. I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING IN ADDITION OR JUST BRIEFLY. UM, SO IT HAPPENED PRETTY EARLY ON, RIGHT. AND, UM, IT WAS AN INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION OF THE PROCESS AS IT WAS GETTING GOING, WHICH I THINK BETRAYED SOME FEAR OVER THE KIND OF POWER THAT THE COMMUNITY PANEL WAS ASKING TO EXERCISE IN THIS PROCESS. UM, AND, UM, I GUESS WHAT I WANT TO ADD TO IT IS THAT MORE BROADLY, THE IDEA OF POLICE UNIONS REALLY MAKE, AND I SHOULD PROBABLY SAY TO THE, TO THE PEOPLE, LISTEN, I WAS A POLICE OFFICER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. AND SO, UM, POLICE UNIONS MAKE NO SENSE TO ME. AND I THINK, UH, POLICE ASSOCIATIONS ARE PROBABLY THE SINGLE MOST, UH, OBSTRUCTIVE FORCE AT [00:40:01] WORK AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLICING. THANK YOU BOTH FOR SHARING THAT EXPERIENCE. UM, THAT'S VERY CHALLENGING TO GO THROUGH AN EXPERIENCE. SO, UM, WE APPRECIATE THE WORK AND THE DEDICATION THAT YOUR TEAM HAS HAS PUT INTO THIS REPORT. UM, MY KIND OF SECOND QUESTION FOR YOU ALL GOES INTO THE SOURCING AND YOU SPOKE TO IT A LITTLE BIT. UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE CONCRETE AND I WAS, I WAS LOOKING AT YOUR REPORT, BUT DO YOU KNOW OR HAVE A GENERAL SENSE OF THE BREAKDOWN OF LIKE THINGS THAT WERE, UM, A LITTLE BIT MORE NEUTRAL OR ACADEMICALLY SOURCED AS FAR AS THE VIDEO CONTENT SPECIFICALLY VERSUS MASS MEDIA AND WHAT THAT RATIO MIGHT BE, OR HOW THAT PLAYED OUT IN, UH, HOW KIND OF IN THAT NEXT ITERATION OR NEXT ROUND, YOU KNOW, THERE CAN BE IMPROVEMENTS MADE AND, AND JUST THE SOURCING OF THE VIDEOS OR ORGANIZATIONS, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. YEAH. UH, I, I DON'T HAVE AN EXACT NUMBER FOR YOU. I WOULD SAY THAT IT'S PROBABLY AT LEAST 60 OR 65% OF THE VIDEOS WERE SORT OF POPULAR SOURCE VIDEOS AND SOMEWHERE AROUND 35 OR 40%, MAYBE A THIRD OF THEM WERE MORE SORT OF FORMAL LIKE TICO, RIGHT. AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, UH, VERBAL GIDO WAS ONE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WAS USED IN THE TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS, A GREAT DEAL. BUT I, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT JUST BECAUSE OUR SOURCE WAS MORE FORMAL, RIGHT. OR IT CAME THROUGH MORE INSTITUTIONAL CHANNELS, DID IT MAKE IT BETTER? ONE OF, A COUPLE OF THE FIRST VIDEOS WE LOST WERE PEOPLE VIDEOS, AND THEY TOOK HISTORICAL POLICE INCIDENTS AND CHANGE THE RACE AND CENTER OF THE OFFICERS AND THE SUSPECTS INVOLVED IN THOSE INCIDENTS AND THEN REENACTED THEM IN WAYS THAT ABSOLUTELY REINFORCED SORT OF BIAS AND STEREOTYPES IN A COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY WAY. RIGHT. I MEAN, YOU COULD HAVE JUST REENACTED THE ACTUAL FACTS OF THE CASE. AND SO THAT WAS A, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS AN INSTITUTIONAL SHORES AND IT WAS ONE OF THE WORST VIDEOS WE SAW. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THAT, FOR GIVING THAT CONTEXT. UM, I WANT TO OPEN IT UP COMMISSIONERS, IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION, SUKI, UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION? UM, I DO WANT TO THANK Y'ALL FOR PUTTING IN THAT TIME. UM, I KNOW THAT IT MUST'VE BEEN EXTREMELY TRYING AND I HOPE THAT THEY'RE OFFERING SOME KIND OF SOMETHING FOR YOUR WELLNESS AND WELLBEING BECAUSE WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH WITH A LOT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT REALLY. UM, SO AT THE END OF YOUR REPORT, YOU HAVE A SERIES OF QUESTIONS, UH, NUMBER ONE, BEING, HOW WILL THE RESULTS OF THIS REVIEW BE MADE ACCESSIBLE TO THE COMMUNITY COMMUNITY? UH, FIRST, I JUST WANT TO THANK Y'ALL FOR MAKING THE ROUNDS AND COMING TO GROUPS LIKE OURS TO MAKE THIS PRESENTATION. UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT IS ON Y'ALL TO DO THAT KIND OF LEG WORK, BUT DO Y'ALL HAVE A SENSE OF HOW THIS IS BEING PUSHED OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY? UH, CURRENTLY, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE, WE PRESENT IT TO RPS AND WE SEND IT TO CE MANAGER APD, UM, AND WE SEND IT TO SEVERAL MEDIA SOURCES. UH, WE DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S AN ACTIVE PLAN, UH, WITHIN THE CITY TO DISTRIBUTE THIS REPORT. I DO SEE, I BELIEVE THE PIO OFFICE ADDED IT TO THEIR WEBSITE, UM, AND WE'RE OPEN TO SPEAK WHENEVER REQUESTED. SO THAT'S THE MAIN WAY THAT WE'RE DISTRIBUTING OUR INFORMATION. UH, WE'RE ALSO IN ADDITION TO DISTRIBUTING OUR INFORMATION THROUGH SOCIAL CHANNELS, UM, SPEAKING TO SPENCER CRUNK, UM, I BELIEVE EITHER THIS WEDNESDAY PHIL, OR IS IT THE FOLLOWING? UH, AND WE, UH, HAVE ALSO BEEN AN ACTIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH APD AROUND, UH, NEXT STEPS REGARDING THIS REPORT. UH, YEAH. THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR DOING A LOT OF THAT LEGWORK. I DON'T THINK THAT AFTER YOUR SEVEN MONTHS THAT WE'RE PAST THE SEVEN MONTHS, LIKE Y'ALL ARE GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND, RIGHT? YEAH. UH, WELL, YOU ALSO ASKED WHAT'S THE TIMEFRAME OF PROCESS FOR APD RE TO REVIEW RESPOND AND IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PANEL AND HOW DID THEY PLAN TO HOLD THEMSELVES ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT TO THE COMMUNITY FOR ANY FOLLOW-UP? UM, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THE LAST PART IS TIED TO THE WORK THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING, PUTTING, AND, YOU KNOW, TO PUT THIS OUT THERE, BUT, UM, DO YOU GUYS HAVE A SENSE OF [00:45:01] WHETHER APD WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOUR GROUP IN, UM, HAVING A COMMUNITY PROCESS FOR HELPING TO OVERHAUL THE POLICY AND THE NEW TRAINING? YEAH. UM, SO WE HAVE MET ONCE WITH APD AND, UH, ASSISTANT CHIEF GAY, AND HE HAS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING A WRITTEN, THIS IS, UH, ON HELICOPTER, ON HELICOPTER REQUESTS, A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO ALL OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT AND, UH, TO, TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY PANEL AND, AND WANTS TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF SETTING UP OR CONTINUING A KIND OF DIALOGUE WITH THE COMMUNITY PANEL AND THE ACADEMY, UH, GOING FORWARD. AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S UP TO EVERY PANEL MEMBER TO, TO DECIDE HOW BEST TO SORT OF, UM, USE THEIR TIME AND ENERGIES WITH RESPECT TO THAT. BUT IT WAS ONE OF OUR PRIMARY RECOMMENDATIONS, RIGHT. THAT AS YOU NOTED THAT WE, THAT THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT NOT DO THIS SORT OF ONE TIME REVIEW AND THEN, AND THEN MOVE ON, BUT THAT THEY SET UP A FORMAL STRUCTURE SO THAT THE COMMUNITY AND, AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COMMUNITY CAN SORT OF REPEATEDLY REVIEW AND ASSIST THEM. RIGHT. AND SO THERE IS AT LEAST AN INITIAL INDICATION THAT THERE'S INTEREST IN THAT, AT THIS POINT, OR MADE ANY KIND OF STATEMENT ABOUT, UM, THE REOPENING OF CADET CLASSES AND THE TIMELINE FOR THAT, AND HOW THIS FACTORS INTO THAT. UH, I HAVE PUBLICLY SHARED THAT I WOULD FEEL VERY UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE CADET TRAINING, UH, BEING THE WAY IT IS NOW WITHOUT IT BEING COMPLETELY REVAMPED. YEAH. AND I'LL ADD, I GUESS I, IT SEEMS TO ME, I MEAN, JUST FROM NEWS REPORTS, RIGHT. IT SEEMS THAT THE CITY MANAGER AND THE MAYOR WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ANOTHER TRAINING ACADEMY CLASS. AND I THINK IT IS SORT OF TYPICAL AND UNFORTUNATE, RIGHT. THAT, UM, WORK LIKE THIS HAPPENS AND THAT, UM, THOSE WHO HAVE THE LEVERS OF POWER AND ARE IN CHARGE OF SORT OF DETERMINING WHAT COMES NEXT FREQUENTLY, SORT OF TRY TO SHORT CIRCUIT, UH, WHAT IS, UH, UH, NECESSARILY, UH, MUCH MORE INVOLVED IN LENGTHY PROCESS. RIGHT. AND JUST SORT OF PUT BAND-AIDS HERE OR PUT BAND-AIDS THERE. I THINK AS WE'VE HIGHLIGHTED, UM, CADETS ARE THE LEAST POWERFUL ELEMENT OF ANY POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ABSOLUTELY MATTERS. I'M AN EDUCATOR, I BELIEVE EDUCATION MATTERS, BUT YOU CANNOT FIX A POLICE DEPARTMENT LIKE FIXING A TRAINING ACADEMY AND THEN PUTTING THOSE CADETS INTO AN EXISTING POLICE DEPARTMENT, ETHOS, RIGHT. THAT IS AT ODDS WITH THE TRAINING THAT YOU'VE JUST SORT OF INVESTED IN DOING. AND THAT'S, IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO BETTER TRAINING QUICKLY. AND I DON'T THINK YOU CAN, UH, ONE OF OUR HIGHEST PRIORITIES HERE IS TO, TO GET THE, UH, POLICE ACADEMY, TO THINK A LOT MORE CAREFULLY ABOUT ADULT EDUCATION PEDAGOGY, RIGHT. UM, AND, AND, AND HOW THAT LOOKS DIFFERENT FROM BOTH WHAT THEY'RE DOING NOW AND THE SORT OF HIGH SCHOOL, OR EVEN SORT OF MILITARY BOOTCAMP MODEL OF, OF TRAINING. AND THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, OF INVESTMENT AND TIME ON THEIR PART. YEAH. I THINK THE ACCOUNTABILITY PIECE IS THE MAIN PIECE THAT'S MISSING AND THAT WE HAVE NOT HEARD A RESPONSE FROM. UM, IF YOU WANT REPORTS, THERE ARE SEVERAL, IF YOU WANT COMMUNITY STORIES, THEY'RE OUT THERE. IF YOU WANT GRAPHS THAT SHOW DISPARITIES THEY'RE OUT THERE, THERE'S NO CONVERSATION AROUND ACCOUNTABILITY AT THE MOMENT. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, I DO KNOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY CADET CLASSES SET FOR QUITE A WHILE. AND, UM, FROM WHAT I'M HEARING, YOU ALL ARE SAYING THAT THERE'S NO NEED TO BUILD A PLANE WALLETS, YOU KNOW, IN THE AIR, WE CAN JUST TAKE THE ADVANTAGE OF THE TIME AND DO IT. RIGHT. SO, UM, YEAH, YOUR REPORT, I'M, I'M REALLY GRATEFUL FOR IT READING. IT WAS, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A NARRATIVE AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A FAST READ, BUT ALSO JUST REALLY CHILLING AND JARRING. AND, UM, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. IT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS? UM, JP, I SAW YOU RAISE YOUR HAND PLACE. UM, THANK YOU FOR THE MONEY. YEAH. UM, I JUST WANTED TO CIRCLE BACK TO THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING THE VIDEOS A LITTLE BIT. AND YOU MENTIONED THAT, UH, PEOPLE WHO WERE ON THESE ON THE COMMISSION HAD TO STEP DOWN ON THE COMMITTEE THAT WAS REVIEWING THE MATERIALS, HAD TO STEP DOWN BECAUSE OF THREATS AND THEY DIDN'T FEEL SAFE. AND THAT THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OFFICERS AT THAT MOMENT WAS, UH, UH, [00:50:01] WAS ROCKY. AND I WAS JUST WONDERING IF, IF, IF THERE'S ANY MORE THAT CAN BE SAID ELABORATED ON, ON WHY THAT RELATIONSHIP WAS DIFFICULT AND, AND, AND WHY THERE WASN'T COOPERATION, OR DID IT FEEL LIKE THERE WAS COOPERATION OR IF ANY MORE COULD BE SET UP? YEAH, I CAN'T SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE TWO REPRESENTATIVES THAT STEPPED DOWN. UM, I JUST THINK, UH, THERE WERE REASONS WHILE THEY FIGURED OUT THAT THIS PROCESS NO LONGER MAKES SENSE FOR THEM. UM, YOU KNOW, WE DID SEE, UH, THE GROUP KIND OF BE SHAKEN A LITTLE BIT AROUND THE APA BACKLASH BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE GOING IN THERE WITH A GOOD HEART TO DO THE WORK THAT'S NEEDED TO BE DONE FOR THE COMMUNITY. UM, WHAT I WOULD REFER THE FERTILE QUESTIONS TO NIKIA WHITMAN AND REBECCA SANCHEZ FOR THAT MATTER. I'LL SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT. JP, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THOSE COMMUNITY MEMBERS EITHER, AND WOULDN'T WANT TO TRY, BUT I WILL SAY THAT, UM, I THINK THIS IS ANOTHER SYMPTOM OF, OF A FAILED ANALYSIS, RIGHT? THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SEEMS ODDLY UNAWARE OF THE POWER DIFFERENTIALS AT WORK RIGHT. IN THEIR WORK. RIGHT. THAT WE SAW OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE VIDEOS. RIGHT. BUT SORT OF MORE BROADLY AS WELL. RIGHT. AND, AND SEEMED, UM, SEEMED UNAWARE OF HOW A KIND OF ANIMOSITY TOWARD THE PROCESS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS WORD, RIGHT. UH, WOULD NECESSARILY READ TO, TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WOULD, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVE TO BE IN A, KIND OF MORE VULNERABLE, UH, CONDITION IN THAT RELATIONSHIP. RIGHT. BECAUSE ONE OF THE PARTIES HAS FULL STATE POWER BEHIND THEM AND THE OTHER ONE IS JUST A COMMUNITY MEMBER. UH, SO I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT GETS AT THE HEART OF SOME OF THE MORE SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS AND THEY NEED TO BECOME AWARE OF THAT. RIGHT. SOMEHOW THEY NEED TO BECOME AWARE OF THAT. BUT I'LL ALSO SAY THAT I DO THINK THAT THERE WERE SOME OFFICERS THAT WERE WITH US ALL THE WAY THROUGH, RIGHT. THEY DIDN'T JUST COME IN FOR ONE MODULE, BUT THEY WERE WITH US ALL THE WAY THROUGH. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE, I HAVE TO JUST BE HONEST WITH ALL OF YOU, THERE WERE TIMES DURING THIS WORK WHERE I THOUGHT, ARE WE DOING ANYTHING? YOU KNOW, THIS IS A LOT OF TIMES, THERE'S A LOT OF ENERGY. LIKE, IS ANYTHING GOING TO COME OUT OF THIS? RIGHT. THAT'S THAT'S WORTH ANY OF THIS. AND, UM, IT WASN'T UNTIL SORT OF MOST OF THE WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS THAT I WAS BEGINNING TO THINK, YEAH, THERE'S SOME SHIFTS OF PERSPECTIVE HERE. PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO SEE THINGS. PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO UNDERSTAND THINGS. PEOPLE ARE BECOMING AWARE OF THE ANALYSIS THAT'S BEING OFFERED. AND I THINK THAT A COUPLE OF THE TRAINING OFFICERS THAT WERE ENGAGED WITH US, UM, YOU KNOW, CHANGE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT THEIR WORK AND CHANGE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT THEIR JOB. AND SO I DO THINK THAT THERE WAS SOME MOVEMENT THERE. YEAH. AND TO ADD TO THAT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, LIKE PHIL'S RIGHT ON POINT, THERE WERE SOME OFFICERS THAT WERE, UH, OPEN TO THE DIALOGUE. UM, BUT WE ALSO DID SEE A LOT OF DEFENSE DEFENSIVENESS, AND THAT WAS REALLY TROUBLING FOR ME BECAUSE, UH, IF WE WOULDN'T BE REVIEWING THE VIDEOS, IF THERE WASN'T AN ISSUE, UH, SO I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A CHANGE OF MINDSET AS WELL, UH, WITH OFFICERS THAT SHOW THAT THEY TO BE MORE OPEN-MINDED. UM, BUT THERE ALSO NEEDS TO BE THAT COMMITMENT FROM THE OFFICERS THAT ARE REVIEWING THOSE MODULES TO BE MORE OPEN-MINDED THAT THE CURRICULUM THAT THEY HAVE IS NOT WORKING RIGHT NOW. CAN I, CAN I ADD ONE MORE THING ON TOP OF THAT? JUST, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT COMMUNITY PANELS DISCUSSED TOGETHER. SO I'M JUST GOING TO PRESENT THIS AS MY PERSPECTIVE, BECAUSE FOR ALL I KNOW IT'S JUST MY PERSPECTIVE, BUT I FOUND IT VERY INTERESTING THAT SORT OF THE, I NOTED THE MOST RESISTANCE FROM THE CRISIS INTERVENTION FOLKS OR THE PEOPLE THAT CAME IN TO TALK ABOUT THAT. I READ IT AND I COULD BE COMPLETELY WRONG IN THIS READING, BUT I READ IT AS WE'RE THE GOOD COPS WHERE WE'RE FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT. YOU JUST NEED TO SORT OF SUPPORT AND AFFIRM US, UH, DON'T OFFER A CRITIQUE. RIGHT. AND, UM, AND YEAH, YOU KNOW, CAUSE I, UH, LONNIE WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS, UH, WHEN SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS, RIGHT. THAT THIS IS A KEY ELEMENT TO FOCUS ON. AND ONE OF THE MOST IRONIC BITS OF OUR EXPERIENCE WAS THAT THEY, ONE OF THE BETTER VIDEOS I PRESENTED WAS ACTUALLY ALSO A JOURNALISTIC VIDEO, BUT IT'S ONE OF THE BETTER VIDEOS I PRESENTED WAS ABOUT, IT WAS A NEW STORY ABOUT THE MEMPHIS MODEL, A KIND OF MODEL OF CRISIS INTERVENTION THAT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. AND THAT WAS SORT OF SPREADING AROUND THE COUNTRY. AND WHEN WE ASKED THEM, OKAY, TELL US THIS LOOKS GOOD. TELL US ABOUT THE MEMPHIS MODEL. THEY HAD NO IDEA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THOSE ANSWERS. THAT'S THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE FOR NOW. THANK YOU. OTHER QUESTIONS, [00:55:03] RYAN, KEVIN, UM, AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THIS WORK. IT'S VERY INFORMATIVE. UM, I'M CURIOUS, YOU KNOW, I KNOW HOW SHAKY AND FAST AND HARD TO FOLLOW SOME OF THE VIDEOS ARE. UM, BUT I'M CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE JUST ANY REFLECTION, UM, NOT ONLY JUST ON, YOU KNOW, THE SUBJECTS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE VIDEO, BUT ACTUALLY LIKE THE LOCATIONS WHERE THEY WERE HAPPENING. BECAUSE I THINK ONE THING I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT LATELY IS LIKE HOW THE PHYSICAL LOCATION OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND, UM, PEOPLE FACTOR INTO WHAT HA TRANSPIRES. AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, PART OF ME BELIEVES THAT, YOU KNOW, IF IN TRAINING VIDEOS, THEY'RE SEEING, UM, CONFLICTS HAPPENING IN GAS STATION PARKING LOTS, HOW DO THOSE PARKING LOTS KIND OF BECOME APPROVED AREAS FOR KIND OF VIOLENCE AND, UM, HARASSMENT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY, UH, KIND OF LIKE REFLECTIONS ON WHAT YOU SAW IN THE VIDEOS TO LIKE PHYSICAL LOCATION. YEAH. A HELICOPTER I'LL START OFF THERE AND YOU, YOU MAY HAVE, YOU, YOU HAVE SOME PRETTY NICE ANALYSIS OF THAT AS WELL DURING THE PROCESS. I THINK YOU PUT YOUR FINGER ON SOMETHING INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THERE. RIGHT. UM, THE HISTORY POLICING, AS I SAID EARLIER, IS A HISTORY OF SEGREGATION. RIGHT. AND NOT JUST RACIALIZED SEGREGATION, BUT CLASS SEGREGATION. RIGHT. IT'S THE HISTORY OF SORT OF PROTECTING THE PERSONS AND THE PROPERTY OF, OF AFFLUENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS, RIGHT. AGAINST THE PERCEIVED THREAT. RIGHT. OF, OF THE, UH, SUSPICIOUS NATURE AND, AND, UM, DANGER OF OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS. AND SO, YEAH, SO YOU DON'T IN THESE VIDEOS, YOU, YOU NEVER SEE THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT THEY'RE EITHER SHOWING YOU NOT TO DO, OR THE VERY FEW THAT THEY TRY TO SAY, HERE'S WHAT YOU DO. RIGHT? UH, IN THE AFFLUENT AREAS OF, OF, OF COMMUNITIES BECAUSE POLICING DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE AFFLUENT AREAS OF COMMUNITY, PEOPLE SOMETIMES ASK ME, WHAT WOULD IT REALLY LOOK LIKE? RIGHT. IF WE DIDN'T HAVE POLICING, I SAID, WELL, GO TO THE AFFLUENT AREA OF YOUR COMMUNITY AND LOOK AROUND. THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE. RIGHT. UH, AND SO I THINK THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT, UH, ANALYSIS THAT YOU'VE PUT YOUR FINGER ON HERE, RIGHT. BECAUSE WHAT IT, WHAT IT DOES, RIGHT? THESE VIDEOS ARE POWERFUL. THE CADETS SEE THIS ENVIRONMENT RIGHT AS THE KIND OF ENVIRONMENT WHERE DANGEROUS THINGS HAPPEN AND WHERE CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY SORT OF SHOW UP AND ARE PERCEIVED AS DANGEROUS. AND THIS OTHER ENVIRONMENT IS THE ENVIRONMENT THAT TACITLY THEY'RE THERE TO PROTECT. THEY'RE THERE TO SORT OF SECURE. AND IT'S A VERY CLEAR MESSAGE, I THINK. YEAH. AND I THINK THAT'S A GOOD POINT, PHIL, BECAUSE CLASS REALLY DID COME ACROSS VERY STRONGLY. THERE WAS ONE VIDEO THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME, UH, WHERE IT WAS A CAUCASIAN MAN WHO WAS CAUGHT LIKE, YOU KNOW, WITH A SUITCASE AND THEY WERE ARRESTING HIM FOR SOME SORT OF FRAUD. UH, BUT THE TYPE OF CRIMES THAT AFRICAN-AMERICANS WERE PERCEIVED IN WAS VERY DANGEROUS CRIMES, YOU KNOW, UH, SHOOTING, ROBBING, HURTING SOMEBODY, UH, COMPARED TO LIKE FRAUD, UH, FOR, FOR, UH, CAUCASIAN PEOPLE. UH, BUT ANOTHER THING AROUND, UH, LOCATION WAS, UH, THAT, THAT I SAW WAS THAT A LOT OF THE VIDEOS THAT WE, IT WAS ALMOST ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. UH, BUT WE DID SEE CONTRADICTIONS TO SAY, OKAY, HERE'S THE VIDEO, UM, DIGEST 75% OF IT, BUT 25% DOES NOT APPLY TO AUSTIN. RIGHT? SO THE WAY THAT WE'RE TEACHING THAT WE'RE TEACHING THESE CADETS, THEY'RE BEING TOLD, ABSORBED THIS INFORMATION, DISREGARD THIS. SO THE LEGALITY OF SOME OF THE VIDEOS WAS CONFUSING, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF HOW PEOPLE LEARN. PEOPLE LEARN DIFFERENTLY THROUGH VISUAL, IF THEY'RE VISUAL LEARNERS, THEY'RE DIGESTING ALL THAT INFORMATION. AND HOW DO THEY KNOW TO DISREGARD THAT 25% IF THEY'RE JUST TOLD, JUST FORGET ABOUT THAT PIECE. SO WE DID SEE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, CLASS, UH, AS WELL AS RE UH, JUST FORGET ABOUT SOME OF THIS INFORMATION WHEN IT CAME TO LOCATIONS, UM, AROUND THE UNITED STATES. THANK YOU, RYAN. DID YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO, THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. I WILL OPEN IT UP. UM, OTHERS WHO HAD QUESTIONS, ERICA, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. YEAH. UH, THANK YOU AGAIN, BOTH FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK ON THIS, IT'S REALLY, REALLY INFORMATIVE, AND I KNOW, UH, TOOK A LOT OF EFFORT ON YOUR PART. SO, SO THANK YOU. UM, I DID HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING THE, UH, THE AMOUNT OF TIME IN WHICH THIS, THIS CURRICULUM IS REGULARLY UPDATED AND LIKE, DID YOU GET A FEEL FOR HOW OFTEN THIS IS UPDATED, UM, WHEN, OR WITHOUT ANY INPUT OR PRESSURE FROM [01:00:01] OUTSIDE GROUPS? UM, IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S REGULARLY MAINTAINED OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT THEY JUST KIND OF, UM, LET, LET BE, UH, PHIL, YOU, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND SHARE SOME OF YOUR PERSPECTIVE THERE. I EVER CALLED, FROM WHAT I RECALL, UH, THE VIDEOS ARE NOT, UH, GENERALLY UPDATED. THEY DID MAKE SOME COMMENTS ABOUT CHANGING SOME PARTS OF THE OTHER, UH, TYPE OF CURRICULUM THAT THEY'RE SHOWING OUTSIDE OF THE VIDEOS. UM, BUT FROM THE VIDEO PERSPECTIVE, THEY WERE SELECTED BY TIKAL OR APPROVED BY TICO, AND THEY HADN'T CONSIDERED IN CHANGING THEM. I MEAN, THERE WERE SOME VIDEOS FROM LIKE THE 1960S THAT WERE BEING SHOWN, UH, THAT IS NOT REVELENT TO CURRENT DAY-TO-DAY AS WELL AS 2007. SO, UM, IT JUST HIGHLIGHTED THAT THEY HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT CHANGING THE VIDEOS UNLESS IT CAME FROM RESOLUTION 66. UM, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE OTHER PARTS OF THE CURRICULUM. UH, IT SEEMS LIKE THAT WAS UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTOR. UM, BUT IT, FOR THE VIDEO SPECIFICALLY, THE ONLY REASON THEY CHANGED THEM WAS RESOLUTION 66. ANYTHING TO, I FEEL THAT WAS JUST STRIKING TO ME HOW OFTEN THE TRAINERS THEMSELVES WERE SORT OF HESITANT TO SPEAK FOR THE VIDEOS, RIGHT? LIKE, LIKE THEY DIDN'T DEFEND THEM FOR THE MOST PART. RIGHT. UM, THEY SEEM TO RECOGNIZE THE, IF NOT THE SORT OF KINDS OF PROBLEMS WE WERE TRYING TO POINT OUT, CAUSE I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THEY RECOGNIZE THOSE FOR THE MOST PART, BUT THEY SEEM TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE VIDEOS WERE PROBLEMATIC AND DATED AND, UM, AND THAT THEY HAD TO WORK HARD TO GET OUT OF THEM, WHAT IT WAS, THEY WERE WANTING TO GET OUT OF THEM. AND AGAIN, I THINK THIS JUST SIGNALS A LACK OF RESOURCES, RIGHT. UM, A LACK OF SUPPORT. UH, AND SO THEY JUST SORT OF MAKE DO. OKAY. SO, SO YOU FELT LIKE IT WAS LIKE, IT'D BE FAIR TO SAY, EXCUSE ME, IT'D BE FAIR TO SAY THAT THE, UM, INSTRUCTORS WEREN'T REALLY GIVEN ANY GUIDANCE OR, OR, OR FREEDOM TO KIND OF UPDATE MATERIALS AS THEY, AS THEY SAW FIT, BUT IT WAS KIND OF JUST LIKE, KEEP, KEEP THINGS GOING AS THEY HAD BEEN GOING AND KIND OF PULL WHAT, WHAT YOU HAVE TO OUT OF THE, OUT OF THE VIDEOS, WE WERE TOLD THAT FOR, FOR TEAKLE, LIKE FOR SOME OF THE VIDEOS THAT THEY HAD FOR TICO, THEY HAD TO REQUEST PERMISSION FROM TIKAL TO REMOVE THEM FROM THE CURRICULUM. UM, SO I COULD, FOR, FOR THE VIDEO SPECIFICALLY, I'M NOT REALLY SURE ABOUT THE MODULES, BUT THEY DID WORK IN SILOS. SO THERE WASN'T A COLLABORATION, UM, OF, UH, OF THE OVERALL CURRICULUM BETWEEN THE INSTRUCTORS. IT WAS LIKE, YOU'RE OVER YOUR OWN MODULE. AND MAYBE YOU COULD CHANGE A COUPLE OF THINGS, BUT THE VIDEOS REMAINED. IN FACT, AT LEAST I WAS, IT WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF OUR PRIMARY RECOMMENDATIONS. UH, I THINK IT CAME FROM MY ORIGINAL EXCELLENT RECOMMENDATION THAT THEY SORT OF PANNED OUT THE VIDEOS SINCE THEY WERE HAVING, LIKE, THE VIDEOS WERE VERY JADED, RIGHT? THEY JUST, ALL THE VIDEOS WERE DATED. THEY PARADIGM THE VIDEOS, FIND A FEW BETTER, MORE REPRESENTATIVE, MORE CURRENT VIDEOS AND USE THOSE OVER AND OVER AGAIN ACROSS THE MODULES SO THAT CADETS WILL SEE THEM IN THIS MODULE AND LOOK AT THIS ASPECT OF THEM AND THEN SEE THEM AGAIN IN THIS MODULE AND LOOK AT A DIFFERENT ASPECT OF THE ROCK. AND SO THEY'RE NOT JUST LEFT WITH SORT OF ONE VIEWING AND WHATEVER THEY MANAGE TO SORT OF INTERNALIZE FROM THAT. RIGHT. BUT THESE VIDEOS WILL ACTUALLY BE MORE PEDAGOGICAL BECAUSE THEY WILL BE ANALYZED OVER AND OVER AGAIN FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES. I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WHAT PHIL JUST SAID, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A COMMENT MADE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE CADETS ARE DRINKING FROM A FIRE HOSE BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH INFORMATION THEY'RE BEING PROVIDED. AND THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE REPETITION OF SOME OF THE VIDEOS TO BE HIGHLIGHTED. UM, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THEY PROBABLY CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER ABOUT SEEING ONE VIDEO, THE OTHER, BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH CONTENT ARE BEING PUSHED DOWN. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, I'M OPEN IT BACK UP. UM, THOSE WHO, WHO AREN'T ABLE TO GET ON VIDEO, IF YOU'LL UNMUTE, IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION, UM, I'M LOOKING AT, I'M LOOKING AT EVERYBODY ELSE. IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE JUMP IN. I HAVE ONE QUESTION, GO AHEAD, LIST. IT MIGHT BE, IT MIGHT BE VERY BROAD AND A LITTLE ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL SIDE, BUT, UM, SO PART OF MY WORK IS, IS DOING SYSTEMS CHANGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN THE PUBLIC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM. AND THERE'S SOME INTERESTING PARALLELS, I THINK, BETWEEN SORT OF MAKING CHANGES, YOU KNOW, WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THAT THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY, BUT ANYWAY, UM, BUT I MEAN, ONE THING WE FOUND IS YOU DEFINITELY HAVE TO HAVE BUY-IN FROM LIKE THE TOP, TOP, TOP LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP, BUT YOU ALSO CAN'T DO LIKE TOP-DOWN CHANGE EFFORTS CAUSE THAT HARDLY EVER WORKS VERY EFFECTIVELY. AND I'M, I'M TRYING TO KEEP UP MY OPTIMISM [01:05:01] AND EVERYTHING ABOUT THINGS, YOU KNOW, ABOUT PROGRESS AND CHANGE THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. BUT IT SEEMS FRUSTRATING THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO CONVINCE PEOPLE, THERE IS A PROBLEM THAT DON'T EVEN SEE THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE Y'ALL HAVE RUN INTO SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, LIKE CHANGE CHAMPIONS AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, ARE OPEN TO MAKING CHANGES TO THE TRAINING AND TO THE OVERALL CULTURE. CAUSE I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH Y'ALL THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE MOST AMAZING TRAINING IN THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT IF YOU GO INTO A CULTURE WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT'S SORT OF KNOCKING DOWN EVERYTHING YOU'VE LEARNED, THERE'S NOT REALLY MUCH OF A POINT TO IT, BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION IS LIKE, ARE THERE ANY EXAMPLES THAT ANYONE'S COME ACROSS OF LIKE, JUST BEING ABLE TO LIKE MAYBE CULTIVATE MORE CHANGE CHAMPIONS OR, UM, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE JUST HAVE ANY SUCCESS WITH LIKE GETTING THROUGH TO PEOPLE WITHOUT JUST THIS IMMEDIATE DEFENSIVENESS. AND I, I DON'T KNOW. I, I KNOW THIS IS SORT OF A RAMBLING QUESTION, BUT I JUST WAS WONDERING IF Y'ALL HAD ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT OR ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS TOO. I'D LIKE TO PERSONALLY SHOUT OUT ONE POLICE OFFICER WHO I THINK WAS PRETTY OPEN AND IT WAS GARY KAREO. I REALLY LIKED WORKING WITH HIM, JUST STAND UP GUY. UM, UH, ALWAYS HAD GOOD THINGS TO SHARE. THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS OR PROVIDING FEEDBACK. EVEN IF WE WERE PUSHING BACK, HE WAS OPEN TO THE CHALLENGE. UM, I'D LIKE TO SHARE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE RECEIVED OTHER RESPONSES, YOU KNOW, ONE FROM, UM, TROY GAY WHERE HIS RESPONSE TO OUR REPORT WAS WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE REPORT. UM, AND I THINK THAT'S, AS FAR AS WE WERE ABLE TO GET, SO, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU GET THAT RIGHT. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR IT TO GO FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM. UM, BUT GARY KOREA WAS A STANDUP GUY. PHIL, I SAW YOU WERE SAYING SOMETHING WELL, I AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAID. I ALSO AGREE LIZ THAT, UH, I MEAN, I WISH I HAD SOME REALLY PRODUCTIVE ANSWERS TO THAT QUESTION, RIGHT. YOU WORK IN THIS AREA. SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A DEEPLY CHALLENGING. UM, I, I, THERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OUT THERE IN THE WORLD, RIGHT. I'M STRUGGLING TO THINK OF THE COMMUNITY IN NEW JERSEY. THAT IS A REALLY GOOD ONE. I, I CAN'T SAY AGAIN WHERE THEY, WHERE THEY ALL QUIT, THEY JUST, YEAH, THEY BASICALLY, IT IS CAMDEN, RIGHT. THEY BASICALLY JUST SORT OF GOT RID OF EVERYBODY AND STARTED FROM SCRATCH. RIGHT. AND THEY STARTED WITH A PARTICULAR VISION. AND, UH, THAT, THAT I WOULD, THAT I THINK IF YOU LOOK INTO THAT, YOU'LL SEE THAT THAT WAS REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. I THINK ONE OF THE WAYS YOU APPROACH THIS, AND THIS GOES BACK TO THE WHOLE THING ABOUT ETHICS BEING LIKE, WELL, WE GOT FOUR HOURS ON THAT THIS AFTERNOON. RIGHT. UM, SO I'M A PHILOSOPHER. I TEACH ETHICS. RIGHT. UM, AND THAT'S NOT HOW ETHICS WORKS, RIGHT? YOU CAN'T DO FOUR HOURS OF IT IN AN AFTERNOON, RIGHT. IT'S NOT A SET OF RULES THAT YOU CAN MEMORIZE. RIGHT. UH, ANYTIME YOU'RE LEARNING, ANYTIME YOU'RE, UH, BEING TRAINED, ANYTIME YOU'RE ENGAGING THE WORLD, EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IS A KIND OF ETHICAL TRAINING. AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT THAT WAY, RIGHT. THEN YOU ARE DOING ETHICAL TRAINING. YOU JUST NOT AWARE OF IT. AND YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT DOING THE KIND OF TRAINING YOU WANT TO BE DOING. RIGHT. AND SO ONE OF THE ANSWERS, I THINK THAT THIS PANEL EMPHASIZED IS TO STOP COMPARTMENTALIZING. RIGHT. AND THAT MEANS SORT OF IN THE ACADEMY, OR IT MEANS COMPARTMENTALIZING THE ACADEMY, SO THAT LET'S FIX IT UP AND THEN WE'LL WORRY ABOUT FIXING SOMETHING ELSE. RIGHT. I MEAN, THIS, THIS HAS TO BE A BROAD CROSS FERTILIZING RIGHT. CROSS BOUNDARY. UM, I DON'T KNOW, I'M GOING TO USE THE RADICAL WORD REVOLUTION. RIGHT. IT HAS TO SORT OF IMPACT EVERY ELEMENT AND EVERY ASPECT OF THE INSTITUTION OR YOU'RE SETTING YOURSELF UP TO FAIL. THANKS, JOHN. ARE THERE, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM, FROM COMMISSIONERS? NO. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND HELICON FEL, UM, FOR YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO YOUR TEAM FOR PUTTING TOGETHER THIS REPORT AND THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. WE SO APPRECIATE THE WORK, UM, THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND APPRECIATE YOUR TIME THIS EVENING. THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION. AND IF ANYBODY HAS ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE FOR US TO SPEAK SOMEWHERE, I'M GOING TO DRAW FOR OUR WEBSITE. YOU CAN EMAIL THAT EMAIL FOR ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. ALL RIGHT. UM, WE WILL JUMP BACK INTO OUR AGENDA AND MOVE TO [3. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS] AGENDA ITEM THREE, WHICH IS, UM, [01:10:02] THE FIRST ONE UNDER HERE IS SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, UM, RELATING TO BEST PRACTICES IN POLICING. UM, SO THIS IS A PART OF KIND OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE ARE PUTTING OUT AS A COMMISSION, UM, AND KIND OF OUR TWO-PART MENTAL HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS OF, OKAY, HOW CAN WE INFLUENCE PRACTICE, BUT ALSO HOW CAN WE INFLUENCE THE POLICY? SO LOOKING AT THAT, UM, AND IF THERE ARE ANY COMMENTS FROM COMMISSIONERS, UM, ON THIS, ON THIS AGENDA ITEM SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE FEATURES IN THE ITEMS, IF NOT, OKAY, I WILL GO INTO THE NEXT ONE. UM, THESE, THESE NEXT TWO ARE REALLY KIND OF UPDATES, UM, ON WHAT WILL BE COMING. SO WE ARE CURRENTLY AS A COMMISSION WORKING ON DOING RESEARCH AS IT RELATES TO RACIAL EQUITY. UM, AND ALSO AS IT RELATES TO THE CADET TRAINING. SO THIS, THIS REPORT WAS VERY TIMELY FOR US. UM, AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE SAME WAY OF PUTTING OUT MENTAL HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS, WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THE PRACTICES AND POLICIES OF APD AS IT RELATES TO RACE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THOSE INTERACTIONS. AND AS IT RELATES TO EQUITY, WE'VE SEEN REPORTS FROM THE OPO, UM, JUST ABOUT THE DISPARITIES THAT WE HAVE HERE IN AUSTIN AND THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE MAKE SYSTEMIC CHANGE, UM, AND HOW CAN WE GO IN AND MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE LASTING CHANGE, UM, THAT HAS THAT ACCOUNTABILITY ELEMENT AND THE SAME WAY FOR CADET TRAINING, REALLY BEING A PART OF THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENING AS A COMMUNITY, AS IT RELATES TO RE-IMAGINING PUBLIC SAFETY. AND AS IT RELATES TO OUR CADET CLASSES HERE IN AUSTIN, REALLY DIVING IN AND SEEING HOW CAN WE PARTNER, UM, WITH THE WORK THAT'S GOING ON AND REALLY LEVERAGE OUR PARTNERS AROUND THE CITY, UM, SO THAT WE HAVE THE BEST OUTCOMES, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO RECOMMENDATIONS AND WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, OUR TRAINING MOVING FORWARD. SO, UM, I'LL OPEN IT UP REALLY QUICKLY. UM, FOR ANY COMMISSIONERS, IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS ON THESE KIND OF TWO AGENDA ITEMS RELATING TO, UM, SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'LL BE DOING OVER THE NEXT COMING MONTHS. OKAY. UH, YEAH. I JUST WANTED TO MENTION ABOUT THE RACIAL EQUITY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THIS WILL BE UPLIFTING WORK THAT'S ALREADY BEING DONE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. UM, I DON'T THINK THAT, UM, THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THAT'S GOING TO START. IT'S A PLACE WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, UH, TRY TO AMPLIFY, WHICH IS A BIG PART OF OUR GOAL FOR THIS COMMISSION. AND SO THAT'S, UM, THAT'S A PLACE RIPE FOR INPUT FROM MANY DIFFERENT ENTITIES AND, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY DO HOPE THAT, UM, WE'LL BE SEEN AS A SPACE TO PULL IN ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT, UM, IDEAS. UM, AND AGAIN, JUST TO HAVE A, ANOTHER SPACE TO REALLY PUSH OUT THESE IDEAS. SO, UM, I JUST LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING MANY DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT RACIAL EQUITY AND POLICING. THANK YOU FOR THAT SAFETY, UM, OTHER COMMENTS ON THESE TWO AGENDA ITEMS FROM COMMISSIONERS. COOL. YEAH. OKAY. WE WILL MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM FOUR, WHICH IS OUR PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS, ONE, TWO AND THREE. UM, AND I BELIEVE WE DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKERS THAT SIGNED UP FOR THIS MEETING, IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CRACKING THE SPEAKERS. OKAY. UM, IS THERE ANY OTHER COMMENT, UM, ON, ON OUR AGENDA OR MEETING TODAY THAT COMMISSIONERS WANT TO MAKE BEFORE WE ADJOURN? NO. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYONE. UM, AND OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT ARE ATTENDING. THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONERS. UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE RACIAL EQUITY WORK THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AS WELL AS THE TRAINING RESEARCH THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO TO REALLY PARTNER WITH OUR COMMUNITY TO MAKE IT BETTER. AND I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH. UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND WE WILL ADJOURN THIS MEETING. IT IS SEVEN 17. HAVE A GREAT EVENING. YOU ALL. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.