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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-13-2014 Community ForumIOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY, RM A 123 South Linn Street, IC ITEM NO. 1 CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL ITEM NO. 2 INTRODUCTION OF BOARD & BRIEF OVERVIEW ITEM NO. 3 CONSIDER MOTION TO ACCEPT CORRESPONDENCE AND/OR DOCUMENTS ITEM NO. 4 PUBLIC DISCUSSION WITH POLICE CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD ITEM NO. 5 ADJOURNMENT We invite YOU to attend a forum. The City of Iowa City CITIZENS POLICE REVIEW BOARD WHEN: TIME: WHERE: TOPIC: COMMUNITY FORUM Tuesday, May 13, 2014 6:00 PM Iowa City Public Library, Rm A 123 South Linn Street, IC The Citizens Police Review Board will be holding a Community Forum for the purpose of hearing Citizens' views on the policies, practices and procedures of the Iowa City Police Department. (Find ICPD General Orders at www.icgov.org under Police Dept) QUESTIONS & COMMENTS: Send your questions or comments you'd like addressed at the forum to the following by Monday, April 28th: Please include full name and address. (All correspondence is public) City of Iowa City 410 E Washington St Iowa City, IA 52240 Or e-mail to CPRB staff: kellie-tuttle@iowa-city.org The Board will attempt to address all correspondence received. The forum will be taped for rebroadcast. Citizens Police Review Board Community Forum Page I of 1 A-Z Index Residents ICgov.org Home » Neivs Business Government Visitors -9 Citizens Police Review Board Community Forum Posted on Monday, April 07, 2014 at 9:59 AM The Citizens Police Review Board will be holding its Annual Community Forum for the purpose of hearing Citizens' views on the policies, practices and procedures of the Iowa City Police Department. WHEN: Tuesday, May 13, 2014, TIME: 6:00 PM at WHERE: Iowa City Public Library, Rm A 123 South Linn Street, IC Questions & Comments: Send your questions or comments you'd like addressed at the forum to the following by Monday, April 28th: Please include full name and address. (All correspondence is public) CPRB Or e-mail to CPRB staff: City of Iowa City kellie-tullle@iowa-city.org 410 E Washington St Iowa City, IA 52240 The Board will attempt to address all correspondence received. The forum will be taped and rebroadcast on the Interactive City Channel 4 A-Z Index Citizen Service Center Residents Transit Routes Business News Government EE-Subscriolions Visitors Jobs Calendar Store Contact Information Name: Kellie Tuttle Email: Send Mail Phone: (319) 356-5043 Contact Information Web Policies City Employee Resources Copyright © 2006-2012 City of Iowa City 410 E Washington St., Iowa City, IA 52240 Phone (319)356-5000 littp://www.icgov.org/apps/news/?newsID=9516 6/11 /2014 Citizens Police Review Board Community Forum Page 1 of 1 A-Z Index Residents ICoovoro Home )> News Husiness Government Visltols Citizens Police Review Board Community Forum Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014 at 8:59 AM The Citizens Police Review Board will be holding its Annual Community Forum for the purpose of hearing Citizens'views on the policies, practices and procedures of the Iowa City Police Department. WHEN: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 TIME: 6:00 PM WHERE: Iowa City Public Library, Rm A 123 South Linn Street, IC Questions & Comments: Send your questions or comments you'd like addressed at the forum to the following by Monday, April 281h: Please include full name and address. (All correspondence is public) CPRB City of Iowa City 410 E Washington St Iowa City, IA 52240 Or e-mail to CPRB staff: kellie-tuttle(a) Iowa-citv.ora The Board will attempt to address all correspondence received. The forum will be taped and rebroadcast on the Interactive City Channel 4. The agenda is available at: htto://www.icgov.ora/defauittaoos/boards/boardL!st,asp Z Index Citizen Service Center Residents Transit Routes Business News Government E-Subscriptions Visitors Jobs Calendar Store Contact Information Name: Kettle Tuttle Email: Send Mail Phone: (319) 356-5043 Contact Information Web Policies City Employee Resources Copyright © 2006-2012 City of Iowa City 410E Washington St., Iowa City, IA 52240 Phone (319)356-5000 http://www.icgov.org/apps/news/?newsID=9566 6/11/2014 PLEASE PRINT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS ON THE OPPOSITE SHEET WHEN YOU ADDRESS THE BOARD NAME: ADDRESS: (� so1( 000ln a-�2-o Ea coo(+ S+- `rya, �- -,blolw \IIAUbIal / Kellie Tuttle From: Adam B Sullivan <sullivan.ab@gmall.com> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 10:03 AM To: Kellie Tuttle Subject: CPRB forum question Hi Kellie -- I hope all is well. I'd like to submit a question for the CPRB forum next month: Ankeny, Iowa police earlier this year used military -style equipment to forcefitlly enter a private home in pursuit of non-violent criminals. What kind of SWAT or "military -style" equipment do Iowa City officers have access to and what are the guidelines for when to ose that equipment? Thanksl abs Adam B Sullivan 319.430.7882 htt n://adambsul I ivan.com C'omgress shall make no lcm, respecling cur eslablishmrerrl of religiwr, or prohibiting the flee exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or orthe press; or the right q(the people peoceablj, to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress ofgrievonces. 101 iGcl� c 66C.1% 5A /21eefi�Cq hi an effort to enhance the overall effectiveness of police operations, the Iowa City Police Department has established a Special Response Team (SRT). The purpose of this team is to handle unusual operational activities and problems. The presence of highly trained police response team has been shown to substantially reduce the risk of injury or loss of life to citizens, police officers and suspects. A well -managed team response to critical incidents will substantially enhance the likelihood of a more successful resolution of the incident. The following non -exhaustive listing of critical incidents may activate the Team: A. Hostage Situations: The holding of any person(s) against their will by an armed or potentially armed suspect. B. Barricade Situations: The stand-off created by an armed or potentially armed suspect in any location, whether fortified or not, who is refusing to comply with police demands for surrender. C. Sniper Situations: The firing upon citizens and/or police by an armed suspect, whether stationary or mobile. D. High -Risk Apprehension: The arrestor apprehension of armed or potentially armed suspects where the likelihood of armed resistance is high. E. High -Risk Warrant Service: The service of search or arrest warrants where the risk of injury or death to the suspects, officers or public is deemed too high for service by non- SRT personnel. F. Personal Protection: The security of special persons, such as VIPs, witnesses, or suspects, based on threat or potential threat to the well-being of those persons. G. Civil Disturbance: For demonstrations and disturbances; to provide crowd control and to potentially effect arrests. H. Special Assignments: Any other assignment approved by the Chief of Police or the Commander of Field Operations, based upon a level of threat Iowa City Police Department Sueeial Resaonse Team Equipment List Ballistic Helmet Tactical Goggles or Glasses Balaclava Ballistic Vest Nomex Gloves Tactical Rifles Sniper Rifles Tactical Shotguns Breaching Shotgun Tactical Breaching Tools (i.e. ram, sledge, break and rake tool, hooligan) Noise Flash Device Chemical Munitions Ballistic Shields Radio Headsets c- cA- \ c co--,v czoaocJ4 i� W G Ck(,,,� \N-e, !)W , - Cpj m :- 7- f�CA pry p� N �V J CITIZENS POLICE REVIEW BOARD COMMUNITY FORUM May 13, 2013, 6:00 P.M. IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY 123 South Linn Street, IC CALL TO ORDER: Chair Joseph Treloar called the meeting to order at 6:00 P.M. MEMBERS PRESENT: Melissa Jensen, Royceann Porter, Mazahir Salih MEMBERS ABSENT: None STAFF PRESENT: Legal Counsel Patrick Ford and Staff Kellie Tuttle (Transcriptions are available) INTRODUCTION OF THE BOARD. CONSIDER MOTION TO ACCEPT CORRESPONDENCE AND/OR DOCUMENTS Motion by Jensen and seconded by Salih. Motion carried, 4/0. PUBLIC DISCUSSION The following individuals appeared before the CPRB: Rod Sullivan 2326 E Court St, IC Fatimah Omar 423 Waterway Dr, IC Adam Sullivan 311 S Lucas St, IC Doyle Landry Iowa City Terrell Fulwily Iowa City ADJOURNMENT Motion by Salih and seconded by Jensen to adjourn. Motion carried, 4/0. Meeting adjourned at 6:37 P.M. (Forum Summary will be submitted to Council) § � � ] x00 x! o x x x§ x l x x x x i x§ x! c x x x§ CITIZENS POLICE REVIEW BOARD A Board of the City of Iowa City 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240-1826 (319) 356-5041 August 26, 2014 Iowa City City Council City of Iowa City 410 E. Washington St. Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Re: Citizen Police Review Board's Annual Community Forum Conducted May 13, 2014 To: Whom It May Concern The Iowa City Citizen's Police Review Board held its 2014 Public Forum on May 13, 2014. Members at the forum were Melissa Jensen (Vice Chair), Joe Treloar (Chair) Royceann Porter and Mazahir Salih. Staff present was Legal Counsel Patrick Ford. The forum opened with an introduction of members and staff and a roll call vote. The Board voted to accept correspondence and it passed unanimously. Treloar read a letter the Board had received from Adam B. Sullivan. Treloar reported that Mr. Sullivan's letter was submitted to the Iowa City Police Department. Jensen read a letter from the Iowa City Police Department in response to Mr. Sullivan's letter. Mr. Sullivan was present at the meeting and indicated the letter from the Police Department addressed his concern. Jensen also read a letter from an inmate at the Johnson County Jail. Following Jensen's reading of the correspondence, Treloar opened up the forum for public discussion. Rod Sullivan, of 2326 E. Court Street, Iowa City addressed the forum. Mr. Sullivan began by thanking the Board members for their service. Mr. Sullivan said that the Ad Hoc Diversity Committee had made a recommendation concerning police traffic and pedestrian stops where no citations were issued but no data was collected on these stops. He was concerned that since people were complaining about the police having a disproportionate number of stops with minorities that this should include all police stops, whether a citation was issued or not. His point was that there was data collected on stops resulting in the issuance of citations but no data was kept on stops where citations were not issued. He wished to see data collected on stops where citations were not issued. Mr. Sullivan said that "it would make sense to work with Johnson County, Coralville, North Liberty, University Heights, etc., to make sure everybody was collecting the same data. " Mr. Sullivan spoke to how disproportionate minority contact was not just an Iowa City or Johnson County issue but there were statistics showing that this was a national problem. He said he would like to see a plan to use the collected data to address the problem and improve the statistics. The next person to address the Board was Fatimah Omar. Ms. Omar voiced a complaint about how her sister was treated by the Police when she was crossing the street and was struck by a vehicle. Ms. Omar said that her sister was a person of color and the driver of the car was white. Ms. Omar felt that the treatment her sister received was different from the treatment the drive of the car received. She felt this was due to the race of the people and the officers involved. Ms. Omar said that many African American parents feel that their children were being racially profiled by the police. Ms. Omar cited the curfew that was imposed on the East side of town, and in particular, the Broadway neighborhood area as an example of the double standard that existed in police practices in Iowa City. Ms. Omar said that African American and Latino youth were nine times more likely to be arrested than white youth. Ms. Omar cited other statistics indicating a racial disparity in arrest rates for African American and Latinos. Ms. Omar said African Americans and Latinos were less likely to get oral reprimands or interventions that did not include charges or legal consequences than their white counterparts. Ms. Omar suggested that we need to "step up our game", make our minority residents feel more welcome. She suggested we need to take action to stop illegal searches and Fourth Amendment Rights violations and have equal legal practices and procedures among the different races. Adam Sullivan was the next to address the Board. Mr. Sullivan said that military surplus equipment was coming back from the mid -east as US involvement in the conflicts there was winding down. Mr. Sullivan expressed concern that some police departments have received tank or armored personnel carrier type vehicles. Mr. Sullivan was concerned that we should have "really strong rules for when that equipment is going to be used" and when we were going to have a military type response. Mr. Sullivan said he appreciated the response from the Police Department but the instances where such equipment could be used seemed very broad to him. Reverend Doyle Landry was the next to address the Board. He expressed concerns that problems concerning race issues have been brought up for many years but nothing seems to be happening to address these problems. Mr. Terrell Fulwiley was the next person to address the Board. Mr. Fulwiley was concerned about synthetic drugs in Iowa City. He was also concerned about a Herky statue being placed within 15 feet of a known drug area in downtown Iowa City. Mr. Fulwiley said that this statue has been vandalized by having someone pour a can of soup on it. Mr. Fulwiley said parents will stop and take pictures of their children standing with this Herky statue. He felt that this was not safe as the children were in a drug use area and were subject to dangerous situations by being there. He would like the statue to be moved. At the conclusion of the comments from the public Treloar thanked the audience for their input and called for a motion to adjourn. The motion was seconded and the meeting was adjourned. Adjournment 6:37pm Jo&ep-lti 1 rel00_r— Joseph Treloar Chairperson Citizen Police Review Board Transcriptions attached. Form agenda, minutes, transcriptions, correspondence, and handouts are all available on the City website. (www.ic og v.org) May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page I Members Present: Melissa Jensen (Vice -Chair), Royceaml Porter, Joseph Treloar (Chair), Mazahir Salili Staff Present: Patrick Ford Introduction: Treloar/ Well, let's go ahead and call this meeting of the Citizens Police Review Board and annual forum to order. Roll call vote. Jensen. Jensen/ Here! Treloar/ Mazahir. Salih/ Yes. (mumbled) Treloar/ Porter. Porter/ Here. Treloar/ Treloar, here. Um, hi, I'm Joe Treloar, I'm the Chair of the Citizens Police Review Board. I'm the one making all kinds of feedback noise. Um, with me I have Melissa Jensen, Royceann Porter, and our legal counsel. Ford/ I'm Pat Ford. Treloar/ Um ... just very briefly, the Citizens Police Review Board was established to, um, review complaints on the citi... on the Iowa City Police Department, and review policies and procedures (noises on uric) (mumbled)... getting feedback. Um ... okay. Correspondence: Treloar/ At this point I'll consider a motion to accept correspondence and/or documents. Jensen/ Do you, uh, want to read 'ern first? Do we need to do that first or we're good to go? Treloar/ I think we're good to go. Jensen/ Okay. All right. So moved. Salih/ Second. Treloar/ Moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Opposed same sign. Okay! We did receive (noises in uric, change in recording sound) an email question. (several talking) Might This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page 2 be! (several talking, change in recording sound) Urn ... this is from Adam B. Sullivan. (reads correspondence) And we submitted this to the Police Department and they responded with what kind of equipment they have and Melissa Jensen, Co -Chair, will read their response. Jensen/ Okay. Um, as Joe mentioned this is, uh, response from the Iowa City Police Department to answer the question. (reads correspondence) Treloar/ Like to thank Adam Sullivan for his question and... Jensen/ He's here. Treloar/ Hope that answers ... (several talking) Did you want to... Jensen/ We did receive another correspondence, just prior to the meeting. So I'm going to go ahead and read it. Please bear with me because this is the first time I've read it. Um, request is to please read at the hearing. (reads correspondence) Treloar/ Okay. Well, at this time we'll open up to the floor for public discussion. We ask if you want to ... address the Board, use the microphone, as this is televised for later broadcast and they can't hear you if you don't speak into the mic. Give your name and sign in, please! (unable to hear female speaking away from mic; feedback sounds) Forum: Sullivan/ Good evening. My name is Rod Sullivan. I live at 2326 E. Court Street in Iowa City. And let me start by thanking you all for your service. I know that, uh, it can be kind of thankless at times serving on a board or commission. I appreciate the fact that you're willing to step up and do that. Uh, so I have two related issues that I want to bring up for you folks just to ... to take in and perhaps to make recommendations with. Uh, you may recall that when the Ad Hoc Diversity Committee was ... was, uh, formed for the City of Iowa City, there were a number of recommendations. Uh, there was one in particular that was made regarding, uh, policing, and I've never heard anything about it since, and I'm hoping you folks can follow up. And that is that we had, uh, asked questions about, uh, stops, be it traffic stops or just stopping pedestrians, where there are no, uh, citations made. Uh, it seems as though there are good statistics kept in terms of, uh, the race of a person when there's some sort of ticket issued. But if there's no ticket issued, we don't have that data, at least that was my understanding at the time. And it seems to me that when, uh, people are complaining about disproportionate minority contact, that includes all contact, not just contact where there was some kind of violation, and so ... uh, I think it would be very important that that data be collected. Uh, I also think it would make sense to work with, uh, Johnson County, Coralville, North Liberty, University Heights, etc., to make sure that everybody's collecting the same data. Uh, so that we can ... can compare and make sure that we've got ... you know, we're a small enough area that we should have ... have, uh, good data there. I think the whole data set. So, uh, I would love to see you folks follow up with that and see if there's not something we can do on that issue. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page 3 Uh, secondly, and related to that (cleats throat) uni, I think we can all acknowledge that we have, uh, issues throughout our criminal justice system, not just in Iowa City and Johnson County, in the whole U.S., with disproportionate minority contact, and I think we've already got some... some, urn... statistics that bear that out. We need to do a better job collecting data. I think that data will probably prove that to be the case, as well, and ...and so then we have to say, once we've collected the data, what are we going to do with it, and I think it's also important to have a very clearly set out goal to, uh, do something to improve upon that, and that's another thing that I think we haven't really heard is, um, although occasionally folks will admit that there's an issue, we haven't really heard, okay, we know it's an issue. Here's how we're going to try to improve the statistics. And so I would also like to hear a concrete plan of some sort for improving the statistics. I understand it's not something that'll happen overnight. I understand it might be difficult to do, but I think it's something we should at least show that we're striving to do. Thank you. (several responding off mic) Omar/ Hello, my name's Fatimah Omar. I'm an undergraduate student at William Penn University and I've gro... I've lived in the Iowa City community my whole entire life and I decided to come here today to ... um, well I have decided to come here because I've had some unjust experiences with an Iowa City police. Uh, as a biracial individual and minority, and this happened about nearly ... two and a half years ago, um, a person with a clean record, no arrests or anything. My sister got hit by a car and the guy who hit her was white and the police was white, and the police showed no sympathy for my sister, but instead he spoke to her as if she was incompetent and said, "You have to be careful when you care ... when you cross the street next time," and he spoke to my dad in the same manner and he said, "Your daughter has to be careful when she crosses the street," and this guy's a clean... decent guy. He has no records, but little did he know there's a thing called the internet, and we found his public arrest records. The man had, um, three charges of assault and... uni, he had two or three 0... OWIs and on top of that, I have a lot of minority friends who said they have felt as if they've been racially profiled by Iowa City Police. So with that being said I will continue. Many minority community members in the Iowa City area feel as if the police practices, polices, and laws are a double - standard for minorities, especially towards African Americans and Latinos. Many African American parents in the community feel as if their children are being racially profiled by police. One of the reasons why many minority community members feel as if the police practices, policies, and procedures are a double -standard for minorities is due to the curfew law which was established for the east side of town. This curfew was established due to the concern of the Broadway and Lakeside neighborhoods, where many African American families live. There were many neighborhood complaints about loud music, loud noises at night, and fighting among African American children. This has sparked resentment towards the African American community. Many of the white residents who reside in the Broadway and Lakeside neighborhood are at a discomfort with African Americans because of the cultural adjustment of having a wave of African American families move in within the last recent years. Those African American families were recruited to move in by housing and realty recruits. Rumors speculated in the community about gang activity, supposedly a gang called "The Broadway Goons." Matter of fact, most African American children in these neighborhoods do not associate This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page 4 with the title of the Broadway Goons and deem it as a joke and say it's nothing compared to the gangs in Chicago. Not only did the ruckus and disputes among African American children create paranoia about gang activity to community members, but also to the Police Department. The Police Department established the curfew because they thought they could regulate illegal activity, specifically in these neighborhoods, but what they don't realize is all they have done is nothing but stereotype African American children as gangsters and harass them. Interestingly enough, most of the drug suppliers and people with drug arrests in the Iowa City community are ... in the Iowa City area are white, so if... it makes no sense to harass and nitpick African American children over everyday basic kid issues. If anyone should be monitored, it should be the drug dealers and not the supposedly obnoxious and fighting African American children. And justice and the police practices, policies, and procedures are highly significant because it is a racial disparity that can affect the learning of minority children, especially toward African American and Latino students. There are far more African American and Latino students facing suspensions and police referrals. African American youths are nine times more likely to be arrested than their white counterparts. African American and Latino students are less likely to get oral reprimands or intermissions before facing charges or legal consequences. This affects graduation rates of African American and Latino students. In addition, African American residents make up 4.8% of Iowa City's population, but account for 28% of non -traffic arrests by Iowa City Police in 2011 and African Americans made up 42% of the Johnson County jail's average daily population in 2010. The dispro... the disproportionality and arrest correspond with the sociological theory of the conflict perspective. Not only does this issue translate to the conflict perspective, but it also applies to the interactionist perspective. Because there is a huge disproportion in arrests between ethnic groups, mainly between whites and blacks, this creates stereotypes in the community. The stereotypes can heavily affect many minorities in the community by making it difficult for them to get jobs, unfair legal practices by police, and ... it can cause African American and Latino children to live up to stereotypes. The Iowa City Police Department and community needs to step their game up. We boast about how liberal and diverse our community is, but yet we are one of the states in the nation with the biggest disproportionality when it comes to arrests, and yet we don't make a lot of our minority residents feel welcome, and yet there have been more unfair illegal searches and seizures towards African American youth, impeding on their Fourth Amendment right. In order to be ... a diverse community, we need to treat everyone equal and we can start with the Iowa City Police Department by practicing equal legal practices and procedures among the different races. Thank you. Sullivan/ Hi, I'm Adam Sullivan. I submitted the question about the special response team, um, and I just wanted to follow up, um, with a brief comment. Um, as everyone's aware, the conventional wars in the Middle East are winding down. Um, because of that the federal govenmient has a ton of equipment they don't need, and they're willing to make that available to police forces, un, for free, uh, with some ... uh, some surcharges involved, and so that equipment is coming here. We're going to have assault rifles and body armor, um, and things that the military calls something else, but you and I, if we saw them on the street, we'd call them a tank. Um, those things are coming back to the United States and they are going to end up in police departments, like ours, um, and I think it's really This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forwn Page 5 important before we get that, uh, that deluge of new equipment in Iowa, in our neighborhoods, that we have really strong rules for when that equipment is going to be used. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the event that happened in Ankeny earlier this year, but um, if you see the footage, I think it's troubling! I think these are ... these look like, you know, military -style men, urn, breaking into a home, um, and it's over... it was over credit card fraud, for people who didn't even live in that home, and so for me, I don't think that's an appropriate response. And so I think we need to set up really clear rules for when we're going to use a military -style response. Um, I do appreciate the response from the Department, um, but that list of instances, um, where that equipment might be used seems really, really broad to me. I can think of very, very few situations that wouldn't fall under one of those, um, categories. So, I just think it's an issue to ... to be aware of, and I do appreciate you, uh, hearing my thoughts. Treloar/ Thank you. Jensen/ We're having some microphone issues so Joe and I are going to share a microphone here. Landry/ Good evening (several responding) the Reverend Doyle Landry. Um, Positive Vision. I think it's serendipity that I come behind Mr. Sullivan, simply because sometimes people who have been born and raised here, who can see things clearly, um, nothing good grows in denial. I say that as University Alunmus. I say that as someone who, um, would prefer to light a candle versus curse the darkness, but if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, you can't call it a chicken. At that being said, how honest are we being about race? I mean, at the end of the day, race can be enlightening or it can be threatening. But it's our choice, and I say that repeatedly because some of these same review board, I don't know your age, but it's like same conversation, year after year, and we just get older and more deeper in denial, and unfortunately, you can see with wave of violence, not just internationally but locally, that people get tired of being ignored. There's a price to pay when people are marginalized, and deemed invisible. I say that because on the record, I would like to think that the efforts that are being made by the Police Department, I'm not an enemy or one of those individuals who believe that police officers are enemies. I have had individuals, urn, that come through my Positive Vision program who, at a young age, decided that they wanted to be officers, both, uh, young men and young women who are members of police force, um, police departments around the country. But this is Iowa City, and it ... again, at the end of the day, the same reoccurring theme about race and law enforcement, we're just getting older, and so it would be ideal to see concrete solutions which work. Um, sometimes it means being uncomfortable with individuals who we have gone to, elementary and middle and high school and maybe even the university, either Kirkwood, the University of Iowa, but racism is racism, and wrong is wrong. So ... are we going to continue to get older with the same comments and just remove the dates in terms of 1972, 1992, 2014, or is it going to take a tragedy where what might grow out of misunderstanding between ... law abiding citizens who pay taxes and... officers? Cause all you have to do is look in other cities and see what grew out of a misunderstanding. Eventually large forums where people are pointing fingers. It's coming to that point here in Iowa City. I say that as a former full - This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page 6 time journalist. I say that as ... (clears throat) someone who has lost, um ... younger people who, again, wrong place at the wrong time. I say that because it's Iowa City and I don't know if it's 2014 or again, 1982. So are we going to be honest about what really needs to be done in terms of the power that you have as a board to effect change, because the matter of racial disparities, that's a fact that can be pulled. Once you have a fact, what do you do with it? What do you really do with it, and again, there's a discomfort in confronting individuals who you may have known all your life, and I'm not just saying you as a board, but this is Iowa City where everybody knows everybody, but as I remind people, Richie and Fonzie are dead. So, with that being said, it would be ideal if there was concrete timelines in terms of this is what will be, uh, enforced, in terms of looking at what other cities of similar populations have done, with regard to effecting change. It's not about pointing fingers. It's not about casting blame, but again, at the end of the day, racism is racism and it's easy to pull it out around January 15"', 16111, 17t", 18t°, depending what day Martin Luther King birthday comes along, but we go back to our normalcy that's increasingly discomforting, especially for children who have grown up in this environment, who are now young adults, and they're talking the same problems when people my age were children were younger. So that is my suggestion, because again, at the end of the day, should tragedy occur, this room would be overflowing with a lot of anger and we're getting to that point, as it gets wanner. Thank you very much! Jensen/ Thank you! Fulwiley/ Hello! My name is Terrell Fulwiley. That's T-e-r-r-e-1-1. Last name F-u-1-w-i-l-e-y. I've been in Iowa City for about 12 years. I've been a transient for eight years in this city. I love this city and I want to, um, gotta couple different issues, and it's really... Jensen/ ...could we just ask you to (both talking) Fulwiley/ ... sign in, okay, cool! All right (both talking) Jensen/ ...hated to interrupt you... Fulwiley/ All right, cool! Yeah, um ... I know more people in this state than anybody here. Um, I meet a lot of students. I talk to `em about they problems when they out there drinking. They meet me, they celebrate, they have full, they go home. This is every night for years. Um, the problem I have, the issue, is that ... I ... it's a lot of ... it's urbanism in this state, and there's more urban style caning to this state, and it's a lot of people listening to the hip -hop in the clubs here and ... we organized it on the internet. That's what I took it upon myself to organize the events for hip -hop in the state of Iowa. And that's caused me a lot of problems here. My hip -hop page end up getting more likes and more attention than, um, from the community Iowa, than the University of Iowa newspaper. And um, as part of my understanding, and like there's a lot of stuff I don't want to talk about, but I'm going to open up and talk about it. (mumbled) mechanism, which is a form of anthropology if you understand that, and it alerted certain authorities to how much attention that I'm gettin' out here. Um, I don't steal. I don't sell drugs. Nothing like that. Um, so ... there synthetic in this neighborhood. It's everywhere, and I'm a very This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page 7 educated person. I got great references. Had ... teachers (mumbled) me to take courses at the University of Iowa for business. I'm always studying. So I want to point out that... most people would see the synthetic out there and think, hey, this is happening because of the homeless out here and that issue, and um, I want to bring up that me and a lot of people that's dealing with me as far as being, um, administrator of this page and (mumbled) administrator of that knows that hey like ... hey, Terrell, this is really about you. This whole synthetic epidemic you ... they want to now if you got ADHD or anything like that, and I want to point out something that happened last summer is, on June 7°i y'all had the Art Fest. It was the June, ran, 5"', 6"', and 7"', if I think... sure it was. City granted me a permit to have, um, event in downtown Iowa City and um, so (mumbled) before said event, they contacted me, the Arts Fest people, like hey, what are you doing? Your event page is getting too big. How did you get a permit? I'm like I had a permit; they like can you fax me your permit; I'm like ... fax me your permit. And so I went to the City; we talked to them. They said, hey, we made a mistake. We gave you a permit to have a show down here and they had a Arts Fest, and I said, hey, it's all on the internet. Not only the event page there, but the word of mouth is everywhere, cause that's how we promote. So they say, okay. We're going to give you the Chauncey Swan right here, and I'm like ... the people that's comin' to see us really don't want to be across the street from the Police Station. Is there anything else you can do? They say okay, you can have the College Green Park. They wanted to work with me, cause they knew they made a mistake. So once we got to the College Green Park, the issue... they said, okay, well now you gotta pay for the permit. You gotta pay for the generators for electricity. I said hey, we ... that ... we didn't (mumbled) with this so ... came down here and um, I let everybody know, hey, we um ... I let the City know, trey, even though we gonna alert people that this event's not going on, they're still going to show up while y'all got all these tents here. They took it the wrong way and um, so me being in the street, Sunday came, and that was the last day of the, um, Arts Fest. So, uur, they let us have a little event out here, no disturbances. They said, hey went great, went smooth, y'all didn't disturb nothing. We had a little group. We did it, and it was (mumbled) Well Sunday I went to the Salvation Army and I came back downtown. When I got down here that day, this was June 9°1 I'm think. They had the whole street taped off, blocked off from here, around this whole block, and as soon as I walked up here I said whatever this is, they gonna blame me for something! So, it was a bomb threat on the corner, and um ... later that night the authorities came up to me. The detective was like can we talk to you, and I want it on record that they took a saliva sample from me that day. They said .... cause I was like sure, you know, I didn't want no problems. I'm like sure. I know I'm not doing nothing. So, uur... with my studies, I'm looking at how ... now a lot of people don't understand this. I do a lot of studies, and it says that for ADAD, adult deficit attention disorder, that the University just had a study for this, and they would collect a saliva sample from you, cause wasn't anybody else on the internet understand. They like, Terrell, why would they take a saliva sample from you to study HDHD. So when I saw the study on I-IDHD and they was asking for a saliva sample, with the study they do, I was like that's it right there! They was testing me or something to see if I got ADHD. Now, I never graduated high school or any of that, but I constantly study, you know, cause I want to get into business. And urn, make a lot of money in media. And that's the problem I think that I brought to these people here because they look at my page as being This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page 8 arbitrary for a guy in the street having such a big influence throughout this university, through the community, so and that's just one point and I'm like, um, like there's a lot going on here so ... with the Herky statutes is what I'm going to bring up is ... one of the Herky statues on the corner of, uni, Washington and Dubuque, on the north end of the ... the ped mall is within 15-feet, and I brought this up the other day, is within 15-feet of a known drug area, where they congregate and they smoke synthetic marijuana and they sell synthetic marijuana, and I brought this up and I've got a lot of, um, got made a petition. I got over a hundred signatures here within five hours yesterday, within ... I got these signatures within 25-feet of the statute. This past Sunday we had a problem with ... the guy out there that goes by the name of Frank with (mumbled) motorcycles took a can of Campbell soup and put it on top of the Herky head. So we get over there, we like, hey, what is this? And then when nobody say nothing, there was over 10 people over there, within 15 feet of it, wouldn't none of 'ern say nothing. Once we tried to remove the ... the Campbell's can off it, he got really aggressive. He keeps a knife on `em. The police know this. They got constant calls over the last three years for hint, and um, there was a lot of parents there, trying to take pictures. Like you can't put this here, so I'm, um, get the petition I want them to put the Herky statute in a safer place for parents and kids to take a picture, or they would ask for them to remove the two benches that's right there at the north end of the pedestrian mall. I got, uh, even Connie Champion signed this, um, one of the guys that owns the men's wear, till, store over there. I think that's, um, Clinton Street; he signed it, and unn... I'm just trying to find out how with this whole epidemic going on, with the synthetic out here how can I be safe, knowing I'm not a drug dealer, um, I'm not robbing nobody. You won't find no cases like that in my record, and unn, things like that. But, my concern, and with my family and my friends concern, it's like, hey, Terrell, most of this is guides towards you. This is kind of protocol for people that's gettin' too big out here, so I want to know what type of procedures I can take to protect my interests in like hip -hop and ... in this community because we took all events in the state and we put it on one page and made it easier for people to see. So not only am I getting a backlash from, uh, for what I'm doing and promotions from rich people where the artist is rappin', I'm getting a backlash from everybody from the poor people doing synthetic when I fight it. A couple last summer I held a sign out there said don't give the people out here money to buy synthetic marijuana, and they may have read it, you know, and a lot of people was coming up to me. My internet page is pretty big, and unn, I'm always communicating with people. So I just want to ... the City to understand like that ... that's what I do. That's what 1 want my job to be, so understand I'm not here trying to fight you guys but ... I don't want a war being started around me, them accusing me of things and ... You know, it's a lot of blacklisting going on with me, even with the clubs out here and things like that. So, I gotta be very careful and document everything that's going on in my life, even with the police down here. The people that go to the synthetic stores. I gotta have all that documented in case I pass away or something, cause I don't want these people belittling me here, the community, the police, like he's just some bum out here, um, and when I'm working really hard to try to, um, provide for my family, make sure that, uh, somebody here at this university actually invest in media because there's a lot of people listening to hip -hop in this community, and they need to understand that that's a huge influence (mumbled) that everybody communicate here, and so I want people to know when it was This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014. May 13, 2014 Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board Annual Community Forum Page 9 just in the newspaper that the Cheba Hut was talking about, hey, it's affecting our business. We got synthetic. People doing synthetic coming here. It not only affects the people there, but it affects unknowingly affects the whole community. You know, people that's having dinner. It's affectin' them. They just don't know it yet. It's going to affect and it's going to keep snowballing. So I want to find out how can I go about protecting myself and be out here and, you know, do I suppose to be quiet about the synthetic, cause it seems like everybody is. I'm, uh, really is there an anonymous class? People seem to walk past. There's no like an alcoholics anonymous class, there's none for the synthetic. There's nowhere for these people to go. There's nothing for them to ... no class for them or nothing. So I'm like, hey, is there anything that the City can do to cover their butt with this, because them knowingly... or the University, knowingly putting a statue that close to a known drug area is a problem, and that is kind of...emits a lot of guilt. So that's why I say I talked to `em and say hey, I'm going to wait a couple days before I go public with my papers, with my documents, they ... they gonna be protected in case something happens to me, you know, I study MK Ultra and a lot of things that go on throughout the country and I'm sorry to say that, but I study a lot because I feel like my life is in danger, from me investing in media, and um ... so ... I just want that to be on record, so in case something happens to me you guys know that I'm definitely looking to be protected, um, I'm looking at all the stuff that's going on out here, cause I've been out here and I've seen the changes and I see how it's affecting the people so I think the city should actually... whatever they doing, they should have some type of measure to help the people that don't want to go out like that, because it is an addiction that people are facing, the synthetic marijuana. You know, it's a lot of people targeting them, which is unfair and um, that's all I want to be (mumbled) awareness to. Jensen/ Thank you, Terrell. Treloar/ Anyone else? If we have no one else who would like to speak, I think we're going to go ahead and adjourn. Thank you all for your comments, uh... make a motion to adjourn. Adjournment: Salih/ Moved. Jensen/ Second. Treloar/ Motion made and seconded. All in favor. Opposed same sign. We're adjourned. Thank you so much! Jensen/ Thank you! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City Citizens Police Review Board annual community forum of May 13, 2014.