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Home My WebLink About04-23-18 Community ForumAGENDA COMMUNITY POLICE REVIEW BOARD COMMUNITY FORUM APRIL 23, 2018, 6:00 PM IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY, RM A 123 South Linn Street, IC ITEM NO. 1 CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL ITEM NO. 2 INTRODUCTION OF BOARD ITEM NO. 3 CONSIDER MOTION TO ACCEPT CORRESPONDENCE AND/OR DOCUMENTS ITEM NO. 4 -STATE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BY CHIEF MATHERLY - MEET THE NEW DOWNTOWN LIAISON OFFICER COLIN FOWLER ITEM NO, 5 PUBLIC DISCUSSION WITH COMMUNITY POLICE REVIEW BOARD ITEM NO. 6 ADJOURNMENT iA COMMUNITY POLICE REVIEW BOARD COMMUNITY FORUM The Community Police Review Board will be holding a Community Forum for the purpose of hearing views on the policies, practices and procedures of the Iowa City Police Department. State of the Police Department by Chief Matherly Meet the new Downtown Liaison Officer Colin Fowler QUESTIONS & COMMENTS: Send your questions or comments you'd like addressed at the forum to the following by Monday, April 9, 2018: Please include full name and address. (All correspondence is public) CPRB City of Iowa City 410 E Washington St, 52240 DATE Or e-mail to CPRB staff: christine-olney@iowa-city.org Cm� IOWA CI Date: 03/2012018 Contact: Chris Olnev, Administrative Secretary Phone: 319-356-5043 Community invited to attend Community Police Review Board forum The Community Police Review Board (CPRB) will host its annual Community Forum to hear views on Iowa City Police Department policies, practices and procedures. The community is invited to submit questions and comments that will be used during the event. The forum will begin at 6 p.m., Monday, April 23, 2018, at the Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A,123 S. Linn St. Police Chief Jody Matherly and Downtown Liaison Officer Colin Fowler will also attend the forum and be available to meet and talk with participants. Questions and comments are due by Monday, April 9, and can be emailed to christine-olney iowa- ci �.o or mailed to CPRB at City Hall, 410 E. Washington St., Iowa City, Iowa 52240. Be sure to include your full name and address as all submissions are public. The board will try to address all questions and comments it receives. The forum will also be recorded and later shown on City+ Channel 4. You can view programming and the schedule at www.ci ychannel4.com. °�� IOWA CITY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 0411812018 Contact: Chris Olney, Administrative Secretary Phone:319-356-5043 Public invited to Community Police Review Board forum The Community Police Review Board will host its annual Community Forum to hear views on Iowa City Police Department policies, practices and procedures. The forum will begin at 6 p.m., Monday, April 23, 2018, at the Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A, 123 S. Linn St. Police Chief Jody Matherly and Downtown Liaison Officer Colin Fowler will also attend the forum and be available to meet and talk with participants. The forum will also be recorded and later shown on City Channel 4- View programming and the schedule at www.citychannel4.com. Program Schedule You can find us on Mediacom channel 4. If you change channels on your TV (instead of a converter box), you'll find us on 118-2. Iowa City Update: Police Community Forum Iowa City Update is a weekly video featuring City of Iowa City projects, programs and events. Topics this week include a community forum with the police, a climate simulation event and more. Police Community Forum Don't miss your chance to provide feedback and ask questions about the Iowa City Police Department Iowa City Update - Your source for Iowa City news and information. Runtime: 00:03:00 This program will be cablecast on: Thursday, April 19 @ 04:25 PM Thursday, April 19 @ 06:41 PM Thursday, April 19 @ 08:48 PM Friday, April 20 @ 12:56 AM Friday, April 20 @ 02:26 PM Friday, April 20 @ 05:17 PM Friday, April 20 @ 11:55 PM Saturday, April 21 @ 11:56 AM Sunday, April 22 @ 02:11 AM Sunday, April 22 @ 08:26 AM Sunday, April 22 @ 11:56 PM COMMUNITY POLICE REVIEW BOARD COMMUNITY FORUM April 23, 2018 PLEASE PRINT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS ON THE OPPOSITE SHEET WHEN YOU ADDRESS THE BOARD NAME: ADDRESS: C1 In Final/Approved COMMUNITY POLICE REVIEW BOARD COMMUNITY FORUM April 23, 2018, 6:00 P.M. IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY 123 South Linn Street, IC CALL TO ORDER: Chair Orville Townsend called the meeting to order at 6:00 P.M. MEMBERS PRESENT: Monique Green, Donald King, David Selmer MEMBERS ABSENT: Royceann Porter STAFF PRESENT: Legal Counsel Patrick Ford and Staff Chris Olney, Kellie Fruehling. INTRODUCTION OF THE BOARD AND BRIEF OVERVIEW CONSIDER MOTION TO ACCEPT CORRESPONDENCE AND/OR DOCUMENTS None to accept. STATE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BY CHIEF MATHERLY Chief Matherly spoke about the department and the community working together. He also reported on number of officers, average calls for service, number of arrests per year as well as police training. MEET THE NEW DOWNTOWN LIAISON OFFICER, COLIN FOWLER Officer Colin Fowler gave a summary of the numerous responsibilities that the Downtown Liaison Officer position includes and how it relates to the community. He spoke about how the police department interacts with diverse groups within the City such as the University students, business owners and the homeless population. PUBLIC DISCUSSION The following individuals appeared before the CPRB: Harry Olmstead 1255 Shannon Drive, Iowa City Joe Coulter 1818 N. Dodge Street, Iowa City Megan Alter 936 Aspen Court, Iowa City Angela Winnike 1037 College Street, Iowa City ADJOURNMENT Meeting adjourned at 6:56 P.M. COMMUNITY POLICE REVIEW BOARD ATTENDANCE RECORD YEAR 2017-2018 (Meeting Date) TERM 7/11 7/31 8/8 8/29 9/12 10/10 11/14 12/7 1/9/18 2/13/18 3/19/18 4117118 4123118 NAME EXP. Mazahir 7/1/21 X X X X X X X O/E --- --- ---- --- ------ Salih Donald 7/1/19 X X X X X X X X O X X X X King Monique 7/1/20 X O/E X X X X X X X X X X X Green Orville 7/1/20 X X X X X X X X X X X X X Townsend Royceann 7/1/21 ---- ---- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- --- ---- X O/E X O/E Porter David 7/1/21 X O/E X X O X O/E X X X X X X Selmer KEY: X = Present O = Absent O/E = Absent/Excused NM = No meeting --- = Not a Member May 21, 2018 Iowa City City Council City of Iowa City 410 Washington St Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Re: Community Police Review Board Annual Community Forum The Iowa City Community Police Review Board (CPRB) held the annual Community Forum on Monday, April 23, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. Board Members at the forum were Orville Townsend Sr. (Chair), Donald King (Vice -Chair), Monique Green and David Selmer. Royceann Porter was absent. Staff present were; Legal Counsel Patrick Ford, Staff Chris Olney and Kellie Fruehling. Guest speakers were Iowa City Police Chief Jody Matherly and Community Liaison Officer Colin Fowler. The forum opened with roll call and an introduction of board members. Chair Townsend read a brief summary of the board's duties and responsibilities. The Chair then introduced Chief Matherly. Chief Matherly presented an overview of the police department which includes four new officers for a total of 86 sworn officers. Chief Matherly also spoke on the department and community working together to reduce the crime rate and number of arrests. Chief Matherly introduced the new Community Liaison Officer Colin Fowler. Chief Matherly noted the addition of a nighttime Liaison Officer in the near future. Officer Fowler spoke on his responsibilities and how it relates to the community. He also spoke on the interactions of the police department with diverse groups, business owners and homeless population. Chair Townsend then opened the forum to the public. The following appeared: Harry Olmstead who addressed vehicles blocking handicap sidewalk ramps and need for enforcement, Joe Coulter who spoke about opioids and fentanyl crisis in the US and local reactions, Megan Alter spoke about reestablishing trust between the community and the police, Angela Winnike spoke of her position as night mayor and its relationship with the night businesses. At the conclusion of comments from the public, the Chair thanked the audience for their input and announced that there were informational pamphlets on the back table. Meeting was adjourned at 6:56 p.m. Orville Townsend, Chair Community Police Review Board (Transcriptions are available at ICgov.org) Page 1 Community Police Review Board Community Forum Members Present: (Chair) Members Absent: Staff Present: Monique Green, Donald King, David Selmer, Orville Townsend, Sr. Royceann Porter Legal Counsel Patrick Ford. Staff Chris Olney, Kellie Fruehling Others Present: Police Chief Jody Matherly, Officer Colin Fowler Call to Order & Roll Call: Introduction of Board: Townsend/ Good evening. Why don't we call the meeting to order. I will start off with the roll call. Green/ Green present. King/ King present. Selmer/ Selmer present. Townsend/ Townsend present. And note that Porter is absent. Okay, um, start off I'm gonna give a brief summary of the, uh, C.... CPRB and basically it was established as a tool to, uh, allow citizens to .... to share complaints, uh, concerns they had related to treatment by our police officers. Currently the board, the process is there's a complaint. The, uh, complaint is on file. The Police Chief basically will look at all the information and he will make a decision as to whether treatment was fair or if there was an issue with unfair treatment. He writes his final report, and that report is submitted to the Police Review Board. We look at it, uh, each.... each of us have access to information, which we look at all the information and then we as a board will basically, uh..... come to a decision and write a written report, and that is submitted to the City Council. The positive thing about the process is that (unable to understand) which the public can feel assured that all efforts are bein' made for fair treatment and to look at issues from all sides. Uh, havin' public.... individuals from the public involved in the process is a great asset to assure that. Uh, lot of people feel concerned about policing, police policing themselves, uh, this is not the issue because of this board. The fact that we are citizens and we are involved in the process does bring a totally different element that assures that all issues and all sides are bein' looked at fairly. Um .... with that I'd say, uh, if any of the board members have anything they'd like to add to that. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 2 Community Police Review Board Community Forum Semler/ That's a good summary. Townsend/ Okay! Semler/ There are, uh, some details and information also in the pamphlets if you haven't received it (mumbled) front. Um, we'd encourage you to go ahead and review those. Consider Motion to Accept Correspondence and/or Documents: Townsend/ Okay, uh, I will remind you that this is a public forum, which is public recorded, and bein' recorded for rebroadcast on City Channel 4. At this point I would entertain a motion to accept correspondence or any documents that have been presented. King/ So moved. Green/ Second. Townsend/ It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor. Against. The ayes have it. Okay. All right, now we're going to, um.....move down to, uh, introduction of our Police Chief. Uh, Chief Matherly, we'll turn it over to you. State of the Police Department by Chief Matherly / Meet the new Downtown Liaison Officer Colin Fowler: Matherly/ All right, thank you very much! Can everybody hear me? All right! Um, this portion is just to kind of allow me to talk a little bit about the Police Department, uh, some of our latest initiatives, uh, kind of the ... the state of the Police Department, if you will. Um, you're lucky, you're gettin' it before the City Council does, but we have a .... a Councilman here, Susan Mims, and uh, Mazabir Salih, so a couple Councilpeople are here, and uh, then we have some folks from the, um, Human Rights Commission and .... and other folks from various committees with the City. So welcome everybody! Uh, I wanna tell you about the .... the structure of the Police Department itself. Some of you are familiar with it, some not so much. Uh, we have 80, uh, 82 sworn police officers, but we're swearing in four additional officers this Wednesday at 1:00 at City Hall. So if you're interested in watching that, um, we'll be doing it then this Wednesday. But that'll take us to 86. Um, now two of those positions are grant positions, so those will.... will be gone through attrition in the next couple years because they're grant funded. Um, but.... but that's a fair amount of officers for a city of 74,000 folks. So, um, I will tell you with that number though it keeps us very busy. We rely heavily on mutual aid through the This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 3 Community Police Review Board Community Forum University of Iowa Police Department to assist us, uh, the Sheriff's Office, and State Patrol, as well as surrounding agency. We have a very good working relationship with those agencies and so we work as one really. Uh, when we're busy they come help us, and when they're busy we go help them. Uh, so we can do more with.... with a little less money, which is important to the taxpayers. Uh, for calls for service, uh, we run 70,000 calls for service per year. Uh, now, uh, this year we were 700 calls for service, that is in 17, 700 calls for service fewer than we were in 2016. So .... when you're talkin' those kind of numbers, it was fairly, uh, this... fairly much level. Uh, for crime we only went up 1% in 2017 in overall crime, which is good! We .... we don't like to see a big spike in crime. Uh, we'd love to see a reduction but crime stats are somewhat like bell bottom jeans — they....they fade in and our, depending on what's going on with society and with reporting of those crimes. So when crime levels stay level we .... we ..... we like that. We'd certainly like to see a reduction, but .... but again, it's better than ... than raising. What we did see an improvement in in 2017 was a reduction in violent crime. If you look at just the FBI violent crime statistics, which is homicide, robbery, uh, forcible assault, sexual assault, and then aggravated assaults, we only had a reduction of 4%, but if you throw in other sex crimes like forcible fondling and some of those, we actually had a reduction of 12% for violent crime, uh, and we really like to see a reduction in .... in those numbers. It's one thing for your car to get broken into, but it's another thing when your .... when your personal well-being is attacked, and so we ... we certainly like to make sure that we're focusing on reduction in violent crime first, and then the .... the property crimes, uh, as well. Um, but that reduction of violent crime was big for us. Simultaneously it's important for the Police Department to be fair in our enforcement and consistent in our enforcement, uh, when we are making the attempts to reduce crime. That is, we have to get rid of the .... the crime race association and connection. We have to make sure that we're, um, being fair and ... and, um, there aren't disparity and disproportionality in our traffic stops when it comes to contacts with minorities, uh, and we have to make sure that we're administering procedural justice out there. That is we're being fair on the stops, we're listening to folks, we're being patient, and being respectful and treating people, all people, with dignity, no matter what the circumstances. When we fail to do that, that's where... folks like the CPRB can come in handy. They can take a look at our incidents, our processes, um, our contacts with citizens and .... and community members and .... and, uh, help guide us through those murky waters. Uh, our officers are human. They're not robots. They do make mistakes. But 1 will tell you they're well trained, and so their second nature is to rely on that training and be as professional as they can, and we expect them to do that and we hold `em accountable for that. And the CPRB holds us accountable for that as well. So it's .... it's very important, uh, to have that relationship and that level of transparency in everything that we do. Urn .... uh, for ... for numbers for crime, we have about, when we're lookin' at total crimes, and this.....this doesn't count the alcohol possessions and things of that nature, but we have about 4,500 This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 4 Community Police Review Board Community Forum crimes per year that we deal with. Um, so again 70,000 calls for service, that is 70,000 times we're out responding to calls and stopping cars and maybe writing a parking ticket, but 4,500 of those are the actual thefts, robberies, criminal mischiefs, arsons, whatever crimes there are, 4,500. And again, 1 % raise in that. So we stayed fairly level throughout the year. Um, we do 12,000 traffic stops a year. That's a very high number. Uh, to give you sort of a barometer for that, the City of Davenport, which is much larger than us, does about 5,000 traffic stops per year. So we ... we are very busy in stopping cars. I will tell you my phone rings very often in Iowa City, to report speeding vehicles, reckless vehicles, vehicles running stop signs, and I think it's because we have the University here, Kirkwood. We're pedestrian -friendly, we .... we encourage folks to be out on their bikes, and so we expect motorists to obey the laws and not hurt anybody, and that's why I believe because of the high amount of. ... of non-tra.... uh, vehicular traffic, um, that we have, the .... the pedestrians and bicyclists, the people do call that in, and so we're starting to focus heavily, and I will tell you the City Council is focused heavily on traffic safety, be it through engineering, uh, issues, uh, to .... to help, uh, slow drivers or enforcement efforts or technology, uh, we need to look at all of that to keep folks safe, and so we're working hand -in -hand with other departments in the City, um, our Traffic Engineers, Street Department, and the guidance of the City Council to make sure we're on top of that. Uh, it's very important for everybody. Uh, we're working very hard to reduce disproportional ....disproportionality minority contact. A show of hands, how many did not know that we measure ourselves for .... for DMC, disproportionately minority contact, that you had no idea we were even doing that. Okay. So it is well- known. We've done it for 15, 20 years. Uh, most recently in the, um, 2010 through now, 2018, uh, we look at that annually. We look at the numbers on.....on disproportionality. Um, are there disparities? The answer's yes. Uh, do we have work to do? The answer's yes. Uh, but we strive to work very hard to keep that reduction going, and not just the amount of traffic stops, but the outcomes of the stops too. When we stop folks, um, are we asking more blacks to search their car than we are whites? Uh, are we, uh, writing more rickets to blacks than we are whites? Are we, urn .... um, arresting more blacks than we are whites? And those measurements are also, uh, counted as well. Um ... once I stop that car, I call it low -hanging fruit. We need to be extremely fair and consistent. Now I may not know what color a person is when I stop the car, and if you've ever done a ride - along with us, or... even without doin' a ride -along. At night when you're followin' a car, try to figure out the race of the person driving, the skin color of the person driving is not easy to do. Um, but by and large, um.....just pure numbers, that....that should be a one-to-one ratio, correct? It should be no disparity, no disproportionality. But we haven't gotten there yet, but it's even easier for us to measure and control when we stop somebody to say, `Don't write somebody, uh, of color more than you would, uh, a .... a white person.' That's a pretty easy decision, and whether it's, uh, you know, an implicit bias thing or the officer thinks that they're gonna find more, that's a .... that's an This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 5 Community Police Review Board Community Forum uneducated, uh, move on our part for that to happen, and we need to make sure that our officers are well trained and well educated to know that, um, if you stop a person for their taillight, and they're a person of color, and you search their car more than you do a white person's, you're not gonna find any more contraband than you do the white person. The stats are real clear. So stop doin' it! Um, we've sent that message very strong to our officers, and we're gonna see improvements in that area. So it's important for us to .... while we're dealing with disproportionality, in ... in the name of fairness, that we concentrate on education and training for the officers and uh, I'll tell you how important that is. We've gone from 200 hours total training in 2016 to over 1,100 hours in 2017 in that area since I've been here. And I got here in January of 17. So I've put a lot of emphasis on that and we will continue to do that. Uh, then the second thing is, uh, our deployment of resources. You know, we're not deploying resources and trying to reduce crime, uh, by targeting, uh, certain communities, communities of color. We need to target crime trends and address the problem where it stands to reduce especially violent crime, as I mentioned. And the other thing that we're doing too is to, um, improve our community outreach. Uh, community policing is, uh, one of the pillars of the 21 `t century, uh, policing that President Obama had put into place, and uh, that means getting out and earning the trust and .... and the legitimacy of the community, to let them know that, uh....Sir Robert Peel said, uh, `The public is the police, and the police is the public,' and so, uh, we need to make sure that ... that folks, uh, appreciate what we do, understand what we do, respect what we do, and trust that we're doing the right thing. Uh, and so continually contact... continual contact with the public; in formal settings like our Citizens Police Academy and National Night Out and ... and the Hate Crimes Public Forum we just did, and then informal, um, as well. Again that procedural justice — every time we come into contact with folks, whether we're meeting them in the ped mall or we're, um, on a traffic stop with them, that they're treated with dignity and respect. So those are the things that we're workin' on, uh, for the disproportionality portion. Um.....with that, let me introduce Colin Fowler. So Officer Fowler .... is our, um, new, I say new. He's not really new. It's been several months now, but downtown police officer. So, uh.... David Schwindt was the officer before him. Lot of folks called him Officer Friendly, but he works, uh, quite often with Angela, from the Downtown District, and uh, and some of the downtown businesses to improve quality of. ... of life downtown, quality of, urn .... of the business community downtown, and the idea is to enhance everybody's experience down here. Uh, I mentioned 70,000 calls for service. The downtown district is our number one calls for service, 12,000 calls for service each year for the downtown district. So, compared to the second district is like 5,000 in certain neighborhoods. So that tells you how busy we are down here. When you're talkin' numbers that big, we need to focus on that because there's a lot of activity down here, between residences, the University, the businesses, um, everything that's going on, so .... very important. So I'm gonna give him This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 6 Community Police Review Board Community Forum the .... the floor here in just a minute to talk a little bit about what he does and what some of his goals are. Fowler/ Thank you. I'm Colin Fowler and took over the liaison spot late last year from Officer Schwindt. He's moved onto the data driven justice project so he's still around, just not seen very often. Before I took over his position, I worked in the downtown bike patrol for about five years. So you may have seen me down there. I often get recognized. Um, so I took over for his position. I already have a .... a good understanding of the issues that were downtown, the people that were down there, the transients, the students, uh, and a lot of business owners. Some....one of the fun and challenging parts of my job is I try and make the downtown, specifically the Northside, the ped mall area, uh, all those different groups of people trying to use the same footprint, everyone tryin' to get their own enjoyment out of it. So it's challenging and it's fun. In the winter, a lot of my job shifts to homeless outreach. The homeless that we see downtown, uh, during the warm months suddenly have to get inside at night, uh, otherwise it's dangerous. I getta work with the homeless an awful lot. I inherited Officer Schwindt's big thing was the `sock police.' So I have a massive drawer full of warm socks and hats and scarves that I carry around with me when I'm on patrol and I give `em out, which gets me some teasing from my co-workers, but I can take it, it's not too bad. It's really rewarding though. Also since I work with the homeless so much, I'm involved in the new, uh, Housing First project (mumbled) Cross Park. (mumbled) recognize people from groundbreaking (mumbled) that's really exciting to me and since I've known the homeless for so long, uh, hopefully I can .... the people that are most at risk and need housing the most get the top of the list. Uh, if you have any questions I'm always downtown. Usually have the bright yellow shirt, I look like a .... a walking highlighter and um, I also have a City - issued cell phone if you have any questions too. Matherly/ Let me add one thing to that too. One of the positions that I talked about that we're adding is going to be a .... a downtown officer in the evening hours, uh, because he takes off around 5 or 6 at night, as Schwindt did. Um, and talking to the Nighttime Mayor, Angela, and Nancy from the Downtown District, some of the businesses, and .... and my officers, you know, we really need a downtown officer during those evening hours. So the City Council supported us in, uh, hiring somebody to do that, and also spend half their time out into the neighborhoods too. One of the problems with the .... with the neighborhood response unit for loud party patrol they call it, is, uh, a timely response. So this officer would double as that as well. Um, if there's loud party calls going in ... in the neighborhood areas, which generally circle right around the downtown area, uh, to the most ... for the most part. Gonna be .... he or she will be available for a quick response, uh, and not delayed. Um, as we talk to our, some of our neighborhood, um, folks in .... in the Neighborhood Support Division of the City, they said that's one of the biggest problems This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 7 Community Police Review Board Community Forum — delayed response to those calls. So we wanna enhance that. So this person will be working hand -in -hand with Angela, identifying issues, and identifying ways that we can improve the quality of. ... of, uh, the experience of the downtown area. We're excited about that position. You should see that right around July is when we'll get that goin'. So I just wanted to add that. Townsend/ I had a question, uh, the sub -station we have (mumbled) created, uh, what's your feelings about that? Do you feel it's gettin' the results that we wanted? Matherly/ Yes, and thank you cause I was supposed to bring that up and I forgot (laughs) He's keepin' me goin' ! Um, how many here did not know that we had a sub -station in the southeast side? Over by the .... the, where K-Mart was located. Okay. Um, you know, it's in that plaza near .... is it Stuff (someone speaking from audience) Stuff Etc., in that area right off Highway 6, uh, behind Taco Bell and stuff. So .... the sub -station, uh, has been in existence for, uh, two or three years now, and we're using it more than we ever have. Uh, we've assigned Henri Harper, our Community Outreach Assistant, who's a civilian position, but wears a uniform. Drives a, one of the white pickup trucks that has markings on it, and he works hand -in -hand with the schools. He works hand -in -hand, uh, with, um, community members, does a lot of public outreach, the formal programs we talked about, and he is actually housed down there now because we wanted more presence down there. We also have a couple of our outreach police officers working out of there too. Uh, Officer Cash is out of there part-time, and Officer Hayes is out of there full time. Uh, now they're always out doing their duties as well, but that's their home base. Uh, we're going to continue to enhance use of that. As a matter of fact, for National Night Out this year, which is the first Tuesday in August, um, we actually want to open the doors of the sub -station, have refresh.... some refreshments, and make that a focal point for National Night Out. Um, I was there for a Crime Stoppers' meeting the other day, and a gal needed assistance off to the east of us, and she ran over there for assistance, knowing that she could get help there. So important that people feel that there's a .... a place closer to them than havin' to come down here to deal with an issue. So, uh, we like that spot. Uh, we think it's important. I will tell you I would love to see a sub -station on the west side, uh, to serve some folks over in the Mormon Trek area. Um, you know, the ....these come at a cost, obviously. Uh, you know, I haven't approached City Council yet (laughter) but .... but we will certainly (laughter) we .... we will certainly, urn .... urn, keep ....I have talked with some landlords over there and, um, it's not impossible to do. So, um, but these can be very successful, uh.... we .... we put a TV in the sub -station because every night between about 4:30 and 6:00, um, there's kids that come and hang out with some of the officers and Henri and watch TV and just ... just get to know `em. So, that's the kind of environment that we wanna create, that ... that sense of, you know, um, fostering relationships with our .... with our youth and with ... with the This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 8 Community Police Review Board Community Forum neighborhoods. And I think something on the west side would be equally as important. So, um .... thanks for bringin' that up, Orville, and it's, uh, a .... those sub -stations are great and we wanna continue to enhance that experience. Townsend/ Okay, thank you, Chief. Okay, next we have a public discussion and community input. Um, an opportunity for you to come and share your concerns and speak. Uh, we would ask that, uh, when you do come up that first of all you sign in. Uh, that you speak into the mic and that you state your name, for public record and recording. So at this point the microphone is open. Public Discussion With Community Police Review Board: Olmstead/ Good evening. I want to first thank you all, being community volunteers of volunteering your time and being on the Police Review Board. It's a pleasure having committed citizens like this, and I do appreciate that. Townsend/ Harry, will you state your name. Olmstead/ You just did! (laughter) I'm Harry Olmstead. (laughs) Um, I had a couple concerns I want to, uh, mention. Um, one thing that's starting to happen in our community and I kind of believe it's more students than anybody, is cars blocking the, uh, what we call the curb ramps, those ramps that come off the sidewalk, and I ran into one this afternoon that was totally blocked. So I had to go out in the street to get around it. I did report it. But the problem is, is it's only across the crosswalk and so the fine is only $25. The curb cuts are required by ADA, and we are working on compliance with that, but I'd like to see, and I'm going to be directing a, uh, letter to the City Council, uh, that we raise the rate, uh, for those .... that are blocking curb cuts, uh, so that really has an impact, uh, $251 don't think's gonna have much impact and I think we need to let people know how important these are, because if it was at night, and with the poor lighting in this area, someone certainly could get killed, whatever. So I would hope that you would join me in directing a correspondence to City Council, uh, asking them to consider raising the rate. The second issue that I wanted to address, um, deals with safety, not only in our schools but in our community. We're seeing violence happening in communities throughout the United States. Today there was one in Canada, with a van that, uh, mowed over, uh, 10 people, I think six were killed. Um, I want to know what is being done to prevent having these type of violent acts occurring in our schools and in our community. Chief! Matherly/ Sure! Well, let's talk about the school first. Uh, we're on a couple of different committees with the, uh, Iowa City Community School District to address, uh, school violence. Uh, one of them is more reactive in nature, that is if something were to go This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 9 Community Police Review Board Community Forum down, uh, what are the .... what can they do about it, and so, uh, just as recently as Saturday, uh, where we had, uh.... uh, we talked ALICE training, uh, that is the training to either run, fight, or hide, uh, if an incident were to happen, and not just to the schools but also invited the parents and .... and students, voluntarily. Uh, we don't like to teach it right to the students. That can send the wrong message. Uh, it's really the schools' job to direct their students, but we do train the faculty and staff, uh, of the School District itself and when I say that, um, countywide, the whole School District has been trained in that, and so they keep their thumbs on that and we give them reassurance that, uh, if it were to happen, they'll.... their second nature will kick in, they'll know what to do to reduce the chance, um, of. ... of, uh, more deaths or more injuries. Uh, also looking at the school buildings themselves. Um, we have officers that are, um, certified in crime prevention by environmental design. I don't know if you're involved in that or not, but we've got a few officers that .... that are trained in that, and that's to look at the structure itself and make a determination of how we can make it safer, as simple as numbering the doors so when an event happens we don't say, well we're on the south side or a teacher says south side. Well what is the south side? What, door 6? Door 9? Door 10? You know, so it's clearly labeled. We all know which one we're talking about, and then also, um, the systems inside the school, be it security, video or whatever, um, certainly have .... have talked to `em about, you know, best cases for using those. So those systems are in place as well. Um, you know, any time that the school has a .... a problem with the student that they can't quite handle themselves, it's repetitive, it appears it could get violent, um, they don't hesitate to contact us. Uh, we respond, and uh....and assist `em with that. You know, our goal is not to put students in prison. It's not to, um, you know, to have the school a prison pipeline, if you will. It's to keep everybody sel... safe, and get that student help, and so we can sometimes do referrals, and the school does a great job with their counselors and their system as well, but .... but we can help them with that too, to keep everybody safe. Um, so those corn .... lines of communication are open, um, and we do the best we can with that. As far as the community itself, again, we focus on violent crime, uh, the ped mall shooting's a prime example. You know, um, that's something where, uh, you know, when that situation occurred, uh, a lot of the names involved weren't new to us, um, we were familiar with it, um, unfortunately things unfolded downtown where you couldn't have picked a worse night or worse area for that to happen, if it were to happen. Um, but the success there is we had a very quick response. We made arrests that night and those folks have been convicted and they're in prison that were held responsible. Uh, it's unfortunate that there were victims involved as well. Um, so we .... we have increased our intelligence database and try to make sure that we ... you know, if people are out doin' those violent crimes we've talked about — the aggravated assaults, the robberies, the .... the.....the, you know, murders, uh, we need to know who those folks are and, uh, we need to do something about it, and we're enhancing those databases, um, the best we can. And we do that so we can be .... so we This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 10 Community Police Review Board Community Forum don't have to do a shotgun effect. That is stop everything movin' and try to figure out who's doin' somethin'. So communication and, um, sharing of information, including whether federal and state partners in .... in area agencies is so important. Um, that takes the whodunit out of it and then lets us focus on, uh, reducing crime through contact with those folks. Olmstead/ Can I have one more quick question? We know the City Council has approved, uh, the redevelopment of the ped mall, but one of the problems on the ped mall that I have noticed over the last several years is vehicles, um, parking on the ped mall. Um, on Saturday there was a glass cleaning company that parked right on the side of the Library and was there three, four hours! Um, I hope there can be something done, because obviously the weight of those vehicles is what's also taking its toll on the ped mall, and with new ped mall coming, we certainly don't want to damage that. Matherly/ Yeah, I think that's one of the goals for the new ped mall is to have that infrastructure a little stronger and updated, um, so it can withstand the rigors of. ... of today's, you know, activities and vehicles, versus, uh, before. As far as the vehicles on the ped mall itself, unfortunately sometimes it's necessary for maintenance and upkeep, um, cause you..... you have to have, uh, the vehicle or lifts or equipment to get the job done. It's kinda like when a large semi -truck, uh, blocks Clinton Street when they're doing loading and unloading to get freight in. So these businesses in a pedestrian -only area won't survive if we don't allow some vehicle access, uh, and .... and goods to get to their stores in an efficient, safe way. Uh, it is up to the stores themselves, uh, the businesses themselves, to make sure they're doing it as quickly as they can and as safely as they can, uh, so we .... if we see problems in an area we can certainly address those, but it does come with the fact of having a pedestrian mall. You're going to have the two, pedestrians and vehicles, inter -mix occasionally. Olmstead/ Thank you very much, and we do appreciate our Chief. He's, uh, anniversary of one year I believe, and we look forward to him continuing. Matherly/ Thank you. Olmstead/ I have more questions, but I'll let somebody else have the floor. Matherly/ Thank you. Green/ Thanks, Harry. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 11 Community Police Review Board Community Forum Coulter/ I'm Joe Coulter. I'm with the Human Rights Commission here in Iowa City. I'm also with the University of Iowa, College of Public Health, College of Medicine. Um, as you know, uh, we are potentially facing an opioid epidemic here. Uh, it's not gotten, uh, as bad as it has .... uh, say in Ohio and some other places. Uh, but the City, uh, and it very much involves the Police Department, as well as other, uh, community, uh, functions, as well as the County, um, about.....where are we with regard to Naloxone training and access, uh, to Naloxone, uh, to deal with the .... the emergency situations. Uh, and what are the board, as well as the Chief s, perspectives on the progress or lack thereof that we're making on the Access Center, ub, and what roles do you see, uh, the police and especially you (laughs) uh, because one of the populations are the .... are the homeless, as well as, uh, other, uh, groups, uh, including the elderly. Ub, and uh.....the...... contamination, if you will, with the Fentanyl and where is that coming from and how is that getting into the ....to the medications. Uh, so there's a lot to talk about there, uh, and uh, I'd like to just ask the board if they've begun to kind of open up a little bit, uh, to see what their role as the review board might be in terms of this expanded, uh, functions of the Police Department, as well as other aspects of the community. Matherly/ So you had a couple of questions there. Let's talk about the .... the opioids and ... and the Fentanyl issue, narcotics issues in our city. Um.....matter of fact ..... it'll help if I just throw a couple of stats at ya, just to give you an understanding of. ... of, uh, where those drug cases set. So .... drug violations last year, um, we had 367 drug cases last year, and the year before, that is 2016, 424. So we had a .... a big reduction in ... in the amount of drug cases, which is always a good thing. Equipment violation, which is paraphernalia, things of that nature, also went down from 174 in 2016 to 151 in 2017. Uh, we are members of the, uh, Johnson County Drug Task Force and we have grant funding in place to ... to assist us in offsetting those costs. And so we work with the State Department's Narcotic Enforcement. We work with all the other agencies that have somebody assigned to the Drug Task Force. Um, that ... that means we put a lot of efforts into combating illicit drug use in our community. Um, and the opioids are absolutely at the top of that list. Uh, our most frequent thing is still methamphetamines. Those are the things that we still struggle with. Labs have dropped down since we, um, have put places, or mechanisms in place, I say we. The State law, to reduce the ability to buy the .... the, uh, over the counter drugs that you use to make methamphetamines. So that's helped. So now 80-90% of it's being imported in, uh, from .... from Mexico and other, uh, states. Um, so that being said, that's helped reduce making it, but it still exists and still causes a problem. Um, when we do run across somebody that has overdosed on an opioid, pain killers if you will, heroin, whatever the case is, um, Johnson County Ambulance carries, uh, NARCAN, the ... the drug that counteracts that overdose and has a immediate, um .... assistance for that person. They're .... we just did a study on this last year when I got here, the Fire Chief and I did at the request of the City Council. And, uh, This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 12 Community Police Review Board Community Forum their response is quicker than ours when it comes to the medicals. They're usually getting that initial trip and so they're getting there faster. (unable to hear person speaking from audience) Well we don't, and at that time we evaluated whether we should carry it or not, uh, along with the Fire Department, who also doesn't carry it. Um, and it was decided ... but these .... these things have a shelf life and our concern was if we buy this stuff and it sits, uh, not being used it doesn't do anybody any good. Johnson County Ambulance is just getting out faster than we are, able to take care of that. Everything's a balance. So if we start to see that they're not getting there faster, then we could be on top of it faster and administer it. The stuffs easy to use. Um, so that wouldn't be a problem. We warm make sure that we're carrying the right things, uh, at the right time, for the right reasons, and it's gonna be effective. Right now that balance hasn't happened, uh, but I will tell you, um, I've talked to the Mayor personally about this, and it's one of his, um, his.....big concerns is that when that balance needs to happen we will certainly trigger that. Starting with the Fire Department, the Fire Chief said, you know, `Chief, we should carry it before you do.' When we need to have it, we'll have it. And then the police officers themselves. So ... it's a good question. Fentanyl's a whole other issue. It's a very powerful drug. It is interlaced with ...with some of the drugs we're seeing. We have had a couple cases of it on eastern Iowa, not in the city here but on the, in the eastern Iowa area. Um, so .... urn, when.... when somebody gets hold of that, it's .... is has deadly effects because it's so powerful and urn ..... we have put precautions in place for our police officers so we don't get inadvertently exposed to it when we're dealing with drug cases and, uh, that .... that's very important to keep us safe as well. Urn .... and, uh..... you know, when .... when it's ....when they're comin' across it, we're sharing that instantly and .... and figuring out, you know, where it is and, you know, if it's startin' to creep into the area. Right now we've been pretty lucky. Um, same with opioid deaths, you know, a few have occurred, but it's not the big spike that you're seein' in some of the other cities to the east, and also some of the other states to the east, Ohio and .... and further east, it is out of control in those areas. We have a lot of it here, but it's not..... it's not blown the lid off like some states and so we continue to monitor that as well. Coulter/ (mumbled) I think is very important is the .... the expanse, um, of incarcerating, uh, individuals or sending them to the emergency room, to the ER. It's much greater than what we would have to spend, um, for an Access Center to keep people out of jail and to give them the kind of treatment, uh, to address their problems. Urn ... where does the board and the.... Green/ Well I (both talking) Coulter/ .....(mumbled) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 13 Community Police Review Board Community Forum Green/ I can't really speak to that as a member of the Community Police Review Board. I don't really know if that's within our charter or purview, but in my other life as a Crisis Center board member, I do, uh, support the Access Center. So, um, I .... I'm glad they're, you know, trying to have interventions before it goes to, you know, incarceration or, um, you know, emergency rooms. I think it's important to have those, um, interventions in place but in terms of the Police Board I don't know if I can necessarily speak to that in this regard. Semler/ I'd second, uh, Miss Green's statement there and my previous experience before this too also allowed me to participate in Drug Court, which I thought was very valuable, uh, downtown as well, and I wish we'd incorporate more of those, but as far as our Review Board role, we're not in charge of overseeing the entire police procedures or policies. We're, um, oversight is limited just to the occasions where there's a complaint made, and even in that case it's just narrowly on those specific facts. Coulter/ (unable to hear) well how come I didn't get sent to the Access Center, they arrested me and threw me in jail? Townsend/ Joe, I'd have to say basically, probably the only way we would get involved in that is, you know, what you're talkin' about is something that if. ... if we get overwhelmed with it, you know, uh, our....our officers are human and if they do make a mistake, and it....it could be because of training, then our responsibility would be as we look at the information to try to point that out and make recommendations to the City Council, to, uh, put things in place to adequately address that need. Matherly/ So, I'm gonna have Officer Fowler talk a little bit about our crisis intervention techniques that we use, and that segues into the Access Center. (mumbled) tell you that we are all for an Access Center. We're all for jail alternatives. Uh, if you talk to Lonny Pulkrabek, and I have lunch with 'ern all the time, his jail is full of folks that shouldn't be there. And so we wanna do everything we can to divert that. So we hear you loud and clear. I think our City Council and our .... our County Supervisors and everybody that I've talked to is on the same page with that, uh, cause it's the right thing to do and really I wanna say there's..... you could use less of us at that point (laughs) We're gonna stay busy doin' other things, but we should be doing things to reduce the .... the crime that matters and then get these other folks help that need it. So we ... he's one of our instructors for crisis intervention. Fowler/ Yeah, so um, are you guys familiar with CIT? Have you heard of it before? Anybody? No? There's a short version, a long version. I'll give the medium version then. So CIT started I believe, um, down south, maybe Tenn .... or Nashville, I can't remember, one of This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 14 Community Police Review Board Community Forum those cities, but I was lucky enough to (person speaking) Memphis, thank you! (mumbled) Um .... (mumbled) I went to the 40-hour instructor training in San Antonio. San Antonio right now is regarded as .... as one of the leaders in CIT. So that was a fantastic training. Um (mumbled) some of the training in St. Louis. The whole idea about that is tryin' to have officers (mumbled) final (mumbled) other than jail, especially when someone's, uh (mumbled) called for as a result of mental health or chemical, instead of deliberate defiance or deliberate criminality. So part of the 40-hour training that we do here in this county for all the officers is give them a body of knowledge about mental health and training on how to recognize the behaviors that are being called for and using something besides jail, maybe the hospital or the Access Center when it comes online as an alternative. We're all aware that, at least I am, the Fuse study and how expensive utilizers can be when they get into that rep of jail, ER, (mumbled), court, all that, how expensive it is. So a byproduct of CIT is you use these other alternatives to that system, you get a better outcome for the client and a better outcome for the community, at a lower cost. So, we're only two 40-hour sess.... sessions away from having every officer in Johnson County, that's every municipal community, every sheriffs deputies, all those folks, only two more 40-hour (mumbled) from having all training done. (difficult to understand) now, so once you get everybody trained that hasn't been at Police Academy in a while, every officer that's going to be in Johnson County is going to have that training under their belt. Matherly/ You know, some .... some municipalities and jurisdictions just choose to have a CIT team that, okay, I'm an officer, I'm not trained but I'll call an officer who is. We have chosen to train everybody. We want immediate response. We want knowledge, and it gets supported by the City Council, who's actually been hands-on with this and went down to .... some of `em went down to San Antonio and, uh, actually participated in that ... in that training. So .... there's a lot of buy -in. We're on the same page. It's an excellent question, and we hope to see .... not hope. We will see some results in that. It's gonna... there's money involved. It's gonna take time, but until then, at least we're trained up and we can start doin' the right thing early on and hopefully the .... the facilities and the actual infrastructure follows eventually. Great question! Alter/ Hi, my name is Megan Alter and, uh, I'm just a community member. Uh, I also volunteer with a group that, um, is called the Black Voices Project, and uh, one of the areas that the, uh, the groups are concerned with is actually, A re-establishing or furthering trust between authority, specifically the police, and youth of color. Um, so that's kind of the background with which I'm coming to this question. Um, I also attended the Hate Crimes Forum, uh, not too long ago, and during a discussion afterwards, there... some community members talked about the fact that on the one hand if you see something, say something tends to be the sort of rule of thumb. However, there are many community This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 15 Community Police Review Board Community Forum members who have been victimized who because the trust is not there do not feel willing to come forward to talk about their trauma. Um, and so I was wondering in light of some of the, Lim... —literature that I was looking at earlier about formal complaints that come to the board. Is there a mechanism in place, and it's a tough question, I recognize. Is there a mechanism in place, um, through the Police Department or other law enforcement agencies to ..... collect data on informal complaints, things that are not actually making it to the board or not making it onto paper, but really are sort of things that perhaps police officers who are in the neighborhoods are hearing about.....a colleague that the neighborhood is talking about, or are there ways in which you can collect that informal more anecdotal, but oftentimes extremely important preventative data, so that it ends up that a problem is perhaps addressed before it reaches the board. Matherly/ So, yeah, the ... the formal complaints are fairly easy to track, cause those are documented. Um, you know we try to make it as easy as we can for folks to bring, uh, improper conduct or alleged, uh, wrongdoings on our officers' part to our attention. We, uh, recently through using a racial equita.....racial equity toolkit project last year, started a system online. So someone can just jump online and you can commend an officer, but you can also complain about an officer, and so that way it's the click of a button and you don't have to, uh, to physically come in and, you know, like you said, sometimes the Police Department's the last place somebody wants to be, but you can still lodge the complaint online. You can do it by phone, um, you know, however you can .... you could write us a letter. However you can get that information to us. We wanna make it as easy as possible and, um, and .... and less intrusive. I can't get people to apply for jobs because if they can't do it online they don't wanna do it. So we know where technology lies and so we tried to match those two together. Uh, we have policies in place, uh, for officers. If they get a, in passing in a neighborhood saying, you know what, I don't know about that Jody Matherly guy. You need to watch him and ... and there's somethin' goin' on with him, and they get any information (laughs) that, you know, alleges that I might be doin' somethin' wrong, they have to report that to us, the officer does. It's not anecdotal at all. It's not just in passing. And so we also have a .... uh, early warning systems, um, policy in place. If our own officers are spotting a problem with an officer, um, they're actin' a little out of character. They see somethin' that shouldn't a happened, they are forced by rule to report that as well. So we're .... by rule have to police each other, and um, we have to report, you know, issues that are goin' on, even if it's just in passing with the community, and that allows us to vet the officer. Now I've been doin' this 35 years. I will tell you that police officers don't like to work with other police officers who aren't doin' their job, who are dishonest, or who are abusive. They don't like it! They didn't get into this business to be that way. They didn't get in to .... to be hated. They didn't get into this job to be disliked. They did it to help the community. Certainly didn't do it for pay, uh, we don't get rich, but .... but it is a, you know, a good living, but they did it This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 16 Community Police Review Board Community Forum because they want to be community -oriented and they want to help people. Period. And so, you know, people talk about the thin blue line and .... and how officers, you know, will fail to report, um, issues with other officers, and I will tell you, and I've worked for many agencies in many capacities, that couldn't be farther from the truth. As a chief, I don't let those folks work for me, and officers do not want their peers to .... to be that, and they will be the first one, and even our Union, our Police Union, will say we'll be the first one to say if the person shouldn't be a cop. We don't want `em to be a cop. So, I will assure you that this agency is very well versed. We have good policy in place, and good communication with our community to weed those folks out. Um .... we've got great people. People make mistakes. If it's a mistake of the head I can correct that, but if it's a mistake of the heart, they gotta find another place to work. Townsend/ Any other questions? Okay, well if there .... (person speaking from audience) Winnike/ (unable to hear) Angela Winnike of the Downtown District and I also, uh, manage a business downtown during the day. Uh, so I have a two -fold statement that I want to make cause I think you probably only hear complaints or negative feedback, and I, um, as a representative of the downtown businesses at night, um, I would say the feedback in the last six to eight months, um, as I've been in this position as Nighttime Mayor, um, has been extremely positive. Not everything, and it's not a perfect relationship between the Police Department and our nighttime businesses, um, but the perception of ..of the relationship that I think Chief Matherly and the nighttime officers have tried to develop with the downtown businesses has improved significantly. Uh, which I think is really important. Um.....even the last few weekends as the weather's gotten nicer and I'm out and about, talking to various, um....bar owners, bar managers, restaurant owners, um, the feedback is that they feel like the police are trying to be more a part of the downtown community, rather than just enforcing, which 1 think is what the Police Department is trying to do. Um, and then as a daytime business manager down here, um, we developed a really great relationship with Officer.... Officer Schwindt and now with Officer Fowler, and it is, uh, such a positive relationship that I'm really excited for this evening, uh, nighttime officer position to be created. Um, Officer Fowler creates a sense of security downtown with a lot of the daytime businesses, that they know that he'll respond immediately if they have a question or a concern, um, and we talk about this downtown amongst the businesses and I think just as a person enjoying downtown, when Officer Fowler is off doing training or isn't around downtown, it's a noticeable difference, um, in the ped mall, I think, for how safe people feel, um, and how easily they think, you know, an issue can be addressed. So, um, we're really excited to have the evening officer position, um, the nighttime businesses really appreciate the sense of working with the Police Department instead of being enfor.... you know, having um .... certain things This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 17 Community Police Review Board Community Forum enforced within their businesses. So.....it's been an extremely positive feedback, uh, just great for everyone I think! So, I just wanted to make that statement. Matherly/ Thank you, and while you're standing there, Angela, this Nighttime Mayor's position isn't somethin' that we .... we came up with. We actually .... I say we, the City and the Downtown District, um, modeled this after similar programs elsewhere, but what a great idea, to have a liaison who's eyes and ears and .... and feet on the ground, especially during those evening hours, and have a voice, and .... a good liaison and connection for the Police Department, and .... and with bars themselves and business owners themselves and each other, so uh, it's very valuable and, uh, I think you're going to see with a nighttime officer down here, you're going to see her position and this additional position with the Police Department, uh, it's gonna flourish, and I think it's gonna.....you're gonna find it's gonna be very valuable as a team, so we're lookin' forward to that too. Winnike/ One other thing, one of the great things that Chief Matherly was a part of, uh, was working with the UIDPS in the Shout program, and I just have to speak to it because this past weekend, um, I had a .... a grad student job -shadow me, um, from the harm reduction program at the University of Iowa, and speaking to students just out in the streets, and asking for their feedback about what they thought of Shout, and it all goes to this, um, helping people instead of jailing people idea and concept, even amongst the students has made a significantly positive impact, I think, on their perception between the Police Department and the University DPS, from what it used to be even a year ago, and um, for those of you who don't know what the Shout program, it's students helping out and it is kind of owned and driven by the University of Iowa with, um, kind of help and implementation betwe.... with the Univers.... sorry! With the Iowa City Police Department, the Downtown District, um, and it is a .... a layer of ...of help and protection for those who are downtown and on campus, um, before businesses or those who feel unsafe call the Police Department, they can call Shout, um, and they can get, um, like a ride home or someone to walk them home if they feel unsafe leaving the Library, um, and even if it's like a Friday night and you're intoxicated and you're a community member, you get separated from your friends and you don't have a safe way of finding your way home or don't know how to, uh, Shout can help you instead of a police officer havin' to take you to jail. So, it's a great program for our entire community. Matherly/ And kudos to Director Scott Beckner at the University for, um, getting that up and runnin' and he's got a model that says if we're going to fight crimes, let's take the victims out of the mix and so ... these students are there to say, hey, you know, you're walkin' alone. Well I got separate from my group. Let us help you. Let's take that victim out of the mix and, um, it's so important. It also is a tool for the business owners to say, I got a person that probably shouldn't be here. Well, you know, the back half of This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. Page 18 Community Police Review Board Community Forum our car unfortunately's not a taxi, and the front side is .... is the police car, um, and so this gives us a tool, and the officers absolutely love it, cause it gives them an alternative, a diversion program, to get that person home safely and then they can go off and do their job. Uh, yeah, thanks for bringin' that up and I think you're gonna see a lot of innovative programs like that. Beckner's pretty good at that stuff (laughs) and uh, married with our department and downtown, what .... what a great program, so....yeah. Green/ Thanks, Angela. Townsend/ Thank you. Okay, at this point does any board members have anything they'd like to share? Chris, Terry, staff, you guys have anything you'd like to share? Okay, well I'll just kind of in closing I would just like to say that we think about police force in terms of they, them, you know, and basically.... where it's really at is they're all about to protect and serve, but I think basically as a community and as a group, we can contribute to that simply by thinkin' in terms of our, we and things that we can do to help and to get involved, uh, our city, this is our city. We have a beautiful City. But we also have a responsibility to make it better. So if there are no other, uh, input, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Adiournment: King/ So moved. Green/ I second! Townsend/ Okay, moved and second. All those in favor. We're adjourned, and thank you for comin'. (applause) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Community Police Review Board Community Forum of April 23, 2018. For more information about the Community Police Review Board, contact: Community Police Review Board (CPRB) 410 E. Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240 319-356-5043 Complaint forms are available from: • City Clerk/City Hall • Police Department/City Hall • Iowa City Public Library • Broadway St Neighborhood Center • Pheasant Ridge Center • City of Iowa City Website: www.icgov.org Iowa City Community Police Review Board The Iowa City Community Police Review Board (hereafter referred to as the CPRB) consists of five members appointed by the City Council. The CPRB has its own legal counsel. The CPRB reviews reports prepared after investigation of complaints about alleged police misconduct. It then issues its own written reports that contain detailed findings of fact and conclusions that explain why and the extent to which complaints should be sustained or not sustained. The CPRB maintains a central registry of complaints against sworn police officers and prepares annual reports to the City Council on the disposition of these complaints. The CPRB reviews police policies, procedures, and practices, and may recommend modifications to them. The board shall hold at least one community forum each year for the purpose of hearing views on the policies, practices and procedures of the Iowa City police department. The CPRB has only limited civil administrative review powers and has no power or authority over criminal matters or police discipline. It is not a court of law and is not intended to substitute for any form of legal action against the Police Department or the City. The complaint review process All complaints to the Board must be filed with the City Clerk within ninety (90) days of the alleged misconduct. Any person with personal knowledge of the alleged police misconduct may file a CPRB complaint with the board. In order to have "personal knowledge", the complainant must have been directly involved in the incident or witnessed the incident. If the person with personal knowledge is underage or otherwise unable to complete a CPRB complaint form, the CPRB complaint maybe filed by such person's designated representative. Those who may file a complaint are: • an adult; • a minor with an adult's assistance; • an adult filing on behalf of a minor; • or a vulnerable adult with assistance from a family member, friend, clergy, or a guardian or other similar court appointed representative. A support person may accompany the complainant through the complaint review process. The CPRB receives a completed complaint form and immediately forwards a copy to the Police Chief for an internal affairs investigation; a copy will also be sent to the Equity Director. A Supervisor or Investigator from the Police Department will contact the complainant as part of the investigation. (If the complaint is about the Chief, the City Manager will conduct the investigation.) The Chief completes the investigation within 90 days and issues a detailed written report that concludes with a finding that the complaint is "sustained" or "not sustained." The CPRB will grant extensions from this deadline for good cause shown. Copies of the Chief's report are sent to the CPRB and to the complainant, the police officers, and the City Manager. The CPRB reviews the Chiefs report and may conduct additional investigation or request that the Chief do so. Within 90 days of receipt of the Chiefs report, the Board issues a written report that contains detailed findings of fact and a conclusion that explains why and the extent to which the complaint should be "sustained" or "not sustained." The City Council may grant extensions, upon written request. Copies of the CPRB's public report on the Chiefs investigation are sent to the complainant, the police officers, the City Manager, Equity Director and the City Council. The CPRB may recommend that the Chief reverse his findings if it determines that they are unsupported by substantial evidence; are unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious; or are contrary to Police Department policy or practice, or any federal, state, or local law. Community Police Review Board (CPRB) complaint process timeline 1. Complaint form filed with CPRB within 90 days of the alleged misconduct by an Iowa City Police Officer. 2. Complaint form is forwarded to the Equity Director — And ICPD for investigation; the Complaint form is also forwarded to CPRB at their next meeting and an Acknowledgement letter is sent to the Complainant. 3. Within 90 days ICPD completes a written confidential report and forwards to the Complainant, officers, City Manager, and CPRB for review. 4. CPRB reviews the Chief's report, sets the level or review, and conducts an additional investigation if necessary. 5. Within 90 days the CPRB issues a public written report with the findings to the Complaint, Police Chief, officers, City Manager, Equity Director and the City Council. Para obtener ma's informacion acerca de la Junta de Revision de la Policia Comunitaria, pongase en contacto con: Comunidad Junta de Revision de Policia (CPRB) 410 E. Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240 319-356-5041 Los formularios de quejas estan disponibles a partir de: • Secretaria Municipal / Ayuntamiento • Departamento de Policia / Ayuntamiento • Iowa City Public Library • Broadway Center St Barrio • Faisan Ridge Center • Ciudad de Iowa City Pagina Web: www.icgov.org Junta de Revision de Policia de Iowa City Comunidad La Junta de Revision de Policia de Iowa City Comunidad (en to sucesivo, el CPRB) se compone de cinco miembros designados por el Ayuntamiento. El CPRB tiene su propio asesor legal. Las opiniones CPRB informes preparados despues de la investigacidn de quejas sobre la supuesta mala conducta policial. Despues emite sus propios informes escritos que contienen conclusiones detalladas de hechos y conclusiones que explican por que y en que medida las quejas deben ser sostenida o no sostenida. El CPRB mantiene un registro central de denuncias contra agentes de policia jurados y prepara informes anuales al Ayuntamiento sobre la resolucion de estas quejas. El CPRB revisa las politicas policiales, procedimientos y practicas, y puede recomendar modificaciones a los mismos. La junta debera contener al menos un foro de la comunidad cada ano con el prop6sito de puntos de vista sobre las politicas, practicas y procedimientos del departamento de policia de Iowa City de la audicion. El CPRB solo ha limitado poderes administrativos de revisi6n civiles y no tiene poder o autoridad sobre materia penal o la disciplina de la policia. No es un tribunal de justicia y no pretende sustituir a ningGn tipo de accion legal contra el departamento de policia o de la ciudad. Comunidad de Policias de la Junta de Revision (CPRB) cronologia proceso de quejas 1. formulario de queja presentado ante CPRB dentro de los 90 dias de la supuesta mala conducta de un oficial de policia de Iowa City. 2. hoja de reclamaciones se presentaran al Director de Equidad - Y CIPD para la investigaci6n; la forma de queja tambien se reenvia a CPRB en su pr6xima reunion y una carta de acuse de recibo es enviado al recurrente. 3. Dentro de los 90 dias de la CIPD completa un informe confidencial por escrito y hacia delante a la Demandante, oficiales, administrador de la ciudad, y CPRB para su revisi6n. 4. CPRB revisar el informe del jefe, se establece el nivel o revisi6n, y Ileva a cabo una investigaci6n adicional si es necesario. 5. Dentro de los 90 dias del CPRB emite un informe publico por escrito con las conclusiones de la Demanda, el jefe de policia, oficiales, administrador de la ciudad, Director de Equidad y el Ayuntamiento. Community Police Review Board (CPRB) COMPLAINT PROCESS Complaint form filed with CPRB within 90 days of the alleged misconduct by an Iowa City Police Officer. Complaint form is forwarded to the Equity Director —And 1CPD for investigation y Complaint form is forwarded to the CPRB at their next meeting and Acknowledgement letter sent to the Complainant. Within 90 days ICPD completes a written confidential report and forwards to the Complainant, officers, City Manager, and CPRB for review. CPRB reviews the Chiefs report, sets level of review, and conducts an additional investigation if necessary. Within 90 days the CPRB issues a public written report with the findings to the Complainant, Police Chief, officers, City Manager, Equity Director and City Council. t- Options for Filing a Complaint About an.Iowa City Police Officer There are three kinds of complaint' forms a person may file against an Iowa City Police Officer. A person may choose one or all three.,Please. note that each type of complaint has a different statute of limitations. The form you chobse determines how your complaint will be handled. a)'Iowa City Police Department Complaint Form - No Statute of Limitations If you use the Police Department form, Iowa City Police Department Policy will determine the level of investigation into your: complaint: You can choose to limit your involvement to a discussion between you, and the officer's supervisor; or you can choose to participate in an internal investigation which means that you, the officer, and witnesses will be interviewed by Police Department: investiSators.and a'written report on the department's findings and• . conclusions will be prepared. Generally, investigations and any officer discipline that may result from them are considered nonpublic, confidential records. By law, the PoliceChicf decides if and how an officer will be disciplined. It usually takes from one week to three months to receive a final response from the department. When you use the Police Department complaint form, the Community Police Review Board will not review your complaint, unless you also file a CPRB complaint form. If you have questions, contact the Police Department (356-5275) 2) Community Police Review Board (CPRB) Complaint Form Within 90 days of the alleged misconduct. If you use the CPRB form, the Police Departmentmill`conducran internal investigation. A Supervisor or Investigator from the Police Department will contact you as part of the investigation process, Your ' participation is critical to the review process. You will be notified of the outcome of the CPRB's review. The CPRB has no authority to discipline police officers. The CPRB handles its work with complaints confidentially and generally does not include information identifying you or the officer in its reports. However, if a complaint is upheld, the CPRB does have the right to include the names of complainants and officers in its reports under certain conditions: For more information about the CPRB, consult. the city ordinance that established it.(Iowa City Code Chapter 8- 8). The .City Code is available on-line at www.icgov.org or for review in the City Clerk's office at the City Hall, 410 E. Washington Street, or contact the Community Police Review Board (356-5041) 3) lowa CityHuman Rights Commission Complaint Form- Within 300 days after the alleged discriminatory or unfair practice has occurred. An individual who believes that they have been discriminated against due to age, race, marital status, nations} origin; sexual orientation, disability; creed, sex, color, religion, gender identity or retaliated against can file a complaint of discrimination with the Iowa City Human Rights Commission..A complaint of discrimination must be filed with the Iowa City Human.Rights Commission within three hundred (300) days;after the alleged discriminatory or unfair practice occurred. Complaint forms are available upon request or at the Iowa City Human Rights Commission's Office. For more information about filing a complaint of discrimination with the Iowa City Human Rights Commission contact 356-5022 or 356-5015. Please note complaints of discrimination against the City of Iowa City, including the Iowa City Police Department are referred to an outside, agency for investigation to avoid any appearance of impropriety. .. Information. Sheet 06/15 FOR STAFF USE: Complaint No. Received by CONFIDENTIAL Return to: COMMUNITY POLICE REVIEW BOARD A Board of the City of Iowa City City Clerk's Office 410 E. Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240-1826 (319)356-5041 Name Address/other contact information Telephone Best time to call A Supervisor or Investigator from the Police Department will contact the complainant as part of the investigation process. Date of Birth Date the incident took place _ (All complaints to the Board alleged misconduct.) Race Gender must be filed with the City Clerk within ninety (90) days of the Any person with personal knowledge of the alleged police misconduct may file a CPRB complaint with the board. In order to have "personal knowledge", the complainant must have been directly involved in the incident or witnessed the incident. If the person with personal knowledge is underage or otherwise unable to complete a CPRB complaint form, the CPRB complaint maybe filed by such person's designated representative. Those who may file a complaint shall include an adult, a minor with an adult's assistance, an adult filing on behalf of a minor, or a vulnerable adult with assistance from a family member, friend, clergy, or a guardian or other similar court appointed representative. A support person (as defined above) may accompany the complainant through the complaint review process. Describe the incident you are complaining about. Give as many details as possible. For example: Where did it happen? Who else was there? Describe the specific police actions you are complaining about. Give officers' names, badge numbers, descriptions. CONFIDENTIAL Section 718.6 State Code of Iowa A person who reports or causes to be reported false information to a fire department or a law enforcement authority, knowing that the information is false, or who reports the alleged occurrence of a criminal act knowing the same did not occur, commits a simple misdemeanor, unless the alleged criminal act reported is a serious or aggravated misdemeanor or felony, in which case the person commits a serious misdemeanor. Please ensure that the complaint you are filing with the Iowa City Community Police Review Board is truthful. In its review of this complaint, the Iowa City Community Police Review Board will forward the information contained in this complaint to representatives of the Iowa City Police Department. Therefore, the above captioned State Code of Iowa applies to a complaint filed with the Iowa City Community Police Review Board. I hereby certify to the best of my knowledge, the statements I have made on this form are true. Signature Date 06/15 r , wr®•a� CITY OF IOWA CITY VOLUNTARY SURVEY For Statistical Use Only This document will be removed from your application and will not be available to the City Council. Data will be used in the aggregate to track the demographics of those who apply for City Boards/ Commissions. Yearly totals will be included in the City's Annual Equity Report. This document is public, but will not be linked to any individual identifiers. DATE HOW DID YOU LEARN OF THIS VACANCY? AGE (Circle One) 18-25 26-35 36-45 46-55 DISABILITY (Circle All Applicable) Physical Mental None ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME (Circle One) 100K+ 75-99K 50-75K 25----49K GENDER (Circle One) Female Male Other SEXUAL ORIENTATION (Circle One) LGBTQ Heterosexual Other 56-64 65+ Under 25K ETHNIC ORIGIN (Circle One) Black/African-American Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native Asian/Pacific Islander White/Caucasian Other WERE YOU BORN IN THE UNITED STATES? (Circle One) Yes No RELIGION MARITAL STATUS (Circle One) Married Single Divorced None Other Separated Widowed THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS SURVEY. Other Iowa Cit To view the INFORMATION SKEET Code - Ch on-line go to: www. icgoy.org Go to City Government Select City Code, Title 8, Chapter 8 Community Police Review Board — Website Information Available General information about the Board, the current members, board packets, the complaint form, forum summaries, public complaint reports, and annual reports are on the main webpage. 8 - Comm Police Review Board To view information on-line go to: www.ic.gov.org Go to City Government Select Boards, commissions and committees, then select Community Police Review Board Iowa City Police Department - General Orders Wide ranges of written directives guide members of the Iowa City Police Department. These directives range from Federal, State, and Local laws or Codes to Memorandums, which identify the manner in which the department does its business. Included in these directives are the General Orders of the Iowa City Police Department. General Orders provide guidance to officers in how to handle a variety of different situations. While they may provide specific recommendations, they are not necessarily intended as a step by step guide, but as a more general "how to conduct business" reference, for members of the department. These orders are divided into multiple general headings ranging from Personnel to Operations, with multiple broadly related orders contained in each section. While many orders may be applicable to different sections, they are located in the section to which they are most closely related. To view all ICPD General Orders on-line go to: www.icqov.org Go to City Government Select the Police Department Select General Orders from the list on the right side of the page Calendar Year 2017 CPRB Complaint Info: Complaints filed: 4 In the three complaints filed - Allegations: 4 Officers involved in the allegations: 4 Not Sustained: 3 Sustained: 1 Of the four complaints filed — Withdrawn: 1 Calendar Year 2016 CPRB Complaint Info: Complaints filed: 6 In the six complaints filed - Allegations: 15 Officers involved in the allegations: 10 Not Sustained: 12 Sustained: 3 Of the six complaints filed - Summarily Dismissed: 1 Calendar Year 2015 CPRB Complaint Info: Complaints filed: 3 In the three complaints filed - Allegations: 5 Officers involved in the allegations: 2 Not Sustained: 5 Sustained: 0 Of the three complaints filed — Summarily Dismissed: 1 Public reports can be found on the City website: icgov.org