1 00:00:10,33 --> 00:00:15,29 Hello and welcome to another edition of rock said this is our November review of 2 00:00:15,30 --> 00:00:20,39 our operations today we're going to review those departments that are directly 3 00:00:20,40 --> 00:00:21,52 facing our customers on 4 00:00:21,53 --> 00:00:26,20 a daily basis you'll hear from the police department the fire department community 5 00:00:26,21 --> 00:00:33,14 and economic development and human services and where we are going right now 6 00:00:33,15 --> 00:00:39,83 is in the last couple of weeks we had our first event with comps that to the public 7 00:00:39,84 --> 00:00:44,81 where the public could view our Comp Stat operations within the police department 8 00:00:44,82 --> 00:00:48,08 where they really drill down on some the crime activity within the neighborhoods 9 00:00:48,38 --> 00:00:55,15 and today with us will be I believe Chief Sweeney to go over the 10 00:00:55,90 --> 00:01:00,36 police department operations and activities over the last few months Good morning 11 00:01:00,37 --> 00:01:06,93 or good morning to well. Welcome to our rock staff. 12 00:01:07,99 --> 00:01:12,96 I'm going to start with the arch events this last month in October we did something 13 00:01:12,97 --> 00:01:18,16 called Operation Clean Sweep we worked with numerous other agencies to focus on 14 00:01:18,17 --> 00:01:24,10 felony arrest warrants traffic search warrants knock and talk serving of O.P.'s in 15 00:01:24,11 --> 00:01:25,72 parole checks it was 16 00:01:25,73 --> 00:01:30,97 a great cooperate effort it was great to do. Under that you'll see that our drug 17 00:01:30,98 --> 00:01:34,39 narcotic violations increased but that we had 18 00:01:34,40 --> 00:01:37,65 a lot to do with our search warrants and knock and talks that were involved in that 19 00:01:37,66 --> 00:01:44,33 event. Are burglaries theft or motor vehicles and theft of motor vehicle parts have 20 00:01:44,34 --> 00:01:49,81 decreased Both year to date from last month. However we will monitor that as we 21 00:01:49,82 --> 00:01:54,45 come upon the holiday season we will have some theft and burglary from motor 22 00:01:54,46 --> 00:01:59,43 vehicles just because people put things out in open view inviting people to break 23 00:01:59,44 --> 00:02:00,14 into their car in 24 00:02:00,15 --> 00:02:05,58 a sense. So we'll do public service announcements next rules and we've got some but 25 00:02:05,82 --> 00:02:12,71 special details in place what is the next all new. Way to communicate to the public 26 00:02:12,72 --> 00:02:13,52 any kind of 27 00:02:13,56 --> 00:02:18,66 a vent that's taking place at the we can give crime information public service 28 00:02:18,67 --> 00:02:22,63 announcements it's a way to how do I does it as a citizen sign up to get an X. 29 00:02:22,64 --> 00:02:26,58 a Lot of cation if they'd like I'm not sure I think you actually have to go through 30 00:02:26,59 --> 00:02:30,69 Nick's will to do it but through the city's website I believe in just want to make 31 00:02:30,70 --> 00:02:36,63 sure that we. Have an opportunity to advertise that every chance we can so from the 32 00:02:36,64 --> 00:02:41,29 police department standpoint and other communications that we do and we could 33 00:02:41,30 --> 00:02:42,97 probably add maybe 34 00:02:42,98 --> 00:02:48,56 a tad when we run our video on this for the page on the website but through the 35 00:02:48,57 --> 00:02:53,38 city's website they can get forwarded to the next corporation that we utilize to 36 00:02:53,39 --> 00:02:58,74 help do those. Public Communications So that's I know we've been relying on that as 37 00:02:58,75 --> 00:03:03,30 a tool to get information out yes because we've been doing if we have an event 38 00:03:03,31 --> 00:03:06,49 happening right then and there we try to get that information out to the public. 39 00:03:08,27 --> 00:03:13,27 Under our areas improvements motor vehicle theft have increased both Year to date 40 00:03:13,28 --> 00:03:15,26 and from last month we did arrest 41 00:03:15,27 --> 00:03:21,18 a suspect that was in connection to numerous motor vehicle theft as we enter into 42 00:03:21,19 --> 00:03:25,09 the season though we will also have another increase in motor vehicle theft just 43 00:03:25,10 --> 00:03:28,71 because it's that time of the year were people start their cars and leave them on 44 00:03:28,72 --> 00:03:33,39 a tended once again we will do use Nichols public service announcements and try to 45 00:03:33,40 --> 00:03:38,95 communicate with the public to safeguard their property eg repeated assaults 46 00:03:38,96 --> 00:03:44,09 decreased year to date however offenses increased last month we had some weapon law 47 00:03:44,10 --> 00:03:50,57 violations. And they also coincide with their aggravated assault we had some main 48 00:03:50,58 --> 00:03:56,21 issues over on island main We had some issues robberies going on in southeast 49 00:03:56,68 --> 00:04:00,89 Rockford had a shooting over in buildings on the site area in 50 00:04:00,90 --> 00:04:04,97 a few the neighbors up in royal Andrews area where they were shooting at each other 51 00:04:05,39 --> 00:04:08,92 so that will be we've identified some of the areas and will address them 52 00:04:08,93 --> 00:04:15,56 accordingly. Under our benchmark scorecard you will see that we are 53 00:04:15,60 --> 00:04:20,24 below year to date and we continue to be below year to date so we're marking very 54 00:04:20,25 --> 00:04:26,50 well at this time of year group a offenses we had 55 00:04:26,51 --> 00:04:28,81 a increase in the West Side A.T.P. 56 00:04:28,82 --> 00:04:33,68 Area the alternative drug program area we had nine incidences that equaled twelve 57 00:04:33,69 --> 00:04:34,44 offenses 58 00:04:34,71 --> 00:04:40,32 a lot of them were weapons related we arrested some people for no for Wade you W. 59 00:04:40,33 --> 00:04:46,22 Reckless discharge. We also had some simple assaults going on over there so under 60 00:04:46,23 --> 00:04:51,89 the we did see in the eighty period for the west side we had some increases but 61 00:04:51,90 --> 00:04:57,89 they were domestic batteries. No FOID somebody can get arrested for multiple 62 00:04:57,90 --> 00:05:02,00 offenses under one incident so if you have no four but you also discharged 63 00:05:02,01 --> 00:05:08,97 a firearm you could get to two charges under that. All the rest of the west 64 00:05:08,98 --> 00:05:12,18 side looks good on the east side we had the east side A.T.P. 65 00:05:12,19 --> 00:05:15,74 The alternative drug program had a slight increase we did 66 00:05:15,75 --> 00:05:18,02 a sweep through Blackhawk with our A.J. 67 00:05:18,06 --> 00:05:23,12 Focusing on some issues and we because we've had some recent shootings over there 68 00:05:23,13 --> 00:05:26,39 so our E.J. Reached out to us they asked us to participate in kind of 69 00:05:26,40 --> 00:05:30,65 a sweeping do some checks of some residents so that area drove some of our numbers 70 00:05:30,66 --> 00:05:35,36 but that was proactive work over there sheep What are we doing in the West A.T.P. 71 00:05:35,37 --> 00:05:40,40 And when we can see to combat what these increases are we're saying. We've 72 00:05:40,41 --> 00:05:46,38 identified the areas we've assigned additional. Patrol officers and special Simons 73 00:05:46,39 --> 00:05:49,13 to those areas and especially if we really noticed 74 00:05:49,14 --> 00:05:55,75 a particular house or residence We've involved areas like Community Services the 75 00:05:55,76 --> 00:05:58,36 feuding neighbors we've been able to abate start 76 00:05:58,37 --> 00:06:03,44 a vixen process on both neighbors so as soon as we see if we can identify an area 77 00:06:03,48 --> 00:06:03,78 or 78 00:06:03,79 --> 00:06:10,31 a very specific location we do what we can to shut them down. There's been numerous 79 00:06:10,32 --> 00:06:15,59 questions about her aggravated assault what I did is you will see under thirteen A 80 00:06:15,60 --> 00:06:19,63 which is aggravated assault we have thirty two crimes that can go into aggravated 81 00:06:19,64 --> 00:06:23,38 assaults so just serve to get a look at it this is 82 00:06:23,39 --> 00:06:27,48 a list of every crime that could be committed that would be tracked underneath our 83 00:06:27,49 --> 00:06:33,83 aggravated assaults. Under that you will find nine that are very 84 00:06:33,84 --> 00:06:38,07 specific to gun related offenses rather it's aggravated battery with 85 00:06:38,08 --> 00:06:42,78 a handgun or another firearm if it's aggravated assault where we're pointing 86 00:06:42,79 --> 00:06:45,54 a weapon if we discharge a weapon and we hit 87 00:06:45,55 --> 00:06:50,13 a house or we are reckless and went in so then I looked at and I tracked it for the 88 00:06:50,14 --> 00:06:55,04 last three years so I pulled out everything that was very specific to weapons in 89 00:06:55,05 --> 00:07:00,06 looked at nine ten and eleven you will see ten was one of our biggest years that we 90 00:07:00,07 --> 00:07:01,75 had in it we are still in 91 00:07:01,76 --> 00:07:06,55 a downward trend we're almost equal we're even below two thousand and nine numbers 92 00:07:06,59 --> 00:07:13,27 so it's we take weapon offenses very serious and we address Ms quickly as we can 93 00:07:13,28 --> 00:07:18,81 but I think this is what we are looking for for more information on how we look at 94 00:07:18,82 --> 00:07:23,57 aggravated assaults she feeling that might be deceiving for for folks when they're 95 00:07:23,58 --> 00:07:29,73 looking at the. At the neighbors to six is that one incident could have 96 00:07:29,74 --> 00:07:34,94 a number of reported neighbors events is that correct yes one incident could create 97 00:07:34,98 --> 00:07:39,59 numerous offenses under that one incident so when you look at if you were able to 98 00:07:39,60 --> 00:07:41,87 boil this down. This is 99 00:07:41,88 --> 00:07:45,71 a great great chart but it's not that you would add it and have 100 00:07:45,72 --> 00:07:51,66 a grand total at the bottom that would be more there were fewer incidents than that 101 00:07:52,10 --> 00:07:56,55 yes sir offenses so that's I think that's what's this even for the average citizen 102 00:07:56,56 --> 00:08:00,62 when they look at that they're like oh my goodness but I think if we're to maybe 103 00:08:00,63 --> 00:08:06,94 say. Eighty incidents drove one hundred sixty nine for 104 00:08:07,38 --> 00:08:11,71 reports some like that you're right you can use 105 00:08:11,72 --> 00:08:14,23 a simple one for burglary you're going to have 106 00:08:14,31 --> 00:08:17,71 a criminal trespass intercept because that's what creates 107 00:08:17,72 --> 00:08:21,09 a burglary so under neither you could have three offenses that take place for one 108 00:08:21,10 --> 00:08:23,40 incident how hard is that to do on 109 00:08:23,41 --> 00:08:29,86 a monthly basis to show the number of incidents related to these gun gun related 110 00:08:29,87 --> 00:08:36,53 events. We could probably pull it that way. Couple other things Number one 111 00:08:36,97 --> 00:08:39,70 what a commercial in our armed robbery to 112 00:08:39,71 --> 00:08:45,11 a commercial establishment you know just in the paper this morning there was in two 113 00:08:45,12 --> 00:08:48,11 incidents yesterday and it looks like we made arrests in both cases 114 00:08:48,46 --> 00:08:51,88 a Walgreens down on the southeast side as well as 115 00:08:51,89 --> 00:08:57,28 a Family Dollar I think it was on the southeast side both commercial establishment 116 00:08:57,74 --> 00:09:02,54 how would those crimes have been categorized there may be multiple I guess 117 00:09:02,55 --> 00:09:08,49 incidents that would arrive or multiple charges or types of incidents that. Are 118 00:09:08,50 --> 00:09:11,97 offenses rather that would arise from it but since 119 00:09:12,66 --> 00:09:18,22 a gun was fired in one case that would be different than if the gun wasn't fired 120 00:09:18,23 --> 00:09:18,95 for example as 121 00:09:18,96 --> 00:09:24,29 a type of offense you would have an armed robbery in an aggravated discharge of 122 00:09:24,30 --> 00:09:31,13 a firearm all at once so it is armed robbery on this list no we actually have 123 00:09:31,14 --> 00:09:34,28 one that tracks robberies specific rather be 124 00:09:34,29 --> 00:09:40,75 a knife or implied weapon so no there is under NY bruisers one specific just for 125 00:09:40,77 --> 00:09:46,43 robberies well I guess what I want to get at you know when I hear 126 00:09:47,18 --> 00:09:52,75 a lot of the alarm from the community. It may be an incident where it was an armed 127 00:09:52,75 --> 00:09:59,39 robbery even though the gun wasn't fired. So when we're tracking and I 128 00:09:59,40 --> 00:10:06,15 apologize if I seem like I'm nit picking but I think what is most disconcerting is 129 00:10:06,16 --> 00:10:07,07 when people hear about 130 00:10:07,08 --> 00:10:11,94 a high lot of highly publicized commercial armed robberies even though the gun may 131 00:10:11,95 --> 00:10:18,88 not be fired somebody goes into the pizza place upon North Main and they 132 00:10:18,89 --> 00:10:20,83 don't fire a gun however it is 133 00:10:20,84 --> 00:10:27,10 a very scary situation when somebody comes in there armed on the business day 134 00:10:27,42 --> 00:10:29,89 and conducts a robbery with 135 00:10:29,90 --> 00:10:35,01 a weapon so I want to make sure we're tracking that and just to penetrate and 136 00:10:35,02 --> 00:10:40,31 identify whether the number of incidents of those types of events are happening 137 00:10:40,32 --> 00:10:46,65 more and if they are making sure we have the right strategies designed to address 138 00:10:46,66 --> 00:10:50,75 it and it looks like I just know from some of the conversations that we've had 139 00:10:51,20 --> 00:10:52,13 we're arresting 140 00:10:52,17 --> 00:10:56,59 a lot of folks and I think having an impact that way so that's number one I think 141 00:10:56,60 --> 00:10:57,28 we are doing 142 00:10:57,29 --> 00:11:00,59 a number of things to address it number two and this gets back to some of the 143 00:11:00,60 --> 00:11:04,59 things that I know we try to do with Operation Clean Sweep and some of the 144 00:11:04,60 --> 00:11:08,68 questions that we're having I'm going dialogue with the judiciary I want to 145 00:11:08,69 --> 00:11:12,54 continue to try to track I know the data right now is 146 00:11:12,55 --> 00:11:16,89 a challenge to get but as we go through there's really two overall categories that 147 00:11:16,90 --> 00:11:22,31 I want to make sure we're covering one is one of the types of events and activities 148 00:11:22,32 --> 00:11:26,98 that are felt to be most threatening to our citizens and that would I appreciate 149 00:11:26,99 --> 00:11:30,51 having all this data on the aggravated assaults but I think we may need to add in 150 00:11:30,52 --> 00:11:36,26 and make sure we have the other category of those armed robberies and then number 151 00:11:36,27 --> 00:11:43,13 two. What are we doing to ensure that we are. As effective as we 152 00:11:43,14 --> 00:11:46,69 can be with our partners to make sure we don't have to keep arresting the same 153 00:11:46,70 --> 00:11:52,82 people so it gets to that question about parolees probationers folks out on bond 154 00:11:53,24 --> 00:11:54,41 and I know again that's been 155 00:11:54,42 --> 00:11:58,52 a data challenge for us but anything that we can do to keep 156 00:11:59,11 --> 00:12:04,80 a focus on ending the cycle of or feed offenders in trying to help folks in you 157 00:12:04,81 --> 00:12:10,10 know if people are back in our community if they've served their sentence and are 158 00:12:10,11 --> 00:12:16,49 on parole or if they're given some sort of form of conditional discharge or 159 00:12:16,79 --> 00:12:21,08 probation instead of being sent to the state prison are we doing everything with 160 00:12:21,09 --> 00:12:24,88 our law enforcement partners to make sure they're in compliance with the conditions 161 00:12:24,89 --> 00:12:29,18 of the discharge and that's why the you know for I know we're starting to track 162 00:12:29,19 --> 00:12:33,83 more detail on for example those folks we're arrested yesterday were any of them 163 00:12:33,84 --> 00:12:39,04 out on parole probation can we what can we do an operation clean sweeps and those 164 00:12:39,05 --> 00:12:40,83 types of things to make sure that on 165 00:12:40,84 --> 00:12:45,23 a regular basis we're supporting the probation officers parole officers to make 166 00:12:45,24 --> 00:12:50,34 sure folks are in compliance some sort of an ongoing and we could talk and exchange 167 00:12:50,35 --> 00:12:54,40 of ideas about some sort of scorecard that we could look at to do the best we can 168 00:12:54,41 --> 00:12:57,59 attract that information and trying to and the tide of 169 00:12:58,06 --> 00:13:03,49 a repeat offenders I'd love to see that built into our standard reporting metric 170 00:13:03,88 --> 00:13:07,11 and again we could have some more exchange of ideas on how best to do that and I'd 171 00:13:07,12 --> 00:13:10,78 like to be able to have that conversation with some of our law enforcement partners 172 00:13:10,79 --> 00:13:11,57 and just as 173 00:13:11,58 --> 00:13:16,18 a side note I've had conversations since our last meeting with some of the other 174 00:13:16,22 --> 00:13:20,01 partners in our justice system who expressed 175 00:13:20,47 --> 00:13:25,28 a great deal willingness to work with us to develop that sort of conversation and 176 00:13:25,29 --> 00:13:30,11 figure out how we can be the best possible partners with each other so we can work 177 00:13:30,12 --> 00:13:35,60 on that between now and our next rocks that meeting and hopefully have. A little 178 00:13:35,61 --> 00:13:40,69 bit more formal presentation and scorecard that we can continue to bring back 179 00:13:41,19 --> 00:13:42,66 understanding that it's still 180 00:13:42,67 --> 00:13:47,88 a challenge to pull some of that data together. In you right we used one of the 181 00:13:47,89 --> 00:13:54,10 suspects that we caught yesterday morning. In our initial looking at suspects one 182 00:13:54,11 --> 00:13:57,82 individual was on parole we reached out to them we had no other way to get into 183 00:13:57,83 --> 00:14:00,71 their their residence we talk to parole about doing 184 00:14:00,72 --> 00:14:02,20 a check and actually get in there and do 185 00:14:02,21 --> 00:14:06,33 a search and if we did we're starting work those partnerships if we can identify 186 00:14:06,34 --> 00:14:07,95 somebody how can we do this on 187 00:14:07,96 --> 00:14:13,81 a more regular basis and again the the goal is someone is back in our community and 188 00:14:13,82 --> 00:14:16,54 we're trying to keep them on the straight narrow that let's be 189 00:14:16,55 --> 00:14:20,54 a support with our other human service agencies and others and I think there's 190 00:14:20,55 --> 00:14:22,43 a great willingness on behalf of 191 00:14:22,44 --> 00:14:26,82 a lot of our partners to do to try to pull the data from whatever source it might 192 00:14:26,83 --> 00:14:27,75 be to be 193 00:14:27,76 --> 00:14:34,24 a support in that process so I appreciate the challenge that it is but I know. If 194 00:14:34,25 --> 00:14:39,75 we keep focused on it we're to make progress progress I agree. Anything else this 195 00:14:39,76 --> 00:14:41,99 morning no it concludes Thank you.