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GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO THE BAYTOWN CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT MEETING FOR OCTOBER 10TH, 2023.
AND, UH, WE DO HAVE A QUORUM PRESENT.
[1. MINUTES]
WE DO HAVE ITEMS ONE, A, B, AND C, WHICH IS TO CONSIDER APPROVING THE MINUTES OF OUR PREVIOUS MEETINGS ON JUNE 13TH, JULY 11TH, AND AUGUST 24TH.SO IF EVERYONE'S HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE MINUTES, I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE FOR ALL THREE OF THESE MEETING DATES.
YOU HAVE A MOTION? I MAKE A MOTION TO BE ACCEPT? YES.
[a. Presentation of the Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District Street Crime Unit, Traffic Management Team, and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement (CVE) statistical reports. ]
MOVE ON TO ITEM TWO A, RECEIVE A PRESENTATION OF THE BAYTOWN CCPD STREET CRIME UNIT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TEAM, COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ENFORCEMENT STATISTICAL REPORTS.UM, AND AGAIN, AS ALWAYS, I, I KNOW THAT YOU WERE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF READING THIS.
UM, I'M NOT GOING TO INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE.
UH, DO YOU GUYS HAVE HAVE THESE? I SAW 'EM ON MINE.
I, I, I WILL, UH, READ THEM SINCE YOU DON'T HAVE THEM.
WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING THAT YOU CAN'T SEE 'EM HERE.
SO, UM, MANAGEMENT TEAM, UH, UNDER DUIS, UH, FOR THE, THE, THE, THE TOTAL FOR THE LAST QUARTER WAS, UH, 1,633, OR I GUESS YEAR TO DATE.
UH, TOTAL FOR THE QUARTER WAS 39.
UM, AND THEN, UM, FOR OUR CITATION, THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND CITATIONS OF 1012.
UH, THE TEAM TOTAL FOR WARNINGS IS 583, UH, AND THEN, UH, TRAFFIC STOPS.
THEY ARE CURRENTLY AT 155 TRAFFIC STOPS FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES.
UH, AND AGAIN, THIS IS ALL COMMERCIAL VEHICLES.
UH, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, UH, THEY'VE HAD 55 CITATIONS ISSUED TO COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AS A RESULT OF THOSE STOPS.
AND, UM, 2 62 COMMERCIAL VEHICLE.
SO WE HAD 155 STOPS, 2 62 WARNINGS, 55 COMMERCIAL CITATIONS.
THAT MEANS WE'RE GIVING MULTIPLE YES.
SO THE GUY GOT A CITATION AND TWO WARNINGS OR, YES, SIR.
IS IT JUST THE OFFICER'S DISCRETION ON IT, IS WHICH WAY IT GOES? THERE'S NOTHING, UH, IT IS, I BELIEVE, UH, THERE ARE PROBABLY SOME VIOLATIONS THAT MAKE THEM, THEY'RE NOT A SERVICE.
UH, I THINK THAT THERE ARE SOME, BUT I'D HAVE TO CHECK WITH THOSE GUYS TO TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW MANY, MANY, UH, UH, VIOLATIONS RESULTING ON THOSE GUYS ARE THE EXPERTS.
UH, MOVING OVER TO STREET CRIMES, UH, I'M JUST GONNA GIVE THE TOTALS HERE.
UH, FOR THE, UH, THIRD QUARTER OF 2023, THE, THE STREET CRIMES UNIT HAD 553 TRAFFIC STOPS, WHICH RESULTED IN 283 CITATIONS, UH, 131 ARRESTS.
NOW, SOME OF THOSE ARRESTS COULD HAVE BEEN FOR PROBABLE CAUSE, OTHERS COULD HAVE BEEN ONE ARREST, BUT SUBJECTS HAD WARRANT FROM OUR AGENCY OR, UH, MARIJUANA, THEY CONFISCATED 1,942 GRAMS, UH, METHAMPHETAMINE, 68 GRAMS, AND THEY CONFISCATED AND SEIZED A TOTAL OF $3,329.
UM, SOME NOTABLE EVENTS, UM, INTERDICTION STOP BY OFFICER HILL, WHO WAS WORKING IN THE STREET CRIMES UNIT, RESULTED IN A SEIZURE OF 1,419 GRAMS OF MARIJUANA, AND THAT'S OVER THREE POUNDS OF MARIJUANA AND, UH, 1,806 $60 IN GRAMS. UH, OFFICER HILL IS ONE OF OUR VIEWER OFFICERS.
HE'S NOT ACTUALLY ON THE STREET CRIMES UNIT, BUT WE'RE ALLOWING OUR OFFICERS FROM PATROL TO WORK THOSE THREE CRIMES UNITS SO THEY CAN MAINTAIN THAT TYPE OF EXPERIENCE.
OR YOU CAN TRAINING REPLACEMENTS AS STREET CRIMES.
OFFICERS EITHER PROMOTE SUPERVISORY POSITIONS OR THEY GO INTO SPECIALIZED UNITS, OR IF THEY FEEL THAT THEY BRING FROM THIS TYPE OF HIGH STRESS UNIT, THEY CONTROL, BUT WE'VE GOT SOME DEPTH ON OUR BENCH SO THAT WE CAN REPLACE THEM.
SO THAT'S WHAT OFFICER HILL WAS.
UH, OFFICER OBERLIN AND RICHTER RIDING THE TWO MEN UNIT CONDUCTED A TRAFFIC STOP DURING THEIR
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INVESTIGATION.THEY RECOVERED 68 GRAMS OF METH AND TWO FIREARMS WITH 200 GRAMS OF AMMUNITION ON ANOTHER CASE.
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF LICENSE PLATE READERS, OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO LOCATE, LOCATE A VEHICLE, WHICH HAD BEEN TAKEN IN AN AGGRAVATED PROPERTY IN HOUSTON, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO ARREST TWO SUSPECTS IN ARREST.
THAT, UH, MOST RECENTLY LAST NIGHT, UH, I CAN TELL YOU I WAS ON MY WAY TO, UH, UH, JUUJITSU TRAINING WHEN I WAS LISTENING TO RADIO.
AND I HEARD SAME STREET GROUND YOU THAT IN PURSUIT FOR THE PERSON WHO WAS SUSPECTED OF, UH, CARJACKING, HE ATTEMPTED ONE CARJACKING AND THE WAS SUCCESSFUL.
UH, CHASE STOOD TO THE REPORT, SUSPECTED UP, BUT I'LL HAVE TO CONFIRM.
UM, ON A, UH, FOURTH CASE OFFICERS LOCATED A VEHICLE AND SUSPECTS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN MALE THEFT AND IDENTITY THEFT DURING THE TRAFFIC STOP STREET CRIMES OFFICERS RECOVERED SEVERAL FORCE CHECKS AND CREDIT CARDS ALONG TO OTHER CITIZENS.
TWO SUBJECTS WERE ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE PHONES DURING A CONSENSUAL ENCOUNTER WITH A VEHICLE SITTING IN A PARKING LOT AT A GAS STATION.
OFFICERS RECOVERED OVER THE DOWN OF MARIJUANA AND SEIZE 1460 $9 IN CURRENCY.
UM, SOMETHING ELSE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO JUST MAKE YOU AWARE OF, I WOULD LIKE TO COMPARE, UH, THIS CURRENT, UH, ORDER TO LAST YEAR'S AND KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL, BUT OUR STREET CRIMES UNIT AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION, WHICH, UH, UH, SO MUCH OF THE FINDING GOES TO ASSIST WITH HERE, UH, FROM CCP D AND AN ACTIVE PART
SO OUR PART ONE AND OFFENSES, FELONIES, THAT SORT OF THING, UH, THE TOTAL OFFENSES ARE ACTUALLY DOWN THE SAME TIME PERIOD THIS LAST YEAR PERCENT.
SO WE'RE APPROACHING SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE STATISTICALLY IF YOU LOOK AT, UH, SEPTEMBER OF 23 AND 20, THE TOTAL NUMBERS ARE DOWN BY, WE'RE STARTING TO SEE SOME REDUCTION IN, UH, UM, SOMETHING ELSE THAT I THINK IS, UH, PROPERTY LOSS.
THE SAME TIME PERIODS, UH, TWO, THREE PROPERTY LOSS IS DOWN 19, AND THE RECOVERED PROPERTY IS ACTUALLY UP 24%.
THAT ALSO INCLUDES OUR INVESTIGATORS TOO.
THEY HAVE A LARGE PART IN THESE CASES LOCATED THIS EQUIPMENT.
WHO WORKS IN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS, DOES A LOT OF TRAILER AND AUTO THEFT, AND HE RECOVERS PRETTY MUCH ON A BASIS.
SO WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT 10 AND $70,000 FOR A VEHICLE, ITS VALUE.
UM, AND IF HE RETIRES ON US ANYTIME SOON, OUR INSTITUTION HOPING THAT HE'S TRAINING, UM, OUR TOTAL CLEARED OFFENSES FOR THE DEPARTMENT ARE UP 10%.
UH, AND, UM, THE VIOLENT CRIME CLEARED IS, IS UP 4%.
I DON'T HAVE THE, I HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT THE, UH, THE DOWN FOR THE SAME MONTH.
LAST TWO, LAST EPTEMBER 22, SEPTEMBER 23.
BUT OVERALL ACTUALLY, AND PROPERTY CRIME, UH, UM, WE'RE 12, SO WE'RE TRACKING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
THOSE NUMBERS MAY NOT BE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT, BUT THEY ARE SHOWING IN PROGRESS AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TO SEE BECAUSE WE'VE SET A DEPARTMENT FROM RATE WILL DROP 20% PREPARATION BY 10%.
UH, SO WE GOT A WAYS TO GO FOR THAT.
WE ALSO SET A DEPARTMENT THAT, UH, TRAFFIC COLLISION THAT INS, I JUST WANNA MAKE A COMMENT LOOKING AT TODAY'S PAPER AND LAST SATURDAY'S PAPER MM-HMM
PASS ON OUR WISHES TO CONTINUE ON.
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ONE COMMENT THAT I HAVE IS I REALLY APPRECIATE THE VERY DETAILED STREET CRIME UNIT REPORTS.I REALLY LIKE SEEING THE ACTUAL EXAMPLES OF WHAT STREET CRIME MUSIC ARE DOING, CONSIDERING THAT WE FUND A LOT OF THE EQUIPMENT.
I REALLY APPRECIATE, UM, SEEING THAT.
AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK TO KNOW THAT, UH, FLOCK, UH, LPR CAMERA SYSTEM TRANSPARENCY PORTAL IS UP AND OPEN ON THE, UH, POLICE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
SO EVEN KNOW WE DON'T GIVE YOU ALL THE STATISTICAL DATA THAT WE DISCUSSED IN THE CASE.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN HAVE ENOUGH OF THOSE, THOSE CAMERAS.
AS I UNDERSTAND, SUGARLAND HAS A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED AND THEY 100 SO SUCCESSFUL.
ARE WE CONTINUING TO LOOK AT OTHER AGENCIES DEPARTMENT WITH, ON THE LPR CAMPUS? WE DO.
UM, NOW THEY HAVE TO, UH, THEY HAVE TO BE COLLECT BY US AND THEY HAVE TO FOLLOW APPROPRIATE CALLS THROUGH FLOCK IN ORDER TO HAVE ACCESS TO THAT INFORMATION.
IF WE FIND OUT THAT THEY'RE MIS USING IT, THEN WE'LL CUT THEM OFF.
I WAS JUST GONNA ADD, UH, BY THE WAY, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T KNOW ME, MY NAME IS BRENT GARY, I'M ONE OF THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS.
UM, BEEN WITH THE CITY A LITTLE OVER A YEAR NOW, AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD, RELATIVE TO THE FLOCK CAMERAS THAT I'VE, UH, BEEN INVOLVED IN PROJECTS IN TWO OTHER CITIES, THIS HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED AND, UM, DEALT WITH SOME OF THE SAME INITIAL QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, BUT ALSO, UM, SOME OF THE SUCCESSES AS WELL.
UM, AND WE'RE TALKING THAT AT CLEARANCE RATES THAT ARE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THIS SYSTEM, IT MORE THAN PAYS FOR ITSELF.
HOW DO, HOW DO THEY, UH, HOW DO THEY, THEY JUST LEARN BY ACCIDENT ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I KIND OF KNEW FROM HERE, SO THAT'S HOW WE GOT IT AT OUR HOA.
BUT I MEAN, I THINK IF THERE'S AN HOA IN THIS TOWN THAT THEY SHOULD BE SPENDING THE, I THINK IT'S 2,500 A YEAR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THEY SHOULD BE SPENDING THAT ON THEIR, ON THEIR SUBDIVISION.
IT'S, IT'S GRAY, IT'S MONEY WELL SPENT.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN WELL SPENT IN MY SUBDIVISION.
WE HAD A SITUATION A FEW MONTHS AGO WHERE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A HOUSE DIRECTLY BEHIND MINE.
UM, IMAGINE MY SURPRISE, MY DAUGHTER WILL SOMEBODY SHOOTING.
SO IT WOULD'VE BEEN NICE IF WE'D HAVE HAD THOSE EITHER OUT ON THE ROADWAYS OR ENTRANCES TO OUR SUBDIVISION.
UM, THANKFULLY OUR NEIGHBORS, UH, ALL HAVE, UH, SECURITY SYSTEMS WITH CAMERAS ON GUY.
SO RIGHT NOW WE JUST HAVE 'EM ON MAJOR STREETS.
SO RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE ALL ON PUBLIC ROADWAYS, THE ONES THAT THE, THE, THE CITY OWNS.
AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE A ONE, YOU HAVE A DIMINISHED EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY AND A DIMINISHED EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY WILL, IT WILL STILL HAVE, UH, FOURTH AMENDMENT PROTECTION.
HOWEVER, DRIVING IS CONSIDERED A PAROLE, NOT A RIOT, WHICH IS THE REASON YOU HAVE TO HAVE LICENSE PLATES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THE ONLY PLACE THAT OUR CAMERA DIRECTED IS ANY PLACE THAT ANYBODY WHO IS, UH, ABLE TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR OWN FOCUS ON THE
SO THAT'S THE REASON THAT WE STILL ARE A LITTLE DELAYED PROBABLY, I WOULD GUESS IN, UM, ALERTING TO SOME OF THE VEHICLES THAT ARE STOLEN FROM A POPUP PARK AND I 10 AT THE, UM, THE HOTELS AND WHATNOT, BECAUSE THAT'S OUR CONCENTRATED AREA.
I WILL SAY THAT THE AUTO THEFTS HAVE BEEN DOWN SOMEWHAT, BUT STILL NOT, UH, THE NUMBERS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
I'D LIKE TO GET 'EM DOWN INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS FOR SOMETHING.
I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT THE, UH, TRANS TRANSPARENCY PORTAL IS ACTIVE.
I THINK A LOT OF THIS IS HAS TO DO WITH EDUCATION, EDUCATING THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, IN MY OWN NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, A COUPLE YEARS AGO, WE STILL HAVEN'T UNS SAW MURDER AND A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL THAT IF WE HAD THESE LVR CAMERAS AT THE TIME, THAT CRIME WOULD'VE BEEN ASSAULT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S, IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT IT'S CONTINUING TO ROLL OUT.
AND, AND I WILL SAY THIS AGAIN, IT IS ABOUT LEADERSHIP AND PROPER, PROPER GOVERNANCE.
WHOEVER IS THE LEADER OF THE ORGANIZATION HAS GOTTA SET THE APPROPRIATE TONE FOR ACCUSED, SET THE TONE FOR ETHICS AND, UH, AND ACCOUNTABILITY AS LONG AS I'M HERE AND DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THAT HAPPENS.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE? ANY QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
CONSIDER THAT REPORT RECEIVED AND
[b. Receive the CCPD Quarterly Financial and Investment Reports for the Quarter Ending June 30, 2023.]
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TO ITEM TWO B.WE'LL RECEIVE THE CCPD QUARTERLY FINANCIAL AND INVESTMENT REPORTS FOR THE QUARTER C JUNE 30TH, 2023.
HI, I AM TRACY MCKENZIE AND I'M HERE TO PRESENT THE THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT PREPARED ENDING, UM, FOR THIS QUARTER.
AT THE END OF THIS QUARTER, WE HAVE 1.95 IN REVENUE WE'VE RECEIVED, WHICH IS 81% OF THE BUDGET.
WE HAVE 2.5 IN EXPENDITURES THAT HAVE BEEN SPENT WITH THE 78% OF THE BUDGET, EVEN US WITH A FUND BALANCE OF $1.5 MILLION.
UM, OUR INVESTMENT BOOK VALUE AT THIS TIME IS 1.7 MILLION AND WE EARNED $21,599 INVESTMENT.
UM, UNDER THE SERVICES $192, WHAT IS THAT FOR? I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING BUDGETED FOR IT.
SO WHAT, WHAT IS THAT FOR? IS THAT, UM, I PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS, BUT I, YEAH.
[a. The next Baytown Crime Control and Prevention District meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at 4:30 P.M., in the Council Chamber located at City Hall, 2401 Market Street, Baytown, Texas 77520. ]
MANAGER'S REPORT.UH, GOOD AFTERNOON AGAIN, UM, NOT TOO MUCH TO REPORT.
UH, THE NEXT MEETING OF THIS BODY IS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 9TH, UH, 2024.
SO WE'LL BE STAYING HAPPY ONE YEAR.
UM, AT THAT POINT THAT, UH, OVER HERE TO CITY HALL, UM, YOU'D WANT TO JUST KIND OF MENTION AND GIVE THOSE TO, UM, QUITE A FEW OF OUR DEPARTMENTS.
UM, WE HAVE HAD SOME REALLY LARGE EVENTS HERE THAT ARE UN TICKETED FREE, AND NORMALLY THAT'S A RECIPE FOR CHAOS.
BUT, UM, HAVING SEEN SEVERAL GO, UH, AND JUST RELATIVELY ISSUE FREE, I THINK IT'S A, A TESTAMENT TO, UH, NOT ONLY OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT, UM, ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED IN OUR EVENTS.
SO, UM, JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE.
AND I ATTENDED, I'VE ATTENDED TWO EVENTS, UM, RECENTLY.
I'VE ATTENDED NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, UM, C GO AND THE TACOS AND CHAT WITH A COP, AND I WAS VERY IMPRESSED.
HATS OFF TO YOUR, UH, DEPARTMENT CHIEF.
UH, IT, IT'S REALLY GREAT TO SEE THESE COMMUNITY EVENTS AND SEEING A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING TO MAKE EVENTS.
SO I WAS, I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED.
UM, DOES ANYONE HOUSE HAVE ANY COMMENTS HERE TODAY? ALL RIGHT, THEN I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
ANY OPPOSED? MEETING ADJOURNED AT 4 48.