WEBVTT 00:00:00.226 --> 00:00:10.916 - Well, good morning. I would like to call this meeting of the Board of Public Safety to order. Welcome 00:00:10.916 --> 00:00:21.396 - to our guests this morning and special guests. Recording in progress. So I'm on the record already. 00:00:21.396 --> 00:00:23.806 - We would like to first 00:00:24.002 --> 00:00:31.831 - Look at the agenda, the consent agenda, and I would seek approval of that agenda as I won't have a chance 00:00:31.831 --> 00:00:39.291 - to look at last month's minutes. If there is, the agenda includes the approval of those minutes, the 00:00:39.291 --> 00:00:46.973 - approval of the claims that were filed from September 12th through September, or December, October 9th, 00:00:46.973 --> 00:00:50.814 - approval of the payroll from 918 to 1002, any other 00:00:52.194 --> 00:00:59.789 - Any other comments or questions about that consent agenda? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion 00:00:59.789 --> 00:01:06.928 - to approve that agenda. Motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All in favor, aye. Aye. 00:01:06.928 --> 00:01:14.523 - Thank you. That's approved. I would now ask for the police department business. I would ask that we 00:01:14.523 --> 00:01:21.662 - can move item D up to the top, personnel issues. Yeah. Is that all right? That's perfect. OK. 00:01:21.794 --> 00:01:31.712 - So we have some promotions that we would like to make and these are mayoral appointments and Mayor Thompson 00:01:31.712 --> 00:01:40.988 - is here and so we have a new deputy chief and two new captains. Ryan Pettigo was appointed this week 00:01:40.988 --> 00:01:48.702 - by the mayor to be the new deputy chief and Mike Baker and Lucas Tate were promoted 00:01:49.090 --> 00:01:57.461 - from lieutenant to captain by the mayor. Those are all mayoral appointments. So she's here today. 00:01:57.461 --> 00:02:06.345 - We have, Ryan already has his badge, but we have the two new captains have not gotten their badges yet. 00:02:06.345 --> 00:02:14.374 - So I think the mayor would like to present those. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for your service. 00:02:14.374 --> 00:02:16.766 - Congratulations. Thank you. 00:02:22.914 --> 00:02:31.462 - Thank you. And I also just wanted to say hi to the Board of Public Safety and hope you know if you ever 00:02:31.462 --> 00:02:39.763 - need anything reach out to me but I really do appreciate your service and the way you do business is 00:02:39.763 --> 00:02:46.174 - exemplary so really appreciate what you do for the city. Thank you very much. 00:02:46.274 --> 00:02:55.493 - Good to see you all. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Stop by any time. Bring Riley. Well, Riley was all 00:02:55.493 --> 00:03:04.895 - dressed in his wear purple for domestic violence. My sword didn't connect the dots that you'd be here. 00:03:04.895 --> 00:03:14.206 - Riley really loves these too. He would have come. All right. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. 00:03:14.690 --> 00:03:21.258 - Now return to the rest of the police department business if we could. Sure. Well, I guess I should ask 00:03:21.258 --> 00:03:27.954 - the board under personal issues would probably also be the approval approval. Would you like to do those 00:03:27.954 --> 00:03:34.458 - now or would you like to wait? It's this is perfectly appropriate to do it now. OK, so let's do that. 00:03:34.458 --> 00:03:41.153 - OK. In executive session, I spoke with board members about seeking approval for three conditional offers 00:03:41.153 --> 00:03:42.110 - of employment. 00:03:42.626 --> 00:03:49.621 - for applicants Brian James, applicant Jordan Grant, and applicant Maverick Wells. This conditional offer 00:03:49.621 --> 00:03:56.284 - of employment would be contingent upon those three applicants successfully completing the remaining 00:03:56.284 --> 00:04:02.946 - stage of the hiring process, which would include things like physical and psychological exam, truth 00:04:02.946 --> 00:04:10.008 - verification, acceptance by the local pension fund and the state pension fund. I would entertain a motion 00:04:10.008 --> 00:04:12.606 - to approve those appointments. Second. 00:04:13.410 --> 00:04:23.894 - Any discussion? No discussion. If I may, I believe before Chris has asked the board to approve them 00:04:23.894 --> 00:04:34.377 - individually? Individually. All right. So which one? Just in these three names. So we would like to 00:04:34.377 --> 00:04:42.974 - approve the appointment of Brian James. Second. And under the condition that they 00:04:43.650 --> 00:04:52.900 - meet the qualifications and standards and the protocols that have to be pursued before they're formally 00:04:52.900 --> 00:05:02.239 - appointed. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Approved. Mr. Jordan Brandt, assuming that he also fulfills all those 00:05:02.239 --> 00:05:11.934 - prior obligations and conditions and stipulations. So moved. Moved. Second? Second. Thank you. All in favor? 00:05:12.354 --> 00:05:19.912 - And finally, Maverick Wells. On the assumption that he also completes all of the requirements and conditions 00:05:19.912 --> 00:05:27.192 - of employment, I would entertain a motion to approve his appointment. Motion to approve? Second? Second. 00:05:27.192 --> 00:05:34.334 - All in favor? Aye. Thank you very much. I think we've approved all three of them. Congratulations, and 00:05:34.334 --> 00:05:37.662 - we wish them well. All right. Thank you, Board. 00:05:38.690 --> 00:05:45.798 - All right, so we'll go ahead and start then back at the top on our stats for the past month. Pulse for 00:05:45.798 --> 00:05:52.837 - service, we continue to see a slight decline from 2026, which is welcome. Around that 10.2% I believe 00:05:52.837 --> 00:06:00.013 - last month, it was just slightly higher on 10.5%, but we do continue to see a slight decrease in calls. 00:06:00.013 --> 00:06:05.534 - And we're hoping that continues through the end of the year. Crime comparisons. 00:06:06.850 --> 00:06:13.558 - Most categories seem to be down, which is obviously a good thing. We have really focused some efforts 00:06:13.558 --> 00:06:20.134 - in the downtown area and basically on drunken behavior and trying to make sure the downtown remains 00:06:20.134 --> 00:06:26.907 - safe for those that visit. So there is a slight increase in that 27% of that public intoxication. Most 00:06:26.907 --> 00:06:33.746 - of those are all related to calls for service for disorderly behavior and dealing with the issue before 00:06:33.746 --> 00:06:35.390 - it becomes a larger one. 00:06:36.514 --> 00:06:46.391 - did have a homicide. I was going to ask. Yeah, it was very recent. It didn't make the statistics. So 00:06:46.391 --> 00:06:56.365 - that will be reported next month. Moving on to traffic stops. Those are continuing to climb again. We 00:06:56.365 --> 00:07:06.046 - see a slight decrease in 2025. However, we see those increases again. And I think that also can be 00:07:06.786 --> 00:07:13.573 - So you see an increase there at 12.8% of the operating while intoxicated arrests. I think proactively 00:07:13.573 --> 00:07:20.228 - seeking out those breaking the laws and those that are driving while intoxicated, things like that, 00:07:20.228 --> 00:07:26.948 - I think those are a direct correlation. We are encouraging the officers to do so. Obviously, we need 00:07:26.948 --> 00:07:33.602 - to decrease those that are driving intoxicated while in our city. Crimes involving weapons continue 00:07:33.602 --> 00:07:35.998 - to go down from that high end 2024. 00:07:36.994 --> 00:07:42.937 - I think we've said it multiple times before, but I would like to reiterate that I do honestly believe 00:07:42.937 --> 00:07:48.996 - that's directly attributed to the work of our investigators and officers and arresting people, locating 00:07:48.996 --> 00:07:54.938 - those responsible for these crimes, arresting them and ensuring that they're held accountable so that 00:07:54.938 --> 00:08:00.881 - those that are repeat offenders are no longer allowed to do so because they're being held accountable 00:08:00.881 --> 00:08:04.318 - for their actions involving weapons. Arrests basically are 00:08:05.826 --> 00:08:12.352 - basically the same from the same time last year, just a slight increase, but nothing of really note. 00:08:12.352 --> 00:08:19.008 - Juveniles remain about the same, a slight increase. Those kind of fluctuate month to month. There were 00:08:19.008 --> 00:08:25.470 - no hate crimes, however, let's see, yeah, so this would have been the end of a quarter. We had zero 00:08:25.470 --> 00:08:32.190 - reported through this past quarter, and so we're at zero for the year, which is certainly a good thing. 00:08:34.786 --> 00:08:42.637 - Nuisance calls, these remain the same, I think, month to month. A lot of it related to alcohol. Training, 00:08:42.637 --> 00:08:50.192 - we had 746 and a half hours. A lot of that, we have mandated training that the officers completed. We 00:08:50.192 --> 00:08:57.968 - also had another large group of officers go through an hours worth of firearms training. There was three 00:08:57.968 --> 00:09:04.190 - day in service, which is also mandatory for all officers of the agency to complete. 00:09:04.418 --> 00:09:11.545 - And then we sent 11 officers, 11 officers, I'm sorry, attended seven and a half hours of crisis negotiation. 00:09:11.545 --> 00:09:18.084 - So those are important. We also sent four officers for a total of 16 hours to be TASER instructors. 00:09:18.084 --> 00:09:24.622 - That way we can continue doing training in-house and that they're certified through Axon themselves 00:09:24.622 --> 00:09:31.291 - to train our officers in the appropriate use for the electronic control weapon. Community engagement, 00:09:31.291 --> 00:09:32.926 - there were eight events. 00:09:34.754 --> 00:09:41.884 - Although it shows on here as being upcoming, I would like to note that we did a night out in Bloomington 00:09:41.884 --> 00:09:48.675 - on October 6th, so just a little bit earlier this month. I think that it was probably, I would like 00:09:48.675 --> 00:09:55.126 - to call it a big success. We had a large turnout. We had changed it this year from the normal, 00:09:55.126 --> 00:10:02.324 - quote unquote, national night out, which is a trademarked name, I guess, or title. But that is in August, 00:10:02.324 --> 00:10:03.614 - and it's the very, 00:10:03.938 --> 00:10:10.514 - last day before school begins. That's also the same evening when a lot of parents had to meet with like 00:10:10.514 --> 00:10:17.090 - parent teacher conferences. So that affected our turnout and people weren't able to come. So we decided 00:10:17.090 --> 00:10:23.477 - to push it back to October this year, which the weather was certainly a blessing because it was much 00:10:23.477 --> 00:10:29.800 - cooler than standing there in August. So it was a big success. We had a lot of people. Captain Tate 00:10:29.800 --> 00:10:33.278 - grilled 160 hot dogs and I think we handed out 150. So 00:10:33.986 --> 00:10:41.529 - large turnout so that was and we invited several other city agencies and departments as well as other 00:10:41.529 --> 00:10:48.998 - first responder agencies in Monroe County. Of note one that is upcoming is a national drug take back 00:10:48.998 --> 00:10:56.836 - day October 24th that'll be at Kroger West and it's usually a pretty big event we usually collect several 00:10:56.836 --> 00:11:02.974 - well pounds and pounds of unused prescription medication obviously it's good to if 00:11:03.138 --> 00:11:09.576 - It's no longer being used. People get that turned in. It's destroyed by the DEA in a controlled manner 00:11:09.576 --> 00:11:15.827 - and then that way it's not in the streets or in cabinets for people to get a hold of. Unfortunately 00:11:15.827 --> 00:11:22.391 - this week, I'm sorry for this month, I was unable to provide social worker stats. Our head social worker 00:11:22.391 --> 00:11:28.767 - was out of the country on a vacation and we had some issues. The software updated and those that were 00:11:28.767 --> 00:11:32.830 - going to pull for me were unable to do so. So I do apologize for 00:11:32.994 --> 00:11:41.221 - not being able to provide stats, I'll make sure next month to try and catch the board up on where they're 00:11:41.221 --> 00:11:48.983 - at. So I apologize for that. Under general business, Chief? I don't really have a whole lot. It's a 00:11:48.983 --> 00:11:57.211 - busy time of the year. Football games, homecoming is coming up. It's on Halloween, so that will be really 00:11:57.211 --> 00:12:01.790 - busy. So that's pretty much about it for general business. 00:12:03.714 --> 00:12:09.806 - I may note for those that may be downtown on that date, if they're not aware, the parade route this 00:12:09.806 --> 00:12:16.141 - year is changed and it actually goes down Kirkwood instead of up Indiana. So the downtown Kirkwood area 00:12:16.141 --> 00:12:22.355 - will be very busy on homecoming weekend as all of those roads are closed basically between Walnut and 00:12:22.355 --> 00:12:28.873 - Indiana for the parade route to go east towards the sample gates and then turn north. I also don't believe 00:12:28.873 --> 00:12:31.614 - there are any large purchases, expenditures. 00:12:31.746 --> 00:12:50.862 - And we had zero ARV deployments. Quick question if I could ask on the firearm issues. Incidents involving 00:12:50.862 --> 00:12:59.518 - firearms and arrests made as a result of those. 00:12:59.906 --> 00:13:07.463 - Can I assume that the firearm that was involved is confiscated normally? Yeah, if we are able to locate 00:13:07.463 --> 00:13:15.166 - it unless they've already, you know, we certainly put as much effort in we can, even if when the person's 00:13:15.166 --> 00:13:22.796 - arrested or search warrant is served, if the firearm is not located, we extend a lot of effort in trying 00:13:22.796 --> 00:13:29.118 - to locate the firearm to make sure that we do confiscate it and it's held as evidence. 00:13:29.986 --> 00:13:36.246 - Obviously there are certain times to where we're unable to locate it, but I would say it would be safe 00:13:36.246 --> 00:13:42.627 - to say the vast majority of incidents involving firearms, we are able to locate it and it is confiscated 00:13:42.627 --> 00:13:48.825 - and held as evidence. So following that, can I assume that to some extent that results in a reduction 00:13:48.825 --> 00:13:54.963 - in the number of firearms floating around in the community? Or is that a pipe dream? There are a lot 00:13:54.963 --> 00:13:59.582 - of guns in the community. I mean, obviously... A lot of law-abiding people. 00:13:59.714 --> 00:14:09.953 - Yes. We did a violent crime detail a month or so ago, and it was 14 cars, and we had 14 people with 00:14:09.953 --> 00:14:20.498 - weapons. So unfortunately, there are a lot of firearms out there. And again, many of those are vaguely 00:14:20.498 --> 00:14:29.406 - possessed soldiers. I don't have a fundamental problem with the ownership of firearms, 00:14:30.082 --> 00:14:37.364 - Those that shouldn't have them, it'd be nice to get those people off. Thanks. Sorry to hold you up. 00:14:37.364 --> 00:14:44.719 - Oh, no worries. Good morning, everyone. Fire statistics. So you'll see on the heat map with students 00:14:44.719 --> 00:14:52.001 - back, a higher concentration of those hot areas now on campus, particularly sorority and fraternity 00:14:52.001 --> 00:14:58.846 - row. That's pretty expected. We've been busy in those areas, especially with football season. 00:15:00.194 --> 00:15:07.585 - Here's a breakdown of our responses. These are following the normal trends that we see. The rescues 00:15:07.585 --> 00:15:15.273 - on there are typically going to be elevator rescues, especially now that we have more occupants in town 00:15:15.273 --> 00:15:22.960 - in that area. Breakdown between IU and Citi. The Citi's month totals are an 11% increase from last year 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:27.838 - in September, looking at a 34% increase over the last five years. 00:15:27.970 --> 00:15:34.792 - portion of this indicates 17% of the month's runs, which is up from the average of 13% and expected 00:15:34.792 --> 00:15:41.614 - summer brings that number down. School starts, brings that number back up. Turn up times, following 00:15:41.614 --> 00:15:48.641 - trends that we've seen in the past, majority of these are meeting or exceeding what we're looking for. 00:15:48.641 --> 00:15:52.734 - So these are following suit with what we traditionally see. 00:15:55.906 --> 00:16:02.275 - Public engagement and prevention has been active. We've seen a number of inspections completed. Again, 00:16:02.275 --> 00:16:08.643 - just as a reminder, the goal is to hit every business in town. So with the amount of staff we have and 00:16:08.643 --> 00:16:15.074 - I use demands, that's commonly one that's just not realistic for us to hit. But that team has been very 00:16:15.074 --> 00:16:21.628 - busy getting into all the businesses they can while still doing their investigations and other prevention 00:16:21.628 --> 00:16:25.214 - activities. For community engagement, we are at and above 00:16:25.794 --> 00:16:32.692 - the goals that we've been, or some of the previous statistics we've seen for children educated and smoke 00:16:32.692 --> 00:16:39.591 - detector installations. So he's been active and doing a good job. We've had 199 engagements in September 00:16:39.591 --> 00:16:46.292 - for public engagement, 77 smoke detector installations. Training hours were exceeding where we should 00:16:46.292 --> 00:16:52.862 - be for the year, so that's great. Whenever we have a recruit academy, that usually boosts those up. 00:16:53.474 --> 00:16:59.644 - We're looking good for exceeding our goal for the year. Highlights of some of those I'll mention are 00:16:59.644 --> 00:17:05.814 - just one item that's been nice. We had a disruption to our athletic trainer program. The person that 00:17:05.814 --> 00:17:12.106 - was overseeing it was injured severely in a car accident. So it disrupted our program. We've been able 00:17:12.106 --> 00:17:18.276 - to get it going again with fill-ins from our vendor and it's been going pretty well. We're certainly 00:17:18.276 --> 00:17:22.430 - looking forward to and hopeful that the original person will return 00:17:22.914 --> 00:17:28.708 - to full health and come back and oversee our program again, but we've got it up and running in a capacity 00:17:28.708 --> 00:17:34.338 - it's working for now. Another nice new change, we revamped the automatic aid with the surrounding fire 00:17:34.338 --> 00:17:40.022 - departments, so we respond with them again. It's been a good cooperation, and we put forth new policies 00:17:40.022 --> 00:17:45.597 - that would dictate what we respond to, what they respond to, and then we implemented training for the 00:17:45.597 --> 00:17:47.838 - entire department on those new policies. 00:17:48.898 --> 00:17:54.310 - And then the last one I'll highlight on here is our ops center is substantially complete, and we've 00:17:54.310 --> 00:17:59.723 - been moving into it. And it's looked great. Now that people are in there and our stuff is in there, 00:17:59.723 --> 00:18:05.189 - now it looks complete. That's what it was missing was us living in there. So we're happy to have you 00:18:05.189 --> 00:18:10.872 - in there. I'll address an opening date here in a moment. MIH statistics break down between the different 00:18:10.872 --> 00:18:16.339 - branches of what we approach with that. As a highlight here, we have hired a new program manager. So 00:18:16.339 --> 00:18:18.558 - we're looking forward to what he can do. 00:18:18.690 --> 00:18:25.096 - If you haven't met him yet, I'll try to introduce him to you the next time that we cross paths. But 00:18:25.096 --> 00:18:31.566 - he's hit the ground running. And I anticipate he'll make some changes for the better to the program. 00:18:31.566 --> 00:18:38.293 - And we're excited to see what he does with it. As far as kudos, we had an NIH team respond to a patient. 00:18:38.293 --> 00:18:44.955 - And during the call, they uncovered an emergency that was taking place. And we're able to mitigate that 00:18:44.955 --> 00:18:47.582 - and prevent it from getting a lot worse. 00:18:48.514 --> 00:18:55.088 - These folks aren't just tending to patients with their long-term care, they're also handling emergency. 00:18:55.088 --> 00:19:01.599 - This is one of many emergencies they've mitigated while visiting patients, so they're doing good work. 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:08.110 - As far as general business, as mentioned, the operations center has been substantially complete. We're 00:19:08.110 --> 00:19:14.621 - moving in and we hope to have everything ready very soon. The ribbon cutting has been set for November 00:19:14.621 --> 00:19:17.150 - 6th at 10 a.m., so please, any and all. 00:19:17.698 --> 00:19:23.597 - If you want to come hang out with us on that date, we're welcome to have you. So it should be. Have 00:19:23.597 --> 00:19:29.731 - you seen November 6? November 6, 10 AM. OK, thanks. Everyone's invited, please. Please show up and hang 00:19:29.731 --> 00:19:35.866 - out. It turned out really, really good. Personal issues, as I mentioned, we have a new program manager. 00:19:35.866 --> 00:19:41.823 - So he started this week and is instantly very active. So you'll probably see him around. We have two 00:19:41.823 --> 00:19:47.486 - members currently on light duty. One is on FMLA or soon to be on FMLA. And we have six members. 00:19:47.586 --> 00:19:54.360 - on intermittent baby bonding currently. And lastly, purchases. We actually had our GEO bond presentation 00:19:54.360 --> 00:20:00.941 - last night at council. It was approved to move to the November 4th meeting, but on that we anticipate 00:20:00.941 --> 00:20:07.457 - purchasing a new aerial platform truck at a cost of around $2.5 million. So assuming everything goes 00:20:07.457 --> 00:20:13.908 - well with that GO bond, we'll be looking to secure that or at least dedicate the money to it at the 00:20:13.908 --> 00:20:15.134 - first of the year. 00:20:18.658 --> 00:20:27.729 - So has any questions on anything? Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. Any questions from the board? Hearing 00:20:27.729 --> 00:20:36.715 - none. Is there any other old business to attend? I just have one thing. We need to certify the executive 00:20:36.715 --> 00:20:45.444 - session. That's right. We didn't do that, did we? So I move to certify the executive session. Second. 00:20:45.444 --> 00:20:47.070 - All in favor? Aye. 00:20:47.586 --> 00:20:56.910 - Thank you very much, Tim, for doing that. I apologize for missing that. So for the record, we've certified 00:20:56.910 --> 00:21:05.799 - the executive session. Late, but we did it. But it's certified. But it's certified. Any new business? 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:14.948 - Bring none. Any petitions and communications from the floor? Then I would entertain a motion to adjourn. 00:21:14.948 --> 00:21:17.214 - Second. We are adjourned. 00:21:18.338 --> 00:21:20.062 - Thank you all very much.