September 9, 2024 — Police Oversight Panel Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:03] uh welcome to the August meeting for the city of Boulder Police oversight panel uh just reminder for panel members online to say anything out loud so we can have that record and staff for taking the minutes and we acknowledge the arapo Ute and cheyen tribes the traditional custodians on the land on which the police oversight panel and the Boulder Police Department operate and pay our respects to their Elders past and present I also like to remind the panel members that the agreements we made between ourselves during our uh Team Retreat this year um about the way treat each other and the way that we treat this business also like to welcome the public and any potential press uh to the meeting and um Z I'd also like to welcome you as well thank you for allowing me be here I'd like to welcome the panel members online and also in person um and

[1:01] acknowledge everyone for being here and thank you for getting through things that may have been part during the week and can all appreciate that think that may have been challenging In This Moment members of the public we have the Q&A feature so we will answer small questions in the Q&A but you can save your bigger things for the P public comment at the end of the meeting our web address to submit complaints outside of the panel meeting is bouldercolorado.gov for/ Services police- oversight and you can contact us directly at police oversight panel B colorado.gov all our meetings are public and are posted to our website and we will start with our agenda which will be the approval of minutes from the August 12th meeting

[2:06] okay thank you and then we will have our uh committee updates for starting with our oh we vote yeah we need to vote so can we vote by show hands to approve the minutes from the August meeting okay our next item is community updates uh starting with Community engagement and Communications um that's us um we had an event this uh Saturday what's a boulder uh thank you for everyone who Vol here there um I think it was

[3:01] fairly slow for a Bove but we did get to talk to a few people um some of them thought that we were unnecessary but when I they thought that police that people with uniform and weapons shouldn't be accountable to anyone then they didn't have really an answer to that so that was that was good um I mean that was good that was a good conversation they were willing to listen to that um we people were really excited about the brochures especially PE City people it seems like everybody in the city knew that we were like having our brochures done and we're really excited to see them both in Spanish and then English um I don't know I mean I was there just for an hour and a half just so bad Victor you were there about the same time um anybody wants to comment on that bill

[4:01] Lizzy What were what was your experience like I was there during a really late time at the last hour so other folks may have more to share probably about the same was just people like they would stand back about 10 feet because I think they thought if they stood too close we might engase them which and we did even when they were 10 ft away come on a little closer um and I think it was just good exposure I think people walked around they saw that we were there some folks actually asked questions you walked away right when somebody came there whose mom was visiting from Chicago she was talking about what they do there I wondered if it was the same as what we were doing so um I think it was a good start what I telling the lawn is that I think that when we do these things we just have to figure out and make sure it's people

[5:00] actually live in the city versus bigger events that attract people from out of state that don't really care about what we're doing on the police panel but I think it was a great start it was nice to have the little flag and all the Flyers and everything yeah thank you s have everything set up to continue to City events yeah I think overall for first event that we we had it was it was good to start a little slower and you know have conversations some people came to us and started talking us to us about drag races on you know um blackstaff and and 36 and all that thinking that we were the police but no um but yeah there were a few things like that but so I think we need to be more visible so I'm looking forward to seeing what where else we can go on next Sherry how was it for

[6:02] you I had gone last year just as a spectator so it was basically what what I anticipated uh I think one thing that we should try to figure out is something that is more engaging so the people who want to stand 10 feet away instead have a reason to step closer into our web and that we can engage them better like having B those cards yeah we need be on the the Bingo circuit next year the kids there so that we can talk to the parents there there was some like scavenger hunt Bing C so people would come up and want to find out if we we weren't so I don't really know what what the situation was but yeah next year we need to we need to be people who stamp up so that we can have more of that engagement actually I hid the candy because I was getting annoyed by the little kids coming up and I was like I'm here for business and we're

[7:00] just here for the candy um so actually hid the candy behind the thing I don't know if you noticed that I didn't know how it got behind the um and so it was interesting that we're part of this larger Community we were one booth of like 40 right and so there's a lot of people see volunteering in different ways so we're not just isolated but we're part of this thing so that was nice to see um I'm just curious so what's what's our next event then now that we have this nice material and you know stuff do we have another event on the horizon end of the year right now we don't um I think we have to look at the um what's going to happen um in the city um but yeah I mean if anybody pleas I mean commun share one thing that I need to do in the next week or two now that we have literature is distributed to some of the places that we were talking about like the the and Courthouse the community PT

[8:02] that's now held out here on Thursday mornings might be a place to do something like that um but they've also asked for literature about two weeks ago uh so that they could have that available and I think I sorry so just that is like the next thing that I intend to do for engagement in the very immediate future is just ensuring that that literature is distributed to the places where I think it's going to be you know seen by people who've had recent encounters and experiences with police officers and I think it should be only you doing that I think it's our responsibility to for us all to bring it to where we are um operating or you know schools and businesses and places you know LA office Jason I mean um where where people might need to see those things and be aware of it um also I think so that

[9:00] oh just want to add um to kind of to go into your point vict I think that being brutally honest I'm a little concerned about meeting the panel to uh big events because the the response that we have from the panel to volunteer is then and and and we already had to kind of pull out from one of the events because we didn't having open teers so so I would say there are things happening there are places that we could be should be um but it can be always the same three phases or four phases that show up so if we commit to attend and volunteer I think yes we should definitely start looking for different events where we can be you know kind of attend and and and table but if not it's

[10:00] very tough for um you know having the same people attending all the time and and for longer shifts because we we're not splitting the the load so just want to say that because that that is something that we have to consider now like do are we going to have enough people to make it you know in a way that is not a burden of of Milan only or shering only if we're Backle days so um yeah just nameing very and so we have some new Tools in our toolkit that we didn't have last month so if everyone has some business cards which we have right here there's boxes everyone has a stack of flyers in English and Spanish and some brochures they could just become part it's not an extension to say oh you want to talk about the panel I have some stuff right here versus well you can come find us in 3 weeks and maybe you can meet us so um we can all share the

[11:01] load in just our daily Outreach we have a meeting with the chief coming up we don't want to ask our questions over and over so maybe someone has a question um when you're handing out this material you know like what are the other almost say kids what are the other adults had in aropa do they have a question for the chief right like what is a homeless Community they have a question for the chief right there's an event tomorrow afternoon right here in this Central Park that I could take some of that material too that's a feet forward event um so yeah just simply by having some materials in your car in your backpack is an easy way to to help carry that load did you say that meeting with the chief was um it's coming up on September 23rd September 23rd there's a second part on commitment to engagement is that what we were talking about uh separate done yeah I was just gonna say that I think um you know Victor and myself when we

[12:03] went to speak with the public defenders several months ago now I thought that that was a sweet spot of of Engagement you know we were there people were already gathered it wasn't a huge lift you know we were able to answer questions people were interested in it so if we can find some of those other opportunities whether it's organizations or Community groups that are already meeting to be able to come and do you know a 20 minute conversation that's half presentation and half questions I think that is you know an easy lift for the people involved and especially if you're you know part of a community already you know then that's a great uh way to bridge into into that Community where you're already a known entity anything else from no I think I think you said it Victor I think it's it's up to all of us to to commit to engaging this community

[13:01] and to play our roles with the people who we have access just wondering if Cho or magaline have anything to add to that but no okay all right thank you thanks Victor thank you so next we have an update from the Legacy committee yeah uh Chico do you want me to Dive Right In or do you want to say anything first this chair just go ahead I was missing an action so the right person to say something so we've been talking about this for the last few meetings but we've been working on sort of a an exploration of some data that was provided to us by BPD um we have a dashboard to share today the slight wrinkle is I don't seem to be able to get in to the boulder powerbi space I just assumed

[14:03] our credentials were full credentials because I know you can get in there but we may not actually be able to access it directly which you want we share it from your computer today but then we'll figure out how the goal of this tool is so that you guys can like actually explore the data and look around and ask your own questions and come back to us with more areas to explore so should I use yours today and then we'll figure it out and I and Selena have been working on this for many weeks now we are getting there so if you can go to the browser actually I can show it in here if I need to but it's not going to be like the

[15:00] matches yeah maybe it is a I suppose we can share from the dashboard if well okay there we go oh oh is that

[16:04] yeah okay so at some theoretical future datee hopefully close to now um you guys will have direct access to this which is something you can reach in a browser through your Boulder login um so this is we're going to share some visuals from it today in the meeting publicly of course but the dashboard itself is only for you guys at this point um I'm going to kind of give you like the tour and show you how to use this and talk a little bit about what it includes some serious limitations of what it includes that you want to keep in mind as you go through it um but we'll kind of do the tour quickly and then if you have questions as you go through it let me know anytime and I and walk you all right so this is the dashboard uh this is like an intro page with some information about what's included those limitations I mentioned um and then all the pages you see on the left are the pages of the dashboard so we'll go through these brief but this is where you can actually see the data um but

[17:02] starting with just what we're looking at here um we asked for data on calls for service to bbsd schools so the interest was in kind of understanding police activity in schools whether they're called like directly to the school for something involving a student or activity that might be happening like right in front of the school or nearby the school we just kind of wanted to explore what we might find in that data um and we had a few different questions things like just like what does police activity look like why are police coming to schools what kind of calls are the reason that police are coming what is the disposition what's the result of that call getting arrested is someone getting a report being written like just sort of learning about what that looks like um and then we also had an interest in understanding if we could see any sort of difference in the data between the time period before and after um school resource office ERS were removed from PSD schools we were curious

[18:02] if that could either mean that caller service went drastically up or fell drastically if there was less of a police presence um so we didn't do like a statistical analysis yet at this point mostly because of the limitations we're going to talk about so everything you see in the data is very much descriptive um we we need to be very careful with any like big statements we made from the data know that if you see something interesting in here we'll dig into it further and do some more analysis if we really want to like make sure that it's a a true Insight that we might want to act on okay so what you're going to see in here is calls for service data anytime someone calls 311 or 911 or a call comes in from like another jurisdiction's dispatch and please go to either a school address or any address within 350 ft of a school um and you can imagine that's like a city block almost so there's a lot that's happening around

[19:00] and near schools that don't actually have anything to do with maybe the students the staff or the school directly so that's the biggest cavat in here as you go through many of these calls are not actually necessarily related to schools or students um so that's that's the biggest reminder to keep in mind when did they start moving police from campuses uh 2021 so there was a vote there was a remember what the actual that's County like an ordinance yeah like bbsd decided to remove them I think it was in September maybe 2020 and then they actually were removed sometime in 2021 um but I wanted to point people also there was a really great um do this you know why it's like even real slowly just um this link here bbsd Equity Council presentation on srl activities um yes thank you Sherry uh is a really

[20:01] interesting presentation if you're interested in SRO activities in schools that was given to the bbsd equity Council when this discussion was happening so they have a lot more data in that presentation about who what the students um who who uh police was called to students for like the demographics of that group we don't have that here so definitely take a look if you're interested all right so for some reason Mouse is lagging a lot we're going to do our best here but this is going to be a little bit of a challenge okay so the first page is just our overall summary um you can see every single call here by Year all call types all call dispositions the three kind of main data points you're going to see on the dashboard gosh is this is touch thank you okay so the three things

[21:01] you're going to see are like number of calls that's usually going to be kind of the big visual here and then you're going to see call reasons so that's like the category of the type of call for why the police were called things like a medical call animal complaint welfare check and then you're going to see the disposition so that's the result of the call better now minimize the zoom window it is on her on this one okay oh sorry yeah but that bar it down it it is on my computer oh this is this yours that's her computer and see if it's so Lizzy this is what you created with the data that you got from the okay

[22:01] so this like dashboard is just a a visualization tool to make it easier for you guys to click around and and look through the data okay okay we'll just we'll make it work I can't see under this window there are two tables that show you all the calls by reason and all the calls by call disposition and you'll see this data on some other slides um this is a little crazy to look at but I wanted you to be able to see like the overall full picture um you can see this is just like a totally basic trend line in Orange you can see it's like slightly in okay is yours um but if we look for year these little gray buttons up here are always going to give you different views of the data so if you here you can see by year so our general Trend uh dip in 2020 understandably but then it's kind of been slowly increasing back up since then it'll be interesting if we can eventually get 2024 to see if that

[23:01] continues um the other thing to know here on the left in every slide you're going to have these same filters so this is where you can really dig down and like start exploring if you want to look at say only face schools you can say I only want to look at schools that go up to 12th grade you can see how those numbers change anything on the left is going to filter the center and also the tables on the right so you can see the top most frequent call reason at high schools across all six of these years were these safe to tell calls followed by medical call and welfare check you can do that for any grade level um you can filter by call reason if you really want to dig into something specific by call disposition so you can see anything that resulted in an arrest it's very small numbers so you're not going to see a ton of data there fortunately um you can filter yes yes or no to SRO schools not every school had a

[24:02] school resource officer so if you click this flag it will give you kind of a shortcut gosh to looking only at those schools so you can get a slightly better comparison so you can see it's pretty interesting here we really don't see any different from the overall trend if we look at non schools this is a really fun challenge I'll okay I won do too many filters that's too difficult um you can also look at school hours these calls are 24 hours a day and it's probably a little more likely if the call is at 2 am it's probably not hopefully having to do with students so I added that flag as well if you say yes to school hours it'll just 00 p.m not perfect but like typically when students would be in or near school can I ask a quick question like when I see medical call will help their check um do you have like subcategories

[25:02] in their that or is it just a very yeah so what we have this is the level of granularity for this data set but like if you're in here and you find something interesting and you want to dig in further like then that would be a great next step for the liky try so so I'm just wondering medical call can be a number of things totally yeah and there there are lots of categories there's maybe more than there's a lot of stuff in here um but we can dig deeper for sure uh I know we only had like 10 minutes for this do we need to wrap up didn't Oh I thought that's what I saw maybe that wasn't right we keep going keep going okay awesome all right so all this is all pretty much the same data there's a little bit of extra detail in the last page but I just created some different views to make it easier for you to really dig in on what you're interested in so the first page was kind of the summary page you had overall calls just to get a sense of the trend you had top you know sort of tables by

[26:02] disposition and by problem this page is more focused on disposition so here you have by year 2018 to 2023 total calls for service to or near schools by the disposition so you can see um there are quite a few of them which makes it a little bit difficult to view um but like clear is by far the most disposition I was curious I was hoping we'd have a a BP person here today because I'm I don't have a good picture of what set of scenarios that covers um Sterling on Sterling oh you're here Sterling can you hear us I can hear you sorry I'm I'm traveling so it took me a while to get on you're good no my fault I should have noticed you there any chance you can give us some info on what a clear disposition with techn typically entail for a call for

[27:00] service uh basically that that is very basic in terms of means that the officer is just not on that call anymore so it could be cleared with um like a with a warning clear with no action clear with an arrest so it is very basic that it just means that they're they're done with the call okay would there typically be like clear and like would there always be that additional disposition there's there should be um but again it it's really just dependent upon the officer but it typically it would be like you you clear with a report or clear like I said with whatever whatever else it would be gotcha okay um thank you for that that's helpful we can I can change a little bit about how we're structuring this to make this sort of an a little more clear so that's helpful thank you you're welcome um so some other stuff in here you can see report is common that's our Orange uh purple is I think similarly

[28:00] procedural call handled so there's a lot of that stuff in here if you want to get a sense of what this looks like without some of those like noisy categories that's when the filters would come in you come over here if I can do it um do call disposition we'll select all and then we'll get rid of all handled and clear now you can see we have so lots of reports resulting lots of unable to locate I think um if you want to see how often we actually have something like an arrest one of our original concerns was like how often are kids getting arrested for things that are occurring in school that might be like discipline related um we could dig in on this further of course but just looking at the numbers the numbers are relatively low so 25 to 30 per year across all be bbsd schools which those

[29:00] are kids being arrested well no so this is again where the limitations coming someone being arrested near a school um which is very different do a few things you know doesn't change things at well actually it have haveed it so um we're we're happy to not see huge numbers in the air but like we could request what do these actually look like can we look at the actual ad addresses on those calls to see if they are calls to the school or calls around the school because we do have that information it just will take a lot to sift through if we're talking about 15,000 records all right questions on this page is there way you can search by like arrest juvenile uh we do not have any information on the sort of um related person we have some victim demographics but the way the data the data we have

[30:00] isn't super helpful for the questions we're trying to answer um but we don't really have information about the person related to the report or the arrest so I may so the data that you're using right now you don't have that information but that information is available somewhere else in another sure exists yeah a matter of asking and then sorting through it likely although I don't know what you never never want to assume exactly how the data is structured and how easy it is to sort of get it in bulk in the style that we need um I know that Dr Reinhardt pulled this for us and he said this took like 35 separate data wrangling steps to get this put together so it's possible I would assume it's relatively easy to get but you never know but we we could discuss it with him for sure if we're interesting yeah it would be interesting just because it seems like I mean this is ESD but it's true for everything

[31:00] happening in the city that we need data that are very granular so that we can actually see a trend and right right here we have no Trend and so um I admire the work that you've been doing but but it it the data sets need to be a lot more regular for us to to be useful well once we have a specific question we're trying to ask an answer then then we can take that to Dr Reinhardt and say Here's exactly what we need we were sort of starting from a place of like we'll come in at a high level and then like craft the questions further so that's great if we come out of this by saying here's what we need here's our new question let's do it I also feel like we need like and that data analysis is also observing the data and finding the questions from the data exactly rather than asking question and then finding the data so I think it's you

[32:01] have to scope I understand what you're saying but it has to go both ways too because say give us all the data right like it would be impossible to mind through that in a way that would be helpful for us we have to cure we have to ask for what we need so the goal with this was like let's start here to help us learn more about what we need and then we could be strategic with our next question yes go ahead um how do we submit a question uh through the very formal process of asking me Chico or Jason and so it's not like we're gonna like ask this question can they handle a bunch of questions so I mean I think there will always be challenges of like how much time are we asking of the data staff which is one person for BPD um and I think if we have 10 questions

[33:01] or 100 questions we're all really excited about we'll probably want to prioritize as a group okay um we have not had that issue yet so luckily we're good there um we have a document we've been working on to kind of collect options for priorities for the Legacy committee um I can share that again so you can add stuff there anytime or just let us know anytime or come to a meeting and and it'll be kind of a a living document and discussion is that a question or a stretch uh yeah kind of I might as well ask what I was going to ask before so essentially like we could get to a point where we know where the data right we can know exactly what calls were happening at the school because like my first instinct was like basically you know what was just said was when you have an area that is around the school that's also being conglomerated into the calls I feel like that kind of like muddles out like our Target essentially of like where we're trying to find those um patterns um so

[34:03] you I'm just kind of reiterating just essentially yeah so we can keep asking questions to kind of figure out how to make the system more accessible for understanding what we want to know right yes almost like a prototype you could say totally and I do think it would be really interesting to look at this with sort of the two halves like literally called to the school to the address of the school the front office versus around the school yeah the initial question we we did want to understand the surrounding impact as go so now we can kind of go in it's G to take a little bit of work s you haven't done it yet but we can basically go in and separate them out by address with some addition data but you're exactly right cool okay thank you oh good question but um super appreciate the word yeah you know uh but but I I think I would like

[35:01] to see more um sorry okay great thank everyone thank you so um this I mean think about the the the the the scriptors or I I'm trying to see what the the who is being arrested like I I like I think from a perspective of where is happening you know important but for me it's more important to know who because that you know if we know that there's I don't know 25 arrests I want to know who's getting arrested rather than okay there were 25 and what did those 25 are Hispanic kids or why those 25 are actually not students at both from outside so I mean there's different variables but but I do think that the to

[36:02] this is is critical and I don't know I guess I'm curious to know if they are willing to to provide information because that that's the key like you know it's it's not about how many it's about who and how is that that make sense so of course yeah no I mean we yeah we have no reason to think they would not be up for I'm just thinking maybe for because arrest I mean there's arrests are fly record right you can go to jailing find out who ared yeah I don't know be they're miners to there students that so I'm sure there are restrictions so I'm wondering how we can we got some early Data before we for this and my memory of that was there was 20 arrests there was one

[37:03] person is that your memory something like that I know I was so this this whole request predates me on the panel I I think I I don't know if I even see saw the first data set but we still have it so let's go back and look and and now there is the issue you know so Miss B would not call themselves Hispanic or of color and it's up to the officer to put so we have some issues there but as I seem to recall all white people except for one black yeah and it was like 21 and also sometimes it's the other way around yeah that when they reporting they won't IND theate I'm arresting 100% SP right I'm not I guess my point is that the data that we did have didn't really support anything in and I question the data because I don't think they it's up to the officer to keep that track may or may not yeah I think great when

[38:02] is our next Legacy committee meeting 26 26 excellent this sounds like a great place to continue this conversation so we will figure out how to share this share it with the group ideally soon you all can click around come to the meeting okay thanks guys thank you so much that's awesome quick Ley T and Farah are ready for your presentation on the bylaws and solid yes hi everyone good evening hello Sarah

[39:06] all right good evening everybody Farah muskin consultant to the city of Boulder very happy to be here and at this point where we are presenting the updated bylaws for approval by the panel on next slide please and so as you know um we there was a subcommittee that was created and I worked very closely with solad and Abigail to put together this updated draft of the bylaws next slide and so this is um very similar almost identical to the presentation that I did on August 20th with some minor changes but I'm just generally going to do an overview of what we updated and highlight some particular areas so in the proposed bylaws there are 17 articles um primarily this

[40:03] section the first nine consist of um ensuring that there was consistency between the bylaws and the ordinance that was passed last October um and so a lot of that was updating it and making sure um the language was identical um some some changes that are notable is um in article three the land acknowledgement we did um utilize language from the city of Boulder to strengthen that language and make it clear clear we Ed the purpose statement um from the ordinance the panels duties and responsibilities um remained the same pretty very I mean identical to the ordinance we did think it was important to add a section about the community agreements which is essentially how the panel will work together um with one another and also their responsibilities to to

[41:00] each other not only as panel members but as individuals um and members of the community and so the membership stayed the same obviously um and um we did add some few responsibilities for the co-chairs um there were things that co-chairs were doing in practice they weren't necessarily memorials that we added um and then we really strengthened the meeting section um which I'll go into a little bit more next slide um and so the the second half of the bylaws um the most notable section is the complaint process and so what we decided to do is make that a little bit more high level and take kind of the granular information about the complaint process and um create a complaint manual which is still a work in progress um we did do significant changes to the committee based on feedback that we received from our public meetings so right now um and I'll go into that a

[42:01] little bit further but there is essentially one committee that um every member of the panel serves on um but then there's also the ability to create ad hoc committees so for example the ad hoc committee to update the bylaws um this was a recommendation from a panel member to include a section about communication on behalf of the panel so we did um we did include that and also make a two SE section um one is primarily about external communication such as public statements and then section two is more about internal Communications um amongst the panel members we made it very clear in terms of how an amendment to the bylaw should be made um and then obviously um you know the confidentiality and the code of ethics um all of those were um pretty consistent with um the the the ordinance now next slide

[43:00] please okay so here are some highlights there three areas that I think was very important um you can go to the next slide for us to highlight um in our discussion but obviously you had the um the draft since the beginning of August it did not really change that significantly um we did incorporate the feedback that we received um um prior to the me sending the final draft but for the most part it's it's it's pretty identical um but we took your feedback in terms of um the order of business for the meeting and moved up public comment so that panel members would be able to hear kind of substantive conversation um that the panel has prior to um the panel going into Clos session to talk about specific cases so that fundamentally they wouldn't have to really sit to the end of the meeting um to make a comment so I think where we put it was a good compromise with the perspectives that we received um and then also note um subsection 7 whereas

[44:03] community outreach and engagement will be a continuing item on your agenda going forward next slide please um so some other matters let me just move my cursor really quick some other matters that we changed um in regards to the meeting section we added the ability to call emergency and special meetings I don't anticipate this is going to be something obviously that the panel does frequently but the ability to be able to do that is important and something that should be um contained in your bylaws we did formalize a process for making a motion um rather than you know cutting and facing Robert Ros of order we you know just kind of did it step by step um as that is something that the panel does pretty much at every meeting with making motions so we just thought it would be easier to to clarify and make it uh explain what that process should be um

[45:00] and also for amending the motion um so those were some key parts and as these two sections are actually pretty consistent I reviewed bylaws from other boards and commissions from the city of Boulder and these two sections were contained in all the ones that I reviewed so um there is some consistency there and then um we established how voting should be conducted essentially um it could be by roll call vote show of hands um but at any point we did add language a member can request a roll call vote and for those that aren't nerds about Robert Rules of Order what that means is that essentially each individual name is read out loud and they say yes nay or abstain that's what a rooll call vote means um we did make a slight modification to public comment um from our last conversation about it and basically the slight change is that if extra time is allowed it cannot exceed five minutes uh and so this was a compromise to um have the two minutes

[46:02] which is consistent with what the city does allow either co-chair to give more time but that time um cannot exceed five minutes next slide please so the next important section to go over is the complaint process section um we talked about whenever you vote on cases um to review them that that has to be an affirmative roll call vote so going forward if this is approved if you um when when not if when you're voting on cases you know um senena will call each individual panel members to um hear their vote so that vote is taken out loud um we memorialize the fact that um three panel members um must participate in the case review and then we added language for new panel members that they will Shadow a panel member that has done

[47:02] at least three case reviews prior to the the new panel member doing their first so essentially it's just to um allow um allow a new panel member to crawl before they walk um we thought that that was important to put in there and then the timeline is basically memorializing your current practices in terms of when you complete your reviews and submit your recommendations and then we added some things for consideration it's not an exhausted list but things to consider when you're looking at a complaint so for example if there's a significant public interest if it if it's an allegation of use of force those are you know types of things that you should consider in terms of um accepting a complaint for review next slide please so again I already alluded to this but since it's such a big change I wanted to highlight it in our discussion um is that that we are you know we we included language to basically uplift

[48:01] and prioritize the community engagement committee um as a responsibility for all panel members and then again um adding the ability to create ad hoc committees as needed so for example punting this to Lizzie like you may want um an ad hoc committee that looks specifically at data at school arrest right um so that it's not necessary within um well if this is approved there will no longer be an a legacy committee but you know for a specific area of interest that panel members have you have the ability to create um an anoc committee to look into that for that specific purpose so you're ad hoc so for example if this approved um this evening the bylaws committee the subcommittee is no longer right it was created for that specific purpose so um the work of the bylaws committee if approved uh will end this evening so um so I just wanted to

[49:00] make that clear and highlight those areas um I think that it was really helpful and I can't remember who pushed the public meetings when we were first talking about how we set it up but the public meetings were really really helpful um you could take the slides down um um Salena um because I felt like every time we met oh sorry I didn't realize my video was off I apologize um every time we met and got feedback the draft got better um and so we would go back as a subcommittee talk about it and say oh that was a great point and I literally just made the changes right then and there so um I appreciate everybody's um feedback that came throughout this process I think we had three three public meetings and by the time we got to the August 20th meeting I think the three of us felt really confident that we had a great product that um updated what needed to be updated change what needed to be changed but also took in

[50:01] consideration um the feedback that we received specifically from pan member so it was um very very helpful um and hopefully you guys are pleased with the final product and also feel that it would be helpful for you as you move forward with your operations and your business um so with that I will take any questions I um uh thank you so much for the work so Dad Abigail I don't know Abigail is not here today Farah thank you so much this is amazing work um I have a quick question on the land acknowledgement and I apologize for not sending that question sooner I really haven't had time to until today to look at this so um one of the things I really appreciate the work put in the land acknowledgement one of the things that I'm not seeing is

[51:01] action um so recognition of the land and the harm done is great but I think as a as a group looking at um really including people who have been excluded historically and really listening to them I think we also need to commit to action to write the wrongs of History um and so I'm wondering if that's something that you um the panel would consider maybe looking at adding to the land acknowledgement so we talked about that because we received kind of action oriented suggestion from Amy Kane um and I actually like the language that she sent us but I felt that okay how do I I'm trying to think um I I hesitated on putting that

[52:02] language in there because I'm hesitating on committing the panel to additional responsibility when the panel is slowly getting a point to managing the responsibilities it currently has so I though I feel that your recommendation is well-intentioned I just don't know if putting that responsibility of wronging the past as it relates to you know indigenous and Native Americans is something that the the panel should take up in its bylaws um because that is an expectation that you would be setting for the community that the community could hold you accountable for so I'm just giving that as a point of what we discussed in our subcommittee and why we aired on keeping it out because when you when you put those things in your in your official documents those are things that people can hold you accountable to and I I I don't know if that's

[53:02] necessarily something that the panel is in a position to to take on as a responsibility so that's that's the context of our back and forth about the action oriented language may I may I ask you another question of course um if we're not taking responsibility or accountability for those actions as a as a police overide panel which is kind of our purpose is to write the wrongs of Injustice or misconduct by police then what are we why what are we afraid of that we're taking on in addition to our current purpose by putting some action there so I I would disagree with that purpose but I'm also not a member of your panel okay it it really depends maybe maybe I don't quite understand what the actions

[54:00] that you are thinking about are well I mean the action that you're talking about is writing the wrongs I mean I I I don't know if that is within the scope of a police oversight panel I mean your responsibility is to you know be a source of complaints of police potential police misconduct and to be um you know a community view to provide a different perspective and to ensure an outside a level of accountability from the police department and so um I think it's just a matter of perspective um but I you know as an outsider looking in I'm hesitant because the expectations for police oversight panels are so high Community always thinks that you can do more than you can and this is adding another expectation that is kind of outside your purview it's really bigger than the

[55:02] specific responsibility and point of the panel um and so I mean I don't you know if others have other perspective obviously these are not my bylaws these are your bylaws but I I just share that with you about really understanding the expectation that you would be putting out there um and yourselves being open to accountability for that if you put that in your in your bylaws I'm I'm just going to finish with with one word here I think that land acknowledgement that don't lead to actions and that we can tie into the purpose of this panel are useless and are exactly what indigenous people accuse land acknowledgement or saying people to to whitewash basically it's just we feel good because we do landed not J M but there's no accountability and no responsibility behind

[56:01] that and I'm just like why we even do land acknowledgement then well I do think that you guys should give yourselves a little bit of credit because this is an expansion of your current land acknowledgement it includes more is it is an a is an acknowledgement I mean and it includes the uh more tribes um and it's more specific it's longer and it's consistent with what the city of Boulder is doing um I took I took an excert from the city of Boulder um land acknowledgement and but what we could do is just link the city of Boulder land acknowledgement which is much more expansive so I didn't want to I didn't want to add all that language because it was just going to make um the the the bylaws longer and I didn't think it was necessarily that um necessary to do that and so I just took really the most important parts that I thought were

[57:02] important for the panel in terms of that literal acknowledgement but if you if it's if if the panel feels strongly about the action orientedness then my recommendation would be just link the city of Boulders um actual acknowledgement because it does have that action oriented language in there and that would be a simple change we would just delete those I think it's three or four paragraphs that are there now and just link the city of Boulders acknowledgement we went back and forth on that as well so we landed on obviously what we submitted was to include the four paragraphs other committee members want to talk about like your deliberation curious if you guys this is something talked about at length

[58:04] so I think that the the purpose of the bylaws is to Norm how we operate like this the structor in which we do our work in a very um actionable way so basically how do we conduct our business How uh the the the meetings are held and and you know that's sort of thing that would didn't have before um I think there there is there there is reference to what we're you're mentioning and and in my opinion it's kind of more pertinent in the ordinance I think that we we address the intention in the ordinance but I don't know if if it's it should be part of the bylaws to kind of address what your I I don't think

[59:01] that is not important of course super important but I'm not sure if if as a body of kind of uh rules or Norms if your one that is providing structure for the work of the panel if that is if that should be something that we will have to decide on for the BOS themselves so then why why do we have the landed m in the bylaws if we're not doing that then we could take them out and have each panel every year vote on what should be the land acknowledgements and how we take accountability for that I think again they are included just so we can we can give structure to the P to the to the to the work of the panel so we the conversation was to incorporate uh the land acknowledgement and we we received a lot of information from uh from different places and would try to come up with with uh um something

[60:04] that will make sense to add to the to the B I don't think that is um I think at the end of the day each ER each uh board and Community panel they they use what they want to use so this might be maybe it's not the reflection of this panel and and we use something different I um this is making me think about like the purpose of the panel which has it in 2020 and George Floyd and land acknowledgements our way just to like acknowledge the history of land but like kind of zooming in on our purpose I wonder what it would be like to have an acknowledgement that's like we acknowledge like the

[61:02] continued rization of black and brown people in this country and like that's our purpose do we have that statement bylaws like a originally like a mission statement a purpose statement uh I don't think that there was uh there was a reference to a document that was going to be created I'm sorry I didn't hear Victor's question it wasn't a real question um so C can I just add um I'm gonna pipe in just really quick before Chico so we wanted to update the bylaws but we also wanted to kind of respect also what was put into the original bylaws right this is the same approach we took with the ordinance so as someone who's not from the area who doesn't really know about the history of Colorado I made the assumption that the reason why the land acknowledgement language was included in

[62:01] the original bylaws is that it's part of the historical context of Colorado and Boulder right and so but not necessarily specifically tied to the police oversight panel because there are other boards and commissions who utilize the same language from the city's um land acknowledgement in the same way so in my mind it was something bigger than the panel it was more of literally a recognition um but I mean I I do I don't I'm sorry I don't want to sound like this is not important because it is important but this particular issue is not necessarily A substantive issue about the police oversight panel right and so when you look at what we really changed in the bylaws that's where I feel like our conversation should be um and I'm not

[63:00] saying that the land acknowledgement isn't isn't important but this was one of the feedback that we got you know was saying can can we update it and we updated it right um but there are other substantive matters with that we did change that affect how you do business that we're not talking about um so I just I just give that to you and and and want to thank Chico for giving me Grace because I bumped him well uh you couldn't have said it any better regarding substantive matters and note that we're negating uh the land acknowledgement um what has been done but I I feel that just reference to what we we have in the city bylaws should should suffice instead of Us coming up with our own that that that will just make everything uniform across the board whether you look at the city

[64:01] whether you look at what we do then regarding um actionable items and whether we should I'm I'm a bit hesitant and I hear you Farah regarding whether that's within our payview and what the city ordinances say and what we can do can't do I I think that should be The Guiding Light or our not star um there are a lot of other things that we want to do or we want to Aspire to do but our hands are tied City audiences is our nor ster I wanted to um ask a couple of questions and possibly make a point because it is something that um I've often wondered um one I

[65:02] do um wonder if it is if this is the place for it if this is the place to tackle such a large Mission um and are we indeed fting off more than we can Cho um is it purposeful is it um purposeful for our group is that is that or or are there other things we really should be taking on First and so um I think it needs to be dealt with but whether or not we are able to handle it I think that there may be some other um there's there's there perhaps is

[66:00] another home for for this and we I don't know what that home is but but certainly uh it certainly is something that needs to be addressed something that I'm I know I've had several cations with other groups um and basically uh what they end up asking is okay and and after we read add what what action what are we doing to make it better what are we doing to change it uh after you read that or after you stated it so I uh I wish I had answers right now I just have more questions just like you guys what can we do is this the best use of of this space right now so I'd like to hear

[67:01] uh more from others one moment I have a friend who graduated graduated from Thea in 2022 he was an uh a marine veteran uh disabled and he moved to Alaska and bought about 60 Acres of land and gave half of it to the local indigenous groups there so I know that that is one way to give land back is to buy it and give it back I know that there's Chiefs that have done the same thing Chiefs have bought land privatized it or whatever bought privatized land and giving it to their visous groups so those are the only options I've really heard so I know we have to vote on this

[68:02] uh go ahead Bill well going to what mine said number one it's not the purpose of this group and I wouldn't support an action I mean the wrongs that have been done in colonization are thousands of years old and there's nothing that we're going to do on our own to write that all this here was stolen basically under false pretenses and I'm sorry but nobody's going to give it back not in my left time I don't think and that's how I got on this panel if I looked at it from how indous people are treated in the justice system I think that's the work and that's the action that I got on this to take not to look at how am I going to write thousands of years of wrongs of indigenous peoples I'm not like land acknowledgements are very performative

[69:00] and they're created to make people feel good and they're not really designed to be action oriented and and and you have to involve so many tribal entities to really do something that even within tribal entities there's not agreement on what's the correct work to write the wrongs I mean the Navajo Nation by this government wasn't allowed to have electricity for up until the last 10 years and now they're putting solar power as they're getting grants and so there's so it's it's really complex so I don't mind having it into bylaws I wouldn't create any action out of it other than the action that I got on this panel for which is to look at how the justice system treats indigenous and people of color and that to me is the action that we're already taking and it's already ified in the work that we're doing and for me that

[70:01] that's enough because I have other avenues and places I can go to through tribal kinds of things and and working on those in different ways so that would do my Approach not sure who to look to just go ahead okay um this makes me wonder if it's this sounds so paradoxical to me but like if it's um more harmful to have a performative land acknowledgement on our government's paper and maybe we should take it out if it's not might be actually well indigenous people have said you guys have a good land acknowledgement we've had an indigenous person on this panel and we just interviewed people for the police things were indigenous and they say oh I to your meetings you have a good thing so what do indigenous people say hey you

[71:01] guys are doing a good job so say that's their their design to acknowledge what happened here not so much changing so it is a good so we do need to vote on this and we were past our break time so Victor what are we vot what are we voting on just this item or no we're voting on approval of the entire bylaws but then we're discussing the land acknowledgement we can't vote on something unless we go through it unless we what we've gone through it unless we go through it are we saying we've gone through the entire things because Pharaoh was saying there are certain substantive issues that we needed to discuss so have we gone through those to vote no that was part of my presentation

[72:00] what I was saying is that you know we spend a lot of time talking about the land acknowledgement but you know there are things we we significantly changed how you do your order of business you know we significantly changed your committee structure we significantly changed you know what I mean um um the fact that you now have to do a roll call vote when you do your case case review these are things we've talked about but you know those are substantive things that impact your monthly maybe even daily work whereas you know the land acknowledgement does not and so that's why I wanted to be very clear I'm not saying that the lag acknowledgement is not important I think it's a very important issue I want to rush assure to everybody we went back and forth on it and if I want to be very honest I personally kind of wanted to delete it but I thought that it would be offensive given the history of the native people in Colorado so that's why I never recommended deleting it because I felt like it was there for a reason and wanted to honor the work of the original panel members who wrote the bylaw so it was a great suggestion I think that came

[73:01] from mine to expand it and we did so um I thought that that made us go back and look and do some research and say okay yeah we should expand it but you know I wanted to focus our conversation on the substantive part of the bylaws because if you approve it today your business changes today so essentially that's what we uh our focus is on that's what we're going to be voting on as opposed to the land acknowledgement issue it is yeah absolutely an important issue but today for the sake of the business going forward that's what we'll be voting on and so that's what we're voting on right y'all right yes Teresa okay thanks Victor so I did want to just mention that if if someone wanted to

[74:01] make a motion to remove or change the land acknowledgement you could do that and then have a motion to approve the bylaws or you could just do a motion to approve the bylaws absent the land acknowledgement I'm not saying that's what you should do I just want to make sure you know it's an option was it appropriate for us to just handle one piece at a time have one more comment yeah I just want to say I appreciated what you said bill and I think that what you said is exactly you know what I want to see as an action recognizing why we're here and what the justice system has been unfair to um indigenous people and that as a panel we will be particularly cognizant at the history of

[75:02] Oppression I don't know I mean I don't have the words and you know but of of the history of of Oppression and pay particular attention to indigenous people black and brown people and and and and I I I agree L acknowledgement there's been plenty of Oppression on the very land that we are on but I I I know um it's getting too long and that's something to that needs to be talked about further or not at all I don't know but I just um wanted to um share my opinion because Farah as you mentioned you know I'm the one who said we need the three lines of line acknowledgement was was a farce um so what we put in it to me is really important but apparently it's not I mean it it's important to everybody here but maybe not as important so I'll

[76:01] just um I'll just be quiet and see what happens next um I'm not going to make a motion at this point um I think we can make a motion at a later point if we feel that we have the the support of all the panelists um but at this point I don't feel like I do so well I don't want you to be quiet uh yeah I think it's very very very important um and but perhaps at a different time like you just said let's do what we can get done for now which would be moving forward with the the revised bylaws and getting that done and then um perhaps come back for um to add address the lead acknowledgement a bit later is that okay yeah thank you Mar so just so we're

[77:03] clear we have the option of of uh someone uh moving or moving the the vote to address the line acknowledgement and he can be voting to remove it or you know whatever that's one option uh if we we don't have that option then we should move on to discuss if there's anything else that people want want uh to discuss regarding the bylaws and you had the the draft for a while so I'm assuming if anyone has any questions we can we can talk about those and then we can vote and and also I want to remind people that in the new bogs we also have a way of changing the virus so that's also uh something that can be done uh after we approv this revised by so there is a a procedure to address changes uh in the

[78:02] BW the only thing that we have is we need uh two3 of the panel vote in favor of that and that change can be affected so we have a way with the new byw to address anything that we want to change in the future or for future P final to so sure um apologies I just just saw this um in advance of the meeting a few minutes before the meeting started but it does look like on page seven there's the term executive session when everything else said Clos session um it is like the fifth line on page seven so my suggestion is if it's voted on to have that be a change changing that the terminology would be um I would consider that a servant error so that that's super minor and not really a big deal just wanted to bring

[79:01] it up I have a question about emergency meetings special and or emergency meetings that can be called by the co-chairs is there anywhere in there I don't recall but um is there anywhere in there where we could the members of the panel could call for an emergency meeting uh make a motion for an emergency meeting or how would that happen I'm just pulling up the exact language for those that have it with them it's section 9.14 on page eight um it specifically says that the co-chairs may call special Andor emotional meetings emergency meetings at the discretion for substantial reasons warranting the convening thereof and shall call such meetings upon written request of at least three members of the panel does that answer your question me yeah it does for some reason I I had

[80:01] stopped at the U previous paragraph and thought that was it okay again page eight section 9.14 [Music] yeah any other issues that people want to bring forward before you vote yeah a motion in a second question to accept the bylaws as presented second uh and for this one we need to do a OT you name everyone and everyone however yeah name is fine it's just so we know who V what here

[81:00] Jason affirmative yes is good too that's lawyer uh yes yes yes yes yes B yes yes yes chica Yes mine yesan motion passes passes motion passes good job thank you good job and everybody yeah no thank you to all of you our work isn't done yet but this is a huge accomplishment for the panel so I think we should all be proud um of this work um but we have you know we

[82:02] have a few more things to get done but this this is something that we should all be proud of the ordinance was a big big accomplishment this is the second accomplishment for a very young panel so I think everybody should be proud and thank you for all your feedback and work on this and tarah thank you so much I mean I know I ra hell sometimes but um I really really appreciate the work that you but behind all this it's been a lot of work in sidad and aigel thank you so much that's a lot of hours that you put in yes yes thank you thank you so we have a press release that'll be upcoming in the next 7even days or so okay I also hope you will include it in your update to council because don't you have an oversight update to council so hopefully you'll include that too in there as an accomplishment of the well thank you so much Farah uh we're

[83:01] going ahead and take our five minute F break thank you um so welcome back uh before off to solid just a couple of things we didn't talk about uh first was the there's a new Chief in town no pun intended sorry sorry please elaborate I think as everyone received the notification from from Nua and and if not saw newspaper articles um Chief Redfern um was I'm sorry interim Chief Red was now Chief reder as Victor just said um so I think he gets back from a pre-planned out of town trip tomorrow

[84:01] and has some work to do so that's that's I don't think we knew when we were putting this end together whether or not we would would know at this time um and I would also just like to you know publicly thank all of the the people who participated through submitting questions um coming to the community Forum or watching the community Forum um online and submitting their um uh ideas and thoughts and observations on the candidates and especially the people um who spent a whole day um doing interviews for the semi-final round so let me thank you Victor solad oh she's coming back's Lizzy and meline and that was a heavy lift for people I know have other you know busy day jobs and still you took the time to to spend all of that time and and have the

[85:01] thoughtful conversations um speaking of the chief our next our Q3 meeting with the chief is scheduled for September 23rd unless I hear differently that's going to be in person um so we will certainly be sending out a document where people can um ask questions have topics uh I took some notes for things that people were asking about previously there seems to be questions about data and some of the new dashboards so we can we can work with that but we'll be sending that out soon and presumably the coair and I will talk about that um this Friday yeah any questions or thoughts about meeting with the chief now okay then thank is there any magic to if we're

[86:03] doing oh actually no if someone wants to talk about a potential confidential case review yeah so are we interested in going to confidential close session so we can talk about case reviews or are we AG are we going either way are we taking a vote to go to a close session yeah need a motion and we need a second but I don't know motion close session okay let's go then so we'll be back in 20 minutes for members of the public of course after we vote we will be back so we come back and then we and then we vot okay okay so we going to close

[87:01] okay let's go we'll be back oh no not at all okay so we're back in great um okay going back to our agenda then um and after the confidential case review we're ready to vote all of these need to be roll all to going to the new bylaws yep uh yep today they are affective today yeah okay thank you let's go for it okay uh who who's reading I'm reading you're reading can you read please I don't have anything in front of me okay so uh Mi

[88:02] 2024 048 do do I need to read the whole description oh yeah this one is isn't it we new normally uh sometimes you could just say officer one officer two sorry number one so this is uhad um this is a case where we had we don't even know what the complaint is okay so there there aren't allegations class that there are allegations but we still don't have a what a complainant okay the information we have let's vote on this one um okay so to review Mi 2024 048

[89:02] no no lizy no Milan no Victor no Luna no Jason yes marn you're muted no Cho no uh my vote is also know um okay uh Mi 224049 uh is um rule two Sergeant one rule two viated uh the complain witness First Amendment um two yep that will be the chart the complaint so again for reviewing this

[90:00] case no buy no no Luna no Jason no Marin no CH no I okay for case Mi 2024 050 officer one one um integrity and value and uh that will be yeah that will be so it's a complaint to I guess one for one violation vot to review this case again yes B no okay Li Milan yes Victor no Luna no Jason no

[91:07] Marin yes T no uh I just six six NOS six Nos and three okay four yes okay sorry are you keeping TR uh 202 24051 um officer one rule two conforms with the law officer two rule two uh to review this case AB no no no no Victor no Luna no Jason no marn

[92:02] noo no and I vot no too m i 2024 052 officer one rule four respect for others officer two rule one compliance with violence rules in general orders officer three room one compliance with values rules and general orders uh vote to review this case Abel no bu no Milan no Victor no no not no Jason no Marin no too no I no am I 2 2453 officer one rule one compliance with violence rules and general orders

[93:01] rule one compliance with uh vales rules and general orders Integrity rule six use of force Sergeant one rule one compliance with rules and general orders customer service rule one compliance with values fail to register a complaintant witness complaint with PSU and rle one uh compliance with values rules and general orders report writing fail to document the complaint in accordance to general orders Sergeant two rule one compliance with values rules and general orders uh report writing talk to document the complaining witness complain um that will be it so to review this case Abel yes no izy Milan yes no Luna no Jason no Marin yes

[94:07] Tio no and I vote Yes okay mi 202454 uh officer one rule five police Authority and public trust rule four Prospect for others officer two rule five police Authority and Trust Sergeant one rule five police Authority and Trust to review this case AB no b no liy no Milan yes Victor no Luna no um Jason no Marin yes Chico yes I vote Yes okay uh following case um Mi 2024

[95:06] 055 sergeon one one compliance with values rules and general orders Integrity um okay uh to review this case abigel yes Bill no missy yes Milan just Victor no lunin um Jason yes madlin yes Tio yes and I will yes okay and then we talk about this next case that still doesn't have a number and we're tbling that case for next week right okay are we

[96:00] signing just one 055 055 okay volunteers Milan meline mine I'm volunteering you meline okay okay okay so we have four who is Luna Chico mine and pleas okay and now uh we will move into uh IPM report I can still you know it's out there we can s give you some time okay thank you

[97:03] so we know that a couple of panelists are moving to um yeah to the phone sa and I will see you next don't look at the camera it stopped nightmare for four years okay okay we're ready thank you Sher okay okay this is the the September 2024 holder police oversite panel meeting inors report

[98:06] um so the full case review data for August of 2024 is full file case reviews completed were eight thank you wow that was a lot of work um we are waiting for eight from BPD which almost completely overlap with say that we just did um there are only nine places well now 10 the on you just voted on that are awaiting panel review and I don't expect anything in like the next weeks thank you all uh the cases that have been completed and closed um at BPD from the last month were starting with m2024 d019 a mother complained on behalf of her adult sons who were arrested

[99:00] following a physical encounter at a club officers arrested son one for being in violation of a court order prohibiting him from consuming alcohol and Son Two was initially detained and transported to detox and then the hospital after being released officers encountered son number two at the scene of a reported ATM vandalism son number two was arrested for obstruction and assault police to a police officer the mother's alleg were just proven by B waren camera um the results of this were for officer one of rule one um general order 240 inart camera body War camera and personal recording devices that he deactivated his body War camera um I had initially recommended that this be unfounded in accordance with general order 120-1 Section 8 the panel upon their review uh recommended unfounded and the department also unfounded it um second allegation rule four respect for others broke the mobile phone of son number one um again I recommended

[100:00] unfounded in accordance with general order 120-1 Section 8 the panel also recommended unfounded and the department also unfounded the case um for another allegation against officer one it was a rule three uh truthfulness lied to the Mother by telling her that her sons were not under arrest um I again recommended that the this be unfounded in accordance with general order 120-1 Section 8 the panel agreed uh the recommended unfounded and the department their final determination was unfounded for that allegation um for officer two rule one deactivated her body warn camera uh the independent police monitor recommended unfounded General in accordance with general order 120-1 Section 8 um the panel also Rec recommended it that allegation be unfounded and the department final determination was unfounded uh officer

[101:00] three a rule four uh respect Brothers dropped off son number two in the middle of nowhere and told him to get the out um I recommended this be unfounded in accordance with general order 120-1 Section 8 the panel also recommended that it be unfounded and the department unfounded it in their final determinations um officer number four rule six use Force rubbed a gun into sun number two's face um I made a general order 120-1 Section 8 un founded recommendation the panel also recommended it be unfounded and the department unfounded the allegation and uh there was an unknown officer uh which had a rule six violation use of force beat son number two while he was restrained in handcuffs um I recommended that be unfounded in accordance with general order 120-1 Section 8 and the panel agreed with an unfounded recommendation and the final disposition was unfounded

[102:01] by the department Mi 202443 a woman under a conservatorship moved from a different state to where she began engaging in conflict with her neighbors landlord and the homeowners association she began contacting multiple City agencies to file complaints about civil action she admitted that these complaints were intended to impede eviction actions from her landlord the evidence established that the Boulder Police Department officers took appropriate action on a complaint she made about a criminal allegation and documented her civil complaints through agency collaboration BPD learned that she was acting in defiance of her court ordered conservatorship despite her numerous complaints her dissatisfaction with BPD either did not constitute alleg Mis conduct or was refuted by Body warn camera evidence accordingly this case was administratively closed without creating allegations against any of the officers who responded to her numerous calls for service dpd was actively

[103:00] working outside agencies to reconnect her with her care team MI regarding pedestrian and bicyclist right of away the supervisor of the photo enforcement officer provided this counseling and the case was administratively closed m2024 d47 a man complained about an insufficient investigation conducted in May of 2022 by a former BPD officer into cross allegations between neighbors and an apartment building review of the underlying 2022 investigation identified that the file contained appropriate documentation including critical surveillance footage attempts to reach the man who compl complained were

[104:00] unsuccessful due to the lack of cooperation time passed the reported incident and the subject officer no longer being employed by BPD this complaint was administratively cled mi22 3-50 the head of a Children's Program complained that officers one and two responded inappropriately to a safe to tell tip reportedly the off officers revealed that they were responding to a safe tell tip and provided the names of parties involved to teenage Camp staff working the desk the program head was clear that he did not want to file a formal complaint but only wanted officers to be trained to respond better in the future the investigation revealed that officer one had already been counseled by Officer 2 about not revealing that they were responding to a safe toel investigation officer one was in training at the time of the incident and this was his first response to a safety tip this concern was administratively closed due to preference of the C program um um regarding our Cas statistics

[105:01] so um in August 2024 I classified 11 complaints eight of those were misconduct investigations two of those were Community inquiries and one of them I have referred to go to the conflict facilitation process I observed seven interviews there were zero critical incident seing responses and I deemed seven cases third and complete in the month of August BPD closed five cases um as of September 1st the open docket was 35 cases um of those there are 33 cases that are already classified two of those were pending are still are at the time pending classification and there are 13 cases in the PSU preliminary investigation stage um and we have only one case that is open from 2023 um that is mi22

[106:00] 3-34 and that panel case review was completed last week on the 3 and sent to BPD um regarding the December 17th fatal officer involved shooting I had previously requested that they prepare the case for panel review um and I was told that there are are still Force review final documents that are going that either need to be generated or going through chain of command so I'm going to keep you updated but hopefully we'll be seeing that that case soon and the community engagement report from um August 2024 was I had the the opportunity to engage with the emergency response connectors at the Boulder Police Department um this was a a a group of individuals mostly from the Lio Community um it was an interesting experience um I got a tour of the

[107:01] department as just a Community member so I saw things I haven't seen before actually um and at the end they had a lot of questions about um the oversight system so they have all of our information and it seems like there is interest in that Community about about learning more so that is definitely those are some really ships that I think we should pursue uh also I attended their the BPD Firearms qualifications um and training and one really interesting thing that I learned that I thought might be interesting to y'all is that um they're training them um on using a low ready position when they are entering situations and this is based on a uh a study that basically showed that in exchange for 11 hundreds of a second of slower response time by having a weapon pointed lower um they can uh reduce shoot Errors By uh by half

[108:04] basically um and when I uh when I talked with them they some people also said that it it really helps prevent tunnel vision with officers so it gives them a little bit of extra time to see whether someone's like pulling out a cell phone or pull um I I have the um uh engineering resilience is the name of the article and just this morning the professor I reached out to him to get it um he sent me that and another article that he wrote um I've put them in our share files folders for you to read that is the end of the independent police monitor report um I would like to remind people that ride along alongs um should be done by

[109:02] October 19th if you have not done them already um if you have not done a ride along please you know reach out to me or reach out to Bethany so that we can arrange something um Bethany also had offered that maybe if someone is experiencing some sort of physical challenge that maybe sitting in dispatch or dispatch could also be um an option um so please reach out to me about that um this is also last call oh do you have a question yes I was going to say Sher could you amend your records to show that I did the ride along with Sterling um I think you are you are checked off the records are showing that I haven't done it I was just checking today oh oh the spreadsheet the spreadsheet that you did okay we'll update that thank you for letting me know that all

[110:03] right anything else nope I'm done okay me lower my my hand okay um yeah last call for nle if anyone wants to go the end of this meeting is the last time to let us know in the next few days senena is going to make arrangements for people who want to attend um don't jump don't run would you recommend going you went when it was here right did you two go we went to Chicago last year oh cool and yeah I really enjoy this what kind of funding is available for like everything or nothing or I mean I can't give you vacation time to do it from job um but yeah everything's covered yeah and you get

[111:09] a five days right what I'm hoping to do is I'm hoping that people this year they have that Community um Community panel yeah on Sunday um which I'm hoping is really really helpful and if so then maybe that becomes an option in the future if it is an option to just attend that day or you know like one or two days or something maybe send more people for shorter times uh yes we went to last year it's really I I mean I I really enjoy it it was worth it you you get to talk to all members and different ways of oversight too so it's yeah very noon tomorrow no tomorrow yeah one day

[112:00] someone want to go with [Music] me you go oh you two want to go I'm sorry I thought we were feeling SP I went last year and if no one wanted to go and we had that in the budget I could go but if you want to go same I want someone to go yeah you should go then because I went last last year I had them now you should go let's yeah yeah okay we'll figure it out by tomorrow if you're seriously considering it like let us know we can maybe do like an extension sort of thing um it's just we weren't getting any interest besides millenni so but now it'sing that as no spots yeah okay I think it's because we've already gone that we really opening it um I think I actually did the case review updates but I really like some of you solidad was MVP this past month for

[113:02] doing case reviews and especially knowing that you know she's also doing the bylaws uh but yeah it seemed like so every day we were seeing each other for a while but really this this really big lift is great I think it was a crash course in people getting to understand case reviews and what that fails and I'm really I'm really glad that we're at a more reasonable place with the with the case reviews so thank you so much I know it's a huge lift um I guess I have just also did people receive I sent out a newsletter yes um Can someone forward that to me because I still have not um so that's going to be quarterly if people have ideas things that like sometime in October or so that they want to um you know have as a topic um let us let us know and the hope is that the annual report is finalized and goes out um next week

[114:03] yesing the final report Shar yeah year yeah okay so we run the agenda is there anything that someone wants to discuss that wasn't submitted to the agenda before yes um so during the closed session back up sometimes I can sense that there's disappointment when we vote not to review a case and I don't want I I feel like I would love to know forehand if someone's really feeling strongly about reviewing a case and I don't know if there's an appropriate and ethical way for us to give each other that information but like during the close session could we say like does anyone want to like advocate for and it doesn't even need to be like an argument it just be like I really hope we do these three

[115:00] like is anything like that appropriate or would there be a way that we could share that a little bit Yeah I will have I will have an answer but we might defer to Teresa right now she's still is with us okay great hi sorry I was listening but it took me a second to realize that you all were um sending it my way um so could you in close session say to each other you know I feel strongly about taking this one up you certainly could say that um [Music] um during a vote would not be the appropriate time to say that so it seems like the most appropriate time would be when you all are discussing and deliberating okay thank you okay thank

[116:03] you okay so we're getting to the end of our meeting uh and we have for the last time public comment at the very end of the meeting but I don't know if we have any members of the public one is it oh okay can you um should I just yes if you wna go ahead and Sarah you are have the ability to unmute if you want to comment no thank you I'm just observing this evening thank you Sarah thank you this person has like no name I think you just say number

[117:01] whatever you uh the person who has why you are unmuted would you like to comment El yeah okay have to you have to mute yourself if you want to speak ah okay okay so I think we're good close okay thank you everyone have a great night and we'll see you in a few days with the meeting with the yes for next month SE September 2 thank you

[118:03] everyone have a good [Music] night good night good night thank you