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untanglingwebs
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http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/01/report_calls_for_16_major_chan.html


Report calls for 16 major changes at Flint Police Department





Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com By Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com
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on January 22, 2015 at 5:34 PM, updated January 23, 2015 at 6:24 PM



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Amanda Emery | aemery@mlive.com

FLINT, MI -- A report released by the city of Flint calls for 16 major recommendations to overhaul the city's police services.

The 82-page report, released Thursday, Jan. 22, after being commissioned by former Emergency Manager Darnell Earley, calls for major operational changes at the department responsible for patrolling and investigating crime in a city often described as one of the most violent in the nation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Currently, the department has 108 sworn officers, according to the report. Ideally, the report calls for more than double the number of officers.

The creators of the report, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Safety Management, claim the publication contains hundreds of suggestions, but the 16 major ideas recommended by the study include:
•Create a public information advisory group of prominent community leaders who would digest the the report and work as a liaison between the department and the community.

•Establish more aggressive protocols for responding to service demands from the public.


•Reprioritize investigative priorities that would create changes in staffing in certain areas, such as arson, cold cases and multi-jurisdictional task forces.


•Create a Neighborhood Safety Unit to improve crime prevention efforts and foster community collaboration.


•Equip at least one marked patrol car with an automated external defibrillator and an automatic license plate reader. Equip every car with e-ticket readers and printers.


•Create a professional standards officer to coordinate training, discipline, internal investigations and administrative integrity.


•Develop an in-service training program.


•Reassign the sergeant from the Safe Streets Task Force to the professional standards officer for investigative and administrative support.


•Update or replace the current records management system.


•Continue with the plan to merge with the county dispatch system.


•Create a technology task force.


•Reduce the amount of property and evidence retained at the police station.


•Create a multi-year strategic plan that includes performance goals and objectives.


•Foster a greater collaboration and true partnership with the Michigan State Police.


•Identify and train additional civilian volunteers to provide effective administrative support.


•Explore the possibility of part-time police officers.

The plan is expected to be presented Tuesday evening to the city council's Public Safety Committee.

Check back with Mlive.com as more information becomes available.


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Report recommends Flint police stop responding to some calls, investigate only violent crimes

Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com By Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com
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on January 22, 2015 at 8:29 PM, updated January 23, 2015 at 6:23 PM




FLINT, MI -- A new report is recommending that Flint police stop responding to certain calls and limit investigative resources to only violent crimes.

The report, commissioned by former Emergency Manager Darnell Earley, was presented Thursday, Jan. 22, to City Council members and called for 16 major changes to the department. It also included suggested changes to the city's fire department.

The presentation provided council members a stark look at city services that are pushed to their limits.

A major change the report, created by Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Safety Management after nearly a year of investigation, included was overhauling the way incidents are reported and responded to by officers in the city.

"Officers in Flint are going to calls they just shouldn't be going to," said James E. McCabe, an ex-New York Police Department official who worked on the report and presented the finding to council.

McCabe recommended officers stop responding to incidents such as accidents, medical incidents and alarms.

He added that the high call demand on officers combined with an understaffed force caused call response times to lengthen dramatically.

On average, McCabe said, it takes officers nearly 22 minutes to respond to the highest-priority calls, such as robberies in progress. The response is more than four-times longer than the 5-minute response benchmark for these types of calls.

"There's more work than there are people to do it," McCabe said.

Currently, the department has 108 sworn officers, according to the report. Ideally, the report calls for more than double the number of officers.

The flood of calls and lack of staff also can create dangers as fewer officers are available to respond to each call.

Ideally, McCabe said, two officers should be responding to calls. Currently, on average, Flint falls below that benchmark.

"It's a precarious situation that backup is not there as often as it should be," McCabe said.

The lack of staffing and high call volume is magnified in the department's Criminal Investigations Bureau.

McCabe said nearly 13,000 cases were assigned for investigation during the study. The department employed only 12 investigators during that time frame.

"It's not physically possible to do it," McCabe said of the investigator's ability to work the entire caseload.

The addition of Michigan State Police troopers to the department's investigative bureau has propped up the city's ability to investigate crime, but McCabe said the city still needs to consider what crimes it investigates.

McCabe said city investigators should handle only violent interpersonal crimes, such as rape, homicide and armed robberies. He recommended the city cut its arson and cold case investigations and reassign those resources to investigating violent crime.

The creators of the report called for the city fire department and state fire marshal to help cover arson investigations.

"There are different ways you can handle the arson piece," said Joseph Pozzo, who worked on the evaluation of the city's fire services.

Pozzo said the large number of vacant structures in the city fuels demand for public safety resources. The buildings play host to intentionally set fires and other criminal activity.

Despite the arson fires, Pozzo said it may not be in the city's best interest to invest in arson investigation.

"You typically don't catch people who set vacant buildings on fire because they are long gone before anybody sees it," Pozzo said.

Sixty percent of the calls the fire department responds to are for fire services.

Nearly 30 percent of the calls are for emergency medical services.

Flint uses several private ambulance companies to provide EMS transport service in the city. The fire department acts as a first response EMS service provider.

The report claims the EMS transportation system is "highly inefficient" and has no city oversight. Pozzo said the EMS service should have local government oversight even if it is handled privately.

"Those are citizens calling 911," Pozzo said.

Flint's fire department ranks in the 90th percentile in dispatch times, with the times being 3-4 minutes longer than national averages. Turnout times are also two minutes greater than national benchmarks.

"We know there can be some improvements made there," Pozzo said, adding that extended travel times due to shuttered stations emphasize the importance of streamlining dispatch and turnout times.

It takes Flint fire crews roughly 13 minutes to respond to fire and EMS calls, the report says.

Recommended changes include overhauling the organizational structure of the fire department and better targeting resources to times of higher demand.

Current Flint Emergency Manager Gerald Ambrose emphasized the changes recommended in the reports are not automatically going to be implemented. He said the recommendations would be reviewed by city leadership for potential incorporation into city policies.

"Both the police and fire departments are evaluating these recommendations and will use these as guidelines for the development of upcoming revisions to the city's strategic plan," Ambrose said in a statement. "We still have severe limitations on the available revenue for public safety services."

The report creators called for city leaders to include residents in an open, collaborative effort to determine what changes should be made to city services.
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