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77th ST. AREA COMMUNITY POLICE ADVISORY BOARD
March 13, 2008 Meeting Minutes
Attendance: 34
Meeting called to order by Mr Koonce at 7:15 p.m.
Intro-Captain Kato
Captain Dennis Kato promoted on November 11, 2007. He gave a bio of his LAPD history. He spent 7 years of patrol time here at 77th. He has worked Vice, Gangs, and he came back as a Gang Lieutenant, then as Chief Paysinger’s Adjutant in South Bureau and now as Commanding Officer of 77th patrol. He advised every one of some of the moves within the department. He stated that he and Captain Green are secure here at 77th at least through the summer and they are both very happy to be here. Deputy Chief Beck has moved to West Bureau. Deputy Chief Kenneth Garner has moved back here to South Bureau from West Bureau. Commander Gannon is moving to Detective Bureau. Commander Andy Smith is moving here to South Bureau from Central Bureau.
Miss Kaye Brown from Dispute Resolution with the City Attorney’s Office gave a presentation. She explained how the program got started by a Superior Court Judge.
One of the best things about dispute resolution is that all the information discussed is strictly confidential. None of the information disclosed can be used against either party involved. The program is free. She explained the resolution process The disputants discuss their issues, the mediators write everything down and within a few hours everyone comes to an agreement, the disputants sign what the mediator has written and the form becomes a legal document. This defuses situations and keeps them from escalating into criminal offenses. The money to pay for this program comes from a percentage of every lawsuit that is filed in civil court. Mediators are trained out of this fund, all the necessary paper work also comes out of this fund. She spoke of the different types of disputes that she has worked on.
Mrs. Bassett sent a list around for member’s contact information and volunteered to be the person to make calls of meeting cancellations and/or other important changes. Mr. Joe Turner thanked Ms. Bang Ja Kim for providing snacks to the children of the Jeopardy program on the eve of the funeral services for Officer Randal Simmons.
The Neighborhood Prosecutor, Akili Nickson provided an update of what has been done over the previous months. One of the things was that he has been working with the Auto Detectives here at 77th, and with DMV investigators in the attempt to stop selling vehicles on the street. The first batch of cases he had, all of them were filed and convicted, about 20 of them. The next batch consisted of 12-15 defendants and they will go to pre-trial next week. Every month they do sweeps and the operation has been incredibly successful. There have been several auto repair shops in the division that do not have business licenses. Akili and SLO Verge have closed down one of the shops and will probably be closing down another one next week. Akili mentioned that he has been spending a lot of time in court on prostitution cases. In a few weeks there will be a prostitution injunction it is the first ever in the City of L.A. This will make it illegal for known pimps and prostitutes to be hanging out in the Figueroa corridor. They do not have to be doing anything, if they are there, they will be arrested. They are in the process of finalizing all of the paperwork, getting names, etc. The Vice unit just arrested ten pimps the other day. This injunction will be massive. Mrs. Mailian asked Akili what are they going to do about the illegal vendors that set up the illegal restaurants with the buggies, and the bells and they go around selling tamales, etc. Mr. Nickson advised her that the Senior Lead Officers address a quality of life issue once a week. He informed everyone that there have been sweeps done on the CD 9 side, but not on the CD 8 side yet. He assured Mrs. Mailian that they would address that quality of life issue by mid-April. Carol White brought up the serious problem with illegal vendors at Slauson and Vermont. Captain Kato advised her they would be having the bike detail units in that area patrolling that problem.
Carlos from Jan Perry’s Office gave a report of collaborating with the LA County Dept. of Health on sweeps in the area. They will keep working on trying to have the sweeps done every two weeks. He mentioned two upcoming events, a Peace Resource Fair on March 29 and a Community clean up on April 12. Brochures were made available for these events.
Horace Penman and Lynette Leal provided a presentation on Emergency Preparedness. Lynette advised everyone of the importance of the emergency kit and what it should contain such as food, can openers, clothes, currency, etc. They stressed how kits for diabetics are important. Mr. Penman said that the block clubs need to be educated on how important the kits will be in a state of emergency. He brought up that if that 7.2 earthquake that we hear about comes to fruition we may not get any police/fire assistance for a week or longer. We need to be educated on what we need to do to save ourselves and to save one another. He suggested that radios should be purchased for communications. LA comprises of two million people. With the support of the Mayor they intend to go out to the communities, visit block clubs and inform them of what they need to have and what they need to do when this emergency occurs.
PSR Brown advised everyone that the annual C-PAB summit has been postponed until June due to budget issues. ID badges were issued to members. A list for anyone interested in the upcoming Civilian Police Academy was distributed. The CPAB sub committees list was distributed.
Meeting adjourned at 8:39 p.m.
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