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Mission C-PAB Meeting Minutes
Mission Community Police Station
Community-Police Advisory Board
Meeting Minutes
December 21, 2011
Meeting called to order: 1837(6:37p.m.)
Welcome: Betty Leywelcomed members and guests
Pledge of Allegiance: The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Norma.
Betty thanked Community Relations for decorating the room.
Betty asked the guests to introduce themselves.
Secretary Report:
Margaret Shoemaker asked if everyone had an opportunity to read the minutes.
Melanie McShanemade a motion to approve the minutes for theNovember 16, 2011 meeting as corrected. There was a second and the minutes were approved.
Old Business:
Committee Reports:
Membership Committee:
No report.
Intent to Serve 2012:
“Intent to serve” forms for 2012 are due.
Events Committee:
No report.
Outreach Committee:
Betty Ley talked about the mandate that all CPABS form an emergency preparedness committee. The assignment from last month was due tonight. However, none have been turned in. Betty talked about the importance of this assignment.
Operation Ceasefire:
Captain Romero reported that we have another call-in scheduled for the middle of January 2012. We are doing a lot better on shootings. There has been one shooting between Langdon and Blythe Street a couple of weeks ago. We stand at eleven murders in Mission Area year-to-date. This time last year we had thirteen. The number went up since the last time we met. We had two children die. In one case, the infant had died a month or longer ago and the finding was that it was a shaken baby. That reclassifies it from a suspicious death to homicide. In another case there was a family violence on an infant that resulted in a murder. On the 14th, there was a traffic collision in San Fernando, non-gang related, where a male drove his car over a female. That is going to be classified as a homicide. None of those were gang related. Things are holding and we are looking good. Captain Chamberlain is on board with Cease Fire. There is not going to be a change with regard to those rules. We will have a planning meeting at the first of the year. The call-in will be sometime in the middle of January.
We had our first Mission Security Council meeting here in this room about ten days ago. This is not a business watch type of operation. We are trying to get the vocational, the full time security officers to be on the same page with the police. We have in Mission right now 301 police officers assigned, but in Mission Area there are likely 3,000 professional security officers. We have not embraced them like we could. We would like to know how many of these professional security operations maintain cameras so when we get a crime such as burglaries (like we are having in Mission Hills) we can tell all of our professional security partners to monitor their cameras for particular clothing or vehicle descriptions and make sure that we are using the private security. For a long time there has been a divide between the police officers and private security where one was seen as a “rent-a-cop” and another as the “real cop.” We want to close that divide and embrace them as professionals. If we are going to reduce crime next year, it will be by attacking property crime. Mission area and all of the San Fernando Valley is a property crime driven area.
Mission Area Crime Stats Update:
We are down in Part 1 crime, violent crime by about 5% and we are even in property crime. Mission Hills is taking a “beating” in burglaries. We have leads on the case, we have suspects, and I expect that there will be an arrest soon. It is going to be more than one arrest. There is a good likelihood that they will not have ties to Mission Hills except that it is a target rich environment. These burglars can get more in a house in gold and jewelry that they sell to be melted down with far less risk of going to jail by robbing a liquor store or a bank. They make more money with far less risk. There is no indication right now that any of this is related to the early release program that is going on in California although I am paying close attention to that. If that turns out to be the case, I will certainly tell you.
There have been a significant number of burglaries in Mission Hills. Captain Romero cautioned about buying things from solicitors that come to your door. They could be “casing” the area. You do not have to open your door to them.
Burglaries are down overall in the division.
Constitutional Policing:
Last month Mission Station was audited by the California Department of Corrections, the people who oversee the minimum jail standards in California. We don’t have a Class One Jail…no one eats here, no one does time here, and no one stays over night. If we lose our status as a lock-up, no one could be held here. We would have to drive to another station which is the equivalent of losing police officers. It is very important that we are found in compliance on that and we were. Mission did very well on that for the Constitutional policing.
Announcements:
Betty asked that we pick up Earthquake booklets that are available at the table. We need to work on the Earthquake preparedness committee.
There are copies of the CPAB bylaws available at the table.
Next month is elections. Tonight is the last night to do any nominations for board elections.
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