All right.
Good morning everyone.
Good morning everyone. Good morning.
All right.
My name is Chief Sean Barnes.
Shon Barnes.
I have the, distinct pleasure and privilege
of being the chief of police for the Seattle Police Department.
It is my honor to welcome you here today to our headquarters,
and specifically to welcome you to our new real time crime center.
I like to, introduce our mayor.
Mayor Bruce Harrell, who will bring some comments,
about this piece of technology and the the importance of it
and working to create a safe Seattle.
Thank you. Chief.
And I'll pass it back to you, chief, after I say some opening remarks.
Thank you.
Thank all of you for being here this morning.
We want to take advantage of the opportunity to explain to
you all and the city about what we think are the great advantages
from a public safety standpoint, to use this kind of technology.
I want to first acknowledge that I have,
three outstanding council members standing behind me.
Council President Sarah Nelson and council public safety chair, Bob kettle.
And of course, Councilmember Marissa Rivera, all very concerned about,
not only our effective use of the technology, but the safeguards
we have in place to make sure we are protecting people's rights.
This has been a very
good year in 2025, in terms of the progress
we've made relative to public safety.
First we have, I think, a national leader in this space through Chief Barnes.
And I'm very proud that the city council, confirmed,
Chief Barnes after the exhaustive national search.
He was unanimously, unanimously confirmed.
Police recruitment is breaking all records in recent memory.
We've hired nearly 100 officers as of July 1st, and it's almost four times
the number of officers we were at this point last year in 2024.
The crime is clearly down, with reported homicides down 41% compared to the first
half of last year and shootings down 29%
and violent crime down 12%.
And while some may say that this is a national crime, that's a good thing.
But we also have to recognize the outstanding work
that the police department are doing.
For example, for example, year after year retrieving nearly, 2000
guns over five guns off the streets a day.
So we have to recognize some of the arrests they've made.
The in June, the arrest in,
June, where over $3 million worth of,
illegal and illicit drugs were taking off the streets.
14 prolific drug traffickers are being charged with crimes.
That's enough drugs to kill the Seattle two times over.
So I want to recognize the outstanding work we're seeing.
We recently filed, as you well know, the termination
of the federal consent decree over.
After over a decade of significant improvements to police policies
and, more importantly, than policies, how we are implementing
these policies, our training and our accountability systems.
So these are milestones that we should be very proud of as a city.
The real time Crime Center,
again, is a tool in our tool bag that will continue these positive trends.
In his first two months.
The center has supported the investigation over 600 crime incidents
and is currently supporting 90 active criminal investigations.
When I first proposed our crime prevention
technology pilot, I promised that it would be evidence
based, that would have the correct safeguards in place to it.
And we're here to celebrate that the initial evidence and results
of the crime center are overwhelmingly positive.
And I think we'll show up an example of that here in a few minutes.
Now, this doesn't mean we will solve everything by this.
This is not a panacea, but it does mean we are fulfilling our promise to use
every tool available to improve public safety and again, I can't say enough.
We'll make sure everyone's rights are protected and the right
constitutional safeguards are in place.
Last I'll say that public safety is
we view it as a team sport, that we work with communities.
And I think many of you know, we are in the, in the streets now,
so to speak, at the different community
centers, talking to communities about what public safety means to them.
We'll be hosting a public safety for throughout the city
over the next month and a half to share updates and hear
and share with you the concerns we are hearing.
The next forum is tonight, July 15th at the Magnuson
Community Center from 6 to 730, and next week,
it'll be at the Queen and Community Center on Monday.
So I want to again applaud the Seattle Police Department
and the different community representatives and organizations
working with us to make sure that we're hearing from the community.
So we are united with the goal of building a safe and thriving Seattle.
And I'm excited to see how the real time Crime Center can continue to support us
in our efforts.
And with that, chief, I'll hand it back to you, Chief Barnes.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.
So the
concept of the real time crime centers,
it's really not a new concept in policing,
but it is one that has have evolved over the years.
Sometimes it's not great to be first,
but it is great to be correct and to get it correct.
And I think we have done that a lot of work, has been gone
into this particular program, which predates me.
A lot of thought has gone into it so that we can deliver some things
to our community.
The first thing is immediate, incident detection.
People want the police department.
They expect the police department to be able to respond quickly,
and they want the police department to be able to respond accurately.
And we think that this is one tool to help us to do that.
We believe, and I've always believed the mayor believes and data
informed policing, policing that is informed by good
and accurate information so that we can provide
the best possible service to an amazing community.
Coordination with other law enforcement
and that is the people who are out there on the street, the men and women
who are working while you're sleeping,
the men and women of the Seattle Police Department,
who go into those dark spaces and sometimes go into calls like I did
many, many years ago, not knowing the full picture of what I may encounter.
This, I think, will reduce some of that.
And you will see that in the example, that we're going to see in a few minutes.
And what I mean by that is being able to give more accurate information
to those officers who are responding to calls that, quite frankly, may be life
threatening, to make sure that not only is our community safe, our officers,
that we reduce the likelihood of having to use a use of deadly force.
Crime prevention is one of my priority
as you've heard me talk about this again and again and again.
I was in my staff meeting this morning talking about this very topic.
This is where I stand on public safety.
I stand on the side of crime prevention, not just responding to crime
after it happens, but we want to ensure that we have less
victims than we've had the year prior.
As the mayor previously spoke about.
And then lastly, support for investigations.
We want to make sure that we can support our investigative function.
We have a group of detectives who work extremely hard,
and they need every piece of information that they can
to return property to people who have lost it.
To get justice for people who have been hurt, and to make sure
that we can help do our part in making our community whole again.
And I think that's something that we take a lot of pride
and a lot of privilege and, and we need all the tools to do that.
And this is one of those tools.
So with that being said, Captain Brett, are you up next?
All right, Captain Brett up. All right.
Thank you. So
so if we were
to name the room, it would probably be the captain J.
Brett room.
He hates that.
But, we have some very, very talented people here.
Just give me a minute.
I have to do this, in the police department.
And he is one of them.
They're, you know, they don't teach you about technology
and all these big words that he's going to mention.
And chief school, there is no chief school.
But if there were, I would ask him to come and deliver
a class there, but, he is our subject matter expert.
I'm so grateful.
And I think the community should be grateful that he works for us.
So thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
Good morning everybody.
Thank you for being here.
My name is Captain Jim Brewer with the Seattle Police Department.
I've been with the department for 23 years, most of which was in patrol.
And I'll tell you in the 17 years I spent answering calls
and supervising those answering calls, I very much wish this was here.
The chief's very kind to to mention the work that went into this,
but I have to admit that I stood
on the shoulders of people who came well before me.
This room was built under, I believe, chief O'Toole.
Deputy Chief Barton did a great deal of work
into this space, as well as Deputy Mayor Burgess and several folks
throughout the organization, and both here and across the street.
So I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to help build out this unit.
Chief Barnes spoke, a great deal about what this room is capable of.
We don't take that lightly.
We understand that there are a great deal of concern when it comes to privacy,
especially when it comes to privacy beyond the borders of Seattle
and what we share and where we share.
That's why one of the reasons, the first thing we put on the wall in here
was cribbing.
The quote didn't do an exact quote, because you get into debates about
who the quote really belongs to.
But the concept is sound.
Great power requires greater responsibility.
The analysts we've been fortunate enough to hire in this room,
who are dedicated individuals
who have dedicated most of their lives to law enforcement as well.
They're faced with that quote every single day.
The understanding that the work and the trust that's been given to us
with this technology can never be abused.
We have to make sure we're doing it right.
And when we do it wrong, we have to make steps to correct that.
We have to catch it early.
We have to make sure that we're making those steps to do it right every time.
So the concept of wielding this power responsibly and ethically
is constantly in our minds.
Chief mentioned the concept of making sure that we're being more precise,
which is why the tenets of precision
policing are on the wall in the back of the room here.
Those are respond quickly, investigate thoroughly, identify
correctly, arrest safely, and prosecute successfully.
We have
the ability now to get a lot more information to responding units.
When I was taking calls,
when chief was taking calls, the most we could hope
for was a really good description over the radio.
You're looking for a white female wearing a blue tuxedo and a top hat
that's you know, that'd be a great description if I got that.
But now we're able to actually provide officers with still images.
If it occurred in view of one of our cameras,
we can actually provide still images of the subject involved
directly on to the screen of the responding units.
So not just going after description that they're picturing in their head,
they can actually see the person they're looking to go in contact.
Our goal is to make sure that instead of stopping three wrong people in the perp
in the blue tuxedos, we're stopping the one right person we're looking for.
So the precision policing model is a critical component,
and that'll play here in just a moment when we show the video.
Nobody wants to hear me talk too much, but I'm sure there's gonna be time
for questions later on.
But I want to make sure
we hand it over to Council Member Kettle of the public Safety Committee.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you, Captain Brett.
Thank you, everyone, for being here.
I want to thank, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.
I appreciate your leadership on this and your team.
Your senior team.
But also, Captain Barnes, for the work.
Stepping up immediately.
But my biggest thanks I really do want to give is to Captain Brett and his team.
You know, the folks that are in the back.
Working with Captain Brett on the various pieces of legislation
has been great, and it allows us to do things better.
You know, one of the things about the real time crime Center
is that this is not happening in isolation.
You know, in the past year and a half, we passed basically 20 bills.
And these bills may be thought of as individuals, pieces of legislation,
but they're not.
They're part of a coherent strategy, a coherent plan.
And the idea is to bring these pieces together to effect
a better public safety posture.
And the technology pieces of this are super important,
whether it's automatic license plate readers, the CCTV,
and here with the real time Crime Center
bringing these things together, this allows us to do policing better.
As noted by Chief
and Captain Brett, using the precision policing model as an example.
These are the things.
This is a point that this real time crime center
is part of an overall package, a strategy that we're working
with the executive, with the mayor and mayor's team, but also with the city
attorney to effect a better public safety posture.
And important to this, and this has been alluded to,
this has come up through the pieces of legislation related to like amendments.
And actually even from the first bill that we did
incorporating right away out of the executive in terms of,
you know, the technology pieces and the surveillance aspects of this.
So these pieces are in there.
But here's another point that's really important
is the fact that we have the best accountability system in the country.
I've been doing interviews
for the Office of Police Accountability, the director.
There's no city that has what we have.
Chicago has pieces of it.
Some other cities have pieces of it.
But we have the best accountability system,
and this accountability system will be supported,
and we'll be doing the things along with the council, along with the committee
that, you know, captain Brett
was just speaking to and the others and this combination,
this combination of bills, this combination of technology,
but importantly, the combination of working together
with the mayor and his team, with the city attorney and her team,
and with the various pieces of the council led by council president,
but also a council member.
Rivera has been working the issues in district four so hard is to,
at the end of the day, create a safe base in our city and that's what we're doing.
And again, I just want to thank everyone,
for their work in this and specifically for the real time Crime Center.
I thank you because it's making a difference.
Thank you.
We have a video we're going to show you here in just a moment.
That kind of highlights a great success story.
But beforehand, I want to give you a quick tour of what's on the screen behind you.
Robin, could you zoom into downtown Seattle
so we can get a clear image of what's going on here, please?
Thank you. Sir.
So as you can see, this is a basic map of the city of Seattle.
We've overlaid information and the beauty of having.
I'm sorry. I'm wandering away from my microphone.
The beauty of having the information
up here on a map is that we know where our people are.
We know where the calls are,
and we're able to provide information based upon the geographic nature of this.
Maps and GIS capabilities become a critical component
when we're trying to make sure that we're giving the best information possible.
On the screen here, you'll see triangles of varying colors.
That information is coming in off of the department's computer
aided dispatch system, which handles all the calls for service.
When a person calls 911 the call center over at Seattle, 911 creates a call
and it appears on this screen in real time.
Then the analysts sitting here are monitoring the radio and the CAD as well.
And the moment they become aware of a call for service,
they're able to look and see what resources we can bring to bear
to better support the response that's coming from the units in the field.
For example, the green circles you'll see are our cameras.
Robin, can you please pull up?
There you go.
He's going to show you an example of one of our cameras.
The cameras we're installing are actually five cameras.
In each deployment.
There are 360 camera with a pan tilt zoom camera mounted below them.
So each camera actually gives us five feeds, four of which are static.
The face in all four directions, the last of which is a pan
tilt zoom that we can then, move in to where we need it
to focus more properly on whatever investigations are needed.
These cameras record for five days, which gives our investigators
time to come to us and say, we had a robbery at this location.
Can you look and see if we have any video footage associated with it?
Thank you. Robin, can you go to the CCTV map?
This is seattle.gov/cctv.
For those that are concerned or questions
about where our cameras are being deployed.
We currently have cameras deployed on Aurora from 85th to 145th,
the Chinatown International District here and the downtown core.
Most of our cameras are up.
I think, at last count, I believe, Michael, we were at route 50,
about 50 of the authorized cameras are up.
We're waiting on 57.
Thank you.
Nick, we're waiting on some equipment and some power to be run
for some of our other camera installations.
Back to use this map, please.
So as we get more information, it populates this map and gives
us additional information.
We also have an integration
that we won't bother to show because it's pretty mundane,
but an integration to our records management system.
So if we needed to know what reports had been written within an area
within the last whatever period of time, we can pull up that information as well.
Nick, can we pull up the video and make sure that the cameras are ready
to go for this?
For two left over there?
So the video you're about to see is an incident that occurred at 110 Aurora.
June 13th, I want to give you just a quick snippet of what you're going to see.
Various camera footage, most of which the first set is going
to come from our camera installations installed at 100th in Aurora.
As part of this project, you'll also see body camera footage,
as well as footage from private cameras that were then that were retrieved
after the incident, as per our regular investigative process.
And then you'll see some footage from some of our, our county partners as well.
The incident involved is a pistol
whipping, followed by a shooting, followed by an apprehension.
Go ahead and hit play, Nick.
Nine nine, zero one Laura Avenue, North.
And what's going on?
Just all of you out front of my store with the pistol
through the guy on the ground.
The man.
And. And when is the shooter?
This is footage off of one of our fixed pan tilt zoom cameras.
Perfect. Excuse me. Non-cancer zoom.
This is a fixed camera with digital zoomed it to see if that clear image
is on.
And is the suspect still there?
Near there.
Last resort? Yes.
Okay.
Master,
anyone needing medical attention?
I have no idea.
Got any shots fired that you're aware of?
I remember going after the game, so probably resume biting,
right? Yep.
He walking to the corner,
in front of the top.
Shot fired. Fired. Shots fired on the shot.
You know, anyone did.
But, you know, if I don't, I'm not going.
Although, I don't know if you do like what you're seeing.
If you didn't, do.
You know I didn't even.
Shots fired.
So at this point, our analyst jumps on a pan tilt zoom
camera to see if they can get better footage of what's going on.
At this point, our analyst gets on a pan zoom camera
to see if they can get a better image of what's going on.
All right, Inspector, Priority assault 9901
or I think, or a male just just the left and another male.
And so 2 to 3 shots.
Call 9901 over I you know, I follow up on that suspect.
But that gun as a black male 2230 and build black body.
This is the voice of the 911 dispatcher.
She already did speak to those units responding to a look like
you back out door.
And that's our analyst broadcasting from this room.
Second back out front.
Sorry.
Very well.
Thank you.
Where do you see these?
On the ground
from here on by helicopter.
Okay.
When you're.
Cleaning up the area
is something.
What began as a black male plate underneath the belly button.
Very cold chain.
It was like taking part in the
just when westbound on 97.
This is.
Here we have the suspect running down south from 97.
It be 90.
He went south?
Yeah, to the left of 9 to 1097. We.
But we holding here.
He might be probably hiding behind the building
there.
Okay.
And I'm just like, I was just pointing out some of the chamber in that area.
97, 96.
What do you start point I definitely think we need to go to 95th.
Pretty pavement.
I'm sorry to be watching that here.
Now you got like miniature.
There's structures address
95, 91 and 91 time,
you know, like the building.
That's the tall building library.
And we're looking for anything,
around all three structures going over my hands.
It turns out that you.
Copy that.
Just like, that tall building.
Paper.
That.
Now show me your hands.
Me your head, please.
So that's just one
excellent example of what the different capabilities of this room can do.
Please note that the last information we got from the 901 caller
was that the suspect was westbound on 100th.
The information that the suspect had come back out in front came from the RTC.
Reviewing the footage,
even if the person had called in and the person on the phone had said,
we have the suspect in front, he's now southbound on a bicycle.
The last information units would have had was that the suspect was southbound
on Aurora on a bicycle, but because the RTC was able
to put information out immediately regarding the suspect back out in front
the suspect on a bicycle, the suspect, now westbound on 97th units,
were able to set up very swift containment.
That call took about two hours.
But the suspect is in custody.
And so that's that's a huge win for us.
It's one of many, that we've been having throughout our work
here, and we're very excited to share more of it as it comes forward.
That's all I've got, chief.
I'll turn it back over to you, sir.
We turned the lights on, and that is.
I think it just helps me out to,
I also want to acknowledge, Chief Operating Officer Brian Maxey,
who's in the room with us.
He did a lot of work on this from a policy, standpoint, and I hope to
maybe give a couple of questions to him if it comes up.
So, if there are any, questions
that me or my team can answer, we'll do that now.
So when obviously it's going to move to neighborhoods.
I'm from West Seattle.
When might we see that sort of format?
So the placement of of our cameras
owned by the department is going to be based upon crime trends.
And so right now we're focused as a part of the pilot
on the areas that were identified.
The downtown core, the CID and Aurora Avenue.
We're looking to add a couple of new locations in coming legislation,
which will include the Capitol Hill nightlife
area, the area around the stadiums and the area around Garfield High School.
We're working with council right now to work on that legislation.
The ability for the real time Crime Center has also to pull in private video
from businesses and other places that are willing to give their video.
We're working on getting that rolled out,
but we're not quite ready to go there just yet.
We're also working as part of the legislation
to be able to pull in other government owned cameras, which would include
dot cameras, and cameras from other city facilities around the area.
So as those abilities come online, will be able to expand
into more areas, which would include West Seattle.
I guess might be
a question for to foreign to the mayor.
I've, I've talked to a business owner,
says that they have tried to be exempted from the camera surveillance.
Is it possible for businesses to be exempt
and not be found at the, if they wish to?
So we have the ability to privacy mask any area that's constitutionally protected.
Robin, can you pull up a good example of that?
I believe we have a good one.
One of the things that we're very conscious of, again, is privacy.
And so, sidewalks are open to the public.
The fronts of businesses are open to the public.
So those aren't necessarily constitutionally exempted.
Excuse me? Constitutionally protected areas.
But we do have the ability to put privacy masking on areas
that are specifically the windows that go into residential areas.
And so we're going to pull up one of those privacy masks right now.
We wouldn't want to necessarily,
use the privacy mask.
You can see up here, we can see the street that's open to the public,
but we can't see the area that is protected.
We wouldn't we wouldn't want to be cautious about using this
for businesses that front on to a sidewalk,
because the sidewalk is an area
that we would want to make sure that we had good footage of,
but we can work with businesses to see if that's something we can do.
It's a little gray.
It's a little difficult to pass on that line
right there at the sidewalk to the business,
especially when the business front itself isn't constitutionally protected.
I'm sorry, is this a live image or this is a live image?
Yes, ma'am.
Going to talk about privacy protections.
Is this the video that the public could put in, public disclosure request for or.
Yes, I'm from an agency, so it could be video that anybody could. Yes.
It's subject to every other subject to the same laws
as every other document or video that's created by the police department.
Yeah, yeah.
We have a lot of, news reporting about,
data exposure to, for example,
the Department of Homeland Security and Ice.
And so I have some questions about that,
that if you're the right person, I'm going to give it a go.
Okay.
So, what protocols are in place to prevent the data from the RTC
from either using federal data screens to circumvent local restrictions
or sharing those data screens to again circumvent those restrictions,
for example, to help guys find somebody that they want to.
Well, first off, that would be illegal.
We're not allowed to do that.
Secondly, we don't connect to any federal agencies
with any of this data or equipment. We stream.
We screen all requests from other law enforcement
agencies, which includes federal law enforcement agencies.
When it comes to the nature of their investigation.
For example, if the US marshals are looking for a murder suspect from Idaho,
we would need to help them. So we would need to provide that.
But if they came and asked
for information, that would be restricted by either policy or state or city law,
we would not provide that information.
And we control where all of our data goes.
We do not have open sharing.
Anybody can access it.
We control who gets to look at what we give.
And do you have, an internal or external red team that is tasked
with identifying risks with the system in terms of civil liberties.
So we constantly are monitoring our team.
In fact, we're just working right now on the processes
we're going to put into place to do random audits of our analysts
to make sure that they're following the policies that we set forth.
The nice part about that is because we are new, we're learning as we go.
So we may identify a point that we find as a weakness that we haven't found yet
and say,
okay, we need to shore up either our systems or our policies in that place.
So we're working where we have a, essentially an internal red team,
that that goes through and, and analyzes on random selections.
The analysts work on a particular case to determine what they did.
Did it fall within the guidelines of, of policy and law?
Is there a place where we can get better to make sure that that's covered?
So we do do that? Yes, ma'am.
And who has the authority to audit or review our taxi operations?
I think that it was maybe going to be involved.
Are you going to have any independent,
researchers be involved in that as well?
OIG has, contracted with a PhD out of the University of Pennsylvania,
that is conducting
the independent audit of the effectiveness of the RTC and its policies.
And I defer to to misjudge for the answers on that.
Yeah. Of course. Yeah.
And last question, I noticed that there is a drone
from the King County Sheriff's Department that helped you on that video.
Is it pretty common for you to borrow the drone,
you say, from King County?
It's pretty common for the Swat team
to borrow the drone for deployments
where you have a barricaded armed subject.
We have a great relationship with our friends over the sheriff's office
in their TAC 30 unit.
It's common for the Swat team to do it.
It's not common beyond that.
It's pretty rare. Outside of that.
Thank you so much.
It was used in this case because we had an armed subject
that we believe we had contained within a smaller space.
Okay. One last question.
Can you talk a bit about the software?
It looks like it's not some product of how it works.
I know
there's concerns about facial recognition, like how does the software identifying
people or faces or clothing or how does that work?
Sure.
So the product is actually a product called fusion,
which is a company that was bought by axon.
Actually, in our process of evaluating their effectiveness,
we've had a long standing relationship with axon for our body cams
and our in-car videos, as well as our digital evidence storage.
So when they bought fuzes,
it was a great relationship to make sure that we could keep that building.
We use zero facial recognition.
And I'm going to say that again,
just to make sure that everybody's camera got that.
We do not use any facial recognition.
We don't use gait analysis, we don't use any biometrics.
There is an AI overlay within the camera systems that allows us
to look for blue shirts, black pants.
So think the, Boston Marathon bombing,
they had thousands of hours of footage and they knew
they were looking for backpacks and hats.
They had to scroll through that footage by hand.
This system has the ability to scroll through that footage based upon
a date, time and a geographic, restriction and identify what you've asked for.
So red shirt, black pants, it can identify those and it does pretty well.
It can also do vehicle makes and colors.
So red Toyotas and it does pretty well at that.
Obviously it's a growing technology.
So they're still working on making it better.
But it doesn't do
any facial recognition and it still has the human in the loop requirement.
It doesn't simply attach things to calls or send officers chasing after anything.
It shows it to the analyst and says, based upon what you asked me
to find, here's what I found that meets that description.
And then they go from there
to determine if it's it has a nexus to the investigation.
Well, that's I think he answered it already.
So I think that's what happens when you get people,
budgets coming up.
These are, these are pretty expensive system.
Are you going to be requesting, an expansion into other areas
or just more, funding for this in the upcoming budget?
Well, that is it goes to Tracy's question in West Seattle. So,
the short answer
is, we think this is good technology,
and there could be a push to expand it citywide.
We're going to listen to the communities.
Part of the reason we're having the community Safety Forum,
I think everyone in this room understands we have some constraints, on our budget.
And so it becomes a question of priorities.
So right now, and as was mentioned, we're looking at a Garfield and,
and the Nova schools and some, some areas where we're,
we're concerned about right now for that sort of a pilot.
But, expanding it could be on the table.
And again,
I have at least three council members here that will have some discussions,
with that as well as they, to deliberate on the budget.
So do you have a metric for success that will help you perform that decision?
Well, yes.
I mean, in fact, the two it's actually a two year
study, from the University of Pennsylvania.
And again, looking at, our inspector general,
Lisa Judge's, office, who sort of audits everything that we do.
They will develop the metrics and the desirable outcomes.
And so I'm not going to spew it out right now.
I'm going to let the academics
do what they do and to see if this is a success or not.
This is a good example of perhaps an apprehension
that might not have, been done as
effectively and as efficiently without this technology.
This is one example, by the way.
And if we could show you multiple other examples, since we've
just been using this technology in the last couple of months
where you just saw outstanding police work.
So I believe and you may recall in 2010
from the city council, I was
the first person to propose body cameras, not people.
Take them for granted.
I had to go on a speaking tour and body cameras.
I thought that was good technology.
Now it's a national standard.
On what police departments are using.
We think this real time crime is actually that kind of technology.
We think it's a game changer.
So we will measure it and hopefully expand it.
Always recognizing again, I was the author of the, privacy surveillance Ordinance,
recognizing people civil are concerned about their civil liberties.
And so we'll always that always be on the forefront of our, use of technology.
The investments so far, the cities made in this the investment platform,
who wants to help me out on the actual investment
in real time crime so we can get you to that question?
When we're done,
we'll make sure that you can.
Mayor.
And to our chief,
can you address what the city's going to do to deal with the Denny Blaine
ruling yesterday from the abatement that they've given a 14 day window for
either address? I'm sure I'll take it up. Take it a shot.
So we read the court's ruling that I think just came out yesterday.
You know, there's still pending litigation that could be in an appeals process.
So I have to be very cautious on. On what?
What I say, but I will say that it also gives us perhaps an opportunity
once again, to work with the communities that are so concerned about that.
That particular park.
This includes the LGBTQ community as well as a neighboring facilities
and have discussions as the litigation occurs.
So what we try to do is just make it clear through our law department,
our position that, you know, we recognize the historical significance of that park.
We also have I've made it very clear that some of the unacceptable behavior,
some of the lewd behavior is there's no place for that at any park.
So we think we have an opportunity again, to keep the,
the talks open with the different communities.
And, we'll see what the city attorney's office, how they, how they proceed.
Thank you so much.
Quick question, though.
There's nobody here now.
What hours is the staff?
I'm sorry if there are folks here.
I have two panelists in the back that have been working this whole time.
In fact, they've been monitoring the radio and assisting on calls
while we've been talking.
We're staffed, with two analysts 19 hours a day, seven days a week.
And I think that was in the release that was sent out as well. So.
All right. All right. Thank you.
Thank you sir.
Thank you. Mr.. Okay. Thank you everybody.