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200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE COMMISSION NATHANIEL HAMILTON - CHAIR Tim Baack, Stephen Jansen, Camille Mays, Eric Moore, Shawn Muhammad, Amy Orta, Will Perry, Tammy Rivera, Jeff Roman, Fred Royal, Theresa Scott, Jamaal Smith and Huezong Yang Staff Assistant: Linda Elmer, 414-286-2231, lelmer@milwaukee.gov Legislative Assistant: Chris Hillard, 414-286-2170, chillard@uwm.edu Thursday, April 22, 2021 1:00 PM Virtual Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/680384069 Or by phone. (For supported devices, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.) United States: +1 (408) 650-3123 - One-touch: tel:+14086503123,,680384069# Access Code: 680-384-069 Roll call. 1. Meeting convened: 1:02 P.M. Members present: Camille Mays, Fred Royal, Pam Malone, Nate Hamilton, Shawn Muhammad, Tim Baack, Zong Yang, Tammy Rivera, Jeff Roman, Amy Orta, Eric Moore Members excused: Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Jamaal Smith, Will Perry, Steve Jansen 2. Review and approval of minutes from April 1st. This item will be scheduled at the next meeting. 3. Appearance by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office on its approach toward community oriented policing. Theodore Chisholm present for the Sheriff's Office. He noted that the sheriffs' duties different significantly from MPD - they staff the county jail and provide security to county buildings, such as the airport and county parks, as well as the expressways. A philosophy of community-led operations guides their services. Their expressway services are to prevent reckless driving and providing assistance to individual motorists. They operate in the parks based upon priorities of their community partners and engage in operations that they learn from resident stakeholders and engage in supporting those who are using the space in the parks. There is now an Office of City of Milwaukee Page 1 COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE Meeting Minutes April 22, 2021 COMMISSION Public Affairs and Community Engagement that devotes extensive resources to engage with community organizations relating to the parks and park use. The sheriff's office wants to be a presence that's welcome and acts to prevent violence and investigate violence and bring about acountability. The sheriff's department no longer has individuals cuffed and sitting on the curb so they're not being exposed in a degrading manner. For pursuits, a policy has been implemented that no pursuit can be implemented without the approval of a supervisor; often the requests to pursue have been denied, which is seen to be a reduced-risk for both the public and the officer. There isn't a blanket ban on pursuits, but supervisor approval must first be obtained. The sheriff's department has integrated many of the "8 can't wait" mandates into its operations. They are also activating a team to respond to individuals who are experiencing psychiatric crises to partner a sheriff with a mental health professional to both avoid an arrest and an involuntary commitment. They have also done extensive training on de-escalation and on peer intervention during inappropriate conduct by a deputy. There are also required reports when a firearm is drawn or any other use-of-force instances. They are continually working to repair the breach with the community. He asks that citizens report any illegal activities they see in the parks. Ms. Malone likes the pursuit policy. Mr. Baack asked for a little more detail on the choke hold policy. The CART team, which responds with a mental health professional, would have 3 teams operating for one shift - probably overlapping afternoons and evenings. The Sheriff's Office is currently revising all of its SOPs and will be adding them to the web site, but currently not online currently. The Waukesha County Sheriff's Dept. is the investigatory body of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Dept. In 2020, there were no deputy-involved shootings. Mr. Chisholm will e-mail the SOPs to Ms. Elmer, to forward to members. Sheriff Lucas and Chief Norman are working closely together. There is an elevated risk of self-harm and suicide in jail and they conduct rounds every 30 minutes to check on inmates and they work with Wellpath for comprehensive screening during in-take. 4. Presentation by Carlton Mayer on the services his firm provides. Both Mr. Royal and Mr. Hamilton have worked with Mr. Mayers in the past. Mr. Mayers provided information on his professional resume and the cases he has worked on. His focus is on community empowerment and the community decides on what is best and have the power to craft what the community wants to see. His method, CAT method (Community, Accountability and Transparency), and involves those individuals who live in high-crime or areas or high police-misconduct areas. Individuals in these areas must have at least 50% voting power in creating rules/procedures and civilian oversight of the police. Transparency is defined as the interconnected and coordination of law enforcement/elected and appointed officials/community members-direct service-providers-businesses/the press-local news media. All four work to attain police pro-activity. In Illinois, except for the state, all law enforcement officers or mental health responders training MUST now be done in collaboration with mental health providers and families with mentally ill members and must involve role playing (Illinois's Safe-t plan). Per Mr. Mayers, law enforcement officers love this training as the most-valuable resource is the family and friends of the individual they are responding to. The goals are to maintain public safety and enforce police accountability, each of which ties into the other. 5. Update from the committees. Ms. Malone said the Community Research and Policy Committee is making good progress; they are trying to format the proposed questions to a certain standard. Their City of Milwaukee Page 2 COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE Meeting Minutes April 22, 2021 COMMISSION survey is 75% along the way. The Committee will need guidance from the Commission as a whole at some point. The survey will be of 50,000 people and will focus on African Americans, then Latinos, then other groups. Social media will be used and it won't be academically random. Mr. Royal said the Engagement Committee is working on an engagement plan, replicating what Blueprint for Peace did; this would be a city-wide safety plan. Everybody's voice has to be heard. 6. Commission recommendations on the use of American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 funds. This item was moved to the next agenda. 7. Update on a meeting with Sen. Lena Taylor and Sen. Wangaard on the choke hold legislation and his other proposed legislation. Mr. Baack said he and Jamaal Smith were at the meeting, as well as Sheila Smith. The meeting was scheduled for an hour with both senators and Atty. Mayers attended as well. They met for nearly two hours due to the elected officials' comments and dominance of the meeting. They were open to their concerns and suggestions on the bills. SB-117 is continually being revised (this involves FPC changes singling out Milwaukee). They did support broadening community involvement and clarity of the process involving the Common Council. This is an attempt to include the public and the Council more. One area of disagreement is to assign a certain number and no more appointees based on political parties. One concern is individuals who don't have a strong party affiliation, such as CCC members. SB-118 is on the use of force advisory board. There is a heavy emphasis on law enforcement, but wanted to emphasize content experts and community involvement is needed. There was some agreement on some elements. This is not the same function as the FPC. SB-119 - they support some of the recent changes, but concerned about the overall intent and making adjustments for non-police interventions involving mental health professionals, community stakeholders, etc. They stressed the need for other individuals to complement the police and the senators are emphasizing that first responders and fire department funding can be used to off-set police reductions. SB-121 - use of force, choke holds - they communicated the Commission's position on this. There wasn't a resolution on this. 8. Update from the April 19th Steering and Rules Committee meeting - thoughts and future actions. Tammy Rivera and Tim Baack will be putting together a presentation. Probably rescheduled to May 10th. Any information for the presentation should be provided to Mr. Rivera (on the Committee) and Mr. Baack will be presenting on the current Commission work. 9. How to reach out to the public and involve both key stakeholders and those who have not yet become involved. This will be scheduled for the next meeting. City of Milwaukee Page 3 COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE Meeting Minutes April 22, 2021 COMMISSION 10. Re-imaging public safety and supporting LiberateMKE. This will be scheduled for the next meeting. 11. Create a budget for the $50,000 allocated for 2021. The Committees need to work on budgets. 12. Potential items for the next agenda. 200315 Communication relating to the 2020/2021 activities of the Community Collaborative Commission. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Meeting adjourned: 2:52 P.M. Linda M. Elmer Staff Assistant City of Milwaukee Page 4