Public Safety Committee

PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 15, 2022 AGENDA 4:00 PM CITY HALL, COUNCIL CHAMBERS 200 LINCOLN AVENUE PROCEDURES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING Written Public Comment: Members of the public may submit written comments on legislation by clicking on the comment bubble to the right of the meeting on the public portal at https://santafe.primegov.com/public/portal three hours prior to the start of the meeting. The agenda and packet for the meeting will be posted at https://santafe.primegov.com/public/portal. 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 5. PRESENTATIONS a. Community Violence Prevention R&D Process Findings PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Page 1 of 21  b. Mental Health in the Fire Service 6. MATTERS FROM POLICE, CHIEF PAUL JOYE a. Crime Stats Y-T-D October 2022 Report October 2022 Crime Mapping 7. MATTERS FROM FIRE, CHIEF BRIAN MOYA 8. MATTERS FROM THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY DIRECTOR 9. MATTERS FROM RECC, ROBERTO LUJAN 10. MUNICIPAL COURT REPORT a. October 2022 Municipal Court Report 11. COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC 12. MATTERS FROM THE COMMITTEE 13. NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 14. ADJOURN PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Page 2 of 21 Select Findings and Recommendations from the City of Santa Fe Violence Prevention Research and Development Process Presented to the Public Safety Committee on November 15, 2022 By Sophie Andar, Ed.D., CHES, Youth and Family Services Program Manager – Violence Prevention  Growing concerns about: • an apparent increase in violence involving youth, guns, and drugs; R&D • the cost of violence on community Process health and safety; • the difficulty of dealing with Impetus violence in a way that stops it; and • a desire to build upon and sustain efforts to help youth struggling with violence.  R & D Approach: Community Perspectives + Research into Best Practice ● conversations with community members who have extensive violence experience ● consultation with providers of criminal justice, education, healthcare, housing, and public safety services ● review of violence prevention literature and emerging best and promising practices  Community Perspectives & National Best Practice – Some of the Organizations Engaged District Attorney’s Battered Women’s Cure Violence Children and Youth CHRISTUS ST. Office, First Judicial Earth Care Esperanza Shelter Justice Project Global Commission Vincent’s Hospital District Interfaith New Mexicans to New Mexico Interfaith Mayor’s Youth Gerard’s House Leadership Alliance Prevent Gun Coalition Against Nonviolent Santa Fe Community Shelter Advisory Board of Santa Fe Violence Domestic Violence Presbyterian Railyard Park Santa Fe County Santa Fe County Santa Fe Fire Santa Fe Police Resolve Medical Services Conservancy Sheriff’s Office Teen Court Department Department Santa Fe Public St. Elizabeth’s Youth Shelters Solace Southwest Care The Life Link YouthWorks Schools Shelter Family Services Violence “...delivering physical blows (with or without weaponry), displaying and misusing one’s power, or bombarding a person with destructive misinformation and myths so that, in effect, an assault occurs either on a person’s physical body or to the self-concept, identity, cognitions, affects, and consciousness of the victim of violence” - Dr. Barbara C. Wallace Figure 1: Tertiary Levels of Prevention & Priority Those who are most affected by violence. Target Population: CRITICAL ● People who are living with violence at home. ● People who are being victimized by violence. Secondary ● People who behave violently. Those who are next affected by Primary violence, after those who HIGH perpetrate violence or are Those who live in a society where victimized by it. violence occurs. Target Population: Target Population: MEDIUM ● The whole community. ● People in closest contact with violence ● Everyone. victims and/or with people using violence. ● People who witness or are directly exposed to violence in their home, school, work, or neighborhood environments.  National Best Practices to Address Community Violence Select, implement, and Provide training and Collect, analyze and Support a robust Build and sustain a solid, evaluate effective technical assistance to disseminate injury and community-based stable infrastructure. program and policy partners and violence data. antiviolence approach. strategies. communities. Invest in anti-violence Commit to continuous Emphasize healing with Set aside funding for Engage in community- workforce development, improvement based on trauma-informed new stakeholders and based partnerships and especially credible data, evidence, and approaches. strategies. coalitions. community influencers. peer-to-peer learning. (Safe States, 2022; Urban Institute, 2022, Violent Crime Working Group of the Council on Criminal Justice, 2022)  • Santa Fe lacks a comprehensive and coordinated local government effort to track, study, and proactively prevent violence. Communication and collaboration across governmental units can promote a comprehensive analysis and response to the problem, while ensuring resources Infrastructure are aligned and applied according to need and priority level. & Workforce • There is a lack of workers equipped and available to Needs: engage in violence prevention and response work. Staffing shortages are especially notable in public education, healthcare, and emergency response services.  Priority Recommendation for All Prevention Levels Establish and fund a collaborative City and County Violence Prevention Unit (VPU). The VPU should model a public health approach. ➢ Informed by data collection and analysis feedback loops. ➢ Aligned and coordinated across departments and sectors. ➢ Builds institutional and community-based capacity. ➢ Responds to specific population needs. ➢ Seeks out and engages in best practice.  • Meaningful out of school engagement and employment • Free and safe places to be with peers outside of school • Consistent presence of trusting adult advocates Youth • Protection from predation, exploitation, and/or violent victimization by adults or youth peers Needs: • A sense of belonging and mattering to others • Income that is not gained from guns and/or drugs • Skills to cope nonviolently with stress  Priority Recommendation: Tertiary Prevention Support, educate, and employ a cohort of youth at high risk for violence to serve as community support workers and contribute to violence prevention once sufficiently prepared. Coordinators should create a program that successfully: • recruits high risk youth; • builds healthy connection among participants and adult mentors; • cultivates social and emotional skills; • assesses and responds to participants’ health and safety needs • builds violence prevention knowledge; • yields youth-driven plans and projects to promote community health and safety; and • evaluates effectiveness. Cure Violence: proven epidemiological model with widespread adoption Domestic • 24/7 multilingual domestic violence victim advocacy is not available to emergency Violence responders attempting to provide warm handoffs and safety support to victims. Crisis • Lack of domestic violence victim advocacy inhibits Intervention responders’ timely referrals and reporting of fatality assessments to community partners in Needs: positions to help. Priority Recommendation: Tertiary Prevention • Building on existing programs, establish sustained advocacy for domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or human trafficking survivors that is culturally and linguistically appropriate, trauma informed, and available on a 24/7 on-call basis. Conclusion Violence is a major issue of concern in Santa Fe City and County due to its growing prevalence and the toll it takes on individual lives, families, and community institutions. Dealing with violence effectively requires specific prevention aims, dedicated personnel and resources, and a comprehensive, research informed and community-driven approach. While violence weakens communities and pulls people apart, strong community connections provide safety and support, helping to prevent violence. To maximize violence prevention impact, invest in community health and safety workforce and infrastructure development and sustainability.  City of Santa Fe Youth and Family Services Division Priority Actions 1 2 3 4 Hire a program Allocate 1 million APRA Continue Santa Fe Finalize 2022-2027 manager to begin to dollars to violence County partnership to Violence Prevention carry out prevention efforts. align violence Strategic Plan. recommendations. prevention efforts. Select References Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2020). Protective factors approaches in child welfare. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubpdfs/protective_factors.pdf Dahlberg, L.L & Mercy, J.A. History of violence as a public health problem. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11:167–172. Dymnicki, A.B., Katz, J., Young, X.J., Thorngren, M., Orazi, J., Marshall, K.J., Lumpkin, C.D. (2021). 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