[Houston District B Quarterly Briefing on September 21, 2024.]
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AND AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING OUR DISTRICT B BRIEFING.
UM, NORMALLY WE HAVE THESE BRIEFINGS EVERY MONTH, BUT WE RECENTLY, UM, MOVE THESE BRIEFINGS TO EVERY TWO MONTHS OR QUARTERLY BECAUSE OUR DISTRICT OFFICE IS NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR, UM, THE SERVICE DELIVERY COMMITTEE.
AND SO WE ARE USING THE SERVICE DELIVERY COMMITTEE, UM, AS A SPACE TO TRY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT'S IMPACTING OUR, UM, DISTRICT.
AND SO BEFORE WE BEGIN, WE'RE GONNA START OFF WITH A PRAYER.
AND I'M GONNA ASK MR. JAMES, JOSEPH TO, I'M PUT HIM ON THE STOP.
COME PRAY FOR THE LORD, PRAY FOR SOME, COME, PRAY THAT WE URGE YOU IN, UM, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IN THIS SPACE SO THEY CAN BE A PRODUCTIVE MEETING.
THANK YOU, FATHER GOD, FOR THIS DAY THAT YOU PROVIDED FOR US.
SO, LORD, JUST SIMPLY FOR GIVING US FRESH AIR TO BREATHE THIS MORNING, OH, LORD.
AND PUT US IN OUR RIGHT MIND AND OUR RIGHT HEARTS.
OH LORD, AS WE COME TOGETHER IN THE DISTRICT, OH LORD, LET OUR MINDS COME TOGETHER.
OH LORD, THAT WE MAY DO SOMETHING DEVASTATING, OH LORD, FOR THIS COMMUNITY.
OH LORD, THAT WE MAY NOT MAKE IT AS IT WAS BEFORE WE SAW IT.
AND THANK YOU FOR COMING TO OUR BRIEFING.
UM, THE PURPOSE OF THESE BRIEFINGS, UM, WHEN I FIRST CAME INTO OFFICE, UM, MY MAIN PRIORITY WAS TO BE ACCESSIBLE, ACCOUNTABLE, AND TRANSPARENT TO THE RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT B.
AND SO WE STARTED THESE DISTRICT B BRIEFINGS EVERY MONTH TO GIVE RESIDENTS WHO ARE NOT A PART OF CIVIC CLUBS OR SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, JUST ALL RESIDENTS GIVE, UH, GIVE THEM A SPACE TO BE ABLE TO COME IN AND SHARE THEIR CONCERNS, BUT THEN ALSO LEARN MORE ABOUT DISTRICT B AND HOW DISTRICT B FUNCTION.
AND SO I LIKE TO GIVE LIKE AN OVERVIEW OF THE DISTRICT B 'CAUSE EVERYONE DON'T KNOW, UM, WHAT DISTRICT B IS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT MIGHT NOT KNOW OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND DISTRICT B BASICALLY REPRESENTS A ACRES HOMES, UM, WILLOWBROOK GREENSPOINT, HUMBLE NORTHEAST, UM, CASHEL GARDEN, TRINITY GARDEN, FIFTH WARD, PLEASANTVILLE, HOUSTON GARDEN.
SO WE HAVE QUITE A FEW NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND SO, UM, I WANT TO BEGIN BY INTRODUCING MY STAFF.
WE HAVE MARY MARINO, WHICH IS OUR CHIEF OF STAFF.
WE GOT FRED, WHICH IS OUR SPECIAL PROJECTS.
YOU GOT JESSICA IN THE BACK, AND YASMIN IS NOT HERE.
SO THESE ARE THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WHO ARE RUNNING THIS WHOLE DISTRICT, MAKING SURE THAT IF YOU DON'T SEE ME AND YOU SEE THEM, YOU SEE ME.
YOU KNOW? AND SO I JUST WANT OTHER FOLKS, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT I CAN'T BE EVERYWHERE, BUT WE TRY TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO MAKE A PRESENCE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, TODAY, I WANTED TO BRING OUR NEW POLICE CHIEF, UM, IN, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES, A LOT OF, UM, CONCERNS ABOUT CRIME THROUGHOUT OUR DISTRICT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT LACK OF POLICE PRESENCE AND PATROLLING OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND SO I KNOW BEFORE, UM, OUR POLICE, THIS, OUR NEW POLICE CHIEF, UM, OUR FORMER POLICE CHIEF, WE HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH, UM, OUR CURRENT POLICE CHIEF.
THAT'S, I MEAN, PARTNERSHIPS IS HOW WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND, UM, REDUCE CRIME IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
I ALSO WANNA RECOGNIZE MR. BRANDON COFIELD.
UM, YOU JUST WANT TO COME UP AND ANNOUNCE WHO, WHAT YOUR, I KNOW WHAT OFFICE, MARY MITCHELL, WHAT OFFICE, BUT I TOLD Y'ALL MY MEMORY IS LIKE, SOMETIMES SHORT, UNLESS I DON'T HAVE IT WRITTEN DOWN, I'LL FORGET.
BUT I DO HAVE HIS NAME, BRANDON COFIELD.
UM, SO MY NAME IS BRANDON COFIELD.
JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY INTRODUCE, UH, MY OFFICE.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO COME BACK, UH, AND SPEAK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, UH, IN SHORT.
UM, AND SO ON, I GUESS, UH, JUNE 15TH, COMMISSIONER'S COURT CREATED THIS NEW OFFICE, THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC PROBATE ADMINISTRATOR.
UH, AND I WAS APPOINTED, UH, AT THAT TIME AND STARTED.
AND THE IDEA, AND THE KIND OF OVERARCHING GOAL IS MAKING SURE THAT NO HEIRS LOSE OR GET A LESSER INHERITANCE JUST BECAUSE THEY LACK RESOURCES OR GUIDANCE.
AND, UH, IT'S A, A DAUNTING TASK.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVEN'T HAD ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
SO THIS IS THE FIRST OFFICE AND THE ONLY OFFICE IN THE STATE.
AND SO WE'RE KIND OF BUILDING THIS OFFICE OUT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CATER IT TO HARRIS COUNTY RESIDENTS.
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A COUPLE DIFFERENT, UM, INITIATIVES GOING ON WEDNESDAYS, TALKING TO FOLKS DOWN AT THE COUNTY LIBRARY OR LIBRARY, UH, DOWNTOWN A 10 19 CONGRESS ABOUT SMALL STATES AND SMALL STATE AFFIDAVITS.AND KIND OF WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO ABOUT GOING THROUGH THE PROBATE PROCESS.
UM, AND ANSWERING GENERAL QUESTIONS.
ALSO GOING TO COMMUNITY MEETINGS, AND JUST TALKING ABOUT PROBATE, AGAIN, ON THE HIGH LEVEL.
AND I CAN GO DOWN INTO THE WEEDS.
UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN NO LONGER PRACTICE.
AND SO I CAN'T REALLY GIVE SPECIFIC, SPECIFIC ADVICE, BUT I CAN GUIDE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
UH, AND THEN ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT THE OFFICE, UH, HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DO UNDER, UH, TEXAS LAW IS I GET TO ACT AS EFFECTIVELY A UNIVERSAL HEIR.
SO IF THERE'S AN ESTATE WHERE THERE'S NO KNOWN HEIR OR MAYBE AN ABANDONED PROPERTY THAT'S GONNA BE SUBJECT TO A FORECLOSURE, OR MAYBE THE HEIRS ARE INCARCERATED, I HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO STEP IN AND WIND DOWN THAT STATE AND PUT THAT MONEY IN THE NAME, IN THE REGISTRY OF THE COURT FOR THE HEIRS, UH, AND DO THAT ENTIRE LEGAL PROCESS FREE OF CHARGE FOR PEOPLE.
UH, I'D LOVE TO GET INVITED BACK.
NOT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, BOY, LOVE TO GET INVITED BACK AND HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO HELP PEOPLE, UH, KEEP THEIR MONEY AND HOPEFULLY START THIS GENERATIONAL WEALTH ON THIS SIDE OF TOWN.
AS I SAID, UM, PUBLIC SAFETY IS ONE OF OUR MAIN, ONE OF OUR MAIN PRIORITIES.
UM, WHEN I TOOK OFFICE, UM, WE LAUNCHED A INITIATIVE CALLED THE BE SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE, UM, WHICH IS A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO ADDRESSING POVERTY AND IMPROVING THE LIFE OF RESIDENTS AND DISTRICT B.
AND WE TAKE ON FIVE CHALLENGES.
UM, PUBLIC SAFETY, UM, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, QUALITY OF LIFE, IMPROVING THAT, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND SO TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PUBLIC SAFETY PILLAR.
AND OF COURSE, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, YOU KNOW, CRIME IS, YOU SEE ON THE NEWS REGULARLY.
WE JUST HAD RECENTLY HAD A SHOOTING, UM, IN OUR DISTRICT.
AND SO, UM, I THINK THIS MEETING IS GONNA BE BEFITTING AND WE CAN GET MORE QUESTIONS ANSWERED, UM, FROM OUR POLICE CHIEF.
BUT WHAT WE'RE DOING AS A DISTRICT TO, UM, ADDRESS CRIME, UM, OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, I HAVE TRAINED APPROXIMATELY 98 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS, WHICH ARE PAID MENTORS.
THESE ARE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE OR JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM.
THEY'RE NOW OUT, THEY'RE DOING GREAT.
THEY'RE WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO WE'RE USING THEIR VOICE, THEIR EXPERIENCE TO ADVOCATE AND MENTOR OTHER YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE AT RISK OF GOING INTO THE SYSTEM.
UM, ON OCTOBER THE THIRD, WE ARE GONNA HAVE A OCCUPIED CONVENIENCE STORE.
OUR COMMUNITY BLOCK PARTY, UM, IN THE ACRES, ACRES HOMES, COMMUNITY, WHERE OUR CREDIBLE MESSAGES ARE GONNA COME BACK OUT.
WE ARE GONNA CANVAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME HOT DOGS.
WE'RE GONNA SHARE THE RESOURCES THAT'S AVAILABLE TO THEM.
'CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE GET CAUGHT UP IN CRIME BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE.
AND WHAT OUR OFFICE IS DOING IS, ONE, CREATING OPPORTUNITIES.
'CAUSE IF YOU ARE A RE CREDIBLE MESSENGER, NINE TIMES OUTTA 10, YOU HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD.
SO NOW YOU'RE GETTING PAID TO MENTOR.
AND SO THAT'S CREATING A JOB OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEONE OTHERWISE COULDN'T GET A JOB BECAUSE THEY HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD.
BUT THEN ALSO THE PREVENTION PIECES WHERE THEY'RE WORKING WITH YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN.
WE'RE GOING OUT TO THE STORES AND WE'RE TALKING TO THOSE WHO WE HAVE BEEN IN THROUGH THEIR SHOES TO LET THEM KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAND ON A CORNER.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO GANG BANG, YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, SHOOT UP NEIGHBORHOODS.
THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CITY WHERE YOU CAN GET A JOB AND YOU CAN'T BE A PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT BE SUCCESSFUL, IS FOCUSING ON MAKING SURE PEOPLE ARE SUCCESSFUL.
UM, A PART OF OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PIECE, WE'RE CONNECTING THEM INTO THOSE PIECES WHERE THEY'RE BUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING ON THE GREENS POINT MALL.
UM, WE GOT FOLKS RIGHT NOW THAT WE WANT TO BRING IN AND BE PART OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
WE JUST ACTUALLY GOT THE M THE MUD ESTABLISHED, UM, OVER OFF OF, UM, UM, MESA.
AND SO WE WANT THOSE JOBS TO GO TO OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS OR ARE HAVING CHALLENGES GETTING JOBS.
BECAUSE IF WE HAVE PEOPLE, OUR CONSTITUENTS MAKING MONEY, THEN THAT'S WHAT'S GONNA BUILD OUR COMMUNITY UP.
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY WE CAN'T CONTINUE.
AND I'M GONNA SAY IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
WE CANNOT RELY ON CITY GOVERNMENT TO DO WHAT WE CAN DO.
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY AS RESIDENTS, AS CITIZENS TO COME IN COLLECTIVELY AND CREATE PROGRAMS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR, UM, NEIGHBORS.
AND SO, WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE, AGAIN, WE HAVE CHIEF DE HERE.
BEFORE I, UM, TURN OVER CHIEF DE, I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO MR. TROY NEELY, RAISE YOUR HAND, WHO ACTUALLY SHINED OUR NEW CHIEF SHOES WHEN HE FIRST CAME IN, AND AS HE WAITED FOR THIS MEETING TO START.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, MR. SHOE SHINER.
I'M GONNA BRING SOME SHOES SO YOU CAN SHINE MINE TOO,
BUT THANK YOU FOR JUST YOUR GENEROSITY AND FOR TREATING, UM, OUR CHIEF THE WAY HE SHOULD BE CHIEF BECAUSE TREATED, BECAUSE HE IS OUR LEADER NOW.
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I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO YOU, TO YOU CHIEF, SO YOU CAN SHARE YOUR VISION AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING, UM, AND AS POLICE CHIEF AND HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOUR WORK.I'M, I'VE, I'VE GOT A LITTLE ALLERGY GOING, SO I, I DON'T NORMALLY SOUND LIKE DAFFY DUCK, BUT, UH, I, I, I'M REALLY FLATTERED AND HONORED TO BE HERE.
UM, MR. LE, MR. NEELY, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE VOLUNTEER HOURS THAT YOU PUT IN THIS FACILITY.
UH, GO FIFTH WARD, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
SO I, I, I'M, SO, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE HERE.
I, I, I, I SEE A YOUNG MAN BACK THERE, A RETIRED HPD OFFICER ALSO.
NO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF SERVERS AS, AS WELL AS AS YOUR MARINE, YOUR MARINE SERVICE.
BUT, UH, I, I'M, I'M PROUD TO BE HERE.
UH, I'M UNIQUE IN THAT, UH, I, I GREW UP IN A SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCE.
YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M A PRODUCT OF A, I'M A HEAD START KID, RIGHT? MY, MY PARENTS WERE OF LITTLE MEANS, UH, BUT THEY PUSHED THE GOING TO SCHOOL, BEING KIND, UH, KEEPING, KEEP STAYING IN CHURCH.
THOSE KINDS OF THINGS WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND GUIDED ME ON THIS PATH.
SO, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MYSELF AS A VERY YOUNG MAN, UH, I WAS VERY MOVED BY, UH, ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN YEARS THAT I ACTUALLY WORKED INSIDE OF A STATE PRISON, RIGHT? SO I, I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THE SUFFERING.
I'VE, I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THE, UH, THE UGLINESS.
I'VE, I'VE SEEN THE DISPROPORTIONATE SENTENCING.
I, I'VE, I'VE SEEN THE, THE, THE, THE, THE UGLINESS, UH, OF, OF, OF WHAT THE COMMUNITY NOT WORKING WITH EVERYBODY TO MAKE PEOPLE WHOLE, TO GET PEOPLE, JOBS, CAUSES.
AND IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF, UH, LOST POTENTIAL IN THE COMMUNITY.
JUST, UH, GREAT, GREAT, UH, COMMUNITIES THAT, THAT, THAT I, THAT I SAW FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE.
AND IT REALLY SET MY SIGHTS ON NOT ALWAYS BEING SO QUICK TO ARREST.
'CAUSE NOT EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL, RIGHT? EVERYBODY NEEDS AN OPPORTUNITY.
SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE OPPORTUNITIES.
UH, SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE SAME, UH, BACKGROUND AS EVERYBODY ELSE.
SO WE HAVE TO STAY FOCUSED ON DOING GOOD.
'CAUSE THERE'S ONLY ONE KIND OF GOOD DOING RIGHT? AND BEING KIND TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND BEING KIND TO OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT THAT, THAT'S MY SPIEL ON THAT.
BUT I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE.
I WANNA THANK THE COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, AND THE AREA PARTNERS FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY.
I'VE BEEN HERE A MONTH AND A HALF, AND I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO SEVERAL OF THESE MEETINGS AND ENGAGE WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND IT'S BEEN, IT'S TRULY HAS BEEN DELIGHTFUL.
UH, IT'S A, PEOPLE SAY IT'S A VERY DIVERSIFIED COMMUNITY.
SO YESTERDAY I WAS, UH, AT THE, AT THE BAKER RIPLEY HOUSE, AND I SAW, UH, 10 YEAR OLDS FROM AFGHANISTAN, FROM SYRIA, FROM ALL KIND, EVERYWHERE IN RUSSIA.
I MEAN, IT WAS, IT WAS AMAZING.
AND WHAT I TOOK AWAY FROM THEM WAS THAT AT 10 YEARS OLD, THEY ALL LOVED EACH OTHER, RIGHT? THERE WASN'T ANY BIASES.
THEY WERE OUT THERE KICKING A SOCCER BALL.
THEY DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY, THEY DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT STUFF.
WE SHOULD ALL KINDA WORK TOWARDS THAT AND, AND BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER, BECAUSE THAT'S, I MEAN, IT'S A HAPPY TIME IN THEIR LIVES.
THEY, THEY MOVED HALF, HALF, HALF A PLANET INTO OUR AREA, AND THEY'RE JUST AS JOYFUL AND, AND AS HAPPY AND AS KIND AS THEY CAN BE.
I'VE STATED BEFORE, ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES ARE VALUED, AND WE'RE STRIVING TO BRING EXCELLENT POLICE SERVICES TO THIS COMMUNITY.
I THINK WE HAVE ABOUT 202 POLICE OFFICERS, VICTOR, STATIONED IN, IN THE NORTHEAST AREA.
AND, AND WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE SHORT ON STAFF.
I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD THAT IN THE NEWS.
UH, SO I'M LOOKING FOR YOU TO SEND ME YOUR KIDS, YOUR GRANDKIDS, YOUR NEPHEWS AND NIECES.
WE'RE HIRING, WE'RE AT ABOUT 5,300 POLICE OFFICERS, WHEN REALLY WE SHOULD BE AROUND 7,000, RIGHT? SO THAT, THOSE ARE BIG NUMBERS FOR US.
SO KNOW THAT WITH, WITH LEADERSHIP HERE, AS A COUNCIL MEMBER, SAID, WE'VE GOT 176 YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUR CADET CLASSES NOW.
AND THEY'LL, THEY'LL ROLL OUT, I THINK 76, GRADUATED EARLY NOVEMBER.
AND THEN THEY'LL, THEY'LL BE COMING INTO YOUR COMMUNITIES TO DO GOOD AND PROVIDE SERVICES.
SO, BUT THAT DOESN'T HELP US REALLY FILL ALL THE GAPS.
SO IF YOU HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT WANT TO COME OUT AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND BE SIGNIFICANT IN THE COMMUNITY, PLEASE ASK THEM TO APPLY AND GIVE US, GIVE US A SHOT.
AND IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT JUST THE FIRE, IT IS JUST NOT THE POLICE.
THE FIRE SERVICE AS WELL IS, IS SHORTHANDED.
SO IT IS A, A TEAM EFFORT, THE PUBLIC SAFETY APPARATUS.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE FILL OUR, OUR RANKS AND THAT WE ARE PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY, WHICH THEY DESERVE.
UM, SO FAR, YEAR TO DATE, OUR OVERALL VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN IN DISTRICT
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B, ABOUT 3%.AND PROPERTY CRIMES ARE DOWN ABOUT 7%.
BUT WE KNOW THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO.
UH, WE'RE FOCUSED ON COLLABORATING WITH EACH OF YOU AND GETTING THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO ENSURE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE SAFE.
ESPECIALLY AFTER THE TRAGIC SHOOTING INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED JUST A FEW WEEKS ON LOWER COPY A FEW WEEKS AGO.
SO KNOW THAT WE'RE GETTING VERY CLOSE, UH, WHERE WE, WE HAVE SPARED NO MANPOWER HOUR ON IT.
SO WE'RE VERY, VERY CLOSE TO BRINGING THE, UH, PERSON WHO MADE THAT BAD DECISION, UH, TO JUSTICE.
IT, IT, IT, IT'LL HAPPEN SHORTLY.
SO WE'RE WORKING ON THE GUN VIOLENCE.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU'RE A TESTAMENT LIKE I AM.
UH, IT HAS NO PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT IT'S, IT'S REAL, UH, IT'S, IT'S, UH, THE, THE LAURA COPY EVENT WAS YOUNG PEOPLE HANGING OUT, JUST LISTENING TO MUSIC, EATING GOOD FOOD, A LITTLE BIT LATE IN THE EVENING, BUT, YOU KNOW, ONE, ONE OR TWO BAD PEOPLE MAKE SOME BAD DECISIONS.
AND, AND, AND IT KIND OF GIVES A, A BAD LOOK FOR OUR COMMUNITY HERE, UH, IN, IN, IN, IN B, RIGHT? SO, BUT REST ASSURED THAT THE NORTHEAST PATROL DIVISION, THE MEN AND WOMEN ARE WORKING HARD ALONG WITH OUR VICE DIVISION, UH, AND GANG DIVISION ON DEALING WITH A BLOCK PARTY ISSUES.
UM, WE HAD AN EVENT ON EMANCIPATION ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO, AND THEY'RE JUST YOUNG PEOPLE, AND THEY WERE JUST TRAVELING THERE.
SO I ACTUALLY GOT OUT AND VISITED WITH THE KIDS, AND YOU'D BE SURPRISED, THEY WERE FROM, SEVERAL OF THE YOUNG LADIES WERE FROM PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M, RIGHT? THERE'S NOTHING TO DO IN PRAIRIE VIEW.
SO THEY TRAVELED TO COME HANG OUT, LISTENED TO MUSIC, EAT GOOD FOOD, LITTLE FRIENDSHIP, AND SOME FELLOWSHIP FOR THE YOUNG LADIES WERE FROM DALLAS, RIGHT? SO FROM, AND FROM, FROM THIS AREA, FROM THE HUMBLE AREA.
SO THEY, THEY, THEY ALL KIND OF GOT THERE BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S KIND OF A HAPPENING SPOT.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF MUSIC, A LOT OF LIKE THINKING PEOPLE.
BUT OUR JOB IS TO KEEP THE AREA SAFE AND, AND, AND KEEP THESE KIDS COMING AND ENGAGING WITH US, AND ENGAGING WITH, WITH EACH OTHER TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN THEY SEE A PROBLEM, UH, THAT THEY ADDRESS IT WITH US.
SO, AS WE WALKED THROUGH IT, IT REALLY WASN'T THE, THE BUSINESSES.
SO THE BUSINESSES SHUT DOWN AT TWO, BUT THE, THE LITTLE EMPTY LOTS DOWN EMANCIPATION, WELL, THEY ALL HAVE, THEY, THEY SELL SOME LOBSTER ROLLS OR SOME, UH, SOME DELICIOUS, UH, FOOD, YOU KNOW, SO THE KIDS CONGREGATE.
AND THAT USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS, AND IT'S, IT GETS, IT GETS A LITTLE LOUD, BUT, AND WE, WE WERE ALL YOUNG ONCE, RIGHT? SO WE WE'RE, WE'RE JUST HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
OUR CRIME SUPPRESSION TEAMS HAVE BEEN REALLY ACTIVE, UH, OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND OUT HERE TO ENSURE THAT THIS TYPE OF INCIDENT DOESN'T CONTINUE TO HAPPEN.
SPEAKING BACK ON THE LOWER COPY EVENTS, UH, OUR DRT, WHICH IS A DIRECTED UH, RESPONSE TEAM, FOLKS ARE ALSO ADDRESSING THE QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES AND TEND TO BECOME AN ANNOYANCE THAT TEND TO BECOME AN ANNOYANCE TO OUR NEIGHBORS.
WHEN I WALKED IN, I SHARED WITH SOMEONE, UH, THAT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF RUBBISH AND SOME DEBRIS AROUND OUR PARK HERE, RIGHT? SO I, I, I TOOK SOME, SOME PICTURES OF IT, AND I SENT IT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, OF THE MAYOR, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY PICKED SOME STUFF UP RECENTLY, BUT THEY DIDN'T GET IT ALL RIGHT? SO I, IF, IF THE KIDS AND PEOPLE WANNA COME HANG OUT HERE, IT'S GOTTA BE CLEANED.
IT'S GOTTA BE, UH, SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU'RE NOT GETTING BIT BY MOSQUITOES AND THERE'S EVERYTHING.
IT'S GOTTA, IT'S GOTTA, IT'S GOTTA HAVE A GOOD FEEL TO IT, I THINK.
SO WE'LL ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES, UH, BUT KNOW THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE ADDRESSING ALL THE PARKING VIOLATIONS IN THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS, AND WE'RE SPEAKING WITH OUR HOMELESS POPULATION, WHICH IS ANOTHER THING THAT PEOPLE JUST KEEP NOT ADDRESSING, UH, TO ENSURE THAT THEY GET THE NECESSARY RESOURCES THAT THEY GET TO GET OFF THE STREETS.
SO IN OUR DOWNTOWN AREA, KNOW THAT WHEN YOU SEE THE HOMELESS POPULATION, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS TOUCHED EVERY SOUL THERE.
WE'VE IDENTIFIED THEM, WE'VE TALKED TO THEM, WE'VE PUT 'EM IN AREAS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET THE NECESSARY RESOURCES.
BUT OFTENTIMES IT'S A, A LITTLE BIT OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
AND, AND WE TRY TO TREAT THESE WITH, WITH THE, WITH, WITH, WITH KINDNESS, BECAUSE IT, IT, IT'S WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.
WE'RE NOT ROUNDING THEM UP, PUTTING 'EM, PUTTING 'EM ON A BUS AND SHIPPING 'EM TO SAN ANTONIO, RIGHT? WE'RE WHERE WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEM AND TRY TO PUT THEM ON THE RIGHT PATH.
I, THE MAYOR AND I WERE OUT A COUPLE OF WEEKENDS AGO, AND WE ACTUALLY SPOKE TO A YOUNG KID THAT LIVED, I THINK HE SAID IN THE RICHMOND, TEXAS AREA.
AND HE'D BEEN ON THE STREETS PROBABLY FIVE, SIX MONTHS, AND HE HAD A FAMILY, BUT HE, HIS PRICE JUST, HE COULD NOT LET HIMSELF GO BACK TO HIS FAMILY.
'CAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR THE, I TOLD YOU SO, RIGHT.
BUT A LOT OF IT IS, IT IS JUST THAT.
UH, AND YOU GUYS GO DOWNTOWN, I'M SURE A LOT.
I MEAN, THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, JUST OVER THE 59 OVERPASS THERE, THEY'RE CONGREGATING THERE AGAIN.
SO WE ADDRESS IT, WE VISIT WITH THEM, PROVIDE 'EM
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THE NECESSARY RESOURCES, GET 'EM TO THE RIGHT LOCATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING OUR JOB TO HELP THESE PEOPLE GET BETTER.SO, BUT, UH, IN CLOSING, I SAID, WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE.
THIS YOUNG LADY HERE ASKED ME, SHE COULD, IF YOU DIAL 9 1 1 THOUGH, WE'LL SEND SOMEONE TOMORROW MORNING.
THAT'S NOT THAT, THAT, THAT'S NOT THAT.
THAT'S JUST NOT GONNA HAPPEN ANYMORE.
SO I I, I'M GONNA GET YOUR NUMBER AND WE'LL COMMUNICATE.
SO WHEN YOU DIAL 9 1 1, THE POLICE ARE GONNA RESPOND.
WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON OUR RESPONSE TIMES.
SO KNOW THAT THIS COMMUNITY'S GONNA HAVE AS MUCH EQUITY AS THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN WITH, WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL LOOK LIKE US, RIGHT AS I'M HERE.
TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY, UH, CAN FEEL SAFE AND CONFIDENT.
AND YOU CAN CONTINUE TO SEND YOUR BROTHERS, SISTERS, AUNTS, NIECES, GRANDCHILDREN TO TRY AND BECOME POLICE OFFICERS.
BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT REFLECT THE COMMUNITY.
UH, WE, WE, AND 'CAUSE WE, WITHOUT YOU, WE'RE NOT A POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THE COMMUNITY.
AND I'M A FIRM BELIEVER IN THAT.
SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S MY TIME, I THINK.
BUT IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, I'M HERE TO ANSWER THEM.
THAT'S, THAT'S A, THAT'S, I LIKE THAT OPEN ROAD HAT.
WAIT, LET, LET ME START WITH THE QUESTIONS.
YOU WANNA TAKE THIS ONE? YEAH.
I KNOW, BUT NO, WE HAVE NUMBERS.
I RECEIVED AN ABOUT THE MEETING EVERY FROM HER.
BUT, UH, FIRST OF ALL, UH, ON SUNDAY PARK, CAN WE PLAY BASEBALL? THIS NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
BUT THEY'RE PARKED ON THE STREET.
INSTEAD OF PARKING ON THE INSIDE IS THE, ARE THE GATES CLOSED? COUNCIL MEMBER? YES.
OH, SO SHE'S SAYING THAT THEY PLAYED BASEBALL, BUT THEY PARK IN THE SUBDIVISION MM-HMM
SO THE PARK WON'T, THEY CAN'T GET INTO THE PARKING.
THOSE GATES ARE, YEAH, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S A CITY PARK.
AND SO, AND SO WHEN AND WHAT IS THE TIME THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO COME INTO THE PARK? EARLY IN THE EARLY IN THE MORNING.
LET US, WE CAN TALK TO THE PARKS DEPARTMENT ABOUT IT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET THE PARK, THE GATES OPEN, UM, EARLIER.
UM, AND IF WE NEED 'EM OPEN LATER, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE TO COORDINATE WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT THAT A PARKING NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'LL FIX WE UNDER.
UH, ARE CAMERAS PERMITTED IN AN AREA IN THE, NOT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT ON THE SIDE WHERE THEY CAMERA MAY BE COMING IN, UH, UH, UH, ON THE LIGHT PHONE OR SOMEWHERE UP THERE, YOU KNOW, UH, AND THEN SECOND PERSON IS THE KMART AREA.
UH, I, MYSELF, PERSONALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A SUBSTATION OVER THERE.
SO THE O THE, OKAY, MARK AND I THINK I WOULD, UH, FRED STYLE.
AND SO AS FAR AS LIKE WITH THE CAMERAS AND KNOW CHIEF, UM, BRING THE LICENSE PLATE READERS, UM, ARE YOU REFERRING, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S REFERRING TO THE LICENSE PLATE READERS, BECAUSE YOU PAID FOR THAT, RIGHT? A MAIN STREET.
IT'S A MAIN STREET GOING IN AND OUT.
IF YOU HAD A CAMERA, UH, GOING OUT, UH, GOING IN AND OUT ON GREATWOOD AND, BUT GOING AROUND THE CURB ON IS WHAT I'M CONNECTED TO THE PARK.
AND IT WOULD BE GOOD, THE CAMERA WAS LIKE ON THAT, ON THAT CORNER GOING AROUND THAT CURB.
YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF ACTIVE STUFF.
SO WE, WE GOT THAT ADDRESS, BUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IS HPV AND THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE IS NOT LETTING US KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE CAMERAS ARE AT.
UM, BUT WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE CAMERAS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, BUT THAT LOCATION WILL JUST KIND OF CHECK.
'CAUSE THEY STILL, THEY'RE NOT TELLING US.
UM, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW.
'CAUSE PEOPLE KNOW THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL, THEY WON'T COMMIT A CRIME IN THAT AREA.
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IT'S NOT SECRET.WE MOVE OFF EVERYWHERE AROUND BASED ON INCIDENT OF CRIME.
SO DRIVING AROUND AND WE'RE GONNA TRY TO GET YOU GUYS ON THE MIC BECAUSE WE ARE A LIVE STREAMING THIS AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO HEAR THE QUESTIONS AND THE ANSWERS.
SO, UM, JUST BE PATIENT WITH US SPEECH.
RIGHT AT HOMESTEAD AND MOHAWK.
THAT'S A VERY FAMOUS, OKAY, YOU HAVE A STOP SIGN.
THIS SIDE MOHAWK TO THE OF MOHAWK AND WEST TRAFFIC.
GOING WEST ON MOPAR USED TO BE A DIRT YELLOW.
SO ALL THESE WEEDS AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN'T SEE HOW TO GET ACROSS THE STREET, I THINK WE HAD A RED LIGHT THAT THAT WOULD HELP BECAUSE THAT HAS BEEN A WHOLE LOT OF ACCIDENTS.
SOME OF 'EM HAVE RESULTED IN DEATH.
VICTOR, WILL YOU WRITE THAT ADDRESS DOWN FOR ME? MOHAWK? YES MA'AM.
AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING US KNOW.
WE ACTUALLY HOMESTEAD, WE WERE ABLE TO GET A LIGHT.
THE HOUSTON GARDEN FOLKS WANTED A RED LIGHT, UM, ON WHAT'S THE STREET? BENNINGTON.
AND SO EVEN THOUGH IT TOOK A MINUTE TO GET, UM, WE USED DISTRICT SERVICE FUNDS TO GET THE LIGHT INSTALLED.
SO IF THERE'S AREAS THAT YOU FEEL LIKE WE NEED STOP SIGNS, WE YOU NEED LIGHTS, WE RED LIGHTS.
LET US KNOW THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND WE'LL COORDINATE WITH WHATEVER DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSTALLING.
A LOT OF THESE EXTRA PROJECTS REQUIRES THE RESOURCES.
AND SO WE CAN PULL SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES OUT OF DISTRICT SERVICE FUNDS TO COVER THE COST FOR LIGHTS AND ET CETERA.
IN THE, THESE YOUNG KIDS ON THESE FOUR WHEELERS, THEY FLYING, I LIVE ON COPPER ROAD.
WE HAVE CUSHIONS ON THE STREET.
IT'S LIKE THERE IS NO CUSHION.
SOME OF THESE KIDS, ONE DAY THEY GONNA HIT ONE OF THOSE CUSHIONS, THEY GONNA FLIP OVER.
THAT'S GONNA BE A BATTLE BECAUSE NO HELMET, NO NOTHING.
THEY, THEY GOING TO HIT, THEY HEAD IS GONNA HIT THAT PAVE.
IF SOMEONE WERE TO COME OUT, GO INTO YOUR MAILBOX, YOU DON'T GET OUT MAIL UNTIL AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK, AROUND SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING.
YOU GOTTA TO GET YOUR MAIL AROUND THIS CORNER, BACKWOOD AND HOT.
HERE THEY COME, RIGHT? LIKE THEY RACING A CUT ALL THEY'RE ON THE DIRT BIKE, THE FOUR WHEELER.
SO LAST NIGHT WE HAD, UH, AN EVENT IN DOWNTOWN, LIKE NEAR THE TOYOTA CENTER.
THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY GRAVITATE DOWNTOWN.
'CAUSE IF WE HAVEN'T BEEN DOWNTOWN, IT'S HAPPENED IN PLACE.
ALL THE RESTAURANTS ARE OUTSIDE.
SO THEY'RE BASICALLY MAKING A BIG SQUARE.
SO WE ADDRESSED IT LAST NIGHT.
WE ISSUED A LOT OF CITATIONS, BUT IF WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT, WE CAN'T HELP.
SO WE'LL ADDRESS IT WHEN THE, UH, COMMANDER CAME TOO.
WE'LL, WE'LL, WE WILL, WHAT I TRY TO DO FROM A, FROM A LUMP, OR I WAS YOUNG ONCE, SO WE TRIED TO SEEK COOPERATION FIRST BEFORE COMPLIANCE.
'CAUSE IF, IF WE ISSUE A $400 TICKET, THAT DOESN'T HELP THE YOUNG PERSON.
IT JUST, IT JUST, IT JUST PUTS 'EM IN A, IN A VICIOUS CYCLE FOR SIX AND THEN THEY GO TO JAIL.
YOU KNOW, IT JUST, IT JUST, SO FOR US IT'S ABOUT, UH, INFORMATION.
IT'S ABOUT SHARING WITH THEM COMING OUT AND SHOWING THAT YOU CAN'T DO.
AND THEY'RE, AND, AND THEY'RE KIDS.
I MEAN, THEY'RE 14, 15, 16-YEAR-OLD YOUNG MEN.
AND, AND SO FOR US IT'S ABOUT GROWING WITH THEM BECAUSE IT TRULY TAKES A VILLAGE TO MAKE THESE COMMUNITIES SAFE.
AND, AND, UH, WE ALL HAVE SOMEONE IN OUR FAMILY THAT JUST DIDN'T LISTEN TO MOM AND DAD.
YOU KNOW, I HAVE A BROTHER THAT'S LIKE THAT NOW.
SO HE, HE JUST, HE WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA DO IT PATIENTLY AND BE RESPECTFUL, BUT WE WILL ADDRESS IT, UH, WITH THE COMMANDER AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING US TACKLE IT THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
BECAUSE IT, IT IS, IT IS A SAFETY ONE FOR YOU, BUT TWO FOR THE KIDS.
AND THESE KIDS TELL THEM TO SLOW DOWN.
OLD LADY, TAKE YOUR SO AND SO IN THE HOUSE.
AND, AND WE'LL HAVE TO WORK WITH THAT.
SO SOME, SOME OF 'EM UNFORTUNATELY ARE MAKING BAD DECISIONS.
UH, WE'LL, WE'LL ADDRESS IT APPROPRIATELY.
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WE WILL MAKE THE CIRCLE AROUND IN THAT AREA TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING THAT.CAN I FOLLOW UP, UP FOR QUESTION REAL QUICK? SURE.
JUST ABOUT, UH, I KNOW CHIEF THINNER, CHIEF THINNER HAD TALKED ABOUT, UH, CONFISCATING, THE ETVS.
'CAUSE THERE'S SUCH A BIG PROBLEM.
SHOULD BE, WHERE IS THAT? UM, NOW STATE LAW ALLOWED US TO CONFISCATE CARS, RACE CARS, KIDS DOING DONUTS.
HOWEVER, IT'S UP TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
SO IF, IF, AND LET'S SAY YOU HAVE A FOUR WHEELER AND IT'S NOT PAID OFF, WE CAN'T SEIZE IT BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVE A DEBT ON IT.
SO IT STILL BELONGS TO BANK OF AMERICA OR WHO OR WHATEVER CREDIT UNION THAT YOU, THAT YOU, UH, IF YOU AIN'T PAID, IF YOU BEHIND ON YOUR CAR NOTE.
AND I MEAN, IF WE PARK SOMEWHERE, YOU CAN TOW OUR CAR AND THEN WE HAVE TO PAY TO GET IT OUT.
SO WHY CAN'T WE DO THE SAME THING WITH ATVS? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? SO LIKE, YEAH, IF WE PARK, WE HAVE A PARKING TICKET, WE GET TOWED.
SO WE HAVE TO, UM, YEAH, I, THAT'S DIFFERENT.
SHE ADDRESSED THE, THE LEGISLATIVE ABOUT SEIZING THE VEHICLES FOR, FOR POLICE PURPOSES.
WE, WE CAN'T, IF THERE'S A DEAD ON IT, BUT WE CAN, WE CAN'T TOW.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE CORRECT WORD.
BUT AS FAR AS YOU, YOU SAID SEIZURES, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
BUT, UH, YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA ADDRESS IT.
AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GIVE NEW, NEW TRAILERS TO PUT ALL THE BIKES ON AND LOCK 'EM UP.
AND AGAIN, THEY'RE KIDS, THEY'RE MAKING BAD DECISIONS.
SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT FIRST WE, WE, WE ENCOURAGE THEM TO NOT DO IT.
AND THEN SECOND, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ACTIVELY TEACHING THEM HOW BAD IT IS AND HOW DANGEROUS IT IS FOR THEM INDIVIDUALLY.
'CAUSE IF WE HAVE A MOTORCYCLE FATALITY ACCIDENT ON ANY FREEWAY, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE A YOUNG PERSON.
AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE 'CAUSE THEY'RE GOING TOO FAST.
WE ARE INVESTING MONEY IN THE PARKS AND THEY'RE ON THE GRASS, THEIR DONUTS AND SO FORTH.
SO WHATEVER MY OFFICE CAN DO, IF WE NEED TO USE OUR HOT TEAM TRAILERS TO PUT IT ON AND ROLL IT TO SOME, WE, I, WE WOULD DO IT.
WE JUST BASICALLY ACTUALLY INVESTED IN, UM, THE LICENSE PLATES READERS.
SO WHATEVER WE NEED TO INVEST IN TO GET 'EM OFF THE STREET AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, UM, WE READY TO, BECAUSE WE SPENT, WE LOSING MONEY.
WE SPENDING MORE MONEY, UM, AS THEY CONTINUE TO DESTROY OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
I'M THE PRESIDENT OF NORTHWOOD MANOR CIVIC CLUB.
FIRST, I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR COUNCIL MEMBER ASHA JACKSON, FOR HOSTING THIS EVENT AND HAVING ME OUT HERE.
AND I WANT TO THANK YOU CHIEF DIAZ, UH, FOR COMING OUT HERE.
UH, I REALLY WANNA SPEAK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IS BECAUSE THERE IS A LACK OF RELATIONSHIP, WHETHER YOU ARE YOUNG OR OLD WITH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE TASKED WITH PROTECTING AND SERVING US, UH, WE STARTED TO BUILD UPON THAT WITH THE PREVIOUS CHIEF, CHIEF FINNER.
AND YOU INHERITED, UH, A TREND WHERE CRIME AT LEAST REPORTED CRIME HAS GONE DOWN.
WE HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH ACTING CHIEF SATELLITE BEFORE HE BECAME ACTING CHIEF.
AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT WHAT HAPPENED, UH, WITH THE 264,000 CASES, UH, THAT WAS NOT HIS FAULT, UH, THAT HE HAD TO BE FORCED TO RETIRE.
SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT'S CLEAR.
HE WAS COMING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
WE HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP, AND THINGS SEEMED TO BE, UH, AT LEAST PROGRESSIVE, WHETHER SLOWLY OR HOWEVER, UH, THE PACE WE HAD A RELATIONSHIP.
AND WE WANT TO HAVE THE SAME WITH YOU.
WE CAN'T WAIT, UH, ONCE A YEAR FOR COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON TO HAND ME OUT HERE.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON, I'M GONNA IMPRESS UPON YOU THAT WE WANT OUR MAYOR OUT HERE TOO.
HE NEEDS TO COME OUT HERE AS WELL.
BUT I APPRECIATE ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING.
I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THE, THE, THE NEW CHIEF OUT HERE.
UM, ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE CHIEF CENTER HAD BEFORE HE WAS FORCED TO RETIRE WAS ABOUT CAMERAS.
YOU KNOW, NEW YORK HAS CAMERAS, YOU KNOW, OTHER MAJOR CITIES HAVE CAMERAS.
HPD HAS A LION'S SHARE OF THE CITY'S BUDGET.
OKAY? AND YOU, WE CAN'T KEEP TALKING ABOUT, UM, WE NEED MORE POLICE.
WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO DO MORE WITH LESS.
AND WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THE PUBLIC SAFETY NEEDS OF ALL OF HOUSTON, ESPECIALLY THE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED LIKE OURS FOR YEARS.
OKAY? AND SO, WHAT I WANT TO KNOW, WHAT ARE, WHAT'S THE VISION? WHAT'S THE PLAN TO ADDRESS WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, NOT WHAT YOU NEED.
I UNDERSTAND THAT CITY COUNCIL, UM, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE MAYOR, THEY PUT SOME MORE, UM, UH, CADET CLASSES.
BUT YOU GOTTA FEEL IT, RIGHT? THAT'S THE THING.
SO, YOU KNOW, IN THE INTERIM, I WANT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP.
WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH COMMANDER CANTU.
WE WERE HAVING SOME REGULAR MEETINGS, UH, AND WANT TO GET THAT BACK GOING.
UM, PIP IS A VEHICLE TO GET, UH, MORE AWARENESS.
IT WASN'T WORKING SO GOOD OUT THIS WAY.
AND, UH, THE, THE ISSUES WEREN'T BEING ADDRESSED.
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I ALSO WANT TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT, UH, MS. VADER ROBERTS, UH, UH, NEIGHBORING NORTHWOOD MANOR WAS SAYING.IT'S CARS THAT ARE, UH, WE GOT A TIRE SHOP, WE GOT A LOT OF TIRE SHOPS.
THEY DO, UH, WHAT, UH, STREET TAKEOVERS, RIGHT? UH, WE HAVE THESE HUGE PARTIES.
WHAT HAPPENED ON LORD COPY? UH, WE HAD, UH, LAFE DAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR THAT IT WAS THE FIFTH TIME.
AND IT MOVES AROUND THE DISTRICT AND NOBODY'S PAYING ATTENTION.
WE NEED OFFICERS TO PAY ATTENTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA WHERE THEY'RE, UH, SOLICITING THESE TYPES OF EVENTS FOR BIRTHDAYS OR GET TOGETHERS AND THEN PROACTIVELY REACH OUT TO THOSE PEOPLE BEFORE THE EVENT TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S ORDER NOT CHAOS.
SO YOU GOT A LOT, YOU GOT A LOT ON YOUR PLATE.
YOU KNOW, YOU TOOK THE JOB, YOU KNEW WHAT IT WAS.
WE JUST WANT TO HEAR AND WANT TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU SO THAT WHEN WE HAVE ISSUES AND CONCERNS, WE KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON YOU TO ADDRESS 'EM.
AND ACTING CHIEF LARRY
BUT WE WANT TO MAKE, WE WANT TO PUT OUR TRUST IN, OUR FAITH IN YOU, AND WE WANT TO SEE RESULTS.
AND I, I APPRECIATE, I APPRECIATE THE, UH, DELIVERY.
WE, WE DO, A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH FUNDING.
SO YES, WE CAN DO CAMERAS, BUT I DO HAVE THE BIGGEST BUDGET, BUT 92% OF THE BUDGET GOES TO SALARIES, PENSIONS, INSURANCE AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO I'M ALWAYS, I MEAN, I'M HAVING TO GO BACK TO, TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE JUST IN THE YEAR FOR OVERTIME TO KEEP DOING THESE SPECIAL PROJECTS.
SO, UH, DOING LESS WITH MORE IS WHAT THE POLICE HAVE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS.
DO DOING DO, DO IT MORE WITH LESS FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS.
IT IS NOT JUST HERE, IT'S EVERY SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
WE'RE ENGAGED WITH THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICES AS WELL, WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE COLLABORATING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN MAKE MORE AND MORE BANG FOR OUR BUCK WHEN WE'RE DOING THESE THINGS.
BUT IT'S NOT JUST DON'T, DON'T THINK THIS IS JUST THE ONLY AREA THAT'S, IF YOU GO FURTHER FROM SOUTHEAST HOUSTON, IT IT, IT'S THE SAME, IT'S A TREND BECAUSE IT'S ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
IT'S A TREND BECAUSE THEY GET ON INSTAGRAM AND THEY GET 2000 LIKES BECAUSE THEY CAN POP A WHEELIE FOR TWO MILES AND THESE KIDS WILL GET OUT IN THE MORNINGS AND RIDE 30, 40 DEEP WITH HELMETS AND THEY, IT, IT, IT, IT'S, IT'S, THEY'VE MONETIZED IT.
SO THEY MAKE MONEY MERCHANDISE.
SO IT, IT IS, FOR US, IT'S ABOUT TRYING TO MITIGATE PROFESSIONALLY.
SO, SO WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING AGGRESSIVELY WHERE WE'RE NOT GOING OUT TO THE, LIKE, LIKE THE BLOCK PARTIES.
MOST OF THE KIDS ARE HAVING FUN.
MOST OF THE KIDS ARE DOING GOOD.
THEY'RE JUST KIND OF HANGING OUT.
'CAUSE THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO HANG OUT LIKE THAT.
AND IF I BRING 40 COPS IN THERE, ARREST EVERYBODY, GIVE EVERYBODY A TICKET.
WHAT DO WE DO? RIGHT? WE'RE JUST, WE'RE WE'RE CREATING, UH, AN, AN UGLINESS IN THE COMMUNITY.
'CAUSE FOR US, IT'S ABOUT COOPERATION, NOT COMPLIANCE, RIGHT? FOR US, IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND ARE INTERACTING WITH THE COMMUNITY.
SO I, I'M, I CAME HERE, I'M GONNA GO TO ALL OF 'EM AND I'M GONNA TAKE THE GOOD QUESTIONS, EASY QUESTIONS, AND THE HARD QUESTIONS BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I LEARN, RIGHT? YOUR CONCERNS ARE REAL.
AND I'M HERE TO HELP YOU HELP THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE I, FROM OUR OFFICE OF 1200, FROM EVERY SUBSTATION, EVERY STATION THAT WE HAVE, WE CAN'T SOLVE IT WITHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
SO KNOW THAT, UH, WE WILL WORK HARD TO, TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
AND, AND, AND THE CAMERA SITUATION IS FANTASTIC.
IT'S A GREAT IDEA, BUT IT COMES WITH TREMENDOUS COST.
UH, NOT, AND NOT, NOT SOME, SOME OF THE AREAS, SOME OF THE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES IN HOUSTON STILL DON'T HAVE WIFI.
SO ALL THAT STUFF IS WIFI BASED.
INFRASTRUCTURE, RIGHT? SO YESTERDAY I WAS IN, I WAS IN KINGWOOD AND THE LAKE HOUSTON DAM, THE, THE GATES THERE ARE 75 YEARS OLD, RIGHT? AND WE'RE, WE'RE SOUTH OF THAT, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC EVENT.
SO EVERY PART OF THE CITY NEEDS HAS, AND DOING THOSE, THE DAM REPAIR IS NOT A MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE.
IT'S HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, RIGHT? SO THE PRIORITIES ARE FOR US AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ENGAGED, THAT WE'RE ACTIVELY COMMUNICATING WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING OUR VERY BEST FOR YOU AND PROVIDE THE EXCEPTIONAL POLICE SERVICES.
I'M HERE BECAUSE I LIVE ON PARKER ROAD AND THEY HAVE, UH, RECENTLY OPENED UP PARKER, UH, TO
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MY KNOWLEDGE, AND IT MIGHT BE FURTHER, IT MIGHT BE FURTHER, IT STARTS PROBABLY FROM 45.AND IT GOES ALL THE WAY TO WAYSIDE.
THEY HAVE BUILT A NEW COMMUNITY OVER THERE.
OUR STREET USED TO BE A DEAD END, A DEAD END IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
NOW WE HAVE CARS THAT DRIVE THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
I CAN'T WALK ACROSS THE STREET.
UM, I'M PHYSICALLY ABLE TO CHECK ON MY NEIGHBORS BECAUSE WE'VE GOTTEN OLDER NOW, EVEN MYSELF.
I'VE, I'VE BEEN GOING TO THE PIP MEETING.
I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO OFFICER MILES AND OF COURSE HIS LITTLE THING WITH ME WAS, DON'T FUSS AT ME.
WELL, I'M NOT FUSSING, BUT I AM SO CONCERNED THAT ONE DAY I'M GONNA WALK OUTSIDE OF MY HOUSE AND I'M GONNA GET HIT.
I SPOKE TO MS. JESSICA, SHE GAVE ME A, UH, PETITION AND I HAVE PETITION FROM MY NEIGHBORS.
WE HAVE NO STREET SIGNS THAT SAY WHAT THE SPEED LIMIT SHOULD BE.
THERE IS ONE THAT HAS BEEN PUT UP, BUT IT'S COMING FROM WAYSIDE.
SO IT'S NOT GOING EAST IS COMING WEST.
NOT ONLY ARE THE LITTLE, UM, FOUR WHEELERS SPEEDING AT NIGHT.
BUT I'M NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT THE RACING AS I AM.
THE CARS, THEY DO NOT SLOW DOWN AT ALL.
I RECENTLY ADDRESSED, UM, MS. LATASHA'S OFFICE TO TRY AND HELP, BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO DO THIS WITH MY NEIGHBORS WHO ARE OLDER, WHO CAN'T GET OUT AND WALK.
THAT SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS ARE JUST NOT ABLE TO DO IT.
I DON'T KNOW ALL THE NEIGHBORS ANYMORE, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO WORK.
SO I NEED YOUR HELP AND I NEED IT.
SO I WISH AND APPRECIATE IF SOMEBODY COULD HELP US.
THE LAST THING THAT I HAVE IS RIGHT HERE ON HOMESTEAD AND PARKER.
UH, ONE OF THE LADIES THAT WALKS THE STREET, SHE WAS JUST SPEEDING, UH, WHEN I CAME TO COME TO THIS MEETING TODAY.
AND I, I TRIED TO ASK THE POLICE, PLEASE GO AND SEE IF YOU ALL CAN GET THEM SOME MENTAL HEALTH.
SOMETHING NEEDS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE IT'S TERRIBLE.
THEY CLOSE THE OTHER LITTLE, UM, SEVEN 11 OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL 'EM, THE LITTLE CONVENIENCE STORES.
IT'S AWFUL TO LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I'VE BEEN HERE 57 YEARS AND IT'S JUST TERRIBLE.
I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OTHER THAN I KNOW WE NEED HELP, BUT WE DON'T NEED IT TOMORROW.
WE NEED IT AS SOON AS YOU ALL CAN HELP US.
SO MY WHAT, WHAT STREET WAS THAT ON? IT'S ON PARKER.
THE, THE, THE, THE, IT'S ON PARKER.
THE BUSINESS IS ON MARKET HOMES.
THE BUSINESS IS ON PARKER AND HOMESTEAD.
AND I THINK THIS, IT'S PROBABLY THE 9,900 BLOCK OR WHATEVER, BUT ON MY END IS THE SEVEN, 700 BLOCK OF THE CARS.
SO PLEASE TRY AND HELP US, UM, CHIEF.
UM, I WANT TO ADDRESS THE, UM, SPEED CUSHIONS.
THE, THE, THE PETITION THAT YOU RECEIVED, UM, FROM JESSICA, THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS, UM, TO GET SPEED BUMPS ON THAT AREA.
UM, YOU'RE NOT THE FIRST PERSON.
UM, WHAT I CAN SAY IS WHEN, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE WITH SPEED CUSHIONS IS THE RESOURCES, BECAUSE THE CITY DON'T COVER THE COST FOR SPEED BUMPS, BUT OUR DISTRICT SERVICE OFFICE CAN, UM, EACH DISTRICT OFFICE GET $500,000 TO DO METRO PROJECTS.
AND SO, UM, POST WHAT, SEPTEMBER? WELL, SEPTEMBER, UM, AUGUST, AUGUST IN AUGUST COUNCIL, WE PASSED AN ORDINANCE.
WE AMENDED THE ORDINANCE ON SPEED CUSHIONS.
UM, NORMALLY A NEIGHBORHOOD WILL COST, ONE NEIGHBORHOOD CAN COST 150,000 OR 200,000 BECAUSE WHEN YOU PUT IN A REQUEST, THE PUBLIC PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WILL MAKE US PUT SPEED CUSHIONS OVER THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH IT BECAME EXPENSIVE.
SO YOU CAN ASK FOR JUST YOUR STREET, BUT THEN, WHICH WILL COST, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY ABOUT 50,000.
BUT THE ORDINANCE, THE PREVIOUS ORDINANCE REQUIRED US TO
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PUT SPEED BUMPS WHERE WE WOULD REDIRECT TRAFFIC, RIGHT? AND SO WE JUST AMENDED THE ORDINANCE TO WHERE WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THESE OTHER AREAS.WE CAN JUST PAY FOR YOUR STREET.
SO IT'S GONNA MAKE IT EASIER FOR US.
NOW, NOW WE HAVE MORE MONEY, UM, TO BE ABLE TO PUT SPEED BUMPS IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A MINUTE.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE, THE, UM, PUBLIC WORKS WERE REQUIRING THAT WE COVER THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT NOW WE DON'T HAVE TO RECOVER THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO GET THAT PETITION IN SO THAT WE CAN GET THAT TO PUBLIC WORKS.
UM, THEY'RE GONNA DO AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, THE AREA THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND IN OUR DISTRICT SERVICE, OUR OFFICE WILL USE DISTRICT SERVICE FUNDS TO PAY TO GET THE SPEED CUSHIONS IN.
SO WE'LL GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF.
I KNOW YOU NEED IT TODAY, BUT OF COURSE IT'S A PROCESS.
YOU KNOW, WE GOT, WE GOT A LOT OF FOLKS IN HERE STILL WAITING.
I MEAN, IT IS MOVING, BUT EVENTUALLY WE KNOW IT'S GONNA GET DONE.
SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
AND THEN TWO YEARS BEHIND, HUH? I HEARD THAT YOU ALL, WE ACTUALLY, WE ACTUALLY, UM, WE HAVE PEOPLE HAVE THAT HAVE REQUESTS WHEN I GAVE CAME IN OFFICE FROM 2011.
AND OF COURSE, KEEP IN MIND OUR 500,000 COVERS THE WHOLE DISTRICT.
AND THAT'S WHY WHEN I, Y'ALL CAME IN, I MENTIONED ACRE HOMES, GREENS POINT, WILLOWBROOK, WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE, UM, THE WOODLANDS, UM, UM, THE AIRPORT, HUMBLE FIFTH WARD, PLEASANTVILLE, TRINITY GARDEN, HOUSTON GARDEN, YOU KNOW, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE MAKING SIMILAR REQUESTS.
AND SO I JUST ASK YOU GUYS TO BE PATIENT.
UM, BUT JUST KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE ON THE LIST, WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THE CUSHIONS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
WHAT I WOULD ASK IS, AND THEN I HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF, I KNOW, I'D LOVE TO SEE IT BEFORE MY EYES ARE CLOSED.
YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE A LOT OF TIME THOUGH.
AND THEN THE OTHER THING, UM, SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOMESTEAD, JUST, UM, FYI KNOW YOU SAW MR. WOODS ON THE NEWS TALKING ABOUT THE HOMESTEAD SHOPPING CENTER.
WE DID PUT A REQUEST IN TO OUR, UM, INTERIM PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO TEAR IT DOWN.
I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO, TEAR IT DOWN.
GONNA GET MAD AT ME, BUT I'M GONNA LIKE, FORGET ALL THESE.
TEAR IT DOWN, TIME OUT, LET'S TEAR IT DOWN.
SO, SO THAT'S A PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE, IS DESTROYING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THAT'S WHERE THE PROSTITUTES ARE MOVING AROUND.
SO JUST KNOW WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.
THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE.
UM, I'M GONNA START WITH FIRST AS A SUGGESTION.
UM, THERE IS A DEPARTMENT, DRT THAT YOU CAN REPORT CERTAIN THINGS.
WE NEED A BETTER NUMBER OR A NUMBER THAT THEY CAN BE REACHED BECAUSE I'VE CALLED A NUMBER SEVERAL TIMES AND NO ONE ANSWERS THE PHONE.
UM, I USE THREE ONE ONE FOR VARIOUS THINGS, BUT YOU KNOW, A REPORT IS MADE AND THEN I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT.
UM, THE SUGGESTION THAT I HAVE AS FAR AS THE POLICE GOES WOULD BE, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO UPLOAD A VIDEO TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR DO YOU HAVE THAT CAPABILITY? LIKE, JUST LIKE FOR ME, I SEE ON TV AS EVERYONE ELSE DOES WHEN WE'RE DRIVING, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A WRECK JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.
A LADY WAS REACHING OVER TO HELP SOMEONE IN ANOTHER VEHICLE.
WOULDN'T THAT BE A GREAT IDEA? IF IT WAS POSSIBLE WHEN WE SEE SOMETHING, WE CAN SAY SOMETHING AND REPORT IT THROUGH A WEBSITE THAT THE POLICE HAVE IN REAL TIME INSTEAD OF TRYING TO, I THINK IT WOULD BE MORE COST EFFECTIVE IF WE HAD, UH, A WEBSITE THAT WE CAN UPLOAD IS FREE OF CHARGE.
YOU CAN BE ANONYMOUS OR, YOU KNOW, LET THE, UH, POLICE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN REAL TIME AT THAT TIME.
AND IF THEY, THEY CAN REPORT TO THAT.
IF THEY HAVE AN OFFICER THAT'S MONITORING THAT.
SO, SO YEAH, I UNDERSTAND PEOPLE HERE RIGHT.
WHO'S GONNA BE BEHIND IT TO TRY IN RIGHT.
IT'S EASIER FOR US TO MAKE A QUESTION.
AND A LOT OF SMALLER COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ARE USING THAT TECHNOLOGY.
THERE'S A COMPANY CALLED, UH, FUS AND THEY HAVE IT.
AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FILM, WHATEVER YOU SEE OR, OR YOU SIGN.
LIKE IF YOU HAVE A RING DOORBELL OR A CAMERA SYSTEM ON YOUR OWN, RIGHT, YOU SIGN A WAVER AND YOU GIVE US ACCESS.
SO IF WE HAVE SOMETHING ON TIDWELL, WE CAN JUST TYPE IN, UH, THE, THE TIME OF THAT, OF THE EVENT.
AND IT'S ON TIDWELL AND IT WORKS.
IT'S A, IT'S A VERY FUNCTIONING,
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UH, PROCESS AND A GOOD SYSTEM.AND WE'RE WORKING TO BUILD OUR REAL TIME CRIME CENTER HERE IN HOUSTON TO THAT LEVEL TO, TO HAVE IT.
SO JUST SO YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A REAL TIME CRIME CENTER.
IT'S UP 24 HOURS A DAY WITH LIEUTENANTS AND SERGEANTS AND CIVILIANS THAT THEY DO A TREMENDOUS JOB.
BUT IF YOU, THE CALL FOR SERVICE, IF YOU HOLD THAT VIDEO WITH SOMEONE PLUS ME, I, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT.
I'VE NEVER HEARD OF NO, BUT YOU CAN HOLD YOUR VIDEO AND CONTACT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WE'LL COME BACK OUT AND GET IT FROM YOU.
RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE NOW.
'CAUSE THE OTHER ONE IS INTERFACE.
AND RIGHT NOW WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY WITHIN THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE NOW TO ACTUALLY MONITOR AND MAKE SURE THAT THE INFORMATION IS RELEVANT.
'CAUSE YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE RELEVANT, BUT WE'LL HAVE SOMEBODY JUST SENDING RANDOM VIDEOS AND THEN THAT COSTS SO MUCH MONEY TO KEEP THE DATA AND, AND BECAUSE IF IT'S, ONCE IT BECOMES US, IT BECOMES EVIDENCE IN SOMETHING.
IT JUST, IT'S, IT, IT, IT, IT'S ALL MONEY.
BUT IT'S A GREAT IDEA AND, AND IT DOES WORK IN SMALLER AREAS, BUT WE'RE SO VAST THAT, THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR US TO DO IT.
BUT WE'RE WORKING TO GET SMARTER TO BRIDGE THE GAP WITH TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING BETTER, UH, TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE SAFER.
AND IF YOU DO HAVE SOMETHING, PLEASE SHARE WITH US.
UH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IF WE HAVE SOMETHING GO DOWN IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, LIKE, LIKE THE, LIKE THE LOWER COPY, EVERY SINGLE DOOR WAS KNOCKED ON EVERY BUSINESS.
AND THAT KNOCKING AND THAT OLD SCHOOL POLICE WORK, THE GUM SHOE WORK AS I CALLED IT, IS, IS, IS, IS WHAT'S GONNA BREAK IT.
SO, BUT THAT INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE IS INCREDIBLE.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT WITH US AND IT'S A GREAT IDEA AND WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE CAPACITY AND ABILITY TO MONITOR IT SAFELY AND USE IT APPROPRIATELY.
OKAY? AND THEN ALSO EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THE POSTCARDS, OUR FAMOUS DISTRICT D POSTCARDS WITH OUR PHONE NUMBER ON IT.
UM, IF YOU WILL TEXT, YOU CAN TEXT THAT NUMBER AND YOU CAN UPLOAD A VIDEO SO THAT OUR OFFICE CAN KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
IT'S THE SAME THING WITH THREE ONE ONE.
I KNOW FOLKS DON'T LIKE CALLING 3 1 1, BUT YOU HAVE TO CALL 'EM BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE DOCUMENT.
BUT THEN IF YOU WILL FOLLOW UP WITH THE OFFICE, THEN WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH HPV TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET OUT THERE.
WE HAD AN INCIDENT AT CLE MANNER WHERE THAT WAS A STABBING THAT WAS HAPPENING IN REAL TIME.
SOMEBODY REACHED OUT, WE ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO THE POLICE TO GET THE POLICE THERE AND LET THEM KNOW THIS IS SERIES, WE MEET YOU THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO IF WE KNOW ABOUT IT, WE CAN FOLLOW UP.
I DON'T, I'M A, I'M A RESIDENT OF HIDDEN VALLEY.
UH, TWO THINGS, GUNSHOTS DO, I'M NOT AWARE OF IT, BUT IS THERE SUCH A THING WHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF WAY OF KNOWING WHEN GUNSHOTS ARE MADE OR DO WE HAVE TO RECORD IT? RECORD IT.
AND THEN THE NEXT THING IS, UM, THIS MIGHT CONCERN YOU.
UM, YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION ABOUT CONTACTING THE OFFICE, ABOUT PUTTING A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE STREET ON BUNNY GROUND, WHICH I WOULD DO, BUT WE'VE BEEN HAVING ISSUES WITH JUST BEAUTIFICATION ON 2 49, WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE USE.
IF YOU DRIVE DOWN 2 49, THE GRASS MAY NEVER BE CUT AFTER COMPLAINING, COMPLAINING, COMPLAINING.
AND WHEN IT IS CUT, IT JUST RECENTLY GOT CUT.
IF YOU GO LOOK AT IT, IT IS NOT TRIMMED NICE AND NEAT LIKE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, IT'S ALMOST, IT LOOKS LIKE A DUNGEON, YOU KNOW? AND, AND I THINK THAT WE DESERVE BETTER.
UM, AND ALSO THE SPEEDING ON 2 49.
I REALIZE THAT, YOU KNOW, FOLKS ARE GOING EVERYWHERE, BUT I HAVE SEEN POLICE OFFICERS GO THROUGH THE LIGHT AT DEER TRAIL ON 2 49 AND I'M SITTING THERE NOT CALLED, UH, TDOT TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THE LIGHT TAKES, IT TAKES TOO LONG FOR US TO GET THROUGH.
UM, AND TO THIS DAY IT'S STILL THE SAME.
YOU'RE STILL SITTING THERE FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
MORE THAN I WOULD SAY CLOSE TO 4, 4, 4 AND A HALF MINUTES.
BUT THE SPEEDING ON 2 49 IS RIDICULOUS FROM DEER TRAIL TO 45, AND THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE ACCIDENTS.
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UM, I THINK SOMEONE EVEN GOT KILLED THERE, YOU KNOW? UM, IT'S RIDICULOUS.AND IF YOU'RE COMING OUT OF MONEY RUN, YOU CAN'T SEE BECAUSE OF THE THANKS FOR SHARING THAT.
UM, I KNOW THAT FOR THE MEET THE MEDIANS, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE GRASS, THE CITY, THEY, I THINK THEY DO A CUT TWICE A YEAR.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, BASED UPON WHERE THE AREA'S AT, AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 40, UM, 2 49, EITHER IF THE COUNTY OR THE CITY, RIGHT? UM, OR THE STATE, YOU KNOW.
SO NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITIES LIKE THEY DO WITH THE BIOS, YOU KNOW.
SO WHAT WE'VE DONE WITHIN OUR OFFICE, WE ACTUALLY NOW HAVE A RIDING LAWNMOWER AND OUR HOT TEAM HAS EXPANDED THEIR SERVICES TO WHERE NOW WE'RE CUTTING THE MEDIAN.
SO IF THERE'S MEDIANS IN YOUR AREA, UM, THAT NEED TO BE CUT, LET US KNOW.
BUT WE'LL, IF THE HOT TEAM IS WE'LL, WE'LL PUT IT ON THE HOT TEAM LIST AND WHOEVER WILL GET THAT OUT THERE SOONER, WHICH WILL PROBABLY BE US.
UM, WE WANNA MAKE SURE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE CLEAN AND THAT'S ONE OF THE, UM, WAYS WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH YOU GUYS ON THE MEETING.
SIX NUMBER SIX, MS. SMITH SMITH.
UH, COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON AND STAFF AND STAFF AND NEW PERSON ON THE BLOCK.
UH, JUST WANT TO TAG ON, UH, WITH THE COMMENT YOU WERE MAKING THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER ABOUT, UM, THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DITCHES.
IF YOU LEAVE TODAY, GO BACK DOWN, UH, LIVE YORK.
BAD IS NOT EVEN THE RIGHT WORD.
NOW, THAT SHOULD BE A CRIME TO LET THE DITCHES GET THAT HIGH, WHERE YOU CANNOT EVEN SEE ONCOMING CARS OR THE TREES THAT ARE LIMBS THAT ARE ABOUT TO FALL OUT IN THE STREET.
AND WHEN THEY FALL OUT IN THE STREET, THEY, WHOEVER HAPPENS TO STOP PICKS THE LIMB UP OR THE TREE DUMPS IT INTO THE DITCHES.
NOW I DO SEE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
WE'VE CALLED ABOUT BY GETTING SIMPLE THING GRASS CUT AND TRIM GOING DOWN
THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE THE PROBLEM.
EVERYTHING'S NICE AND TRIMMED THERE BY THE HPD, UM, STABLE.
DIFFERENT KIND OF DRAINS THAT ARE BEING USED THERE.
AND WE NEED THAT SAME TYPE OF SERVICE ON THIS SIDE OF LITTLE YORK COMING BACK TOWARD HOMESTEAD.
AND I KNOW THAT'S VERY ANNOYING TO SEE IT IS CUT ON THIS SIDE AND NOT CUT ON THAT SIDE.
SO THE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, THE MAINTAINS THE AREA FROM THE FREEWAY TO THE TRAIN TRACK.
SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE IT'S ALWAYS CUT BECAUSE IT'S BEEN PAID FOR BY THE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT.
I KNOW YEARS AGO, UM, THEY WERE TRYING TO DO A MANAGEMENT DISTRICT IN THIS AREA AND I THINK THE CONSTITUENTS DIDN'T WANT IT.
SO, BUT I, BUT I KNOW THERE WAS, PEOPLE SPOKE OUT ABOUT IT, THEY DIDN'T WANT IT.
AND SO IT WAS LIKE THIS BIG, YOU KNOW, BACK AND FORWARD.
AND SO WE DIDN'T GET THE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, BUT MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, IF YOU LOOK IN A LOT OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS THEY HAVE, THAT'S UPKEPT.
THEIR MANAGEMENT DISTRICT DOES THAT.
AND THEY ACTUALLY, UM, COVER IT THROUGH THE TAXES THAT COME IN THROUGH THE DISTRICT.
JUST LIKE HOW WE GOT THE TERMS DETERRENTS CAN'T KEEP UP THE MAINTENANCE, BUT IF WE HAD A MANAGEMENT DISTRICT THAT PARTNERS WITH THE TOURS, THEN WE CAN KEEP UP OUR MAINTENANCE.
SO JUST THINK ABOUT THAT WHEN FOLKS COMING TO YOU ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE NEED, UM, AND WE ARE AGAINST IT, JUST TRY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW IT'S GONNA BENEFIT, UM, THE COMMUNITY.
AND I CAN SPEAK ABOUT EVEN THAT MUD WE JUST ESTABLISHED, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OPPORTUNITY.
EVEN THOUGH WE WERE AGAINST IT,
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IT CAN BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY BY HELPING US KEEP UP THE MAINTENANCE AND THE, UM, THE, THE BEAUTIFICATION OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.AND SO, UM, SO THAT'S WHY THAT IS HAPPENING.
UM, UM, WHAT I DID DO WITH PUBLIC WORKS, I ACTUALLY, CAN Y'ALL JUST PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR BECAUSE WE KNOW AT A CERTAIN TIME IT'S GONNA BE, NEED TO BE CUT AND CLEANED, BUT THEY ONLY COME TWICE A YEAR.
AND SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY, AGAIN, I GOT THE RIDING LAWNMOWER SO THAT WE CAN DO WHAT WE CAN TO TRY TO TRIM IT AND KEEP IT DOWN.
BECAUSE THE NEXT MAINTENANCE TODAY FOR THAT SAME AREA, WE WERE GIVEN 2025, THAT'S THE NEXT MAINTENANCE.
SO, UM, WE WOULDN'T, MAYBE WE AS A COMMUNITY CAN GET OUT THERE WITH SOME EDGES, I DON'T KNOW.
BUT AT SOME POINT THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE GIVEN US.
AND SO HOW DO WE, UM, TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES, YOU KNOW? EXACTLY.
I DUNNO, WE HAVE TO, YEAH, WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER.
AND, UM, VERY SHORT LIST TODAY.
UH, NOT THAT WE DON'T HAVE A BUNCH, A BUNCH, UH, WE ARE NEEDING ASSISTANCE WITH THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC ON MESA IN FRONT OF THE NORTH FOREST HIGH SCHOOL.
UH, WE WERE ABLE TO GET THE STATE LAW CHANGED AND APPROVED TO HAVE TRAFFIC SIGNALS TO CONTROL THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC AND SCHOOL ZONE SIGNAGE ALONG MESA.
MESA NOW IS A TRUCK ROUTE, HAZARDOUS TRUCK ROUTE PART OF THE CAMPUS.
UH, CLASSES ARE HELD ON THE OLD MB SMILEY SIDE.
THE OTHERS ARE HELD ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MESA WHERE THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL IS.
BUT THE STUDENTS HAVE TO CROSS MESA ROAD, FOUR LINES OF TRAFFIC AND TRUCKS GOING 65, 75 MILES AN HOUR.
SCHOOL BUSES ARE AFRAID TO EVEN TRAVEL AND COME OUT, UH, TO PICK THE KIDS UP, DROP 'EM OFF, PARENTS ACCIDENTS.
WE ASK OUR SUBSTATION TO, UH, ASSIGN MAYBE AN OFFICER WHO COULD SIT BACK AND PATROL AT THE RATE WITH THE RADAR OR WHATEVER WAY THEY WANTED TO DO IT.
BUT WE DEFINITELY NEED SOME ASSISTANCE THERE.
CAN I, UM, COMMENT ON THAT? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRUCKS 18 WILLOWS.
UM, ONE OF THE, UM, UM, PROJECTS OR ORDINANCES WE WERE TRYING TO PUSH, UM, IS A TRUCK REROUTING ORDINANCE.
UM, AND OF COURSE THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMUNITY PUSHBACK.
PREVIOUS MAYOR TURNER, HE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD IT ROLLING PUBLIC WORKS WAS WORKING ON ROUTES.
UM, BUT OF COURSE YOU HAD THIS SET OF COMMUNITY WAS LIKE, OH, WE DON'T WANT IT.
YOU ARE ROUTING TRUCKS INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND NO, WE WERE TRYING TO ROUTE THE TRUCKS OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY, YOU HAD SOME LOUDS VOICES IN NO, NO.
SO THE NEW MAYOR LISTENED TO THE NEW LOUD, THE LOUD VOICES.
AND SO THE TRUCK REROUTING ORDINANCE THAT WE WORKED SO HARD HAS BEEN PUT ON HOLD BECAUSE OF SOME COMPLAINTS.
SO OF COURSE NOW THE 18 WHEELERS GOING UP, MESA IS GONNA KEEP GOING UP MESA UNTIL WE CAN LIKE REESTABLISH THE PLAN OF CREATING A TRUCK REROUTING ORDINANCE.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THE, UH, PLAN TO MAKE MESA UH, TWO LANES, WE'RE GONNA DO ONE LEFT TURN LANE IN THE MIDDLE AND BACK LANES ON BOTH SIDES.
NOW THAT, UM, I'M HOPING THAT WE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVISIT THAT BECAUSE IF THE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY, OR STAFF OR WHOMEVER NEEDS TO CROSS FROM ONE SIDE OF MESA, FOR EXAMPLE, FROM WHERE THE HIGH SCHOOL IS OVER TO THE OLD MD SMILEY SIDE, THEY HAVE TO CROSS THAT SAME STREET.
IT'S NO FLASHING LIGHT, NO SLOW YOUR ROLL OR ANYTHING.
AND, UH, THE SOLUTION WAS, FROM WHAT I WAS TOLD, THEY COULD PAINT SOMETHING ON THE,
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ON THE PAVEMENT.AND THE CROSSWALK HAS BEEN BOARDED UP.
WE ACTUALLY HAD A CROSSWALK, BUT THE STRUCTURE WAS NOT CONDUCIVE FOR ANYBODY TO USE THAT CROSSWALK.
BUT IF YOU CAN HELP US WITH THOSE THINGS AND UH, JUST PUT A FAKE CAR OR SOMETHING DOWN THERE.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A LIVE PERSON, WE'LL, WE'LL ADDRESS IT WITH OUR UNITS.
NOW ONE THING THAT I'M FINDING, CRIME RATES ARE DOWN.
OKAY? NOW, IS THAT AN INDICATOR? UH, THAT WE ARE NOT, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE CALL IN AND NO ONE COMES, OR WHEN WE CALL IN, AND AS I SHARED WITH YOU EARLIER TODAY, UH, I'M TOLD WE'LL TRY TO GET SOMEBODY OUT THERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.
NOW THOSE TYPES OF THINGS ARE NOT RECORDED ANYWHERE.
SO IF I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT, I CAN'T REPAIR IT, I CAN'T FIX IT.
NOW THAT I KNOW ABOUT IT, I'LL ADDRESS IT.
SO SOMETIMES OUR, OUR, OUR BEATS ARE SO BUSY THAT WE'LL HAVE SIX OR 70 CALLS FOR SERVICE.
AND, AND LET'S SAY OUR, OUR TEAM OR TWO MAN TEAMS, THEY'LL ARREST SOMEONE.
SO THAT TAKES THEM OUT OF THE BEAT ALL THE WAY DOWNTOWN FOR TWO AND A HALF, THREE HOURS.
AND THAT'S ONE PERSON OR ONE TEAM OUT OF OUR BEAT.
SO THEY DO ROLL, WE PRIORITIZE THE VIOLENT CRIMES.
SO THEY DO ROLL OVER TO THE NEXT DAY.
SO DAY SHIFT SPENDS MOST OF THEIR MORNING FOLLOWING UP ON CALLS.
THEY CAME IN, THEY'RE LOUD MUSIC, UH, THE, THE, THE, THE DRAG DRAGGING CARS AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
SO NO, WHEN I SAY DOING, UH, MORE OR DO WHAT RIGHT.
SO WE'RE HAVING TO THEN SLICE, UH, WHERE WE PRIORITIZE.
SO IF IT'S, IF IT'S A NINE ONE ONE CALL A DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE, VIOLENCE, ANY, ANYTHING LIKE THAT WITH A GUN, THEN, THEN WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO PRIORITIZE THOSE AND THE OTHER ONES GET BACKED UP.
AND, AND THAT'S A REALITY OF THIS BUSINESS.
UH, 'CAUSE TRULY, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH STAFF.
I MEAN, I, THE IDEAL NUMBERS ARE ABOUT 7,000 PEOPLE FOR THIS OFFICE BECAUSE THE COUNTY AND THE CITY HAS GROWN, AND THERE, THERE WAS MORE POLICE OFFICERS AT THIS DEPARTMENT IN 2000 THAN THERE ARE NOW.
AND, AND THAT'S, THOSE ARE FACTS.
I'M, I'M NOT, I'M JUST, THAT'S THE REALITY.
UH, I'VE GOT POLICE OFFICERS AND THEY WASN'T GETTING IT DONE THEN.
BECAUSE IT, BECAUSE IT'S A BUSY CITY.
AND NOW WE HAVE POLICE OFFICERS DOING ADMINISTRATIVE WORK BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T KEPT UP WITH OUR, THE, THE ADMINISTRATIVE STUFF.
WE HAVE A LOT OF, WE HAD AROUND A THOUSAND CIVILIANS IN 2000, NOW WE'RE DOWN TO SIX OR 700, RIGHT? SO THOSE THINGS, AND THE POLICE BUSINESS HAS TO HAVE THE FUNCTIONALITY, THE, THE CORNERSTONE, THE PROPERTY ROOM, ALL, ALL THE LITTLE THINGS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH A POLICE BUSINESS HAVE TO BE DONE BECAUSE WE GET, WE'RE CONSTANTLY BEING AUDITED.
IN FACT, OUR OFFICE IS ACTUALLY BEING AUDITED NOW AT 1200 TRAVIS FROM AN INDEPENDENT, UH, ERNST AND YOUNG.
AND THEY'RE GONNA, THEY'RE TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN PULL STAFF FROM A POLICE FUNCTION BACK INTO A PATROL CAR.
AND THAT'S HAPPENING EVERY DAY.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING EVERYTHING.
UH, AND, AND YES, YOU MENTIONED THE SL CASES.
UM, BUT I DON'T, LIKE YOU SAID, I DON'T THINK IT'S REFLECTIVE OF THE OFFICE.
IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED AND WE'RE MOVING TOWARDS IT.
AND IT'S NEVER GONNA BE OVER FOR ME BECAUSE THERE'S VICTIMS BEHIND IT.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE CHALLENGED AND WE'RE THROWING ALL THE STAFF THAT WE HAVE AT IT, AND WE'RE, WE'RE BEING SMARTER WITH THE RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TACKLING IT AND MOVING PEOPLE BACK INTO THEIR JOBS BECAUSE THE CALLS KEEP COMING AND THE CASES KEEP COMING.
SO I DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN IN TWO OR THREE YEARS AGAIN, BECAUSE I MOVED, LET'S JUST SAY JOHN SMITH FOR MAJOR OFFENDERS FOR, FOR FOUR MONTHS, AND NOW HE'S GOT ALL THOSE CASES BACKED UP.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE BEING AS SUFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE.
AND THAT SURVEY'S GONNA HELP US, UH, BECAUSE IT, IT, IT'S A RESOURCE MATTER, RIGHT? I, I WOULD, I WOULD LOVE FOR THIS AREA TO HAVE 300 POLICE OFFICERS, RIGHT? IN A BIGGER STATION.
BUT IT, IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST THE POLICE.
IF YOU GO INTO THE POLICE STATIONS, AND THE COUNCIL MEMBER WILL SHARE WITH YOU THAT A A LOT OF THE FACILITIES ARE, ARE A BIT DOWNTROD, RIGHT? THEY NEED ROOFS, THEY NEED AIR CONDITIONS, THEY NEED FLOOR.
I MEAN, IT, IT IS NOT THE HOUSTON POLICE
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DEPARTMENT, IT'S CITYWIDE, THE, THE, THE FIRE STATIONS HAVE OLD EQUIPMENT.SO ALL THAT STUFF, IT HAS A BIG COST, RIGHT? SO THEY'RE WORKING ON, I KNOW COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR WORKING ON IT, UH, DAILY.
IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU, YOU TEND TO LOSE, LOSE SLEEP OVER.
I MEAN, PEOPLE NEED, PEOPLE NEED, AND YOU WANT TO, AS A SERVANT, YOU WANT TO, YOU WANT TO GIVE PEOPLE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK.
SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, A NINE ONE ONE CALL THAT YOU GET WON'T GET ENROLLED.
I'LL MAKE SURE THAT I'LL, I'LL CALL THE COMMANDER OVER OUR NINE ONE ONE OPERATORS WHEN I DRIVE AWAY FROM HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
OKAY? AND, AND I HAVE A FOLLOW UP QUESTION TO THAT.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, AND MR. WOODS MENTIONED EARLIER THAT WE HAD, OF COURSE, WE HAD A WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH CHIEF THINNER.
AND ONE OF THE, UM, THINGS WE ALL AGREED UPON THAT IS POLICE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING THAT THE COMMUNITY HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY.
UM, WE'VE TRAINED OVER 90 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS TO, UM, BEING VERY, BEING VARIOUS COMMUNITIES.
UM, BUT WHAT THE CHALLENGE IS, IS THE DATA.
YOU KNOW, WE COME TO GET DATA THAT, YOU KNOW, CRIME IS DOWN, BUT WE REQUEST DATA FOR INDIVIDUAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
AS YOU KNOW, DISTRICT D IS SPREAD OUT.
AND SO THE COMMUNITY DON'T KNOW WHERE THE HOTSPOTS ARE AT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE DATA THAT WE NEED TO DO OUR JOB AS A COMMUNITY.
SO WHAT CAN YOU DO TO GET THAT DATA, OUR DATA BREAKING, BROKEN DOWN BY NEIGHBORHOOD ZIP CODE SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, AS A COMMUNITY TO DO OUR PART.
I'LL HAVE MY, I I WILL HAVE, I'LL WORK WITH MY STAFF IN THE MORNING, UH, ON MONDAY TO GET YOU THE DATE IMMEDIATELY SO YOU CAN SHOW IT.
BECAUSE WHEN I WENT TO KINGWOOD, I ASKED IN THE AFTERNOON AND THEY, THEY SHOWED ME WHERE THE HOTSPOTS WERE.
SO IT'S, IT'S ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SHARE AND YOU ARE MY TRUTH TELLERS, RIGHT? SO YOU CAN PHYSICALLY SEE IT.
YOU, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'RE NEEDING HELP.
SO THAT HERE, UH, MAYOR WHITMEYER SAID, TRANSPARENCY.
RIGHT? SO THAT'S WHY WE NEED, BECAUSE I NEED YOU TO CONTACT YOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
HEY, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT NEEDS, AND IT, ITS NEEDS VERSUS WANTS, YOU KNOW, I WANT A CADILLAC ESCALATING, BUT I'M NOT GONNA GET ONE.
RIGHT? SO, UH, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S NOT A REALITY OF GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT HAS TO BE VERY, VERY EFFICIENT.
IT HAS TO BE SHREWD WITH, 'CAUSE IT'S THE PEOPLE'S TREASURE THAT I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR.
THAT'S HOW I WILL ULTIMATELY BE JUDGED BY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING CARE OF THE RESOURCES THAT YOU'VE WORKED YOUR WHOLE LIFE TO GIVE TO THE CITY.
AND YOU DESERVE TO GET THAT BACK IN RETURN.
EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES IN CLOSING.
THANK YOU, MR. I APPRECIATE, THANK YOU FOR BEING INVOLVED.
BUT THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR BEING A VOICE FOR THE COMMUNITY, BUT IN EVERYTHING, WHEREVER WE ARE, CHURCH OR IN THIS GYM OR IN THE COMMUNITY, OR IN MY CAR OR IN YOUR POLICE CAR.
WE CAN'T BRING THEM BACK ONCE THEY, SO IF EVERY MORNING WE GET UP AND WE SEE 12 PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED DURING THE NIGHT, WE NEED TO RETHINK, SERIOUSLY, RETHINK HOW WE ARE DOING.
AND IF MOST OF THAT ACTIVITY IS, IS HAPPENING DURING THE NIGHT, WE NEED TO PATROL.
YES, I AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT.
THANK YOU MS. SMITH FOR YOUR CONTINUED LEADERSHIP IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND WE ARE RUNNING SHORT ON TIME.
SO PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS VERY BRIEF.
SO, UH, HOW YOU DOING? UH, WE GOT SOME, UH, WE GOT SOME IDEAS FOR YOU.
SO TO DEPUTIZE AND CREATE MOUS WITH NONPROFITS AND CIVIC CLUBS IN ALL OF HOUSTON, STARTING WITH US TO HELP YOU CONNECT WITH THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES, TECHNOLOGY, UH, DAMAGE CONTROL, UH, APPS THAT CAN ACTUALLY DO REAL TIME TRACKING, BECAUSE WE DO THAT HERE TOO, RIGHT? AND IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE A 12 STEP DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PLAN CREATED IN NORTHWOOD MANOR.
AND WE'D LIKE FOR YOU TO BE A PART OF IT.
AND WE'D LOVE FOR YOU TO SCHEDULE WITH US TIME ON YOUR CALENDAR, UH, TO ASSESS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER, I KNOW YOU ARE IN SUPPORT OF THE, UH, 12 STEP PLAN.
AND, UH, I WILL BE MAKING ANOTHER PRESENTATION ON THAT OCTOBER 3RD.
SO I'D LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT TODAY WHEN YOU GET TIME ABOUT THAT.
ALSO, UM, IN THAT, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD INCLUDE RECRUITING, TRAINING, UM, RESIDENCES, UM,
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UH, ESPECIALLY WHILE INFORMATION, UH, DISSEMINATION IN COMMUNITY SUPPORT OR AT HAND.SO LET'S JUST SAY YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY SUPPORT THAT YOU NEED FROM YOUR POLICE OFFICERS.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY DEPUTIZE THE COMMUNITY TO DO CERTAIN THINGS.
SO THAT WAY IT'S NOT ALL OF YOU, IT'S ON ALL OF US, RIGHT? SO WE WANT TO BE THERE TO HELP YOU SHARING THAT.
BUT THERE'S SOME THINGS WE HAVE TO WORK OUT.
AND, AND THEN ALSO REGULAR RELAT, REGULAR WORKSHOPS AND DRILLS, DEVELOP MULTILINGUAL MATERIALS AND RECRUIT AND TRAIN CERT MEMBERS IN ALL COMMUNITIES.
THAT WAY WE CAN REFRESHER COURSES ON WHAT TO DO, HOW TO ENGAGE, AND HOW TO HELP YOU OUT.
AND WE'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU AND SEE IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THE PLAN.
UH, YEAH, TIMELINE, TIME CRUNCH.
SO, UM, FIRST THING, UM, CONCERN ABOUT THE, THE CADET TRAINING.
UM, SPECIFICALLY I NOTICED, UM, I KNOW THAT YOU SEEM TO, AND THIS IS REALLY GOOD, THAT YOU'RE FOCUSED ON YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND THAT'S IMPORTANT.
UM, BUT IS THERE A TRAINING OR SCREENING PROCESS? 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, ON THE NEWS, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU CAME IN YOU SAID, HEY, SEND EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WERE INTRODUCED, RIGHT? BUT THEN JUXTAPOSE WITH THAT IS THAT, UM, THERE'S YOUNG, ALL THESE CRIMES ARE BEING COMMITTED BY YOUNG PEOPLE.
SO OBVIOUSLY IT'S LIKE, ARE THEY, UH, WHAT'S THE TRAINING? UM, AND THEN MAYBE DO Y'ALL NEED TO CONSIDER, LIKE IF YOU DO WANT THE YOUTH, MAYBE THERE SHOULD BE AN INITIATIVE TO START EARLIER, LIKE IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS, TO BUILD THAT RELATIONSHIP, WRITING THEIR MORE FORMATIVE YEARS.
BECAUSE REALLY A LOT OF BRAINS AREN'T EVEN DONE, DONE FORMING, AND WHERE THEY'RE MAKING GOOD JUDGEMENTS.
AND SO WHAT YOU WANT, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANNA HAVE MORE, UH, PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT COMMIT, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE JUST BULLIES OPEN WITH BADGES, RIGHT? SO IS IS THAT BEING CONSIDERED? I GUESS, I GUESS THAT THAT WOULD BE ONE THING.
I MEAN, 'CAUSE OF MY TIME IS SHORT, SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ON.
I'LL, I'LL ADDRESS THAT FOR YOU.
SO THE TRAINING IS, UH, I, WE, WE, WE'VE DISCUSSED IT TO, UH, WE'RE WORKING ON A PLAN TO TRY TO BRING THE YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, AT 18 OR 19 YEARS OLD AND HAVE THEM HAVE, BRING THEM INTO A MENTORSHIP PROCESS WHERE THEY CAN BE, UH, SUPPORT STAFF AND ON THE REPORT WRITING SYSTEMS, THEY LEARN, UH, THE, ALL THE, THE JAIL STUFF, STUFF THAT THEY CAN ALREADY HAVE.
SO WHEN THEY APPLY TO BE A GOOD DEBT, THEY'RE WAY AHEAD AND PERHAPS THEY'LL SHORTEN THE ACADEMY FOR THEM.
AND THEN THEY'RE ALREADY EMPLOYEES.
SO WE WILL, WE'D LIKE TO CREATE A POOL OF EMPLOYEES SO THAT WE CAN GAUGE.
WE HAVE 25, WE HAVE 40 KIDS IN AND AROUND OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS ALREADY WORKING IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.
AND THEY'RE, THEY'LL ALREADY BE GIVEN A DATE.
THEY'RE GONNA START IN MARCH OR IN APRIL.
AND MY, MY GOAL IS THAT IF YOU LIVED HERE, WHEN YOU FINISH THE CADET TRAINING, YOU GET TO COME BACK AND SERVE IN THE COMMUNITY.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO WEST SIDE OR CLEAR LAKE OR KINGWOOD.
YOU GET TO COME BACK AND SERVE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU GREW UP IN BECAUSE EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS YOU.
SO YOU BETTER ACT, RIGHT? YOU BETTER NOT RUN THE RED LIGHT OR YOU BETTER.
BUT THE TRAINING IS, AND I, AND I SAY THE KIDS BECAUSE THAT'S WHO'S GOING TO INHERIT THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE NEXT 10, 15, 20 YEARS.
SO FOR US NOW, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN THESE POSITIONS TO KEEP NURTURING THE COMMUNITY SO THE COMMUNITY CAN KEEP GROWING.
IT'S GONNA BE JUST ONE, TWO, OKAY.
AND THEN ALSO, UH, SINCE YOU ARE THE COP OF THE WHOLE CITY, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY IN THIS DISTRICT, BUT IN MY RELATIVES DISTRICT, THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH AIRBNB DRUG HOUSES.
UM, SHE'S MADE A REPORT ON THAT.
SO I GUESS IF YOU COULD WORK WITH WHOEVER, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE POLICE REPORTS, LIKE I SAID, IT'S NOT IN, IT'S NOT IN YOUR DISTRICT, IT IS IN SOMEONE ELSE'S, BUT I IMAGINE IT COULD BE AN AKER'S HOME, I DON'T KNOW.
BUT UM, AND THEN, UM, ALSO MENTAL HEALTH WAS MENTIONED.
IF THERE COULD BE MORE OF, ARE Y'ALL WORKING ON HAVING AN EMERGENCY MENTAL HEALTH HOTLINE VERSUS WHERE THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY CALLING POLICE.
'CAUSE IF SOMEBODY'S HAVING AN EMOTIONAL PROBLEM, THEY DON'T NECESSARILY NEED POLICE.
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ALREADY RESOURCES THAT EXIST, DO THAT.
AND WE ALREADY HAVE TEAMS. SO LIKE, SO WE CALL 9 1 1 AND THEY SHOULD BE OKAY.
AND, AND WE HAVE TEAMS THAT, THAT ACTUALLY HAVE A CLINICIAN IN THE PATROL CAR THAT CAN HELP WITH THAT.
IT'S A PRIORITY AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE MENTAL HEALTH.
BUT I, BUT I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU CALL AND YOU, IT IS A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE, JUST SAY, HEY, IT'S A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE.
BECAUSE SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GET
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GOOD MORNING.UH, I'M HU WILSON, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD PRESIDENT FOR TRINITY HOUSTON ART.
AND I HAPPEN TO LIVE ABOUT TWO BLOCKS FROM THE LAURA COPY LOCKWOOD INSTITUTE.
IT'S NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.
WE PROBABLY CALL ON IT A COUPLE OF TIMES A WEEK, AT LEAST A COUPLE OF TIMES A MONTH, RIGHT? WE'VE NOT, THOSE ARE NOT THE FIRST THREE PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED AT THAT CORNER.
UH, SO IT HAPPENED, UH, BETWEEN THE DRAG RACING AND, UH, BLOCK PARTIES.
AND THEY GO ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AND MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY.
AND I'M NOT OPPOSED TO PEOPLE PARTYING.
BUT, UH, WE LIVE THAT EVERY DAY, EVERY DAY.
AND SO THE DRAG RACING STARTS TYPICALLY ABOUT, UH, MIDNIGHT ON THURSDAY AND IT GOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO SUNDAY NIGHT, REALLY EARLY ON MONDAY.
SO THIS IS AN ONGOING PROBLEM.
THE CITY USED TO DO A THING WHERE THEY WOULD, UH, TAG THOSE PROPERTIES AND THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS SO THAT THEY WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE WHEN THOSE THINGS HAPPEN.
I THINK WE NEED TO REVISIT THAT BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU'RE GOING.
THEY'RE GONNA FORCE PEOPLE NOT TO, THEY BLOCK TRAFFIC ON THAT STREET, PARK THEIR CARS ON THE STREET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND YOU CAN'T GET THROUGH.
THEY ALSO TRAIL RIDE, NOT OPPOSED TO THAT, BUT YOU USED TO HAVE TO HAVE A PERMIT TO TRAIL RIDE.
SO THE OTHER PROBLEM IS IN THE, ON THAT PARKER ROAD THING IS WHY DID WE ALLOW 500 NEW HOMES TO GO UP AND NOBODY GETTING TRAFFIC STUDY TO HELP THAT, THAT COMMUNITY BEFORE THEY GOT TO THIS POINT.
THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT AND TALKED ABOUT.
AND IF IT'S, IF IT'S, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNS, WE HAD, WE MADE THE SAME COMPLAINT ABOUT HOMESTEAD AND BENNINGTON, RIGHT? YOU BUILT STUFF, THAT WHOLE INTERSECTION WAS COMING UP, BUT NOBODY CONSIDERED PUTTING A LIGHT THERE.
WHY ARE WE CONSIDERING IN ADVANCE OF THESE THINGS? BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT.
MARY'S MY NEW BEST FRIEND BECAUSE WE'RE COMPLAINING CONSTANTLY BECAUSE CONTRACTORS ARE COMING IN AND THEY TREAT US LIKE, UH, WE DON'T EVEN BELONG IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
THE WAY THEY DEAL WITH US ON THE WAY THEY PARK THEIR VEHICLES WHERE THEY PUT THEIR TRASH, THE WAY THEY NEED TRASH ON THEIR SITES, THEY, THEY PARTY ON THOSE SITES ALL NIGHT LONG.
SO THERE'S SOME THINGS I THINK THAT CAN BE PUT IN PLACE IN ADVANCE SO THAT THERE'S SOME THINGS WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
I HAD THE POLICE LITERALLY TELL ME THAT I NEEDED TO NEGOTIATE WITH MY NEIGHBORS SO THAT THE CONTRACTORS COULD PARK ON THEIR PROPERTY SO THAT THEY WOULDN'T BLOCK PEACH STREET, WHICH IS A REALLY NARROW MAJOR STREET THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY.
THAT'S, BUT SO WHEN THEY CAME OUT TWO WEEKS AGO, BECAUSE THEY CUSSED OUT THE STATE REP, IT BECAME SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROBLEM.
IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN TO THAT POINT.
SO MY POINT TO YOU, UH, CHIEF IS THAT, UM, WE'VE GOT DR.
TEAMS, WE NEVER HEAR FROM 'EM.
WE CAN'T GET A CALL INTO 'EM, WE CAN'T GET AN EMAIL INTO THEM.
WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THOSE TS.
THEY'RE OUR CONNECTION AND THEY, WE BRING, THEY BRING DATA.
IT'S SIX OR EIGHT MONTHS OLD BY THE TIME WE GET IT, WE'D LIKE SOME GOOD DATA.
SO THE MENTAL HEALTH THING IS A THING.
AND WE DO HAVE HOMELESS PEOPLE.
WE HAVE TRIBES OF HOMELESS PEOPLE OUT HERE THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
UH, BUT WE DO HAVE THE HACKETT CENTER THAT'S GOING UP ON LITTLE YORK.
IT'S A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY.
WE'RE HOPING THAT WE CAN HELP THEM PARTNER WITH LBJ SO THAT SOME OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES THAT WE WORK WITH, H-B-H-P-D WILL HAVE A CLOSER LOCATION TO GO TO INSTEAD OF GOING DOWN AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO GO OUT TO BEN TOP.
BUT LITERALLY THE DRT, THE DRAG RACING, THE GUN VIOLENCE, I WAS, I WAS UP UNTIL THREE OR FOUR O'CLOCK THIS MORNING LISTENING TO AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE.
AND WHEN I CALLED THEY SAY, CAN YOU TELL US WHERE IT'S COMING FROM? NO, I'M HIDING UNDER THE BED.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO TELL? AND I KNOW PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT SHOT SPOTTER, BUT I LIKE SHOT SPOTTER BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING OUT TO TELL 'EM WHERE IT'S COMING FROM.
SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS EXIST AND, AND WE'RE AS DIVERSE AS THE NEXT COMMUNITY.
SO WE, WE EXPECT AND, AND ARE ASKING FOR A LOT MORE ASSISTANCE FOR THIS 250,000 PEOPLE PIECE OF THE PIE THAT JUST PROBABLY GREW CLOSER TO 300,000 PEOPLE, UH, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT THAT WE'VE GOT GOING ON, ON THE EAST SIDE.
SO CAN WE GET AHEAD OF THOSE THINGS AS, AS OPPOSED TO ALWAYS BEING BEHIND TRYING TO CATCH UP.
LAST NUMBER 10, MR. BOB, YEAR OF THE YEAR.
FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO SAY, I LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF THE POLICE
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HERE, BUT WON'T, WON'T YOU LEAVE RIGHT THIS DRIVEWAY AND LOOK AT MCDONALD'S, SEE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT'S HANGING OUT AND LAYING DOWN IN FRONT OF MCDONALD'S.AND THEN, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I TOOK STEPSON OUT THERE LEAVING, RUNNING UP AGAINST ME AND I GET KIND OF CRAZY.
AND THE NEXT QUESTION IS, AND DON'T BE THROUGH FROM LOCK TO HOMESTEAD RACETRACK.
I'M SCARED TO RIDE MY BIKE DOWN ON
I DON'T LIKE JUST THE POLICE TO BE SEEN ON HOMESTEAD, MCDONALD'S.
HOW YOU DOING? HELLO? I THERE.
ALBERT DAVIS, UH, PRESIDENT OF THE SIOUX CLUB IN ACRES COMMUNITY PRECINCT 5, 7, 6.
I REALLY JUST CAME OUT TO MEET AND GREET THE NEW CHIEF.
I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS GONNA BE A OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE TO VOICE ALL THEIR COMPLAINTS.
AND NOW THAT I SEE ALL THE COMPLAINTS, I THINK I'LL SAVE MINE.
SO DO YOU INTEND TO BRING THIS OVER TO THE ACRES HOME OR TO THE MULTI SERVICE CENTER OVER THERE IN THERE? YEAH, WE THEY BRING THE CHIEF THERE WHERE YEAH, WE TEND TO COME OUT THERE.
WELL I'LL WAIT COVER THE, UM, GREEN POINT
WELL, I'LL WHAT PATIENT WE NEED TO YOU GUYS.
THANK, THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT.
RIGHT? AND THIS WILL BE OUR LAST QUESTION AND THEN YOU CAN CLOSE OUT.
I'M IN BETWEEN HEAT STREET AND ANNUNCIATION IN NORTHWOOD, MAN.
WE HAVE AN EASEMENT, UH, ON THE SIDE OF MY HOUSE AND IT'S A GUY THAT BILLS BACK THERE AND I DON'T KNOW IF HE GOT AMUSEMENT FOR OR WHAT HE GOT BACK THERE, BUT HE, HE HAD BEEN BUILDING, HE SAID HE WAS TRYING TO OPEN A MECHANIC SHOP.
UH, OFFICER JACKSON HAD BEEN BACK THERE AND HE HAD BAG UP BACK THERE AND HE GOT SMART WITH THEM, BUT HE DIDN'T START IT ALL OVER AGAIN.
AND UH, THEY CAN'T, THEY DON'T, WHEN THEY GET TO THE AREA ON SPOTS WITH IT, THEY DON'T KNOW THAT HE, UH, DUG UP THESE POLES THAT THE CITY PUT THERE AND HE, THEY JUST WALKED THROUGH.
BUT HE COULD MOVE THEM AND DRIVE THROUGH.
HE DRIVE ACROSS THROUGH THERE ALL DAY.
YOU GOT A MECHANIC, YOU GOT A MECHANIC SHOP BACK THERE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE GOT BACK THERE.
SO, UH, AND ANOTHER THING, UH, I'VE TALKED TO MISS, UH, JACKSON ABOUT THE STREET BUMPS AND IT'S GOING ON THREE YEARS NOW.
WE'VE HAD TWO PEOPLE TO GET HIT IN CARS GOING UP AND DOWN MY STREET.
UH, SERGEANT WHITAKER, MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR HAD A BRAND NEW CAR FOR A WEEK AND IT GOT RUN OVER THE DEALERSHIP CENTER GUY TO COME PICK UP HER CAR TO TIN HER WINDOWS AND THEY RAN OVER HER CAR, A BRAND NEW CAR, YOU KNOW.
SO I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THESE STREET BUMPS FOR THREE YEARS AND NOTHING HAPPENED.
YOU DONE WENT AROUND ME, BUT YOU WON'T COME TO SEE WHAT'S OUT THERE THAT'S GOING ON ON MY STREET EVERY DAY.
AND WE DID HAVE A PETITION FOR THE SPEED BUMPS.
AND SO MARY MARY, THE STATUS OF SPEED BUMPS, AGAIN, JUST REACH OUT TO THE OFFICE AND WE'LL GIVE YOU STATUS OF THE SPEED BUMPS.
AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE, WE ARE DATING BACK TO 2011 AND WE DOING WHAT WE CAN WITH THE $500,000, ACTUALLY NOT 500,000 BECAUSE WE HAVE TO USE SOME OF THAT MONEY FOR HOT TEAM AND OTHER PROJECTS.
SO, UM, SO WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, IS TAKEN CARE OF.
BUT WOULD THERE SPEED BUMPS EVER PUT IN NORTH ATLANTA? I'M, I MEAN, JUST ANSWER ME THAT.
I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DID GET SOME SPEED BUMPS OUT IN NORTH AMERICA.
CHIEF, WE THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT.
UM, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU THE LAST WORD.
ALL I'M GONNA SAY IS THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
THANK YOU FOR THE TOUGH QUESTIONS.
UH, WE SHOULD ALL COME UP HERE.
EVERYBODY CITY COUNCIL SHOULD COME UP HERE AND THE MAYOR SHOULD COME UP HERE AS WELL, UH, TO, TO, TO TAKE THESE TOUGH QUESTIONS.
'CAUSE YOU GUYS ARE THE FUTURE OF THIS COMMUNITY AND YOU'RE WORKING EVERY DAY AND I APPRECIATE THE GRACIOUSNESS AND THE KINDNESS AND GOOD LUCK.
UH, AND WE'LL SEE YOU SOON AT THE NEXT ONE.
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THEM A HAND BECAUSE IT'S NOT EASY TO COME MY HAND IN FRONT OF NORTH EAST HOUSTON PEOPLE B I'M PROUD OF THAT.THAT'S BECAUSE WE, WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER A PARTNERSHIP.
UM, I KNOW SOME OF THE, UM, REQUESTS ARE MOVING SLOW IN SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, BUT JUST KNOW, YOU KNOW, I INHERITED, I NEVER TALK ABOUT WHAT I INHERITED, BUT I INHERITED A COMMUNITY, A DISTRICT THAT WAS NEGLECTED AND LEFT BEHIND FOR FAR TOO LONG.
AND I JUST THINK THAT, I THINK WE'VE DONE A LOT, WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT AND WE ARE GONNA ACCOMPLISH MORE.
UM, AS LONG AS WE CONTINUE THIS PARTNERSHIP.