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Title: Madison Police Department Neighborhood Response Session


1
  • Madison Police Department
  • Neighborhood Response Session
  • Mayor Dave Cieslewicz
  • Chief Noble Wray
  • Captain Jay Lengfeld
  • Alderperson Thuy Pham-Remmele

2
Long-Term MPD Response
  • Adjust our citywide approach on how we focus on
    problems
  • Prioritization with limited resources
  • Displacement issues
  • Three levels
  • Serious crimes/emergencies
  • Quality of life issues
  • Expectation of service, but not a violation of law

3
Long-Term MPD Response
  • We must pay attention to quality of life issues
  • Self reporting
  • Thefts from autos
  • Gang graffiti
  • Alcohol/burglaries
  • Loitering, drugs, prostitution
  • Speeding, landlord/tenant issues, etc.

4
Long-Term MPD Response
  • Work towards a higher level of officer engagement
    and problem solving
  • Build trust
  • Foot patrol/bike patrol
  • Citizen communication with district Community
    Policing Team (CPT)
  • Ongoing relationship with district officers

5
Impact Before 2009
  • Accelerated academy in 2008
  • Separate Community Policing Teams for North
    East districts
  • Increase size of West Community Policing Team
  • West District field lieutenant
  • Six new detective positions in 2008
  • Short term strategies (Capt. Lengfeld)

6
MPD Staffing
  • MPD staffing in 2009 and beyond (request for 30
    additional officers)
  • Police staffing study
  • What we need from you/expectations of us
  • Improve response to quality of life issues
  • Improve communication
  • Positive impact on area of concern

7
The West District
  • 28 Square Miles of Land Mass
  • Population of 80,000 (approximate)
  • 370 Miles of Roadway

8
West Police District
  • Patrol Officers
  • 1st Detail (7a-3p) 6 officers
  • 2nd Detail (3p-11p) 9 officers
  • 3rd Detail (11p-7a) 6 officers
  • Neighborhood Officers
  • Allied Drive
  • Theresa/Hammersley/Bettys
  • Tree/Wexford
  • Community Policing Team
  • 1 sergeant 5 officers
  • Patrol Staffing (1st 3rd shifts)
  • 1 officer per 5 square miles
  • 1 officer per 63 miles of roadway
  • 1 officer per 13,000 residents
  • 6 officers are required to staff 1 patrol beat
    24 hours a day/7 days a week

9
West Police District Busy
  • West District calls in 2007 include
  • 2 homicides
  • 6 arsons
  • 59 sexual assaults
  • 55 robberies
  • 126 weapons offenses/gun calls
  • 45 death investigations
  • 143 stolen autos
  • 273 drug incidents
  • 299 batteries
  • 888 domestic disputes
  • 2,283 auto crashes
  • 3,515 citations issued (through August 1)
  • From January 1 September 11, 2007, WPD officers
    responded to 25,727 calls for police service
  • Thats an average of more than 100 police calls
    per day
  • West is the busiest police district in the City
    (25 of total CFS)

10
Safety Concerns from Listening Session
  • Loitering (80)
  • Drugs (57)
  • Speeding/traffic (57)
  • Thefts/burglaries (52)
  • Deterioration of property (42)
  • Noise (39)
  • Damage to Property (38)
  • Unsupervised children (35)
  • Unsafe to walk through neighborhood (34)
  • Graffiti (28)
  • Crime in general (25)
  • Absent/bad landlords (24)
  • Gun shots (24)
  • Gangs (23)

11
How attendees characterized the level of criminal
activity in their neighborhood
  • Very high 89
  • Very high/high 12
  • High 104
  • High/moderate 14
  • Moderate/low 78
  • Low 8

12
Calls for Police Service West District
  • 2001 31,393
  • 2002 34,145
  • 2003 35,930
  • 2004 34,743
  • 2005 36,442
  • 2006 36,975
  • This reflects
  • A 15 increase over the last six years
  • A 6 increase over the last three years

13
City Growth Displacement
  • Increase in poverty/unemployment in area
  • Families on public assistance
  • Feb. 2000 Feb. 2007
  • Balsam Road Area 46 99
  • Hammersley Road Area 45 94
  • Morraine View Area 35 124
  • Schroeder Road Area 44 63

14
City Growth Displacement
  • Housing Issues
  • Higher level of Section 8 housing
  • More absentee/problem landlords
  • Increase in single parent families

15
City Growth Displacement
  • Cultural lifestyle expectations (urban/suburban)
  • Noise level
  • Bedtime hours
  • Supervision of children
  • Socializing
  • Drug dealing usage

16
Response to Community Concerns
  • Short term (September December, 2007)
  • Intermediate (2008)
  • Long term (2009 and beyond)

17
Short Term Response
  • Expectations letter to area residents
  • Expectations letter to property owners/landlords

18
Short Term Response
  • Officer overtime (600 hours)
  • Traffic enforcement
  • Foot patrol/bike patrol
  • Drug enforcement
  • High visibility patrol
  • Quality of life offenses
  • Property assessments

19
Short Term Response
  • Increase communication between MPD and
    neighborhood watch groups
  • Report of monthly calls for police service mailed
    to landlords
  • Increase building inspections in area
  • Increase lighting by trimming trees and adding
    street lights

20
Short Term Response
  • Focus on problem landlords
  • Work with City Attorneys Office to fast track
    any drug/nuisance abatement actions
  • Passing the nuisance ordinance

21
Short Term Response
  • Community needs to report crimes to MPD
  • Community needs to be more inclusive

22
Intermediate Response
  • Increase West District Community Policing Team by
    two officers
  • Explore re-aligning patrol beats
  • Building a stronger district/neighborhood

23
West District Community Policing Team
  • Group of officers focused on problem solving
  • One officer assigned part-time to the
    Balsam/Russett area
  • One officer assigned part-time as the liaison
    officer to neighborhood watch groups in the West
    District

24
Other Potential Tools
  • Anti-graffiti ordinance
  • User fees for overuse of police services
  • Review and modify ordinances on landlord/tenant
    relations
  • Limit number of subsidized housing units in a
    neighborhood (by ordinance)
  • Drug loitering ordinance
  • Licensing landlords
  • Forming a tax district in area

25
Community Support
  • Continue with current programs (neighborhood
    watch, after school programs, etc.)
  • More youth programs
  • More community involvement in neighborhood
  • More support programs for adults (drug/alcohol
    issues job training etc.)

26
Long Term Response
  • Adding patrol beats to 1st and 3rd details
  • Adding two additional officers to WPD Community
    Policing Team
  • Continue to increase staff as needed
  • Funds for neighborhood watch groups
  • Use of cameras and other technology
  • Federal Weed Seed grant

27
SOUTHWEST MADISON PUBLIC SAFETY FOLLOW UP
MEETING
  • Mayor Dave Cieslewicz
  • September 13, 2007

28
Response to Southwest Neighborhood Concerns Must
be Comprehensive
  • Adding police resources
  • Targeting bad landlords
  • Strengthening neighborhoods
  • Giving young people positive alternatives
  • Lobbying other units of government to partner
    with us
  • Responding on a citywide basis

29
Adding Police Resources
  • 30 more police officers in 2008 budget
  • Accelerated police academy
  • Changes to police self-reporting system so
    callers always receive a call back

30
Adding Police Resources
  • New 50,000 West Side Safety Initiative for last
    quarter of 2007 and 2008
  • Additional police officer overtime
  • Civilian overtime to send monthly calls for
    service reports to property owners
  • Increased building inspections
  • Improve lighting
  • Work with problematic property owners

31
Adding Police Resources
32
Adding Police Resources
  • We will track the results of these new resources
    through Madison Measures benchmarks such as
  • Response time
  • Value of property lost due to crime
  • Crimes committed per 100,000 population
  • Citizen satisfaction/sense of safety
  • Fatalities and injuries resulting from crime

33
Targeting Bad Landlords
  • Pushing Council to approve nuisance abatement
    ordinance on September 18th
  • Staff team (MPD, BI, CA, Mayor) to target bad
    landlords, and adopt strategy for each
  • More landlord training
  • Step up systematic building inspections

34
Strengthening Neighborhoods
  • Create West Side Planning Council in 2008
  • Expand neighborhood watch programs and
    neighborhood listserv/communication capacity
    (e.g., e-Neighbors)

35
Strengthening Neighborhoods
  • SW Planning Process Quick Wins from the
    neighborhood recommendations
  • Lighting
  • Public MPD, Building Inspection and Forestry
    coordination new/fixed lighting, tree trimming,
    etc.
  • Private BI to recommend improvements in private
    parking lots, etc.
  • Traffic Calming  Traffic Engineering is
    planning/studying traffic calming on Hammersley
    Road 

36
Strengthening Neighborhoods
  • SW Steering Committee recommendations from the
    neighborhood
  • Promote home ownership in the Bettys
    Lane/Theresa Terrace area
  • Provide assistance for home security improvements
  • Improve safety in neighborhood parks

37
Strengthening Neighborhoods
  • Neighborhood indicators program (based on the
    Charlotte Model)
  • Early warning system for neighborhoods
  • Staff is developing pilot program
  • Possible partnership with UW Population Lab to
    support data collection and analysis

38
Giving young people positive alternatives
  • Additional 10,000 grant for Wisconsin Youth
    Company (60,000 total)
  • 7,500 Urban League grant to link under and
    unemployed youth with job opportunities
  • Review OCS/CDBG budgets for emphasis on programs
    that target junior high to young adults
  • Maintain and seek to increase funding for after
    school programs
  • Assess current community youth programs, and gaps
    in services
  • Build more ties between positive mentoring
    organizations and youth

39
Giving young people positive alternatives
  • Address gang issues recent gang task force
    recommendations focus on 3 areas
  • Prevention Support and expand community gang
    education programs
  • Intervention Provide alternatives (e.g., teen
    court, after school activities, etc.)
  • Suppression Create joint coordination team
    (city, county, school, etc.) for training,
    intelligence sharing, etc.

40
Lobbying Federal, State, and County governments
to partner with us
  • Work to head off State aid cuts and levy limits
    that would prohibit the City from spending what
    it needs to address the problems
  • Ask the State for more assistant district
    attorneys to pursue quality of life crimes
  • Work with our Federal delegation to reinstate the
    COPS program to help us hire more officers

41
Citywide Efforts
  • Alcohol license density plan as a means of
    stopping the flow of police resources to the
    downtown
  • Continue to improve Allied Drive to stem flow of
    police resources there
  • Designate Safe Neighborhoods position in Mayors
    Office
  • Better coordination with school district

42
Upcoming Events
  • Sept. 18 Council Meeting Nuisance Abatement and
    Downtown Alcohol Density Plans Considered 
  • Oct. 2  Mayors 2008 Operating Budget
    Introduced 
  • Oct. 16 Common Councils Budget Hearing
  • Nov. 14, 15, 16  Common Council Consideration of
    Budget

43
Charge to the community Expect and uphold high
standards of civility and behavior
44
Keep the Conversation Going
  • This is just the beginning, not the end of our
    work
  • Please continue to provide your comments,
    suggestions and ideas
  • Email mayor_at_cityofmadison.com

45
Alder Thuy Pham-Remmeledistrict20_at_cityofmadison.
com
46
  • Thank you for attending
  • Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Chief Noble Wray
  • mayor_at_cityofmadison.com nwray_at_cityofmadison.com
  • Alder Thuy Pham-Remmele Captain Jay Lengfeld
  • district20_at_cityofmadison.com jlengfeld_at_cityofmadi
    son.com
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