Speaker 0: So we're going to go and take begin the regular agenda items. We're going to we're going to start by doing item 21, which I know a lot of people have been looking forward to. That is the Innovation Team report. That is item 21.
Speaker 1: Report from City Manager Recommendation to receive and file a report on the I-Team Public Safety Research and Accomplishments Citywide.
Speaker 0: I'm going to go ahead and turn this over to staff, Mr. MODICA.
Speaker 2: Great. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. You're right. We are excited to be here tonight to present kind of an overview of what the team has accomplished in the past, in the past a year or two, and also really focus on the public safety initiative that we're working on right now. A lot of really exciting data we have to share with you in a short presentation. And with that, I will introduce Tracy Kalinga, our director of our I-Team.
Speaker 5: Good evening. An honor roll, mayor and City Council. It's my pleasure to provide you with an update on the innovation team, public safety research and.
Speaker 1: Accomplishments of the clicker. I apologize. I have to grab the clicker. Thank you. Last year, it priority was focused on economic development and some of the initiatives.
Speaker 0: Can you I try to make sure this has been happening a lot more. The tech team we need when the presentation goes up on the screen, we need it in front of us. So thank you.
Speaker 1: Great. Wonderful. Last year, the 18 priority was focused on economic.
Speaker 5: Development, and some of the.
Speaker 1: Initiatives developed by the I-Team include this port inspector gadget, the Economic Development Blueprint and the Long Beach Innovation Week. In January 2017, the Long Beach Eye Team shifted its focus to public safety in collaboration with the police department.
Speaker 5: The I-Team analyzed five.
Speaker 1: Years of police data from January 2012 to December 2016. We analyzed over 100,000 offenses, which includes about 54,000 offenders and 15,000 repeat offenders. People booked or cited two or more times. The 15,000 repeat offenders make up 62% of all offenses in that five year time period. To scale the conversation, we analyze the number of offenses per.
Speaker 5: Person, which you can see in this slide.
Speaker 1: We determined that high frequency offenders are individuals cited about 11 or more times over a five year period. We quickly realized that.
Speaker 5: These 875.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 1: Were 5% of the offender population actually account for 15% of all offenses in the city. This is the population of focus. There are two peaks in this in the age category, in the age categories. Excuse me. When we look at these high frequency offenders, we had an assumption, but the data actually.
Speaker 3: Revealed.
Speaker 1: That the age peaks are between the ages of 32 and 34 and then again between 52 and 54. In addition, we looked at the top charges.
Speaker 3: Of all offenders.
Speaker 1: Versus the top charges of the high frequency offenders. Again, all repeat offenders is about 54,000. And the high frequency offenders, individuals booked or cited 11 or more times are represented here. As you can see, the top four charges of frequent offenders include open container, public consumption of alcohol, parking, beach loitering and failure and fail to appear warrants . We then conducted qualitative research because we wanted to better, better understand the services these offenders access. We toured City Hall, County Jail, the courthouse.
Speaker 3: We did ride alongs with the police, quality.
Speaker 1: Of life and mental evaluation teams.
Speaker 3: Fire department, heart team.
Speaker 1: And homeless outreach.
Speaker 3: We looked at.
Speaker 1: The data which captured high frequency offenders, and most importantly, we interviewed 26 people who had been booked or cited 11 or more times to understand their experience. We completed 168 hours of research and spent another 200.
Speaker 3: Hours.
Speaker 1: Developing research themes.
Speaker 3: You can see the.
Speaker 1: Six themes here. However, I do want to just highlight a few of these. We learned that all 26 offenders we interviewed experienced.
Speaker 5: Trauma in their childhood.
Speaker 1: There are victims of abuse and neglect. They were.
Speaker 3: Unloved.
Speaker 1: And unwanted by their parents or caregivers. By the age of 12 or 13, they use drugs, joined a gang, or learned how to sell drugs, or even sold in human trafficking. In addition, over half of the ex-offenders said that jail was a place of respite where they could get three hot meals a day, take a shower and have a good night's rest as.
Speaker 3: Compared to their homes.
Speaker 1: Or communities that at times were very chaotic.
Speaker 3: We learned the voice.
Speaker 1: Of police officers in the lives.
Speaker 5: Of offenders matters.
Speaker 1: We met a woman, Tiffany, who tells the story of a beat officer here in Long Beach that knew her by her first name and often encouraged.
Speaker 3: Her to go to rehab.
Speaker 1: And make better choices for her life as she was booked and cited multiple times. She is now clean and sober and will be graduating with her bachelor's degree in May. She wants to reunite with that Long Beach police officer to thank him for the difference that he made in her life. In partnership with the public safety continuum, the I-Team is launching several initiatives, which include a datamart to integrate city data systems to proactively serve high utilizers of city services. We're implementing a citywide data sharing agreement and the data march so we can wrap services around frequent offenders and hold them accountable for their actions. We're launching we're launching a multiple additional team made up.
Speaker 3: Of.
Speaker 1: Police, fire, health, city prosecutor and probation staff to triage around and case manage these individuals. The AI team will continue to host co-creation sessions with city departments, community partners, neighborhood organizations, nonprofits, other government agencies and high frequency offenders themselves in the months ahead.
Speaker 3: We will develop.
Speaker 1: Solutions, metrics for success, analyze those results and prepare recommendations for implementation by early 2018. I would like to thank the city's public safety continuum, which includes police, fire, the Health Department, Development Services, the city. Prosecutor's office and other key departments.
Speaker 5: All.
Speaker 1: Contributing to make Long Beach a better and safer city. And of course, I want to give a shout out to the innovation team.
Speaker 5: Who stayed here the whole.
Speaker 1: Night and have committed countless hours to understanding and building solutions for this public safety priority. That concludes my report.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr.. And I just want to obviously just thank you. And I know the innovation team is here and I want to thank all of them. You guys did really great work around the Economic Development Initiative and the creation obviously of Biz Port. Some of the work you did to improve the planning system and the some of the the inspection systems through through this port and other mechanisms. And I think the research that you guys have just initially conducted is really important. And I think one of the things that strikes me is obviously. A lot of this data wasn't hadn't been really readily available to all of our different departments in the fact that now it's being shared and we're discussing it, and the fact that such a small, small percentage of offenders are doing such a large amount of our crimes. And what those are, I mean, we always obviously we understand that generally to be true, but to verify that locally and to have those numbers, I think is really important. And so I'm I'm very excited to see what the next steps are for the team and how you take the initial data, how you share it, and then how we can really look at addressing systemic change that could have a real serious long term impact on on public safety. So I just wanted to congratulate you. I think this is an important topic, especially in light of so many other public safety reforms that are happening at the state level that have affected cities, including Long Beach. And so I just want to I do want to thank you for that. And we do have a motion for the report, but I want to turn to Councilwoman Price.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Traci. That was an excellent presentation. I liked the infographics. I thought they were very easy for me to understand and comprehend, and I hope others felt that way, too. And thanks to our entire innovation team for their great work and their effort on this. So at the outset, I just I want to say officially put the request and that I would like my office to be involved in the development of this technology and its use. And we would like to be invited to meetings. We would like to be a part of this conversation. I think it's an important one, and I think it's not one that should be limited in terms of what city departments have the opportunity to be involved if they want to be involved. So I just want the record to be clear. If there are meetings, anything like that, I want to be involved. The other thing is that I think it probably would be good to have a member of the innovation team attend our public safety meetings, because I think that's an opportunity where we get reports from various departments and although that information is coming is being communicated back to you, no doubt. I think it's very important for someone from the team to hear firsthand what it is the public comment is on those topics so that maybe there are some efficiencies that can be had in terms of this multi departmental collaborative approach. One of the things that I, I think what I'm hearing you say that we have a major opportunity to do now is to have some data sharing among the different departments. And that's really important in terms of one of the types of quality of life issues that we're hearing more and more about. And that's the either increased or perceived increase of transient activity or transient lifestyle, transient populations within the city, no doubt the entire city, but definitely some some neighborhoods. I think an issue that we have is that we talk about the services that we provide as a city to those individuals, and we're absolutely doing a tremendous job at that information and the services that we're providing. And I've had the fortune and the privilege to attend go on several ride alongs myself, so I know the work we're doing. Then we have this issue with our officers who are out in the field and they might be doing files on an individual. They may or not may not know the history of this individual. So how many other officers have had contact with this individual? How many times has this individual been offered services and declined those services? Does that individual have a caseworker or probation officer, a family member or somebody that our police department is connected to that can be a source of support in terms of aligning this person with the services that they need? And is there a stay away order of this particular individual against a particular location in the city? And that to me is data that an officer should be able to readily access through both the name database and also a photo ID of the individual. They should be able to come up on a transient or an individual who is in need of assistance and be able to look at it and determine, you know, the officer has the discretion of how they want to treat a particular law violation. They can cite and release, they can arrest, they can provide a warning. They have lots of options. If they understand what the level of services offered to this individual is, then they can participate in an enforcement approach that's based in offering services first, make sure that they can they can speak very comfortably that not only did I offer the service, but my officers in the same division have offered services over the last two weeks to this same person, to no avail. So now it's appropriate to do some sort of enforcement and get them to. Hopefully get incentivized treatment and or a stay away order. So I think having that access is something that we don't have right now. And I think it would be really, really good in terms of quality of life crimes. The other thing that I think would be very valuable is if this data also LinkedIn as a partner are service providers that maybe are not, you know, the specifically rehabilitation services. So if if officers were to able to pull up, how many beds are available at this particular rehab center, then not only are they offering this person, you should take rehab, but they can say there is a bed available right now. I will drive you to this location. You'll get the services you need right at this moment. And if they've developed that credibility with the person over time, then maybe the person will take advantage of it on occasion. So I think, you know, linking us with those resources is also very valuable. And finally, I think an area where there's a great opportunity for us to have some some collaboration within the city is, you know, we've talked about and one of the the agenda item that that I brought forth a few months ago asking for kind of a holistic approach to this issue and looking at different departments working together . As you know, we've talked about this concept of inventory teams. So if an individual is arrested, the biggest deterrent and I've talked to hundreds of individuals who are living on the street, the biggest deterrent for them to police contact is not the police contact. It is not going to jail for 48.
Speaker 1: Hours or a week.
Speaker 5: That that's not a deterrent. In fact, you touched upon it. In some cases, it's it's it might be viewed as as a bit of a respite for some offenders. But having police contact is not such a deterrent that it would.
Speaker 3: An.
Speaker 5: Engage result in sustained life changes. One of the biggest deterrents, however, is having their belongings taken away because the belongings are of great value to them. And if an officer has to inventory all of those items, I think the chances of them not going to getting everything back is something that it really is a deterrent. So and I think it's a deterrent for the officers as well because that's a lot of material and property that has to be seized and and and and and documented. So we've talked about this idea of having inventory teams that maybe are not police officers, maybe work with another department in the city and they kind of work tag team with the police officer in terms of this is an enforcement action that's going to be taken, the person is going to be transported for booking. But this inventory team can handle all the different aspects that come along with that. I don't know if we're currently doing something like that, but that data sharing I think could be a really valuable tool in terms of connecting even departments outside of what you've talked about. So I think this is fantastic. I think it's a really great start. I'm always impressed with what the team is doing. If I were to have one criticism, it is that not every council officer's given a meaningful opportunity to be a part of this change and a part of the process. And I have been beating that drum since my first meetings with John Keisler on I team. There should be no council office that feels that they're not part of this conversation. They want to be part of this conversation. They should be invited to the meetings. I know that we have representatives from the mayor's office at the meetings. That's fantastic. It's wonderful. Every council office should have the opportunity to attend the meetings and help design the framework for the future. So thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Mongo.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's much more that can be said. I think that you guys are doing a great job. The data was in alignment with what many of us have seen out there in the community, and I think that a lot of what has been seen by our communities in our neighborhoods. So I just want to tell you that the work you're doing is valued. And I think that that we need to now work on sharing this information with the community. And so perhaps a press release. Get it out through your next door community or Facebook. I think that sharing the information is valuable. So thank you.
Speaker 0: Mr. Richardson.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And Tracy, I want to say, you know, we've worked together for a long time and and we've had a lot of conversations about data driven justice and, you know, stemming back to the work on violence prevention. And and thank you for the presentation tonight. And I enjoyed it. A step in the back, but I got to see it on a little bit of it. They're all familiar stuff. What I would say is I don't want to lose track of our focus on violence prevention and suppression. I know that a lot of the focus, a lot of the high re-offending items there, you know, I didn't see any you know, I didn't see violence as one of those those issues. And and I don't want to lose track of the progress we've made in terms of violence prevention. You know, we've had conversations with the chief and with yourself about models in New York and Oakland, in Baltimore, that identify those people who are most susceptible to violent crime being victims of violent crime and how there's a sort of a network of a thousand people that if you can sort of hone in on that group and provide sort of wraparound services and support of that group, you can almost eliminate the veil of the veil of a crime. So I want to do I do want to make sure that we're continuing to place a focus on best practices, the things we've learned as a part of that, part of being a part of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. And I want to see more as we move forward. I want to see more concrete examples of models that we are going to try to emulate proven, data driven, proven models. That's that's really where I think we should continue to place a focus. So good job. This is accept my comment as a acknowledgment of of good work. But I do want you to maintain a focus on violence prevention. We cannot take our eyes off the ball. We're making progress. We really recognition as chair of Head Ledge, you know, that we've we've been recognized. We've received we've received grant dollars and other things on our diversion programs and our focus on on violence prevention. And we should continue to we should continue to do that. So my hope is that we see more more of that work take place in your new capacity. And congratulations. Let me say congratulations to you and your new capacity as director of innovation. Thanks.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Pearce.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you. And thank you for the presentation. I want to echo, I think, some of my colleagues statements. I think that it's a fantastic job. We know that in problem solving as a city, as any entity, that we have to have data at our fingertips so that we can understand the problem. And so it's I got to say, it's a little surprising to meet the numbers and some of the information that the high frequency offenders offenses include things like loitering, beach loitering and removal from waste from trash cans. So I think it's interesting to see kind of what we're getting folks for. And I understand that we have a citywide challenge around homelessness and this conversation for me, I think, Tracy, when you and I met several months ago, I voiced my concern on making sure that as we go forward, this work that we're doing in alignment with our Office of Equity as well, and that my office also wanted to be involved not only in looking at what data we wanted to collect, but how do we do those best practices, as the vice mayor mentioned, so that we're moving forward, not just collecting some data, but we're collecting as much data as possible, and that we're having those work groups who are able to say, how do we really make significant change? And I think that we're fortunate to have a city prosecutor that is thinking outside of the box and working on how do we get people out of jails and into actual programs. And so I applaud you guys for this first step. I look forward to seeing more data and more information around college education or how many of these guys are veterans race as well. And looking at not only our high offender areas, but just citywide, who are we, you know, dealing with as a city? And so I look forward to next steps and I hope that our office can at least have, you know, more check ins. And we've had because we haven't had that many. And so thank you so much, Oprah. Your guys work and I team and everybody work on this the the graphs and the data definitely kind of make you take a pause. So thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales.
Speaker 1: Yes. I would like to say thanks to the team as well. And our PD, I know you all worked very hard on this, and so I'd like to thank you. And coming from a private innovation type of world, I absolutely love this stuff. And I think we certainly can go a bit further as as the information evolves, and particularly for my district and my residents, it is violent crimes as well. I know I've talked to Councilman de Andrews about the 90813 and how important that is to ensure that we have data, you know, zip by zip code showing not only what people are or where people are offending, but where they're coming from and all the data and detail. So I know I look forward to that information so we can provide, as Vice Mayor Richardson said, additional services. And, Tracy, you're the best person, I think, to to handle that and lead that effort. And I'm looking forward to to seeing that. And just want to thank you all again for your work.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Yes.
Speaker 7: Yes. Thank you, Tracy. I just like to say you and your team did a fantastic job. And I personally, I want to congratulate you two also on your new position in such a short length of time in the work that you've done. I know they put the right person in the right place. So keep up the good work. And you guys, again, kudos to you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Public comment on this item. Seeing none. Thanks again, guys. Members, please go and cast your votes.
Speaker 1: Councilman Andrews. Motion carries.
Recommendation to receive and file a report on the Innovation Team (i-team) Public Safety research and accomplishments.  (Citywide)